Assignments

10. See how many things or people you have two or more feelings about.

11. When you find yourself re-acting to a situation, emotionally resisting what is going on, take the following three steps-- and be sure to take the first one.

A.  "I am free to experience  what is happening. Since I am going to experience it anyway, I will choose  to experience it freely."

B. "I am also free to feel the way I am feeling about it. To be sure that I am free to feel this, I will double the feeling consciously, on purpose, just because I want to".

C. "I am now free to choose (change) my response to anyone I desire, so I will choose a response which is truly to my advantage."

12. When you find yourself disturbed about what has happened, is happening, or is going to happen, recognize that you are listening to the Suggestor who gets his nourishment from human misery and his excitement out of being a sneak--controlling people without getting caught. Be very polite and firm, without arguing or resisting him, by saying "Good evening Mr. Lucifer, now you go back to hell where you belong. Go on now!" (Remember he is likely to be right back for a few times until he gets a little discouraged for the time being.)

13. Since we want to be full of grace, and grace is "undeserved good", see how many people you can give "underserved good" to in the next 24 hours.

Assignments

1. Watch without judging your acting out decision #           . Then act it out consciously, at least once.

2. Watch your body movements while about various actions of everyday living. Be aware that you determine the "what" and "X" determines the "how".

3. Watch others, without judging, act out the basic decisions. 

4. Read the daily paper and apply agape to each story that you feel a reaction about.

5. Observe today the situations you react to. Do it freely today. Next day just observe these situations and don't react. See what happens. 

6. Drop the image of husband or wife in the trash and replace by seeing the person, without the image of man or woman. Same for children.

7. Observe the conditioned responses, and conditioned wants with out identifying them with self.

8. Observe as much as possible through the next 24 hours. "What does this remind me of?" (Talk of thinking by association and living by decisions -- Danger of deciding not to think about something).

9. Watch how much we identify with others, images we make of self and others. 

From Gibson notes

VIRTUE

If I must not do something because it is wrong --- and I don't do it because I think it is wrong --- I have no virtue.

When I know that I am free to, yet I realize that it is not to my advantage, I have virtue. 

All beliefs are based on the idea that you are not free to ----.

False beliefs take away awareness.

From Notes (excerpt)

Before you can be in charge of anything, you must be FREE TO.......If I am trying to be free from something, I am trying to alter my nature. I am free to have any experience which is presented to me to experience. If I try to be free from anything, I am trying to change myself.

Some beliefs that might not be true

"I" BELIEVE THAT I KNOW WHAT OUGHT TO BE.

"I" BELIEVE THAT I KNOW THE FUTURE.

"I" KNOW WHAT WOULD BE THE OUTCOME IF THINGS, PEOPLE, AND SITUATIONS WERE LIKE "I" KNOW ALL SHOULD BE, NOW!

"I" BELIEVE THERE IS A LAW OF CAUSE-EFFECT.

"I" BELIEVE THERE IS A LAW OF CAUSE AND EVERY CAUSE HAS AN EFFECT.

"I" BELIEVE "I" KNOW WHAT IS CAUSE AND WHAT IS EFFECT.

"I" BELIEVE "I" KNOW WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD.

"I" BELIEVE "I" KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG.

"I" BELIEVE THAT OTHERS ALL KNOW WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD; WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG, BUT THAT BEING PERVERSE, OTHERS GO RIGHT ON AND DO WHAT IS BAD AND WHAT IS WRONG.

"I" BELIEVE "I" KNOW WHAT "I" NEED IN ORDER TO BE "HAPPY".

"I" BELIVE "I" KNOW WHAT IS TRUE AND WHAT IS FALSE IN THE FIELD OF LIVING THAT RELATES TO ME.

"I"BELIEVE "I" KNOW HOW TO GET WHAT "I" NEED TO BE "HAPPY".

Teaching idea #297

This world is our initiation. If we could see this, we would not want to change anything. It is our opportunity to see the truth and wake up.

Teaching idea #297

We have to be conscious to be in charge of our life.