Holden - Holy shift! : 365 daily meditations from A course in miracles

Robert Holden PhD is a student of A Course in Miracles. He is a Patron of the Miracle Network in the UK, founded in 1994. His innovative work on psychology and spirituality has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, a PBS show called Shift Happens! and two major BBC documentaries. Hes the author of Happiness NOW!, Authentic Success, Shift Happens!, Be Happy and Loveability. He contributes daily to his Facebook page (drrobertholden). He hosts a weekly show for Hay House Radio called Shift Happens!

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A Course in Miracles has blessed my life and work. I am grateful to the many teachers who have helped me study and practice the essential principles of this sacred work. Thank you to Tom and Linda Carpenter for your shining example. Thank you Marianne Williamson for your inspiration. Thank you Nick Davis for your clarity. Thank you to Ken Wapnick, Chuck and Lency Spezzano, Alan Cohen, Gerry Jampolsky, and Sondra Ray for your great work. Thank you Ian Patrick for being Mr. Miracles in the UK.

Thank you to my family and friends. Thank you Hollie Holden for all your read-throughs and edits. I love studying the Course with you. Thank you everyone who has played a part in helping to learn and teach the Course, particularly Miranda Macpherson, who I ran my first study group with. To teach is to learn, states the Course. Thank you to everyone who has hosted and attended one of my talks and workshops around the world.

Thank you to the Hay House team. Thank you to my editor, Patty Gift, for your vision and care in making Holy Shift! happen. Thank you Michelle Polizzi for your cover design, and Joan Duncan Oliver for your editing. Thank you to the William Morris Endeavour Entertainment, and especially to my agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.

The miracle is always there.

Its presence is not caused by your vision;

its absence is not the result of your failure to see.

It is only your awareness of miracles that is affected.

You will see them in the light; you will not see them in the dark.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 91. 1:4-7.

Miracles honor you because you are lovable.

They dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you.

They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares.

By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity.

Text-1. I. 33:1-4.

You are what God created or what you made. One Self is true; the other is not there. Try to experience the unity of your one Self.

Try to appreciate Its Holiness and the love from which It was created.

Try not to interfere with the Self which God created as you, by hiding Its majesty behind the tiny idols of evil and sinfulness you have made to replace It.

Let It come into Its Own. Here you are; This is You. And light and joy and peace abide in you because this is so.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 93. 9:1-8.

Today we continue with the one idea which brings complete salvation; the one statement which makes all forms of temptation powerless; the one thought which renders the ego silent and entirely undone.

You are as God created you.

The sounds of this world are still, the sights of this world disappear, and all the thoughts that this world ever held are wiped away forever by this one idea.

Here is salvation accomplished. Here is sanity restored.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 94. 1:1-5.

Look upon your brother as yourself.

Your relationship is now a temple of healing; A place where all the weary ones can come to rest.

Text-19. III. 11:2-3.

Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought;you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself.

Whatever evil you may think you did, you are as God created you.

Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged.

Creation is eternal and unalterable. Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. You are and will forever be exactly as you were created.

Light and joy and peace abide in you because God put them there.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 93. 7:1-7.

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 97. 7:2.

How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of Gods Son!

How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness!

And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place!

Nor can it be forgot, in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time.

Text-29. VI. 6:1-4.

You cannot enter into real relationships with any of Gods Sons unless you love them all and equally.

Love is not special.

If you single out part of the Sonship for your love, you are imposing guilt on all your relationships and making them unreal.

You can love only as God loves.

Seek not to love unlike him, for there is no love apart from His.

Until you recognize that this is true, you will have no idea what love is like.

Text-13. X. 11:1-6.

You are indeed essential to Gods plan.

Just as your light increases every light that shines in Heaven, so your joy on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrows go, and take their place beside you in Gods plan.

Gods messengers are joyous, and their joy heals sorrow and despair.

They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who will accept their Fathers gifts as theirs.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 100. 4:1-4.

Gods Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless.

Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.

There is no sin. Remember this today, and tell yourself as often as you can:

Gods Will for me is perfect happiness. This is the truth, because there is no sin.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 101. 6:1-2 & 7:4-7.

I share Gods Will for happiness for me.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 102.

No one created by God can find joy in anything except the eternal; not because he is deprived of anything else, but because nothing else is worthy of him.

Text-8. VI. 3:2.

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

Gods gifts of joy and peace are all I want.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 104. 5:4-5.

Gods peace and joy are yours.

Today we will accept them, knowing they belong to us.

And we will try to understand these gifts increase as we receive them.

They are not like to the gifts the world can give, in which the giver loses as he gives the gift; the taker is the richer by his loss.

Such are not gifts, but bargains made with guilt.

The truly given gift entails no loss.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 105. 1:1-6.

Prepare yourself for miracles today.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 106. 4:8.

When a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable.

Text-19. I. 1:1.

To give and to receive are one in truth.

I will receive what I am giving now.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 108. 8:2-3.