Top 5 Reasons for Starting the Workbook of "A Course in Miracles"
A Yearly Set of Lessons That Can Change Your Life
As we enter the final weeks of 2024, many of us look back and reflect on the last twelve months. We think about our actions and words, the choices we made, the steps we took, or what we elected to discontinue. Indeed, this type of reflection on one's life and the direction of one's existence enables a consideration of how, or in what ways, we can more fully, lovingly, and happily care for ourselves, make better decisions, and experience greater happiness in the new year.
The Workbook of A Course in Miracles is a beautiful, transformative, and illuminating path that provides a route to deepen one's relationship with oneself, experience peace and light, and facilitate an awareness of love and the presence of love in all we say or do.
The Workbook consists of 365 lessons, one for each day of the year. The first half guides us through the process of dismantling the blocks to our awareness of love. The second half promotes the development of a mindset that is anchored in love. The Workbook offers a daily affirmation with accompanying Text and directions to help us apply the affirmation to our experiences.
Anybody can do the Workbook. Anyone can choose to re-do the Workbook. It is a tool to help us center our lives in the space of love and light. While the Text of A Course in Miracles provides an in-depth and profound meditation on the metaphysical principles of the Course, the Workbook is the agent for practical experience. We use the Workbook as our tool to bring what the Text imparts to life in our lives.
So, if you are contemplating how to manifest greater love and abundance in your life, you may want to consider starting the Workbook. Below are my top 5 reasons for taking on this wonderful experience.
You Don't Need to Rush!
The Workbook is completed over one year. One of the instructions specifies that no more than one lesson should be completed daily. In fact, it is common for many to spend more than one day on a lesson if it is particularly resonant. So, you don't need to rush through the Workbook or aim to finish it quickly (or even understand each lesson quickly). It is an opportunity to slow down and focus on the day's lesson. No more, no less.
You'll Begin to See Things From a More Loving Perspective
One of the most dramatic shifts the Workbook promotes is a greater awareness of love and seeing things from a loving vantage point. Working through the lessons, many find that their natural, instinctive response to challenging situations, individuals, or contexts is one of love—not just love for others but love for oneself. Thus, the Workbook aids us in loving ourselves more than we previously have.
The Workbook promotes the practical experience of the Text.
As you work your way through the lessons and apply them to your life experiences, you will begin to see how the content shared in the Course Text is applicable and made manifest through our everyday, lived experiences. Furthermore, doing the Workbook provides us with a spiritual frame or foundation to draw upon when we find ourselves in situations we would rather avoid. The Workbook helps us to put things into perspective and separate the love and light around us from the darkness and shadows of the ego.
There is a wide variety of resources to support you through the Workbook.
A quick Google or Amazon search will reveal a wide variety of websites, books, articles, apps, and webinars all dedicated to supporting students of the Course through the Workbook. Thus, we have many different tools available to aid and supplement our practice. Take advantage of these, but remember that the central guidance and foundational Text is the Course itself.
You can begin the Workbook anyday, anytime.
The Workbook is designed to be completed over a year. However, that does not mean you can only start on January 1st. You can pick it up and begin any day, any time. There is no moment like the present. So get a copy of the Workbook and prepare for a powerfully transformative experience.
For a free copy of the Workbook (and of A Course in Miracles), click below for the WikiSource version.
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Have a great week, everyone.
Sounds like a good plan. Hope I can keep up with it.