x2 Step 156 - I will not be concerned about myself today. – Journal – Step 155

Today: Step 156 - I will not be concerned about myself today. (MP3)

“I will not be concerned about myself today.” Step 156

 

SELF-CONCERN IS A FORM OF HABITUAL THINKING, born of negative imagination and of errors that have not been corrected. This compounds your sense of failure, thus influencing your lack of self-trust and self-appreciation. Our lesson for today, then, is to fortify that which is genuine within you. If you are with Knowledge, Knowledge will care for all things that require your attention. Think not that anything will be left unattended to that is for your own behalf. All needs of a greater spiritual nature and of the most mundane nature as well will be met and understood by you, for there is no neglect in Knowledge. You who are accustomed to neglect, who have not used your mind properly in the past, who have not been able to see or hear the world, can now be comforted, for you need not have concern for yourself today.

FOR THIS YOU MUST EXTEND YOUR FAITH and your trust that Knowledge will provide for you. This in time will allow you to receive the gift of Knowledge which will dispel all doubt and confusion. You must prepare for this experience. In this, you must extend your faith and trust. Be confident this day. Recognize those things that require your attention, even if they be of a mundane nature, and attend to them well, for Knowledge is not seeking to take you out of the world but to bring you into the world, for you have come here to give.

FORTIFY YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF TODAY’S IDEA by repeating it upon the hour and giving it a moment of true consideration. Fortify your practice today by utilizing it in your deeper practices where you enter stillness and silence. You can only enter stillness and silence if you are without concern for yourself. Thus, your commitment to give yourself to your practice is an affirmation of the safety and the certainty that abide with you.

PRACTICE 156: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal Step 155 - The world blesses me as I receive.

8:40 a.m. January 21, 2001 – I am not angry at God for putting me in the world. I am becoming, have become @ Home in the world for this time. Being at Home in the world was the conclusion of S2K – not anything I expected, yet the true need in order to give. How do we get 10% of the world to this point? How many are already there intuitively?

11:15 a.m. The Regional Times – like the NY Times

– Regions Work – Regional Economy for our local planet

A service of Regional Intelligence

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> Simple goal – make the existing regional structures visible

→RHG – Regional Harmonics Group – Harmony/Affinity/Resonance

→The Art & Music of regions –

→Architectural regions.

Align the single bottom up local government intentional boundaries and multiple boundary sets of the State, Federal agencies as policy for greater coordination

12 p.m. Practice #2 I have been able to give little pieces of K to Mom and Sarah and others. I receive and give naturally.

This was a strong step. In the Steps book I diagramed relationships, seeking to visualize the relationships presented on the first time through, in green ink on the page. At the bottom, the notion of "Being without question" comes from ACIM.

The blue ink from the second time reads: “make regions visible – so people may choose to be regional.” The work focus I have aligns for me with the teachings, so it is something I feel I am receiving. This will be tested many times. Let us continue.

NNC

Note: If you’ve some interest due to this or other Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. You can use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in order in the archives - one post per Step.

Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.