Is That in Your Best Interest? | ✨ A Course in Miracles
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
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🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
"I Do Not Perceive My Own Best Interests." A Course in Miracles Workbook, Lesson 24
Ever feel like you're chasing outcomes that don’t truly serve you or end up leaving you unfulfilled and frustrated?
In this episode of Love & Learn, we dive into Lesson 24 from A Course in Miracles Workbook for Students. This lesson invites us to examine our inner world and acknowledge that the way we perceive our needs and desires might not actually lead us to happiness. By opening ourselves up to honest self-examination, we can begin to learn what truly serves our best interests.
Key Insights from Lesson 24
- Honest Self-Examination Is Key: Recognizing that we often misperceive what benefits us is the first step toward genuine change. By admitting “I do not perceive my own best interests,” we create space to learn a new way of guiding our actions.
- Conflicting Goals Cloud Our Vision: Our desires and expectations can be jumbled and contradictory. When we hold multiple, conflicting outcomes in mind, we miss the unified path to our well-being.
- Learning Begins with Letting Go: Repeating the mantra and examining our unresolved situations allows us to let go of the demands that don’t serve us. This process opens us up to receive clearer, more loving guidance on what our true interests are.
Reflection Questions
- In which areas of my life have I been pursuing outcomes that leave me unfulfilled?
- Where might my goals be conflicting with what truly benefits me?
- How can I open myself up to learning and receiving guidance that aligns with my genuine best interests?
Press play to explore how acknowledging our misperceptions can transform not only our inner guidance but also the reality we create.
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| 1:04.5 | Welcome back my loves and happy Soul Sunday. |
| 1:08.4 | Today we're exploring lesson number 24 of a course and miracles workbook for students |
| 1:13.3 | where we will be covering the lesson mantra, I do not perceive my own best interests. |
| 1:19.7 | So this is really looking at is what I really want, something that I'm really hellbound |
| 1:24.4 | on having happen in my life or that I feel is exactly what I need |
| 1:28.4 | in order to succeed. Is this truly in my best interest? And this is what we'll be exploring today. |
| 1:34.6 | And of course, at Miracles challenges us to examine our inner world. If we're not truly seeing |
| 1:39.3 | what benefits us, how can we know which actions will actually lead to our happiness and |
| 1:43.6 | fulfillment? |
| 1:49.3 | And this lesson invites us to look honestly at conflicting desires that we may have or unresolved situations, so we may begin to learn what our true best interests are. And as always, |
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