Your Thoughts Are a Source of Oppression and Empowerment | ✨ A Course in Miracles
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
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🗓️ 5 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"I have no neutral thoughts." – A Course in Miracles Workbook, Lesson 16
What if every thought you have contributes either to truth or illusion, love or fear, oppression or empowerment?
This lesson invites us to reflect on the power of our thoughts and recognize that none of them are neutral. Each thought shapes our perception of reality, extending either love or reinforcing illusions.
In this episode of Love & Learn, we dive into Lesson 16 from A Course in Miracles Workbook, exploring how becoming aware of our thoughts can empower us to choose love and release the grip of fear.
This Lesson's Practice:
- Observe Your Thoughts: Spend a minute with your eyes closed, letting thoughts arise naturally. Identify the central theme or person of each thought and say:
- “This thought about [specific thought] is not a neutral thought.”
- Name the Impact: Notice how the thought influences your emotions or perceptions. Acknowledge its power without judgment, and bring awareness to whether it stems from love or fear.
- Repeat Throughout the Day: Use this practice whenever you notice a thought that creates unease, applying the mantra:
- “This thought about [specific thought] is not a neutral thought because I have no neutral thoughts.”
Key Insights on Lesson 16:
- Thoughts Are Never Neutral: Every thought either extends love or contributes to illusion. Recognizing this helps us take responsibility for the energy we bring into the world.
- Truth vs. Illusion: Thoughts rooted in truth align with love and peace, while fear-based thoughts perpetuate illusions. Becoming aware of this distinction empowers us to choose differently.
- Awareness Brings Healing: The first step to transformation is awareness. By noticing the thoughts we habitually hold, we create space to release fear and reconnect with love.
This lesson reminds us of the profound impact our thoughts have on shaping our inner and outer worlds. It’s a call to examine the mental stories we tell ourselves and begin shifting them toward truth and love.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Love and Learn, a show dedicated helping you break free from unhealthy patterns and attachments that keep you from truly feeling lovable, loving, and loved. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm your healing friend and host, Jessica Flint. If you're like me, you know what it's like to carry a trauma-shaped hole in your heart, a longing to be |
| 0:22.1 | held, cherished, valued, and adored. Over the years, you may have tried to fill it with relationships, |
| 0:28.6 | work, alcohol, weed, diets, you name it. Together on Love and Learn, we're healing core wounds |
| 0:34.0 | of unworthiness, powerlessness, and shame, and discovering new depths of self-acceptance |
| 0:39.7 | in inner freedom. Each week, we dive into popular books by leading experts in psychology, |
| 0:44.9 | neuroscience, and spirituality, integrating key insights and tools to support deep and lasting |
| 0:50.3 | healing. No matter your age, you are designed to liberate your brightest, most authentic |
| 0:56.0 | self into the world. Choose to set yourself free with me. It's never too late. Let's get started. |
| 1:04.2 | Welcome back, my lovely learners and happy Soul Sunday. It is our first Soul Sunday of 2025. So a new year, a new lesson, and just another |
| 1:16.8 | step toward unlearning fear-based thinking. And I am all in this year, and I hope you are too. |
| 1:24.6 | We can do this together. And I do want to give you a heads up that I want to give |
| 1:28.2 | you a little support on how to really architect your year or map your year. I have a workshop |
| 1:34.0 | that I started. Wow. I mean, it's been like eight, nine years now since I've been doing iteration |
| 1:39.0 | upon iteration. And the last full scale recording of it that I did was back in 2019 BC before COVID. |
| 1:46.3 | And this is the Map My Year workshop. |
| 1:48.2 | And it's a really effective way of getting to the heart of what you truly want to work on and towards this year. |
| 1:56.6 | And you integrate, you alchemize the past, you celebrate, you do a very cathartic process that |
| 2:03.4 | really gets you from where you are at now, which I like to say point A to where you want to be, |
| 2:08.2 | point B. And I'm going to be releasing all of the lessons for Matt Maier here on Love |
| 2:13.2 | and Learn this coming week. And if you're interested in being able to get the full workbook and the |
| 2:17.9 | lessons that include the activities with them, you can do that and there'll be more information |
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