Saina guides a group of committed students through year 1 of Gentle Healing who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Thursdays at 6-8 pm ET and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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1. Assignment A: Acim Workbook lessons 94-100 including reading Regina’s tips for each day. Review your visualization plan daily. Here’s a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/gentle-healing-group/reginas-tips/
2. Assignment B: Read NTI Matthew, Chapter 13 (pgs 27-31).
3. Assignment C: Read NTI Philippians, Chapters 1-4 (pgs 349-354).
4. Assignment D: 5 minutes of Awareness watching Awareness (Being aware of Awareness).

NTI does not teach about a physical resurrection of Jesus’ body. That isn’t a comment on whether there was or wasn’t a physical resurrection. As we have already learned:

When the conditions are right, consciousness manifests as a temporary appearance within consciousness. That temporary appearance could be a flower, a baby, a disease, or an appearance that appears to defy the laws of our world. When the basics of the creative principle are understood, it is seen that temporary manifestation occurs because the conditions come together in a way to create that appearance.

NTI Mark is written to provide helpful symbols. Our role is to derive meaning from its symbols, and then live from the example provided by those symbols. So NTI Mark points within instead of towards manifestation.

We need to look within in order to find our way through the purification stage. We surrender within as we merge with consciousness, and the final death of the ego, which is also the final awakening, is an experience that occurs within.

Here is a related scripture from the Bible. It is provided for your own contemplation:

Now when [Jesus] was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them or follow them. For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. ~ Luke 17:20-25, NKJV

Thoughts of Awakening # 60

Trust where you are right now.
Do not look back in fear.
Do not look ahead in hope.
Trust where you are right now.

Relax into your Self.
It is here,
in this place,
now.

~From our Holy Spirit

Today’s reading provides a contrast between the unhealed mind, the healed mind, and the mind that is somewhere between the two. The reason for the contrast is to help us see that there are no facts in the world. Everything seen and experienced is dependent on the mind seeing it and experiencing it.

A fact is “a thing that is indisputably the case.” An example of a fact might be, “Crucifixion is a slow and tortuous means of execution.” At least, most people would agree that is a fact. However, today’s reading describes the experience of the healed mind during crucifixion as “wholly joyous.” (Also, the Bible tells us that Jesus’ body died fairly quickly, instead of slowly.)

In today’s reading, the unhealed mind sees darkness and suffering as it observes the crucifixion. The healed mind is wholly joyous, and the mind that is “somewhere between the complete knowledge of the healed mind and the unfettered blindness of the unhealed mind” experiences reverence and gratitude. Yet, all eyes looked on the same scene.

What is the lesson for us?

Everything that you see and experience,
you see and experience through the filter of your mind.
~ NTI Luke

Allow yourself to realize there are no facts in the world; nothing is “indisputably the case.” Accept that the way you see and understand is the way you  see and understand based on your current state of mind. You are not right about what you see. What you see is right about you; it witnesses to your state of mind.

Your perception is like a school report card. It reports on your state of mind. Aside from that, it has no meaning at all, since what you see is not a fact. Others see it differently.

Contemplate today’s tip deeply. The more you accept that what you see witnesses to your state of mind, the more prepared you are for healing (purification). The more you believe that what you see is a fact, the more likely you are to stay at your current vibrational level.

Thoughts of Awakening # 59

Peace to my brothers today.

I extend peace and gentleness.
Peace and gentleness, I receive.
I breathe peace and gentleness.
Peace and gentleness, I be.

Any thoughts that disturb my peace,
I surrender as useless today.
I shall be as I choose to be,
and give as I choose to receive.

~An affirmation of awakening
given to us by our Holy Spirit