When I meet with people one-on-one I always end up drawing something similar to the picture below to help communicate the message of the overall path. From there, I show them how to drop their particular situation into the diagram in order to begin working their way out of the frustration they feel.

Any situation can be understood through the process depicted above so long as you’re willing to open up to a new way of perceiving and handling the situation.

The basis for this pictorial representation of the inner journey stems from one of the most powerful statements (to me) from A Course in Miracles: Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.

Notice that the statement does not say “those who are whole make no demands”…instead, is says “those who see themselves as whole make no demands”.

The use of the phrase “those who see themselves as whole” is a direct reference to our perception of wholeness versus a statement on whether or not we are …

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