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Transcending Arrogance and Insensitivity

Posted by Ricardo Hidalgo on Saturday, March 17, 2012, In : Well-being

My worst fear is being arrogant and insensitive, and I do all I can to be humble and sensitive. Yet, inevitably, there are times when I am arrogant and insensitive. What gives? Why does this occur in spite of my abhorrence of arrogance and insensitivity; in spite of my best efforts to avoid being this way? Is there something wrong with me? Am I weak? If you are like me you will identify with what you read here.

I just realized some things that answer these questions and bring me relief. ...

The Lesson Miracles Were Sent to Teach

Posted by Ricardo Hidalgo on Sunday, February 5, 2012, In : Awakenings

More deep wisdom from A Course in Miracles clearly describing the lesson that miracles were sent to teach:

"The miracle returns the cause of fear to you who made it. But it also shows that, having no effects, it is not cause, because the function of causation is to have effects. And where effects are gone, there is no cause. Thus is the body healed by miracles because they show the mind made sickness, and employed the body to be the victim, or effect of what it made. Yet half the lesson wi...
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How to Be Free of Anxiety By Understanding The Three Principles Behind Life

Posted by Ricardo Hidalgo on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, In : Well-being

Being a psychotherapist, there is not a day goes by that I don't sit with people who are anxious, including myself. The thing is, if they could find what would reassure them, they would not be seeing me. In other words, anxiety becomes a problem when nothing reassures; and finding nothing that reassures becomes, itself, a source of anxiety, leaving people caught in a downward vicious cycle.

Enter a deep-enough understanding of the three principles behind all experience to the rescue. These ...
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A Healed Mind Does not Plan

Posted by Ricardo Hidalgo on Monday, December 26, 2011, In : Awakenings

From time to time I come across such powerful messages in "A Course in Miracles" that it has a major impact on me. This is one of those passages. I hope it has even a fraction of the impact on you.

"Defend the body and you have attacked your mind. For you have seen in it the faults, the weakness the limits and the lacks from which you think the body must be saved. You will not see the mind as separate from bodily conditions. And you will impose upon the body all the pain that comes from t...
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