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In honor of Queen Elizabeth II making her transition from the world within the past week, this post is dedicated to the royalty of us all.
The ancient belief behind the concept of “royal blood” is that Kings and Queens were descended directly from God and therefore superior to ordinary humans.
A Course in Miracles teaches that not only are we all collectively the “Holy Son of God Himself” W-pI.191 – but that we are actually Kings and Queens of our own realm.
Workbook lesson 236 straight-up says,
“I have a kingdom I must rule.”
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The ‘kingdom” to which this lesson is referring is that of our minds.
But so often it appears to us that we actually have no power over that realm in any way, doesn’t it?
Jesus feels us here, though – as He goes on to say,
“At times, it doesn’t seem I am its king at all. It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel.”
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JBro just gets us, doesn’t He? It’s like sometimes our thoughts are on auto-pilot, thinking themselves. We don’t see it coming, they just hijack us, and all of a sudden – BOOM! We’re anxious, pissed off, or boo-boo kitty – and we don’t even know why, and we can’t seem to regain our emotional footing.
Or we’re just chillin’ with someone, and the next thing we know our conversation has escalated into an argument and it is on. We feel attacked, our feelings get hurt, we retaliate by saying mean, stupid things – and we have no idea how we got there.
How we “got there” is actually by allowing our minds to be invaded and temporarily taken over by a power that is not of us – the ego.
We still remain the rulers of our mind though – our minds are only capable of serving. We can choose to elect indentured servitude and be imprisoned in the tower of our own minds by thoughts of anger, resentment, victimhood, frustration; feeling not good enough or diminished and believing another is at fault.
Or we can summon the power of the Great Alchemist – the Love of Spirit – to the castle. We can remember that the reason we have a kingdom at all is because we are an extension of the Kingdom of God – aka innocent, whole, perfect, sinless, blameless – forever.
Only then is sanity is restored to our minds and peace to our kingdoms, and we can go about living happily ever after.
So how do we call on that power of Love and thwart the attack of the ego’s warring faction?
Jesus tells us in several places in A Course in Miracles that he’s basically our Miracle-Dude-in-Waiting, whose job it is to show up immediately wherever He is called upon and transform fear into love. He can perform this only with our willingness and our participation, however, because He cannot usurp our power of free will – which basically allows us to remain in bondage and servitude to the ego if we really want to.
Jesus calls this transformative process true forgiveness, wherein we forgive our brothers, remembering that they are guilty of nothing because we’ve only been dreaming we were exiled from God in separate kingdoms from each other.
The power of this miraculous practice literally is like alchemy – but instead of transmuting base metal into gold it changes our experience of the world from one of fear, pain and darkness to one of love, peace, joy, and light. It enables us to wake up and recall the truth of our royal ancestral lineage, and the fact that it is a sonship made up equally of everyone in the Universe.
Forgiveness reminds us that we truly are the ruler of the kingdom of our minds, and that we can experience a happy, peaceful, joyful domain of existence full of miraculous relationships with everyone and everything.
These relationships may be with other people, or with money, health and the state of the body, our livelihood, the environment, politics, social justice, or anything else. Whomever and whatever makes up our kingdom, it is our thoughts about these people, situations and concerns that dictate whether our realm is loving, abundant, beautiful and fun, or a dungeon in which we imprison ourselves in fear, judgment, misery, criticism, blame, and condemnation.
I’m living proof, and I’m not special. For 20 years, electing which kingdom my mind will serve has been and continues to be for a daily endeavor for me. The transformative practice of true forgiveness is the force that changed my relationship with everything that was not working in my life.
This Divinely-gifted elixir has healed my anxiety, relationship conflict, money problems, weight issues, and wobbly self-esteem.
It inspired me to take action to let go of beliefs, mindsets, habits, situations, and relationships that no longer served my highest good. It guided me to end estrangements and accept people for who they are, brought me an incredible partner, and gave me the balls to change careers, complete two degrees, be ordained, and become a teacher and coach of A Course in Miracles – which is my joy, my passion, and my life’s work.
ACIM Lesson 236: You Rule Your Mind | Practical Application of A Course in Miracles
You have a kingdom you must rule.
Choosing to rule with the ego by judging others and hold them in guilt will always result in a realm of fear and anxiety, and mirror back conflict, limitation, problems, frustration, scarcity, and things going wrong.
Directing your mind to serve the Holy Spirit ensures that your realm is filled with expressions of love, which are reflected as happiness, peace, harmony, and things working out in your relationships and experiences with everyone and everything.
There are no commoners.
We all have the “royal blood” of the Light of God coursing through us.
Long live the King and Queen that you are.
Love,
Kelly
Kelly Russell, The Rock Your Joy Coach
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