Had a spontaneous call with Dale today as he shared on our new communication platform, which is basically instant messaging, that his father was coming for a visit tomorrow. He has not seen him for many years.
While most of my calls with the guys are during scheduled times I felt to send him a message after receiving his message that said, “call me.” Not long after he called and at first shared that he was good and looking forward to the visit as he says they have healed a lot over the years. I just waited and asked, “are you sure there is nothing else?”
He then said, “well this morning he said something that triggered me… he said, I know my son. And I felt some anger come up.”
That was what we needed and we went to work. I simply walked him through identifying the belief and then allowed him to share how it felt. We used the process as a meditation to sink into what it felt like when he said that on the phone, to see what else it brought up from the past and what future fears there were. After that we looked at how he would react in that situation without that belief and then we got into the desire. He was able to identify and let go of his desire for his father to understand he has changed and also to look at some beliefs he still holds about himself. This process was extraordinary and it all took place on a 30 minute phone call. He was able to see his beliefs and desires and question them and let them go so that he can meet his father without the past. This is priceless.
After he messaged me, “that was really helpful for me JC, I’ve never felt that. The fact that I can recall a memory and make it now. I can do that with anything, I guess that is what I suppose I am doing unconsciously anyway.”
I am so grateful for his willingness to look at this, we heal together. A resentment is nothing more than me re-“feeling” something over and over and it is not actually happening in the past and that is why I can heal it in the present moment. Accepting the correction now. Perhaps I am wrong about everything.
Therefore, it corrects what never was. (ACIM, M-2.2:3)
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