The easiest thing to do when you are faced with something scary is to run away. Fear is the opposite of love and we always have the choice of experiencing either one or the other like darkness and light. When you turn on the lights the darkness in the room goes away, it is the same when we love.
According to the ACIM (A Course In Miracles), our greatest fear is ourselves. Humans are afraid to know the truth about themselves because they fear the horrible things they have been told about whom they are and how horrible they can be. I mean Humans actually kill one another in sometimes brutal and vicious ways. Humans kill animals and eat them. We allow our children to starve to death. On a more personal level we have all hurt the ones we love in some way either physically or mentally, so we must be horrible creatures!
Are we really that horrible? Is being a vile person a requirement of humanity? Hardly! Please do not buy into the illusion and certainly do not run from your self! The nature of this reality is that our thoughts manifest in ways we are not aware of and the Divine Truth is hidden behind all the fear, pain, and lack we believe in. Each of us creates our own reality through our thoughts so what you think about that person staring back at you in the mirror is your “truth”.
It takes courage to look into the mirror and see the Divine Truth…you are looking at God (or your choice of deity). The road to self love begins with one step and the mirror is a great place to begin! Now do not get confused here, I am not speaking about loving what you see, that is just a shell and the same goes for everything else in this world. It is all illusion and we have been born blind! The Truth is always present and the potential to see it is always available. You may have had revelations where you actually saw the Truth and those are gifs from angels.
When I look in the mirror I am aware of my feelings. I do not judge them as good, or bad I simply feel. It is the feeling that leads you to who you are and seeing the Divine Person/Truth. Remember you are made in the image of God.
For someone who does not know the Truth, fear often jumps in and this is how addictions are born. We have a void in our lives and we have no idea how to love that person we see in the mirror, much less out in the world, so we run. We run from ourselves in a vain attempt to escape. The pain of the illusion is too great so we find a way to escape and the method of choice these days is chemicals that alter our sense of reality. Addictions come in many forms but they all have fear at the core. Addiction simply means that your behavior has become habitual and harmful. Even though you may realize that this behavior is harmful to both you and others it seems that you cannot stop and it also seems like it relieves the pain.
This is what I call a dream within a dream within a dream! How many layers of deception does it take for you to feel safe from yourself? Tomorrow we will continue this look at addictions and I will offer a solution.
😉 Sequoia Elisabeth
Oneness Ministry 
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