Fire Energy & Forgiveness: Lesson 1

Fire Energy & Forgiveness: How Healthy Anger Sets You Free is a four-part series. We have taken the original two-hour video and edited it into four parts to make it easier for you to consume the material. Plus, there is a downloadable audio only option, if you’d like to listen when you’re “on the go.” And, there are inspirational examples of fire energy in nature, art and music included in each Lesson.

Observe participants working with Amy. You can also join into the exploration within your own body and mind, and see what happens for you as you interact with the material in this way.

Jot down any insights that arise. Coming Soon: I am currently creating Worksheets or a Workbook which will be included with this e-course if you would like to use that for writing. It will be located below this video and you can download it and/or print it out.

Take the practices into your life to see for yourself how powerful and transformational they are when you use them in your own mind as you catch yourself and become more mindful of your thoughts, feelings, wants, needs and sensory organs, plus your Intuition.

You can watch the video straight through. Or you can pause the video whenever you’d like and take a break. Watch in segments, at your own pace. Watch over and over again to allow the wisdom to be absorbed in layers — this happens naturally through repetition.

Also, enjoy the examples of fire energy in nature and art that are included below each video lesson.

Are You Spiritually Sponge-able?

Are You Sponge-able? Spiritually sponge-able, that is.

Spiritually sponge-able is a whole new way of using your body.

Stay with me: sponges are porous and absorbent. The spiritual law “giving is receiving” only works if you are also able to receive.

You must be able to sponge in God’s Love if you want a loving life. Ask yourself:

Is my heart porous, in the sense that I’m able to receive and accept love?
Are my lungs porous? Am I able to inhale and exhale fully, enjoying the sensuality of my breath?
Are my muscles and interconnective tissue porous? Can I feel energy humming and tingling through my torso?
Is my brain porous? Is possible for me to let my eyes soften and melt back into my head, releasing my brain to float softly within my skull?

A Course in Miracles tells us, “…all sickness is mental illness….”* So it is the mind which must be healed. However, while you believe you are the body, Jesus advises that you ask the Holy Spirit to use the body for Her** divine purpose. This choice is crucial to your happiness, peace of mind, and ongoing sense of well being.

Up until now, you have probably been experiencing your body as flesh and blood — dense, contracted, possibly pain-riddled, and almost always not looking as good as you would like.

You physically experience guilty feelings, heartache and body tension (often in the form of headaches and upper body pain such as TMJ, neck and shoulder tension, etc).

Probably no one has told you what the body feels like when it is free of excess tension, and is a free-flowing extension of God’s Will.
What does this mean?

When you allow the Holy Spirit to use the body for Her purpose you become a conduit for miracles.

In other words, your body is experienced as an energetic transmitter of Loving Light. God’s wisdom (you could say “good vibrations” or “energy”) runs through your body using it like a clear instrument. Your body becomes a hollow flute for God to play with His Fingers.

If you are sponge-able, you allow yourself to receive God’s formless, timeless Love, and then you effortlessly give that Love through your natural radiance.

If you are not sponge-able, you can give, give, give to the people around you and it’s still ego-driven. Giving without sponge-ability (the ability to receive) is just another form of ego control.

Sponge-ability connects your will with God’s Will. You are illuminated with His Great Light, absorbing and squeezing out (to stick with our sponge metaphor) the radiant Great Rays that Great Light creates.

*ACIM supplement: Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice.

**I’m using the Divine Feminine to refer to the Holy Spirit, as modeled in the Hebrew version of ACIM (read Shekinah, Divine Feminine and the Holy Spirit).

Check out my series: How to Use the Body While You Think It’s You and my Facebook page, A Course in Miracles Body Image.

Illustration: The Lady by Harper Wood.

Fire in Nature: Volcanic Crater Lake

Let yourself be there and feel the crackle and the movement of natural fire.

Fire Art: Artist Painting with Fire

Fire as an artist’s tool.

Fire Music: Girl On Fire – Alicia Keys

So inspirational!

Fire Dance: Australian Aboriginal

Feel the primal truth of the fire dance. Let yourself get up and move … see what happens.

Bonus Content

Gain insight and inspiration from my very down-to-earth mentor, Barbara Sher and her Ted Talk.