Lesson 209

Review VI

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About This Review

This is a review lesson in the ACIM Workbook. Review lessons revisit earlier ideas, allowing them to deepen and integrate into your awareness. Each review period is an opportunity to see these ideas with fresh eyes and a more receptive mind.

Practice Guidance

The review lessons are designed to consolidate the ideas you've been practicing. Spend time with each idea being reviewed, letting it settle more deeply than before. You may notice that ideas which seemed abstract or difficult when you first encountered them now carry a different quality.

Don't rush through the review. Each idea deserves your full, unhurried attention. You might find that your understanding has shifted in subtle ways since you first practiced these lessons.

Contemplation

As you review, notice which ideas resonate more strongly now than they did initially. This natural deepening is part of the workbook's design — each review builds on the foundation of daily practice.

From Walking the Workbook

Beloved, day nine. The recognition is becoming the air we breathe.

Today's applied idea is in the Workbook. Read what is offered. Each day's specific idea is a small jewel; the Course has chosen each one carefully. We trust the Workbook to know what is needed today.

There is sometimes a small grief in this passage. The mind that has been identifying with the body for so long is, in some sense, mourning the loss of that identification. Not loss of the body — the body continues. Loss of the identification — the mind's clinging to I am this body as the foundation of itself.

This grief is normal. The Course is patient with it. We are gentle with ourselves in it. The release of an identification that has felt like the whole self is, in its small way, a real release. We let it happen at the speed it happens.

For today. Read today's lesson in the Workbook. Repeat the affirmation. Be gentle with whatever quiet grief or relief is arising as the identification loosens.

A musical companion to today's lesson is available below.

Walking the Workbook, Volume Two is the ACIM.live companion for Lessons 121 through 240 — the middle third of the year, including the central forgiveness lessons and the closing of Part I. Read more about the book →

*This is original commentary and practice guidance. For the complete lesson text, please visit The Foundation for Inner Peace.*