The truth about human nature

“Once you identify a choice that your culture has made on your behalf, you are free to begin forging a new one.”—Philip Shepherd

My most important practice is non-resistance. Me and Elsa—letting it go. Over and over and over again.

Like today’s Course lesson advises, “Give up your tight control of what you see.”

Personally, I want to give up my tight control of what I see, what I think, what I believe.

I was pondering this common phrase today. “But that’s just human nature.”

It’s often used to explain away all sorts of less-desired behaviors, things like fear, jealousy, greed, anger. And it’s billed as inescapable, “just the way it is.”

But that doesn’t ring true for me. I would say 100 percent of these kinds of projected behaviors are anything BUT human nature. Our true essential nature is love, peace, acceptance and joy.

And anytime, we feel less than peaceful, less than innocent, less than “what a freakin’ awesome world this is,’ we are resisting something and projecting whatever we’re resisting onto a screen outside ourselves.

Another myth I’d hereby like to bust is the prevalent belief that it’s your job to figure everything out. When you rely on your precious mind to solve some issue that’s troubling you, it produces thoughts—lots and lots of thoughts.

The intellect, as great a tool as it is, relies on old files stored in the brain. It churns up stories revolving around the above myth—that others and their “human nature” are out to get you. And these thoughts, which are endless and self-reinforcing, only breed more thoughts.

So today, let’s all join Elsa, belt out a joyous “let it go.” And relax in the boundless peace that is our true nature.

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Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World),