Carrying Concern

During the week, I receive many emails from Field training students and others who are struggling with some situation or other. Sometimes the language is restrained, self-conscious, framed as though the issue were theoretical. Others amount to distressed confessions of feeling overwhelmed or otherwise at a loss, and usually end in an urgent plea for whatever sort of help Field training might be able to provide.

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Synchronicity and Nonlocal Tips

Each week, I receive emails expressing appreciation for REALITIES, and amazement that the reader found the weekly blog post uncannily personal, relevant, or well-timed. This isn’t an unusual experience for Field training students who are practicing resting in “alignment”—that inner state of self-agreement that is, as the Course states, the aim of practice. While we undertake practice then, for the sake of alignment rather than to change outer conditions, we’re aware that the inner state

Not Waiting, Not Pushing

Learning to rely on willingness rather than willfulness is no small reversal. Sometimes, it seems like turning around a train that’s barreling down the track at a hundred miles per hour. Many students, on hearing the claim that willingness is a far more powerful and effective way to engage reality than willfulness can’t seem to get past the idea of waiting for something to happen. It’s as though they tacitly believe that we have to

Willing to Be Surprised

Willingness, not desire, is the defining feature of our creative nature. This means, simply put, that we have whatever life we’re willing to have, regardless of what our desire may be. This is a sobering point for many of us, because it calls us to take stock of our standards. To want something while being willing to settle for far less, even for something that contradicts what we want, leads to suffering no matter how

Debt

Some years ago, a young woman enrolled in one of our classes, because she had tried everything she could think of to collect on a $2,000 debt. Her plan was to find a way to use consciousness to manifest the debt’s repayment—as she put it, “to make [the woman who owed her the money] pay her what she owed her.” When I told her there was nothing that Field training could do for her, she

Willingness

It is a revelation of sorts to many that, as Field training tells us, desire alone is not creative. As though in a New Age dream, they had thought that desiring something, perhaps passionately, was all they needed—that, plus a little visualizing here, a little affirmation there. Then along comes Field training with the idea that it is not desire but something deeper in the psyche that finds expression, inwardly and outwardly, through the mysterious

Alignment and Excellence

One of the most persistent confusions about consciousness-as-cause—and it hounds Field training students sometimes well into their study and practice—is the idea that we can, through the power of belief, alter some outer condition, some fact of our experience in the world. The Course states clearly that, “the aim of practice is alignment, not manifestation,” and points out that in any model where belief is the creative force, believing in a condition of lack sufficiently

Sleight of Mind

One of the most startling discoveries available within the study and practice of Field training is how we can and often do construct a problematic reality entirely as a distraction from something else that we feel ill equipped to deal with. The real problem, in every case, is rooted in a contradiction that the surrogate problem camouflages, and this is its entire purpose. One can think of the tacit contradiction as something of a magician

Phrase Testing

Often we don’t believe what we think we believe. Field training gives us many wonderful ways to become conscious of our intentions. Often this process of getting to know ourselves can be surprising. Here’s a little exercise you can play with to open yourself to being surprised by a sudden and deeper understanding of your intentions—which in our model, means those things you’re taking to be real, and those with which you’re identifying: Consider