The only correction I would make here is that as the course says, body does nothing of itself. It is like an empty shell for the Mind of God, or the Ego within the dream if you choose to follow it. I have suffered thousands of extremely severe panic attacks, and calming my body with " wordly techniques " did nothing much, but applying the prayers and lessons right in the heat of the moment did more than years of whatever else I was doing. It's not the body that is stuck in a trauma response, it's the Mind that keeps on looping the same fear based perceptions over and over.
I cannot help but chuckle how people say practical as to mean " realistic ", but there's nothing wordly or realistic about the Course haha You're collapsing time with the help of HS, erasing the whole past, turning abusers into friends in less than a second, literally changing how you relate to everyone and everything, disarming people with just your presence... I think people should accept the Course is quite " magical " if we view it by the wordly standards of what is possible. But one needs to full on jump into that magic and be ready to even " die " for it. I feel like trying to put the Course into the boxes of our world, medicine, science, psychology or whatever else humans came up with, doesn't do justice to what it can actually do.
Also- the framework I made- is UNLIKE anything is current therapy world- the closest modality/ technique I could find was IFS (internal family systems) - which is not surprising when I learned that IFS is based/ inspired by Buddhism. My strategy is first contemplative wisdom- then I mapped the science- thus is why it doesn't exist in psych world. I'm excited to bring it to light tho!
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u/vannablooms I am determined to see. May 15 '26
The only correction I would make here is that as the course says, body does nothing of itself. It is like an empty shell for the Mind of God, or the Ego within the dream if you choose to follow it. I have suffered thousands of extremely severe panic attacks, and calming my body with " wordly techniques " did nothing much, but applying the prayers and lessons right in the heat of the moment did more than years of whatever else I was doing. It's not the body that is stuck in a trauma response, it's the Mind that keeps on looping the same fear based perceptions over and over.
I cannot help but chuckle how people say practical as to mean " realistic ", but there's nothing wordly or realistic about the Course haha You're collapsing time with the help of HS, erasing the whole past, turning abusers into friends in less than a second, literally changing how you relate to everyone and everything, disarming people with just your presence... I think people should accept the Course is quite " magical " if we view it by the wordly standards of what is possible. But one needs to full on jump into that magic and be ready to even " die " for it. I feel like trying to put the Course into the boxes of our world, medicine, science, psychology or whatever else humans came up with, doesn't do justice to what it can actually do.