TEN TIPS TO AWAKEN FROM THE DREAM

                1. FORGIVE EVERYTHING THAT UPSETS YOU. When we are judging someone or something, we are blocking the flow of love. Love is inside of us, and when we awaken we find that love stood behind every problem we ever had. We just couldn't see it because we were angry and judging.

                2.  PRAY FOR HELP TO FORGIVE. Often we're so angry and hurt that we just can't forgive on our own. Holding the intention to forgive will make it happen in the right time. Praying a simple prayer such as, "Help me forgive because I can't by myself," will set things in motion.

                3. PRACTICE CHOOSING LOVE OVER FEAR. We have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Thus, there are sixty thousand opportunities to be the love that we are, sixty thousand chances to wake up.

                4. RE-DEFINE SUFFERING. Suffering is the difference between how we think things should be and the way they are. If we stop judging the way things are and accept them, we stop suffering and wake up from the dream.

                5. DO AN INVENTORY ON WHO/WHAT YOU NEED TO FORGIVE. We may overlook issues in the past that still bother us, because we don't think of them often. However, if anything bothers you in the least bit, it's an issue that still needs to be forgiven. We can tell if we've forgiven someone by how we feel when he crosses our minds. Any blip on the screen means there's more work to do.

                6. SEE EVERYONE AS YOUR BROTHER. A Course in Miracles says we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven unless we take every brother with us. Of course, heaven is a state of mind within us, but if we judge any brother as unequal or unworthy, we are keeping ourselves in hell. This goes for government officials, too!

                7. USE THE AFFIRMATION "I AM." "I AM" taps into the field of God energy. This is the field of pure potentiality, pure love, and pure creativity. Saying "I AM LOVE," "I AM PEACE," "I AM JOY," is stating the truth about your being. These traits are your very nature, but they've been covered up by ego personality blocks.

                8. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE ALREADY ENLIGHTENED. We are dreaming that we're not enlightened. In truth there is no time and we are already home with God. Only the ego wants you to think that it's a long, hard road to get back.

                9. DO A COURSE IN MIRACLES WORKBOOK LESSONS. These lessons, even if you don't logically understand them at first, are designed to stretch your mind to see love and miracles instead of fear.

                10. REMEMBER TO LAUGH AT THE DREAM. The Course says we made the dream in the moment that we forgot to laugh. You will find that as you awaken, you start laughing automatically because you see how silly it is that we ever thought we were separate from God.