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Author Corinne Zupko, a licensed see the anxiety differently. Rather than
counselor and Mindfulness-Based expending a lot of energy wanting it to
Stress Reduction teacher, undertook not be here, I shifted into accepting
her study of psychology out of that it is here, and that rather than see
necessity when debilitating anxiety it as my adversary, I could see it as my
threatened to derail her life. Seeking teacher. My anxiety showed me that
ways to do more than temporarily my current thought system was largely
alleviate her symptoms, Corinne began based on fear. It empowered me to
to study A Course in Miracles (ACIM), seek a new thought system, based on
mindfulness meditation, and the latest love, as taught by A Course in Miracles.
therapeutic approaches for treating Then it motivated me to deeply
anxiety. practice the Course’s teachings.
Ultimately, the pain of anxiety
As Corinne healed her own mental catapulted me into experiencing
anguish, she compiled the perception- unshakable inner peace as it helped me
shifting process she describes in From remember our eternal nature and our
Anxiety to Love: A Radical New True Self.
Approach for Letting Go of Fear and
Finding Lasting Peace (New World Your perspective on healing
Library, February 14, 2018). We hope from anxiety is chiefly
you’ll enjoy this Q and A with Corinne inspired by A Course in
about the book. Miracles. Please explain what
A Course in Miracles is for
# # # those who might not know.
You say that even though your A Course in Miracles is a
personal anxiety journey was one metaphysical text that teaches a
of the most terrifying experiences new thought system based on
of your life, it has become your Love, rather than our usual
greatest teacher. How so? thought system, which is based
on fear. The Course is a spiritual
Anxiety is painful. There are times pathway that seeks to help us
when I never thought I would feel fully awaken to our eternal reality
normal again. I spent a lot of energy and our complete innocence. It
hating my anxiety and I wished it away teaches us that we are eternal
as hard as I could. However, having beings and are not limited to
this attitude changed nothing. If these bodies. It is also profoundly
anything, the strain of hating my psychological. It works with our
present state only created more thoughts and helps us choose to
anxiety. Instead, I became willing to listen to the thought system of
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