My thoughts* on A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 26, You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack.

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

1. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable.

²You see attack as a real threat.

³That is because you believe that you can really attack.

⁴And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you.

⁵It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now.

⁶You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them.

2. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack.

²And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable.

³Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are.

⁴Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together.

⁵They contradict each other.

* Interesting, I would have to say that this is what I saw in my relationship with my fella that I could not feel comfortable with. He did not attack me but he attacked others and felt put off when I suggested that he did not want to do that but I cannot exist in that environment. I do not want to. The world sees it as needing to vent or being sympathetic but for me it, well, it just denies God, when complaint without a chosen avenue for a resolution being looked for, even if it means that you pray for the good of the other individual or ideology and give them to God.

3. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first.

²If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes.

³Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself.

⁴And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself.

⁵A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are.

* This is what “broke my heart” within the illusion of belief in separation from God and had me feeling so bad for my fella.

* It was the same issue that I had years ago with another fella.

* I just cannot afford to go there and I know it. Someday they will as well.

4. Practice with today’s idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts.

²Nothing except your thoughts can attack you.

³Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable.

⁴And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so.

* OK, so I have to ask can I cohabitate with someone who does not want to recognize Father as protector and giver of all blessings? My “Christian background” taught me to have patience and be a good example. The “long-suffering” idea comes to mind here, but just like the idea of abusive behavior if I stay in it, I will also become an abuser and this I refuse to be.

5. Six practice periods are required in applying today’s idea.

²A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. ³Do not reduce it further.

6. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. ²The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. ³Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. ⁴You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. ⁵Today’s idea should be applied as follows:

7. First, name the situation:

²I am concerned about _________.

³Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying:

⁴I am afraid _________ will happen.

8. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. ²It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. ³As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. ⁴Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can.

9. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself:

²That thought is an attack upon myself.

³Conclude each practice period by repeating today’s idea to yourself once more.

(ACIM, W-26.1:1–9:3)

To Father be ALL Glory and Praise Given AS His Son, debi.

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This is according to my understanding on the 26th of January 2025.

Our “experiences” reflect questions that the United Consciousness wants to ask itself.