The School Song & more

For those of you who have asked recently, no, the school song is not yet ready. Bear with me while I learn the new technology! I am hoping to create an mp3 that I can send over the internet...which would be the simplest! It really is a lovely song! We are lucky to have a professional songwriter as a classmate! I thought I would share one of my recent poems with you...or maybe two....

Hello dear Linda,

very welcome in our classroom. Good to see you here. (I hope the post will be okay, when I type it, there are only very big letters). All the best to you, Monika

The Real Me

Hi Students! Here is our new school song, The Real Me. It sounds great sung! It was written by your classmate, Hirth. Soon as he can get it recorded, I will figure out a way for you to get a copy. I think it will work best if you just send me an enclosed stamped self-addressed envelope. There will be no charge for students, though, of course, donations are always welcome. Click below to see the song! 

Indira, I appreciate your poetry blog. There is so much Truth in your words. I especially like THE RIVER the little story of a little girl who sees TRUTH where others do not. I bet that it comes from your own childhood experience, about the way you saw light and dark. I love the lessons and I also get lessons from your poetry. Thank you. I am also spending time being aware of my thought self. This is an amazing process---because I realize that I mostly live in these thoughts and only sometimes catch a glimpse of who I might be between the thoughts, but the thoughts are so thick! I will keep you & the Classroom updated on my progress, and I hope to hear how it goes for each of you on your spiritual journey. I am glad to share the process with each of you. Your loving classmate, Kevin

Hi Classmates & Welcome Terri!

Haven't been here in awhile, I forgot how to get back into the classroom! I wanted to give a BIG WELCOME to Terri! The classroom is a great place to hang out, Terri....a place to hang out with Truth. I missed it when I was away. And wanted to say how much I like my latest lesson 20. They just keep getting better....or maybe I keep getting more open. Also, all my work on thoughts is really helping. I still seem to have as many thoughts, but I am not believing in all of them to the same degree I was. Thanks a million!

Ist Class Students

Please be aware that I added some paragraphs to the end of your last lesson, Lesson 20.  I woke up to a brand new day and the angels nudged me and said....you forgot something! So, there you are! 

Welcome Terri!

It is so wonderful to have your warm and open presence here in the Open Classroom. Each student adds another element of wholeness to the School.

Hello Terri,
it seems that you are new here ? Wellcome. Nice to meet you here. I am not familiar with this name. Is it male or female ? I am Monika and I am from Mainz, Germany and I am since one year happy to be part of this class.
Monika

from RUTH

Hello Everyone,
Ruth asked me to post this for her, since she was having trouble making it work. So here it is! Enjoy.... 
Dear Judy, Dear classmates,
This Internet school is a real blessing for me. Thank you very much Judy! That's why I send you this poem today.

I love this song we were singing last night in the singing group ( I missed one of our classmates there who is usually coming ) :
In unserem Leben da fließt eine Kraft die uns stets zusammenhält.
Es ist die Liebe zu Gott und den Menschen und der Natur.
Ein jeder findet die Einheit in seinem eignen Herzen nur.
Dort ist die Tür zu dem bleibenden Frieden der ganzen Welt.
I try a translation now:
In our live there is flowing a power that always hold us together.
It is the love for god, people and natur.
Everyone is finding unity (oneness) only in his heart.
There is the door for the remaining peace of the entire world.

I wish all of us remaining peace in our hearts. Monika

Negative affirmations

Most of us do not realize we are mentally (and mostly unconsciously) repeating affirmations to ourselves constantly! Alas, many of these are negative: "I can't do it!" "I am a failure." "I am too _____ (fill in the blank...fat, ugly, stupid, old)" "I am not enough." Negative affirmations affect us, whether we are aware of them or not. What affirmations do you constantly repeat? Are they mostly affirming and uplifting? Or are they mostly defeating? Do they enhance or deplete your life's energy? Perhaps you would like to make a conscious decision to become aware of the self-talk that goes on in your head. If you like, do some writing to help bring the unconscious into consciousness. As you become aware of harmful habits of thinking, healing begins - and this is a happy affirmation!

Positive Affirmations

     The affirmations below are not really meant to be positive affirmations. They are meant more as ways to bring you back into reality when you have slipped into frustration, irritation, etc. They are reminders. They are contemplations. If, for example, you are frustrated and irritated because life is not going according to your plan...

Yesterday I again asked the angels and my spiritual guides to comfort me. I found myself in intensive emotional reactions when I really opened myself to the possibility to receive what I asked for. To be open to receive implies an imense widenes. I do not yet know how far this goes and I feel a little scary with this field.
Love to all of you
Monika

I'm getting it!

First, hi to Annie, I see you are comment #56 up above in the school introduction. Good to see you back.

I want to share my understanding that my thoughts are not original, especially my complaining, negative, fearful thoughts. The same thoughts buzz around everyone's head. My contracted thoughts of fear and limitation are the same that everyone else has. I cannot tell you what a relief this is. I really get it. It is not just me. It is the same for everyone. Maybe the story changes, but the end result is always the same - fear, negativity, limitation, anger, resentment, you name it. Thanks school. Three cheers for us!

More on thoughts...

I have decided to use my classroom to learn more about myself. Myself? I know myself is not really this physical body, thoughts, & emotions. "I AM!" Just the same, I normally identify with physical reality as being me. Today I will try to apply what I am learning in our School.

YOUR OPEN CLASSROOM!: thoughts

YOUR OPEN CLASSROOM!: thoughts

Hi Kevin,

as often I am a bit late in the classroom and just read your "thoughts". I am sure our egos love negative thoughts, because we like somebody to feel sorry for ourselves, the ego likes all this attention. We try to imagine how things would be different if we would have taken a different path, other people would have behaved differently and get angry and jelous... Sometimes when I feel down I "like" beeing down; I don't want to laugh, I dont want to join happy people, I like to be miserable and feel sorry for myself. Luckyly my downs never last long, and with the help of the school I become more aware of my silly ego and its little tricks. I know that we can't change the past and so I try to smile at these negative thoughts to let them go. Easier said than done, but it is worth a try. I hope you can give your negative thoughts a little smile next time they pop up.
Best wishes, with love Gabi

Having No Value

Why is it that I see my own mother as having no value? I see her as having no value to me, or to the world. What scares me is that I know she is a mirror for me, so that suggests that I see myself as having no value. The exercise in today's lesson, helped me to become conscious of this belief inside me. When I got to the part "That's what she does best" (being herself), I choked on it because I thought "BEST???", she is not best at anything.

Greetings from Christel

• Since one Year I am reading the lessons and your comments . This year I made up my mind to give more time and attention to this process and to all people taking part. So I am looking forward to the next time to meet and contact some old friends and meet new ones, and have an intense time of learning and supporting. And I know, that some friends were waiting for this day finally to come. Here I am.

• I am breathing whenever I remember Judy's message (this short messages I like a lot as a support) and I feel how my body connect more with me. Feeling more alive and whole. It seems that my body needs this attention to get healed from this old stomach pain, which Isuffer a long time. I wish you all  apeaceful and satisfying day.  Your Christel

thoughts

Hi Everyone -- thoughts, that's what I'm thinking of. Thoughts cause so much trouble for me. A thought pops into my head and before y'know it, I am suffering. I would like to think (there's a thought again!) that I am so kind, so mature, so spiritual -- and then a negative thought pops into my head -- a thought of jealousy or envy, for example. Who wants to think they are ever envious or greedy or have mean thoughts toward another person? Not me. But the truth is, I do.

Expectations

Ruth, I wanted to thank you for asking the question about desires/ expectations/ visions in your comment to Indira’s post dated Dec. 24, 2009 called “I wish you peace in your heart and light in your mind”. The dialog about "expectations" between you and Indira has been a huge lesson.... I will be "chewing" on it for months! I had no idea how bogged down I am with "expectations" of how I think this world should be. I can see where my expectations have driven so many of the decisions I have made in my life. All the way back to when I gave up my baby for adoption when I was 17. My expectations were that