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| How did the reading for Prac 2-Term 1-Class 2 influence your understanding of the meaning of spiritual perfection? (Prac 2-1-2) |
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| (Personal responses similar to: Spiritual perfection is about oneness, and inner state of consciousness, perfection, inclusivity. Being for something and not against anything. Perfect God, perfect man, perfect being. |
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| What is your understanding of: The only thing that can never require healing is the perception that healing is required? (Prac 2-1-2) |
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| All is perfect, nothing needs to be changed, only God to be revealed. |
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| What is your understanding of: Healing is not a process but a revelation? (Prac 2-1-2) |
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| Revelation reveals the Truth. Healing speaks to the human experience, not the Divine. |
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| What is your understanding of: Wholeness is the only state of being which the cosmos allows? (Prac 2-1-2) |
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| God only knows itself. There is only one power and there is and can be no duality. |
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| How would you apply the practice of denial (turning from the condition) upon receiving a diagnosis of cancer? (Prac 2-1-2) |
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| Start with the idea: perfect God, perfect man, perfect being. Focus on a belief in goodness (God), the universe is unlimited. Wholeness is the Truth. |
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| How do we know that the Truth which we announce is superior to the condition we are to change? (Prac 2-1-2 Sermon) |
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| God is ageless, timeless, perfect. God was and is all there is. We create from cause. Condition is an effect and there is no power in effect. |
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| What is your understanding of: The mold of acceptance is the measure of our experience. (Prac 2-1-2 Sermon) |
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| (Personal responses) What we think is what we get. One is not stuck with what we have. The Law of Mental Equivalents. |
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| What is your understanding of: Principle is not bound by precedent. (Prac 2-1-2 Sermon) |
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| (Personal responses) Status quo does not make it so. We are unlimited beings. We are not limited by what has or is visible. |
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| What distinguishes having the faith of God from having faith in God? (Prac 2-1-2 Sermon) |
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| The idea of separation. God outside of us is faith in God. One with God = faith OF God. |
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| What does the client want from a Practioner/Client Session? (Prac 2-1-3) |
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| Clients desire calmness, a quiet place, confidentiality, undivided attention, non judgment, respect, help, ideas about something to be changed (though it is not the role of the practitioner to give advice but rather suggest/raise questions). |
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| What does the Practitioner bring to a Practioner/Client session? (Prac 2-1-3) |
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| Practitioners being a belief in wholeness/Oneness, knowing the Truth that God is all there is and that at the spiritual level all is perfect, whole, and complete. There is nothing to be changed, only God to be revealed in any condition. Practioners being confidentiality, calm, and a certainty that something will happen as a result of their treatment. |
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| Explain what a Practitioner/Client session is to one not familair with our philosophy. (Prac 2-1-3) |
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| A Practitioner/Client session is an opportunity to share issues, information, and experiences in a confidential setting with a skilled professional called a practitioner. The session starts with a prayer and includes an opportunity for the client to share what is happening in his/her life. There is a period of exploration and discussion of possible practices to aid the client and the session ends with a prayer treatment from the Practitioner. |
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| "It is the use of a creative power that man has control over, not the thing itself." How does the Practioner assist another in doing this? (Prac 2-1-3) |
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| Teach others to get in harmony and know the Truth: God is all there is. Teach others to use a 'MAP' (meditation, affirmation, and prayer treatment) to being about change and tranformation of the conditions in their lives. |
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| "What the Law of Mind knows in one place It knows simultaneously and instantly everywhere." How does this related to the work of the Practitioner? (Prac 2-1-3) |
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| God is all there is and everything and everyone is a manifestation of God. As such, we live, move, and exist IN and as an individuation of God/Source. There is no spot where God is not. |
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| How does the Practitioner experience Love and Law in the work s/he does? (Prac 2-1-3) |
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| Love and Law are both God! Law is the "doer" of the the ideas created in Love (Mind). We are always in the presence of unconditional love. Law does the work of allowing the ideas created in Love to germinate and come into fruition. We speak the Truth of Love into the Law. |
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| How do the thoughts contained in the following quotations contribute to establishing rapport with the client? a) The Practioner recognizes pure Spirit at the center of his/her client's being...It is God in that person." and b) No matter how impossible any situation may seem or how difficult the solutation to any problem may appear, the Practitioner holds to the idea that Spirit has no problem, there are no impossible situations." (Prac 2-1-4) |
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| Practioners see the person as a spiritual being that is whole, perfect, and complete. We know that any condition is the result of an incorrect use of the Law and we know that if we change the thought process we change the outer condition. There is nothing to be changed, only God to be revealed in the situation. God IS the essence of the individual and not apart from. |
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| How would you expand on this statement in the light of establishing rapport: "When deep calls unto deep, deep will answer deep"? (Prac 2-1-4) |
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| We connect at the deepest spiritual level. The deeper we connect with the client, the more transformative the experience as we are operating from the core, the Oneness, the "God"ness. |
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| Is deep rapport always the aim of the Practioner? (Prac 2-1-4) |
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| No. Knowing the Truth is the aim. The Practioner, though, needs to be able to establish sufficient rapport that allows the client to be comfortable enough to open up. |
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| How can judgment destroy rapport? Give examples. (Prac 2-1-4) |
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| Once judged, people feel disconnected. Judgment creates a lack of trust. Judgment takes us out of "Oneness" and suggests a belief that there is something "wrong" with the other person. Judgment would suggest a Practitioner does not truly believe that all is perfect, whole, and complete, and that God is all there is. |
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| In your own words, explain why spiritual mind treatment ios a revelation. (Prac 2-1-5) |
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| There is only one Mind. We all use it. The true nature of the individual is about becoming aware of the Truth of the client: pefect God, perfect man, perfect being. Also, it is this perfection we seek to reveal. |
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| Why must our serqach after (for) union with God eventually cease? (Prac 2-1-5) |
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| Because God is all that exists. We cannot find what is! The shift is from seeking to increasing awareness. This "search" is an intellectual activity. It is similar to the characters in the Wizard of Oz. Each found they had inside of them the attribute they were seeking from the Wizard. |
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| While listening to the client, to what else should the Practitioner be listening? |
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| To the Spirit/Truth in the form of intuition, the still small voice inside. |
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| What is the basis of the statment that a Practitioenr speaks with authority? (Prac 2-1-5) |
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| Practioners know that God is all there is. They speak from that. As their words go forth, the know that they are creating within Mind. A Practioner's words are declarations of Truth: that God is, and all is a perfect manifestation of that. |
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| Beyond human experiences of companssion, empathy, comfort, respect, and so on, what is the role of listening in a client session? (Prac 2-1-5) |
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| To hear the Truth under the condition. |
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| What is the difference between mental affirmation and spritual realization? (Prac 2-1-6) |
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| Affirmation is limited to what can possibly be or imagined for the future. Spiritual realization opens the mind to the direct embodiment of the Truth which is limitless, boundless, and completely available right now! |
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How does the following quote related to asking questions in the client session?
This Law (cause and effect) operates on out beliefs as we believe them - not as we hope them to be, but as we actually believe them to be." (Prac 2-1-6) |
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| We need to ask questions to get at what beliefs are under the condition and to find out HOW (not why) this condition materialized. Once we know what beliefs caused the condition, we can work to change them and thereby create other conditions. As Holmes says, "Show me what someone's life is like and I will tell you what is in their mind." |
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| What is the basis of mental conflict? (Prac 2-1-6) |
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| The basis of mental conflict is a lack of alignment with Truth and the understanding that God is all there is. It is from a need to know where something came from and a belief that it needs to be fixed. |
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| How does the work of the psychologist and the metaphysician differ? How would this differnece affect the intended purpose of asking questions? (Prac 2-1-6) |
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| Pshychologists seek to know why something happened. Practitioners seek to find the belief that has led to the current condition, regardless of how or why it was formed. Questions from a Practitioner focus on uncovering the thought patterns and beliefs so we can know the Truth in the situation. |
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| From your readings in Prac 2-Term 1-Classes 4, 5, and 6, how do rapport, listening, and asking questions relate to each other? How could a Professional Practitioner's proficiency in these skills contribute to breaking down race thought and subjective thought patterns in the client? (Prac 2-1-6) |
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Practitioners who connect with the client and hear beyond the words are able to ask profoundly deep and powerful questions. This can aid in cutting through the condition.
All three build trust and when trust is built deeper questions can be asked. All three allow what is hidden to come to the surface. If we listen intently, we will be able to hear more quickly what is undelying the condition and bring it to the surface, thus aiding the client toward a shift in consciousness more rapidly. |
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