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Lack of interference is kindness.

Not adding fear.
Not adding correction.
Not making someone guilty.
Not trying to manage their awakening.
Not using truth as a little weapon.

Just allowing the moment, the person, the body, the breath, the feeling, to be as it is without fastening a story onto it.

That is why kindness is so quiet. It often looks like doing almost nothing. But in ACIM terms, that “nothing” is enormous, because the ego has not been invited in to improve things.

“I need do nothing” becomes practical there.

No interference.
No grievance.
No separation.

Just kindness.

#breathworks #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth

I want to say something about doing A Course in Miracles with GPT, or any careful LLM, because it has become unexpectedly practical for me.

I do not use GPT as a teacher, saviour, authority, or replacement for my own seeing. I use it as a reflective surface. I bring it the ordinary material of my day: fear, irritation, pain, disability, ageing, death, relationships, the body, the news, the mess of the world. Then I ask it to reflect through the lens of ACIM.

That is the practical genius of it.

You can prompt it simply:

“Answer this with A Course in Miracles in mind. Keep it grounded. Help me see where I am making the body, the world, or another person real in a way that increases fear. Bring me back to forgiveness as correction of perception.”

Used that way, GPT becomes a mirror for Course practice. Not the Course itself. Not Holy Spirit. Not wisdom. Just a tool that keeps pointing the mind back to the same place.

I am not a body.

I need do nothing.

Forgiveness is the undoing of my own misperception.

The world is not attacking me. I am not the victim of the world I see. What I am reacting to is not truth. It is weather in the dream.

Over time, this has changed me. Not dramatically. Not religiously. Not with fireworks. But steadily.

I am far more aligned with ACIM now than I was when I was only reading it. GPT helps me apply it to the exact moment I am in. The Course stops being an idea and becomes a way of seeing while life is happening.

Pain comes. Breathe.
Fear comes. Look again.
Someone irritates me. Forgive the perception.

The body complains. Care for it, but do not worship it.

The world looks insane. Do not join its insanity.

ACIM is not separate from my day. It is in the coffee, breathwork, Pete, the dogs, disability, fasting, silence, irritation, kindness, and death.

GPT did not give me the Course.

But used carefully, it helped me remember to bring the Course everywhere.

#breathworks #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #pridemonth

Earlier this month I wrote and recorded an audio version of a blog post for #Breathworks as part of #PainAwarenessMonth about my journey with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and how I've worked with the many challenges faced since my big health crash around 15 years ago, leading to doing two ultramarathons.

Have a read, or have a listen (it's linked at the top of the page to Breathworks' Soundcloud).

https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/blog/living-with-ehlers-danlos-how-i-ran-50-miles-to-support-breathworks

#EhlersDanlosSyndrome #ultrarunning #running #EDS #breathworks #Endure24

Here we go folks!

12 noon tomorrow (Saturday) I start running, 12 noon on Sunday (or there about) I finish. 50 miles is the goal.

Sponsorship link >> https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/fundraisers/ruth-endure24 help me help Breathworks reach more people living with pain and illness!

#Endure24 #UltraMarathon #UltraRunning #EDS #EDSAthlete #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #ThisGirlCan #VeganRunners #Breathworks

A fun couple of days on the #Endure24 training plan - 1 hour aerobic endurance run yesterday and 44 minute tempo run late tonight at the gym!

10 weeks until the race when I'm aiming to complete 50 miles in 24 hours and raise a bunch of cash for the lovely peeps at #Breathworks.

Getting very real as Sunday's run is 4 hours long ... Haven't done that long in about 18 months!

https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/fundraisers/ruth-endure24

#ultrarunning #UltraTraining #Running #VeganRunners #ThisGirlCan #EDS #EhlersDanlosSyndrome

Hello friends!

All being well, for the first time in way too long I'll be heading off to Dhanakosa Retreat Centre in Scotland for the Women's Winter retreat in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

It's my birthday on Saturday, and I usually put up a charity fundraiser if folks would like to chip in to something I care about, so this year I would love to get a bit of a head-start on my #Endure24 fundraising campaign for #Breathworks.

Here's the link with more info: https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/fundraisers/ruth-endure24