Welcome

Welcome to The Unlearning School. The site is about working with A Course in Miracles: for more about the Course and further links, see below.
A Course in Miracles
is a complete course of learning for any individual to study in private for their own relief and enlightenment.
The purpose of the commentaries here is to clarify my own thoughts about the Course and to invite further consideration of this profound and beautiful work.
Some of the ideas ... you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter ...You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.
Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required.
(Workbook, introduction)
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Inward focus, self hypnosis: free introductory workshop



FREE one-day master class in the art of inward focus and self-hypnosis

Saturday 30th November 2013, 10.30 am to 2.30 pm

Andover, Hampshire UK SP10 3RQ



Meditation, prayer and self hypnosis have this in common: a purposeful shift of attention, away from outside preoccupations to concentrate on inward realities. They are all ways of consciously taking charge of your state of mind. In their different ways, depending on the approach you use and your intentions, they all free you from the demands and pressures of external situations. They remind you that you always have a choice, restore your peace of mind, and open the way for fresh insight and calm determination.



Self hypnosis is an invaluable self-help skill that enables you to:

  • relax at will
  • deal with upsets
  • focus on what you want and how to achieve it
  • revitalize your energy and motivation
  • come up with creative ideas and solutions when you want them
  • tap into your strengths and base your confidence on being true to yourself

 Sample self-hypnosis now for yourself in this FREE one-day workshop on what it is and how to do it. Try out some of the whole tool-kit of self-awareness and problem-solving techniques that we will be using in the workshop series Only You Can Save the World (monthly from January to June 2014 - see previous posts for September and October 2013).



Numbers are limited and places are filling up already, so if you would like to come along or know anyone else who might be interested, let me know before October 31st 2013 by email anna@unlearningschool.com or phone 01264 395579.

Thinking differently, a little at a time. Free introductory workshop





 
 











Only you can save the world, because the world you think you see is in your mind. Your thinking makes the reality you live in. It is the reality you live in. Change your thinking, and the world will reflect the changes back to you.



We all experience this truth at times, but the implications are too vast and unsettling for us to believe it entirely or for long. It is however perfectly practical to change your thinking a little at a time, and see the world differently as you do so. You have been doing it since you were born, calling it learning or growing up. Your external reality has been continually changing, though you never seriously or consistently imagined that this was anything to do with your thinking. On the contrary, we suppose that our thinking reflects the way the world is, rather than the other way around. In fact, as we grow up we change our thinking a little at a time so as to believe all the more in the reality of the world and in its immutable laws and its power over us.



But we can also practice believing less and less in the reality we have constructed for ourselves, and by thinking differently a little at a time come to experience the world differently. If the usual trend is to lose our innocence as we get older, we can also reverse that direction and regain it. If we can learn to be suspicious of others and to act a part, we can also unlearn mistrust and defensiveness and return to love as a guiding principle.



If you are thinking that what you need now is a new magical solution, because all others have failed you, maybe the only true solution is to change your mind about what you are, what the world is and why you are here.

Only You Can Save the World

From January 2014 in a new series of monthly workshops you can explore how to change your thinking little by little; acquire a good set of psychological tools to solve problems and change your life; make the most of your self, your circumstances and your relationships. See the previous post for details and for revised dates.

One day free introductory workshop:

Saturday 30th November
Inward Focus, Self Hypnosis: how to do it, when to use it

As a special introduction to the new workshop series starting in January 2014, here is a FREE one-off master class in the art of inward focus and self-hypnosis. These techniques for inspiration and self-determination will be developed further in the workshops, but even on their own they are invaluable for relaxing at will, relieving stress and dealing with upsets, achieving goals, renewing energy and coming up with creative ideas and solutions when you want them.

Numbers are limited, so if you would like to come along or know anyone else who might be interested, let me know before October 31st 2013 by email anna@unlearningschool.com or phone 01264 395579.