The first lessons in “A Course in Miracles” teach that nothing has meaning except the meaning we give it.  If it has no meaning, then it has no emotional impact and therefore no affect on your vibration. When you decide to assign meaning to something, it is most beneficial to assign a meaning that makes you feel better and therefore raises your vibration.

Here’s an example from my life. Because we are in the process of selling our house, I asked my husband to re-nail a couple fence boards that had come loose.  To my request, he assigned a meaning that I worried unnecessarily about insignificant things, and proceeded to tell me so. To his comments I assigned a meaning that he didn’t care about doing even simple things that would make the house more attractive to buyers and that he didn’t care about my feelings because he was now telling me something I considered important was not important.  As you can imagine, we were both feeling low energy and uptight at that point.

Often assigning a negative meaning to a situation seems to happen automatically. It takes effort to pull yourself out of that rut and look at things in a different way.  There is ALWAYS a different meaning you can assign. What meaning would help you feel better?  What meaning would make things easier? What meaning would allow you to look at the situation through the eyes of love instead of the eyes of blame or fear?

Please share an example from your life where you could have assigned a negative meaning to something and instead chose to assign a more helpful one.  What impact did that have on your life?