ACIM Meditation | How to Work with Pain and Emotion

Alison Anton of the ForgiveNest Podcast presents a guided ACIM-based meditation to work with emotion, pain and reactions by bringing awareness into the body while remembering the body is not the self but an instrument for healing. The practice helps listeners consciously activate grief/sadness, anger/frustration, and finally a chosen area of physical pain, using a “mental story” to evoke the feeling and then dropping the narrative to focus on raw bodily sensation (location, texture, temperature, feeling). Participants are invited to notice underlying fear and guilt, take Jesus’ hand, and use Course-based statements, with options to pause if overwhelmed.

Timestamps:

00:00 Welcome and Setup

00:37 Body Awareness Basics

03:02 Opening Statement Practice

05:01 Grief and Sadness Exercise

12:08 Meet Fear with Jesus

15:43 Transition to Anger

17:29 Anger and Frustration Exercise

22:49 Choose Peace Instead

26:29 Physical Pain Exercise

34:31 Fear Behind the Pain