Question: “I noticed that you said that you eat very healthy and follow a healthy life. I understand that what you are saying is that you are shown to eat those food. I do understand to follow Holy Spirit’s guidance on everything. However, here is my question: Since nothing is real and nothing can hurts us, why eat certain things instead of others? If it is a Holy Spirit’s guidance then I am not questionning it but why make a difference between the food? I am sorry I am just a bit stuck on this.”

Nick Arandes’ Comment: I don’t really pay attention to what I eat the way I used to with guilt in my mind. During my self-help movement days I used to believe in all that stuff about eating healthy foods, taking supplements, etc. The only thing I learned from that experience is that it cost a lot of money, and that’s it!

That being said, I do have to say that as I continue feeling guided by the Holy Spirit, I am moved to eat foods that may fall into what would be considered a healthy category, not because they are any different than others, but because that is what I am naturally moved to do.

I just don’t let guilt or judgment stop me from eating something I desire. For example. I start my mornings with fruit smoothies, and lighter stuff. I do enjoy working out, specially jogging just because I enjoy it. Two days ago, however, I was really hungry and I felt like stopping at a Burger King. My body was truly asking for it. So I had two whoppers and I enjoy them!!! I don’t feel like eating like that all the time by the way. The bottom line is, eat whatever you feel guided to eat, and as long as you are doing it without guilt or impulse, just enjoy it!

I do have some raw food videos on my site, which used to be called RadicalHealthTips.com dated backed to early 2007 when I was into all that kind of stuff. My Course in Miracles’ days started around November of that same year. One thing about me is that I am fully open about my journey. I am like an open book. So yes, your question is very valid, and it may sound like a contradiction if you are looking at my old work back when I used to teach about manifesting your dreams and all that kind of success stuff or how to get what you want crap.

Bottom line is, eat, drink and be merry while offering everything to the Holy Spirit.

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Hi Nick, I just wanted to share a report. I realized today that I have no idea how The Course views sex. All I know is that its always created a huge mess in my life and is a big part of my current problems. So, I got to go into my guilt mode today and worked a lot on forgiveness! I decided to do some research and I found an article that spoke of how sex actually creates separation and often anger because of the “false union”. I feel so much clearer on what I have been projecting. I understand more how quickly things went downhill in my marriage as well. So much more to learn…..

Nick’s comment: I also address sex in my book What Happens When You Let God. Remember, sex is just a function of the body. It is not spiritual, like anything of this world. If you have it fine, if you don’t fine too.

Through offering everything to Spirit, as you transform so is your sexual desires. That does not mean you wont have it or that you won’t enjoy it, but that you wont be needy or attached to it. You see it for what it is, just a thing bodies do.

Remember, you are not here to try to control your desires, you simply offer them to the Holy Spirit for transformation. Then there is no need to control anything. Sex simply becomes more like a preference. And if the time comes when it is no longer needed, that would be a natural transformative process for you where you feel you are not really giving up anything. No sacrifice, nor you feel deprive. Again, just keep doing your forgiveness process to whatever it is that is coming up, and let the Holy Spirit handle the details for you. It is that simple!

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“Nick, there have been times when I’ve thought that if you got a job, a roommate, and such, you’d have a lot less stress in your life an could focus on your creativity.”

Nick: I truly understand where you are coming from. What I have experienced is having the pieces of the illusion into place had nothing to do with managing stress, it is actually allowing things to be just as they are. In the non resistance there is peace. Because illusions are going to change no matter what, and that is exactly what the ego wants, to keep my attention on illusions.

And truthfully, I am not even stressed at all. Again, all because of my willingness to accept things as they are. And I have everything that I need to continue on with my creativity. Nothing has stopped me in any form. Actually I am even more creative.

Yes, there is a transition process, but once I got used to putting my life in the hands of God, and seeing how I am always fully provided and taken care of, no illusions will stop me from doing what I feel most guided to do. Not too many people will understand it. But that’s okay, I know that I have people like you who understand, even when at times even you may think I am insane. And maybe I am! lol

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Question: “My issue at times is that they are not on this path with me. I see more and more how the ego operates in them and how it triggers the ego in me. I get so hurt sometimes. At times it feels the more I give my pure love, the more I open myself up to this incredible sadness. My question to you is, are at a point Nick where you love and don’t get triggered or disappointed by others, especially those that aren’t on this path?

Nick’s Answer: I still do get triggered, and when I do, I simply use that opportunity to practice forgiveness. Now, to the second part of that question:

I have to remind myself that the ego, which turns everything into a special relationship, is the one needing people on the same path, to make believe we are growing, to feel we are both safe. But in reality, this being a personal, individual path, the lesson is always for me. It is to practice being loving and accept everyone, regardless of the path they have chosen. If for some reason there is no need for both people to be together, the Holy Spirit will orchestrate the necessary events for that change to take place. And if you are advanced enough, you wont feel any hurt or sadness. You would release the experience trusting the divine perfection of it all.

That can only be experienced through detachment. So in essence, what the forgiveness process allows us to do on a much deeper level, is to detach from all illusions without being affected by them. Only then are we truly ready to remember who we are, for there is nothing else we would want to draw our attention to.

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Question: “I have worked with the ACIM for some years now, and I love it. So forgivness is not a feeling I have to feel, right? I made it myself, it is not real, so I let it go? How do I forgive my mind?”

Nick’s answer:
> So forgiveness is not a feeling I have to feel, right?

Not at all, it is just a process. A willingness. That’s all you need to know. You could be practicing your forgiveness process, even if you are still feeling angry or disturbed because the process of undoing the ego is not something we do, it is done through us. As you continue practicing it, the time comes when that very experience which used to trigger anger or disturbance in you no longer has any effect on you. That’s what is referred to as the peace that passes understanding. It is really very simple. Not always easy, but the process is simple, and in due time you notice how it is working for you.

> I made it myself,it is not real, so I let it go?

Yes, but that is the intellectual understanding, not your experience. So you willingness is all that matters. And then you trust that the process is working, even when at times, it does not feel that way. I’ve been there, lol!

> How do i forgive my mind

Undoing is not your task. So just let that go. However you have to welcome it. Welcoming means, you are willing to surrender your thoughts to the Holy Spirit, He is the one in charge of the undoing. “Undoing is not your task, but it is
up to you to welcome it or not.” T-21.II8:5

And here is A Course in Miracles summarized:

“When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way, say to yourself,

I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.” T-14.XI.6:6-9

That’s all you need to do. A Course in Miracles is VERY SIMPLE! Don’t get too caught up in the words because all the Course is doing is looking at the ego from all different angles so that our stubborn mind can finally be willing to release its attachments of illusions.

So if you are okay with not having to know, your awakening process radically accelerates because of your willingness to trust in the Holy Spirit, your True Self. That’s all that there is to know. Or you can spend years and years studying it as many people do and continue keeping the guilt inside FOREVER!!!

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“The miracle does nothing. All it does is undo.” T-28.I.1:1-2

Many people, including Course students, and even teachers think that miracles are about exchanging illusions. In other words, if they have an experience they judge as bad, for them, a miracle would be that the experience or circumstances would change for a “good” one. Yet, according to the Course, all that a miracle does is remove all illusions from our mind so that we can experience the Truth of who we really are. Replacing one illusion, i.e. bad circumstance, for another illusion, i.e good circumstance simply keeps the illusion in place, and in that sense delaying us from having the direct experience of our oneness with God.

We do not ask for a miracle, we simply surrender our thoughts to the Holy Spirit to undo our ego, and in due time, we will experience a miracle, also known as correction of thought. That’s how simple the process is. All we need remember is that, as the Course states: “I need do nothing.” T-18.VII

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Question:“What is the real meaning of life? Is it what our higher selves decide? Or is it our purpose what we decide it to be?”

Nick’s Answer: My answer would be, I don’t know. All I know is that as I continue to surrender my thoughts, ideas, opinions, beliefs, concept, and everything else in between to Spirt; God; whatever name suits you best, I experience more peace, and find myself doing what I feel more guided to do.

I feel is if though my life has a sense of purpose, most importantly, I develop faith and trust in knowing that my needs are met by a Power greater than my small self. That’s how I experience true freedom. However, this is something than cannot be understood, it has to be experienced.

The faith in knowing that God is taken care of it all happens when we are willing to give up our own individual agendas and offer them to the One that not only can see the whole picture, but that it is always looking for our best interest and the best interest of all concern.

All I can say is, life is really very simple. We have made it so complicated. But we can go back to the simplicity of life by simply being willing to let go and let God!

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Question: “I’ve been doing research for months about many events concerning 2012, such as major global disasters, NWO, planet x, the ascension process, and etc. There have been many predictions made by well known people such as the Mayans with there calendar date ending. What is going to happen in 2012? Will it be the end of the world? How come there are so many prophecies made on earth in which many don’t come true?”

Nick’s Answer: Honestly, I don’t get so caught up in prophecies. I just live day by day continuing to trust my inner guidance for that is the only thing I can do. If reading about prophecies and the like brings worry or discomfort, it is not worthy looking into it.

I may do it for entertainment purposes but that would be it. Now the easy answer to your question is that everything is an illusion, but you probably would need a bit more of a foundation to accept it. That is what A Course in Miracles helped me understand. And my book What Happens When You Let God cover every one of those questions and more for the answer to all is the same!

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Someone asked me the following question, “I have a question that I have been trying to find an answer to: to you, what are demons? I mean do they really exist or are they some spirit beings who have agreed to give you that experience??? I have come across this weird theory of the devil not really being bad but an angel who is authorized by god to provide you with this sort of experience…I have difficulties relating to that…”

Here is my answer:

Okay, there is only One Power, One Presence, and that is God. That’s why it is said that God Is. And there is nothing else. There is no such thing as a power opposite to God because then God would be a contradiction. God is love, and that’s all there is. Everything else is an illusion. If we are created in the image and likeness of God, then there is nothing that can be against us. However, we can pretend that we are not one with God and experience all sorts of what could be labeled unexplainable experiences.

Spirit uses whatever vehicle we need to get us to God. But we are not at the mercy of any evil Spirits or Devils. And the theory of a devil being an angel who is authorized by god, can you imagine your loving Creator authorizing something to scare you? That’s not a God that is a barbarian!

All I can say is, I don’t have any answers but one thing I know for sure is that God loves me unconditionally and God would never send me any kind of evil or suffering. That’s how I feel about the devil business and everything else in between. Hope this might have helped. My book, What Happens When You Let God go into full detail about our experience here, which is based on the teachings of A Course in Miracles, which is only one Path out of many.

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“Perception is not an attribute of God. His is the realm of knowledge. Yet, He has created the Holy Spirit as the mediator between perception and knowledge. Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in our mind.” W-43.pI.1:1-4

What is perception? Perception is the way we see the world. Knowledge is the Truth of who we really are. In this world of form, (perception) we may find ourselves experiencing lack, limitation, fear, pain, and so on. In Truth, however, we are already perfect, whole, and complete; eternally joyous lacking nothing. So what is it that stop us from remembering the truth of who we are? Our perceptions. Our ideas, concepts, beliefs we have about ourselves.

By turning within and connecting with the part of ourselves that remembers who we really are, (mediator, a.k.a. Holy Spirit, or whatever name we feel comfortable with) the memory of God within us is restored and we have immediate access to knowledge.

What is that knowledge feels like or look like? That cannot be explained or comprehended intellectually. That is an experience that will reveal itself when we are willing to surrender our perceptions to Spirit. So this year, beginning today, let’s surrender everything to God so what we can have the direct experience of who we really are. All that is required from us is our willingness to be still and know that we are God!

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