Radio Show Archive – July 2021
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| July 1
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July 1, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, with Tim Hayes opens by welcoming listeners into a practical, experiential exploration of healing and self-awareness grounded in the principles of A Course in Miracles and the MindShifters work. He emphasizes that the tools shared on the show are designed to be accessible, free, and usable in daily life, pointing listeners to the whyagain.org website and especially to Chapter 24 of Why Is This Happening to Me Again? by Michael Ryce as a foundational resource. The Reality Management Worksheet, also known as the Wake-Up Sheet, is introduced as a central practice for transforming emotional upset into guidance rather than pathology.
Throughout the hour, Tim Hayes focuses on the idea that emotions are not caused by external events but arise from internal goals, judgments, and interpretations. He explains that when people experience disturbance, it signals a misalignment between their internal goals and the flow of love and truth, and that the worksheet provides a structured way to uncover and release those goals. Rather than trying to fix or change others, listeners are invited to turn inward, recognize the mind’s conditioned patterns, and allow responsibility to replace blame. The discussion reinforces that forgiveness, as understood in this work, is not about pardoning others but about removing internal blocks to love by dismantling false perceptions. Tim Hayes highlights how consistent use of these tools builds emotional regulation, improves relationships, and restores access to intuition and compassion. The hour closes with encouragement for listeners to actively engage the worksheet process, call into the show for support, and treat every emotional trigger as an opportunity for awakening rather than a problem to suppress or project. YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/OP44HdqoGgM July 1, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening To Me Again with Dr. Michael Ryce deepens the conversation by grounding the principles of forgiveness and healing in their original Aramaic context and practical application. He reiterates that the core problem behind human suffering is not events or other people, but the internal goals held in the mind that generate perception, stress, and emotional pain. Ryce emphasizes that what most people call forgiveness has little to do with true healing, as it often leaves the underlying goal and perception intact. He explains forgiveness as the Aramaic process of shabaq — canceling the goal that drives perception — which allows the nervous system and mind to release stored hostility or fear. Through examples and caller interactions, Ryce illustrates how unresolved goals from the past are projected onto present relationships, creating repetitive conflict patterns. These patterns persist until the individual willingly takes responsibility for dismantling the internal cause rather than attempting to manage external behavior. Ryce also discusses the physiological and energetic impact of unresolved emotional content, noting that chronic stress and illness are often the body’s response to sustained internal conflict. He highlights how the Reality Management Worksheet serves as a precise tool for identifying hidden goals, collapsing false beliefs, and restoring access to the human capacity for love and clarity. The focus remains on experiential change rather than intellectual understanding, underscoring that healing occurs through action and willingness, not analysis alone. The hour closes with an invitation to apply the tools consistently and gently, recognizing that true forgiveness restores the ability to think clearly, relate honestly, and experience life from a state of love rather than defense. Ryce reminds listeners that healing is cumulative and relational, affecting not only the individual but also family systems and future generations when practiced faithfully. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/r70sPihEUYM |
| July 2
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July 2, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, with Tim Hayes continues the exploration of A Course in Miracles by focusing on how perception is shaped by unconscious beliefs and how those beliefs generate emotional experience. He emphasizes that the Course is not a philosophy to be understood intellectually, but a practical training in recognizing how the mind miscreates suffering by assigning meaning where none exists. Hayes invites listeners to notice how quickly judgment arises and how automatically the mind attempts to protect its stories rather than question them.
He discusses the Course’s assertion that fear is always a signal that the mind is misidentifying the cause of its distress. Rather than seeing fear as something to be fixed or avoided, Hayes frames it as valuable feedback pointing to a belief that is ready to be undone. Through examples and reflections, he illustrates how the ego’s insistence on being right keeps perception locked in separation, while willingness opens the door to correction. Hayes also highlights the role of forgiveness in ACIM as a perceptual shift rather than a moral act. Forgiveness, as presented here, is the recognition that what appears to be happening externally is not the true cause of pain. When the mind releases its attachment to blame, it regains access to peace. He stresses that this process is gentle and incremental, requiring honesty rather than effort or self-improvement. The hour closes with encouragement to practice simple awareness throughout the day by pausing, noticing emotional disturbance, and asking for a new way to see. Hayes reminds listeners that healing occurs not through struggle, but through willingness to relinquish false certainty and allow the mind to be taught anew. YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/Ko5wqPvp9o4 July 2, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening To Me Again with Dr. Michael Ryce deepens the practical application of forgiveness as taught in the MindShifters work, emphasizing that forgiveness is not about letting someone else off the hook, but about removing internally generated pain. He explains that suffering is always the result of an active goal held in the mind, and when that goal is threatened or violated, the body produces stress chemistry that is then projected outward as blame. Ryce underscores that the external situation is never the source of pain; it merely resonates what is already stored within the individual’s system. Ryce walks listeners through the mechanics of canceling goals, clarifying that awareness alone is insufficient for healing. True forgiveness requires the conscious removal of the goal that is driving perception, followed by the willingness to experience the underlying emotional energy without resistance. He stresses that this process restores access to the human capacity for love and presence, rather than reinforcing cycles of hostility, fear, or justification. Throughout the hour, Ryce contrasts this approach with culturally conditioned ideas of forgiveness that focus on pardon, reconciliation, or moral superiority. He explains that those approaches leave the root energetic disturbance intact and therefore perpetuate recurring patterns of conflict and pain. Using examples from relationships and daily life, he demonstrates how projection works and how quickly perception shifts when responsibility for internal experience is reclaimed. Ryce also reinforces the importance of breath and physiological regulation during forgiveness work, noting that the body must be supported as suppressed emotions surface. He encourages listeners to stay grounded, slow the breath, and remain present as part of restoring coherence to the nervous system. The hour closes with reminders that forgiveness is a discipline of self-honesty and compassion, not a tool for controlling outcomes or changing others. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/JC4Ic7ZP1Ig |
| July 3
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| July 4
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| July 5
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July 5, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes examines the Course’s teaching that guilt is the hidden engine behind fear and projection. He explains that the mind attempts to escape guilt by projecting it outward, assigning blame to people or circumstances. This projection feels relieving in the moment but perpetuates the cycle of conflict and separation.
Hayes emphasizes that forgiveness interrupts this cycle by withdrawing belief from the ego’s story. Rather than denying emotional pain, forgiveness acknowledges it as self-generated and therefore healable. He highlights that responsibility in ACIM is empowering, because it restores choice rather than assigning fault. The hour concludes with encouragement to practice forgiveness moment by moment, especially in ordinary situations. Hayes reminds listeners that every interaction offers the opportunity to choose a new interpretation and to experience the peace that follows naturally from that choice. YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/_TQdMjHL9yA July 5, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening To Me Again In this episode, Dr. Michael Ryce addresses the mind’s resistance to true forgiveness and the subtle ways it substitutes analysis, justification, or spiritual language for actual healing. He explains that the mind often prefers to understand forgiveness rather than practice it, because practice requires surrendering control and certainty. This resistance shows up as repeated questioning, doubt, or attempts to perfect the process before engaging it. Ryce clarifies that forgiveness is not about achieving a particular emotional state, such as peace or relief, but about removing the internal blocks that prevent those states from arising naturally. He emphasizes that discomfort during forgiveness is not failure but evidence that the process is reaching stored material that needs release. The discussion also touches on the role of choice, noting that people must choose to value truth and healing over being right, justified, or defended. Ryce explains that as long as the mind prioritizes self-protection, it will continue to generate distorted perception. Forgiveness restores access to accurate perception by dissolving the goals that demand protection. The hour closes with encouragement to approach forgiveness as an ongoing discipline rather than a one-time event. Ryce reminds listeners that each emotional trigger is an opportunity to deepen healing and reclaim the capacity to live from love rather than conditioned reaction. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/vXXuVs0AUAk |
| July 6
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July 6, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes centers the discussion on the Course’s teaching that peace is not something to be achieved through effort, but something that emerges naturally when resistance to truth is released. He explains that the ego’s primary strategy is distraction, keeping the mind focused on problems, analysis, and outcomes so it never rests in present awareness. Hayes emphasizes that the Course consistently redirects attention away from fixing the world and toward noticing the internal decision to interpret through fear or love.
He explores how the mind habitually seeks validation through being right, understood, or justified, and how these subtle attachments block peace. Hayes notes that ACIM does not ask students to deny their reactions, but to question the meaning they assign to them. Emotional upset becomes a signal that the mind has chosen a teacher that reinforces separation rather than unity. Hayes also discusses willingness as the core practice of the Course. He explains that transformation does not require effortful discipline, but an honest openness to seeing differently. The Holy Spirit’s role, as described in ACIM, is not to override the mind but to reinterpret experience once the mind loosens its grip on judgment. This reinterpretation dissolves conflict rather than managing it. The hour closes with reflection on trust, both in the process and in the mind’s innate capacity to return to clarity. Hayes reassures listeners that setbacks are not failures, but opportunities to notice where attachment still lives. Each moment of awareness gently restores alignment, allowing peace to be recognized rather than manufactured. YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/u1Vlv9VxCjg July 6, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening To Me Again Dr. Michael Ryce deepens the conversation around forgiveness as a practical, lived discipline rather than a conceptual understanding. He emphasizes that many people unknowingly use spiritual ideas as defenses, believing that insight alone should eliminate emotional pain. Ryce explains that awareness without application leaves the underlying goal structures intact, allowing stress and conflict to repeat in familiar patterns. He clarifies that goals drive perception automatically and invisibly. When a goal is threatened, the mind generates stories that appear reasonable and justified, but these stories function to protect the goal rather than reveal truth. Ryce stresses that forgiveness begins by identifying the goal behind the emotional reaction and willingly canceling it, even when the mind insists the goal is necessary for safety or survival. Ryce also discusses the importance of allowing emotional experience to unfold in the body without interference. He notes that attempts to control, suppress, or rush through discomfort only reinforce the belief that the emotion itself is dangerous. Forgiveness restores trust in the body’s natural capacity to process and release stored emotional energy. The hour concludes with encouragement to remain gently persistent with the process. Ryce reminds listeners that healing unfolds incrementally, and that each moment of willingness weakens the old perceptual filters, allowing love, clarity, and presence to reassert themselves naturally. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/1GcX78TgPEc |
| July 7
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July 7, 2021 – 1st Hour (ACIM) with Tim Hayes welcomes listeners to MindShifters Radio and continues guiding the audience through the practical application of A Course in Miracles alongside the Reality Management Worksheet from Dr. Michael Ryce’s work. Tim emphasizes that the tools offered through whyagain.org are designed to transform negative emotions into guidance rather than something to be avoided or suppressed. He highlights the accessibility of the worksheet, the Heartland Aramaic Forgiveness app, and the importance of consistent practice over time to create real changes in perception, emotional regulation, and relationship quality.
Tim centers the discussion on ACIM Workbook Lesson 188, “The Peace of God Is Shining in Me Now,” stressing that enlightenment is not a future achievement but a present recognition of what already exists within. He explains that spiritual awakening does not require effort, struggle, or self-improvement, but a willingness to notice the light that has always been present. Drawing from both ACIM and Pam Grout’s commentary, Tim reinforces the idea that resistance often comes from believing the process must be difficult, while healing accelerates when one entertains the possibility that it can be easy, natural, and already underway. Throughout the hour, Tim weaves practical encouragement with spiritual insight, inviting listeners to apply the tools daily, participate in support groups, and engage the archived shows as an ongoing resource. He underscores that the peace experienced internally naturally extends outward, serving both personal healing and the healing of relationships, communities, and the world at large. YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/c6U-Ps9-P9Y July 7, 2021 – 2nd Hour (Why Is This Happening to Me Again?) with Michael Ryce is joined by Michelle Pischea who shares personal reflections on how long-term forgiveness work has transformed her relationships, family dynamics, and sense of ease in life. Her testimony illustrates the cumulative effect of consistent application of Aramaic forgiveness tools over years, moving healing from an intentional practice into a more automatic, lived state. This sets the stage for a deeper exploration of will, willpower, and the internal mechanisms that drive stress and behavior. Michael expands on the distinction between true will and willpower, explaining that willpower is rooted in fear, control, and power-person dynamics, while will is a spiritual faculty aligned with Being and Love. Using the metaphor of David and Goliath, he describes the “five smooth stones” as cultivated inner capacities that allow a person to dismantle unconscious survival-based patterns. He clarifies that willpower attempts to force outcomes through pressure and resistance, whereas will creates change by consciously selecting and canceling goals that generate fear or hostility. The conversation deepens into how power-person dynamics install false identities that run automatically until they are uncovered and healed through forgiveness. Michael emphasizes that forgiveness is not about pardoning others but about removing the energetic patterns that distort perception and generate suffering. By working at the level of cause rather than effect, individuals reclaim their capacity to choose love, clarity, and presence. The hour reinforces that healing unfolds as brain cells reorganize over time, allowing deeper understanding and freedom as old perceptual structures dissolve. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/itn7rPY8yaE |
| July 8
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July 8, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes continues the steady application of A Course in Miracles as a lived practice rather than a philosophical system, emphasizing that perception is always filtered through unconscious emotional content. The discussion reinforces that forgiveness is not an interpersonal transaction but an inner correction that restores awareness of Love. Tim highlights how comparison, judgment, and self-evaluation distort perception, and how willingness to notice emotional disturbance provides direct guidance. The lesson is framed as an invitation to let go of conceptual thinking and return to present-moment awareness, where gratitude and connection naturally arise.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/kgmqN0cxNsA July 8, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Michael Ryce deepens the experiential understanding of forgiveness as the cancellation of goals that drive perception. He explains that stress and emotional upset are not caused by others, but by internal goals held in the mind. Through real-life examples and dialogue, Michael shows how the Reality Management Worksheet dismantles blame and reveals the underlying fear or hostility stored in the body. The hour reinforces responsibility over fault and positions forgiveness as a physiological release that restores access to Love. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/jnElrRXuRVI |
| July 9
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July 9, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes focuses on how mental habits obscure awareness of truth, particularly the tendency to seek validation through being right or superior. He underscores that peace emerges when comparison dissolves and the mind relinquishes its attachment to judgment. The conversation invites listeners to notice how gratitude arises naturally when perception is aligned with Love rather than filtered through past conditioning. The lesson is presented as practical training in noticing when the mind departs from truth and gently returning.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/MCMeGs-dxvQ July 9, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Michael Ryce elaborates on the connection between unhealed emotional energy and repetitive relationship patterns. He explains that unresolved internal content inevitably seeks expression through others, creating cycles of conflict. Forgiveness is framed as a tool for dissolving stored trauma rather than fixing relationships. The discussion highlights how canceling goals interrupts automatic reactions and restores conscious choice, allowing relationships to become classrooms for healing rather than battlegrounds. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/XuGy1HgL1JA |
| July 10
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July 11
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| July 12
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July 12, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes revisits the theme of willingness, emphasizing that insight alone does not produce healing. True change occurs when individuals are willing to feel what arises without resistance. He clarifies that forgiveness is not an act of willpower but an allowance for correction to occur. The hour reinforces that emotional discomfort is not a failure but an invitation to release false perceptions and re-enter alignment with Love.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/I0TwzJYX4iw July 12, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Michael Ryce discusses how the mind uses denial and distraction to avoid emotional pain, perpetuating suffering. He explains that true healing requires staying present with internal sensations rather than projecting them outward. The Reality Management Worksheet is presented as a disciplined practice that reveals the hidden goals driving stress. Michael emphasizes that healing is cumulative and generational, affecting not only the individual but family systems. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/obYxskEYe9o |
| July 13
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July 13, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes explores the difference between intellectual understanding and lived experience, noting that spiritual concepts only become real when embodied. He points out that fear masquerades as logic and that relinquishing control is essential to peace. The lesson encourages a shift from analysis to awareness, where Love becomes self-evident. Tim reinforces that healing is not achieved by fixing the world but by correcting perception.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/O8lEFTyioWI July 13, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Michael Ryce emphasizes that the body stores unresolved emotional content and that symptoms are communications rather than malfunctions. He explains how forgiveness restores physiological coherence by releasing blocked energy. Through examples, Michael shows how choosing responsibility over blame dissolves internal conflict. The discussion highlights that healing is a process of undoing false beliefs rather than acquiring new ones. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/rm_Hu076qCI |
| July 14
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July 14, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes reflects on Lesson 195, “Love is the way I walk in gratitude,” emphasizing that gratitude emerges when comparison ends. He discusses how appreciation of life, nature, and connection interrupts conceptual thinking and restores presence. The hour underscores that Love does not compare, compete, or evaluate, and that gratitude rooted in connection rather than circumstance brings peace. Tim also speaks to the value of community and support groups in sustaining practice.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/bwTL6j1HtaI July 14, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Michael Ryce shares personal reflections on relationships as primary vehicles for healing. He explains that relationships do not need fixing; individuals within them do. Michael reinforces that people teach what they most need to learn and that challenges arise precisely where healing is incomplete. Forgiveness is presented as the key to dismantling self-devaluation and abuse patterns, restoring awareness that every human being is made of Love because the Creator breathed Life into them. Family, commitment, and conscious communication are highlighted as central to awakening. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/-XeCGAQaiZI |
| July 15
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July 15, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes opens the first hour by grounding listeners in the practical application of the Reality Management Worksheet as a living tool for emotional guidance rather than a theoretical exercise. He frames emotional upset as feedback from the mind rather than evidence of external causation, reinforcing the core idea that perception is internally generated. Using the A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson for the day, “It can be but myself I crucify,” Tim explores how self-judgment, blame, and condemnation function as self-attack. He emphasizes that suffering is not imposed by the world but maintained through internal interpretations rooted in past conditioning. The discussion returns repeatedly to the idea that forgiveness is the release of one’s own misperceptions rather than an act directed toward others. Tim highlights gratitude as a natural state that emerges when judgment dissolves, explaining that what we extend outward is always what we reinforce within ourselves. The hour invites listeners to recognize their participation in maintaining inner conflict and to gently reclaim responsibility for their internal experience as the pathway to peace.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/s2_C_129bF0 July 15, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Dr. Michael Ryce continues the exploration of forgiveness as a physiological and neurological process rather than a moral or religious concept. He reinforces that forgiveness is the removal of fear and hostility from the mind-body system and not about excusing or pardoning behavior. Reading from Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Dr. Ryce addresses the dismantling of false identity structures rooted in carbon-based memory. He explains that the “death” spoken of in Aramaic teachings refers to the collapse of the fear-based self, allowing the true nature of Human Life—Love—to be restored. The conversation explores the discomfort people feel when letting go of long-held emotional identities such as anger, guilt, and sadness, clarifying that these states have become familiar but are neither natural nor necessary. Dr. Ryce underscores that the words “I am” should only be followed by expressions aligned with Love, as language shapes perception and physiology. The hour closes with an emphasis on forgiveness as a daily, practical discipline that dismantles inherited emotional patterns and restores coherence to the human system. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/y1btxs8DDlg |
| July 16
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July 16, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes deepens the focus on applying A Course in Miracles as a moment-to-moment practice rather than a philosophical system. He emphasizes that the workbook lessons are designed to undo unconscious habits of judgment and interpretation that distort perception. Using real-life examples, Tim explains how the mind assigns meaning automatically based on past experience, and how this reflexive meaning-making is the source of emotional disturbance. He returns to the idea that peace is not something to be achieved but something revealed when internal resistance is released. The discussion highlights willingness as the key ingredient for healing, noting that even a small openness to seeing differently allows the mind to reorganize. Tim reinforces that forgiveness is the recognition that what we think we are upset about is not the true cause, and that withdrawing belief from false perceptions restores clarity, gentleness, and inner stability.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/iPeRxZ4VJBM July 16, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Dr. Michael Ryce uses the second hour to clarify the distinction between symptom management and true healing. He explains that emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness are not reactions to present circumstances but activations of unresolved internal content stored in carbon-based memory. Forgiveness is presented as the tool that removes these energies from the system rather than suppressing or expressing them. Dr. Ryce discusses how goals rooted in fear or control generate stress and distortion, and how canceling such goals collapses the internal driver of suffering. He also addresses the cultural conditioning that teaches people to externalize blame, noting that this habit prevents genuine healing. The hour emphasizes personal responsibility as empowerment, not self-attack, and frames forgiveness as the doorway through which Human Life, defined as Love, reasserts itself naturally. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/YqZzk3cLXRc |
| July 17
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| July 18
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| July 19
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July 19, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes centers the conversation on recognizing how quickly the mind defaults to judgment and how that habit blocks awareness of peace. He explores ACIM teachings that show perception is always interpretation, not truth, and that the ego’s primary strategy is to convince us our upset is justified. Through examples and listener reflections, Tim highlights how noticing irritation, impatience, or defensiveness in real time becomes a gateway to undoing them. He emphasizes that forgiveness in the Course is not about excusing behavior but about releasing the inner demand that reality be different. The hour reinforces that consistent practice gently loosens the grip of old mental patterns and allows a more compassionate, spacious awareness to emerge naturally.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/V_rw4isalGI July 19, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Dr. Michael Ryce builds on the theme of perception by addressing how unexamined goals create internal conflict and emotional pain. He explains that whenever a goal is rooted in fear, control, or approval, the mind generates stress signals when reality fails to comply. These signals are not warnings about the world but indicators of internal misalignment. Dr. Ryce walks listeners through how canceling such goals dismantles the internal driver of hostility or anxiety and opens the space for forgiveness to function. He stresses that healing occurs when individuals take responsibility for their inner experience without self-blame. The discussion repeatedly returns to the idea that Love is the human default state, and that suffering persists only while old energetic content remains unaddressed. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/-_on2uqzi4E |
| July 20
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July 20, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes continues unpacking ACIM’s practical application by focusing on how the mind confuses emotional discomfort with external threat. He explains that the Course invites learners to slow down enough to notice the instant interpretation that turns a neutral event into a grievance. Through discussion and listener examples, Tim illustrates how the ego seeks certainty and control, then reacts with fear or anger when those expectations are not met. He emphasizes that the practice is not to suppress reactions but to observe them honestly and offer them to a deeper willingness for correction. The hour reinforces that peace is not earned through effort but uncovered as judgment is gently relinquished, allowing a clearer sense of connection and inner stability.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/R8c1IUJbxPY July 20, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Dr. Michael Ryce expands the conversation by examining how unconscious goals shape perception and bodily stress responses. He explains that many emotional reactions are the result of goals inherited from family systems and culture rather than conscious choice. When those goals are threatened, the body generates pain, tension, or emotional upset as a feedback mechanism. Dr. Ryce outlines how forgiveness functions as a physiological and energetic process that dissolves these stored patterns once the goal is canceled. He underscores that responsibility is the key to healing, not fault or self-judgment. By bringing awareness to the internal driver rather than blaming circumstances or people, individuals regain access to clarity, compassion, and creative choice. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/8URO7-BaxJo |
| July 21
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July 21, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes centers the discussion on how the mind learns to use spiritual ideas either as tools for awakening or as subtle defenses against looking honestly at fear. He explains that ACIM consistently points learners back to direct experience rather than intellectual agreement, inviting them to notice how quickly the ego repurposes even loving concepts to reinforce separation. Through examples and listener dialogue, Tim highlights the importance of staying present with emotional signals instead of rushing to spiritual conclusions. The hour emphasizes willingness as the true practice: a willingness to pause, to feel, and to allow deeper guidance to reinterpret experience. As judgment softens, clarity emerges naturally, and peace is revealed as an inner state rather than a condition created by circumstances.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/Rsval7zAGjA July 21, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Dr. Michael Ryce continues developing the theme of responsibility by showing how language shapes perception and reinforces stress-based realities. He explains that many phrases commonly used to describe emotions subtly deny ownership of internal experience, leading people to believe that feelings are caused by others or by events. Dr. Ryce reframes emotional pain as a signal pointing to an active goal or belief that is incompatible with love. He walks through how forgiveness, understood as canceling the goal, allows the nervous system to settle and restores access to intuition. The conversation reinforces that healing is a process of reclaiming authorship of one’s inner world, dissolving inherited patterns, and allowing the mind to return to its natural state of coherence and compassion. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/BDHFiE-S78w |
| July 22
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July 22, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes continues guiding listeners through the practical application of A Course in Miracles while repeatedly grounding the conversation in the Reality Management Worksheet as a living, experiential tool rather than an abstract philosophy. He emphasizes that emotional discomfort is not an enemy but a guidance system pointing directly to unhealed beliefs and perceptions. The ACIM lesson explored reinforces the idea that peace is not something to be achieved in the future but recognized in the present when judgment is released. Tim discusses how identification with the body and external conditions perpetuates suffering, while willingness to question perception opens the doorway to clarity and inner freedom. The hour encourages consistent practice, reminding listeners that insight emerges through application, not intellectual understanding, and that forgiveness is the mechanism through which the mind is restored to coherence.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/RlhqdCIr2M8 July 22, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Michael Ryce expands on first-century Aramaic teachings of Y’Shua, focusing on forgiveness as a physiological and neurological process rather than a moral or religious act. He explains how stress, disease, and emotional pain are the direct result of internally held goals that conflict with love, and how canceling those goals dismantles the mind’s stress circuitry. The discussion highlights the three filters of the mind—love, fear, and hostility—and how perception is shaped by whichever filter is active. Ryce emphasizes that healing requires responsibility rather than blame and that forgiveness is the act of removing internally generated hostility and fear, allowing the natural flow of love through the body’s cells. The show reinforces that this work is verifiable through lived results, not belief systems. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/JsomfEQ4hQg |
| July 23
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July 23, 2021 1st hour, ACIM, Tim Hayes continues the workbook review by exploring themes of identity, inheritance, and freedom, returning again to the foundational ACIM idea that we are not bodies and are not bound by time or external laws. He discusses how guilt, comparison, and self-judgment obscure awareness of peace and how gratitude naturally arises when perception aligns with truth rather than illusion. Tim emphasizes that forgiveness is the undoing of mistaken perception and that healing occurs when the mind stops using comparison as a measure of worth. The hour encourages listeners to notice how subtle judgments generate suffering and how consistent willingness to release them restores a direct experience of peace. The tone remains practical and grounded, reinforcing daily application as the path to transformation.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/AKVcdcmxPxQ July 23, 2021 2nd hour, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, Michael Ryce deepens the exploration of mind-goal management, explaining how unconscious goals create stress and distort perception. He clarifies that goals rooted in control, approval, or survival inevitably activate fear or hostility, while goals aligned with love create coherence and ease. Ryce revisits the Aramaic understanding of life as the flow of love through the cell, using the experience of holding a newborn as a reference point for recognizing true human life. Forgiveness is framed as the removal of internal obstructions to that flow rather than an interpersonal transaction. The conversation reinforces that this work is about restoring the human system to its original design and that consistent practice of canceling unworkable goals leads to measurable emotional, relational, and physical healing. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/E6fszGZDSzA |
| July 24
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| July 25
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| July 26
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July 26, 2021 – ACIM with Dr. Tim Hayes opens by reviewing the purpose of the first hour as a space to apply A Course in Miracles in practical life situations. He emphasizes that forgiveness is an internal shift rather than a change in external conditions. The workbook lesson discussion focuses on identity beyond the body and the recognition that perception is filtered through belief. Tim reinforces that emotional upset signals internal material ready to be seen and healed. Callers explore how thoughts create interpretation and how willingness allows healing to unfold. Tim highlights that healing occurs through observation without judgment, and that the mind can be trained to align with love rather than fear. He reminds listeners that consistent use of the tools dissolves reactive patterns and restores inner peace.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/BLWUdnmpFGI July 26, 2021 – Why Again with Dr. Michael Ryce continues reading from Why Is This Happening to Me… AGAIN? and deepens discussion around projection and the mechanics of perception. He explains that what appears to be happening “out there” is actually internal content driven by goals and generational patterns. Ryce walks listeners through the Reality Management Worksheet process, emphasizing canceling the goal that drives perception as the key to forgiveness (Shabag). Callers process personal experiences, revealing how inherited emotional patterns drive present reactions. Ryce reinforces that pain is not caused by external events but by internal goals held unconsciously. As those goals are canceled, perception shifts and emotional intensity reduces. He reiterates that forgiveness restores responsibility and frees the mind from repeating patterns. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/F_5cL-RTHhk |
| July 27
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July 27, 2021 – ACIM with Dr. Tim Hayes explores the Course teaching that the world reflects internal thought structures. He reinforces that every upset is an opportunity to recognize mistaken identity and return to awareness of being love. The workbook lesson continues the theme of freedom from bodily identification. Tim invites callers to apply the lesson directly to current stressors, demonstrating how shifting interpretation transforms experience. Discussion includes how the ego mind resists surrender, and how willingness opens the doorway to healing. The hour emphasizes conscious breathing, internal observation, and the decision to release judgment as practical steps toward peace.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/tG89aAJdqiY July 27, 2021 – Why Again with Dr. Michael Ryce continues reading and teaching from the book, focusing on blockage of truth and the way denial protects unresolved pain. He explains how the mind constructs a false narrative to avoid emotional discomfort. Through caller interaction, he demonstrates how canceling the goal reveals underlying grief, fear, or anger that can then be processed. Ryce highlights generational transmission of trauma and the importance of consciously choosing love as the filter for perception. The Reality Management Worksheet is again applied in real time, illustrating how emotional intensity dissolves as the goal collapses. He reminds listeners that the process restores clarity and reconnects them to their true nature. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/utaK6uEvuaw |
| July 28
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July 28, 2021 – ACIM with Dr. Tim Hayes centers the discussion on the Course teaching that perception is learned and can be unlearned. He reviews the workbook lesson, reinforcing the theme of freedom through correct perception. Tim emphasizes that every reaction reveals a belief operating beneath awareness. He encourages listeners to use stillness, journaling, and forgiveness tools to examine those beliefs. Callers share personal insights into how shifting from blame to self-responsibility changes relationships. The hour reinforces that peace is available whenever one releases the need to be right and returns to the awareness of love.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/8hqMkEL5DVM July 28, 2021 – Why Again with Dr. Michael Ryce continues unfolding the mechanics of projection and externalization. He explains that stress indicates a goal in conflict with reality. Through interactive processing, callers recognize how personal goals create emotional turbulence. Ryce clarifies that forgiveness means removing the internal goal that drives perception, not excusing behavior. As participants apply the worksheet, emotional charge diminishes and clarity increases. Ryce reiterates that inherited patterns surface through relationships and that conscious breath and forgiveness restore coherence. He frames healing as a return to conscious choice rather than unconscious reaction. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/5vm_PXwOr0I |
| July 29
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July 29, 2021 – ACIM with Dr. Tim Hayes reviews the workbook lesson and emphasizes that identity as love dissolves fear-based interpretation. He explains that the ego seeks validation through conflict, while the true self rests in peace. Listeners explore how practicing presence interrupts automatic reaction. Tim underscores that forgiveness is a daily discipline and that each upset is a doorway into greater freedom. He references the importance of community and consistent tool usage to retrain perception. The hour reinforces that inner alignment transforms outer experience.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/todFZWJR5M4 July 29, 2021 – Why Again with Dr. Michael Ryce continues reading from Why Is This Happening to Me… AGAIN? and deepens the teaching on inherited patterns and unconscious conditioning. He explains that the mind constructs reality through goals held beneath awareness. Through caller examples, he demonstrates how canceling those goals reveals grief or fear that can be released. Ryce emphasizes that healing is physiological as well as psychological, as emotional energy stored in the body clears through forgiveness. He reinforces that responsibility restores empowerment and that conscious breath reconnects individuals to their essential nature as love. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/todFZWJR5M4 |
| July 30
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July 30, 2021 – ACIM with Dr. Tim Hayes opens the show by welcoming listeners and emphasizing the practical tools available through whyagain.org, particularly Chapter 24 of Why Is This Happening to Me… AGAIN? and the Reality Management Worksheet. He reinforces that these tools are designed to transform negative emotional experiences into guidance rather than distress, inviting callers to actively engage with the material. The ACIM workbook review for Lesson 211 centers on the declaration “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as the Creator created me,” reinforcing identity beyond form and the power of belief in shaping experience. Tim discusses Pam Grout’s “experiment” approach to A Course in Miracles, highlighting how loving perception reshapes outcomes, even in practical areas like health and weight. He underscores that perception follows belief and that changing belief changes experience. The conversation expands into emotional processing, referencing Emotional CPR (Connect, Empower, Revitalize) as a complementary method for deep listening and peer support. Throughout the hour, Tim reinforces that emotional disturbance signals internal content surfacing for healing, and that consistent use of forgiveness and mind tools restores clarity and freedom.
YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/ux3TZgccGq0 July 30, 2021 – Why Again with Dr. Michael Ryce continues teaching from Why Is This Happening to Me… AGAIN? with an emphasis on how unconscious goals generate perception and emotional experience. He reinforces that what appears to be caused by another person is actually content surfacing from within. Ryce walks listeners through the mechanics of projection, explaining that the mind builds its reality around goals it believes are necessary for safety, approval, or control. When those goals are threatened, stress and hostility arise. He guides callers through canceling the goal as the core step of forgiveness (Shabag), demonstrating how emotional intensity softens as the driving goal collapses. During interactions with callers, Ryce highlights how generational patterns and early conditioning create automatic responses that feel justified but are actually repetitions of unresolved material. He clarifies that forgiveness does not mean tolerating abuse or approving harmful behavior; it means removing the internal construct that distorts perception. As participants apply the Reality Management Worksheet, deeper layers of grief and fear become visible and begin to release. Ryce emphasizes that responsibility restores power, and that conscious breath stabilizes the nervous system during emotional processing. He closes by reiterating that healing is a return to love through consistent use of the tools, and that freedom comes from dismantling the internal structures that generate suffering. YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/QzpqU1FUVCE |
| July 31
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