We Are Always Teaching

Whether we realize it or not, we are all teachers in this world and we are, in every moment, always teaching. A Course in Miracles would have us remember our role as teachers and questio
"what" we are teaching by asking us to consider which mindset are we in. There are two mindsets: right-mindedness and wrong-mindedness. When we are in our right minds, we think with the Holy Spirit and bring wisdom, love and forgiveness. When we think with our wrong minds, we think from our ego-self and bring upset, conflict and judgmental thoughts. Since we have no neutral thoughts, we are always projecting one thought system or the other. Fortunately, we are able to choose which thought system we want to teach. All that is needed is our willingness to do so.

Throughout our days, we teach in many ways. We teach with our appearance, how we are groomed and how we carry ourselves. We teach with our choice of words and when we choose to withhold our words. We teach with our voice, with the volume and pace of our speaking. We teach with our eyes and through the connection we make or do not make with others. We teach with our actions and inactions. Since minds are connected, we teach invisibly with the thoughts we hold in mind. We constantly reveal ourselves to our self and to others. The question is, who are we revealing? Are we revealing our Real self or have we entered the day on auto-pilot and are interaction on our default mode, our ego-mode?

There are clues to what we are teaching in every encounter we have. When we feel good about bringing gentleness and kindness, with being truly helpful to another human being, we are surely in our right minds. We are extending what God would have us extend in the world. When we feel hurried and frazzled and are abrupt with another, when we avoid eye contact and talk at people rather than to them, we have certainly forgotten who we truly are.

The good news is, we are not at the mercy of our egos! We don't have to go through our days on auto-pilot being reactive within an insane world. We can choose in any moment to be proactive, to bring peace to our minds and to extend that peace to the world. After all, isn't that what we really want to teach?