Let Stillness Do the Healing, with Hakim Hamza

✨ "Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause..." — ACIM, chapter 21

What if healing didn’t require effort, analysis, or fixing — but simply a willingness to look, to be still, and to let love do the work?

In this powerful clip linked below, spiritual teacher Hakim Hamza offers an insightful sample of his upcoming live webinar, “​What Is Implied in Stillness?​” Through his grounded, gentle approach integrating A Course in Miracles and non-dual inquiry, Hakim shares a liberating truth: that gentleness is key.

And stillness, Hakim explains, isn’t a withdrawal from life, but a way of being present with everything — including fear, resistance, and judgment — without losing our center. In fact, it’s in looking gently and honestly, without analysis or self-condemnation, that true healing unfolds.

In this video, you’ll discover:

✔️ Why trying to fix or fight our pain often keeps it in place
✔️ The real meaning of gentleness in spiritual practice
✔️ How to let the “light within” meet the darkness without judgment
✔️ Why the ego’s illusion only holds power when we avoid looking at it

This isn't about achieving perfection — it’s about returning to your Self with compassion, patience, and a deep trust in the process.

Check out the Hakim's teachings and get a sense of the power of profound stillness...

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Spirituality is about being honest and look, when you see things for what they are, do you need to do something? No. If I have my finger on an electrical outlet and I said this will feel good, this will feel good, even if I feel pain it's good, then can't see what's going on. But if I'm just open and I see what's happening when I have my finger on the electrical outlet and I get stunned, then I can see, you know what, maybe it's not a good idea that I have my finger there.

It doesn't require analysis, wisdom, it requires an observation, an observation that does not want to avoid something, get something, justify something... It just looks, then the looking speaks for itself. It's not you who heal yourself, you let healing come. How do you let healing come? By letting go of the fighting and the struggling.

Another word for that is gentleness. And just to give a metaphysical backdrop, you're already with God, reality cannot change, so at the end of the day you're not really changing anything. I just want to expand that it's not you who heal yourself.

The only thing we do is we let the darkness come up, the ego come up, but then we let the higher self, what the Course calls the Holy Spirit, the memory of who we really are. It's not a spirit like a ghost or something, it's just a memory of who we really are, a fragmented part of ourselves. We let the darkness come up so that part of us can shine its light on it.

We need to do both things. We need to allow it to come up, that takes time, we can't force that. We let it come up and we look at it with that light.

That light doesn't judge. If we would look at it ourselves only, we would judge it. We would say, oh look what I did, I'm so horrible, I can't look at this, I can't stand this, I have to avoid it, I have to deny it from my consciousness, which A Course in Miracles says it gets projected out in the world, and then I see dream figures that I accuse of being guilty for the very thing I'm doing, but I'm denying I'm doing it.

So we get in touch with what the Course calls the Holy Spirit, a loving aspect. That love doesn't say do better, it says be honest about what it is you're doing. So this allows us to respect our natural progression if we truly understand what is being said now.

That we can afford to be gentle, we can justify, it's just totally justified to be gentle with ourselves and our progress. In fact this is not like, it's not like I'm being cute or kind by saying yeah, you can afford to be gentle. No, you can't do A Course in Miracles or any spiritual practice if you're not gentle.

You have to cultivate gentleness. You have to cultivate patience and kindness to yourself. And if the ego is not real, how is that a problem? If it were real, oh, we better get our stuff together.

But it's not real, so I can't afford to be gentle. That's why the Course says in chapter 21, seek not to change the world but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause.

It's never about what we do, it's how we look at what we do. And when I say do here, I mean it in spiritually, what we do with ourselves. We can't fail in A Course in Miracles.

The only failure is thinking we have failed. It doesn't matter if our ego does this or that, it's our reaction to the ego that matters. Do we make it real or not? The ego has no power to dictate reality.

So why are you not patient and kind to what your ego is doing? If you can be patient and kind with what your ego is doing, it means you're not the ego. Because the ego can't be patient and kind. It always condemns itself.

It does something so it can say, look, we did that. Then we feel guilty. And then it keeps us in a perpetual loop of not loving ourselves.

The right mind of ourselves never say, you did that, you're guilty. It said, that's just a mistake and don't think it's real. In chapter 11, the Course says, no one can escape from illusions unless he looks at them, for not looking is the way they are protected.

No one can escape from illusions unless he looks at them, for not looking is the way they are protected. This applies to resistance as well. If we don't look at our resistance and our fear, they will always be there.

When we don't look at something, we're saying, it is real, it is dangerous, I better stay out of it. That's how it's maintained. But if we look at it, we say, obviously it can't be dangerous, scary and all of that.

So we're teaching ourselves, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Interested in more...?

Join spiritual teacher Hakim Hamza for 2 upcoming offerings:

What Is Implied in Stillness? with Hakim Hamza - June 2nd 2025,  from 12pm to 1:30pm ET

Discover how to navigate your spiritual journey with patience and presence and explore what stillness truly means in the spiritual process. Learn to stay with the lesson rather than chasing ideals, work with resistance, and focus on the specifics of your experience. This introductory session sets the stage for Hakim's June Teaching Series, offering practical tools to align with the transformative power of the present moment. 

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And...

The Gentle Path of Being, a 3-Part Live Experience - June 2025 (6/16, 6/23, 6/30)

Do you find yourself reacting to life’s challenges with fear, stress, or anxiety, and wish you could cultivate a greater sense of peace and calm?

Embrace life’s unfolding process, observe without effort, and experience the peace that is within you. In a world that often feels overwhelming, these sessions will teach you how to slow down, observe without effort, and embrace life as it unfolds.

You’ll learn how to cultivate a steady, grounded presence that allows you to experience life more fully — not as a series of tasks to accomplish, but as an ongoing process of unfolding and becoming.

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Welcome life’s unfolding process, observe without effort, and experience the peace that is within you. In a world that often can feel overwhelming, learn how to slow down and embrace life.

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