The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith

by Gabrielle Bernstein

Step 2: Practice the Holy Instant. When you pray to learn through the teacher of love over the teacher of fear, you experience what A Course in Miracles calls the “Holy Instant.” The Holy Instant is the moment that you surrender your fear to the care of the Universe and accept the perspective of love. It’s not temporal, or based in time. Rather, it’s an instant out of time and space in which our decision-making mind realizes it made a mistake (the “unholy instant”) and invites the loving perception of the Universe to reinterpret the situation. The shift in perception enables us to understand that the world outside is a projection of the world we created in our mind; that the problem is not outside, but within. We’re reminded that there’s a loving spiritual presence that can restore us to sanity. That’s the Holy Instant. And when we witness the Holy Instance, we experience a miracle.