The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. That is different from regulations of Attraction, a subject on which so much has been written about these last few years. ACIM answers not merely why things are the way they are with the mind, but additionally how exactly to implement these mind corrections needed to change your life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to improve beliefs while residing in this world, or the decision to correct the mind and return home.
Affirmations are not part of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles because they are not necessary and here’s why: You will find a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both which are still section of the same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the wrong side is all the negative judgments; and the right side is all of the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it is to live here in this negative world. Neither is the truth of your nature nor where you are trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.
REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: According to the actually use as cause, you will see the corresponding effect. Ideas do not leave their source: You.
Let’s use this example:
Someone is feeling the consequences of being “poor,” or lack, nowadays and wants to change their beliefs to will have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) arrive. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego deploying it as cause which can only produce ego effect. Ego as an unstable thought system, what you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you end up back with “poor.” It’s only a question of “when.”
The ego’s choice system is: (1) one or the other: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks one to choose between a couple of things within the ego illusion and not to choose from the illusion.
This is in contrast to choosing correction of your brain (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” do not exist. A selection for correction of the mind allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you in this world; however, it does not have the effects you imagine since the ego cannot relate. It returns some of your brain to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. In addition, it produces effects in your life here but you must choose correction to see them.
Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple set of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components so when understood and used, they are often “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, according to ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that we could be separate, also known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This portion of the mind is simply hidden in darkness since it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) when we forgot to laugh off what cannot be true. It did not, however, separate.
So in ACIM it isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God but still resides at home with Him. There are no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything may be the same, all one, and nothing to trust or judge between.
Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you are listening to for interpretation of events nowadays. The only real change is in the choice between the split mind (error) of the ego or the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction) as that internal Teacher.
That’s where the ease of use is evident in ACIM because there’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another thought process. You simply give up what you no longer want. We take action all the time with ego stuff; and today we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.
Forgiveness:
This says everything: Forgiveness is correction of the mind. In ACIM, there is nothing to forgive because no error has happened, i.e., no separation happened. What you are doing is simply returning your mind to God, where it never left, and to its natural state of peace. To achieve that is simply either which side of the split mind to listen to for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments you no longer desire to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).
The Holy Spirit is the solution to the separation placed in your brain by God and every answer is there looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words which are synonymous. You need to be willing to utilize the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the specific work of giving judgments (beliefs) to the side of the mind, via your choice maker, because you no longer want them.
It really is that simple and only confusing as a result of belief that the only choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to use the earlier example, rather than understanding relating to this third option being available. The decision for True Perception is to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of your brain. This is what is takes to return the mind to God.
Decision Maker:
ACIM is aimed at your choice maker in the mind. The whole point is that you’ve got a choice of which side of the mind to hear and use for interpretation. That’s all that ever happened in the first place. It was a choice to pay attention, believe and choose judgments of the ego that separation happened and the ensuing sin, guilt and fear. Judgments can be dismissed as easily as you dismiss other things you do not want because they are not real.
A couple of things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment to them to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging the way you feel keeps them hidden so you don’t realize they’re judgments.
You don’t “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It is an event shared by One.
The decision maker is the mechanism between your two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you have to employ to watch the mind and the judgments being created by the ego. Once you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, you need to be ready to hand them to the answer, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the others as the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply giving up that which you no longer want. It really is, and certainly can, be that easy.
Form and Content:
The last component to know from A Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything inside it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is area of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you utilize everything in form, together with the judgments in your thoughts, as the curriculum of what to start for correction (forgiveness).
What does matter is content and in ACIM, content may be the mind. The mind you are using for interpretation (perception) of people, places, and things, etc., counts for everything. You can only have one master: (1) the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction); or, (2) the ego wrong mind (error) and that includes both interpretations of the ego mind.
In conclusion, think about the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You must return your brain to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you cannot see the doorway from judgment. You only see peace in peace and while sharing peace with everyone.
All ACIM says is you have the willingness to learn how to do this, study the ideas and put it into practice. a course in miracles youtube The help you need will show up; but you, my pal, must do the task of this inward journey back to the mind.
REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect nowadays. It’ll affect you in different ways by returning your brain back to back again to peace where you eventually start to see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up once and for all.
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