The beauty and simplicity of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a topic on which so much has been discussed these last couple of years. ACIM answers not only why things will be the way they are with the mind, but additionally how exactly to implement these mind corrections needed to change your daily life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to change beliefs while staying in this world, or the choice to correct the mind and return home.
Affirmations are not section of A Course in Miracles as they are not essential and here’s why: There is a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both which are still part of the same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the wrong side is all of the negative judgments; and the proper side is all of the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it is to live here in this negative world. Neither may be the truth of one’s nature nor where you are trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.
The Law of Cause and Effect is this: In line with the mind you use as cause, you will notice the corresponding effect. Ideas do not leave their source: You.
Let’s utilize this example:
Someone is feeling the effects to be “poor,” or lack, in this world and wants to change their beliefs to will have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego using it as cause that may only produce ego effect. Ego being an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you find yourself back with “poor.” It’s just 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 out from the illusion.
This is as opposed to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” usually 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 because the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion of your brain to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. In addition, it produces effects that you experienced here but you must choose correction to see them.
Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple group of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components and when understood and used, they can be “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, according to ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, often known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part of the mind is merely hidden in darkness since it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) whenever we forgot to laugh off what could not be true. It didn’t, however, separate.
So in ACIM it is not about affirmations or changing beliefs, as the mind never left God and still resides aware of Him. There are no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything is the same, all one, and nothing to believe or judge between.
Instead, it is about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re listening to for interpretation of events in this world. The only real change is in the decision between your split mind (error) of the ego or the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction) as that internal Teacher.
This is where the simplicity is evident in ACIM because there is no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another way of thinking. You simply quit what you no more want. We do it on a regular basis with ego stuff; and now we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.
Forgiveness:
This says it all: Forgiveness is correction of your brain. In ACIM, you’ll find nothing to forgive because no error has happened, i.e., no separation happened. What you are doing is simply returning your brain to God, where it never left, and to its natural state of peace. To do that is simply a choice of which side of the split mind to hear 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 may be the solution to the separation put into your brain by God and every answer will there be looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words that are synonymous. You need to be willing to use the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the actual work of giving judgments (beliefs) to the side of your brain, 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 real choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to use the earlier example, rather than understanding about this third option being available. The choice for True Perception is to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of your brain. This is exactly what is takes to return the mind to God.
Decision Maker:
ACIM is targeted at your choice maker in your brain. The complete point is that you have a selection of which side of the mind to hear and use for interpretation. That’s all that ever happened to begin with. It was a choice to listen, 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 anything else you don’t 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 really is neutral, an observer and is something you must employ to watch the mind and the judgments being made by the ego. un curso de milagros When you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the incorrect or right mind, just be willing to hand them to the perfect solution is, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the others because the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply quitting that which you no more want. It is, and certainly can, be that easy.
Form and Content:
The last element of know from A Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything inside it. In ACIM, form does not matter and is section of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you utilize everything in form, combined with the judgments in your mind, because the curriculum of what things to start for correction (forgiveness).
What does matter is content and in ACIM, content may be the mind. The mind you’re using for interpretation (perception) of people, places, and things, etc., counts for everything. It is possible to only have one master: (1) the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction); or, (2) the ego wrong mind (error) and which includes both interpretations of the ego mind.
In conclusion, consider the simplicity of ACIM which is a Course in training your mind how exactly to perceive properly. You need to return the mind to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you also 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 that, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The assist you to need will show up; but you, my pal, must do the task of the inward journey back into the mind.
The Law of Cause and Effect may be the form, or mind, you are using for interpretation will be your effect in this world. It’ll affect you in other ways by returning your brain back to back again to peace where you eventually see the illusion of preference, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up once and for all.