The beauty and simplicity of A 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 subject which so much has been discussed these last few years. ACIM answers not only why things will be the way they’re with the mind, but additionally how exactly to implement these mind corrections needed to change your life. What it ultimately comes down to may be the choice to improve beliefs while staying in this world, or the choice to correct your brain and return home.
Affirmations are not part of A Course in Miracles as they are not essential and here’s why: There exists a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both which are still the main 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 trying to convince you how wonderful it is to live here in this negative world. Neither may be the truth of your nature nor where you are trying to return your mind, according to ACIM.
The Law of Cause and Effect is this: In line with the mind you use as cause, you will see 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, nowadays and wants to change their beliefs to now have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego deploying it as cause that may only produce ego effect. Ego being an unstable thought system, what 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 another: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks one to choose between two things within the ego illusion rather than to choose from the illusion.
This is as opposed to choosing correction of your brain (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” usually do not exist. A selection for correction of your brain allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you in this world; however, it generally does not have the consequences you imagine because the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion of the mind to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. It also produces effects that you experienced here but you will need to choose correction to experience them.
Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple group of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components so when understood and used, they can be “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, in accordance with ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that we could be separate, also referred to as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part of the mind is simply hidden in darkness because 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 isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, as the mind never left God and still resides at home with Him. You can find 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 are hearing for interpretation of events nowadays. The only real change is in the choice 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’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another thought process. You simply give up what you no more want. We take action on a regular basis with ego stuff; and now 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 really doing is simply returning your brain to God, where it never left, also 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 over the judgments so long as desire to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).
The Holy Spirit is the solution to the separation put into the mind by God and every answer will there be looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words which are synonymous. un curso de milagros You need to be willing to utilize the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the actual work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of your brain, via your choice maker, because you no more 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 aimed at your choice maker in the mind. The whole point is that you have a selection of which side of your brain to listen to 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 could be dismissed as easily as you dismiss anything else you don’t want because they are not real.
Two things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment to them to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging how you feel keeps them hidden so you don’t realize they are judgments.
You don’t “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It really is an experience 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 should employ to watch your brain and the judgments being made by the ego. When you realize you have used something from the ego error of the incorrect or right mind, you need to be willing to hand them to the perfect solution is, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the rest as the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply quitting that which you no more 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 part of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, combined with the judgments in your thoughts, because the curriculum of what things to turn over for correction (forgiveness).
What does matter is content and in ACIM, content is the mind. The mind you’re using for interpretation (perception) of individuals, 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 brain how exactly to perceive properly. You need to return the mind to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot start to see the doorway from judgment. You merely see peace in peace even though sharing peace with everyone.
All ACIM says is you have the willingness to understand how to do that, study the ideas and put it into practice. The assist you to need will show up; but you, my friend, must do the work of the inward journey back to the mind.
The Law of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will be your effect in this world. It’ll affect you in different ways by returning your mind back to back to peace where you eventually see the illusion of preference, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up forever.
