The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect. That is different from the Law of Attraction, a topic on which so much has been discussed these last couple of years. ACIM answers not merely why things are the way they’re with the mind, but also how exactly to implement these mind corrections had a need to change your life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to change beliefs while residing in this world, or the decision to correct the mind and return home.
Affirmations are not section of A Course in Miracles as they are not necessary and here’s why: You will find a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both of which are still portion 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 the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it is to live within this negative world. Neither is the truth of your nature nor where you are trying to return your mind, according to ACIM.
REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: Based on the mind you use as cause, you will see the corresponding effect. Ideas usually 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 now have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) arrive. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego using 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 also 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 two things within the ego illusion and not to choose out of 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 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 consequences you imagine because 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 will have to choose correction to experience them.
Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all into a simple group of principles predicated on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components so when understood and used, they can be “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, according to ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, also known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This portion of the mind is merely hidden in darkness because it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) whenever we forgot to laugh off what could not be true. It did not, however, separate.
So in ACIM it isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, as the mind never left God but 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 trust or judge between.
Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you are hearing for interpretation of events nowadays. 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 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 do it all the time with ego stuff; and now we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.
Forgiveness:
This says it all: Forgiveness is correction of the mind. 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 achieve that is simply a choice of which side of the split mind to listen to for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments you no longer want to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).
The Holy Spirit may be the treatment for the separation put into the mind by God and every answer is there waiting for 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 specific 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 due to the belief that the only real choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to utilize the earlier example, rather than understanding relating to this third option being available. The choice for True Perception would be to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of the mind. This is what is takes to come back your brain to God.
un curso de milagros Decision Maker:
ACIM is aimed at your choice maker in your brain. The whole point is that you’ve got a choice of which side of your brain to hear and use for interpretation. That is 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’re not real.
A couple of things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment in their mind to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging how you feel keeps them hidden which means you don’t realize they are judgments.
You do not “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It is an event shared by One.
The decision maker may be the mechanism between the two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you need 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 incorrect or right mind, you need to be willing to hand them to the solution, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the others as the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply giving up that which you no longer want. It 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 in it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is the main “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, together with the judgments in your thoughts, as 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 are using for interpretation (perception) of individuals, 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 which includes both interpretations of the ego mind.
In conclusion, consider the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your mind how exactly to perceive properly. You need to return your brain to peace as the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot see the doorway from judgment. You merely 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 help you 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’re using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect in this world. It’ll affect you in other ways by returning your mind back to back again to peace where you eventually start to see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up once and for all.