The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through among its major principles: REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect. That is different from the Law 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’re with the mind, but also how to implement these mind corrections needed to change your daily life. What it ultimately comes down to may be the choice to change beliefs while residing in this world, or the choice to correct your brain and return home.
Affirmations are not part of A Course in Miracles because they are not essential and here’s why: There exists a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both which are still area 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 really is to live within this negative world. Neither is 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 actually use as cause, you will notice the corresponding effect. Ideas usually 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 now 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 being 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 two things within the ego illusion and not to choose from the illusion.
This is as opposed to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” usually do not exist. A choice for correction of your brain 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 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 need to choose correction to see them.
Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all into a simple set of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components and when understood and used, they may be “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, according to ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, also referred to as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This portion of the mind is merely hidden in darkness since it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) when 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, because 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’re listening to for interpretation of events in this world. The only change is in the decision 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 quit what you no more want. We do it all the time with ego stuff; and today 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 really doing is simply returning your mind 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 over the judgments so long as desire to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).
The Holy Spirit may be the solution to the separation placed in your brain by God and every answer is there waiting for you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words that are synonymous. You have to be willing to use 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 because of the 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 the mind. This is what is takes to return the mind to God.
Decision Maker:
ACIM is aimed at your choice maker in your brain. The complete point is that you have a choice of which side of your brain to hear and use for interpretation. That’s all that ever happened in the first place. It was a selection 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 other things you don’t want because they are not real.
un curso de milagros en espanol 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 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 created by the ego. Once you realize you have used something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, just be willing to hand them to the perfect solution is, 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 essential. You are simply quitting that which you no longer want. It really is, and certainly can, be so 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 utilize everything in form, along with the judgments in your mind, 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 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 that includes both interpretations of the ego mind.
In conclusion, think about the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your brain how to perceive properly. You must return your brain to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot 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 learn how to do that, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The help you need will arrive; but you, my pal, must do the work of the inward journey back to the mind.
REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you are using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect nowadays. It’ll affect you in different 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 elect to give it up forever.