The beauty and simplicity of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a subject which so much has been written about these last few 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 life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to change beliefs while staying in this world, or the decision to correct your brain and return home.
Affirmations are not section of A Course in Miracles as they are not essential and here’s why: You will find a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both of which are still area of the same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the incorrect side is all the negative judgments; and the proper side is all 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 mind, according to ACIM.
The Law of Cause and Effect is this: Based on the mind you 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 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 as an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you also 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 you to choose between two things within the ego illusion rather than to choose out from the illusion.
This is as opposed to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” do not exist. A choice 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 a portion of your brain to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. It also produces effects in your life here but you must choose correction to experience them.
Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all into a simple group of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components so when understood and used, they might be “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, in accordance with ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, also called the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part 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 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. You can find 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 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 your split mind (error) of the ego or the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction) as that internal Teacher.
That’s where the simplicity is evident in ACIM because there’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another way of thinking. You simply quit what you no more 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 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, also to its natural state of peace. To do that is simply either 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 is the solution to the separation placed in your brain by God and every answer will there be waiting for you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words which are synonymous. You have to be willing to utilize 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 longer want them.
It really is that simple and only confusing due to belief that the only real choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to utilize the earlier example, rather than understanding concerning this third option being available. The choice for True Perception would be to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of your brain. This is what is takes to come back your brain to God.
Decision Maker:
ACIM is targeted at the decision maker in your brain. The complete point is that you have a selection of which side of the mind to listen to 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 could be dismissed as easily as you dismiss other things you do not want because they’re not real.
Two 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’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 need to employ to watch the mind 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, just be ready to hand them to the solution, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the others because the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply quitting that which you no more want. It really is, and certainly can, be so easy.
Form and Content:
The last element of know from the Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything in it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is part of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you utilize everything in form, together 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. 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 which is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. a course in miracles youtube You must return the mind to peace as the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot start to see the doorway from judgment. You only 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 then put it into practice. The help you need will show up; but you, my friend, must do the task of this inward journey back into the mind.
REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect nowadays. It will affect you in different ways by returning your brain back to back to peace where you eventually see the illusion of preference, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up forever.