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 regulations of Attraction, a topic on which so much has been discussed these last couple of years. ACIM answers not merely why things will be the way they are with the mind, but additionally how to implement these mind corrections had a need 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 section 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 of which are still the main same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the wrong side is all of the negative judgments; and the right side is all of 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 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 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) arrive. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego deploying it as cause that may only produce ego effect. Ego as 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 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 your 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 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 since 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 that you experienced here but you will need to choose correction to see them.
Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all into a simple group of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components so when understood and used, they could 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 portion of the mind is simply hidden in darkness since it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) when we forgot to laugh off what cannot be true. It did not, however, separate.
So in ACIM it is not 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 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 change is in the decision 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 is 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 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 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 you no longer 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 will there be looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words which are synonymous. 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 the side of the mind, via your decision maker, because you no more want them.
It really is that easy and only confusing as a result of belief that the only choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to use the earlier example, and not understanding about this third option being available. The decision for True Perception would be to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of your brain. This is what is takes to return your brain to God.
un curso de milagros en espanol Decision Maker:
ACIM is targeted at the decision maker in your brain. The whole point is that you have 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 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 anything else you don’t want because they are not real.
Two things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment in their mind as being 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 really is an experience 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 will need to employ to watch the mind and the judgments being made by the ego. Once you realize you have used something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, you need to be ready to hand them to the answer, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the rest because the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply giving up 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 inside it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is part 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 turn over for correction (forgiveness).
What does matter is content and in ACIM, content is the mind. The mind you are 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 that includes both interpretations of the ego mind.
In conclusion, consider the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You must return your brain to peace as the Kingdom of God is peace and you 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 put it into practice. The help you need will show up; but you, my friend, must do the work of this inward journey back to the mind.
The Law of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you are using for interpretation will be your effect nowadays. It’ll affect you in different 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 forever.