NEVER GIVE UP

The beauty and simplicity of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through among its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a topic on which so much has been discussed these last few years. ACIM answers not only 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 decision to correct the mind and return home.

Affirmations are not section of A Course in Miracles because they are not necessary and here’s why: There exists 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 incorrect side is all of the negative judgments; and the right side is all the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it is to live within this negative world. Neither is the truth of your nature nor what your location is trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: In line with the actually use as cause, you will see the corresponding effect. acim Ideas usually do not leave their source: You.



Let’s use this example:

Someone is feeling the effects to be “poor,” or lack, in this world and really 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 being an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you end up 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 and not to choose out 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 nowadays; however, it generally does not have the consequences you imagine because the ego cannot relate. It returns some of the mind to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. In addition, it produces effects in your life here but you must choose correction to experience them.

Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple set of principles predicated on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components and when understood and used, they can be “mind” correcting!

The Metaphysics:

Remember, in accordance with ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that we could be separate, also called 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) when we forgot to laugh off what could not be true. It did not, however, separate.

So in ACIM it is not about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God and still resides aware of Him. There are no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything may be the same, all one, and nothing to believe or judge between.

Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re hearing for interpretation of events nowadays. The only real change is in the choice between the 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 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, 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 achieve that is simply either which side of the split mind to hear for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments so long as 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 utilize the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the specific work of giving judgments (beliefs) to the side of the mind, via your decision maker, because you no longer want them.

It really is that easy and only confusing due to the belief that the only real choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to use the earlier example, and not 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 what is takes to return the mind to God.

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 the mind to hear and use for interpretation. That is 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.

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 do not “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It is an experience shared by One.

The decision maker is the mechanism between the two sides of the split mind. It really is neutral, an observer and is something you have to employ to watch your brain and the judgments being made by the ego. Once you realize you purchased 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 takes care of the rest because the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are essential. 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 component to know from the Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything inside it. In ACIM, form does not matter and is area of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, along with the judgments in your mind, because the curriculum of what to start 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, consider the simplicity of ACIM which is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You need to return your brain 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 and while sharing peace with everyone.

All ACIM says is you have the willingness to learn how to do this, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The assist you to need will arrive; but you, my pal, 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 undoubtedly be your effect in this world. It’ll affect you in different ways by returning your mind back to back again to peace where you eventually see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up forever.