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The beauty and simplicity of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through among its major principles: REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect. That is different from regulations of Attraction, a topic on which so much has been discussed these last few years. ACIM answers not only why things will be 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 improve beliefs while staying in this world, or the decision to correct the mind and return home.

Affirmations are not part of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles as they are not essential and here’s why: There is 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 the negative judgments; and the right side is all the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it is to live here in this negative world. Neither is the truth of your nature nor where you are trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: According to the actually use as cause, you will see 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) show up. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego using 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. un curso de milagros 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” 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 effects you imagine since the ego cannot relate. It returns some of the mind to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. It also produces effects in your life here but you must choose correction to see them.

Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple group of principles predicated on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components so 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 since 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, as the mind never left God and still resides at home with Him. You can find 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 all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re listening to for interpretation of events nowadays. The only 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 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 take action 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 do 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 is the treatment for the separation put into the mind by God and every answer is there looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words which are synonymous. You need 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 the mind, via your choice maker, because you no longer want them.

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

Decision Maker:

ACIM is targeted at the decision maker in the mind. 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 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 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 the method that you feel keeps them hidden so 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 the two sides of the split mind. It really is neutral, an observer and is something you must employ to watch your brain 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 answer, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the rest as the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply quitting that which you no more want. It really is, and certainly can, be that simple.

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 does not matter and is section of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use 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 are 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 which includes both interpretations of the ego mind.

In conclusion, think about the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your brain how exactly to perceive properly. You must return your brain to peace as the Kingdom of God is peace and you cannot start to 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 understand how to do this, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The help you need will arrive; but you, my friend, must do the work of this 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 nowadays. It will affect you in other ways by returning your brain back to back to peace where you eventually start to see the illusion of preference, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up once and for all.