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The beauty and simplicity of A 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 written about these last few years. ACIM answers not only why things will be the way they’re with the mind, but also how exactly to implement these mind corrections had a need to change your daily life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to change beliefs while residing in this world, or the choice to correct the mind and return home.

Affirmations are not section of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles as they are not necessary and here’s why: You will find a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both which are still portion 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 is to live within this negative world. Neither may be the truth of your nature nor what your location is trying to return your mind, according to ACIM.

The Law of Cause and Effect is this: In line with 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 effects to be “poor,” or lack, in this world 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 as an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you find yourself back with “poor.” It’s only a question of “when.”

The ego’s choice system is: (1) one or another: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks you to choose between a couple of things within the ego illusion and not to choose out of your 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 the mind allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you in this world; however, it generally does not have the effects you imagine since the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion 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 down into a simple set of principles predicated on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components so when understood and used, they might be “mind” correcting!

The Metaphysics:

Remember, according to ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, often known 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) whenever 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 and still resides at home with 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 about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re listening to for interpretation of events nowadays. 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 simplicity is evident in ACIM because there is no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another way of thinking. You simply give up what you no longer want. We do it all the time with ego stuff; and today we just take action 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 really doing is simply returning your brain to God, where it never left, also to its natural state of peace. course in miracles To achieve that is simply either which side of the split mind to hear for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments you no longer want 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 the side of your brain, via your choice maker, because you no more want them.

It really is that simple and only confusing due to belief that the only choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to use the earlier example, and not understanding relating to this third option being available. The decision for True Perception is to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of the mind. This is exactly what is takes to return your brain to God.

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at the decision maker in your brain. The whole point is that you have a choice of which side of the mind to hear and use for interpretation. That’s all that ever happened to begin with. It was a choice to pay attention, 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 do not want because they’re not real.

A couple of things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment to them to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging the way you feel keeps them hidden which means you don’t realize they are judgments.

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

The decision maker may be the mechanism between your 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 created by the ego. When you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, you need to be willing to hand them to the answer, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the others 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 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 section of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, along with the judgments in your thoughts, as the curriculum of what to start for correction (forgiveness).

What does matter is content and in ACIM, content may be the mind. The mind you’re using for interpretation (perception) of individuals, 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. You must return the mind 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 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 are using for interpretation will be your effect nowadays. It will affect you in different ways by returning your brain back to back to peace where you eventually start to see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up once and for all.