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. That is different from regulations of Attraction, a subject on which so much has been written about these last few years. ACIM answers not merely 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 life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to improve beliefs while staying in this world, or the decision to correct your brain and return home.
Affirmations are not part 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 part of the same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the wrong side is all the negative judgments; and the proper side is all the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it is to live here in this negative world. Neither may be the truth of your nature nor where you are trying to return your mind, according to ACIM.
REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: According to the mind you 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 consequences 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 using 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 also end up back with “poor.” It’s just 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 one to choose between two things within the ego illusion rather than to choose from the illusion.
This is in contrast to choosing correction of your brain (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” do not exist. A selection 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 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 will have to 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 has a few components and when understood and used, they can be “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, according to ACIM, the mind 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 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 didn’t, however, separate.
So in ACIM it is not about affirmations or changing beliefs, because 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 trust or judge between.
Instead, it is about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re hearing for interpretation of events in this world. The only real 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 ease of use 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 it all: Forgiveness is correction of your brain. In ACIM, there is 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, 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 over the judgments you no longer want to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).
The Holy Spirit may be the treatment for the separation placed in the mind by God and every answer is there waiting for 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 specific 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 as a result of belief that the only choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to utilize the earlier example, and not understanding concerning 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 the mind. The whole point is that you’ve got a choice of which side of the mind to listen to 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 could be dismissed as easily as you dismiss anything else you don’t want because they’re not real.
Two things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment to them to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging how you feel keeps them hidden and that means you don’t realize they’re judgments.
You don’t “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It really is an event shared by One.
The decision maker may be the mechanism between the two sides of the split mind. It really is neutral, an observer and is something you must employ to watch the mind and the judgments being created by the ego. When you realize you have used something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, you need to be willing to hand them to the perfect solution is, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the others because the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply giving up that which you no longer want. It really is, and certainly can, be that easy.
un curso de milagros en espanol Form and Content:
The last component to know from A Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything in it. In ACIM, form does not matter and is portion of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, together with the judgments in your mind, as the curriculum of what things 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. 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, think about the simplicity of ACIM which is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You need to return the mind to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you cannot start to 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 understand how to do this, study the ideas and put it into practice. The help you need will arrive; but you, my friend, must do the task of this inward journey back into the mind.
The Law of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you are using for interpretation will be your effect in this world. It will 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 elect to give it up once and for all.