NEVER GIVE UP

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 topic which so much has been written about these last couple of years. ACIM answers not only why things will be the way they are with the mind, but additionally how to implement these mind corrections needed to change your life. What it ultimately boils down to may be the choice to change beliefs while residing in this world, or the decision to correct your brain and return home.

Affirmations are not part of A Course in Miracles as they are not essential 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 the negative judgments; and the right side is all the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it really is to live within this negative world. david hoffmeister videos Neither may be 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 mind you 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 of being “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 deploying it as cause which can only produce ego effect. Ego being an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you also 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. It asks you to choose between a couple of 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” usually 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 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. In addition, it 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 set of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components and when understood and used, they are often “mind” correcting!

The Metaphysics:

Remember, according to ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that we could be separate, generally known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part of the mind is merely hidden in darkness because 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 isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, as the mind never left God but still resides aware of 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 are listening to for interpretation of events in this world. 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 ease of use is evident in ACIM because there’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another way of thinking. You simply give up what you no more want. We take action all the time with ego stuff; and now we just do it with the ego beliefs themselves.

Forgiveness:

This says everything: 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 brain to God, where it never left, also 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 want to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).

The Holy Spirit is the solution to the separation put into the mind 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 use 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 decision maker, because you no longer want them.

It really is that easy and only confusing as a result of 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 your brain. This is what is takes to return the mind to God.

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at the decision maker in the mind. The complete point is that you’ve got a choice of which side of your brain to listen to and use for interpretation. That’s all that ever happened in the first place. It was a selection 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 don’t want because they are 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 way you feel keeps them hidden so you don’t realize they are judgments.

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

The decision maker may be the mechanism between your two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you need to employ to watch your brain and the judgments being made by the ego. When you realize you have used something from the ego error of the incorrect or right mind, just be ready to hand them to the perfect solution is, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the rest because the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply quitting that which you no more want. It is, and certainly can, be so easy.

Form and Content:

The last element of 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 part 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 to turn over 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 brain how to perceive properly. You need to return the mind to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you cannot 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 understand how to do that, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The assist you to need will show up; but you, my pal, must do the work of this inward journey back to the mind.

The Law of Cause and Effect may be the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect in this world. It will affect you in other ways by returning your mind back to back again to peace where you eventually see the illusion of preference, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up once and for all.