The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through among its major principles: REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a topic which so much has been discussed 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 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 choice 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 incorrect side is all of the negative judgments; and the right side is all the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it really 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: Based on the mind you use as cause, you will notice the corresponding effect. Ideas do not leave their source: You.
Let’s use this example:
Someone is feeling the consequences to be “poor,” or lack, nowadays and really wants to change their beliefs to will 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 being an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you find yourself 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 a couple of things within the ego illusion rather than to choose out of your illusion.
This is in contrast to choosing correction of the mind (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 does not have the consequences you imagine since 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 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 may 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 referred to as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This portion of the mind is simply hidden in darkness because it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) when 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, 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 may be the same, all one, and nothing to believe or judge between.
Instead, it is about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you are 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.
This is 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 longer want. We do it all the time with ego stuff; and now we just take action 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. acim videos To do that is simply either which side of the split mind to hear for interpretation of events and turning over the judgments so long as want to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).
The Holy Spirit is the solution to the separation put into your brain by God and every answer will there be looking forward to 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 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 the 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 would be to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of the mind. This is what is takes to come back the mind to God.
Decision Maker:
ACIM is targeted at the decision maker in your brain. The whole point is that you’ve got a selection of which side of your brain to hear and use for interpretation. That is 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 could be dismissed as easily as you dismiss other things you don’t want because they’re not real.
A couple of things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment in their mind as being true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging how you feel keeps them hidden so you don’t realize they’re judgments.
You do not “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It is an event shared by One.
The decision maker is the mechanism between your two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you will 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, you need to be willing to hand them to the solution, 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 quitting that which you no more want. It really is, and certainly can, be that easy.
Form and Content:
The last component to know from the 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 utilize everything in form, combined with the judgments in your thoughts, because the curriculum of what things 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 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 that is a Course in training your brain how exactly to perceive properly. You need to 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 this, study the ideas and put it into practice. The assist you to need will show up; but you, my pal, must do the task 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 be your effect in this world. It will affect you in different ways by returning your mind back to back to peace where you eventually see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up once and for all.
