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 subject 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 additionally how to implement these mind corrections had a need to change your life. What it ultimately comes 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 necessary and here’s why: You will find a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both which are still section of the same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the incorrect side is all the negative judgments; and the proper side is all of the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it really is to live within this negative world. Neither may be the truth of one’s 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 actually use as cause, you will notice the corresponding effect. Ideas usually do not leave their source: You.



Let’s utilize this example:

Someone is feeling the consequences of being “poor,” or lack, nowadays and 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, what 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 another: (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 out from the illusion.

This is as opposed to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” do not exist. A selection 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 consequences you imagine because the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion of the mind to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. It also produces effects in your life here but you will need to choose correction to experience them.

Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all into a simple group of principles predicated on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components and when understood and used, they might be “mind” correcting!

The Metaphysics:

Remember, in accordance with ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, also known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part 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, because the mind never left God but still resides at home with Him. There are 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 all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re listening to for interpretation of events in this world. 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.

This is 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 take action all the time with ego stuff; and today 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 really doing is simply returning your brain to God, where it never left, also to its natural state of peace. To do 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 solution to the separation placed in your brain by God and every answer will there be looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words that 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 about 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 aimed at your choice maker in the mind. The whole point is that you have a choice of which side of the mind to listen to and use for interpretation. That’s 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 can be dismissed as easily as you dismiss anything else you do not want because they are not real.

A couple of 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 don’t “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It really is an experience shared by One.

The decision maker may be the mechanism between the two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you should 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 incorrect or right mind, you need to be ready to hand them to the solution, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the others as the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply giving up that which you no more want. It is, and certainly can, be that 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 does not matter and is area of the “beliefs” to be turned over. un curso de milagros However, you use everything in form, together 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 is the mind. The mind you’re using for interpretation (perception) of individuals, 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 mind how to perceive properly. You must return the mind to peace as the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot 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 learn how to do this, study the ideas and put it into practice. The help you need will show up; but you, my friend, must do the task 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 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.