7 Examples Of A TRAINING COURSE In Miracles
The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a subject which so much has been discussed these last couple of years. ACIM answers not only why things will be the way they’re with the mind, but also how to implement these mind corrections needed to change your life. What it ultimately comes 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 Course in Miracles because they are not necessary and here’s why: There is a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both of which are still part 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 right side is all the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it is to live within this negative world. Neither is the truth of your nature nor where you are trying to return your mind, according to ACIM.
The Law of Cause and Effect is this: Based on the mind you 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 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 using it as cause that may only produce ego effect. Ego as an unstable thought system, everything 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 you to choose between two things within the ego illusion rather than to choose out of the illusion.
This is in contrast to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” usually 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 does not have the consequences you imagine since 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 that you experienced 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 based 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, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that we 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 because 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, 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 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 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.
This is where the simplicity is evident in ACIM because there’s no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another thought process. You simply quit what you no more want. We do it all the time with ego stuff; and today we just do it 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 mind to God, where it never left, and 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 so long as 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 will there be looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words which are synonymous. You need to be willing to use the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the actual work of giving judgments (beliefs) to the side of the mind, via your choice maker, because you no longer want them.
It really is that easy and only confusing because of the belief that the only real choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to use the earlier example, and not understanding concerning this third option being available. The choice for True Perception would be to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of the mind. un curso de milagros This is what is takes to come back your brain to God.
Decision Maker:
ACIM is aimed at your choice maker in the mind. The whole point is that you have a selection of which side of your brain 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 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 the method that you feel keeps them hidden and that means you don’t realize they are judgments.
You don’t “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It is an experience shared by One.
The decision maker is the mechanism between your two sides of the split mind. It really is neutral, an observer and is something you should employ to watch your brain and the judgments being made by the ego. Once you realize you have used something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, just be ready to hand them to the answer, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the others as the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply giving up that which you no more want. It is, and certainly can, be that simple.
Form and Content:
The last element of know from A Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything inside it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is the main “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you utilize 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 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, think about the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your brain how to perceive properly. You need to return your brain to peace because 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 understand how to do that, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The assist you to need will arrive; but you, my pal, must do the work of this inward journey back to 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’ll affect you in other ways by returning your brain back to back again to peace where you eventually see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up forever.