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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 the Law of Attraction, a topic 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 additionally how exactly to implement these mind corrections had a need to change your daily life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to improve beliefs while residing in this world, or the choice to correct the mind and return home.

Affirmations are not part of A Course in Miracles because they are not essential and here’s why: You will find a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both of 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 here in 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.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: In line with the mind you use as cause, you will see the corresponding effect. Ideas usually do not leave their source: You.

Let’s use this example:

Someone is feeling the effects of being “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 being an unstable thought system, everything you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you also 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 you to choose between a couple of things within the ego illusion and not to choose out of your illusion.

This is as opposed to choosing correction of the mind (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 generally does not have the effects you imagine since the ego cannot relate. It returns some of your brain to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. In addition, it produces effects that you experienced here but you will have to choose correction to experience 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, according to ACIM, the mind is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, generally known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This portion of the mind is simply hidden in darkness since 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 isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, as the mind never left God but 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 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 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 longer want. We take action all the time with ego stuff; and now 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 brain to God, where it never left, and to its natural state of peace. To do that is simply a choice of which side of the split mind to listen to for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments you no longer desire 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 looking forward to 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 actual work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of the mind, via your choice maker, because you no more 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 utilize the earlier example, rather than 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 your brain to God.

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at the decision maker in your brain. The whole point is that you have 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 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 do not want because they’re not real.

Two things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment to them 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 really is an experience shared by One.

The decision maker is the mechanism between the two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you must employ to watch the mind 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 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 longer want. It is, and certainly can, be that simple.

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, along with the judgments in your thoughts, as the curriculum of what to start for correction (forgiveness).

What does matter is content and in ACIM, content is the mind. The mind you are 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 exactly 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 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 then put it into practice. The help you need will show up; but you, my pal, must do the work 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 undoubtedly be your effect in this world. It’ll affect you in different ways by returning your brain back to back again to peace where you eventually see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and choose to give it up once and for all. david hoffmeister videos