The wonder and simplicity of a Course in Miracles (ACIM) really does well through one of its major principles: Legal issues of Cause and Effect. This is totally different from legal issues of Attraction, a subject on which so much has been written about these last few years. ACIM answers not only why things are how they are 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 staying on earth, or the options to correct the mind and return home.
Affirmations are not part of An application in Miracles as they are not necessary and here's why: There is 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 wrong side is all the negative judgments; and the right side is all the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it is to live through this negative world. acim Neither is the truth of your nature nor what your address is trying to return your mind, according to ACIM.
Legal issues of Cause and Effect is this: According to the mind you use as cause, you will see the similar effect. Ideas do not leave their source: You.
Let's take advantage of this example:
Someone is feeling the effects of being "poor, inch or lack, on earth and wants to change their beliefs to have "rich" (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. Both "poor" and "rich" are judgments of the ego using 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 get back with "poor. inch It's only a question of "when. inch
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 two things within the ego illusion and not to choose out of the illusion.
This is in contrast to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both "poor" and "rich" do not exist. A decision for correction of the mind allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you on earth; however, it does not have the effects you imagine since the ego cannot relate. It returns a small piece of the mind to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. It also produces effects in your life here but you will have to choose correction to experience them.
Let's look at how ACIM breaks this all into a simple set of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components and when understood and used, they can be "mind" correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, according to ACIM, the mind is split by the ego's judgment that we could be separate, also known as the "tiny mad idea, inch or the error that never occurred. This element of the mind is simply hidden in darkness because it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) when we didn't remember to laugh off what could not be true. It did not, however, separate.
So in ACIM it is not about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God and still rests at home with Him. There are no "belief" judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything is the same, all one, and nothing to think or judge between.
Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you are listening to for presentation of events on earth. The only change is in the options 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's no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another approach. You simply give up what you no longer want. We do it 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 the mind. In ACIM, there is nothing to eliminate because no error has happened, i. e., no break up happened. What you're up to is simply returning your mind to God, where it never left, and to its natural state of peace. To do this is simply a choice of which side of the split mind to be for presentation 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 break up placed in the mind by God and every answer is there waiting for you. Atonement, forgiveness, answer and True Perception are other words that are synonymous. You must be able to use the Holy Spirit Right Mind for presentation of events and do the actual work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of the mind, via your decision maker, because you no longer want them.
It really is that simple and only confusing because of the belief that the only choice is between ego judgments of "poor" and "rich, inch to use the earlier example, and not understanding about this third option being available. The options for True Perception is to choose neither ego judgment and give up both for correction of the mind. And this is takes to return the mind to God.
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