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 on which so much has been discussed these last few years. un curso de milagros ACIM answers not only why things will be the way they are with the mind, but additionally how exactly to implement these mind corrections had a need to change your daily life. What it ultimately comes down to may be the choice to change beliefs while staying in this world, or the decision to correct the mind and return home.
Affirmations are not part of A Course in Miracles because they are not necessary and here’s why: There exists 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 of the negative judgments; and the right side is all of the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it is to live within this negative world. Neither may be the truth of one’s nature nor where you are trying to return your brain, 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, nowadays and really wants to change their beliefs to will have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. 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 find yourself back with “poor.” It’s just a question of “when.”
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 a couple of things within the ego illusion rather than to choose out of your illusion.
This is in contrast to choosing correction of your brain (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 effects 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 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 based on Cause and Effect. It only has a few components so when understood and used, they are often “mind” correcting!
The Metaphysics:
Remember, according to ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that we could be separate, also called 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 isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, because the mind never left God and still resides aware of Him. You can find no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything is the same, all one, and nothing to believe or judge between.
Instead, it is all about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you are listening to for interpretation of events nowadays. The only real change is in the choice 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 way of thinking. You simply give up what you no longer want. We take action on a regular basis with ego stuff; and today we just take action with the ego beliefs themselves.
Forgiveness:
This says it all: Forgiveness is correction of the mind. 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 brain to God, where it never left, also to its natural state of peace. To achieve that is simply a choice of which side of the split mind to listen to 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 is the solution to the separation put into the mind by God and every answer is there looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words that are synonymous. You have to be willing to use the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the specific 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 as a result of belief that the only real choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to utilize the earlier example, and not understanding concerning 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 return your brain to God.
Decision Maker:
ACIM is aimed at the decision maker in your brain. The complete point is that you’ve got a selection 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 can be dismissed as easily as you dismiss other things you don’t 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’re judgments.
You do not “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It really 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 should employ to watch the mind and the judgments being created by the ego. When you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the incorrect or right mind, just be ready to hand them to the answer, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the rest as the Atonement or solution has already been there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply quitting that which you no longer 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 the main “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use 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 may be the mind. The mind you are 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 which 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 must return the mind to peace because the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot see the doorway from judgment. You merely 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 put it into practice. The assist you to need will show up; but you, my pal, must do the task of the inward journey back into the mind.
The Law of Cause and Effect may be the form, or mind, you are using for interpretation will undoubtedly be your effect nowadays. It will affect you in different ways by returning your mind back to back again to peace where you eventually start to see the illusion of preference, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up forever.