The beauty and simplicity of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through among its major principles: REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect. This is different from the Law of Attraction, a subject on which so much has been written about these last couple of years. ACIM answers not only why things are the way they’re with the mind, but additionally how to implement these mind corrections needed to change your daily life. What it ultimately comes down to may be the choice to improve beliefs while staying 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 essential 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 incorrect side is all the negative judgments; and the proper side is all the negative judgments trying to convince you how wonderful it really is to live within this negative world. Neither is the truth of one’s nature nor where you are 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 use this example:

Someone is feeling the effects of being “poor,” or lack, nowadays and wants to change their beliefs to now have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego deploying 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 find yourself 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 one to choose between two things within the ego illusion and not to choose out of your illusion.

This is in contrast to choosing correction of the mind (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” do not exist. A choice 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 consequences you imagine because the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion of your brain 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 into a simple group of principles predicated on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components and 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 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) whenever we forgot to laugh off what could not be true. It did not, 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 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 simplicity is evident in ACIM because there is no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another way of thinking. You simply quit what you no more 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 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 mind to God, where it never left, also 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 over the judgments so long as want to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).

acim videos 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 that are synonymous. You need 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 the mind, via your choice maker, because you no more want them.

It really is that easy and only confusing as a result of 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 choice for True Perception would be to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of the mind. This is exactly what is takes to come back the mind to God.

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at your choice maker in the mind. The complete point is that you have a choice of which side of the mind to hear and use for interpretation. That’s all that ever happened to begin with. It was a selection 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 anything else you do not want because they’re not real.

A couple of things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment to them to be true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging the way you feel keeps them hidden which means 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 may be the mechanism between the two sides of the split mind. It is neutral, an observer and is something you will need to employ to watch the mind and the judgments being created by the ego. Once you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the incorrect or right mind, just be ready to hand them to the solution, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It takes care of the rest because the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are necessary. You are simply quitting that which you no more want. It is, and certainly can, be that easy.

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 does not matter and is section of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you use everything in form, combined with the judgments in your thoughts, because the curriculum of what things to turn over for correction (forgiveness).

What does matter is content and in ACIM, content may be 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, think about the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You need to return your brain to peace as the Kingdom of God is peace and you also cannot start to 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 learn how to do that, study the ideas and then put it into practice. The help you need will arrive; but you, my pal, must do the work of the inward journey back into 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 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.