Re: IA´s Journal
2. The shift in perception.
Healing must occur in exact proportion to which the valelessness
of sickness is recognized. One need but say, "There is no gain at
all to me in this" and he is healed. But to say this, one first must
recognize certain facts. First, it is obvious that decisions are of the
mind, not of the body. If sickness is but a faulty problem-solvning
approach, it is a decision. And if it is a decision, it is the mind and
not the body that makes it. The resistance to recognizing this is
enormous, because the existence of the world as you perceive it
depends on the body being the decision-maker. Terms like "instincts,"
"reflexes" and the like represent attempts to endow the body with
non-mental motivators. Actually, such terms merely state or decribe
the problem. They do not answer it.
The acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose
for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing.
And this is so for healing in all forms. A patient decides that this is so,
and he recovers. If he decides against recovery. he will not be healed.
Who is the physician? Only the mind of the patient himself.
The outcome is what he decides that it is. Special agents seem to be
ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice. He chooses
them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. And it is this they do,
and nothing else. They are not actually needed at all.
The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, "I have no use
for this." There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.
What ist he single requisite for this shift in perception? it is simly this;
The recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with
the body. What does this recognition "cost"? It cost´s the whole world
you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind.
For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs;
not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as
it is not. He looks on what he chooses to see. No more and no less.
The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did. Nor does he do
anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is.
Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one.
Yet to accept this release, the insignificance of the body must be an
acceptable idea.
With this idea is pain forever gone. But with this idea goes also all
confusion about creation. Does not this follow of necessity? Place
cause and effect in their true sequence in one respect, and the
learning will generalize and transform the world. The transfer value
of one true idea has no end or limit. The final outcome of this leasson
is the remembrance of God. What do guilt and sickness, pain, disaster
and all suffering mean now? Having no purpose, they are gone.
And with them also go all the effects they seemed to cause.
Cause and effect but replicate creation. Seen in their proper perspective,
without distortion and without fear, they re-establish Heaven.
Love
Core Affirmation: I am loved and I am worthy,
I am safe and I am free.
I am powerfully protected.
I am master of my body and ruler of my mind.
By Robert Bruce
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