December 19, 2017
Healing is a concept that we often get all confused. The Course is clear that healing is of the mind, of our thoughts. Healing is the shift in perception from seeing ourselves and each other as separate to seeing ourselves and each other joined in Oneness. Our mind is focused on unity and joining – reality – rather than illusion. The Course tells us that reality and illusion cannot coexist in the mind because they are polar opposites. This is important to remember. We must let go of our attachment to the physical or temporal – illusion – for reality to bloom in our mind.
The inevitable compromise is the belief that the body must be healed, and not the mind. For this divided goal has given both an equal reality, which could be possible only if the mind is limited to the body and divided into little parts of seeming wholeness, but without connection. This will not harm the body, but it will keep the delusional thought system in the mind. Here, then, is healing needed. And it is here that healing is. For God gave healing not apart from sickness, nor established remedy where sickness cannot be. They are together, and when they are seen together, all attempts to keep both truth and illusion in the mind, where both must be, are recognized as dedication to illusion; and given up when brought to truth, and seen as totally unreconcilable with truth, in any respect or in any way. T-19.I.6:1-7
Are we willing to compromise healing by maintaining the healing of both the body and mind even though they are irreconcilable? Think about this. Maintaining the goal of healing the body blocks the healing of our mind. It’s like asking if we want a healed body or happiness. I know, it’s an odd question. The way I have come to understand this contradiction is that the healing of our mind is the real solution – our real and most high goal. It is the solution to the problem of separation, the only problem we have. Spirit will guide the body in what is appropriate for each of our situations and our function in the world. I always say to myself, “I am here only to be truly helpful.” Spirit will provide me with the right perceptive or illusory conditions to fulfill my function in this world. I can definitely be happy with that and accept Spirit’s purpose for wherever and whatever my body is.
Faith is my key. My faith is that Spirit will provide for and guide me in my perceptive function this world. I can fully accept whatever that is in this world having faith that I am right where I need to be to be truly helpful in this world to my brothers and sisters. I have faith that I am truly complete and One with all Creation. I have faith that I am not separate but that I dwell in complete Oneness in the eternal present moment. I am content to be who I am and to be truly helpful in this world. I have nothing to fear for I am whole.
Faith is the opposite of fear, as much a part of love as fear is of attack. Faith is the acknowledgment of union. It is the gracious acknowledgment of everyone as a Child of your most loving Creator, loved by your Creator like you, and therefore loved by you as yourself. It is your Creator’s Love that joins you and another, and for your Creator’s Love you would keep no one separate from yours. Each one appears just as they are perceived in the holy instant, united in your purpose to be released from guilt. You see the Christ in them, and they are healed because you look on what makes faith forever justified in everyone. T-19.I.10:1-6
Have faith in your wholeness. Have faith in your divine nature and your Oneness with all Creation. Let go of your attachment to any fear you harbor against another and free them from your limitations. Grant yourself healing as you release your attachment to all fear and limitations. The healing you experience will free you in the eternal holy instant where you realize you are One with all in perfect Oneness. Allow this to be now, for it is already within you.
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