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Choosing True Perception Heals Our Mind

It is your mind which gave the body all the functions that you see in it, and set its value far beyond a little pile of dust and water.

The body is in need of no defense. This cannot be too often emphasized. It will be strong and healthy if the mind does not abuse it by assigning it to roles it cannot fill, to purposes beyond its scope, and to exalted aims which it cannot accomplish.

The body, valueless and hardly worth the least defense, need merely be perceived as quite apart from you, and it becomes a healthy, serviceable instrument through which the mind can operate until its usefulness is over.

Defend the body and you have attacked your mind. For you have seen in it the faults, the weaknesses, the limits and the lacks from which you think the body must be saved. You will not see the mind as separate from bodily conditions. And you will impose upon the body all the pain that comes from the conception of the mind as limited and fragile, and apart from other minds and separate from its Source.

These are the thoughts in need of healing, and the body will respond with health when they have been corrected and replaced with truth. This is the body’s only real defense. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 135, W-pI.135.6:1;7:1-3;8:2;9:1-10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)

Believing we are a body is the primary cause for all of our stress, fear and guilt. What but the body seems capable of harm or being harmed? What but the body can appear to die? Yet the Son of God is not a body, so all these beliefs cannot apply to What we are in truth. This is why one of the most repeated Workbook lessons is, “I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me.” Our mind will be healed when we learn this lesson without reservation.

This thought seems to be difficult to comprehend because the only experience we are aware of is through the body. When we believe the body as our identity, we block out awareness of the truth that we are Spirit, the Holy Son of God. The body is blind to the truth because it is an illusion, a false image and is incapable of seeing Truth.

It is time to loosen our insistence that we are what we are not. To do this we need help from beyond the belief that we are a body, separate and alone. By the grace of God, we have His Answer That we can turn to for help to correct our mistaken mind. As we bring all of our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him sort the true from the false on our behalf, our mind is healed.

Holy Spirit, today we choose your true perception in place of our own, for we would be healed. We would remember that we are the one Self That God created whole.

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