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Changing Our Values Heals Our Mind

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Pain is impossible. There is no grief with any cause at all. And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. Then to be considered seri­ously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 284, W-pII.284. See also ACIM Lesson 284 Insights.)

The body and a separate mind are illusions, so physical and emotional pain are also illusions.

Our experience in the world is that these illusions are real. But true perception would see past these false ideas to the changeless Love beyond the forms of the world. This is why loss is not loss if properly perceived. God’s gift of His eternal Love can never be lost. Accepting this truth feels like a big leap that seems frightening and perhaps even impossible.

The Course acknowledges our resistance and fear. We are not expected to fully accept that only Love is real with a single decision. We have built many barriers in our minds against the truth. This lesson describes the process most of us go through to let go of our barriers to Love’s Presence. mistaken beliefs and perceptions.

Our first step is to affirm the truth, even if we don’t believe it. It’s the beginning of our willingness to accept the healing of our false beliefs. This leads to a progression of greater and greater acceptance. We are able to accept changes in some beliefs, yet still tenaciously hang on to others for fear of losing everything we value.

As we progress in our acceptance, we learn that we were mistaken in placing value in false images and erroneous beliefs. More and more we are willing to let them go. Finally we reach the point where all we value is joining in the oneness of Love. All other thoughts are disregarded as valueless; we are no longer interested in hanging on to them. Now we are ready to accept our place in Heaven, which God has saved for us. We remember the Home we never left in truth.

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