Perhaps you do not realize that [a healed mind] removes the limits you had placed upon the body by the purposes you gave to it. As [limits] are laid aside, the strength the body has will always be enough to serve all truly useful purposes.
Yet this protection needs to be preserved by careful watching. If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make plans against uncertainties to come, you have again misplaced yourself, and made a bodily identity which will attack the body, for the mind is sick.
Give instant remedy, should this occur, by not allowing your defensiveness to hurt you longer. Do not be confused about what must be healed, but tell yourself:
I have forgotten what I really am, for I mistook my body for myself. Sickness is a defense against the truth. But I am not a body. And my mind cannot attack. So I can not be sick. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 136, W-pI.136.18:1-2;19-20. See also ACIM Lesson 136 Insights.)
To be truly helpful, we need to prefer truth over illusion. Believing the body and the world are real is a choice against truth. It is a preference for illusions of separation rather than the oneness of God’s Love. Our right mind knows and accepts only oneness. Dreams of separation only occur in a split off part of the mind, which chooses against truth.
As we affirm that we are here only to be truly helpful, we open our minds to the truth Holy Spirit teaches. When we choose Him as our Guide, God’s Love becomes our sole motivation. We want only to be Love and give Love.
With this practice, judgment is recognized as meaningless except to distinguish between the reality of Love and the unreality of any appearance of limitation or lack of Love. Under the Holy Spirit’s guidance, the body becomes a means to teach only Love and awaken to the Love we are. Our identification shifts from focus on the body to our true Self in the one Mind of Love.
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