What you think you are is a belief to be undone. But what you really are must be revealed to you. The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals.
You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift it from the body. You need a real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; more worthy of your faith, and really there.
…allow your mistaken thoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to take their place. Say, for example:
I am not weak, but strong.
I am not helpless, but all powerful.
I am not limited, but unlimited.Remember that all sense of weakness is associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 91, W-pI.91.6:7-10;7:2-4;8:2-7;9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)
When a thought is repeated over and over, it becomes a belief. But this belief does not influence our behavior until we have faith in it as true. It is only our faith in the belief that we are a body that makes the body seem to be real. We see this cycle of an idea becoming a belief and then given faith that it is real demonstrated over and over in our lives and the world.
The Course is training us to withdraw our faith in mistaken beliefs and let them go. The central belief that we are a body must be undone for us to see the truth that we are Love, an extension of God’s Love. Our faith in the body extends to what the body sees and hears. Yet we are giving faith to a belief in an illusion which denies the truth that we are one Self, united with our Creator.
The Workbook lessons direct us to repeat many times that we are not a body. As we have over learned the belief that we are a body, we need frequent reinforcement that this belief is not true. The lessons help us to experience the truth of What and redirect our faith to the fact that we are Love and nothing else.
The attributes of the body are no more true than the body. As we welcome the experience of our true Self, Its attributes become our reality. We are strong, all powerful and unlimited in Love. We claim this fact as we let Love’s vision replace the ego’s image-making. Let us join together in reinforcing this vision in ourselves and in every brother.
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