⁵When the ego tempts you to sickness do not ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body, for this would merely be to accept the ego’s belief that the body is the proper aim of healing. ⁶Ask, rather, that the Holy Spirit teach you the right _perception_ of the body, for perception alone can be distorted. ⁷Only perception can be sick, because only perception can be wrong.
Wholeness heals because it is of the mind. ²All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. ³They are attempts to reinforce sleeping out of fear of waking.
Healing is release from the fear of waking and the substitution of the decision to wake. ²The decision to wake is the reflection of the will to love, since all healing involves replacing fear with love. ³The Holy Spirit cannot distinguish among degrees of error, for if He taught that one form of sickness is more serious than another, He would be teaching that one error can be more real than another. ⁴His function is to distinguish only between the false and the true, replacing the false with the true.
⁶Yet sickness is not of the body, but of the mind. ⁷All forms of sickness are signs that the mind is split, and does not accept a unified purpose. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.IX.1:5-7;3:1-3;5;8:6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The body is a key tool the ego uses to convince us that we are separate, alone and vulnerable to outside forces we cannot control. Here we are being told that the body is absolutely controlled by the mind. If we had not chosen specialness over Love’s oneness in our mind, the body would not seem to exist al all. That is why forgiveness of the wish for specialness in its many different forms is the way out of sickness and return to sanity. It is the way from fear to Love.
The key to correction of our perception of this world is offered us in every moment by the Holy Spirit. With His help, we can change our mind and change our world. Because we have invested heavily in the belief in separation, there is much resistance to changing our mind.
In any moment when there is willingness to let our perception be corrected, He will help us heal the misperception. We take another step closer to accepting the Life we live in God. The Holy Spirit does not ask anything of us that will increase our fear. But He will gently and lovingly guide us to a new way of seeing. He leads us past our misperceptions to the true perception that we are Love and nothing else.
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