7. SHOULD HEALING BE REPEATED? P 1
1 This question really answers itself. Healing cannot be repeated. If the patient is healed, what remains to heal him from? And if the healing is certain, as we have already said it is, what is there to repeat? For a teacher of God to remain concerned about the result of healing is to limit the healing. It is now the teacher of God himself whose mind needs to be healed. And it is this he must facilitate. He is now the patient, and he must so regard himself. He has made a mistake, and must be willing to change his mind about it. He lacked the trust that makes for giving truly, and so he has not received the benefit of his gift.
Journal
Oh my, I have fallen prey to this particular error more than once. I have prayed for someone and then returned to worrying about him or her. In the moment of prayer, my faith and trust were strong, and the gift was given, the healing was accomplished. But then I would begin to hear the ego voice warning of discouraging things to come, and pointing to effects that seem to indicate failure, and I would get sucked back into the story and become uncertain.
The result is that the healing was not complete. It was not complete because I did not receive my healing. When we give, we always receive. In returning to doubt and fear, I blocked my own gift. When that happens the only thing to do is to consider myself as patient, and my own mind that requires correction.
In Chapter 8 of the Text, it says this.
Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone. You are merely asked to evaluate them in terms of their results to you. If you do not want them on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you.
My uncertainties and doubts will be removed from my mind, simply because this is my desire. The only reason I sometimes forget this is because I forget who I am. I am not this body/personality ego construct I often identify with; I am the Son of God, and the strength of God is in me and working through me as I decide to use it. So when I truly desire a false thought to be removed from my mind, it must be done.
And why would I ever not want the belief in my littleness removed? Why would I hang onto doubt and fear? Clearly, I think it holds value. The most insane value placed on keeping my ego self intact is that on some level I think that it is protecting me from God. It is an insane desire because I exist in the Mind of God and so how could I be protected from God and why would I need it even if it could be accomplished. This is just the hallucination of a mind driven mad by fear. I do not want these thoughts anymore for they cost me the peace of God.
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