IX. Healing as Corrected Perception
1 I said before that the Holy Spirit is the Answer. He is the Answer to everything, because He knows what the answer to everything is. The ego does not know what a real question is, although it asks an endless number. Yet you can learn this as you learn to question the value of the ego, and thus establish your ability to evaluate its questions. When 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. Ask, rather, that the Holy Spirit teach you the right perception of the body, for perception alone can be distorted. Only perception can be sick, because only perception can be wrong.
I can hardly write this morning, I am so . . . something. I don’t know how to explain it. I feel peaceful, and happy and something else. I just want to sit here and stare at these words and feel gratitude. Then I notice the thought that I wonder if I am being judged by someone I know, and the thought that some other person is not what he pretends to be. I know that this is the mind that desires the ego separate self trying to reestablish dominance in my mind through judgment.
Then I notice thoughts about the past and I recognize this is more of the same. The ego mind perpetuates itself through recreating the past in the present and then projecting it into the future. At first I feel afraid because I remember how easy it is to follow these mental paths and I don’t want to lose what I have this morning. But then I remember that I choose, moment to moment, what I will experience. I let go of the fear and everything rights itself.
The questions were not in words this morning, but if I had expressed them in that way, the question might have been, “How can I sustain the beauty of this perfect moment?” If there were a question at all. The ego doesn’t answer questions, it simply reinforces guilt so as to reinforce itself. When I questioned the ego thoughts, I was asking the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit always answers. It reminded me of what I am and peace was reestablished. All of this without words, but very clear, none the less.
I absolutely understand and fully accept that the body is not the source of illness and so it makes no sense to ask that it be healed. I ask, instead, that my mind be healed of the sick thoughts that have been projected onto the body. Before I left for the workshop, I noticed that I had a cyst, and that I seemed to be getting congested.
I recognized this as resistance. I did not try to figure out what in my environment caused these problems, and what medicines I needed to take. I just asked that my mind be healed of the anxiety I was feeling about the upcoming trip. The symptoms vanished overnight. The thing that used to cause confusion for me is that serious symptoms seemed different to me than the mild symptoms.
I used to let fear of the symptoms cause me to look outward for the cause and for relief. The truth became apparent to me as I continued to work with the idea of suffering, pain and sickness. Over and over I proved to myself that the cause was in my mind, therefore, the solution must also be in my mind. As I have mentioned before, I use magic if I am unable to detach from the fear of the sickness enough to allow healing. I am not guilty for that, it is just where I was at that moment and something to take to Spirit for correction.
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