IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 4
4 How you wake is the sign of how you have used sleep. To whom did you give it? Under which teacher did you place it? Whenever you wake dispiritedly, it was not given to the Holy Spirit. Only when you awaken joyously have you utilized sleep according to His purpose. You can indeed be “drugged” by sleep, if you have misused it on behalf of sickness. Sleep is no more a form of death than death is a form of unconsciousness. Complete unconsciousness is impossible. You can rest in peace only because you are awake.
I am very aware that I can give my sleep the Holy Spirit, and sometimes I do this and sometimes I don’t. It would seem that I often forget to do this little thing and I remember only when I wake up dispirited that I could have rested in peace. Of course, I am well aware that I don’t “accidentally” forget to ask. If I don’t ask it is because I am holding this bit of self in a little corner of my mind, this hospital for pain. Being reminded that Spirit has a different use for my sleep, right now I am asking Him to remind me to do this.
Jesus has brought up the idea of resting in peace twice now. We have this crazy idea that death is peace and that to have peace we must first die. Death brings us nothing, because death is nothing. It is as much of an illusion as the world we see and the bodies we think of as our selves. The only way we will rest in peace is to allow the mind to be healed or as Jesus puts it, to accept the Atonement for ourselves.
Accepting the Atonement is the way out of the dream and the way to awaken. It is the way we are healed from sickness in all its forms; the sick mind, the sick relationship, the sick bank account, the sick body. The Atonement corrects the wrong minded perception and all is healed. Jesus also talks about being conscious and says that we are never completely unconscious.
We deliberately choose to ignore the guilt we feel is too fearful, and we deliberately choose to ignore our true self so that we can have this experience, but we cannot go completely unconscious. We know the guilt we bury and at the same time, we know what we are and so we know there is no guilt. How amazingly clever we are and what powerful creators we are.
We cannot hold the belief in guilt and the knowledge of our Divinity at the same time, so we dissociate from our Self and we bury and project the guilt. In order to return our mind to wholeness we must accept the Atonement (forgive) the guilt and our Divine Self will become immediately apparent to us because it has gone nowhere.
For such a long time I have perceived myself as small and frail, weak and vulnerable. At the best of times I have seen myself as less small and weak. And yet, I am the creation of God and I am created in His image. In my creation He gave me everything that He is. I am a divine being, eternal, powerful, and I am love. How likely is it that I am also a frail, sickly body, guilt ridden and fearful?
I remind myself often that I am the Son of God. When I feel like the ego, I ask for the Atonement for that thought, and my perception is corrected and I am healed. Without the fear, I ask with conviction, “What am I?” Slowly, fear is falling away and I am remembering what I planned all along to remember.
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