IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 5
5 Healing is release from the fear of waking and the substitution of the decision to wake. The decision to wake is the reflection of the will to love, since all healing involves replacing fear with love. The 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. His function is to distinguish only between the false and the true, replacing the false with the true.
What stands out to me is that all healing involves replacing fear with love. I was thinking about feeling sick, and it doesn’t matter “how” sick. Headache or cancer, it is all the same. Sickness is scary because it triggers the fear that I am just this frail body and subject to pain, suffering and death. It may only be a headache today, but maybe it will be a brain tumor tomorrow. This is the fear inherent in sickness and the reason they are all the same. Sickness says that I am endangered and I am not eternal.
When I ask the Holy Spirit to decide for me what this headache means, I understand that sickness is not true because it is not God’s Will. He reminds me that God is Love and therefore cannot be sickness. I am in God and like God therefore I am safe. I rest in the truth of what I am. I have done this and I have proven to myself that if I accept the truth in place of the false, the fear is replaced by love and what I have done is undone. I have seen that I will not have what I don’t believe in.
I have had migraines that simply disappeared when I reminded myself of the truth. Pain is not God’s Will so it can’t be true. I let the belief in pain go to the Holy Spirit to be removed from my mind and there was nothing in my mind to project the headache onto my body. I have done the same thing with other sickness and pain.
Not every time does it work so easily. What prevents me from accepting the Holy Spirit’s healing? Sometimes I have use for the pain. Maybe the headache is preferable to what I would have to be doing instead. Maybe the pain or sickness has a significant hold on me, perhaps I believe in the sickness more than I believe in the cure. Maybe the sickness is a punishment for a perceived wrong, the antidote to guilt.
Regardless of the faulty reasoning, I can undo what I have done very simply if I will be willing to bring these dark thoughts to the light. Light always dissipates darkness. Love always replaces fear if that is my true desire. This is as true for other forms of error. If I become afraid about finances, the fear is overcome by love when I remember that lack is not God’s Will so it cannot be true. Special relationships are painful and there is much fear in them, and yet, when given to the Holy Spirit for healing, they become holy, loving and joyful, relationships.
In every case, the answer is the same. Is it true? Is it love? If not, it cannot be real and I can disregard the appearance of reality. If I see something that cannot be true, I must be looking at an illusion projected from a confused mind. It is the mind that needs correction, not the circumstances and I have within me the solution to this problem.
The Holy Spirit will respond to the slightest invitation to heal. He doesn’t look at the circumstances and decide how much effort it will take to undo it, He just knows that if it is not true and loving it is not God and therefore does not exist. As I accept His judgment I am healed.
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