There is an much ‘mulled over’ process in acim called, ‘Rules for Decision’. Has Made Many a Devout Course Student Quite Crazy. Once this process is ‘Experienced’… it will never need to be mulled over again… Just Lived… and this process is very simple…
‘Rules for Decision”, appears to ‘rankle’ many. So I offer a ‘visual’ interpretation of it to aid in clarity. I have been ‘attempting’ to get a U-Tube up regarding this subject… many opportunities to laugh at my self as I have to ‘once again’, learn how to ‘down/up load a u-tube’…. Utilizing the rules for decision the Entire Time!!
So here is my take on Decision Making… sort of like Dr. Seuss interpreting acim…
Our One assignment is to ‘remove all attack’ from our thoughts. This allows for Me to SEE and HEAR GOD.
Once I Am Hearing and Seeing God… For My Self…I also am finding that I Am Living ‘the Happy Dream’ … Happy for No Apparent “reason”, kind of ‘happy’.
So an attack thought is any ‘thought’ that is not Joyfull making.
thoughts like…
“I hate _____”; “I need to get healthy”; “I am sick”; “so and so is making me crazy”; “I am going to die”; “The world is in trouble”; “I need to loose ____ pounds’; ‘Assholes!’…
…You get the Gist… Thoughts that can Never give Birth to “Happy”…
So when I can ‘catch my self ‘ thinking something like the above… I STOP immediately. I Go Back… I stay with that thought… I ask my self…Will that thought truly bring happiness… lets check…
“I am sick”… happy?… no…. Great… you caught one of the Blocks to Seeing Yourself as Only Love. Love can never be sick… suffering is Always ‘ego’… and we cannot serve two masters… cannot use My God Mind and my ego mind at the same time… cannot suffer and Extend Light.
Now there is an action step in my mind…AND… I often will say it out loud… helps me to ‘hear my self’…
I go to God and ask, “I Am Created from Love, that believed in ‘a separation’, that is now telling me “I am sick”…Help me See this differently!”…. Pause…
Now ‘my Trust in God’ may be tested. Healing is immediate and never needs to be repeated…I will often ‘repeat the above with the same ‘thought’ ….I do this to ‘re-establish’ My Trust in God… I Connect with God… God NEVER goes away… I do…
The Fabulous News… this once ‘not happy thought’ was my access to Connect With God. So I am using ‘time’… to build my ‘thinking muscle With God” instead of being used by my ego and continuing to ‘be dis-eased’.
As I Clear all of the ‘not happy’ thoughts’… (If you are having difficulty in identifying a ‘not happy’ thought… again refer to above list to stimulate a ‘list for your self’… lololo…. And back to the process of Rules for Decision…
I Clear all of the ‘not happy’ thoughts With GOD…and this just appears to be ‘ongoing’… and it is much easier to handle them… I now Know How… seriously… say it out loud WITH GOD … I ask to See All thoughts through the Eyes of Love. To See my current ‘not happy’ thoughts and Create ‘Happy’….
This is the ‘miracle’ that acim refers to…my ability to change my mind. To take an ‘unhappy thought’ and go to God…asking to See this differently. This entire process is called“Forgiveness”.
So that’s it from ‘my version of whoville’…. Practice, Practice, Practice… Much Love All!! Xoxox