ARE YOU AWARE YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH? What do you think healing is if it isn’t transformed Vision of everything youre already aware of, so that you can begin to see God there because you have abandoned your investment in all of the definitions you have given everything, including your body? QUESTION: For many years now, Ive had a serious life-threatening illness that has come in and out of my life, and in the last couple of years it has been particularly intense. Ive been a student of the Course for a good many years, and I understand pretty much what the material in the Course says about this. And although Ive tried to work with it, and although I know that its purely my own thoughts and my own mind, and that Im in total control of it, for some reason or another I have not been able to let go of it. And I need some help in being able to let go of it. ANSWER: Are you aware that youre not in control of your health? QUESTION: In what way? ANSWER: In any way. QUESTION: Who is? ANSWER: So, what is it you are in control of? QUESTION: Im in control of my thoughts, which affect my health... ANSWER: ....which block your experience of your health and seem to “create” blocks to the experience of your health. Your health is a birthright. Your perfection is a birthright. I do not mean “the process of birth.” I would put it this way: It is your inheritance. If you are the son of a king, you have an inheritance. It is in that sense that I am using the word “birthright.” It is your birthright to experience what you Are as Gods expression in Its absolute perfection. Now, all of you do seem to be in control of not your health, but your illnesses. You are in control of the blocks to your experience of your perfection. But none of you can control your body into health. Why? Because its perfection is beyond your control. You have nothing to do with its perfection. God does! You have no more control over its perfection than you have over your Individuality or your existence, because God does. But, by virtue of your thoughts, you can make your existence miserable. That is the only thing you can do by means of your thoughts—create disturbances, causing you to have distorted perceptions of the one and only thing going on, which is the Kingdom of Heaven and the Sons and Daughters of God. Why is this important? Why am I bringing this out? Because what you are not responsible for—in other words, what God is responsible for—has ascendancy over anything you think. It has authority over anything you think. Therefore, because Gods Self-expression is an expression of Gods Will, then your perfection, right here and right now, is constantly insisting upon being what you experience. It is very easy, from the metaphysics of the Course, or the metaphysics of any other metaphysical systems that are present, to begin to say, “Im creating my experience.” Well, no, you arent creating all of it. Youre only creating a distorted perception of something, a distorted perception of your experience. Your experience, God is in charge of. Your body, God is in charge of. Your world, God is responsible for. That means that what God has made insists on being recognized for what It is. Why is this important? Because, first of all, it relieves you of any personal sense of responsibility for your health. Secondly, it helps you to see that your ideas can create tensions and tightnesses and blockages that distort the actually undistortable presence of God—they distort your perception of the undistortable presence of God. So, the only thing you have control over is whether or not you are going to employ the thoughts, the judgments, the conclusions that havent arisen from a connectedness with God. Now, you did not create your body. None of you created your body. None of you, in other words, created the visibility and tangibility of the presence of your Individuality. God unidentified is God nonexistent. God and Gods expression—Gods extension—constitute the Wholeness of God. God identified constitutes God. You are that which identifies God. Conscious human Individuality is the visibility and tangibility, the experienceable Presence of God. God individualized, but not separated into many, constitutes your Individuality, and It cannot be invisible! It cannot be unexperienceable! And so there is that which you call “body” which is the visibility and tangibility of the presence of your Individuality, which is the presence of God expressed. Therefore, your body and everything you see, if seen truly, would be recognized as the Presence of God, incapable of functioning in Its infinity in a conflicted way. What you can choose to do is to not engage in any of the justifications you are employing for the on-goingness of this physical “problem.” You are not responsible for your health. You are not responsible for the existence of your body. You are responsible for any judgments you have toward your body, any misperceptions you have about your body. You are responsible for any negative thoughts about your body. You are responsible for any line of reasoning that causes you to say, “I deserve this because....,” followed by a long list of reasons. All of these things, which you and everyone else are responsible for, create disturbance because they are conflicted. And that disturbance stands between you and your experience of the perfection of God which is the only thing going on. It seems to distort the Presence of That which is really dominant, which really insists on being all there is because It really is All There Is. Therefore—and here is the reason I am spending this time bringing this out—the moment any of you begin to reduce your investment in your problem, reduce your investment in the thinking that seems to justify the problem and causes you to say, “I deserve it,” to the degree that you release the thinking that says, “I have no choice about this because my body is just a physical organism which arose out of the primordial ooze, which has nothing to do with God, and therefore Ive just got to go with the program,’” as you release, as you abandon, as you refuse to indulge in practicing these thoughts, you will experience healing. Why? Because you are reducing the resistance you are bringing to experiencing what is truly dominant. You are reducing the resistance to seeing what is Really going on right here as the visibility and tangibility or expression of God, which is absolutely indivisible and therefore expresses utter harmony, not conflict. What I want you to walk away from this Gathering being aware of is that what is Real right there where you see a body—the presence of God that is there—is insisting upon being your conscious experience. That means you are not responsible for creating health as though you are going against the tide of a physical body which doesn’t want to cooperate with the divine You. I want you to leave here, aware in very simple terms that your body is your ally. Why? Because its there to identify the presence of your Individuality perfectly! It is intent upon it, and has no other function. And that function is divine! The moment you really begin to invalidate your judgments and your concepts about your body which leave it outside the presence of God, you will find your body identifying your perfection, because its divine purpose is to express nothing else, and the Will of the Father lies underneath that insistence. The Will of the Father is the motivation of that insistence. That insistence of what? Of that body which is sitting right there! It is really very dangerous to your Sanity to believe that your body is an illusion. It is also dangerous to Your Sanity to believe that your body is real but it has nothing to do with God. What is unreal about your body are all of the conclusions you have come to about it which have not held it in the context of the Allness of God—all the fears you have about it, all of the distrust you have about it, coupled with the egos ongoing insistence that you don’t deserve unreasonable good, and that you do, for one reason or another, deserve what youre experiencing. These things are, as it says on the pack of cigarettes, “dangerous to your health!” You are here at this very moment with a divine ally, rather than “a hunk of flesh that really has no inclination whatsoever to cooperate with the divine Individuality you are because its really a physical evolutionary process that has nothing to do with God.” Your false beliefs are the illusory aspect of your experience of your body. If you truly want to experience your health, I encourage you to walk out of here at the end of the Gathering rejoicing that you are experiencing the presence of God, Whose Will it is to be expressed perfectly, flawlessly, without conflict—that your body means something divine. The Course states that all it takes is a little willingness. Not a strong conviction, just a little willingness to be open to the possibility that everything exists in the context of God. And that anything about the world you are seeing, or the body you are seeing, which seems not to reflect the perfection of God, is necessarily a distorted perception caused by thinking, reasoning, and coming to conclusions, all of which is based upon the belief that none of this has anything to do with God. When you are denying God where God is, you will experience dissonance. Its that simple. ~excerpt from Gathering with Raj/JESUS Princeville early 90s Conducted by the Northwest Foundation for ACIM nwffacim.wordpress Facebook: https://facebook/groups/183859725130360/
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