HEALING OF THE MIND ALSO MEANS HEALING OF THE BODY BY PRACTICING THE PRINCIPLES OF A COURSE IN MIRACLES (Part 1 of 2) So something had happened [to me] due to taking A Course In Miracles—somewhere between Lesson 70, 75-80, around in there. Ive never wanted to just specify the exact lesson. But somewhere in that general range, something happens to our level of consciousness that makes us immune to the things that affect ordinary people. Somewhere around Lesson 75-80, around in there is the Lesson, that you are only subject to what you hold in mind. It would seem after all the years on the planet, when you believed the opposite, to spend one day on that lesson should have such a profound effect. Seems almost unreasonable. So Ive always assumed its due to the progression. Starting from Lesson 1 and going all the way to Lesson 85 or so, has a profound effect. In other words, I doubt just picking out the one critical lesson and working on that would have the same effect. Theres something about the fact that we chose this Course. That we were led to this Course. There must be a certain readiness that saw to it that this Course came into our life. So that would be the first thing. And then we went thru Lesson 1 up to whatever Lesson it is where that critical change takes place. So we have two different belief systems. The mind is so powerful, it will overpower everything you see. The belief that this (holds up Sweet n Low) will make you weak, will make you weak. The belief you are immune to anything except what you hold in mind will make this ineffectual. It has no affect on somebody who has transcended that thought. Using Kinesiology then, you can demonstrate the truth of that Lesson that says were subject only to what we hold in mind. This means that we are in danger nowhere in the universe except everywhere (laughs) unless weve taken A Course In Miracles. So if you havent taken the Course, youre in danger everywhere. . right? (more laughter) Once youve taken the Course, this great profound lesson—its one of the major lessons to me, in the Course—is that your subject only to what you hold in consciousness. Therefore, by looking at your life, you can tell what youre holding in consciousness. You look at your life, its quite obvious what youre holding in consciousness. Because whats manifesting in your life is what youve been believing. If you want something different to manifest in your life, all we have to do is change our belief system. And of course, the Course is a magnificent course in doing just that—in changing our thought systems. As we were saying this morning at breakfast, until you get rid of your mind, the best thing you can do is correct it. (laughter) Eventually you see the mind is also a belief system and you let it go. But, until you do . . . I love this book: Youre Mind can Drive you Crazy. (more laughter) So literally thats what it is then, it’s our mind that drives us crazy. Its not anything in our environment, its not what anybody else does or thinks or says. Its what we, ourselves, are holding in mind. That means that we can correct it. That means that we can heal any condition of the human body. Its my belief, and my clinical experience [as a doctor] that you can heal anything, any illness; any problem of the human body by strictly following the Courses principles and applying them in a consistent manner. Some things alleviate instantly and other things take a little time I suppose, depending upon so many different factors. I myself had just about every ailment in the textbook. When I went thru medical school, I imagined I had all these ailments (laughter) that we studied, I imagined I had it. I had medical studentitis. (more laughter) We got everything we were holding in mind. But then, after coming into A Course In Miracles, all the ailments that I had, by that I mean, in medical school I imagined I hadem, by the time I was fifty, I actually had them. That’s the only difference. By fifty all the things that I thought I had in medical school, I actually had. I had so many ailments by the time I got to A Course In Miracles that I cant remember them all. And I used to carry a 3 x 5 card covered on both sides with all the ailments I had at the same time. Now what I can remember of all them, starting from top to bottom: from dandruff to atheletes feet, hitting everything in between: I had an active duodenal ulcer, I had soffagitis and bronchitus. I had diverticulitus. I had gout, elevated cholesteral and I had severe hypoglycemia. I had migraine headaches. I had a whole variety of bizzaire diseases not too familiar to the public leading to gangrene of the fingertips, rhenos disease, vibration disease, impaired circulation. I had a middle-age syndrome--at age fifty I was cold, male menopausal—was cold all the time; libido disappeared—forget it, my hair was falling out. I wore bifocals and we were going to trifocals at the time I came onto the Course. We were advancing from bifocals to trifocals. Uhh, I had all kinds of allergies, poisen ivy, for instance, I had it every year, in fact I had poison ivy so bad Ive been in the hospital twice with it. Severe migraine headaches which really impaired my functioning. Couldnt eat poppy seeds, couldnt eat starch, couldnt eat rolls, couldnt eat sugared foods, couldnt eat meats couldnt eat bread. Because of the gout all those things were trouble, and with the elevated cholesterol, forget butter and seasonings. I eliminated one class of foodstuffs after another and then with the allergies that were left which cancelled things like milk and all, I really ate very little and so I was quite thin at the time (laughter) No caffeine of course and I didnt drink coffee for fifteen years. And then I started A Course In Miracles. Id also had a severe tragedy in my family life and was quite depressed on top of all of that. Who wouldnt be with all those ailments anyway [laughter] and a loss of a family member is of course another severe disruption in ones life . the disruption of the family and a marriage of many years also. So all this was happening at the same time. External causes for depression; internal causes--enough unconscious guilt to kill a horse, and uh, all that unconscious guilt manifesting itself through all these ailments. I knew nothing about metaphysics, consciousness, all this was all strange new territory. I was a left-brained scientist; a skeptic! Right-brained phenomena to me was airy-fairy and bizarre and. . uh. . unnatural (laughter). And of course, unscientific. So, I was a scientist, a skeptic and a clinician. Also I was a pragmatist and I still am to this day. I only believe what I see, witness or experience myself. And I was never too impressed by book learning. So, heres this skeptical pragmatist with all these ailments and life is collapsing around him and he came upon something called A Course In Miracles. Well, the effect of the Course was spectacular. Within ninety days, the depression disappeared. And then, as I got further into the Course, all these ailments began to disappear. One by one . . every single one of them has eliminated itself. The hypoglycemia disappeared—I had it really severe, so severely I couldnt get off the couch, in fact, nor could I drive home the day I had the five-hour glucose tolerance test but I did have hypoglycemia. In hypoglycemia, what I cancelled was the belief system. I turned it over to God and asked for a miracle. And, the hypoglycemia disappeared. I had cervical arthritis and impairment of the vertebrae in the neck and that triggers a lot of headaches—in between the migraines, I just had ordinary headaches. (laughter) with cervical arthritis and a displaced 4th cervical vertebrae which showed up on X-ray—its supposed to be lined up neat in a curve, and this showed it was waaaay out. It was supposedly impinging on nerves and triggering reflex headaches. I had cervical arthritis so bad I went to the chiropractor two or three times a week regularly. I had my standing appointments at the chiropractor to keep my neck from twisting too badly. And, so thats the kind of life I lived. Staggering from day to day. When the cervical arthritis disappeared, the X-rays showed the vertebrae had gone back into place. Now I havent seen a chiropractor in quite some time. So without any particular treatment except disco dancing, which I recommend for curing conditions of that kind, I found in disco dancing, I could feel the vertebrae beginning to snap back into place. Also I didnt dance, you see that was something else I did after I got in A Course In Miracles. Thats right . . another condition I forgot: non-dancing was another condition I came across. In our society, you had to dance once in awhile, and I hated dancing. I avoided weddings and all because the women would grab you by the arm and say cmon, lets dance Aw Gawd I hated it. So thats another miracle I forgot about: Dancing. Well, I recommend disco dancing plus A Course In Miracles to cure cervical arthritis and scoliosis and all those things that affect the spine, because the spine cured itself and, of course, the gout disappeared. I remembered the day the gout disappeared. All these illnesses were beginning to disappear. Some days I would just wake up in the morning knowing they were gone. I would just wake up knowing it. It had nothing to do with thinking, figuring or reasoning. I just woke up as though it had happened and I just knew it was now gone. So anyway, these ailments began to disappear one by one. The allergies disappeared. The diverticulitus took a little longer. It took maybe a year. I kept canceling the idea. The diverticulitus is a belief system. All these things are belief systems. Were heavily programmed by television and the media to believe in them—the medical profession of course, I used to program people into believing these things and in so doing, of course, I programmed myself into believing these things. Overcoming these belief systems sometimes takes some conscious effort. You ask for a miracle, you cancel the belief, you can picture it as something on a blackboard—you can write whatever ailments youve got on the blackboard in your mind—you erase it, and you ask for a miracle. And of course in the mean time, youre busy with the work of forgiveness. You’re working on your willingness to forgive. Because the unconscious guilt, of course is what brings the illness, is what makes the illness manifest. The form of the illness is usually from some chance remark. For example: It runs in our family—we Williams’ are all allergic. To a three-year old, that is already a program. All he has to do is hear it once . .Everybody in our family is allergic! Being a good kid, he cooperates. He immediately becomes allergic. [laughter] after all hes one of the family. You think he wants to feel separated—the only kid without allergies in the family? [more laughter] Allergies are very programmable. In fact Ive never seen an allergy that wasnt just a program. There is no such thing as an allergy that cant be eliminated by A Course In Miracles. All the allergies disappeared. The diverticulitus disappeared. The ulcer disappeared. The hyperacidity disappeared— lets see I forgot the whole part of the gastrointestinal tract didnt I—well thats the delicate part [laughter] There were some delicate problems also going down the GI tract going into the other—in fact these structural problems were scheduled for surgery. And taking the Course and eliminating the beliefs,, those structural changes which are supposedly only healed by surgery also cleared up. So from one end of the gastrointestinal tract to the other, everything cured. I also had the belief system that smoking gives you smokers cough, right? One day I was coughing as usual, from cigarettes, and it suddenly hit me—I saw the advertisement about T-zone for smokers cough remedy, etc. So, I had my choice, either give up smoking or give up the belief system in coughing [laughter] as they had these injurious affects on your life. So I said (to myself) which would I rather do? So I gave up the idea that cigarettes had an injurious effect on your health and the smokers hack disappeared. So this is the way we let one thing go after another. One day I was in a class and I was talking about getting rid of all these ailments, how the Course had eliminated all these ailments, from athletes foot to the middle-age syndrome and all these things and going down my disease list as usual, and one lady in the class said, well, if you got rid of all those things then, how can you still wear glasses? So, I had never thought of that myself, Id never thought of glasses as an ailment, Id only always thought of structural defects of the body; eyeballs too long or too short--I forget which [huge laughter] whatever it is . its some structural, anatomical impairment of the eyeball, the lens. . something . I dont know, who cares about it. So anyway, I had worn glasses my entire life since I was a child. and as I said, they were getting stronger and in middle age, both of your eyes get worse, so mine did, [laughter] I had to get new lenses every six months. As I said we went from reading glasses to bi-focals and now we were about to hit tri-focals and so, because this lady had said that, I said, Well, I had never thought of that to tell you the truth, I never thought of wearing glasses as some kind of impairment But in an instant, I suddenly saw it was a whole belief system. So I took my glasses off and I put them in my pocket and that was about 1980-81 somewhere in there and Ive never put them on since. Well, it was an interesting experience. It was an interesting experience . . because I put the glasses away. for some peculiar reason I never put them on . . and as I walked out of the class that night I couldnt see anything. [huge laughter] That was the first problem of not wearing glasses, was not being able to see . [more laughter] . . between nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism all in one bag, I could barely see my hand in front of my face. I remember walking out and not being able to see the car . . but I remembered where the car was. . and by feel . .I went ahead and got in and then a peculiar phenomena began to happen. I could see only what I needed to see. I couldnt see what I wanted to see. I could only see what I needed to see and I could only see it when I needed to see it. Not beforehand. I noticed as I got in the car I could see where to put the key. I noticed that I could see what I needed to see to drive. I could see the curve just when I needed to see the curve. But not any sooner. Now, Sedona is in the mountains. [laughter] And theres thousand-foot drop-offs from these switchbacks [huge laughter] . .now here Im driving around the mountains and I was frightened. frightened. Simply just to walk around without your glasses alone, if youve never worn glasses, you probably wouldnt know what to do. But you develop an unconscious dependency on these glasses -- jest to walk around without your glasses is already frightening. Then you top it off without not being able to see it becomes doubly frightening. And then youre trying to drive on top of it . [laughter] But I noticed, that as I got to the edge of the cliff, for instance, I would see the curve just in time to. .to not go off the cliff. Several times we came very close [huge laughter] Couple times we came within an inch of going off the cliff. So as I say, there is no order of difficulty in miracles -- an inch is as good as a mile [laughter] To Spirit, an inch is a mile – what’s the difference! I didnt go off the cliff and that was all He was arranging. So I could see what I needed to see. Continued... ~excerpts from a talk given by Dr. David Hawkins, M.D., 1983 transcribed by me (Cosmic) in 1985 with permission to share at the time of transcription presented by The Bridgebuilders Coleman Graphics, 99 Milburn Blvd, Farmingdale, N.Y.
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