An application in Miracles (ACIM) clearly points out how perception and choice are very closely linked together. As long as we perceive error, the tendency is to continue to choose error through judgment thereby making error more real. We are getting to choosing awareness, placing judgment on identical results, and finally judging those results as being real as well. All of this leads us back to perception and choice and to start the cycle once again.
As you perceive, you judge and project; and as you judge and project, you perceive back. Having perceived the judgments and projections back with you, you will now judge those and project them outward until you perceive the results back. The ego knows no other way. It is a continuous judgmental cycle until you choosed to break it; and yes, there is a way to do just that. There is one obvious choice off the merry-go-round, and it is so simple you will scratch your head in wonder you had not thought of it prior to this.
Choice remains hard to bear because if you make choices that further the error, or take you deeper into the illusion, it seems since you are merely making choices between the lessor of two evils. That's because you are merely choosing between the sides of the wrong mind. The ego has a "wrong" and "right" side but neither is the true Right Mind of the Holy Spirit. If there was ever a new Year's resolution worth keeping, it would be: Stop judging and turn them over to the Holy Spirit for a static correction instead.
The Tiny Loony Idea:
The original spliting up is considered a "tiny loony idea" whereby you thought which you were separated from source. a course in miracles This is also called "the error" and is the original choice for judgment of the ego. Already down that road in the mind, it becomes another layer any time you judge the consequences, or identical effect, from the error as cause. Therefore every time you judge what you see or what is happening in the world, and you choosed to believe the ego about it, you are choosing the error as cause once again. Identical effects show up which reinforce your belief in error.
These judgments further divide out the split mind instead of returning it to peace. Hence, this is why is seems like you are choosing between the lessor of two evils with neither one really being "less". The error has not occurred and only seems real because of your choice of internal Teacher. Choosing the ego is like choosing a turning door with only one exit.
ACIM says there is no order of difficultly in miracles and that means there is no order of difficulty in choices. One is exactly the same as the next, handled in precisely the same manner. Every problem is equal because they all establish from the same cause. An individual think one is harder because of your belief and addition to it as being more real than another.
The choice Maker:
The fastest way to turn choice from an hard to bear phenomena one of illusion is to use your decision maker, or onlooker, to choose differently. Actually, if you wanted to earn a judgment with ego, there is only one appropriate choice to make: Go for your decision maker to choose with ego and in favor of the Holy Spirit. It's such enormous power when harnessed and used to choose instead for the truth.
Using the decision maker can be difficult to understand without request. It is an action-oriented mechanism of using, or choosing. That really is its big secret and now you know it. You have to do the work of choosing. Reading these ideas is not enough. Request is everything. Simply be willing to learn how. You will make mistakes, but so what? We all do. Try again.
Think of the ego like a coin system in a can. Every time you listen to and believe an ego judgment, you put a coin in the can for that subject because you chose it. Continue on doing this, and you will fill the can until stuffed. Step back into unbiased, which is the choice maker, and grow willing to turn over those judgments to the Right Mind for a static correction, and you actually spend a coin from the can instead.
Stay in the unbiased decision maker, or onlooker, and wait out the tantrum of the ego. It is merely an indication of how much you have used that system of the thought system. Don't act on it! The ego pays all of those other can of coins trying to get you back into the judgments. You don't have to do anything except be willing and actually give them everything you hear to the Right Mind via the choice making capability. You are choosing between the sides of the split mind. That is choice as an illusion.
Forgiveness:
Outstanding the process and the ego runs its race and then, if you've not re-invested in the judgments, a static correction occurs. You will know you have received it because of the peace, love, joy and freedom associated with it. That subject is now gone forever.
Precisely what it takes to make an option for love, forgiveness, a static correction, healing, true perception and God. The Holy Spirit, the voice for God, takes care of it all if you are simply willing, and actually do the work of turning over to Him anything you no longer want: The ego's judgments. You cannot heal what you keep hidden so for heaven's welfare, just do it-- realize it and turn it over to the Holy Spirit. Only the ego family court judges.
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