False Beliefs
Identify them and forgive them
Posted by aplecompte on October 30th, 2009
I want the peace and Love of God. For this I must train my mind, undo the ego by carrying the Holy Spirit's purpose of forgiveness before me. I want to listen to and follow His Guidance more and more. He will help me correct my perception and experience more miraculous glimpses of Oneness. I want to accept the Atonement for myself and to awaken to my true Identity as the Son of God.
Recently I was thinking that it would be beneficial to me, as I practice mind watching and forgiving, to be with my mighty companions, the Messengers of Peace, because they would help me bring my private thoughts and false beliefs to the light more rapidly than I can by myself. I see real value in joining with them in this way for the purpose of forgiveness.
The other day, however, I put off making a decision to spend time with the Messengers of Peace, because my wife told me she didn't want me to leave for longer than two weeks.
Now I am reflecting on my decision to put it off. “A decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe.” T-4.II.4 Your beliefs converge upon the body, the ego's chosen home, a mistake, an error in your self-appraisal. T-23.I.3
I have identified below some of my unquestioned beliefs, why they are false, and what the truth is.
I am a person I am not a person, a personality, or a self-concept. That is a fictional egoic construct maintained by misperception. I am the holy Son of God. I am still as God created me.
In a body The body is not real; it has lacks and needs and seems to sicken of itself. It is a fence against the truth, made to perpetuate separation, suffering and death. I am not a body; I am free. I am wholly and completely mind/spirit. I cannot suffer. There is no loss; there is no death.
Who is married Marriage is a meaningless concept; bodies cannot join. Only minds can join. All minds are joined.
As a husband/wife I dreamed a dream in which I was but a part of someone else’s dream. 28.II The fear of letting someone down, people-pleasing, is tied in with believing that I am part of their dream. Special relationships have assigned roles that serve as the ego’s primary way of making conflict. There is no gain in specialness, only loss. I do not have to compromise with dream figures because I am not in their dream; I am the dreamer of my dream.
To a man/woman An image onto which I project; an additional self-concept that I think will meet my lacks and needs and complete me. I am whole and complete. Through forgiveness I see the false as false and let it go. I recognize the holy innocence in my brother.
That I am committed to provide (and receive): The pre-determined roles are bound by reciprocity. Reciprocity is death. Giving to get is not real giving. It is tied to the belief in loss and sacrifice. Nothing real can be lost. I am sustained by the Love of God.
Emotional support The love we seem to share is special; hence it is not love but bargaining to maintain compromise and separation. My peace of mind is guaranteed by God. Only the Love of God is real. I feel the Love of God within me now.
Financial support Money is a valueless idol, the anti-Christ. Only what is eternal has value.
Exclusive sex and intimacy Exclusivity is special, private and separation from the Oneness of God. We are the same. Only the Thoughts of God can be shared.
S/he does not want me to go S/he is afraid, depends on me; feels s/he needs me here and that s/he would lose if I go. S/he mirrors the fears in my mind, which I have projected onto her/him. So I do not try to change her/him. I change my thoughts and s/he will mirror the new thoughts. As I focus on the truth and trust in the strength of God, the Holy Spirit will arrange everything so no one will lose.
I have a real choice about whether to stay or go Choices between specifics are meaningless. The script is written. My only real choice is the meaning I give to a situation. I give the Holy Spirit’s meaning of forgiveness to this situation. I ask for, listen to, and follow His Guidance.
The world is real There is no world. It is only fear projected, a dream of unreal effects. I am the dreamer of the dream. There is no causation in the world. My thoughts caused it. I can give it the purpose of the Holy Spirit, forgiveness, which is seeing the false as false. I can receive a miracle.
Time is real Linear time is a moment’s madness being replayed again and again in the sleeping mind. There is only Now. There is only eternal life.
I sinned by separating from God; I’m guilty and deserve punishment. The separation never was. I am sinless and guiltless. God loves me. His Will for me is perfect happiness for ever and ever.
Selections from the Instrument for Peace:
Through the ego (distorted thinking/seeing), I perceive the cause of my upset and its resolution as outside my mind. This projection seems very real; its purpose is to distract my mind from looking inward.
I am only upset at someone or something when they/it mirror(s) back to my mind a belief which I have denied from awareness. When I blame/fear something in the world, it is to avoid seeing the upset and resolution as they really are (a decision in my mind) and to instead maintain an image of self/other/the world as I wish. This mind trick seems to displace guilt and fear, but actually maintains feelings of upset. To blame or fear an image of self/other/the world requires that I believe I am limited to a body and world of bodies and denies the spiritual abstract reality of my being. As a first step in letting go of all upset, I want to see in my mind what I thought was outside it.
Everything in the world works together for my good. What I think is the cause of my upset is not the cause at all. The choice to be upset is a choice not to see the cause, my belief in separation/lack, as a present decision in my mind. It's an attempt to see the cause in the past/future and the present as its effect.
Peace of mind is a present decision which I gratefully choose RIGHT NOW! Guilt and fear of consequences only seemed possible because I was determined to hold on to a belief in past/future cause. I let go of the meaning I gave to the past/future and open my mind to the present, absolved and innocent.
I am grateful for the realization that the cause of my upset, which I thought was in the world, was actually only an unquestioned belief and decision in my mind; I have decided anew for my PEACE OF MIND.
Watching My Mind Tracing Back a Belief
Tags: Awakening, Body, Ego, Forgiveness, Guilt
