Day 140

Today's Lesson:

Only salvation can be said to cure.

"Cure" is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as beneficial. What the world perceives as therapeutic is but what will make the body "better." When it tries to heal the mind, it sees no separation from the body, where it thinks the mind exists. Its forms of healing thus must substitute illusion for illusion. One belief in sickness takes another form, and so the patient perceives himself as well.

He is not healed. He merely had a dream that he was sick, and in the dream he found a magic formula to make him well. Yet he has not awakened from the dream, and so his mind remains exactly as it was before. He has not seen the light that would awaken him and end the dream. What difference does the content of a dream make in reality? One either sleeps or wakens. There is nothing in between.

Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. For the mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms the dream may take. Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for it is but another form of guilt. Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. And that is cure indeed. For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.

There is no place where God is not. And therefore sin can have no home in which to hide from His beneficence. There is no place where holiness is not, and nowhere sin and sickness can abide. This is the thought that cures. It does not make distinctions among unrealities. Nor does it seek to heal what is not sick, unmindful where the need for healing is. This is no magic. It is merely an appeal to truth, which cannot fail to heal and heal forever.

Today we seek to change our minds about the source of sickness, for we seek a cure for all illusions, not another shift among them. We will try today to find the source of healing, which is in our minds because our Father placed it there for us. It is not farther from us than ourselves. It is as near to us as our own thoughts; so close it is impossible to lose. We need but seek it and it must be found.

We will not be misled today by what appears to us as sick. We go beyond appearances today and reach the source of healing, from which nothing is exempt. We will succeed to the extent to which we realize that there can never be a meaningful distinction made between what is untrue and equally untrue. Here there are no degrees, and no beliefs that what does not exist is truer in some forms than others. All of them are false, and can be cured because they are not true.

So do we lay aside our amulets, our charms and medicines, our chants and bits of magic in whatever form they take. We will be still and listen for the Voice of healing, which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the Son of God. No voice but this can cure. Today we hear a single Voice which speaks to us of truth, where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God.

With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts and listening minds we pray:

Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.

And we will feel salvation cover us with soft protection, and with peace so deep that no illusion can disturb our minds, nor offer proof to us that it is real. This will we learn today. And we will say our prayer for healing hourly, and take a minute as the hour strikes, to hear the answer to our prayer be given us as we attend in silence and in joy. This is the day when healing comes to us. This is the day when separation ends, and we remember Who we really are.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I can't help but remember the part in The Secret which has gotten so much criticism in various circles. It's the section on health and healing where the woman cured her breast cancer by truly believing it had never been in her body. Every day, many times a day, she said "Thank you for my healing," and pictured her cancer being bathed in white light. She watched funny movies and didn't let anything but positive thoughts into her mind. And her cancer was "cured" in three months.

There are so many people who believe that kind of thinking is dangerous. How could we possibly cure ourselves of disease? We need pharmaceutical companies and HMOs and medicines and drugs and potions and chemotherapy and radiation. I'm not saying those things don't have their place in the physical healing, but who's to say that people do not have the ability to heal by their minds as well? Today's lesson shows us that the mind is not part of the body. It is used to heal the body.

In three weeks I'm going to be attending Bob Proctor's certification training in Florida and some of the pre-work I've been doing has been studying what Bob calls the "stick man" theory. It was created by Thurman Fleet, a chiropractor in the 1930s. It shows the distinction between the conscious mind, the subconscious mind and the body. It is very similar to today's lesson in that it implies that the mind is not the brain, which so many people mistakenly believe. We can learn to change our minds and change our lives, which today's lesson also tells us when it refers to true healing.

I spoke yesterday to the tri-state IAAP convention participants (IAAP is International Association for Administrative Professionals) and it was an amazing experience. I felt like this was the best me I've been as far as my speaking engagements goes. As I learn to integrate what I'm learning here with the speeches I'm giving, I find that I'm much more effective and inspiring to my audiences. The speech was called "The 100% Factor: Ideas for Living Your Capacity" and it was based on my book The 100% Factor. I actually sold 50 books yesterday - the most at any one event to date, so I know there was something special about the entire experience; for me, and evidently for the audience.

I understand more all the time how what I learn from this course is practical and applicable to every single part of my life - personally and professionally and everywhere in between. Simply shifting my focus from fear to love has shown me time and again where the emphasis needs to be in my own life. As I live in that space more and more, I invite others to do the same. That will be my intention for the Bigger Small Talk Summit here in Fargo on June 27-28. Using open space technology, we will create an event where the participants set the agenda and everyone will get exactly what they intend. It will be exciting - and a chance to practice what we're learning here.

Miracles really are anywhere and everywhere - we just need to open our eyes to those possibilities.