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ACIM Articles about Health and sickness

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28. Sickness is a belief that God is sick

Tuesday, Apr 18, 2017 666 words 2 mins 57 secs

A belief that sickness is real must be a belief that God is sick.

Sickness is an attempt to redefine God as less than whole; suffering, and preparing to die.

What we give reality to, or see truth in, becomes our perceived...

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27. Sickness is an attempt to make you one with the body

Tuesday, Apr 18, 2017 1353 words 6 mins 0 secs

The purpose of sickness is to make you and the body seem to be "one".

The ultimate goal of sickness, which is "death", is the attempt to fully unite who you really are with the body, so that when the body...

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26. Here's how I gave myself sickness, then undid it

Tuesday, Apr 18, 2017 800 words 3 mins 33 secs

Here's an example of how I gave myself a sickness.

I was thinking about Holy Spirit one day and about the fact that I thought of Him as separate from me. In my mind I had this sudden idea, what if...

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25. The psychological process of becoming sick

Tuesday, Apr 18, 2017 935 words 4 mins 9 secs

Jesus describes the process of becoming sick...

"Sickness is a decision. It is not a thing that happens to you, quite unsought, which makes you weak and brings you suffering. It is a choice you make, a plan you lay, when...

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24. Stop trying to figure out why you are sick

Monday, Apr 17, 2017 763 words 3 mins 23 secs

When your attempt at healing asks "what is wrong with me?" .... you know you're on the wrong track, because you're actually trying to find something wrong with you.

The truth can NEVER be that there is something wrong with you....

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23. If sickness is real then God must be sick

Sunday, Apr 16, 2017 658 words 2 mins 55 secs

If sickness is real, and given that God is the author of Reality, it would have to mean that God created the sickness. And since God is Reality, this would mean that God Himself IS the sickness.

The belief that sickness...

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22. Why we create sickness and how to reverse it

Saturday, Apr 15, 2017 670 words 2 mins 58 secs

"Sickness is a decision. It is not a thing that happens to you, quite unsought, which makes you weak and brings you suffering. It is a choice you make, a plan you lay, when for an instant truth arises in...

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21. Sickness defends us against the truth

Friday, Apr 14, 2017 621 words 2 mins 45 secs

From "Sickness is a defense against the truth", Lesson 136:

"No one can heal unless he understands what purpose sickness seems to serve. For then he understands as well its purpose has no meaning. Being causeless and without a meaningful intent...

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20. Sickness defends against a misperception of truth

Friday, Apr 14, 2017 274 words 1 mins 13 secs

"Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up a series of defenses to reduce the threat that has been judged as real? All this cannot be done unconsciously. But afterwards, your plan requires that you...

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19. Be careful of the desire to heal sickness

Thursday, Apr 13, 2017 274 words 1 mins 13 secs

When you are sick or someone is sick or has any other problem, you need to be careful about your desire to heal it.

Having perceived something that you think is real, you WILL have a reaction to it. The reaction...

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18. Sickness must go because it is an illusion

Monday, Apr 10, 2017 322 words 1 mins 25 secs

"Sickness is a defense against the truth." - ACIM

Truth is divine perfect health. Truth is love. Truth is God.

When there is an unforgiving attitude, it produces sickness because it is an attack on yourself.

Sickness isn't a "thing". It doesn't have...

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17. Overcoming reactions to people who are sick

Sunday, Apr 09, 2017 807 words 3 mins 35 secs

I have a number of reactions regarding those who are sick.

All of these reactions entail me feeling sorry for the person, or wishing they were well, or being sad that this has happened to them.

I have reactions of guilt that...

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16. Sickness is not truth

Tuesday, Apr 04, 2017 150 words 0 mins 39 secs

Sickness is not truth.

Even if it seems to be true that someone is sick, even if there is evidence for it, or explanations that describe why it is occurring. It is still not the truth.

Even if there are trained medical...

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15. Overcoming a pain in the hand

Wednesday, Mar 29, 2017 1083 words 4 mins 48 secs

If there is a pain in my hand, and if I believe there is a pain in my hand, I will begin to experience reactions about the pain.

This is simply because I see there being some kind of causality coming...

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14. Overcoming the temptation to diagnose a thumb pain

Thursday, Dec 15, 2016 604 words 2 mins 41 secs

Recently I've seen how it is detrimental to spend a lot of time trying to diagnose problems or to even understand what is happening. But this was mainly in the realm of what's happening with other people. Now I've come...

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13. Let's get really honest about mental illness

Wednesday, Nov 30, 2016 1156 words 5 mins 8 secs

When you perceive that something is 'wrong' with someone else, and that this wrongness does not apply to you, you are SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL.

When you perceive that what applies to another person, due to their apparent separate free will and...

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12. Seeking outside yourself produces sickness

Wednesday, Nov 02, 2016 314 words 1 mins 23 secs

When Jesus speaks of 'sickness' in ACIM, he doesn't just refer to what we think of as sickness.

You see, to Him, sickness occurs because of some very very fundamental things happening. e.g. "seeking outside yourself" produces sickness". e.g. "confusing the...

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11. The only disease is fear

Sunday, Oct 30, 2016 329 words 1 mins 27 secs

Fear is the opposite of love.

Fear isn't just what it feels like when you are typically afraid or scared or worried or doubting or anxious or nervous. Fear can be subtle.

Fear is any belief whatsoever that anything other than God's...

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10. Stop trying to analyze and diagnose sickness, just heal it

Tuesday, Oct 18, 2016 721 words 3 mins 12 secs

What is more important?

To spend huge amounts of time studying and analyzing sickness to try to describe all the ways that it is behaving and all the possible causes and all the remedies that may or may not work, only...

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9. The body being a cause is a belief in sickness

Thursday, Oct 06, 2016 599 words 2 mins 39 secs

"The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms. Physical illness represents a belief in magic"

Interesting huh. Jesus isn't saying that some illnesses are caused by a belief in the body having...

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