[acimlessons_list] Lesson 137--May 17

Mon May 16 06:12:07 EDT 2005

Lesson 137

"When I am healed I am not healed alone."

PRACTICE SUMMARY

PURPOSE: To let your mind be healed, that you may send healing to the
world, aware that you and the world are healed as one.

LONGER: 2--morning and evening for 10 minutes

* Say: "When I am healed I am not healed alone. And I would share my
healing with the world, that sickness may be banished from the mind of
God's one Son, Who is my Self."

* Then rest in quiet. And as you rest, receive the Word of God to
replace all your insane thoughts, and be prepared to give it to the
world, to bless your brothers across the world.

REMARKS: This exercise will prepare you for the hourly remembrances.

SHORTER: every hour on the hour for 1 minute

Remember your function of letting your mind be healed so that you may
extend healing to the world. Say: "When I am healed I am not healed
alone. And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them,
as they are healed with me."

REMARKS: Is it not worth a minute to receive the gift of everything?

COMMENTARY

Although this lesson has a great deal to say about healing in general,
its primary message is that healing, which is our function in the world,
is essentially a phenomenon that is shared, and that to heal <is> to
share. Healing restores oneness. "Those who are healed become the
instruments of healing" (11:1).

"Sickness is a retreat from others, and a shutting off of joining"
(1:3). It is isolation (2:1). Healing reverses that; it is a move toward
others, a joining, and a union. The healing being spoken of in this
lesson is a healing of the mind, and not necessarily of the body. "Our
function is to let our minds be healed, that we may carry healing to the
world, exchanging...separation for the peace of God" (13:1).

Whatever the state of my body, it cannot interfere with this function.
My body cannot restrain or limit my mind. "Minds that were walled off
within a body [become] free to join with other minds, to be forever
strong" (8:6). My task today, and every day, is to allow my mind to be
healed, and to allow healing to flow through my mind to other minds,
carrying healing to the world. That can occur whatever state my body is
in. I do not normally realize how powerful my mind is, and how extensive
the effects of its healing can be. "And as you let yourself be healed,
you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch
or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you"
(10:1).

As I open my mind to healing today, I realize that whatever the state of
my body, "what is opposed to God does not exist" (11:3). When I refuse
to accept sickness as my reality, my mind "becomes a haven where the
weary can remain to rest" (11:3). Sickness is just a special case of "I
am my body." So what we are called on to do is not just to refuse the
limitations of sickness, but to refuse the limits of the body
altogether. Today, I choose to let "thoughts of healing...go forth from
what is healed to what must yet be healed" (12:6). I set aside some
time, ten minutes in the morning and evening, and a minute every hour,
to give my mind over to its function of sharing healing thoughts with
the world. "Reach out to all your brothers, and touch them with the
touch of Christ" (T-13.VI.8:2).

Today, I want to let healing be through me (15:1). I want to be a
channel, a channel of blessing to the world. What other purpose could
bring me such joy?

    COMMENTARIES ON LESSONS FROM THE WORKBOOK OF A COURSE IN MIRACLES
    by Allen Watson, with Practice Summaries by Robert Perry
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