Not of the Body

Yet sickness is not of the body, but of the mind.  All forms of sickness are signs the mind is split, and does not accept a unified purpose.
ACIM-T-8:IX:8:6-7

What the heck does that mean?


We may ask that question upon reading those words. How could this belly ache, this stroke, this cancer or this cold be of the mind when it is so obviously that our body is feeling these things? It is in the body, is it not? 

Yes and no.  Your so called disease, cellular change  or physical symptom is manifesting in the body but it is not of the body.  The mind created it.  More accurately, the split mind created it.

Say what crazy lady?

A course teaches that The body exists in a world that seems to have two voices fighting for its possession. (ACIM-T-8:VIII:2:1) The Spiritual part of our minds , the only part actually, sees the body as here to serve a function as assigned by Love.  It knows the body cannot be sick, it is invulnerable,  because of this divine purpose. 

The ego which is fear, however, has a "profound investment" in sickness.  It is convinced that we are vulnerable and  at the mercy of attack. It will do whatever it can to convince us of that so we do not listen to the truer part of our Self. It uses sickness to prove this point. Sickness is a way of demonstrating that you can be hurt. (8:VIII:6:1)

So when we see both health and illness as being possible we are believing there are two wills .  We have God's Will for us and the body and we have ego's.  We have Love and we have fear. Our mind will go back and forth between the two.  When it does this, it is split and illness can show up in our bodies.

 God's Will for us is perfect health, Love, joy.  Ego's will for us is pain, illness, suffering and death. When we ascribe to the latter, as most of us do, we will have the potential to  get sick

This is how Anita Moorjani describes how she got cancer. She invested in ego's doctrine of fear and self loathing rather than in God's doctrine of Love.  It took dying to realize that she could never be a part from God's will. If she followed God's vision for her healing she could heal.  She did.

There is a lesson in that.

All is well.

ACIM

Anita Moorjani (2014) Dying to Be Me. Hay House.