When it comes down to it The most powerful healing in the world is reality. It is what is, as it is without the fear and distortions of our own perceptions and interpretations on it. Yes, we’re the problem. We are believers in pain and death and separation from God because of our violations of Universal laws and of and being not good enough.

The most powerful healing in the world comes from a contemplative look at reality exactly as it is. For me it’s all true – the good news that is. We are on a mission. We’re on a journey back home to Love. We’re eternal, divinely loved and loving beings that need to consciously evolve and turn fear into love a little more each day. In this way we ‘choose’ life and because we do that we maintain free will – a very important part of the new heaven and earth. If you don’t want it you don’t have to take it. That is the way it is with love. Yet, love endures and it will find you and vice versa. You have two main perspectives psychologically speaking. One that the world is an unsafe, violent and malevolent place or two that it is a loving, safe and friendly training ground that is leading us out of fear and into eternal love. The former perspective is easier on our survival minds than the latter. It requires no depth, just a 5 sensory view of the fear perspectives that permeate our wellbeing. Contemplation teaches us to look twice, to look with the eyes behind the eyes so that we can see Reality exactly as it is.

The most powerful healing in the world is summed up so beautifully in these words from A Course in Miracles. Lectio Divina or Contemplative Practice style, read these words every so often and let the wisdom and power they hold sink into your consciousness.

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

Pain is a wrong perspective. When it is experienced in any form, it is a proof of self-deception. It is not a fact at all. There is no form it takes that will not disappear if seen aright. For pain proclaims God cruel. How could it be real in any form? 

It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassailable.

Pain is a sign illusions reign in place of truth. It demonstrates God is denied, confused with fear, perceived as mad, and seen as traitor to Himself. If God is real, there is no pain.  If pain is real, there is no God.  For vengeance is not part of love.  And fear, denying love and using pain to prove that God is dead, has shown that death is victor over life. 

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
– Nelson Mandela

Peace to such foolishness! The time has come to laugh at such insane ideas. There is no need to think of them as savage crimes, or secret sins with weighty consequence. Who but a madman could conceive of them as cause of anything? Their witness, pain, is as mad as they, and no more to be feared than the insane illusions which it shields, and tries to demonstrate must still be true.

It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in anyway. There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No one but yourself affects you. There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harmlessness in them, they will accept your holy will as theirs. And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness.

My holy friends, think of this awhile: The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. 

Your Self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable, forever and forever. And would you deny a little corner of your mind its own inheritance, and keep it as a hospital for pain; a sickly place where living things must come at last to die? The world may seem to cause you pain. And yet the world, as causeless, has no power to cause. As an effect, it cannot make effects. As an illusion, it is what you wish. 

Your idle wishes represent its pains. Your strange desires bring it evil dreams. Your thoughts of death envelop it in fear, while in your kind forgiveness does it live.

Pain is the thought of evil taking form, and working havoc in your holy mind. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free. In pain does fear appear to triumph over love, and time replace eternity and Heaven. And the world becomes a cruel and a bitter place, where sorrow rules and little joys give way before the onslaught of the savage pain that waits to end all joy in misery.

Lay down your arms, and come without defense into the quiet place where Heaven’s peace holds all things still at last. Lay down all thoughts of danger and of fear. Let no attack enter with you. Lay down the cruel sword of judgment that you hold against your throat, and put aside the withering assaults with which you seek to hide your holiness.

“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”

– Yoda

Here will you understand there is no pain. Here does the joy of God belong to you. This is the day when it is given you to realize the lesson that contains all of salvation’s power. It is this: Pain is illusion; joy, reality. Pain is but sleep; joy is awakening. Pain is deception; joy alone is truth.

And so again we make the only choice that ever can be made; we choose between illusions and the truth, or pain and joy, or hell and Heaven. Let our gratitude unto our Teacher fill our hearts, as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world.

Conclusion

A Course in Miracles reminds us here that if you want to get through any difficult situation in life start by remembering who you really are. That’s the game. If you forget, you suffer. Fear by its own nature is suffering. It is false evidence appearing real. The most powerful healing in the world is when you look contemplatively at yourself like this and what you see can then be mirrored onto the world around you which is good, not bad, unless you have a ‘wrong perspective’. Today it is time for us to change ourselves and then the world by consciously understanding the Creation, the Universe, God, other people and everything else in the light that really reflects its real, true, authentic nature.