Healing the Cause - A Path of Forgiveness - Inspired by A Course in Miracles. Michael Dawson

two parts of his mind counselling him: the ego and the Holy Spirit. His ego told him that it would be very dangerous to let go of his control patterns, as he would not be able to predict how people would behave to him if he related more from his heart than his head. The Holy Spirit part of his mind counselled him in the opposite direction.

      He had nothing to lose but an illusion of sacrifice. The new way of relating would bring him renewed energy and joy. David could also sense a suppressed part of himself he called the ‘joker’ and felt it would be fun to let this joker out. As he struggled with these two voices, I asked him if he would try to see if he could give away his angry red ball. I reassured him it would be okay if he could not, but he could lose nothing by the experiment. I suggested he visualise a pair of loving, gentle, golden hands outstretched before him awaiting the gift of his angry red ball. I told him that these hands wanted his pain, not his love, as a gift. The hands were only interested in "removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence" (Intro., Text) in him. David decided to give his pain away to these hands. As he did this, he started to laugh and cry at the same time. A lightness of being came over him and a strong energy entered his body, so much so that after the session he went off to run and literally jump in the nearby woods. Although he had been on the point of leaving the workshop, he now felt happy to stay and complete it.

      The Course lists a number of reasons why we choose sickness and we shall explore these in Chapter 4. We are not usually aware of these decisions, as our ego immediately denies having made them. Thus it appears we are innocent victims of circumstances beyond our control. We say to ourselves that our body is sick and our body needs healing, forgetting that the causative level of disease is in our mind.