Reverse Your Self

"Reverse the case. Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously. The issues of pain and pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting that through Divine help we can forbid this entrance." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 392, Lines 24-27, & Page 393, Lines 1-3

"If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to Me, I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 4, Section I, 4:7

These two quotes go hand in hand. We do indeed have to take responsibility for our own thoughts. Yet if we try to do this from the same old separate, illusory identity that we have mistaken for self, we will ultimately not be able to make real changes. Only the mind that knows its Oneness with God is even open to this kind of vigilance and change. When we are Aware of Being One with the Allness and Oneness of God, with All Good, we are allowing our True Self to stand porter at the door of thought... not our contracted ego identity.

It's through the Divine that we reverse our thinking and return to sanity. The problem with positive thinking and affirmations and all mental attempts at change is that they are not dealing with cause. The thoughts that make up the dream are not cause... they are always effects, reactions within the dream, witnesses to what we are doing and seeing and believing. The Thoughts of God are the only Real Cause... and these we can turn to at any moment, and return to the Peace and Love and Joy that are Who We Really Are. This has nothing to do with the dream and its seeming physical evidence. When we return to our Right Mind, everything changes. Whether it looks any different to the physical sense or not is irrelevant and not a true measure.

Let's talk a moment about the evidence of the physical senses. If you were presenting a legal case, would you trust a witness who would say whatever they were told? That's pretty much what the five senses do... they present evidence for the thoughts we have aligned ourselves with. When we align ourselves with the seeming reality of the world, our physical senses show us over and over that we are right. And yet, when we give our allegiance to God, and allow the Thoughts of God to have ascendance in our minds and hearts, we gradually reverse ourselves, and eventually even our sight and hearing and taste and touch and smell and emotions become witnesses only to Reality and Oneness. But never are these evidence of change. These are simply what Jeshua ben Joseph called 'the added things.' "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His Righteousness," he told us, "and all these things will be added unto you." Does the heart need evidence to know ItSelf? Does the Light need a mirror to know it Radiates?

Reversing the direction of our thoughts seems a daunting and overwhelming task to the ego self, and so it is. But to the Self aligned with God, it is as easy and natural as breathing seems to be in this dream world. The reorganization of thoughts and motivations takes place spontaneously when our only intention is Awakening to Our True Self.

"Your Holiness reverses all the 'laws' of the world." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 38, 1:1