Welcome to active meditation.
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 136.
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
No one can heal unless they understand what purpose sickness seems to serve.
For then they understand as well the purpose of sickness has no meaning.
When this is seen healing is automatic.
Healing dispels this meaningless illusion by the same approach that carries all illusions to truth.
It merely leaves them there to disappear.
Sickness is not an accident.
Like all defenses it is an insane device for self-deception and like all the rest the purpose of sickness is to hide reality.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
Repeat after me,
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
Sickness is a decision.
Sickness is not a thing that happens to you quite unsought.
Sickness does not make you weak.
Sickness does not bring you suffering.
Sickness is a choice you make,
A plan you lay.
When for an instant truth arises in your own deluded mind and all your world appears to totter and prepare to fall.
Now are you sick that truth may go away and threaten your establishments no more.
Say again to yourself in your mind,
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
Repeat again,
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
How do you think that sickness can succeed in shielding you from the truth?
Because sickness proves the body is not separate from you and so you must be separate from the truth.
You suffer pain because the body does and in this pain are you made one with it.
Thus is your true identity preserved.
Also preserved is the strange haunting thought that you might be something beyond this little pile of dust.
Thus is your true identity silenced and stilled.
For see this dust can make you suffer.
Twist your limbs and stop your heart commanding you to die and cease to be.
Truth is found at any time today if you will choose to practice giving welcome to the truth.
This is our aim today.
We will give a quarter of an hour twice to ask the truth to come to us and set us free.
And the truth will come for it has never been apart from us.
Truth merely waits for just this invitation which we give today.
We introduce truth with a healing prayer to help us rise above defensiveness and let the truth be as it has always been.
Say this prayer in your mind.
Repeat after me.
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
I will accept the truth of what I am.
And let my mind be wholly healed today.
As you repeat this prayer healing will flash across your open mind as peace and truth arise to take the place of war and vain imaginings.
There will be no dark corners sickness and conceal.
There will be no dark corners to keep defended from the light of truth.
There will be no dim figures from your dreams nor their obscure and meaningless pursuits with double purposes insanely sought remaining in your mind.
Your mind will be healed of all the sickly wishes that it tried to authorize the body to obey.
Now is the body healed because the source of sickness has been opened to relief.
You will recognize you practiced well by this.
The body should not feel at all.
If you have been successful there will be no sense of feeling ill or feeling well.
There will be no sense of pain or pleasure.
No response at all is in the mind to what the body does.
The body's usefulness remains and nothing more.
Repeat this prayer after me again.
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
I will accept the truth of what I am.
I will let my mind be wholly healed today.
If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts,
If you let your mind yield to judgment,
If you let your mind make plans against uncertainties to come,
You have again misplaced yourself and made a bodily identity which will attack the body.
For the mind is sick.
Give instant remedy should this occur by not allowing your defensiveness to hurt you longer.
Do not be confused about what must be healed,
But tell yourself,
Repeat this after me.
I have forgotten what I really am.
I mistook my body for myself.
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
I am NOT a body and my mind cannot attack.
So I cannot be sick.
Ponder on this.
I have forgotten what I really am.
I mistook my body for myself.
Sickness is a defense against the truth.
I am NOT a body and my mind cannot attack.
So I cannot be sick.
I am not a body.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
