Course in Miracles Talked,
26 The Healed and the Unhealed Healer,
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The unhealed healer thinks,
My client is an innocent victim of circumstances beyond his control.
The text states,
Listen to what the ego says and see what it directs you to see,
And it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny,
Vulnerable and afraid.
You will experience depression,
A sense of worthlessness and feelings of impermanence and unreality.
You will believe that you are helpless prey to forces from beyond your own control and far more powerful than you.
The unhealed healer is motivated by his ego and as such must believe in its counsel.
Central to his thought system is that we are victims of circumstances,
Out there,
In the world.
What the unhealed healer believes about himself,
He will also believe about his client and thus reinforce his client's consciousness.
As the whole aim of true healing is to undo the client's belief that circumstances and people can harm him,
The unhealed healer only makes the client's illusion stronger.
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The healed healer thinks,
There are no victims,
We all choose the events in our lives and how we react to them.
The text states,
It is impossible that the Son of God be merely driven by events outside of him.
It is impossible that happenings that come to him are not his choice.
His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident.
The healed healer is aware that we all write the scripts of our lives,
Even though few of us are consciously aware of this or want to believe it.
Our first choice was to be born on this planet because we believed happiness lay outside ourself.
We all hope to find peace and happiness in the forms of this world.
All that occurs in our lives is not by accident,
For on some level we have chosen it.
When a particular event occurs,
It is neutral in itself.
We then choose how to see it either through the eyes of the ego or those of the Holy Spirit.
Our ego will either be attracted or repelled by the event,
Whilst the Holy Spirit will see it as another opportunity to learn forgiveness and move closer to God.
It is not,
However,
A healing approach if,
When someone shares with you some pain they are experiencing,
You begin telling them that they have created this for themselves and their pain is only due to separation from God.
If you open to the Holy Spirit,
He will guide you to be with the person where they believe they are and to work with correcting the error on the level where it is thought to be.
Jesus stated in the text,
But to correct error from the bottom up.
Thus Jesus met people on their own level and listened to their problems,
Even though he knew they were all illusory.
He spoke to them in parables so that they could understand something of his truth.
Healing,
Like forgiveness and prayer,
Is a process.
If a client is in great distress because their child has been raped and murdered,
The process of healing will normally be a long one.
The lesson in forgiveness is obviously powerful and must proceed in stages.
Hopefully the time will come when the client can perceive the fear in the murderer as the same fear he himself carries,
That both needs are open to receiving God's love.
As he learns to forgive the murderer,
So he learns to forgive himself and take another step on the path back to God.
Many of us believe that our problems originate in our early upbringing and the way we were treated by our mother or father.
At the end of the healing journey we will come to realise that all our problems stem from our fearful concept of our parents in heaven.
When we at last heal this misperception and discover the totally loving and accepting father awaiting for us all,
The need for healers will disappear.
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The unhealed healer thinks,
I have pity for the pain you are suffering.
The text states,
To empathise does not mean to join in suffering.
That is what you must refuse to understand.
That is the ego's interpretation of empathy,
And always used to form a special relationship in which suffering is shared.
The clearest proof that empathy as the ego uses it is destructive,
Lies in the fact that it is applied only to certain types of problems and in certain people.
These it selects out and joins with,
And it never joins except to strengthen itself.
The moment we take sides in any situation,
The ego is in control.
Victims and victimisers are both in a state of fear and both asking for love.
To empathise with the victim consciousness in another is to reinforce it in yourself as well.
The client will feel justified in feeding the victim if pity or sympathy is shown by the therapist,
And the opportunity to forgive will be lost.
Now the focus will shift to,
Quote,
Forgiving the enemy,
Quote,
Out there in the world,
What Jesus calls,
Forgiveness to destroy.
Driven by the wrong motives and relying on his own ego strength,
The unhealed healer often suffers from exhaustion or burnout.
Some of the main reasons for this are attachment to results,
Thinking that he is the healer,
Believing the client has no inner strength of his own and is therefore reliant on the healer,
Finding it hard to forgive himself for his own imperfections and judgements because of the superior position he puts himself in,
Needing to be needed,
Not stating her own needs,
Differentiating saying no to people's requests,
Trying to heal the problem at the symptom level,
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Out there in the world,
Forgetting to turn to the Holy Spirit for help.
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The healed healer thinks,
I acknowledge your pain and I empathise with the strength in you.
My loving presence reminds you that the light of Christ is within you and that you can choose again.
The text states,
Yet of this you may be sure.
If you will merely sit quietly by and let the Holy Spirit relate through you,
He will empathise with strength and will gain in strength and not weakness.
The healed healer works on two levels.
He accepts the client where he is in his process,
But knows that he is not the ego that the client believes himself to be.
As the healer recognises the Holy Spirit in himself,
He must also see it in his client,
And this is what he empathises with.
The healer does not commiserate with the client.
The healer does not try to rationalise with the client or persuade her to change her mind about having chosen sickness.
The client is unaware that she has chosen sickness and believes she is the victim of her body's weakness.
On this issue the manual comments,
They have no idea how insane this concept is.
If they even suspected it,
They would be healed.
Yet they suspect nothing.
To them the separation is quite real.
This quotation is taken from a section in the manual for teachers entitled,
The Function of the Teacher of God.
We are reminded here that it is the peaceful,
Loving and accepting presence of a teacher of God which could provide the opportunity for the client to change her mind and choose forgiveness instead of attack.
The client is aware on some level that her pain does not disturb the healer.
She is aware that the healer is seeing something else in her,
Other than her ego.
It is the presence of the healed healer which gives the client an opportunity to know herself in another light,
To let go of the past and open herself up to her true identity.
The text states,
The only meaningful contribution the healer can make is to present an example of one whose direction has been changed for him and who no longer believes in nightmares of any kind.
The light is in his mind and therefore answers the questioner who must decide with God that there is a light because he sees it.
The healer's true function is to act as a reminder of another way of being,
Providing the client with an example of someone who believes in the reality of the Holy Spirit and not the ego.
It is not the techniques the healer uses which brings about healing.
As quoted earlier from the manual,
It is not their hands that heal.
It is not their voice that speaks the word of God.
They merely give what has been given them.
The Bible tells us that Jesus used his hands to heal and even his own spittle.
He knew,
However,
That the people associated the laying on of hands with healing and believed the spittle contained healing power.
He conformed to their needs and expectations by using their belief systems for their benefit.
But it was his loving and gentle presence that reminded them they could choose to forgive and regain peace of mind instead of listening to the ego's counsel of separation,
Attack and sickness.
Nor would the apparent severity of an illness concern Jesus.
For he knew that all illness served the same purpose of making the ego's thought system real.
If Jesus had thought that some diseases were more difficult to heal than others,
He would be agreeing with the ego that there is a hierarchy of problems in this world.
In every situation where Jesus was asking for healing,
Irrespective of the seeming seriousness of the disease,
He would know he had only one task to perform,
To dispel the illusion in the sick person's mind that he is separate from God and to show him that God still loves him and he is still as God created him.
As we tread the path of forgiveness,
The light of the Holy Spirit will light up our mind,
As it did with Jesus,
And we shall extend it into the minds of others.
It is that light,
If it is accepted,
That will heal others.
When the ego is gone,
Only the Holy Spirit will remain in our mind to bless all whom we meet.
The function of the decision maker will also disappear and we shall be guided moment by moment in what to say and do.
The effort and confusion of choice will be replaced by the peace,
Joy and certainty of God and we shall know that we have been healed.
The text states,
Forget not that the healing of God's Son is all the world is for.
That is the purpose the Holy Spirit sees in it and thus the only one.
