Day 137: When I am healed I am not healed alone.

We touched upon today's idea during yesterday's lesson.  The full meditation for today is as follows:

When I am healed I am not healed alone.  And I would share my healing with the world, that sickness may be banished from the mind of God's one Son, Who is my only Self.

Again, the core belief that We are All One plays a fundamental role in today's teaching.  Holding true that We are All One, it would naturally follow that if one of us is healed, then are we all.  Sickness opposes this idea.  When we are ill, we withdraw.  We become cut-off from one another and shift identification away from the Whole and onto our separate selves.  Of sickness, here is what A Course in Miracles tells us today:

Sickness is isolation.  For it seems to keep one self apart from all the rest, to suffer what the others do not feel.  It gives the body final power to make the separation real, and keep the mind in solitary prison, split apart and held in pieces by a solid wall of sickened flesh, which it can not surmount.

In contrast to the separation which sickness exemplifies, here is the Course's perspective on healing:

As you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you.  Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world, when you let healing come to you.  But you are never healed alone.  And legions upon legions will receive the gift that you receive when you are healed.

Those who are healed become the instruments of healing.  Nor does time elapse between the instant they are healed, and all the grace of healing it is given them to give.  What is opposed to God does not exist, and who accepts it not within his mind becomes a haven where the weary remain to rest.  For here is truth bestowed, and here are all illusions brought to truth.

Remember that healing begins in the mind.  We learned this yesterday.  When our mind is healed from all thoughts of separation, we evolve and inhabit a higher spiritual plane.  Sickness cannot survive in this state, for to reside within a higher plane there comes a true awareness and understanding that illness is not Real.  As we are all connected, it is inevitable that when one reaches this state of higher consciousness, others follow in suit.

Imagine All of Life as a handkerchief floating in a puddle of murky water.  The puddle represents a world of disease, the world where we currently call home.  If you pinch the handkerchief at any given point and begin to lift it up and out of the water, the area surrounding the point you pinched will be lifted along with it.  Soon, as you continue to lift, the entire handkerchief will be above the water.

This metaphor is not too far from our current experience on this planet.  As a collective whole, we are drowning in disease.  It may take the form of physical illness, but much of our world's sickness is perceived in the violence and greed so prevalent today.  There are those of us who have managed to lift ourselves out of the murk.  These fortunate few have become greater and greater in number.  Our consciousness is beginning to shift.  We are all being pulled upward to a higher spiritual plane.  It may not seem evident yet, but that is the direction we are heading.  In time, we will no longer find ourselves submerged in sickness.  Our minds will be healed, and disease will no longer be a threat to our way of life.  It's simply a matter of waking up to the Truth.  Are you willing?  Are you ready to pull yourself out of the water and take your first breath of relief?  Let's do it... together.

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman