An application in Miracles (ACIM) clearly points out how perception and choice are very closely linked together. As long as we perceive error, the tendency is to continue to choose error through judgment thereby making error more real. We are the origin choosing awareness, placing judgment on related results, and finally judging those results as being real as well. All of this leads us back to perception and choice and to start the cycle once again.

As you perceive, you judge and project; and as you judge and project, you perceive back. Having perceived the judgments and projections back with you, you will now judge those and project them outward unless you perceive the results back. The ego knows no other way. It is a continuous judgmental cycle until you determine to break it; and yes, there is a way to do just that. There is one obvious choice off the merry-go-round, and it is so simple you will scratch your head in wonder you possessed not thought of it prior to this.

Choice remains hard to bear because if you make choices that further the error, or take you deeper into the illusion, it seems as if you are merely making choices between the lessor of two evils. acim That's because you are merely choosing between the sides of the wrong mind. The ego has a "wrong" and "right" side but neither is the true Right Mind of the Holy Spirit. If there was ever a new Year's resolution worth keeping, it would be: Stop judging and turn them over to the Holy Spirit for a static correction instead.

The Tiny Crazy Idea:

The original splitting up is considered a "tiny crazy idea" whereby you thought you're separated from source. This is also called "the error" and is the original choice for judgment of the ego. Already down that road in the mind, it becomes another layer any time you judge the consequences, or related effect, from the error as cause. Therefore every time you judge what you see or what is happening in the world, and you determine to believe the ego about it, you are choosing the error as cause once again. Related effects show up which reinforce your belief in error.

These judgments further partition out the split mind instead of returning it to peace. Hence, this is why is seems like you are choosing between the lessor of two evils with neither one really being "less". The error haven't occurred and only seems real because of your choice of internal Teacher. Choosing the ego is like choosing a turning door with only one exit.

ACIM says there is no order of difficultly in miracles and that means there is no order of difficulty in choices. One is exactly the same as the next, handled in precisely the same manner. Every problem is equal because they all originate from the same cause. You merely think one is harder because of your belief and addition to it as being more real than another.

Your choice Maker:

The fastest way to turn choice from an hard to bear phenomena one of illusion is with your decision maker, or onlooker, to choose differently. Actually, if you wanted to create a judgment contrary to the ego, there is only one appropriate choice to make: Go for your decision maker to choose contrary to the ego and in favor of the Holy Spirit. It's such enormous power when harnessed and used to choose instead for the truth.

Using the decision maker can be difficult to understand without request. It is an action-oriented mechanism of using, or choosing. That really is its big secret and now you know it. You have to do the work of choosing. Reading these ideas is not enough. Request is everything. Simply be happy to learn how. You will make mistakes, but so what? We all do. Try again.

Think of the ego like a coin system in a can. Every time you listen to and believe an ego judgment, you put a coin in the can for that subject material because you chose it. Continue doing this, and you will fill the can until stuffed. Step back into natural, which is your choice maker, and grow happy to turn over those judgments to the Right Mind for a static correction, and you actually spend a coin from the can instead.

Stay in the natural decision maker, or onlooker, and wait out the tantrum of the ego. It is merely an indication of how much you have committed to that the main thought system. Don't act on it! The ego uses all of those other can of coins trying to encourage you back into the judgments. You don't have to do anything except be willing and actually pay all you could hear to the Right Mind via your choice making capability. You are choosing between the sides of the split mind. That is choice as an illusion.

Forgiveness:

Stick with the process and the ego runs its race and then, if you've not re-invested in the judgments, a static correction occurs. You will know you have received it because of the peace, love, joy and freedom associated with it. That subject material is now gone forever.

It’s this that it takes to make the option for love, forgiveness, a static correction, healing, true perception and God. The Holy Spirit, the voice for God, takes care of it all if you are simply willing, and actually do the work of turning over to Him anything you no longer want: The ego's judgments. You cannot heal what you keep hidden so for heaven's welfare, just realize it and turn it over to the Holy Spirit. Only the ego family court judges.