Mind Power

Meditation

 

Keep your instrument (body) in tune with the infinite that the Master Musician may find it desirable to use as a channel for good.

 

We all can contact the center of our conscious being if we become quiet to all the outward world, all that disturbs and distracts. When we become so quieted, then we can become channels for the good that can be given us through thought power, and inspiration can and does come only in this way. Often it is like a flash of thought and then we are illumined and can follow out the ideas so given to us.  

It is not always easy to so quiet the conscious mind by concentrated attention, but it can be worked with and later we may find to our surprise that it becomes easier and easier, and we can do so at will. When this desirable condition is attained, we find we are always attuned to good and can shut out negative influences [as] they will have no further power over us. We become more easily positive in our attitudes of life and find things working out to our advantage because of this wonderful power of mind which all can grow to acquire.  

We must, of course, keep at it and let nothing interfere, for practice does make perfect. Like a musical instrument, only beautiful sounds can come if the musician is in perfect attunement and can draw out from his instrument beautiful sounds because of practice and desire to accomplish. For nothing is gained unless we have the desire to grow and gain more and more beauty into the life. 

Keep your instrument (body) in tune with the infinite that the Master Musician may find it desirable to use as a channel for good.

Be Your Best Self

All life is a challenge and we accept it when we enter in ...

 

Dare to be your best self at all times. This is a challenge. Accept it and life will bring to you all that you could possibly desire. I do not mean by this remark that by this attitude you can escape all difficulties, all disagreeable experiences. No, that would and could not be; but I do mean that by accepting and carrying out this challenge, you can so lift yourself above the humdrum that the experiences of life will take on a new meaning, and because of the new thought about them they will not be as difficult or as disagreeable as they otherwise would seem.  

All life is a challenge and we accept it when we enter in, but sometimes we rather welcome a defeatist attitude of mind and become so negative that the vibrant positive attitudes that would lift us up cannot be felt and we are almost like being in a dark hole, unable to see the sun.  

Our attitudes of all life’s circumstances affect us greatly and we must cling to the positive good every time and know that, though the going may at times seem rough and hard, we can ride it out until the calmer waters of life are again within our reach. Every ill passes, every evil only has a short period of life if we refuse to accept it but only see the good that is coming to us out of the experience. 

Life’s challenge of good over evil, of positive over negative conditions, of light where there is darkness will in time bring to you the spiritual awareness that all is good, all is of God and life is wonderful indeed. 

The Influences of Weather

 

Life is a continuous round of sunshine and shadow, and because of the shadows we appreciate the sun.

 

Do we take our weather as it comes or do we complain and see only the inconveniences, the bad part of what we call weather? Weather, good and bad, so-called by the people of earth, is in reality all good. 

If the skies pour forth rain for what seems an interminable time, rest assured it is needed and is attracted here or it would not be. We oftentimes allow the dull, gray dreary days to affect us. Our minds become more receptive to the negative influences of life at these times. We do not feel the drive, the energy either to go about the daily duties, but seem to feel a profound influence of a depressing nature that is very hard to shake off when the days become gloomy, rainy or stormy. 

We think of the sunshine as bringing all good things to us and so it does. When the sun shines our energies return and once again we feel the urge to go out and to do things.  

This is all part of life’s plan and is true of almost everyone, for all are more or less affected by the weather through our feelings or emotions. We feel so good after days of darkness and storm to once again feel the warmth and goodness of the sun, but the sun is always shining there behind the dark and stormy skies, only we cannot see it or feel its beneficent energies. 

Life is a continuous round of sunshine and shadow, and because of the shadows we appreciate the sun. 

Experiences

Every experience should be looked upon as good for each is needed for the growth of the soul.

 

Each one on the earth plane, and everywhere in fact, is different one from the other, even so-called identical twins. 

No one has the same needs, nor the same outlook in life nor the same experiences because the requirements of all differ widely, and it is well that this is so. 

Many, of course, do have similar experiences, but the reaction to the experience would differ with each because of the difference in background, thought and feeling. So life is made up of very different lives that come together for a time and then oftentimes are separated by distance or by death (we should say transition). 

Changes come to all as they are needed. Every experience should be looked upon as good for each is needed for the growth of the soul. In time, all will see that this is so. 

We may long for greater closeness of family ties but this too must change and of necessity must expand and grow, and the place for its growth is not always where we would most desire it to be. However, we can change our thought and our feeling about it, creating greater harmony in life by keeping our outlook cheerful. In time, we may find other and more welcome changes that will bring about our fondest dreams. 

We only grow by change and we must adjust our thoughts to it.

Expectations for Good

Our minds are constantly working for or against us and we must ... guide them into the channels of good ...

 

Everyone has a way of limiting the good in his or her life. We all seem to put limitations on our good fortune and what is the question? Why should our good be limited in any way? Why are we able only to see ourselves receiving limited good? Can we not condition ourselves into the expectation that everything is good and that we can and should only expect the good things of life. Yes, we can and we should, for all our expectations whether good or bad fulfill themselves. We do not realize that this is so, but it is indeed a truth of life.

We get what we expect and what we deserve and no one can keep it from us for long. It behooves us then to think well of ourselves for we are the creators of all that happens to us by the action of our minds. We have within us potent weapons of good or evil, and we must rightly use them and correctly expect only good will come to us by their use.

Our minds are constantly working for or against us and we must take the reins and guide them into the channels of good and constructive ways of life. This does not at all mean that without physical work you can by mind and thought alone achieve all good. The two must work together for the result that will bring to us our ultimate heaven on earth.

The peace and goodwill also of others towards us must come about both by our sincere desire to bring it about and our work in that direction; and so it is with all desires, no matter what they may be, we must expect them and then work for them in whatever manner or means is best for us to achieve this good. 

Also we must be sure that what we so ardently desire is right for all and will in no way injure another for only in this way can we bring about our good and have right prevail. Expect, Work, and Have, are the trinity in this case that works for each one and all.

Self Belief

Believe, have faith in the self within for you are adequate to all that comes into your life ...

 

The strength, the power, the health-giving thoughts of life are possible for all to have, for all to receive if we but tune in to these positive vibrations. We must first aspire, then we are inspired and life is revealed to us as it never before has been presented. We find our senses are intensified and we respond to outside influences as never before possible.  

Our minds, if so attuned, can act as spiritual antennas attracting to us all the good that we need and desire. Why then do we hold back from such conditions? Only because doubt and fear creep in and possess us when we should and could shut them out of our lives.  

We use what we habitually think, so always remember this truth and act and think according to your best interests and those of others who are in your environment. We shape our own destines daily by our very thoughts and habits of life.

Believe, have faith in the self within for you are adequate to all that comes into your life, and with constructive habits only the good can come.

Laws of Life

 

 The most important law, and the one that is so often broken by unseeing man, is the law of love.

Life is, was and ever shall be, for life is spirit and life is all in all, and through all, in every form and in every department of being. At first thought, this may appear to be not true but truth is sometimes more strange than otherwise. Yes, life is all there is and nothing is ever lost. What appears to us to be solid is, in reality, not at all so, for it is formed through myriads of infinitesimal atoms all of which are in constant vibration or motion and held together by the law of attraction and the law of polarity. Both laws, like all laws of nature, are in operation at all times and in all levels of life.

We are all subject to these laws and other perhaps lesser known laws of God. We cannot change them, they are eternal and in operation for our good and the good of all on the earth plane. We hear, we feel, we see, we touch, we smell and all through the laws of God. We live, move, and we participate and are a part of all in all. 

We are able through the power of the free will to keep or to break the laws in operation, but we cannot break them without repercussions of disaster when we are foolish enough to do so. However, it is only in this way that we learn and grow and make of life a worthwhile endeavor.  

The most important law, and the one that is so often broken by unseeing man, is the law of love. This law is the first to bring about our downfall if we cannot make it work for us as it was intended. It is this broken law that causes broken homes, all selfishness, jealousy, envy, pride and so many other errors that cause such tragedy in the human life. Keep this law and you will find all the others will follow.

Maintain Calm

At some time in life, all face situations that are frightening and since there is a reason for all things, we must be still within and seek the remedy ...

 

Always, under all circumstances, endeavor to maintain a calm attitude of mind for in this way, and only in this way is it possible to let ideas and inspiration come into the mind.  

If we become excitable or hysterical during some event, it is not conducive to constructive thought; in fact, thoughts, except of terror and fear, are practically an impossibility. Of course, much depends on the nature of the personality. By nature some are more excitable than others, and in these persons it is harder to control the emotions in times of stress and danger. 

At some time in life, all face situations that are frightening and since there is a reason for all things, we must be still within and seek the remedy after we have done all that is possible to do at the time the event occurs. This is just a lesson of control of our fear really and a more mature outlook on happenings that come into the life of all people.

We must always be prepared, be ready for any eventuality, but by being ready I do not at all mean we should look for disaster or events that cause trouble of any sort. No, not at all, for our outlook should be cheery and happy. In this way we can and do change the vibratory forces and affect our lives for the better by a more constructive and helpful outlook.  

Seek only the good and see only the good and only the good will come to be manifest in your life.

All is Change

  

All is change in life whether we recognize it as a fact or not.

 

If progress is to come to us we must welcome change in our life and its varied facets, for it is vital to life itself. All is change in life whether we recognize it as a fact or not. If it were not so we would be at a standstill and that is never good. We must go on and accept each and every change in life.  

It is natural to want security in life, but in actual fact we are always secure if we but believe we are for security is but a state of mind.  

Nothing is permanent and though we may feel we are secure in our position in business or in the home, something always can come in to cause change. Oftentimes, though it is unrecognized, it is of great benefit to the people involved. We cannot see always the outcome of what change will bring about in the life, but we sometimes fight that which is for our benefit because of fear -- fear of the unknown, fear of lack in some form, fear of change, and so it goes.  

People do not realize that all life consists of change, and that changes will bring changes and [then] life is viewed from a larger standpoint because we have broadened the view and stepped out of a shell in which, inadvertently, we had been keeping ourselves. 

The horizon is brighter than we had imagined and we find that we like change and have a feeling that it is for our ultimate good, but we ourselves must determine this and constantly overcome errors of thought that have previously held us captive.

Evils of Envy

All of us should clean house mentally every so often and take stock of the kind of thought we allow to prevail.

 

To all who harbor jealous or envious thoughts, they should know they have a two-edged sword and that every thought of that nature boomerangs against themselves. 

They have a great lack of faith, these people, and apparently believe in luck and that some people have good fortune while others are unlucky. They do not realize that all their misfortune lies within themselves and has come into manifestation through their thought life and resulting actions -- the laws of cause and effect, and of attraction and repulsion. 

We never have a streak of so-called luck, it is never accidental; nothing is, no matter what the circumstance. All is caused by law or the breaking of established law and nothing can change that.

The greatest of all laws is the law of love. It will bring to us all good if we follow it in our lives. 

How little and how short-sighted are those who cannot see that by their jealous thoughts they hurt, not others as much but their own lives. It is like a poison that corrupts and corrodes and causes illness and many undesirable conditions in the lives of those who unwisely harbor such thoughts. 

All of us should clean house mentally every so often and take stock of the kind of thought we allow to prevail. If it is not constructive and positive and good, sweep it out just as you would dirt that is in your home.