Mind Power

New Year’s Resolutions

 

When we change our thoughts about ourselves or about our conditions,  often we find we change our very life.

 

A new year has started and new resolutions are made to improve old conditions, to grow mentally and spiritually and to have a greater abundance of health and happiness.  

It is fine to make these resolutions and gives one an incentive, a goal which all need to go on in life. Whether or not we wholly succeed is not so important as the fact that we have this incentive and that we are trying to improve ourselves and our situation in life.  

When we succeed it is like freeing a bird from a cage in which he has been imprisoned for we too are released from false conditions that perhaps have held us back and prevented our going on to greater things because our thought about it has kept us prisoners.  

When we change our thoughts about ourselves or about our conditions, often we find we change our very life. And, if it is the right thought, it can vastly improve things for us. I mean by right thought, too, that it must not just be a fleeting thought but one that remains with us and one we hold to constantly in an effort to improve our mental life. In this way we also change our physical life and improve conditions in every department of our being.

It is all up to the self within, our indwelling entity to cause this change to come about and to adhere to it and work with it and then reap the reward of a better and more complete life. Our perspective will be changed, our outlook improve, our health benefit. We will be vibrantly alive to all the wonderful possibilities and a new sense of freedom from old negative fears will be ours. Happiness will result in our life and the lives of those we can influence to do the same.

Peace and Plenty

 

... failures are not what they appear, but are really stepping stones to success in whatever way we are striving.

 

Peace has a price, as has everything in life. In order to have a life of peace and plenty, we must guard our thoughts and thereby our actions.  

Harmony in all departments of life must be the order of the day. In order to be in harmonious vibration, we must be tolerant and understanding and we must overlook much. It is not done all at once, it takes time and practice to do this. 

Nothing must disturb the inner peace, no outward crisis or turmoil must ruffle us, and we will be tried many times. If we at first fail, remember it is only apparent failure, but all is experience and only in that way will we learn. So truly failures are not what they appear, but are really stepping stones to success in whatever way we are striving.

No one succeeds all at once; always we must creep before we walk. Never become discouraged for that is the only true failure. To become disheartened and to cease to try is the only way to never get anywhere.

We are ever learning, ever marching onward, ever seeking a goal in life. We do receive that which we expect, so keep ideals high and keep working at it with the positive approach and one day your goal will be achieved.

Seeking the Light

 

...when each day sees a little gain a bit more harmony and peace, greater love and courage, then we know we are on the right track expanding and growing in the light of God’s love.

 

Every day we are in the process of growth. We are all striving in one way or another to grow toward the light as we see it. Later on the light may become brighter; we may become enabled better to see the way because we become more spiritally unfolded, but each day shows a little growth if we work in the right.

There are those, of course, who are content to stay more or less at a standstill and stagnate, but at some time in their lives they will again reach for and seek the light and go forth and grow.

A few, tragically, seem to grow in the darknes and feel they are downtrodden and then, instead of reaching for the light of understanding of their plight, they become bitter. Their lives turn inward in themselves and become twisted, dwarfed and, in many cases, ugly baecause then crimes flourish and only tragedy can come forth until they too once again seek the light. 

The road back is long, hard and fraught with much misery and they then need a helping hand from those whose light is bright enough to overcome the dangers and see ony the good that can be brought forth.

So when each day sees a little gain, a bit more harmony and peace, greater love and courage, then we know we are on the right track expanding and growing in the light of God’s love.

Conquer Your True Self

 

Be true to the true self within and look within for the Kingdom of God for that is where it will be found.

 

“Seek the Kingdom of God that is within, then all else will be added unto you.”  These prophetic words are as true today as they were when first they were spoken.

Nothing outside ourselves really matters. It is our attitudes, our feelings and emotions that really make of the outward manifestations what they become to us.

We must conquer self and subjugate it so that we rule and not our feelings and emotions. We must always be at the helm. We cannot for a moment let our ship of life founder else we could easily be in distress and even founder on the rocks and reefs of life’s treacherous shoals.  

If we can keep an even keel when all else is stormy about us. If we can see through the mists and the fogs of doubt and uncertainty and steer for the quiet harbor of trust, faith and love, we will always be safe, and, what is more, always happy for with perfect faith, a cheerful countenance and love in our hearts we will win and reach our goal in life whatever it may be.  

Be true to the true self within and look within for the Kingdom of God for that is where it will be found.

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.

Positive Thought

When we hold the right thoughts, no negative, destructive thoughts can come in and cause havoc.

 

Try always to see the bright side, the good side of events that happen and of people and what they may do. We often judge others by our own expectations instead of by their capacities which often are not up to what we think they are or even what they should be. The three monkeys of the fable, “See no evil, hear no evil, think no evil.” are a case in point, and will serve to illustrate what we mean. 

Maybe someone has misjudged you, even said something against you or in some manner offended you. Are you going to magnify it all out of proportion to what it is and thereby give it substance? Or will you be wise enough to ignore it and let it smother because it has nowhere to go or to grow? Whichever way you decide, the decision and the outcome rests with you.

If successful, we are often the victims of resentment on the part of those who would like to have what we enjoy. We should be flattered, but instead are incensed at the injustice of it all. It is natural to feel so, especially if one is sensitive to the good opinion of others. But remember this, the good opinion of others is as nothing when compared to the opinion we hold of ourselves.

When we hold the right thoughts, no negative, destructive thoughts can come in and cause havoc. So isn’t it only sensible to keep bright, happy, constructive thoughts in our mental atmosphere and keep our guard up so that nothing else can enter in to spoil the lovely atmosphere we are creating about us?  

It is a constant struggle, a constant battle to do so, but so worthwhile to the person who is involved. It means more than a momentary satisfaction -- it means the difference between peace and harmony and discord and strife. You make the choice.

Investing in Self

 We must invest in self -- just keep the love, the hope, the faith and confidence of life working for us and help humanity in every way we find it possible to do. 

 

If we lock our good points up in the bank of human life, they will not work for us, for contrary to human life on the earth plane and its systems of investing monies, your virtues cannot work for you unless they are used. We cannot keep them under lock and key and expect them to do anything for us. 

We must invest in self -- just keep the love, the hope, the faith and confidence of life working for us and help humanity in every way we find it possible to do. Only in this way can we realize on the investment of self. 

Money, it is true too, must be kept in circulation in order to grow for us, but what is meant here is that, although we do not lose money by storing it away for it is still there, in life we actually do lose all the virtues we fail to use and to use well. They do grow and expand with use and only in this way can we help others and thereby also help ourselves.

Use and express the love you feel, the hope, the faith, the good and the positive things of life. Push into the background all the negative elements of life, the fears, the distrust, the feelings of inadequacy, et cetera. Do not accept them when they enter the consciousness, but throw them out by supplanting them with their positive opposites.  

Try this method of living and your positive nature will grow and your whole spiritual being will benefit.

Desires of the Soul

All desires may not be good, but of whatever nature they are necessary to the soul for its full development. 

 

Desires are the necessities of the soul. All desires may not be good, but of whatever nature they are necessary to the soul for its full development. Some desires when realized do not meet or come up to the expectation of the person, but it was necessary to them in order that they might learn the lesson therein. 

All should desire happiness and peace and harmony (really one and the same) but all are not evolved to do so. Some have truly base desires, such as revenge or lust to kill even and many emotions born in error. They must be eradicated in order for the soul to grow for they are like poisons that fester and cause disease. In truth, they are from diseased minds and many do not learn these lessons unless they follow the terrible desires of their warped minds.  

On the other hand, those whose vibrations are above the baser ones of earth life grow into a harmony and peace, and all things are added unto them just as was promised by Jesus. So that really it is a matter of soul growth and a getting away from ignorance and error into the light. By light we mean the greater wisdom and love of God in which we all grow and continually evolve. 

Watch then carefully that all desires of the soul are in a high vibratory rate and in that we will have our happiness.

Striving for Harmony

 

... it is only in the overcoming of the possessiveness of material gain and the realization of kinship with all life and the growth of love that peace or harmony in life will come.

 

We are all striving for harmony in life, for peace and the wisdom that makes harmony possible. Many do not realize just what it is they are after in life. Some think it is for material gain, material possessions, et cetera and that, achieving this, they will automatically have peace, love, and harmony in life. In other words, the Kingdom of God that is within will have been quickened, but this is not so.   

This inner peace is not found in this way at all. In fact it is only in the overcoming of the possessiveness of material gain and the realization of kinship with all life and the growth of love that peace or harmony in life will come.  

We all tend to worship false gods and to see through a glass darkly rather than to see the light that always is there for us to see when we arrive at the proper state of mind. We must aspire before we can become inspired, and then too it is a long, hard road with many a downfall before we see the truth.

How simple life would be if only the selfish, negative thoughts could be kept out. We must constantly police our thoughts and know that in so doing we are on the right road. That is indeed a big step in the right direction, for to seek is to find, and to knock [means] it will be opened unto you and to all who so do.

Believe -- Think Big

Believe and it is so. Think big and, if all else is good in your life, it will be added unto you.

 

Supply is always available if we but believe.  

There are the mountain tops of life in which we are at our peak of joy, plenty, harmony and all the good things of life. 

There are also the valleys in which supply has dwindled perhaps to almost nothing, joy is non-existent and the negative qualities all seem to predominate.  

Then too there is the plane of levelness in which things go along pretty well, neither extreme being present; life seems to almost be self-sustaining and we somehow find, at times, even an indifference about it all. 

But that is life, and in its infinite variety itself there is always promise. We never stand still really unless we choose to stagnate and few would willingly subscribe to that.  

We all have different lessons to learn of life and many, because of this fact, cannot understand others and the great problems they must face. There are many whose lives remain uneventful while others are at full tide almost always and attract all sorts of good. It is no accident that this is so, there is no chance, or luck that causes this. It is all due to the indwelling entity and the auric field of thought constantly held to.

Believe and it is so. Think big and, if all else is good in your life, it will be added unto you. These laws of life are always at work for us if we but believe and know that they are true.