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.

Automated World

 

Everything worthwhile improves with use, including our brains and our brawn.

 

Everything in today’s world seems to center in automation. We ride everywhere, seldom walk. With few exceptions, our material possessions are all made automatically by machines. Our life is computed almost automatically in many ways. 

The question is, are we better off in today’s world than in the world of yesterday? Of course we are materially for we all possess more of the world’s goods than ever before, and also we are assured of much more leisure, an almost unheard of thing in other times, except for those who had servants to do their bidding.  

Yes, on the whole we are really better off, although this automation should not extend into our lives so much that exercise is a thing of the past too, for all of us need exercise to keep up our blood tone, our circulation and to keep us from becoming flabby and old before our time. There is danger always in excess of any kind, and everything being automatically done for us is quite apt to make us lazy and indifferent to some real needs.

We would not care to go back to the horse and buggy, or the carpet beating of another generation, but we should temper our work that is automatic with some that takes real active muscle work to keep us in good condition health wise.

Everything worthwhile improves with use, including our brains and our brawn.

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.

Healing Forces

Healing, wherever needed, is constantly taking place in our bodies, especially so if we are attuned to a healing vibration. 

 

Healing, wherever needed, is constantly taking place in our bodies, especially so if we are attuned to a healing vibration. Our bodies are in a constant state of flux and, though we do not realize it, are constantly being torn down and then built up again. This process is always going on in every department of our being.  

We can ask special help in restoring to a more normal condition where some wound or maladjustment has taken place, and prayer will indeed send special help to that person in need wherever he may be. But no matter whether or not we are aware of our minds taking hold and healing us, nevertheless it is going on. We are constantly being renewed to carry on where we are currently needed.   

Our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully constructed, and the thought power behind it all is our reason to be. So it is the all-important, life-giving thought that will heal, that will cause the bodily organs to function properly and to adjust where necessary anywhere the body finds obstruction or illness.  

We, the spirit within, the God-power given to us, are the healers, and this process is constant. We can help by holding the right thought about ourselves and others, making sure that our thought is positive in nature and constructive so that healing can more easily be accomplished.  

Prayer will help immeasurably too because it will marshal our bodily functions to better and more positive action far quicker than would ordinarily be effected. We are the real doctors of self although the medical profession can and do accomplish great things in the field of health and help us many times to help ourselves. But our real healing comes from God and the God-giving healing properties within each and every one of us.

Thoughts are Things

... we all need to weed out and constantly keep guard over our minds and, like a garden, allow only the most beautiful flowers to grow there ...

 

Thoughts are things. This fact we cannot change, cannot alter no matter what. Our most constant state of mind colors our thought life and finally brings into manifestation exactly what we have held in mind, whether or not it is desired.   

Suppose for instance that we have allowed for a long period of time thoughts of resentment, envy, jealousy and even hatred. Given time and continuing to flourish, they will manifest in the human body as various illnesses bringing forth their own kind for the law of attraction is always at work and no one can escape its effects.

It behooves all of us to keep strong all the kind, happy, good thoughts in our atmosphere so that they will bring forth their own kind, multiplying the goodness and health and peace of mind of the individual who holds these positive conditions in his mind.  

In actuality, we all need to weed out and constantly keep guard over our minds and, like a garden, allow only the most beautiful flowers to grow there, killing off the choking weeds of evil thoughts and all negative thoughts of mind as fast as they try to enter. It is a constant struggle to eradicate them, but such a rewarding one that we must all try harder to improve.

Reaping and Sowing

 

We all reap what we sow and there is no such thing as luck or really of accidents as such either.

 

Those who harbor hate, resentment, jealousy, envy and kindred emotions carry a viper in their breast. They know not the terrible damage they do, not to others, but to themselves.  

God’s laws are not mocked, justice does prevail, and punishment is done to the physical as well as the mental of the one who allows thoughts of these low vibrations to come into his or her auric field.

We all reap what we sow and there is no such thing as luck or really of accidents as such either. They are caused by the laws of cause and effect and all people benefit or reap disaster according to their true inner life which always, in the final analysis, manifests in the physical in some manner.  

Of those to whom much is given, much is expected. At some time in the life they have been desirous of better things and, if deserving, the Spirit loved ones have worked out for them conditions that will bring into fruition that which is their innermost desire. If the contrary is true then, “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord,” and in due time it is brought out, because it is only in this fashion that the person will eventually learn the laws of life.  

Love is the first law and truth is its star.

Over-indulgence

 We can overdo anything and to do it to excess is a very bad trait and one that must not be encouraged. 

 

Over-indulgence is truly a sin. If we take within our bodies more rich food than we need, that is one form of overindulgence. If we live with material possessions over and above what is necessary and a large surplus of things is acquired just for the sake of luxury, et cetera, that too is overindulgence.  

We can overdo anything and to do it to excess is a very bad trait and one that must not be encouraged. Especially in eating is it bad because it causes stress on the bodily functions and throws them out of kilter. Then we are in trouble because everything must be utilized in some fashion and if toxic wastes are accumulated, we pay a stiff price for our indulgence of self.   

If we are wise, we eat, not just for the sake of eating, but for the sake of building and rebuilding the body so that it can properly do its work. We must not cater to false appetites; the craving for sweets and rich foods eventually takes its toll in illness and we pay the piper, a high price for this form of indulgence. 

Is it worth it? If given thought we find indeed that it is not worth it for not only do we become ill by this, but we accumulate excess poundage which causes the bodily functions twice the work.  

It is like a contractor who is building a house with just so many men working for him. Finally, when things pile up, he must add men to do the work because he must get it done on time. So it is with the human body. We find our functions must be stepped up in order to get rid of the toxic poisons that have accumulated and must be disposed of.  

Isn’t it wiser and better in every way to use care by eating and drinking only that which we truly need, never overtaxing our bodies and thereby also helping our minds to function better? 

We all know the answer, the right answer to this question. The thing is, are we going to carry out these ideas or are we once again going to get on the treadmill of overindulgence?

Peace Within

 What is ardently desired is possible to achieve, but one must first have peace within himself ...

 

Peace is within the grasp of all people and all truly want peace whether or not the realization of this is there. What is ardently desired is possible to achieve, but one must first have peace within himself before it can be expressed outwardly. This truth is always evident in all departments of being.

In other words, what we believe we are exists for us and becomes manifest to us in our world, our environment. If we are within at peace, in perfect harmony of mind and body, expressing health, plenty and, paramount of all, love, we are then peace. Heaven, the kingdom of God, is within and we outwardly express the conditions of our within (our minds) at all times. 

If we desire to express greater happiness, love, peace, or whatever we need at the time, we must believe, must know we can change conditions that now may exist into greater potentials for our life by thought. 

Thoughts are things, and have power, great power, so we must only let in those thoughts that have the powers we need and want to better express our life upon this earth plane.

We must work at it constantly until it becomes habit and then we are the expression in life we have believed and desired. Act as if you have it now, believe it and make it so and it will be manifested unto you.

Negative Dynamite

When people learn to use a mental trash barrel and constantly guard their thoughts, then they will no longer manifest disease and troubles.

 

When people hold thoughts that originate with envy, jealousy, hatred, revenge and other negative emotions behind them, they are playing with dynamite. These very dark, negative emotions take over the mind and play havoc with the physical bodies of those who harbor these thoughts. 

There is a little-known law that is always in operation that makes punishment immediate for these thoughts and subsequent actions, whether we are aware of it or not. At first it perhaps is too subtle to notice, but after holding these negative forces in the mind over a long period of time, they manifest in the physical as disease, or as illness and that is the true cause of disease. It does indeed originate in the mind.  

People may also harbor fear thoughts and they too, being negative, bring about their particular manifestations of nervousness and diseases of the nervous system.  

When people realize they themselves bring on their own ills and alone are responsible for their destiny, then they will destroy these thought forms when they first come into the mind and quickly substitute some good positive love thoughts that generate health and wellbeing for the personality. 

When people learn to use a mental trash barrel and constantly guard their thoughts, then they will no longer manifest disease and troubles.

Guideposts for Moderation

 

The guideposts are there and should be followed, but somehow we’d rather follow our own inclination, however false.

 

There are guideposts along the way of life for all to see and to follow if they are wise. Unfortunately few are wise and therefore these guideposts go unrecognized.

Have you seen any lately? If not, why not? Perhaps you have seen them but have thought, well just this once perhaps I’ll not follow and maybe it will be all right.  

Our health is good or bad because we see or do not see these guideposts along life’s way, and this is also true of our life in general. Everything in moderation is a guide that should be utilized, but often is ignored because our false appetite has grown so that it intrudes, and we feel we must satisfy it whether or not the food is needed, and so it is throughout. Once we have filled our needs that should be the end of it, but the weakness grows and becomes insatiable and we are victims of excess in whatever it is we are doing. 

The guideposts are there and should be followed, but somehow we’d rather follow our own inclination, however false. It is not always easy this reading of the signs and then abiding by them. No, it takes a certain amount of desire plus the will to accomplish and to be firm with self. Not easy, but it is the only way to keep from error.  

Follow your guideposts to victory over self.