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.

Resurrection

We are constant weavers of destiny and there is no escape for us from the destiny we have chosen for ourselves. 

 

“I am the Resurrection and the Life.” What is the inner meaning of this profound statement? 

To resurrect is to once again bring into eternal life from a mortal life; to shed the material body for the spiritual body, to lift out of oneself into a higher state of being. All this, self-done through the laws of the Father God, ever present, ever powerful, ever loving.

The life is eternal and is eternal now, but is always changing, evolving from the inner man. His thoughts resolve into actions and so the law works and we grow outwardly and inwardly. Change being the order of the day with life and growth from what we are now to what we constantly hold in the mind as our controlling thought which gradually evolves into manifestation, and so it continues. 

We are constant weavers of destiny and there is no escape for us from the destiny we have chosen for ourselves. We are, of course, influenced by our circumstances and those of others about us, but, by and large, our circumstances conform to our thought and expectations of good or ill that we entertain.

Keep control of the thought life and keep happy, positive thoughts in your mind.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Doubts

We must always follow our hearts and our heads.

 

There are times in the lives of all of us when doubt creeps in. We wonder what life would have brought forth for us had we done differently, had we made other choices than those we have followed. This is natural and right, but it is also folly for we made the right choice for us regardless of the outcome. If we hadn’t followed this path we would still have doubts for that is part of life.

We must always follow our hearts and our heads. By that, I mean our feelings about a given situation are all important to us and our thoughts that we give forth about it. They may not be correct but they are to us at least, and we need that experience or we would not enter into it. 

Life, of necessity, is filled with doubts, but it is not necessary to keep that state of mind. If and when it comes up in our minds and we wonder what would have been our life had we done differently, we must change that thought and realize that for us we did the right, the correct thing for only in that way and on that path could we learn a needed lesson.  

We must learn to be decisive, to drown our doubts and fears and abide by our choice and be happy with it, knowing that life is eternal and we cannot escape our good nor the evil either that we incur in life. 

To each his own; the choice is ours, and the doubts can go with the shadows of life where they belong.

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.

Hidden Talents

We cannot all be great artists but all can and do have talents, many that they could hardly realize because they are not brought out or exploited enough. 

 

Everyone has some talent, some gift which they can develop and perfect once they discover what that talent may be. Too there are many whose talents are numerous, but we speak now of those whose talents remain submerged, undiscovered, and they are legion. Often it is due to inherent fears, insecurity and other negative traits that are in the person’s makeup that keep the talents undiscovered.  

The persons involved may greatly admire some whose talents have been developed and yet he or she cannot realize that their potential may be even greater had they developed the talent they already possess.  

How is this brought about, you ask? How discovered? By simply casting aside all fears and doubts and going ahead with the strong desire uppermost in your mind and then you would find great pleasure and exultation in the quest and its result.

We cannot all be great artists but all can and do have talents, many that they could hardly realize because they are not brought out or exploited enough.  

“Seek and ye will find.  Ask and it will be added unto you.” [These are] admonitions to be heeded by all.