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.

Solving Problems

 

Every question has an answer, every problem has a solution, every act has its reaction and every thought leaves its mark upon us.  

 

Problems come to all in life and always there is a solution. Though we may think of some of them as unsolvable, it is not so. Every question has an answer, every problem has a solution, every act has its reaction and every thought leaves its mark upon us.  

Habits are simply thoughts that have occurred again and again and become ingrained on our consciousness so that we are, in reality, a lot of various habits of life. 

If we choose, we can change them for better habits, [but] only if we continually watch ourselves and keep out the thoughts that originally have caused us to habitually do the things we do, say the things we say -- so much so that our very personality is changed. Personality, that intangible something, is, in truth, habits of thought and action which constitute our way of life.  

So we now get back to our particular problems. These are ours alone because we have created them. We are the only ones who can change them because our thoughts, our actions following our thoughts and causing chain reactions, are the cause of the original problem no matter what it may be.  

So change your thought about the problem and you change your life.

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.

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. 

Evolving

We have the power, we have the solution to all our problems in our grasp if we but believe we can and will go forth and do and overcome.

 

The seeds of life grow in the dark, and later, when the roots are started, begin growing toward the light. The light is within but must first be awakened after the roots of growth are thrust forth into the earth life.  

Our childhood is the root system of life on the earth plane and in later years we may perhaps become aware of a greater life of the Spirit, an inner life that can help us to become a more spiritualized being.  

We are often awakened to this by some experience of life that shatters us to the core, or rudely disturbs our thoughts and throws our illusions to the winds. If this is so, it is well and we needed that experience to bring us into a greater light, a greater awareness of the purpose of life.   

We could not, even if we so desired, stand still. We must have varied experiences to bring us greater life. We may not always enjoy these experiences for many bring grief and inharmony to us, but if that is so, then it is needed to bring home to us some truth which in no other way would we see. 

We often need an abrupt change in our way of thinking about ourselves and others in order that our lives should be benefited thereby. We ourselves can often bring about a desired change simply by changing our thought about it and though not easy to accomplish, it is possible and if done will bring us what we seek in life.  

Peace, love, friendship, joy -- all should and can be ours if we will them to be and our need is great enough to cause us to change our ways to ways of truth and light.

If we desire strongly to attain a material thing or a spiritual attribute, either one can be ours by sincere application and by faith that it is so and will be so always. We have the power, we have the solution to all our problems in our grasp if we but believe we can and will go forth and do and overcome.

Spiritual Poverty

There is a poverty of the spirit that transcends that of poverty of material possessions and many of the earth plane of life have such poverty. 

 

There is a poverty of the spirit that transcends that of poverty of material possessions and many of the earth plane of life have such poverty. They do not realize it, of course, for their sense of values are warped and they perceive only the material, knowing nothing of spiritual values.  

When they do awaken to the real state of affairs, and often this is not until they reach the spiritual world, they suddenly find they have been following the wrong path of life and instead of growing in the light they have been wallowing in the darkness. It is sad then to see their plight, and to feel the remorse, the regrets for what might have been had they not been so blind to the real values life has to offer them. 

Such people certainly go through a form of mental hell for the realization is brought home to them that only in the material plane of life can they recover and go on in the light.  

While in the Spiritual realms they can be made to understand their lack and to go to schools where true values are taught and where they can learn better. In actual practice they must again go through experiences [on earth] that will give them the opportunity to grow out of their evil ways and to extend their knowledge in a practical manner.   

For although the Spiritual realm offers much to them, they cannot go forward there until they have redeemed themselves from the life of material selfishness, greed, revenge and all the evil influences that cause the spirit to be in such poverty, lacking the love, the peace, the strength and power that alone comes with spiritual growth and brings one into the higher life of the Spirit when such a person is ready to enter the Spiritual realm of life.

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.

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.