We believe in the healing of the
sick through the Power of this Mind.
– Ernest Holmes Principles of
Religious Science
Whatever our theological or
spiritual inclinations, medical studies reveal a mind-body connection. Besides
the demonstrated placebo effect, where researchers substitute inert substances or
sugar for the medications and healings or cures result, there are countless
documented cases of spontaneous remissions or healings that show up after
people have meditated or prayed. They only had to believe in the possibility of
a healing and couple that belief with a burning desire to live fully in a healthy
body.
All of the ancient scriptures
relate that humans through the processes of prayer and meditation attract to
them the blessings of God or the gods. Sometimes these scriptures teach this as
a miraculous divine intervention but most often, on careful reading we plainly
see that definite causative thoughts led to definite actions producing specific
effects.
Again, with or without a belief
in any specific deity, we discover that by thinking clearly along a definite
line of reasoning with our attitude positive to our success, we can change our
experience in any prosperity arena.
A 1994 issue of Science of Mind
Magazine quotes Ernest Holmes as saying, “Rightly approached, positive thinking
does not mean aggressiveness or the use of willpower, but rather a dynamic, affirmative
attitude toward life. We direct the power and creativity that reside by nature
in our thought through the process of a prayer of faith, which is based in the conviction
that there must be a Wholeness back of everything. Constructive affirmative
thinking leads us to that Wholeness, and faith in that Wholeness is our key to
the fruits of its action.”
A prosperity mind is appreciative
and grateful faith in possibility growing to certainty and then to assurance
that prosperity is available now to everyone and that we achieve it through
thought leading to actions of acceptance and generous distribution. Thoughts of
health persistently maintained yield healthy behaviors and a healthy attitude –
health. Thoughts of free expression, being loved and loving, or of financial
freedom achieve the end by becoming an active movement in life to create and
accept the thing thought of.
With prosperity mind, any good
thing is possible and more easily achievable. Without this prosperity attitude,
we probably will miss the abundance at hand and struggle with life to achieve
any success at all. Simply believe that it is and that it is active in all of
us now and then watch the action unfold.
I now recognize the Power of Mind
as the Power I direct with my thought so I deliberately direct this Power to
achieve for me my complete experience of prosperity as my delightfully
successful life, which unfolds with great gratitude and active appreciation now
and so it is.
John
Rev. John Lusk
“First
you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a
definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will
give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is
the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes
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