When fate brings old friends back into our lives, there is always a reason.

Dear Beloved Self, the following piece feels absolutely true for me - it rings the bells of resonance loud and clear!!

"Every person that passes through our lives makes a contribution to our life stories. There are those who play large roles and make deep impressions, but sometimes a brief special appearance before life takes them in another direction creates a meaningful connection. It is a rare gift when they suddenly reappear in our lives after a long absence.

Though the world may seem full of more people than we could ever know, we are often drawn to people with similar energy, which brings us together time and time again. On first meeting, the characters in our life stories may seem familiar. We may know each other from past lives or perhaps we merely recognize the energy of a kindred spirit. But when fate brings old friends back into our lives, there is always a reason. They may act as messengers, reminding us of a part of ourselves we have forgotten to nurture. They might appear to give us a chance to react in a new way to an old situation. They may even bring up unresolved issues so that we may complete them, giving us the chance to move forward on our life path. Whether old friends, previous romances, or once and future partners, their reappearance is more than mere chance. They may never know what they bring into our lives, but the renewed contact is a gift.

If this hasn’t happened to you, maybe you are meant to initiate contact by seeking out old friends. If old friends come to mind or into your dreams, use their appearance as an excuse to get in touch. If an old song or movie reminds you of them, reach out to share the gift of renewed contact. Wherever you fall in the circle of connection and reconnection, be sure to look beyond the surprise of the moment to enjoy the deeper gift that this revelation brings."

~ Madisyn Taylor, "Daily Om" ~

Creating Authentic Power

Dear Beloved Self, I love how YOU guide me constantly. You bring forth knowledge and wisdom in abundance in so many many ways.  Your Love expresses Itself constantly and spontaneously. My only job is to stay awake and keep remembering my Authentic and True Self.

In keeping with your constant love, I received a wonderful mail yesterday from Gary Zukav talking about creating AUTHENTIC POWER.  I loved it. I loved it because it was something I was looking for but did'nt know exactly what I was looking for if you know what I mean. Thank You.

In my present role as primary caretaker I find myself being constantly challenged and every time I create a little joy, the feeling settles down like gold dust not only on me, but on everyone else as well at home. The same happens when I give into impatience and irritation.  With joy, however, more love and understanding is created.  Yes, created!!  We are creators!!  I never understood what this meant spiritually.  Every time I read a profound spiritual message about the fact that we are creators, I found myself hard to understand this because in my small limited, worldly and material mind I thought only those who were famous for inventing 'something' which got world attention are 'creators'!!  Well, the good news is that I have come a long way since then.  I AM A CREATOR!! period.  What do I create?  I create what I want in my life knowingly or unknowingly through the thoughts I hold in my mind.  When I finally got that bit, there was a mind explosion within me!!  I got it!!

Since then, the spiritual world opened up to me in a new way and began bringing to my attention all the ways I can create a better world for myself.  I Am already created perfect.  I have to REMEMBER that constantly.  Now, I have to uncreate the versions of me, those parts of me that bring fear into my life.  Like the Yoga Asanas, I have to stretch and breathe and feel which part of me needs healing and stretching and loving and smiling.  I noticed my world was filled with people and circumstances that my mind drew to me.  The quality all depended on the quality of my thoughts. We have to constantly PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!!  What we do now will reflect in our golden years or at the time of a serious crises. How we see our pain and deal with it will show up in times of health and other crises.  How we approach healing all depends on the  continuum of our thoughts.  Thoughts are prayers.  Prayers are always granted.  The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our prayer requests/gratitude, etc.  God created me with a Thought. I Am a Thought of God!

Gary Zukav, author of "The Seat of the Soul" says :

"Creating authentic power requires stretching yourself.  It can be no other way.  Authentic power is the ability to speak and act with love no matter what is happening inside you and no matter what is happening outside you.  Frightened parts of your personality speak and act in fear.  If they are not challenged, your life remain unchanged - still angry, jealous, dissatisfied.  When you challenge them - when you choose not to act on them when rage roars through you, jealousy eats at you, thoughts of vengeance will not leave you, or sex, alcohol, food, pornography, or gambling magnetically attract you - your life changes.  This is the stretch that changes you.  It is the act of creating authentic power - the moment of consciously moving beyond the control of your fear.  Doing this repeatedly creates authentic power.  You stretch yourself again and again, and eventually the control of the frightened parts of your personality over you diminishes.  Then it disappears.  Experiences of fear - anger, jealousy, despair, rage - may return, but they do not affect you as deeply.  They run off you, so to speak, like water off the feathers of a duck.

As you create authentic power your life fills with purpose and  meaning.  You begin to give the gifts that you were born to give, the gifts that you cannot give while fear controls your deeds and words.  Your commitment to spiritual growth and courage to experience your fears consciously enable you to stretch yourself beyond them, and stretching yourself beyond the control of your fears allows joy and fulfillment.  That's the way it  works."

Right now I am into True Yoga. I am learning the Yoga of the Heart.  I am stretching and stretching and stretching.  I am seeing the gifts in all my negative emotions and the merits in the positive ones.  I am stretching and learning new ways. Only Love is Real.  This is the only Thought that matters because this is the guiding force behind creating authentic power within me.

With Love and only Love.

When we begin to understand the co-relation between yoga asanas and our own thoughts, words and action and become masters of our minds, we will have no need to practice the physical aspect of yoga because our very breaths will become  super-conscious  breathing and we will begin to follow the Way of the Heart effortlessly.

Giving Trust A Chance!

Dear Beloved Self, Through out Life , (if one sits to meditate upon on it) one will find that there is a dominant label we hold for ourselves and live according to that label.  Whatever the label, they all eventually fall into two major labels: Love and Fear.  I am discovering various ways to be in Love. But I am also discovering how to embrace Fear/Dark as something I created and so no one can really remove the darkness/fear unless I am willing to do so myself.  Once I agree to remove and release a fear based thought and habit, I see how easy it is to leave the rest to the Holy Spirit/Source.  Once that is done, the rest just moves effortlessly.  To be in Love is to be in Light.  To be in Light means to lighten one's burden of all that is fearsome in our hearts and minds.  I get it.  I've got it a zillion times and yet I forget so often!!

Today I want to talk about a big hurdle I had imposed on myself: resistance. I am nursing my mother who is practically bed ridden with a hip surgery.  My mother and I have many lessons to learn in trust - trusting each other for starters.  I can see how mystically Life has placed us in a situation where everything we say and do at this point is based on complete trust with each other. If we didnt practice this throughout our lives, the Universe was offering yet another chance to start a new direction in our relationship. She needs to trust that I will take care of her with unconditional  commitment towards her healing and without dropping her down between the bed and wheelchair amongst other things.  I need to trust that I can do it!   I need to trust that it is not me but Spirit working through me.  I need to reign in my impatience and begin a path of deep listening and patience.  I am ready for it.  Till yesterday it was impossible for me to even go there.

Last night I decided to have a heart to heart with Spirit. Lesson 49 of "A Course In Miracles" kept turning in my head. "God's Voice speaks to me all through the day."   As Marianne Williamson says "There are no different categories of love.  There isn't one kind of love between a mother and a child, another between lovers, and another between friends.  The love that is real is the love that lies at the heart of all relationships.  That is the love of God and it does'nt change with form or circumstance." ~ excerpted from "Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles". I surrendered everything to God.  I asked God to watch over us and surround us with angels so that we may both be well rested to start fresh tomorrow with a new approach. Even though I know Spirit never leaves us a single moment, but me saying it made it a real request for help and renewal of my commitment to change.  I had been up since 3 a.m. and managed to take a shower only at night before going to bed.  I asked for a good start the next morning.

A New Day! This morning I heard my mother calling out.  She needed help with her morning routines.  As usual, as I started to help her, her every day angry dramas started.  I asked her to have some faith and trust and before I could finish my sentence, she hollered at me that she does have faith, but her feet were slipping on the floor and could'nt get on them.  Okay.  I checked the time.  It was 6 a.m. and not 3 a.m.!!  That was a good start! Suddenly I felt a surge of faith.  I did get a good night's sleep. I was not hollered up at 3 a.m.  Wow! something to work with now.  I closed my eyes briefly and asked God to direct me.  After that everything went like a dream.

I wore my neck collar because I do have a severe cervical problem.  And like a soldier went into the field!  I started a line of action I never got inspired to do earlier.

I began to recognize her deep fear.  I  recognized my own place in God's world.  I saw her in God's world too. I created a little sacred space on the dressing table which was in her direct vision.  I placed the photo of The Divine Mercy because she has faith in Jesus in that aspect.  I lit a candle, burned incense and switched on spiritual chants.  It suddenly changed the whole atmosphere in the bedroom.  Then I started communicating with her my next action in order for her to get mentally prepared.  I told her that I was lifting her up from the bed to the chair and even though her feet were slipping, she must have faith that I will take every care to not hurt her.  She did.  Suddenly she became very submissive and open to instructions.  Her mood changed. Everything started happening as if in a dream. I even took the opportunity to cut her hair as well. She wanted tea. She's addicted to tea. I bargained with her.  With every meal she eats, she will get a little tea.  She gives a lot of trouble to eat proper meals. She agreed. I served her breakfast.

As I cleaned her up and allowed her to do whatever she could do for herself and finally took that leap of faith with her right from the wheelchair back to the bed, she smiled and said thank you!!

She said THANK YOU!!  That's a first.

And I will keep listening to the Voice of God.  Thank you Dear Self.  I can speak to You because I Am as You created me.

God's Voice Speaks To Me All Through The Day

Dear Beloved Self, The other day a wonderful teacher of "A course In Miracles" emailed Lesson 49 from The Course "God's Voice Speaks to Me All Through The Day" and shared her own perspective and her journey with God.  I was very grateful for that because it came at a time when I desperately needed this reminder as I am coping with a lot at the moment and I forget that I am not alone.  So as I write this guidance from The Course, it helps me to sink this awesome message deep into my subconscious mind.

I love how Jesus guides my mind to my True Interior Self.  After many many years of searching and seeking, I have come to a place of peace in my heart about Spirit's role in my Life. I know many people would rather not discuss this intricate part of our lives because of so many societal reasons plus their own confusion about their true identity and their role on Earth.  Its okay - perfectly okay - to feel this way, because it is this very lack of understanding that eventually brings on self inquiry which in turn pushes open the door of experience and understanding better paving the way for Self Realization.

Lesson 49 ~ God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.

"It is quite possible to listen to God's Voice all through day day without interrupting your regular activities in any way.  The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not.  It is the other part of your mind that functions in the world and obeys the world's laws.  It is this part which is constantly distracted, disorganized, and highly uncertain.
The part that is listening to the Voice of God is calm, always at rest, and wholly certain.  It is really the only part there is.  The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but without reality of any kind.   Try today not to listen to it.  Try to identify with the part of your mind where stillness and peace reign forever.  Try to hear God's Voice call to you lovingly, reminding you that your  Creator has not  forgotten His Son.

We will need at least four five-minute practice periods today and more if possible. We will try actually to hear the Voice reminding you of God and of your Self.  We will approach this happiest and holiest of thoughts with confidence, knowing that in doing so we are joining our will with the Will of God.  He wants you to hear His Voice.  He gave It to you to be heard.

Listen in deep silence.  Be very still, and open your mind.  Go past all the  raucous shrieks and sick imaginings that cover your real thoughts and obscure your eternal link with God.  Sink deep into the peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sounds and sights of this insane world.  You do not live there. We are trying to reach your real home.  We are trying to reach the place where you are truly welcome.  We are trying to reach God."

To arrive at this place of deep listening there is nothing we need to do, but practice silence and an attitude of deep listening. When that is difficult, I set an intention of willingness to practice as guided.  The intention of willingness is powerful and sets in motion all the heavenly forces to come to my aid.  I know because I experienced this so many times.  So, all I need to do is practice.

"Do not forget to repeat today's idea very frequently.  Do so with your eyes open when necessary, but closed when possible.  And be sure that you sit  quietly and repeat the idea for today slowly whenever you can, closing your eyes on the world and realizing that you are inviting God's Voice to speak to you."

How sublimely perfect.  I Am Listening Deeply Today.  In Love & Deepest Gratitude.

Patience

Dear Beloved Self, I believe Patience is the biggest lesson a human being must learn.  Its a spiritual virtue - one worthy to note  and remember each day.  Every act in your life needs to be done with tender loving care.  Oh! I like that - three words already describe Patience - 'tender', 'loving' and 'care'!

How is it you don't worry about the physical growth of a baby? Yet, a baby just grows without you taking notes and checking every day. Your only concern to is to keep baby well and strong and nursed every day. You just 'KNOW' that baby will grow.  There's no deep insight required from you to know this.  Baby will grow. You know.  Its a given.  In the meanwhile you nurture baby as she/he grows with tender loving care.

Love yourself deeply.  Be kind to yourself no matter how long something takes to be accomplished. It could be a habit, perhaps, a situation, people, etc. - anything!  Don't be in a hurry.  Life is eternal.  If you want to set targets and goals, fine!  But your only true goal is to become 'KNOWN" to your Higher Self.  Your only goal is to look at The Light that shines from heaven because that Light is reflected in your Soul and lights your path in the world.  That path before you has already been walked by Spirit when It created you through the Masters, Mystics, Saints and Sages.  Spirit knows your path. Spirit wants to experience it through you as YOU, Dear Beloved Self.  How magnificent you are indeed.  Spirit is Love and you come from Love only.  Patience IS. Love IS.

Somebody wisely said "Patience is a kind of love.  A love that is its own explanation in  bewildered  circumstances.  It is an old, old woman placing a wrinkled-parchment hand against the cheek of a reckless child.  Because her heart is too wise to make room for reproach.  Too full to find place for offense."

May Heaven rest in your Sacred Heart.

Sing Your Heart Song!

It’s often difficult to deal with someone else’s issues, because they impact your own. No one is perfect, but sometimes (a lot of the times!) you become vulnerable to being manipulated.  Its always good to remind yourself  then that this world need not be taken seriously or personally.  A sense of humor cuts through a lot of ‘stuff’ that people tend to shove on you through their reactions and projections.  Don’t let that happen.   Don’t let anyone do that to you.  Go within and find your Heart Song. Sing it! Dance it! Chant it! Pray it!  Delve into your Joy!  There’s no need to just cope with a situation because any situation that feels painful is an illusion even though it may appear real.  Let yourself know that when you feel pain, it is an indication that you are out of alignment with your True Being.  Set boundaries.  Love yourself unconditionally.  Stay detached.  Only Love heals.  Love is not to be understood as something to demonstrate through ‘pampering’ another, or being at the mercy of another’s whims and fancies.  Love is looking beyond the form and seeing the true, the Spirit within the person facing you.  The form is nothing.  Don’t be afraid of the form.  Fear is an illusion.

Life is a Mystery. Its also Mystical. Life is Eternal and Unpredictable. Life is Movement. Nothing is ever meant to be static. Movement brings challenges that must not be resisted, for progress can only be made by letting go of what was, and welcoming what is and what is yet to come. Stay calm and composed in your center no matter what the chaos. Fortify yourself with prayer and meditation.  Call on Spirit directly. Such invocations offer power and strength and draws out all the goodness and beauty that is already within you. You are directly connected to Source. The Power of Spirit is always perfect and consistent with only Love.

Seek only love and you will be loved. Its one and the same thing.

May Heaven Rest in Your Heart Eternally.

Healing With Love, Compassion & Understanding

Presently, I am extremely busy playing the role of caretaker for my mother who has just had a hip surgery.  She makes for a very difficult and challenging patient and I am hoping I can learn more deeply from this whole experience.  When one member of the family is ill, it always affects everyone else.  All our ‘nursing’ and ‘caring’ skills automatically come to the fore and we begin to make temporary changes in the way we will run our lives for a few days/weeks, whatever.

Time was when I looked at sickness just for what it was supposed to mean – just sickness.  I was clueless about the mind’s role in the whole business of health and healing.  Now I believe the world has become a lot more enlightened and most of us know that for healing to take place at the deepest and absolute level it has to be addressed spiritually.  So, I decided to go the Ho’oponopono way.  Only one problem: I was coming in my own way through my own resistance to a lot of emotional stuff that just kept resurfacing.  The patient is my mother and we have a lot of history.  I thought all my abandonment issues were firmly over and done with only to find a lot of unforgiveness and resentment still lurked in the darkest recesses of my subconscious mind as I was called to help her in the most basic ways.  She is unable to do anything for herself at the moment and so that is where I come in.  The irony of Life is that the very foundation of healing is that you can do something for someone who never did it for you even as a duty with absolute compassion. Life knows all the right remedies. There are no complicated theories.  We have to overcome through our deepest and most painful wounds.  Words are not enough. The Universe will call you to action to back up the words.  To say "I Love You" and "I Forgive You" is not enough.  Action will be the testimony to those words. The workings of our subconscious mind can be turned around to heal us, but the important lesson is to learn why that illness and pain has presented itself.  The wounding comes from a place beyond us and so does the cure.  

Paul Levy says: 

“The archetype of the wounded healer reveals to us that it is only by being willing to face, consciously experience and go through our wound do we receive its blessing. To go through our wound is to embrace, assent, and say “yes” to the mysteriously painful new place in ourselves where the wound is leading us. Going through our wound, we can allow ourselves to be re-created by the wound. Our wound is not a static entity, but rather a continually unfolding dynamic process that manifests, reveals and incarnates itself through us, which is to say that our wound is teaching us something about ourselves. Going through our wound means realizing we will never again be the same when we get to the other side of this initiatory process. Going through our wound is a genuine death experience, as our old self “dies” in the process, while a new, more expansive and empowered part of ourselves is potentially born.

Going through and embracing our wound as a part of ourselves is radically different than circumnavigating and going around (avoiding), or getting stuck in and endlessly, obsessively recreating (being taken over by) our wound. The event of our wounding is simultaneously catalyzing a deeper (potential) healing process which requires our active engagement, thus “wedding” us to a deeper level of our being.”

Not everyone changes with age. What do you do when the patient you are caring for is not prone to heeding good medical advise or who is a very challenging one?  You just have to write a new script.  Look at the whole experience as something to learn from.  And this is where Ho’oponopono comes in.

Joe Vitale’s “Zero Limits” talks about “Ho'oponopono”, a Hawain system of healing in great depth.  The Basics of Ho’oponopono is that we take 100% responsibility for whatever comes into our experience, whether it is something we ourselves are doing or it is a problem with a loved one, if someone confides in us about a problem, or even if we hear something on the news. Anything that evokes negative emotion which includes doubt, fear, guilt, etc. becomes our problem. We are all connected.  What hurts one, hurts all.  At whatever level we feel healed, there are many minds that are healed as well. To know more about this practice you can go here http://www.essenceofthedivine.com/hooponopono.htm

You will notice the whole practice is about ‘you’ and not about the ‘patient’.  That’s exactly the whole idea.  You are your brother’s keeper!!

Indeed, I take absolute responsibility for everything in my experience.  When I am healed, the other is healed. As it turns out, I am not really 'caretaking' my mother, but rather, it is my own soul that I am taking care of in order to experience absolute healing all around.

Quite a revelation indeed!

The Gifts of The Present Moments

Yesterday, my very dear Friend Poonam visited us at home and she brought along so much of unbridled joy by just being herself.  Poonam is full of positivity and good will always sharing her love everywhere as she, like santa clause, offers precious little gifts for those she visits. She basks in the warmth  of the love that is being reciprocated and she relishes every moment of it through her vibrant enthusiasm and desire to give really tight hugs, taste the food being cooked, flopping on the sofa, laughing wildly and generally being the "Raunak", joy, radiance and excitement of her environment.

Later in the day, I accompanied her to visit another special friend of hers (she has many 'special' friends!) And that turned out to be unexpectedly life changing for me.

Her friend lives on the 17th floor in a 19 floor 'sky scraper' in Ghaziabad (Delhi's neighbouring state).  I loved her home.  It was beautiful and tastefully decorated.  She lives alone by choice.  I gasped when I entered her home, because instantly I was taken back to my own years of single living and my idea of an 'ideal' home for myself.  And this was as close as I could get to that memory. I suddenly felt myself in a 'time warp' and experienced a tinge of regret that I had harbored all these years of having to give up my independence.  I am re-married now and have been so for the last ten years but somewhere there seemed to still a linger a desire to go back to the so-called 'free spirit'.  I never dwelled much on it before, but this wonderful lady's home brought out an unexpressed wish and desire that I kept pushing away in the past right into the light of my consciousness. And suddenly, I snapped out of it! I came to a huge  realization!  I think my whole facial expression changed because later Poonam mentioned that I looked like I went into a trance for about 10 minutes!! 

OMG! in that moment in time, I  realized I would never, never, change what I have now for something of my past.  Yes, I would be open for new beginning and changes in the future  whatever  they may be, but the past is over and done with.  I felt such a rush of gratitude for my husband, my life, my home, all the joys of living I was experiencing each day alongwith occasional frustrations and irritations for situations brought on by myself totally.  I suddenly felt light and free.  Why was I carrying such a burden all this while?  I answered myself: simply because I could not see the expansiveness of this moment.  And as I walked over to her balcony and looked down the 17 floors, everyone looked so tiny and so far away on the ground. I kept looking down for quite a while till suddenly I heard Poonam asking from a few steps away from the balcony "what happened to your vertigo?" Another healing moment!  I then realised why Poonam was not standing near me and enjoying the view - she has a 'vertigo' problem just as I used to have!

I gasped again!! Another 'OMG'! left my lips - 'OMG! I am no longer afraid to look down from heights!!  Whereas my legs would just quiver and shake with so much fear in the past, there I was standing firmly rooted on the floor enjoying the view - up, down and all around!!  In my heart I felt, I just did a huge piece of releasing of past fears! The two awakening moments just blended into each other seamlessly.  I was no longer afraid to look at my past without regret.  I did'nt have to try to not be regretful.  I just kind of gradually came to that moment through the continuous inner work that is ongoing.  What a gift!  It came to me wrapped and unexpected and I accepted with  curiosity not knowing that, that visit would change my life! OMG!!  Plus I made a new friend!

I went back home and expressed my gratitude lavishly to my husband in the presence of Poonam and later privately as well.  I could see how much Pankaj appreciated that and then he responded in his mischievous and typically 'wise' way "We all need somebody, not just to love, but to fight with as well!  We need to know we are still alive"!  Ahem! that makes perfect sense to me in a very earthly way! :))

Lately, I discovered in my heart that my Present Moments are "Pre-Sent" moments - moments sent to me by my Soul to truly live out my inner creations and see the gifts in each experience and release all that 'spoils' the gift that is being offered to me.  What could be more freeing??!!

Now that, according to my new understanding, is being a "Free Spirit"!  As Meister Eckhart says, "If the only prayer you say in your life is 'Thank You', that would suffice".  I agree.  

Thank you! Aum.

The Healing Power of The Subconscious Mind

Healing can be grossly misunderstood.  A lot of people are focussed only on the physical healing and wonder why its not happening despite their best efforts.  I discovered many years ago that for healing to take place totally, absolutely, fully and completely, the first doctor one must visit is the Mighty  Physician within - one's Inner Healer.  As the Inner Healer starts working from within, the image of perfect health will be manifested on the outside, physical body.  In truth the body does not need healing - the mind does! A Course In Miracles says pain and suffering comes when we think we are the body and therefore, act like just a body.  Indeed, we are more than the body.  Much more!  We are extensions of God and our DNA is Love.  Love brings forth perfection.  Only Love is Real.  If we can get this fact deeply embedded into our subconscious mind, more than 50% of the job gets done.  The rest happens with much speed and quite rapidly as we go about incorporating changes in our mindset and ourselves.

The reason I have been exploring this subject so much over the years, is because I 'suffer' chronic pain in my body which has been happening since I was a child.  The strange thing was before I knew any of the book stuff, somewhere, deep in my consciousness, I was quite convinced that I did'nt have any disease so to speak, but ofcourse I did'nt know where that came from and made me doubt everything about my thoughts because the world teaches you different lessons altogether and most often quite contrary to what you deeply sense from within.  Times have changed now and we talk about everything under the sun openly and with much less fear.  We are beginning to understand the power of our own minds and the effect it has on everything around us including ourselves.  I won't go into details in this post, however, this blog is intended to share my own personal experiences using the subconscious mind for my healing amongst other things.  For today, I would love to share a bit from Dr Joseph Murphy's "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind".  I love this book because it is simple, easy to understand and highly effective.

There is nothing like the victory of personal experience.  Dr. Murphy talks about his own healing from a rare form of skin cancer.

Here's an excerpt from his book.

THE SUBCONSCIOUS HEALS A MALIGNANCY OF THE SKIN

The most convincing evidence anyone can have of the healing power of the subconscious mind is a personal healing.  Over forty years ago I developed a malignancy of the skin.  I went to the finest doctors, who tried the most advanced treatments medical science could offer.  None of these helped.  The malignancy got progressively worse.

Then, one day, a clergyman with a deep store of psychological knowledge told me the inner meaning of the 139th Psalm.  He called my attention to the passage that reads:

"In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."

He explained that the term book meant my subconscious mind, which fashioned and molded all my organs from a tiny original cell.  He pointed out that since my subconscious mind had made my body, it could also recreate it and heal it according to the perfect pattern within it.

This clergyman pointed to his watch, "This had a maker," he told me.  "But before the watch could become an objective reality, the watchmaker had to have the idea of it clearly in mind.  If for some reason the watch stopped working as it should, the watchmaker's idea of it would give him the knowledge he needed to fix it."

I understood what he was  trying  to tell me by this analogy.  The subconscious intelligence that created my body was like the watchmaker. It knew exactly how to heal, restore, and direct all the vital functions and process of my body.  But for it to do this properly, I had to give it the perfect idea of health.  This would act as cause, and the effect would be a healing.

I formulated a very simple and direct prayer.

My body and all its organs were created by the infinite intelligence in my subconscious mind.  It knows how to heal me. Its wisdom fashioned all my organs, tissues, muscles, and bones. This infinite healing presence within me is now transforming every cell of my being, making me whole and perfect.  I give thanks for the healing I know is taking place at this time. Wonderful are the works of the creative intelligence within me.

I repeated this simple prayer aloud for about five minutes two or three times a day.  After some three months, my skin was whole and perfect. The malignancy had vanished.  My doctor was baffled, but I knew what had happened.  I had given life giving patterns of wholeness, beauty and perfection to by subconscious mind.  These forced out the negative images and patterns of thought lodged in my subconscious mind, which were the cause of all my trouble.

Nothing appears on your body except when the mental equivalent is first in your mind.  As you change your mind by drenching it with incessant  affirmatives, you change your body.

This is the basis of all healing.

"Marvelous are thy works: and that my soul (subconscious mind) knoweth right well. ~ Psalm 139:14

Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr Joseph Murphy.