Mind

All posts in the Mind category

Love & Law

Published January 4, 2022 by tindertender

Excerpts for the book LOVE & LAW, The Unpublished Teachings by Ernest Holmes

Here is the infinite principle that there is one Mind and we begin to know the truth … and speak that truth into Mind. My responsibility begins when I begin to know the truth in myself. You must know that it can heal, you must know that no thought of another, no suggestion against it, can operate against it.

In order to help yourself the most effectively, you will have to learn to do it impersonally. There is nothing in my metaphysical work I make personal. I set the whole thing out into Mind. Suppose I get a letter from a person in San Francisco asking for a treatment. I begin immediately to declare the truth, and if a thought comes to me that this declaration of truth is not sufficient, I begin again. How many people have tried to give a treatment and felt that it was not sufficient? That is impersonal evil trying to make itself felt. As soon as that thought comes to you, turn and destroy it, erase it, get rid of it. Get it out of your consciousness and declare that this word is effective and it can produce, that it can, that it does, it is. Realize your word does it. If you do not learn to control your thought, the thought will control you.

We have got to learn the laws of cause and effect – law. You have got to learn how to use it, and you have got to know how to use it, and then you have got to use it. I find that those who get the best results are those who know what they are doing, constantly weeding out of their consciousness everything that hinders, destroying within them their false concept, a little here and a little there, and if they fall down, in not staying down but getting up and going on, over and over again … Your final emancipation will be written by your own hand or it will never be written at all; it will be thought out by your own mind. It will govern your own consciousness as it recognizes the supremacy of Mind, the infinite impulse of Spirit, and your own divine birthright to use it.

No living soul can contribute one iota of happiness or peace or health or happiness to your life, and no living soul can take one iota away only as you allow it to flow through your consciousness.

We speak forth into Mind and Mind takes our thought and does unto us. That individual who can most implicitly believe that Mind is going to do it is the one who is going to get the biggest result. The person who sees Mind as law and through it an activity of Spirit, whose soul impulsion is God, I find that such people get remarkable results over the people who operate through a cold principle. Everybody has to, I cannot talk about my idea of God, that is my idea and my business and it could not be anybody else’s, but there is an impersonal principle of Mind which does unto the thinker what he thinks, and the sooner you know it and learn to control your thought the sooner you will be able to heal your body and control your conditions, and until you do learn it your conditions control you.

I at first always try to realize within my consciousness that I am not dealing with matter. You see? I am not struggling to overcome a condition. Everything that appears in anybody’s body is thought. There is not anything else to appear into form. I know if the thought is destroyed, the image of the thought will leave the body.

Realizing that I was not dealing with conditions, I was dealing with thought, I obliterate from my mind anything that says there is power in this false thought. I say my word has the power within itself to annul everything pertaining to this false thought.

Every living soul that lives is dealing with universal law and they cannot help it. If God knew sin, God would be a sinner. You and I must know with our thoughts. All disease is the result of wrong thinking somewhere. There is no such thing as a sinner unless it is you and me. It all comes from false thought, and you and I must know that our word is the power to annul that. Since everything is Mind in a neutral state, an impersonal, receptive, and creative state whatever is thought into Mind, Mind is going to do. If you have thought all of your life that you were so and so and could be sick, that has got to be annulled in Mind about you.

Poverty is an abnormal condition. Poverty is the result of inefficiency. Poverty is not the result of the lack of opportunity. Not in yourself, not anywhere. Poverty is the result of inefficiency, or ignorance. And if you can learn to deal with the only Mind there is, we will no longer be poor. We can attract to ourselves people and things which will obliterate that poverty. It will be a law of gravity, no other thing but principle. When you set in motion the power of mind, don’t be surprised what happens; don’t be surprised if something comes from the most unheard-of source ever dreamed of.

Everybody has got to heal themselves; there is no other way. I can tell you these things, but you have to make the application. These are pointers. Another thing, be absolutely impersonal about your work. Suppose I want to treat myself for something. I call my own name right out into Mind and treat it just the same as if it were somebody I never heard of before, just as disinterestedly as I can, so that consciousness of fear will not crowd.

Do not limit your affirmations about God. Link God up with yourself, for we see there is one life, perfect, that is God. I have got to see this life in me now. That is what made Jesus the Christ; he said, “My Father and I are one.” Be absolutely impersonal.

The bible says, “The things which are seen are not made of the things which do appear.” Now then, that is true of all life and you must know it. You must know this and it is a most important part of your treatment, that we are going forth into mind. We are not a projection of God; we are not a reflection of an image forth from God. We are at the center of God consciousness. And it could not be otherwise. There is nothing but what we call God to make you out of. Whatever there is of you is something or some part of God because there was nothing else to make you out of. So know that you are a center of God consciousness and that is why your word is infinite. Speak it forth believing and never doubt it. You know, you just believe, and then you speak forth this word knowing that it annuls everything which seems to oppose it. It annuls that so-called law of matter. Know that it is a law of harmony and adjustment. It is the law of justice, for that is what you need. It is the law of balance. It is the law of increase. It is the law of plenty. It is the law of activity. It is the law of attraction, if you need something. It is all that there is, and you realize that the word becomes; it goes forth upon this power implicitly.

Follow Your Own Good Advice

Published January 3, 2022 by tindertender

“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself rather sharply. “I advise you the leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).

There are times when we become overwhelmed and begin to feel as if there would be nothing better at all than to collapse, cry and to turn in on ourselves – particularly if we have made an error of judgement! This is understandable, and we must be permitted to express who we are and how we feel. However, once Alice has cried about a seemingly unsolvable situation, about forgetting something very important, she tells herself that continuing to cry will have no use. This stern command to her emotions brings her back to a place where she can contemplate what is best done next.

Anytime you make an error, it can be helpful to grieve a little for the difficulty you have created. But once you have done this, continuing with sadness serves no real purpose. It is best to follow Alice’s example. Cry, then stop, and follow your own good advice and your own good sense. You know what you need to do … you need to clear, ground and center yourself, so you can contemplate what to do next.

You do know what is best for you and often give yourself excellent advice – but you don’t often follow it! You are being gently advised to settle yourself emotionally, to think through a problem, to stop admonishing yourself and to follow your good advice to yourself. Perhaps treating yourself like a close friend, or a dear child, will help you to move calmly forward, without criticizing yourself too harshly for the situation you currently find yourself in. You can change this, if you follow your own very good sense!

Harsh self-judgement for a mistake or an error made. Unmet personal expectation causing inconsolable sadness. A reminder to detach, find clarity and follow your personal internal guidance system which has some very practical solutions!

Artwork by Jasmine Becket-Griffith

~ the Alice Wonderland oracle by Lucy Cavendish

Affirmations ~ January 3, 2022

Published January 3, 2022 by tindertender

Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.

One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.

Image: Public Domain

I am without malice.

I am free.

I am healed.

I live with compassion.

I lift others higher.

I receive an abundant, happy home, a full life, peace of mind, and emotional fulfillment.

I still my mind.

I integrate all aspects of Self.

I have worked hard and I acknowledge my achievements.

I celebrate.

I am protected.

I am evolving.

Balance is restored.

I overcome obstacles.

I move in a new direction.

I trust the higher powers to guide me.

I am focused.

All beings, all things, are my brothers and sisters, my family.

The earth is alive, everything lives.

I move away from the idea of separation.

I move toward the understanding that I am in relationship with all that is. I nurture this connection.

The old cycle has ended.

Universal Mind

Published January 3, 2022 by tindertender

Your thought and mind act upon Universal Mind. Your thought and my thought is a law unto ourselves. It is just as much a law unto your life and mine as God’s law is to the universe. There is no difference. It is absolute, and moreover all there is in your life and mine is thought, or our word, or its activity. Nothing can hinder it from manifesting.

Now for the sake of clearness, I want you to think of yourself as in this Mind. Don’t think of this Mind as being in you; rather think of yourself as a center in this Mind. Of course this Mind flows through you, but think of yourself as the center of it. That is your principle. You think, and this Mind produces it. Now there is one of the big points in metaphysics and it is one of the reasons why so few people succeed. They do not understand the impersonal nature of the Mind. They think, “I’ve got something tremendous to do, I have to hold the thought.” Thinking the thought is what does something. Thought sows the seed in Mind, and without this Mind nothing could be made…

The person that gets the best results is who realizes the impersonality of the Mind, the absoluteness of it, and then who can project into it the clearest concept. The reason being that all is a law of cause and effect. We think a thought into Mind and Mind returns it to us manifested as we thought it. First, the impulse to think, then the thought, then the thought is imaged in infinite Mind, and infinite Mind creates and causes it to become and effect. That is always the way it works. Just see how we may relieve ourselves! The responsibility rests in Mind to do the creating, and not in you and not in me. We are not responsible for the slightest thing in this regard. What I mean is this: Neither by your taking thought or by my taking thought, humanly thinking, could we do the slightest thing. But there is a principle flows in and through us and everybody does the thing. That means that in your work you can be absolutely impersonal.

We’re All Mad Here

Published January 2, 2022 by tindertender

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.

“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat, “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.

“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

Most people like to fit in. Most people like to feel that all the other people feel that they are quite normal. And other people like to be around people who are very safe, predictable, and well, ordinary. Only, as Alice is told by the Cheshire Cat, we are all mad. There is not a person on this planet that does not have a little secret, or a strange little something they have done, or do. And yet, on and on we go, all the time attempting to be normal.

And ‘normal’ changes all the time. Mostly, people just want to fit in, to blend in with others, to feel that they do not stand out in any way. Standing out can make us vulnerable. It can make us conspicuous. Although our culture adores its iconic people, we do not generally tolerate difference very well. The truth is, we all have our little oddities, and we can exhaust ourselves trying to erase their visibility.

We hide who we truly are. We do not speak of who we are, and we try to convince others that we are just like them. Consider why you would hide any of your own strangeness, when as the Cheshire Cat says, we are all mad here. And we must all be mad – otherwise we would not be here, living another lifetime, brave enough, mad enough, to learn more on this journey of the soul.

Beginning to realize that everyone is interesting, a little bit different and full of secrets, good and bad. Understanding that hiding what makes you your very own self is not only exhausting, but it is robbing the world of your unique wonder. Discovering that you are a little mad – and so, in truth, is everyone else. Embrace your eccentricities and your own peculiar genius.

Artwork by Jasmine Becket-Griffith

~ the Alice Wonderland oracle by Lucy Cavendish

Electromagnetic Field of the Heart

Published January 2, 2022 by tindertender

Did you know your heart produces a measurable electromagnetic field in the shape of a torus called a biofield? Did you know that conscious breathing is the throttle for this energy and your ability to visualize (awareness) focuses this ability to entrain matter?

With that understanding, watch this quick video about how electromagnetic fields influence the brain in ways we are just beginning to understand.

You are the one you have been waiting for! Welcome to the quantum age of humanity!

@Turboxyde

Warbonnet ~ Advance

Published January 2, 2022 by tindertender

It is time to advance. Don’t waste energy on going backward or staying in the doldrums. You are now able to move to the next step on the Sacred Path. Like a Warbonneted Chief, you have earned the right to learn the next set of life’s mysteries. Take your Medicine Bundle and all of the strengths it represents and charge forward.

The advance can be on any level. Your spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional healings are understood through life’s experiences. You can now approach your destiny with every feather you have earned marking your past victories and see the destiny you have chosen emerging before you. Your Medicine is strong and will allow the advancement you need at this time.

~ Sacred Path Cards – The Discovery of Self Through Native Teachings by Jamie Sams

Affirmations ~ January 2, 2022

Published January 2, 2022 by tindertender

Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.

One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.

Image: Public Domain

I am filled with light.

I am strong enough now to overcome confusion with illumination.

I am strong enough now to be kind to those who do not like me.

I am strong enough now to forgive those who I thought were standing in my way.

I have energy and I am powerful.

I direct the purpose of my process toward positive, global ends.

I work to mend the sacred hoop of life.

I am loved.

I accept the offer of restoration now.

I surrender all residual fragments of false guilt around having needs.

I receive abundantly the love of the Universe.

I am balanced in the inner and outer Self.

I channel ideas in a positive way.

I believe in the seemingly impossible things.

I believe in miracles.

I focus on creating an amazing life.

Blessings are near.

Everything will be revealed in the appropriate time.

I am patient while things unfold as they will.

I trust my own observations and knowledge.

This is a new beginning, a new chapter in life.

I rise above adversity.

963 Hz Meditation

Published January 1, 2022 by tindertender