Will you let it in? Will you let it express? Don’t you think it is time?

Spirit within does the healing work. What is ours to do in the process of healing, might be the better question.  What can we do to heal? “All healing is self-healing”.

Spirit or this presence, this love needs to be invited into our thoughts, hearts and minds, having that consciousness of unity of oneness.

It’s about consciousness, some 15-20 years ago another generation of people discovered the law or the law of attraction through a movie the Secret. The movie swept the country and the world. The beloved beautiful great Genie in the Sky was saying over and over, “Your wish is my Command”. You have the power to heal your life.

A sponsor in a 12-step program 40 years ago said to me, “Greg, you can have almost anything you want if you are willing to pay the price”. Look at Louise Hay’s, You Can Heal Your Life. Oh, my goodness. People want self-healing, people want better self-esteem, they want peace. In a word, people want more.

Seriously people want to end conflict, the inner conflict, inner turmoil. People want not to be afraid of so many things. There is so much fear and worry percolating, ruminating in people right now.

I am in a unique position in life right now since I am in a relatively great place. I will tell you I am so grateful to my parents and the lessons I got from both of them and then somehow the grace of the Universe put one of Louise Hay’s audios in my hand in the mid 80s. It was a stream of positive messages that came to me over a period of 2-3 years that changed me, a person who wanted it all, and living in a rather clueless way into the person I have become.

I was in inner pain then in my early 20’s. Most people didn’t know.  I entered a 12-step program in 1980 that suggested I needed to “surrender to win” and because I was up against it, feeling miserable so often, faking it and dealing with circumstances I was willing to make a change, willing to listen and learn. That was an important first step that somehow through grace I was willing. Willingness is the key that opens so many doors.

People want to have great lives, happiness, good health and good relationships. They want and most sadly are left wanting. They want to be super attractors which is a phrase Gabby Bernstein is using in her books for a younger generation. Books and ideas such as hers have been around for a long time. There is nothing new about the New Thought. It is timeless, ageless.  Every generation speaks of what we teach some are deep, some are eloquent. I spent a number of years reading and studying R W Emerson.

Louise Hay was clear, she said “I am not a healer. I do not heal anyone. I think of myself as a stepping-stone on a pathway of self-discovery”.  She started out as a practitioner here with us.  We were the famous First Church of Religious Science in NYC and this was the Home of Raymond Charles Barker, Author of the “Power of Decision “and other books. Our most famous Student as some of you know was Louise Hay who wrote the Book you can heal your life. Yes, she was a student here and studied here and published her first book here.

Regarding healing, over 25 years ago Louise again said: “I don’t heal anyone. I create a space where people can learn how     incredibly wonderful they are, there by teaching them to love themselves”.

Louise Hay asked once, “Do you truly know how to love yourself? Love is the greatest healing and drawing power on earth. It is the very reason for our being and that explains why it is important for people to love something or someone.

Ernest Holmes went so far to say that you are not living if you are not loving. None of us can swing out into the universe without love as the whole universe is based on it”.

Holmes thought, “Our greatest need is to feel that we are needed, wanted, loved and or doing something of importance. Most of us feel we belong to something and to have things we do that are important and people we care deeply about.

Do you believe in yourself? This inner power works for us by working through us. It cannot work for us in any other way, it is working everywhere in all people in all places. Once we come to know this and surrender trying to run this show, we make a decision to trust the process of life increasingly turning our life and will over to this higher aspect. We become empowered by letting go and trusting life.

Another well-known line from spiritual groups many of you have heard is we have come to believe that a power greater than ourselves which we are a part of is restoring us, to our rightful place, a place of greatness that we never could quite attain by ourselves alone. Let me paraphrase an old scripture. The kingdom of good is at hand. The presence and the power are here in you operating through you right now.

If you do these things and follow this prescription, this medicine will be effective. It will transform you. It’s the road to peace, freedom and happiness, which passes all understanding. A peace that is supernatural or divine. Its extra-ordinary because its available to all, however it’s only discovered by a few. Remember to remember “Who and What you are.” I recall Louise Hay’s statement and question, if you can imagine life being water for a moment, imagine a sea shore and you are approaching it. You have a container with you and then asks us to describe it, what size container do you bring to draw from the ocean of life? Your container, your life, in mind in consciousness. We are here to learn, to stretch, grow and express as much joy and love as we can conceive ourselves having. Life loves a giver. Here is that vessel that is you and it’s pouring out as much as you got, love and praise and encouragement. All that you do and give comes back to you.

We are encouraged to live good lives and to apply all the principles of spiritual living that we have learned. Years ago, people attempted to describe the attributes of the ONE, un-nameable, indescribable source. The one presence that is never an absence. And of course just as there is no adequate name, there is no single word that can describe it’s nature, the few attributes which are used are, Peace, power, love, joy, beauty, giving-ness, wisdom.

We all want to super attract and heal and transform our life and the world at large, and we can do this starting now by living from a transformational place that will allow us to live an exceptional life.  We lift our thoughts high, higher than ever before. As we do this, we are inviting spirit, guidance into our awareness. Now, always inviting it into our thought process, allowing it’s wisdom to guide us.  Some of us may not yet know we have such a powerful internal guidance system. But we might train ourselves to say often “spirit within is increasing my awareness of it” and “all is well” This practice will ensure us of a peace that will protect our hearts and govern our minds.

Are you ready to handle an infinite source? Suppose you could plug into a circuit that has a universal unlimited power source. How would you handle it or would it instantly destroy you? Suppose all the water on earth would flow out of your faucet the next time you turned it on? How quickly would you drown? You can control these things through physical means and an understanding of the natural flow. And yet do you concentrate on what you let in and out of your consciousness?

Asked another way, do you make any effort to moderate the quality of your thoughts? Change your thinking and you will change your life! I learned in a 12 step program 40 years ago a saying, “Be careful of stinking thinking” and I might add our words, for our word is our wand.

Human Nature is part of the divine. This is what we call “sacred energy” which is there in life. It has many names Chi, animating force, spirit, life force, inner light. Today sacred energy is in your life. Let us be reminded and be lifted up into the realization that we are one with it.

Ernest Holmes said, “We must be lifted up, and come to know our divine nature and relationship to the truth of the universe. This relationship is one of complete unity.”

So, if that is the way, we must be lifted up to a place where we know there is actually a spark of divinity within us. Will you summon up a sense that you are one with the presence? When you say I am one with life you get a glimmering or understanding that it is present, alive and responding to you. So when Holmes says we must be lifted up, please understand that he is suggesting we must lift ourselves up into a higher understanding of who we are and as we do, this power responds to us. You can’t lose with this. The following prescription will help heal your inner self:

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