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Teach Us To Pray
Spiritual Soul Therapy
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I praise Thee and bless Thee for the consciousness of
health and wholeness through Christ.
With all Thy pople I praise and bless Thy Spirit of plenty
now manifest everywhere.
PSYCHOANALYSIS is growing more popular every day because it
measures the capacity of the soul. We are all interested in
our soul and how to save it. Those who follow Jesus go one
step further in soul therapy than the average
psychoanalyst; they incorporate Spirit with soul and make
it the primal source and sustainer of both soul and body.
"It is the spirit that quickeneth."
We make our soul out of the thoughts and words we
entertain. Consequently we should be very careful in
choosing our words, because they are the means by which we
convey Spirit to character and its structure. So instead of
psychoanalysis let us say we have Spirit psychoanalysis.
Every word has its root in an idea, whether this idea is
reflected from within or not. When we wish
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to approve, extol, applaud, or commend we praise and bless.
Words of this kind and the mental attitudes that they set
up stimulate, quicken, whirl into action, and finally
establish in character the ideals of which they are the
vehicle. So let us remember that we use words as
instruments of ideas and that it is the idea that we are
seeking to enlarge and establish by our words of praise and
blessing.
So "praise" and "bless" are words freely used by those who
love spiritual values, because these words are heavily
charged with capacity to express creative Mind. In
themselves alone the words "praise" and "bless" are potent
for good because they are associated with ideas that
eulogize the good. These words are not found in the
vocabulary of the pessimist or atheist. From various
sources we learn that scientists are experimenting with
instruments like the lie tester that register mind
emotions. These instruments measure the force of fear and
courage, sorrow and joy; in fact every emotion and mental
attitude is coming under scientific observation, and it
will not be long before we can produce graphs of the power
of every thought as it registers on the nerve and brain
cells of the body. When these brain testers definitely
prove that certain emotions not only stimulate but
permanently enlarge brain areas the cultivation of
constructive states of mind will become part of our
common-school curriculums.
Metaphysicians find that words that express thanks,
gratitude, and praise release latent energies of mind and
spirit; and the effects of their use follow
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so quickly that they can almost be identified with the
originating words.
Let your words of praise and blessing be to Spirit and the
increase will be even greater than it has been when
addressed to man. The resource of Spirit are beyond our
highest flights of imagination. You can praise a weak body
into strength, a fearful heart into peace and trust;
shattered nerves into poise and power; a failing business
into prosperity and success; want and insufficiency into
supply and support.
The healing and prosperity thougths in this chapter are a
guide for those who are trying to demonstrate the power of
words to regulate health and finances. If you are in need
of health use the statement as printed, putting special
emphasis on the words "strength" and "power." When using
these health-producing words, direct your attention to
Spirit as if it were an interpenetrating presence, which it
is. Try to feel the quickening spiritual harmony and
health, which will be manifested at once or later,
depending on your attitude toward the time element. If you
join in thought with Silent Unity every night from nine to
ten o'clock you will get a powerful uplift. In
demonstrating prosperity you should praise and bless even
minor evidences of financial improvement.
Remember what Jesus said about your mental attitude in
demonstrating spiritually: "And all things, whatsoever ye
shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive"; which
may be rephrased thus: Pray, believing that you have
received, and you shall receive.
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