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Essays on Discover the Power Within You
What is Healing?
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What is Healing?
My picture of healing is of bringing together, as the edges of a wound,
and of becoming one again. It is an overcoming of separation, and the re-establishing
of the unified nature of the body.
The word religion means to re-tie. It represents the overcoming of the
separation of spirit, soul, and body, and the recreation of the Adam consciousness
in man.
The Adam consciousness is the awareness of one's responsibility and
command, under law, of all of the being, all three parts of the total mind.
I believe the name of our group is Unity for an important reason. It
is easy to analyze each thought and action, break it down into its component
parts, and rationalize your way to conclusions of how the world must be
and should be.
But you must realize that your process depends on your preconceptions,
and if you depend only on reason, what you will have in the end is just
a self-fulfilling prophecy, one that may only reflect your self-doubt and
lack of self-worth.
The concept of Unity enfolds and overcomes the concept of duality that
is so prevalent in intellectualized spirituality. It is the animating spirit
that gives life to the thoughts, even the thoughts of the self. I accept
and recognize as true each thought, to the degree that it affirms and acknowledges
my present oneness with God.
As you resist your oneness, you lose track of your health. As you seek
to condemn the physical, you set your thoughts against the inner thought
of perfection. Your house is divided against itself, and cannot stand.
To regain your health, you must start practicing the concept that you
are one with God. That means you must take on and affirm the point of view,
"I am that I am."
Each moment you are pretending your future. You can choose to pretend
your oneness with the Creator, and restore order to all of Creation.
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