Excerpts from the Booklet published in 1925 by the author, ‘Florence Scovel Shinn’

THE GAME

• Life is not a battle. It is a game
• It can be played successfully only if you have the knowledge of the Spiritual Law
• It is a Game of Giving and Receiving
• Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. Whatever man sends out in word or deed, will return to him; what he gives, he will receive
• If he gives love, he will receive love. If he gives hate, he will receive hate
• Also, what man images sooner or later externalises in his affairs. We must train our Imaging Faculty to image only good, bringing into our life good health, wealth, love, friends, perfect self expression, his highest ideals
• Man’s imagination is ever cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world. To train the imagination successfully, man must understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks said ‘Know Thyself’
• There are three departments of the mind, subconscious, conscious and superconscious. The subconscious is simply power without direction. It does what it is directed to do; it has no power of induction. Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in the minutest detail. The conscious mind is the mortal or carnal mind. It sees life as it appears to be. It sees death, disaster, sickness, poverty, and limitation of every kind, and it impresses the subconscious. The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.
• There is a Divine Design for each person. There is a place that you are to fill, and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do. Man’s true destiny (or destination) is flashed to him from the Infinite Intelligence which is within himself. Many people, however, are in ignorance of their true destinies and are striving for things and situations which do not belong to them, and would only bring failure and dissatisfaction if attained
• Jesus Christ said, ‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things will be added on to you” and he said the Kingdom was within man. The Kingdom is the realm of right ideas, or the Divine Pattern.
• Man’s words played a leading part in the game of life. By your words you are justified and by your words you are condemned
• Follow Intuition, or be taught from within. Never violate a hunch
• There is always plenty on man’s pathway, but it can only be brought into manifestation through Desire, Faith, or the Spoken Word. Man must make the first move. Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you
• Infinite Intelligence, God, is ever ready to carry out man’s smallest or greatest demands. Every desire, uttered or unexpressed, is a demand
• Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear. When man can wish ‘wish without worrying’ every desire will be instantly fulfilled
• It is man’s only enemy – fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness, fear of loss and a feeling of insecurity on some plane. We must substitute Faith for Fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
• The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil. this must be done by impressing the subconscious mind with a realisation of good
• Why worry, it will probably never happen. This should be stamped indelibly upon our subconscious mind giving a firm conviction that only good can come into our life.
• Subconscious mind is man’s faithful servant but one must be careful to give it the right orders. Man has ever a silent listener at his side — his subconscious mind. Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.
• I now make perfect records on my subconscious mind through the Christ within — records of Health, Wealth, Love and Perfect Self Expression, the Square of Life, The Game Completed

THE LAW OF PROSPERITY

• God is man’s supply and that man can release, through his spoken word, all that belongs to him by Divine Right. He must however, have perfect faith in his spoken word
• You must act as if you have already received it. Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight
• Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving
• Jesus Christ saw clearly the fourth dimensioned world, things as they really are, perfect and complete in the Divine Mind
• Man must ever hold the vision of his journey’s end and demand the manifestation of that which has been already received. It maybe his perfect health, love, supply, self-expression, home or friends
• They are all finished and perfect ideas registered in the Divine Mind (man’s own superconscious mind) and must come through him, not to him
• You can control any situation if you first control yourself
• Jesus Christ knew the truth of this when he said: “if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven”. One gets too close to his own affairs and becomes doubtful and fearful. The friend or “Healer” sees clearly the success, health, or prosperity, and never waivers, because he is not close to the situation
• It is much easier to “demonstrate” for someone else than for one’s self, so a person should not hesitate to ask for help, if he feels himself wavering
• No man can fail, if some one person sees him successful. Such is the power of the vision, and many a great man has owed his success to a wife, sister, or a friend who “believed in him” and held without wavering to the perfect pattern

THE POWER OF THE WORD

• By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shall be condemned
• Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself
• The horse-shoe or rabbit’s foot contain no power, but man’s spoken word and belief that it will bring him good luck creates expectancy, in the subconscious mind, and attracts a “lucky situation”. This will not work when man has advanced spiritually and knows a higher law.
• Make your affirmations looking to God for success and prosperity and not be superstitious about such things like Lucky Monkey, Horse Shoe, Ladders etc. Call on the law of Forgiveness, “for man has the power to forgive or neutralise his mistakes”. When you realise God’s power behind the Horse Shoe then the Hope becomes Faith
• There are no two powers, there is only one power, God, therefore there are no disappointments. If you are afraid, you are giving in to a belief in two powers, Good and Evil, instead of one. As God is absolute, there can be no opposing power, unless makes the false of Evil for himself.
• If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to. It is the law of nonresistance.. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight
• Thus the invisible forces are ever working for man who is always “pulling the strings” himself, though he does not know it. Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract. People who continually speak of disease, invariably attract it.
• After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words
• Only mam dares to use his words for three purposes, to “heal, bless or prosper”
• What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself
• The body may be renewed and transformed through the spoken word and clear vision, and disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness
• To heal the body one must first “heal the soul”, the subconscious mind
• Subconscious mind and superconscious mind should be one, then God and man are one
• “Love one another”- it takes every trick
• Every disease is caused by mind not at ease. Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease
• Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental inharmony, “As the within, so the without”
• Man’s only enemies are within himself. “Peace on Earth, good will towards man”. His work is with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to every man, and the marvellous thing is, that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm him.
• We must wipe out all fear, and know that God protects your interests, and that the divine idea must come out of the situation
• Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you
• Good will produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends it. “No weapon that is formed against him shall prosper”. Love and Good Will destroy the enemies within one’s self, therefore, one has no enemies on the external!

THE LAW OF NONRESISTANCE

• Resist not evil, be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person. Water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly non-resistant. It can wear a rock away, and sweep all before it. In reality there is no evil, therefore nothing to resist. Evil has come of man’s “vain imagination”, or a belief in two powers, good and evil
• Evil is a false law man has made for himself, through psychoma or soul sleep. Man’s soul has been hypnotised by the race belief (of sin, sickness, death, etc.) which is carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have out-pictured his illusions
• If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you
• The man who is centered and established in right thinking, the man who sends out only good-will to his fellow men, and who is without fear, cannot be touched or influenced by negative thoughts of others. In fact, he could then receive only good thoughts, as he himself, sends forth only good thoughts.
• Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a “state of torment”
• If I have a failure, I baptise it success
• A feeling of opulence must precede its manifestation
• “Every man is a golden link in the chain of my good”, for all men are God in manifestation, awaiting the opportunity given by man, himself, to serve the Divine Plan of his life.
• Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition
• Bless a nation, send love and good-will to every inhabitant, and it is robbed of its power to harm
• Men can only get the right idea of nonresistance, through Spiritual understanding. When you use nonresistance with wisdom, no one will ever be able to walk over you
• Divine Ideas never conflict as Infinite Intelligence is arranging them
• Bless the situation as “success”. Then you cannot lose anything that belongs to you by Divine Right as you are under Grace
• One’s ships come in over a calm sea
• So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he runs away from it, it will run after him
• Agree with thine adversary quickly. That means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed by it, and it falls away of its own weigh
• The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself. When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway
• So we see man’s work is ever with himself
• I will give treatments to change you; when you change, your husband and your brother will change
• One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others
• Living in the past is a failure method and violation of the Spiritual Law
• “Behold, now is the accepted time”. Now is the day of salvation
• The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in storefor him endless joys, but live fully in the now
• Man must live suspended in the moment
• “Look well, therefore, to this Day! Such is the salutation of the Dawn”. He must be Spiritually alert, ever awaiting his leads, taking advantage of every opportunity.
• Infinite Spirit, don’t let me miss a trick
• It is man’s Divine Right to have plenty!
• When man breaks down the barriers of lack in his own consciousness, the Golden Age will be his, and every righteous desire of his heart fulfilled!

THE LAW OF KARMA AND THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS

• Man receives only that which he gives. Man’s thoughts, words, and deeds, return to him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. “Whatsoever a man soweth, shall he also reap”
• One who is high in consciousness, their Karma returns much more quickly than to the one on the mental plane
• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
• God sees man as perfect, “created in his own image”, (imagination) and given “Power and Dominion”
• Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining
• Nothing happens without an on-looker
• Man sees first his failure or success, his joy or sorrow, before it swings into visibility from the scenes set in his own imagination
• And Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. We see freedom (from all unhappy conditions) comes through knowledge — a knowledge of Spiritual Law
• The Divine selection gives perfect satisfaction and brings good to all. The Divine pattern is the only safe pattern to work by
• Desire is a tremendous force, and must be directed in the right channels, or chaos ensues
• Man should always demand only that which is his by Divine Right. Anything forced into manifestation through personal will, is always “ill got”, and has “ever bad success”
• Man always gets what he desires when he does relinquish personal will, thereby enabling Infinite Intelligence to work through him. “Stand Ye still and see the salvation of the Lord”
• Divinity within each man is his Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious conditions
• Man cannot force the external to be what he is not. If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness
• Many people are in ignorance of the fact that gifts and things are investments, and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss
• Man’s supply is inexhaustible and unfailing when fully trusted, but faith or trust must precede the demonstration
• The Law of Grace or Forgiveness frees man from the Law of Cause and effect. Man reaps where he has not sown; the gifts of God are simply poured out upon him
• The continued state of bliss awaits the man who has overcome the race (or world) thought. The world of thought is that of sin, sickness and death
• The subconscious, being simply power without direction, carries out orders without questioning. Work under the direction of super-consciousness

CASTING THE BURDEN

• Cast thy burden upon the Lord. The battle is God’s not man’s and that man is always to “stand still’ and see the salvation of the Lord
• Man violates the law if he carries a burden, and a burden is adverse thought or condition which are rooted in the subconscious
• It seems almost impossible to make any headway directing the subconscious from the conscious, or reasoning mind, as the reasoning mind (the intellect) is limited in its conceptions, and filled with doubts and fears
• Cast the burden upon the superconscious mind (or Christ within) where it is “made light” or dissolved into its “native nothingness”
• “Casting the burden”, after a little while, one seems to see clearly. It is impossible to have clear vision, while in the throes of carnal mind. Doubts and fear poison the mind and body and imagination runs riot, attracting disaster and disease
• In order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential
• The subconscious mind is often impressed through music. Music has a fourth dimensional quality and releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes wonderful things seem possible, and easy of accomplishment
• Continually “making believe”, impresses the subconscious
• There is no peace or happiness for man, until he has erased all fear from the subconscious
• Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected, or transmuted into Faith
• One can get rid of fear by walking up to the thing you are afraid of
• The subconscious is impressed with the truth that God is the Giver and the Gift. I now thank God the Giver for God the gift
• Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is Fear or Faith
• Man’s release will come when he realises there is no power in evil. The material world will fade away, and the fourth dimensional world, the “World of the Wonderous”, will swing into manifestation

LOVE

• Every man on this planet is taking initiation in Love. “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another”. “Love is a Cosmic phenomenon” and opens to man the fourth dimensional world, “The World of the Wondrous”
• Real love is selfless and free from fear. It pours itself out upon the object of its affection, without demanding any return. Its joy is in the joy of giving. Love is God in manifestation.
• You can never receive what you have never given. Give a perfect love and you will receive a perfect love
• As you are one with God, you are one with the love which belongs to you by Divine Right
• Salute the Divinity in every man. See the Divine Self only. See others as God sees them, perfect, made in His image and Likeness
• No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher
• Suffering is the violation of the Spiritual Law
• You are a perfect idea in the Divine Mind, and we will demand the success and prosperity which are already planned for you by that Infinite Intelligence
• The attitude of mind separates man from his supply; he must be in harmony with a thing, in order to attract it
• Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from want and limitation, but it must be always kept in circulation and put to right uses. Hoarding and saving react with grim vengeance
• In letting money go out fearlessly and cheerfully he opens the way for more to come in, for God is man’s unfailing and inexhaustible supply
• Money in itself, is good and beneficial but when used for destructive purposes, hoarded and saved, or considered more important than love, brings disease and disaster, and the loss of money itself
• Follow the path of love, and all things are added, for God is love, and God is supply, follow the path of selfishness and greed, the supply vanishes, or man is separated from it
• All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Love and goodwill are invaluable in business.
• Salute the Divinity in everyone and send them love
• People are sometimes filled with remorse for having done someone an unkindness, perhaps years ago. If the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be neutralised by doing some one a kindness in the present
• “Forget those things that are behind and reach forth unto those things which are before”
• Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison the atmosphere of the individual
• God is our Joy, Love and Peace
• Man is a perfect idea in the Divine Mind, and is always in the right place and is Divinely protected
• “Perfect Love casteth out fear. He that feareth is not made perfect in Love”, and “Love is the fulfilling of the Law”

INTUITION OR GUIDANCE

• In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct my paths
• There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man who knows the Power of his Word, and who follows Intuitive leads. By the word he starts in action unseen forces and can rebuild his body or remold his affairs
• It is of utmost importance to choose the right words and carefully select the Affirmations he wishes to catapult into the invisible
• Man knows that God is his supply, that there is a supply for every demand, and that his spoken word releases this supply
• Ask and ye shall receive
• Speak the word and then do not do anything until you get a definite lead. “Demand the lead, saying,” Infinite Spirit, reveal to me the way, let me know if there is anything for me to do”. The answer will come through Intuition (or hunch); a chance remark from someone, or a passage in a book, etc., etc.
• Giving opens the way for receiving. Tithing or giving one-tenth of one’s income, is an old Jewish custom, and is sure to bring increase
• The gift or tithe must be given with love and cheerfulness, for “God loveth a cheerful giver”. All money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing
• Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited vision
• Often one’s lead comes at an unexpected time
• Learn not to reason. One goes for one thing and finds another
• Intuition is a Spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way
• There is a mental correspondence for every disease. A person might receive instantaneous healing through the realisation of his body being a perfect idea in Divine Mind, and therefore, whole and perfect, but if he continues his destructive thinking, hoarding, hating, fearing, condemning, the disease will return
• Man’s soul (or subconscious mind) must be washed whiter than snow, for permanent healing
• “Condemn not lest ye also be condemned”. “Judge not, lest ye be judged”
• Many people have attracted disease and unhappiness through condemnation of others. What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself. Man picks up a live wire whenever he criticises or condemns, and may expect a shock
• The science of numbers and the reading of horoscopes, keep man down on the mental (or mortal) plane, for they deal with only the Karmic path
• It takes a very strong mind to neutralise a prophecy of evil. Every false prophecy shall come to naught; every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved and dissipated, the Divine Idea now comes to pass. However, if any good message has ever been given one, of coming happiness or wealth, harbor and expect it, and it will manifest sooner or later, through the law of expectancy
• Man’s will should be used to back the Universal Will. “I will that the Will of God be done”
• It is God’s Will to give every man, every righteous desire of his heart, and man’s will should be used to hold the perfect vision, without wavering
• It is so much easier, for the average person, to have fear than Faith, as Faith is an effort of the (man’s) will
• As man becomes spiritually awakened he recognises that any external inharmony is the correspondence of mental inharmony. If he stumbles or falls, he may know that he is stumbling or falling in consciousness
• Wisdom’s way are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace
• When one has made his demands upon the Universe, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right
• Man is here to prove God and “to bear witness to the truth” and he can only prove God by bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of injustice

PERFECT SELF-EXPRESSION OR THE DIVINE DESIGN

• “No wind can drive my bark astray nor change the tide of Destiny”
• There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do, which no one else can do; it is his Destiny
• This achievement is held, a perfect idea in the Divine Mind, awaiting man’s recognition. As the imaging faculty is the creative faculty, it is necessary for man to see the idea, before it can manifest
• So, man’s highest demand is for the Divine Design of his life. He may not have the faintest conception of what it is, for there is, possibly, some marvellous talent , hidden deep within him
• His demand should be: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest, let the genius within me now be released; let me see clearly the perfect plan”. The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love, and perfect self-expression. This is the square of life, which brings perfect happiness
• Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. The student knows, the supply needed for his perfect self-expression will be at hand
• Many a genius has struggled for years with the problem of supply, when his spoken word and Faith would have released quickly the necessary funds
• Demand definite leads, and the way will be made easy and successful
• One should not visualise or force a mental picture. When he demands the Divine Design to come into his conscious mind, he will receive flashes of inspiration, and begin to see himself making some great accomplishment. This is the picture or idea, he must hold without wavering
• The thing man seeks is seeking him
• God’s Will be done, not man’s. Bible tells a man how to release his soul (or subconscious mind) from bondage
• Often fear stands between man and his perfect self-expression. This may be overcome by the spoken word, or treatment. The individual then loses all self-consciousness, and feels simply that he is a channel for Infinite Intelligence to express itself through
• He is under direct inspiration, fearless and confident; for he feels that it is the “Father (Divinity) within” him who does the work
• Man often receives a set-back when he is “too sure of himself,” which means he is trusting his personality (Ego) and not the “Father (Divinity) within”
• The student must form the habit of “practising the Presence of God” every minute.
• “My way, not your way!” is the command of Infinite Intelligence. Man, the instrument, should be nonresistant and undisturbed
• Over and over again, man is told to “stand still.” And see the Salvation of the Lord with you
• The Goal is Poise! Poise is Power, for it gives God-Power a chance to rush through man, to “will and do Its good pleasure”. Poised, he thinks clearly, and makes “right decisions quickly”. He never misses a trick
• Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the root of many diseases, and causes wrong decision leading to failure
• Whatever is not of Faith is sin. Fear and worry are deadly sins. They are inverted Faith, and through distorted mental pictures, bring to pass the thing he fears. His (Divinity’s) work is to drive out these enemies (from the subconscious mind). “When Man is fearless he is finished!” “Man is God afraid”. As she did not fear, the situation vanished
• “In Divine Mind there is only completion, therefore, my demonstration is completed. My perfect work, my perfect home, my perfect health”. Whatever he demands are perfect ideas registered in the Divine Mind, and must manifest, “under Grace in a perfect way”. He gives thanks he has already received on the invisible, and makes active preparation for receiving on the visible
• When man asks, believing, he must receive, for God creates His own channels!
• ” I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life”, and be fearless in grabbing opportunities
• Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers. They refuse gifts through pride, or some negative reason, thereby blocking their channels, and invariably find themselves eventually with little or nothing
• Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water– freely ye have given, freely ye shall receive
• There is always a perfect balance of giving and receiving, and though man should give without thinking of returns, he violates the law if he does not accept the returns which come to him; for all gifts are from God (Divinity), man being merely the channel. A thought of lack should never be held over the giver
• The Lord loveth a cheerful receiver, as well as a cheerful giver
• The real Spiritual man is birthless and deathless
• So, through the truth, man is set free from the Law of Karma, sin and death, and manifests the man made in “His Image and Likeness”. Man’s freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny, bringing into manifestation the Divine Design of his life

DENIALS AND AFFIRMATIONS

• None of these things move me
• It is most necessary to begin the day with right words. Make an affirmation immediately upon waking
• “Thy Will be done this day! Today is the day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracles shall follow miracles and wonders shall never cease” (THE DIVINE WILL IS BEING EXECUTED EVERY MOMENT. OUR INNER CHILD/EGO SHOULD LEARN TO ACCEPT IT FULLY)
• Look with wonder at that which is before you
• Affirmations should be used if they are absolutely satisfying and convincing to our own consciousness
• “I have a wonderful work (business), in a wonderful way, I give wonderful service, for wonderful pay”
• I am always under direct inspiration, I make right decisions quickly
• Infinite Spirit, give me a definite lead, reveal to me my perfect self-expression, show me which talent I am to make use of now
• All the good that is to be made manifest in man’s life is already an accomplished fact in the Divine Mind, and is released through man’s recognition, or spoken word, so he must be careful to decree that only the Divine Idea be made manifest, for often, he decrees, through his “idle words”, failure or misfortune. It is, therefore, of utmost importance, to word one’s demands correctly
• Infinite Spirit, open the way for my right home, my right friend, my right position. I give thanks it now manifests under Grace in a perfect way”
• It is impossible for man to release more than he thinks is possible, for one is bound by the limited expectancies of the subconscious. He must enlarge his expectancies in order to receive in a larger way
• Continually affirming establishes the belief in the subconscious
• It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one has perfect Faith! One should not plead or supplicate, but give thanks repeatedly, that he has received
• This rejoicing which is yet in the desert (state of consciousness) opens the way for release
• Prayer is command or demand, praise and thanksgiving. The student’s work is in making himself believe that “with God all things are possible”
• He also serves who only stands and waits
• Demonstrations often come at the eleventh hour because man then lets go, that is, stops reasoning, and Infinite Intelligence has a chance to work
• When a student is able to let go of his problem (cast his Burden) he will have instantaneous manifestation
• One should always follow a denial with an affirmation
• There is no time and space, in Divine Mind, therefore the word reaches instantly its destination and does not “return void”
• Visualising is a mental process governed by reasoning or conscious mind; Visioning is a spiritual process, governed by Intuition, or the superconscious mind
• “I desire only that which God desires for me”, his false desires fade away from consciousness, and a new set of blueprints is given him by the Master Architect, the God within. God’s plan for each man transcends the limitation of the reasoning mind, and is always the square of life, containing health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression.
• If a student tries to force a demonstration (through the reasoning mind) he brings it to a standstill. He should act only through Intuition, or definite leads. “Rest in the Lord and wait patiently. Trust also in Him, and he will bring it to pass.”
• Man will reach a stage when “his word materialises instantly. The Fields, ripe with harvest will manifest immediately”, as in all of the miracles of Jesus Christ (Divinity)
• Jesus Christ (Divinity) stands for Truth Made Manifest. “Whatsoever ye ask the Father, in your name, he will give it to you.”
• The power of this name raises the student into the fourth dimension, where he is freed from all astral and psychic influences, and he becomes “unconditioned and absolute, as God himself”
• Christ (Divinity) in each man is his Redeemer and Salvation
• Man should make an art of thinking. The Master Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only the Divine Designs upon the canvas of his mind; and he paints these pictures with masterly strokes of power and decision, having perfect Faith that there is no power to mar their perfection and that they shall manifest in his life the Ideal made real
• All power is given man (through right thinking) to bring his heaven upon his earth, and this is the goal of the “Game of Life” . The simple rules are Fearless Faith, Nonresistance and Love!

BRINGING UP CHILDREN

• Parents often force their personal will on their children which we do not have the right to do. We should let go and take our mental hands off; put it in God’s Hands and say ” I have put it in the hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom
• The old idea was if a woman did not worry about her children, she was not a good mother. Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible for many of the diseases and accidents which come into the lives of children. For fear pictures vividly the disease or situation feared, and these pictures objectify, if not neutralised
• Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that she puts her child in God’s hands, and knows therefore, that he is divinely protected
• Parents should never force careers and professions upon their children. With a knowledge of Spiritual Truth, the Divine Plan could be spoken for, early in childhood, or prenatally
• A prenatal treatment should be: “Let the God in this child have perfect expression; let the Divine Design of his mind, body and affairs be made manifest throughout his life, throughout eternity”

I was lucky to have my daughter in Florida forwarding me a video on YouTube by Dr Tara Swart, No. 1 Neuroscientist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCW2NHbWNwA&authuser=0. It is a video of a little over 2 hours. Such long videos I tend to ignore. But Divinity favoured my watching the video in 30 mins intervals at a time. I was truly fascinated and amazed by the contents she has shared.

Dr Tara Swart is a neuroscientist and a former psychiatric doctor. She has been a Senior lecturer at MIT Sloan and visiting senior lecturer at Kings College, London, best selling author and an executive advisor to some of the world’s most respected leaders in media and business.

(synopsis below by Gul Malani)

In order to make it brief and specific for my own understanding as well as for our blog readers, I am listing below my important takeaways covered in this video. For a complete, unbiased understanding, I strongly recommend watching the video.

• Our Brain has enormous potential. Just by imagining, a study group of weight lifters increased their muscle mass by 13% in two weeks without lifting any weights
• Stress hormone is Cortisol and Stress is contagious as Cortisol leaks out in our sweat and goes into the skin of others affecting them too
• As a survival mechanism or food security, Stress causes Belly fat. It also causes inflammation
• Brain is actively growing and changing until we are 25 years old. From 25 to 65 years, if we do intense activities it will actively change and improve the Brain functions
• Stress is when the mental, emotional and physical load is more than you can bear
• Right eye to left eye viewing forms the emotional contact between persons and creates the emotional resonance or bonding loop between the two.
• Physical interaction like handshake, a hug or a kiss on the cheek as well as laughing together helps emotional bonding. It releases Oxytocin. Having a bath or massage releases Oxytocin too!
• Women that interact and work closely in a group tend to have synchronised mensuration cycles
• Managing their own Stress Levels is important to the Leaders. Even if they try to supress it, their stress will pass on to others in their team
• Melatonin helps us to sleep, Cortisol helps us to wake up
• High levels of Cortisol lead to sleep disruptions, belly fat, weakens the strong connection between the Brain and the Gut, increases reflux, indigestion, irritability, results in mood changes, dries the skin, creates unhealthy issues on the skin, increases inflammation. Cortisol also runs down our Immune System.
• Half the battle is won if people are aware that they are stressed. Problem is when people are not aware that they are stressed
• Get rid of the Cortisol by sweating, doing aerobic exercises, writing a journal, consulting a Therapist
• Lying in bed for 9 hours and Good sleep of 8 hours 15 mins is recommended for all to lay down memories, emotions and for the cells to regenerate themselves.
• Sleeping on the side is a better position for the veins in your neck
• Co-sleeping in proximity and cuddling are powerful for interactive bonding and are neuro protective. Oxytocin gets released with close contact sleeping which is fundamental to our survival, emotionally and spiritually. Separate bedrooms are not recommended except for short duration situations.
• The Glymphatic system is the waterway to clean out the brain. It takes 7 to 8 hours to flush out the brain.
• Intuition should be our strongest decision making modality. Intuitions are the lessons we have picked up on the way but are not conscious of it. It is in our Neural system which is in our Brain and also in our Gut. It is a feeling of knowing something but we do not know why we know it, it is embodied within us.
• Because of the Pandemic, many of us have definitely appreciated the importance of our time spent in Nature. Time spent in Nature has a positive impact on our physical, mental health and longevity. Also, having a Purpose that transcends our self is important for our mental health. Do things that makes life worth living.
• Being creative every week also has a positive impact on our mental health, Neuro aesthetics is about having some creative activity in our weekly schedule. Listening to Bird Songs, smelling flowers, being in Nature, learning to dance or sing, drawing, painting, reading books etc are all part of neuro aesthetics. Neuro aesthetics is about living a life that is aesthetically pleasing to our brain and not just our health. If you are able to spare your mental resources to appreciate beauty, that means that you are feeling safe and not just living to survive! There is beauty and wisdom in this Universe that we have access to.
• Dr Tara lives maintaining positive, deep, spiritual relationships with her tribe
• The two main drives in our Brain are Sex & Food, so potential impact is huge. There is now a lack of empathy on our comments and actions on other people. Pornography changes the way men view women. The impact on women is great as it changes the way they have to look, sex has become a transaction. Respect and empathy in relationships has changed
• Brain is actually growing and changing till we are 25 years old, from 25 to 65, if we do not do anything, our Brain will plateau. If you do things that are intense enough to force your brain to change, then you can learn new things and bring global benefit to your brain like developing executive functions, which are the highest functions of the brain. You will be able to regulate your emotions better, solve complex problems, think flexibly, creatively, override any conscious or unconscious biases we may have.
  • In order to develop our brain, we first need to raise Awareness, then focus attention, marry the decision with the consequence. Next step is deliberate practice which may be hard as the Brain is an energy hungry organ so it takes the path of least resistance. If you continue persisting on the new pathway, eventually the new pathway you are building will become stronger than one you have before. Dr Tara says that years of practice and journaling has made her better on holding herself accountable. For most people external help may be needed, like personal journals or Action Boards that family can see and help or even get professional help.
  • We have to process all our emotions to handle grief or trauma. Avoiding the emotions will not help in the long run. They will come back and torment us!
  • If we do aerobic exercises, it will increase neuro plasticity, embryonic cells will convert faster to neurons and establish pathways and connectivity
  • Dark foods have a high level of antioxidants in the pigment and in their skins and so they contribute more to neuro genesis. So, eat black beans instead of white, blue berries instead of strawberries, dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate, ??……..sprouts instead of Green Broccoli, good quality coffee. Vary what you eat, but choose the dark option if you can.
  • For neuro plasticity you do not want to do too much of high intensity exercise because it heightens the Cortisol levels. Best is to do gentle exercises. Eating various types of plants without meat and varying the colors. Managing your stress by Meditation and being hydrated. If you are doing all these things and you want to play at level 2, you could do time restricted eating, Do it between 12 noon to 8 pm or do between 8 am to 8 pm. That kind of fasting is beneficial to your Brain only if your foundation is right. Fasting helps you to regulate your Blood Sugar levels. Spike in Blood Sugar levels are not helpful to your Body or your Brain. Fasting and calorie restriction do have Brain health as well as longevity benefits. Someone who doesn’t sleep enough, is stressed or eats badly will not benefit from fasting.
  • Repeated negative thoughts should be replaced by positive affirmation for improving Brain health. Changing the language in your mind about the things you think will give the best outcome. You can understand your own thinking and reversing and repeating that often will wear down the older pathway in your Brain. The statement that you repeat often is then the one that the Brain believes, more than the earlier one. We can say I am going to be safe and repeat it, not say just shallow statements like I am attractive or I will be rich, etc. Finding statements that have nothing to do with social or parental expectations, or what someone else wants, but what you want to know for yourself and that will set you up to go out into the real world and do the stuff that you need to do to get the other things that you want.
  • Dr Tara believes in manifestation based on your Brain, your thoughts, your beliefs, your actions. Your Brain is the source for everything you want to attract into your life. It is much more empowering to believe that it is your Brain that is making something happen and not some external force
  • Humming & chanting that come from indigenous wisdom are really beneficial for expressing creativity and calming down the nervous system
  • In the 80’s a group of Octogenarians that were made to live in homes typical of 60’s were taller, and younger looking in one weeks time! They removed their limitations on themselves.
  • Language is very important to our Brain! If the words used mean retirement or old age, we tend to slow down! Words can change our behaviour quickly! When we use the word ‘need’ it implies that we don’t have enough and we are missing something in our life!
  • People should realise as to how much potential they have in their brain, how capable they are of having an even more Amazing Life!
  • Be very clear on what else you want and then sit down for five minutes and visualise those things to be true and give gratitude for that. See it, feel it in your body, taste it in your mouth, hear it in your ears, completely immerse yourself in that for five minutes or more. Essentially you are moving your Brain from a fear state to a trust state and that is the gateway to make new changes.

BON VOYAGE FOR YOUR JOURNEY TO AN AMAZING LIFE

Inspired and adapted from Chapter Six – Einstein Time, Gay Hendricks book titled ‘The Big Leap’

For our life to work harmoniously, we need to develop a harmonious relationship with Time. Once we get a handle on how Time actually operates, you enjoy your work and the work flows gracefully and at very high performance. You will work half as much and get at least twice as much done. You will feel less stressed, you will free up time for creative thinking, discover your unique abilities and have time for the family and yourself.

The key is to think and feel that ‘You’re where Time comes from‘. You have the power to make as much of it as you want. Gay calls this Einstein Time. The result: no more rushing, no more time pressure, no more feeling exhausted. Instead, you have plenty of time, an abundance of energy, and the skills that will keep both time and energy in a constant mode of refreshing renewal. To get on Einstein time we have to take full ownership of Time.

While we are running on Einstein Time, our experience of time changes because we make a fundamental change in how much space we are willing to occupy. By learning to occupy space in a new way, we actually gain the ability to generate more time. When you’re willing to occupy all space, time simply disappears. you’re everywhere all at once, there is no place to get to, and everywhere you are it’s exactly the right time.

Stress and Conflict are caused by resisting acceptance and ownership. If there is any part of ourselves or our lives that we’re not fully willing to accept, we will experience stress and friction in that area. The Stress will disappear the moment we accept that part and claim ownership of it. At that moment, the disowned part of us is embraced into the wholeness of ourselves, and from that place of wholeness, miracles are born.

Resolution of our problem will begin the moment we claim ownership. This is my problem and I’m committed to resolving it. Then we can work genuine miracles.

HOW TO BEGIN

Begin with Time itself. Do whatever it takes to get yourself in harmony with the reality that you’re the source of time. Once you’re convinced, start acting as if it’s true. A simple way to begin is to put yourself on a radical diet: complete abstinence from complaining about time. This courageous move will take you out of the victim position in regard to time. When you stop complaining about time, you cease perpetuating the destructive myth that time is the persecutor and you are the victim.

Complaining about time treats time as a scarce commodity, sending the message that time is “out there” and that there isn’t enough of it “in here”. Time is not something you have or don’t have. You’re the source of it, and you make as much of it as you need. So, stop using time or lack uf time as an excuse.

Let the good times roll and start living life fully with adequate time to do everything you want!

Almost everybody is caught in some vicious circle or other – because mind (ego) cannot exist without a vicious circle. Somebody eats too much, gathers fat, becomes worried, starts dieting, fasting, eats less, feels hungry, becomes worried, starts eating more…and so on and so forth.

Man exists like the pendulum of a clock: it goes from one extreme to the other extreme…. When the pendulum is going to the right, in fact, it is gathering momentum to go to the left and vice versa. This is the vicious circle, very subtle.

Learn the middle way. Learn the golden mean. Learn to remain exactly in the middle. And once the pendulum stops in the middle, the whole clock stops. If you stop in the middle, the mind (ego) disappears. Mind (Ego) is time, the clock.

One has to stop exactly in the middle. And it is very, very simple if you understand. Be natural, Be spontaneous. Be simple. When feeling hungry, eat. And when not feeling hungry, don’t eat.

Be just ordinary, and see the beauty of being ordinary. Just be simple! Neither worldly nor other-worldly, neither materialist nor spiritualist, neither against money nor for money. Just be simple and natural! Just accept whatever is. and move according to your natural capacity, potentiality.

And don’t decide a program for your life. Be moment-to-moment. Don’t make a schedule. Don’t make a style. Don’t create a character! Just slowly, slowly moment-to-moment moving, living, challenging, accepting, responding, slowly, slowly great awareness arises. And one starts coming closer and closer to the middle of it all.

And the day it happens, when you are exactly in the middle, mind (ego) stops. And to be beyond mind (ego) is to be in God.

You are not to become indulgent, you are not to become celibate. You are not to create any structure upon yourself. You have to live without structure, with consciousness, with creativity, with sensitivity. And you have to live moment-to-moment, with no ideals, with no perfectionist neurosis. And the great day is not far away when suddenly you will find the pendulum is not moving either way.

That day, Satori happens. The first glimpse of the eternal beauty and benediction of nature descends in you. You are uplifted. Grace has arrived. Grace is the beginning of God.

(Above extracted and adapted from the end of Chapter 10 ‘Exactly in the Middle’ of Osho’s talks compiled in the book ‘The Silence of the Heart’)

A great and the strongest way to be, is to lock into and be alive in the now, the present moment, without any interference from our Ego; bury our Ego’s past fully so it does not percolate into the present and not let our Ego plan for the future, trusting Totality for our future, which can and will bring forth many surprises! – The Totality

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Our up bringing unfortunately helps us to build a lot of negativity in our Ego. So much so, our Ego fears the future and is often afraid in the present moment too.

As children we have been told, do not run fast, you will fall and hurt yourself. Do not touch dogs or other animals, insects etc as they will bite you. Do not trust others; do not accept sweets or rides or let others touch you, learn to save for the future, implying that we may not have enough money in the future. If you do not study well, you will fail. If you do not get admission to a good College or University, you will not get a good job, and you will not be able to maintain a good standard of living.

We are programmed to imagine a future full of difficulties and failures, so we tend to be afraid and think negatively.

A few of us are fortunate to be brought up with positivity and living in the present moment. Such parents live a positive life themselves and encourage their children to take risks, run fast, and reassure their children that when they fall and get hurt, or get into problems, they have the capacity within themselves to recover very quickly. If they need any help, then these parents  also assure them that they will be there to help them recover.

Adults with such an up bringing are generally peaceful, think more positively, are willing to take risks in life, have inbuilt capabilities to rise from difficult situations and to live a happy and good life.

The question is, if we have negative thoughts, will they attract negative situations in our life? Most of the motivational trainers and books state that the answer is unequivocal, YES! The key to success is to change our negative  thoughts to positive thoughts. This is stated by most of the motivational trainers and authors.

Experience has shown that is not true! Despite negative thinking, positive situations do happen to negative thinkers most of the time. This is so, as situations arise not out of only the individual Ego’s efforts but from the diverse universal forces acting at each and every moment. These universal forces have phenomenally gigantic powers compared to the powers of our Ego! The resulting situations arise from the combination of all the forces at work in the present moment and the biggest contributors to the end result are the universal forces.

So, what is the effect of negative thinking? It is mainly on the mental and physical health of the body. Negativity produces chemicals in the body which are harmful, reducing the immunity of the body resulting in more probability of depression and attacks from all types of diseases and illnesses.

Negativity also tends to make the person less socially acceptable and relationships can be under pressure all the time.

How, do we solve the situation of negative thinking? The oft quoted suggestion is ‘to think positive instead’! But this is easier said than done. To change oneself is not easy and neither very quick. The technique that works, is to first become aware that we are thinking negatively and accept this fully as the characteristic of our Ego. We recommend strongly to do meditation and physical exercises regularly which help reduce negativity and replace it with peace and tranquility.

Further, if we have experienced and understood fully that the future is impossible to predict and that miracles occur often, then after each negative thought that comes, follow it up with a positive thought that is an exact reverse of the negative thought! For example, if we think that a crisis is going to happen for sure, then think that all my problems will be resolved soonest; if a negative thought is that I am going to be sick, follow it with a positive thought that I will be and am very healthy! Then, slowly and automatically, our Intellect will change negative thinking to tranquility and positive thinking.

Tranquility and positive thinking lead to better health as well as good success in both the internal as well as external worlds.

For the ultimate in good living we need to go beyond tranquility and positive thinking by becoming aware of our own True Self! Then we live life fully and in uninterrupted and total bliss!

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Smiles and Laughter are essential for living life fully.

Most of us can laugh easily at other people’s mistakes and mishaps. Whereas, our own mistakes and mishaps make us frown and sometimes we become angry with our own self. To overcome this, we have to become aware that all this is a play of our Ego, which is very self centered and unnecessarily proud of itself.

The most helpful smile or laughter is when our Ego can smile or laugh at itself when it makes a mistake or a mishap happens to it. Such smile or laughter also lends to better relationships with our near and dear ones.

Even forced smile or laughter has beneficial effects on our Body and Intellect. So, we should make an effort to smile as often as possible and enjoy a belly full of laughter whenever we can.

Further, Donna Eden in her book “Energy Medicine’ says Smiles and Laughter are your birthright. If you can expand their energy within yourself, you will expand your joy. And you will bolster your health. While this book focuses on many kinds of energy, the joyous energy that wells into a deep smile is not insignificant. It is a natural and powerful healing force.

Cancer has been cured by some people by laughing while watching comedy shows regularly. Light hearted entertainment is good for all of us.

So, keep Smiling most of the time and enjoy a good laugh as often as possible for living a full and healthy life!

We all would be smiling all the time if we remain in the present moment, an abode of infinite, internal peace and stability – The Totality * 020219

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