What’s Working For You?

TODAY’S READING:
51.1-53.4

We’ve returned to the basics, and we’re back to discussing the function of Spiritual Law in our lives. Here we are in a more pragmatic discourse that lends itself more to classroom study rather than application in the “real world.”

In beginning final part of the introduction section of “The Science of Mind” we come to a place where we get to decide how we want to move forward. Do we want to move forward in mastery or as dilettantes? What we begin to delve into here is technique. And technique must be mastered before it can be truly useful.

By way of metaphor, can you imagine yourself on stage dancing a ballet? If you are a trained ballet dancer then I suspect you can. Most of us are not trained ballet dancers, however, and do not have the technique to be able to dance in that way. Frankly, if we tried to do what ballet dancers do without having studied and mastered technique we would most likely hurt ourselves. Additionally, ballet dancers who have mastered their technique open themselves up to myriad forms of dance expression.

It is the same with the study of the Science of Mind and Spirit. We are embarking on a development of technique in the use of our minds. This technique will allow us to easily and effortlessly create magnificent lives for ourselves. We mustn’t take any of it for granted, we should allow ourselves to move through the depths of our consciousness and arrive at a deeper realization of the Truth of who we are. That’s what this is all about, and that is how we use it.

Ernest Holmes wrote (and we read it on January 19) that “trained thought is far more powerful than untrained,” and this is reiterated in today’s reading, “It has been proved that by thinking correctly and by a conscious mental use of the law of Mind, we can cause It to do definite things for us, through us.”

And we do. By training our thought we can create our lives. Untrained thought still creates, but what is is creating? We get to set the course of our experience by training our thought.

So where do we begin? Let’s begin by accepting this notion. In accepting this notion, let us then begin to take stock of what we are thinking—that is, develop an awareness of what we are thinking at any given moment. This takes work, but the development of any technique takes work. Once mastered, we can rely on the technique as being second nature, just as ballet dancers do. Just as the ballet dancer’s body knows what to do when learning choreography, our minds will begin to know what to do as we consciously embody creative thinking habits.

First uncover what you have been thinking. How do you know what that is? Look at your life. Are you living your greatest life? What could be improved upon? Whatever you find, don’t judge it, just recognize that you can do something about it if you want to do something about it. That’s where we will begin, and we can take it one step at a time.

So begin today by observing. Develop a deeper awareness of the inner working of your mind by using your outer awareness free of judgment or condemnation. If you created it, you can re-create it! That’s the power of the technique in the Science of Mind and Spirit.