TODAY’S READING
236.3-238.2

Removing the complex. Sounds daunting. This is one of those cases in The Science of Mind where I agree wholeheartedly and also feel we’ve evolved our understanding.

First, what is “the complex?” It is whatever is disturbing peace of mind, getting in the way of the desired condition, or simply the thought which creates and supports the experience. I get complexes only when I forget the Truth of who I am. When I remember that is when I begin to arrive at clear thinking. When I don’t know who I am, my mind will possibly maintain a hold on those complexes in mind and act upon them.

So our job is to train our mind away from the complexes. Here is the evolutionary thought around this, while this section of the book is titled, “Removing the Complex,” I think it we need to accept that nothing can be removed from the infinite (if it were removed… then we are back to the finite). So we should NOT work to remove the complex. Our work is in strengthening its polar idea.

He really is saying the same thing in this section. I just want to clarify because I have found that often the people I work with in Spiritual Counseling become obsessed with “removing” and never get to the accepting and strengthening. It is another one of those times I think we need to let ourselves off the hook.

Our goal in the work of utilizing Spiritual principle to make our lives better is to move our mind to harmonious mental attitudes. These attitudes, once they’ve become the tendency of our thought (there will be more on this later as we reach that place in the book) become the expression of our lives. Doesn’t that sound good?

Spiritually centered thinking creates clarity—and clear thinking adjusts our inner emotions which create outer conditions. Clarity of thought is moving away from the idea of removing and moving toward the idea of accepting.

Let us accept our good today, here and now, once and for all!