If you are afraid of failure, give your attention to success. If you are afraid of sickness, dwell on your perfect health. If you are afraid of an accident, dwell on the guidance and protection from God. If you are afraid of death, dwell on eternal life. God is life, and that is your life now.
12. The great law of substitution is the answer to fear. Whatever you fear has its solution in the form of your desire. If you are sick, you desire health. If you are in the prison of fear, you desire freedom. Expect the good. Mentally concentrate on the good, and know that your subconscious mind answers you always. It never fails.
13. The things you fear do not really exist except as thoughts in your mind. Thoughts are creative. This is why Job said, The thing I feared has come upon me. Think good and good follows.
14. Look at your fears; hold them up to the light of reason. Learn to laugh at your fears. That is the best medicine.
15. Nothing can disturb you but your own thought. The suggestions, statements, or threats of other persons have no power. The power is within you, and when your thoughts are focused on that which is good, then God's power is with your thoughts of good. There is only one creative power, and it moves as harmony. There are no divisions or quarrels in it. Its source is love. This is why God's power is with your thoughts of good.
Chapter Twenty
How To Stay Young In Spirit Forever
Your subconscious mind never grows old. It is timeless, ageless and endless. It is a part of the universal mind of God which was never born and it will never die.
Fatigue or old age cannot be predicated on any spiritual quality or power. Patience, kindness, veracity, humility, good will, peace harmony and brotherly love are attributes and qualities which never grow old. If you continue to generate these qualities here on this plane of life, you will always remain young in spirit.
I remember reading an article in one of our magazines some years ago which stated that a group of eminent medical men at the De Courcy Clinic, in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported that years alone are not responsible for bringing about degenerative disorders. These same physicians stated that is is the fear of time, not time itself, that has a harmful aging effect on our minds and bodies, and that the neurotic fear of the effects of time may well be the cause of premature aging.
During the many years of my public life, I have had occasion to study the biographies of the famous men and women who have continued their productive activities into the years well beyond the normal span of life. Some of them achieve their greatness in old age. At the same time, has been my privilege to meet and to know countless individuals of no prominence who, in their lesser sphere, belonged to those hardy mortals who have proved that old age of itself does not destroy the creative powers of the mind and body.
He Had Grown Old In His Thought Life
A few years ago I called on an old friend in London, England. He was over 80 years of age, very ill and obviously was yielding to his advancing years. Our conversation revealed his physical weakness, his sense of frustration and a general deterioration almost approaching lifelessness. His cry was that he was useless and that no one wanted him. With an expression of hopelessness he betrayed his false philosophy, “We are born, grow up, become old, good for nothing, and that's the end.”
This mental attitude of futility and worthlessness was the chief reason for his sickness. He was looking forward only to senescence, and after that – nothing. Indeed, he had grown old in his thought life, and his subconscious mind brought about all the evidence of his habitual thinking.
Age Is The Dawn Of Wisdom
Unfortunately, many people have the same attitude as this unhappy man. They are afraid of what they term “old age,” the end and extinction which really means that they are afraid of life. Yet, life is endless. Age is not the flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.
Wisdom is an awareness of the tremendous spiritual powers in your subconscious mind and the knowledge of how to apply these powers to lead a full and happy life. Get it out of your head once and for all that 65, 75 or 85 years of age is synonymous with the end for you or anybody else. It can be the beginning of a glorious, fruitful, active and most productive life pattern, better than you have ever experienced. Believe this, expect it, and your subconscious will bring it to pass.
Welcome The Change
Old age is not a tragic occurrence. What we call the aging process is really change. It is to be welcomed joyfully and gladly as each phase of human life is a step forward on the path, which has no end. Man has powers, which transcend his bodily powers. He has senses, which transcend his five physical senses.
Scientists today are finding positive indisputable evidence that something conscious in man can leave his present body and travel thousands of miles to see, hear, touch and speak to people even though his physical body never leaves the couch on which it reclines.
Man's life is spiritual and eternal. He need never grow old for life, or God, cannot grow old. The Bible says that God is life. Life is self renewing, eternal, indestructible and is the reality of all men.
Evidence For Survival
The evidence gathered by the psychical research societies both in Great Britain and America is overwhelming. You may go into any large metropolitan library and get volumes on The Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society based on findings of distinguished scientists on survival following so called death. You will find a startling report on scientific experiments establishing the reality of life after death in The Case for Psychic Survival by Hereward Carrington, Director of the American Psychical Institute.
Life Is
A woman asked Thomas Edison, the electrical wizard, “Mr Edison, what is electricity?”
He replied, “Madame, electricity is. Use it.”
Electricity is a name we give an invisible power which we do not fully comprehend, but we learn all we can about the principle of electricity and its uses. We use it in countless ways.
The scientist cannot see an electron with his eyes, yet he accepts it as a scientific fact, because it is the only valid conclusion, which coincides with his other experimental evidence. We cannot see life. However, we know we are alive. Life is, and we are here to express it in all its beauty and glory.
Mind & Spirit Do Not Grow Old
The Bible says, And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God. John 17:3.
The man who thinks or believes that the earthly cycle of birth, adolescence, youth, maturity and old age is all there is to life is indeed to be pitied. Such a man has no anchor, no hope, no vision and to him life has no meaning.
This type of belief brings frustration, stagnation, cynicism and a sense of hopelessness resulting in neurosis and mental aberrations of all kinds. If you cannot play a fast game of tennis, or swim as fast as your son, or if your body has slowed down, or you walk with a slow step, remember life is always clothing itself anew. What men call death is but a journey to a new city in another dimension of life.
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