Developing Your Healing Consciousness by Dr. Joseph Murphy

Let us dwell upon these great truths of the Bible: 

I am the Lord that healeth thee.

If thou return to the almighty thou shall be built up.

The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.

Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

"'I will restore health into thee and I will heal thee of thy wounds,' Sayeth the Lord, 'who he with all thy disease who satisfied thy mouth with good things who restore to thy youth like an eagle he sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction.'" 

I will put my spirit in you and ye shall live." 

Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusted in me. 

Therefore I say unto thee what things soever you desire, when ye pray believe that you receive them and ye shall have them." 

All things are possible to him that believes it. 

Go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole. 

Pray for one another that ye may be healed. 

The prayer of a fervent, righteous man availeth much. 

I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears, behold I will heal thee. 

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance, a broken spirit drieth the bones. 

The tongue of the wise is health; and Paul says glorify God in your body. 

There is ONLY ONE healing power. It is called by many names: such as God's infinite healing presence, divine love, divine Providence, nature, the miraculous healing power, the life principle and many others. 

This knowledge reaches back into the dim recesses of the past. An inscription has been found written over ancient temples that reads 'the doctor dresses the wound and God heals it.' 

The healing presence of God is within you. 

No psychologist, minister, doctor, surgeon, priest or psychiatrist heals anyone.

For example the surgeon removes the tumor, thereby removing the block and making way for the healing power of God to restore you.

The psychologist or psychiatrist endeavors to remove the mental block and encourages the patient to adopt a new mental attitude that tends to release the healing presence flowing through the patient as harmony, health and peace.

The minister asks you to forgive yourself and others, and get in tune with the infinite, while letting the healing power of love, peace and goodwill flow through your subconscious mind; thereby cleansing all the negative patterns that may be lodged there. This infinite healing presence of life has been called the father in the Bible.

It is the healing agent in all diseases whether mental, emotional or physical...the miraculous healing power in your subconscious mind is scientifically directed. It can heal your mind, body, affairs of all disease and impediments. 

When it is scientifically, consciously and knowingly directed; this healing power will respond to you regardless of your race, creed, or color. It does not care whether you belong to any church or have any creed affiliations.

You've had hundreds of healings since you were a child 

you can recall how this healing presence brought curative results to cuts, burns and bruises, contusions, sprains and so on 

in all probability you did not aid the healing in any way by the application of external remedies.

A few years ago young man from the local university came to see me with the complaint that he was constantly hearing spirit voices that they made him do nasty things. They would not let him alone. Neither would they permit him to read the Bible or other spiritual books. He was convinced that he was talking to supernatural beings. This young man it was clairaudience, not knowing that all men possess this faculty to some degree. He began to think it was due to evil spirits as superstitious believes caused him to describe the voices as departed spirits. Through constant worry he became a monomaniac on the subject. His subconscious mind dominated and controlled by an all potent, but false suggestion, gradually took over control and mastery of his objective faculties. His reason abdicated its throne. He was what you would call mentally unbalanced, as are all men who've allowed their false beliefs to obtain the ascendancy.

I explained to this university student that his subconscious mind is of tremendous importance and significance; and that it can be influenced negatively and positively. He had to make sure that he influenced it only positively, constructively and harmoniously. The subconscious mind possesses transcendent powers, but it is at the same time amenable to good and bad suggestions. 

The explanation that I gave him made a profound impression on him. I gave him the following written prayer which he was to repeat for 10 or 15 minutes, three or four times a day.

• God's love, peace, harmony, health, wealth, joy, greatness, glory, blessings, and wisdom flood my mind and heart. 
• I love the truth. I hear the truth. I see the truth. I know the truth. 
• I know God is love and his love surrounds me, sustains me, values me, prospers me, adores me, thrills me, enfolds and enwraps me AND is always ONE with me in my heart, mind, body and being...always wherever I AM, God's love for me is.
• God's river of peace and perfection floods my heart, my body, my mind and my being expressing perfectly, as anything unlike God's peace and perfection may not exist.
• And I give thanks that YOU have JUSTIFIED me fully and completely; meaning DIVINE AQUITTAL. Anything and everything...ALL, big, small, whatever I have ever imagined I have done wrong and requires forgiveness, YOU have already forgiven. So, of course, knowing that I AM JUSTIFIED, it was easy for me to forgive myself (and others) and surrender any and all guilt I may have been holding onto NOW and permanently. 
• And I give thanks that I AM now aware that YOUR will for me, God, is grander and greater than I ever imagined for myself. 
• And I give thanks for the REAL TRUTH that YOUR WILL for me and for everyone is perfect health, harmony, peace, true expression, wider and more beautiful self-expression, grander experiences, greater abundance, more bountiful and blissful blessings, prosperity, more Juicy Orgasmic Yummy pleasure, wealth, and marvelous ways for serving the Kingdom of We (serving the ONE).  
• I give thanks to you God, for all the Juicy Orgasmic Yummy life affirming pleasure flowing...the incredible and wonderful lightness of being, life nourishing pleasure I metabolize in my entire body and being with ease and joy and assisted me with unearthing ALL the most wonderful, fabulous, amazing, great and glorious desires of my heart that have been tamped down and/or buried with the notion of presumptive thinking/feeling were not possible for me to ask for, receive and enjoy...yet NOW...NOW...THANK YOU, GOD...you see my heart, you know my heart, you know the desires of my heart and your answer was always, 'As you wish!' Your will for me...always grander, greater, more joy, more pleasure, more perfection, more wonderful, more ecstasy and your GREAT pleasure to GIFT. I give thanks that  you are like: 'Relax. Relax. I mean, really...RELAX. Relax and receive my love. I got this! I know it can take a bit to get me to be still, relax, know, receive, revere and blissfully and appreciatively enjoy all the greatest and best your Kingdom has to enjoy. Thank YOU, GOD!
• And I give thanks that everything and everyone is always and in all ways assisting, contributing and gifting body and me for my best and the best of the Kingdom of We. 
• And I give thanks that something wonderful, something great, something that thrills me, thrills me, thrills me is happening and showing up for my body and me NOW, and continuously in my bountifully blessed life. 
• And I give thanks that my world is supporting me lavishly and joyfully with all the best of the best life has to offer. 
• And I give thanks that everything is going according to YOUR plan. 
• And I give thanks that as I appreciate, honor and love my body and being, I honor YOU, God, I AM. 
• And I give thanks that as I AM in allowance of the divine in everyone and everything, I honor YOU, God, I AM. 
• And I give thanks the more I trust YOU, God, the more I trust me. Then the more I trust me the easier it is for me to trust YOU and so on. 
• And I give thanks that the more vulnerable I AM with myself and with YOU, the greater I AM. 
• And I give thanks that the more I AM thankful for everything and everyone knowing ALL is GOD, the more I have to be thankful for. 
• And I give thanks that YOU have gifted me with being the Operant Power of my reality.  
• And I give thanks for my freedom, thanks for my peace, thanks for my glowing and flowing beauty, blessings, for my life nourishing and affirming Juicy Orgasmic Yummy pleasure-FULL body, perfect health and beyond bountiful and thriving wealth, thanks for my fitness, thanks for my flexibility, thanks for my strength, thanks for my billionX greatness, thanks for my perfection, thanks for God's love, thanks that God is always with me...that we are ONE. 
• And I give thanks for my wealth--too much money and never enough. I give thanks that I have so much money and yet more shows up for me everyday in seemingly miraculous and wonderful ways. And I give thanks that I allow myself to simply relax into this pleasurable wealth and receive, receive, receive. And I give thanks that I have so much money: too much and never enough, that it is fun for me NOW to wonder how I will enjoy ALL my over flowing, wonderful cash, all my over flowing Wonderful money, all my over flowing, fabulous, WONDERFUL wealth...wealth that truly WOWS me and fills my heart full with thanks giving. And it is fun for me to wonder who I can surprise with money and who I can gift with some money...whose life I can change with some money, simply because they asked and I AM thankful to be the hands of God that helps fulfill their 'ASK and RECEIVE' request.  I give thanks that I get to glorify God in this wonderful way every day.
• And I give thanks that I feel intense reverence here and NOW...every moment for God, I AM, that I FEEL this reverence and have this reverence in my entire body and being. 
• And I give thanks for the awareness that I can't help another be great and/or great at manifesting...they are already great...they TOO are ALREADY ONE with God, I AM. Thus, I may only contribute to, affirm and bear witness to, influence, suggest and revere their TRUE, INHERENT, ONE with God GREATNESS.
• I love that I glorify God with my righteousness, my consciousness that is continually manifesting my greatest body and my greatest self in every glorious moment of NOW, which is simultaneously a blessing to the Kingdom of We. 
• I love that as I thank YOU, God, in this very moment, I know YOU hear me. I know YOUR reply is forever, 'As you wish. What is mine is thine. I love you.' 
• Thank YOU, God, I AM. I love you. 

He repeated this prayer slowly, quietly, reverently, with deep feeling allowing the very energetic essence of this prayer to permeate every molecule, cell, particle, consciousness of his entire body and being...accepting, acknowledging, affirming, assuming and consenting to the TRUTH inherent in these words; particularly prior to sleep by identifying himself with harmony, love, peace and perfection. He brought about a rearrangement of the thought patterns of his heart and mind; and imagery in his mind/imagination. A healing followed. He brought about a healing of his heart, body, mind, being and consciousness by repetition of these truths, coupled with faith, expectancy and his knowledge of the Law of Identical Harvest, which is you reap what you sow.

Dr. Joe’s prayer for him was:

John is thinking/feeling in his heart and mind righteously. He is perfectly being, projecting, reflecting, radiating, shining with divine wisdom and divine intelligence in all his ways. His mind is the perfect mind of God, unchanging and eternal. He hears the voice of God, which is the inner voice of peace, beauty, health, wealth, perfection, gratitude and love. God's river of peace and perfection, beauty and bountiful blessings govern his mind and he's full of wisdom, balance and understanding always in ALL ways. Whatever is vexing him, whatever perversions of his greatness, health, wealth, beauty, love, peace and perfection is clouding his consciousness...all the perversions are leaving him now. I AM so thankful all his perversions have left the temple...gone...clear.  I AM here and now pronouncing him free, great, great at manifesting, healthy, beautiful, valued, loving, appreciated, wealthy, joyful, loved, bountifully blessed, a blessing, great-FULL, secure, safe, thankful, strong, fit, flexible, generous, perfect and at peace ALWAYS in ALL WAYS. And so it is.

At the end of a week this young man was completely free and at peace.

Some time ago a woman told me that her child had a very high fever and was not expected to live. The doctor had prescribed small doses of aspirin and had administered an antibiotic preparation. The mother was involved in a complicated divorce. She was terribly agitated and emotionally disturbed. This disturbed feeling was communicated subconsciously to the child and naturally the child became ill. Children are at the mercy of their parents and are controlled by the dominant, mental atmosphere, and emotional climate of those around them. They have not yet reached the age of reason, when they can take control of their own thoughts, emotions and reactions to life. 

This mother at my suggestion decided to become more relaxed. She did so by reading the 23rd Psalm, praying for guidance and praying for the peace and harmony of her husband.

Psalm 23

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

She poured out love and goodwill to him; and overcame her resentment. In her rage the fever of the child was due to the suppressed rage and anger of the mother, which was subjectively felt by the child and expressed as a high fever. Due to the excitation of the child's mind, having quieted her own mind, the mother began to pray for the child in this manner.

Spirit, which is God, is the life of my child's spirit has no temperature. It is never sick or feverish. The peace of God flows through my child's mind and body. The harmony, health, love and perfection of God are made manifest in every atom of my child's body NOW and continuously. My child's  body is relaxed and at ease, poised, serene and calm. I'm now stirring up the gift of God within her and all is well always in all ways. I feel this TRUTH and I AM so very THANKFUL for this truth and all of God’s blessings in my life.

She repeated the above prayer every hour for several hours. Shortly thereafter, she noticed a remarkable change in her child, who awakened and ask for a doll and something to eat. The temperature became normal.

What had happened? The fever left the little girl because the mother was no longer feverish or agitated in her mind. Her mood of peace, harmony and love was instantaneously felt by the child, and a corresponding reaction was produced.

We are all natural born healers for the simple reason that the healing presence of God is within all beautiful beings and ALL beings are beautiful. 

All of us can contact it with our thoughts. It responds to all. The healing presence is in the dog, the cat, the tree and the bird. It is omnipresent. It is in the soil. It is the life of all things. 

There are different degrees of faith. There is the man who through faith heals his ulcers, another who heals a deep seated so-called incurable malignancy. It is as easy for the healing presence of God to heal a tubercular lung as it is to heal a cut on your finger or a pimple on your nose. 

There's no great or small in the God that made us all. There is no big or little, no harder reason. Omnipotent is within all men. Prayers of the man who lays his hands on another in order to induce a healing simply appeals to the ____ region the patient.

That Jesus came to heal him was the healing factor. 

It is always done unto us according to our faith, 

mental conviction or just blind belief. 

His subconscious mind was amenable to my suggestion. His deeper mind received and acted upon the idea I had implanted in his mind. In a sense you recall such an incident the resurrection of the dead. It was the resurrection of his health and vitality; and according to his belief it was done unto him. 

True faith is based on the awareness and knowledge of the way your conscious and subconscious minds function; and on the combined, harmonious functioning of these two levels of mind scientifically directed. 

Blind faith is healing without any scientific understanding whatsoever of the forces involved. 

The voodoo doctor or witch doctor in the jungles of Africa heals by faith. So do the bones of dogs believed to be the bones of Saints or by the believer or anything else that moves man's mind from fear to faith.

In all instances regardless of the technique, modus operandi, process, incantation or invocation offered to Saints and spirits: it is the subconscious mind that does the healing.

Whatever you believe is operative instantly in your subconscious mind. That is the law of mind. 

Be like the little 8 year old boy in Sunday school. Eye drops were not clearing up his eye infection and he prayed as follows:

God, YOU made my eyes, my teeth, my skin, my ears, my nose, my legs, arms, hands and feet, my organs, my digestion, my metabolism, my heart, my body, my mind, my entire being. No where YOU end and I begin. No where I end and YOU begin. YOU are always with me. ‘As you wish.’ I demand action…shameless, brazen importunity. I choose perfect healing now. Behold, I know YOU make all things new. Hurry up. Thank YOU! I know I made YOU laugh with this, as I made myself chuckle, as well. With deep and intense reverence, I thank YOU times ten trillion, God, I AM. Thank YOU for assisting me with glorifying and intensely revering YOU as great as I AM.

Remarkable healing was manifest because of its simplicity, spontaneity and childlike faith in God.

Go thou and do likewise. 

Don't let the word incurable frighten you. Realize that you are dealing with the creative intelligence, which made your body. 

That although some men will say that healing is impossible, be assured that this infinite healing presence is instantly available to all.

You can always draw on its power. To the creative law of your own mind, make use of this power now and perform miracles in your life.

Remember that a miracle cannot prove that which is impossible. A miracle is a confirmation of that which is possible. With God all things are possible. “I will restore health unto thee and I will heal thee of thy wounds” sayeth the Lord. That is in Jeremiah. The word Lord in the Bible means the creative law of your mind.

There's a DIY healing principle which permeates the entire universe that flows through your mental patterns, images and choices, and objectifies them in form. You can bring into your life anything you wish through this infinite healing presence, which operates through your own mind. 

Millions of Christians and Jews are atheists because they say often times my body is incurable, it's hopeless, I can't be healed. At the same time, they say ‘with God all things are possible.’ They say that infinite healing presence that made the body, that infinite intelligence which made it can't heal it. It is just the same as if you made an ice box and told me that you couldn't fix it when it was out of order. 

I wouldn't believe you, nobody would.

When you deny the infinite healing presence, you're an atheist! 

It, the infinite healing presence, created the body and it certainly can heal it! 

It knows all the processes and functions of the body. It made it from a cell. Surely, He that hath made the eye, can he not see. He that hath made the ear, can he not hear. 

You may use this healing presence for any purpose. It is not confined to healing of the body or mind. It is the same principle which attracts to you the ideal husband or wife, prospers you in business, finds for you your true place in life, and reveals answers to your most difficult problems. 

Through the correct application of this principle, you can become a great salesman, musician, physician or surgeon. You can use it to bring harmony where there is discord, peace to supplant pain, joy in place of sadness, and abundance in place of poverty.

The first step in healing is not to be afraid of the manifest condition. From this very moment, the second step is to realize that the condition is only the product of past thinking, which has no power to continue its existence. The third step is to mentally exalt the miraculous healing power of God within you. 

This procedure will instantly stop the production of all mental poisons in you or in the person for whom you are praying.

Live in the embodiment of your desires. 

Your thought and feeling will soon be made manifest. 

Do not allow yourself to be swayed by human opinion and worldly fears. 

Live emotionally in the belief that it is God in action in your mind and body. 

The Bible says heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils, raise the dead, freely. 

You have received freely. You get the word heal is an old English word meaning to make whole to integrate to unite.

Ill health is the lack of oneness with God. It means separation from the divine. He restoreth my soul the soul. Your soul is your subconscious mind. 

You can restore your subconscious mind to wholeness, beauty, peace and serenity. 

Fill your conscious mind with life giving patterns. 

Fill your mind with harmony, health, peace, fullness, beauty, right action. Think from principles such as harmony, peace, beauty, love, joy. 

Preach the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. The Kingdom of heaven is here NOW! You must preach it first to yourself that the Kingdom of intelligence, wisdom and power…the boundless love, the infinite intelligence of God are locked in your subconscious mind. 

Teach that to your own faculties of mind. Teach your faculties of mind to give up their illusions, false beliefs, ill will, resentment, perversions and antagonism. 

You can't be healed and at the same time resent and hate and be full of self-condemnation. It is impossible! 

You MUST give up all of these false beliefs and accept that the spirit is God's wish for everyone. What you wish for yourself: health, happiness, peace and all the blessings of life…

forgive yourself for harboring negative thoughts. God has already forgiven you. God has already justified you, which is Divine Acquittal. 

Forgive EVERYBODY! Forgive EVERYTHING! 

Convict yourself with your GREATNESS! Convict yourself with your Divine Perfection! 

KNOW EVERYTHING, which includes EVERYTHING! I KNOW! Everything! And EVERYTHING includes everyone, every entity, all of consciousness, and GOD! YES! EVERYTHING! KNOW everything is working for your best in this very moment and continues to do so in every moment of NOW! Everything! Everything is here to assist you and contribute to your greatness, your best, the fulfillment of your wishes in reality; seeing as they are already fulfilled in imagination. That something IS conceivable in imagination means it is already fulfilled in imagination. Thus, it cannot be inconceivable. 

How thankful can we feel knowing everything is working, assisting, contributing to our greatness, our great, best, most wonderful lives? NOW? Not some day. Not next week. Not five hours from now. YES, NOW! 

How thankful can I feel knowing EVERYTHING is assisting and contributing to my perfection, my best, my most wonderful life NOW? YES, NOW! 

How much intense reverence can I have NOW for all of life, my body, my being, everyone, everything and GOD, especially GOD? Always available to me and for me?

You then create a vacuum. The Holy Spirit of God rushes in and heals you. 

The spirit in you is God. It's the ONLY cause. You do not give power to externals. You do not give power to the atmosphere, the winds or the waves or to germs or to anything! Change your mind and you change your body. Be transformed by the renewal of your mind. Fill your mind with the truths of God.

Empty your mind of everything unlike God!

Like a pail of dirty water. If you have patience and you drip, drip, drip, clean water into it; after a while you and I can drink out of that pail of water. Likewise, when you fill your mind with eternal verities of whatsoever things are true, lovely, noble and godly…expunge and obliterate from your deeper mind everything unlike God… 

And healing will take place because thousands of cells are dying. Every second! As you fill your mind with that which is lovely, noble and God-like, then the tissues and the nerves and the cells will take on a spiritual overtone. Like spiritual penicillin, you will destroy the bacteria, fear, worry and anxiety. 

Persistence and repetition work miracles in your mind. Reiterate the great truths, such as: 

• the healing power of God is now flowing through me, healing me, and making me whole. 
• The infinite healing presence made me. It knows how to heal. It knows all the processes and functions of my body. 
• I claim that the Holy Spirit is flowing through me now, animating, sustaining, healing, and restoring my whole being. The wholeness, beauty and perfection; this presence and power is flowing through me now. Healing, vitalizing and restoring my soul because my soul is my subconscious mind. No matter what the problem is, no matter what the difficulty is, it is a negative-pattern complex, a poisoned-pattern lodged in the recesses of your subconscious mind. 
• The law is subject to the higher. Therefore as I spiritualize my thoughts and feed my subconscious with life giving patterns of wholeness, beauty and perfection; the subconscious mind has no alternative but to be cleansed. The healing follows. 
• So, help me God. Thank you, God, I AM.

It is no use to petition God and beg and beseech that you may be healed. God does not respond to your petition, to your begging or beseeching or supplication. 

The God presence responds to your belief, to your conviction, to your understanding. According to your belief is it done unto you.

Permanent healing follows a real change of mind and heart, a reconditioning of your mind and heart NOW…it's the Kingdom of heaven. 

To your own mind: teach your faculties, your disciples to give up fear, hate, resentment and false beliefs. Teach your faculties not to judge according to appearances. Teach your faculties that external things are a condition. You don't give power to conditions.

You give power to the spirit within you. 

You allow the healing power to flow through you. 

Your disciples are your disciplined qualities of mind. For example, you MUST discipline your vision. Where there is no vision, the people perish. If you envision yourself successful, whole; then envision the doctor congratulates you on your perfect health and harmony. 

You go where your vision is. 

If you have a poor vision or a poor estimate or blueprint of yourself, you'll be sick, frustrated, neurotic. 

When you have regularly, systematically and vigorously reiterated to your mind the kingdom's harmony, health and peace, and wisdom, and beauty and boundless love are all within you NOW…you lodge these Divine Truths in your deeper mind; then you convince yourself that the infinite healing presence which made you is almighty. You KNOW there is nothing to oppose it or challenge it. You KNOW it is HERE AND NOW waiting to be released. Then your vision will soar. Your faith will be kindled and wonders will happen in your life. Healing will follow. For all things be ready when the mind knows that there's one presence and one power. When you know this, you will give power to nothing else in the universe. There is no principle of disease. There is nothing to sustain it. It is a product of destructive thinking. 

Therefore, as you change your thought to conform to universal principles, your body MUST change! 

This is the LAW of MIND. 

Remember the body is characterized by inertia. When we brought this out over 100 years ago, he said your body moves as moved upon. Your body acts as acted upon. In other words, you can play on your body a melody of love or a hymn of hate. Your body doesn't care. Your body is a conference of atoms, it's molecular. This, your body, is characterized by inertia. Remember that it cannot originate any movement. There's no initiative, no self-conscious intelligence, no volition in and of itself, no more so than a stone. You must move a stone from one place to another, don't you? 

Your body is composed of primordial substance. It is molded by your thoughts. Change your thinking to conform to spiritual standards and you will have new cells and new tissues. 

As you fill your mind with eternal verities and the truths of God, suppose you sever your arm or your leg from the body and you put it on a shelf or on a table…it cannot get cancer, tuberculosis, ringworm or any disease under the sun. Why? It's separated from the mind! It will undergo disintegration, which is a natural phenomenon. Yet that's not disease! 

For example, supposing your thoughts are full of fear and anxiety and worry; you may well get gastritis, which is an inflammation of the lining of your stomach. You may get ulcers. Modern psychosomatic physicians tell us that negative emotions are behind ulcers…all diseases. 

Suppose you have the ulcers excised by a surgeon and you continue to worry and fret and fume and be full of hostility and so on. Even though you continue with your bland diet, you'll get ulcers again. Surgery isn't really the answer. 

Thousands and thousands of people have been healed of ulcers by filling their mind with the truths of God. Establishing peace and harmony. Thinking on whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure and whatsoever things are honest. 

Thinking from the standpoint of harmony, health, peace and love, and goodwill filling their mind 

With these eternal truths then, they have a new body. Because you have a new body every eleven months with new cells, tissues, bones, and everything; there is no such thing as an incurable disease. 

There are incurable people who believe they can't be healed. 

Many people have been healed of malignancies. They have broken the show, while others haven't because of the intensity of the fear buried in their subconscious mind. 

The consciousness of love is the greatest healing power there is.

There are many people who are untutored, unlettered, who have no knowledge of anatomy or Physiology. Yet, they have a great consciousness of love. 

There are marvelous healers, doctors and surgeons. Others are amazed at the miraculous healing performed by these unlettered people. It is a consciousness of love that contemplates the wonders of it all, an infinite intelligence that guides the planets on their course that causes the sun to shine. They realize also that here is an infinite intelligence which enables the astronomers to tell us when Halley’s comet will return to a split second and governs the entire cosmos with undeviating laws and principles.

They realize the indescribable beauty of God could be realized: absolute harmony in nature. They realize, revere and appreciate the divine love planted in all of us. 

We see it in the mother who goes all over the world trying to heal her child suffering from infantile paralysis, or spasms for the brother who serves time for his sister and says he committed the crime, or the soldier in battle says well I'm not married I have no children he gives his life for his comrades. Yet all that love, however wonderful, it is but a faint shadow of the infinite ocean of God's love. Therefore, the people with that consciousness of love realizing that the will of God for all men is life, love, truth and beauty; who build that consciousness of love in them; they are the greatest healers. 

Doctor Flanders Dunbar has a degree in theology and is a distinguished psychiatrist, as well as a medical doctor, has written a book called ‘Emotions and Bodily Diseases’ and in it brought out an interesting case. She spoke about a doctor Grotech who reported that a Shoemaker was going blind. The Shoemaker attributed it to, of course, his work. He was told to give up his work, but however his eyes didn't get any better. He suffered from retinal hemorrhages, that is hemorrhages in the tiny blood vessels of his eyes. 

Now what did the doctor do? He said it was psychogenic. Psychogenic simply means of emotional origins. He went to work on this man and discovered things he didn't want to see in life. The things he resented and so forth. He got him to give up his negative condition, his negative emotions and his eyes were restored. Psychosomatic authorities, meaning doctors, who study the psyche of the soul of man and emotions report that glaucoma and a detached retina are associated with mental and emotional disturbances. 

I wrote a few years ago that there were 500 cases of glaucoma admitted to the Chicago eye and ear and throat hospital in Chicago. Research workers discovered that about 25% of them had hatred toward relatives, which affects the eyes. 

Something you don't want to see, what you want to shut out in your world, what do you wish to exclude? 

Your subconscious mind goes to work on that because that's your command to your subconscious. And it brings about an occlusion of your vision.

Doctor Dunbar recites a case where a woman was taken to a mental asylum and her sister began to lose her sight. Why? Because she felt guilty that she hadn't been kind to her sister. She wanted to punish herself. She said ‘I didn't treat her right. I'm guilty and so on.’ 

When the doctors went to work on her and told her, after all it wasn't her fault, that her sister was carried to a psychiatric ward and that was the cause of her retinal condition, she was restored to inward peace. Through psychological and psychotherapeutic treatment, her eyes cleared up perfectly. She realized she was doing it to herself. And of course, she had to forgive herself, as well as her sister, and bless her sister and stop condemning herself. 

Self-condemnation knows the curse of curses. Self-condemnation and self-criticism are highly destructive. 

Some years ago, a doctor friend of mine, a surgeon had ulcers in his right hand. We got talking one day and he said, ‘you know this hand of mine doesn't heal and I can't operate. I've tried everything under the sun. I've gone to specialists. I've tried ointments and lotions. I've tried X-ray therapy, all manner of therapy and yet these ulcers continue.’

I said to him, ‘doctor, why do you think it's the right hand? The right is your objective world in the Bible and the left is the subjective. Did you do something for which you feel guilty?’ 

He said, ‘yes.’ And he blushed. ‘That was years ago when I as an intern.’ 

I said, ‘Would you do it now?’ 

He said, ‘no. I would not.’

‘You're condemning an innocent man.’ I told him. ‘You're not the same man. Mentally you're not the same. You have a new vision of life. Emotionally you're not the same, nor physiologically or physically, because every eleven months we have a new body, including our bones. Spiritually, you certainly are not the same man. You're condemning an innocent man, and no one is condemning you. The God presence doesn't condemn. If you cut yourself, it heals. You if you burn yourself, it reduces the edema, gives you new skin and tissue. The tendency of life is to heal. The will of God for everyone is life, love, health, wealth, truth, and beauty transcending your fondest dreams. The tendency of life is to heal, to restore, even the psychotic, the raving maniac, the tendency of life is to restore that person to harmony, health, wealth and peace. That's the movement of life. That's the rhythm of life. That's the way of life. And God is the life principle animating all men. And the God presence can't be sick and frustrated. So its tendency is to heal, to express itself through you as rhythm, order, health, wealth, harmony, love, and beauty. You are condemning yourself; and as long as you are condemning yourself, you can't be healed! You can't hold on to your blindness and expect a healing. You can't hold on to self-condemnation, self-criticism which are blocking the healing. It's just the same as if in your sink the pipe is stopped up with debris and corrosion and rust. The water is waiting to come through, but it can't." 

My explanation was the cure. In a weeks’ time the ulcers healed. 

He was able to operate again. He was able to play a musical instrument, that he loved to play. For two years his hand was not healed because of self-condemnation, self-criticism, and guilt. 

With that feeling of guilt comes this idea that one must be punished. With that, of course, comes fear. All of this is false belief. No being in the sky is punishing you. Man punishes himself. God can't punish anyone. The absolute can't punish. All judgment is given to the son. The son is your mind and according to your own thoughts and feelings it is done unto you. 

Doctor Flanders Dunbar says that the skin, more than any other part of the body, shows the relationship of man's thoughts and feelings of his emotions to his health. She brings out the great truth that the skin is the place where the inner world communicates with the external world. That skin conditions are usually due to hostility, repressed emotions, anger, rage, self-condemnation, self-criticism or emotional protest against something. 

In the inner life these are very interesting things to realize. For the Bible knew that thousands of years ago. The men who wrote the Bible said: 

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. 

The heart is your subconscious mind. It is the seat of emotions, the seat of feeling. Feelings are the thoughts in the heart, there are many buried thoughts and beliefs in your heart and mind that have a life of their own. These conscious assumptions and beliefs dictate and control all of your conscious actions. 

One man believes that his condition is incurable. He says his mother had cancer, his father died of cancer and so forth. Others say that's nonsense! Cancer is the product of destructive thinking, conscious and unconscious. One changes their thinking, they'll change their body. 

I told you about the Episcopal priest a few years ago. It was written up in the New York paper how he had cancer. His surgeon told him it was metastasizing in his system. He got members of his congregation to pray and began to pray himself. He went back to the surgeon after a while, suffering excruciating pain, and received X-ray therapy. The surgeon told him it was breaking up, that he was going to be well. He was completely healed and the newspaper article said 'it's now five years later the man is perfectly whole.'

He believed there was an almighty power, which meant his body could heal him. He was restored. 

There are a lot of people who break the shell because as you change your mind you change your body. Your body can't get sick. No sickness is independent of the mind.

As I've explained, spiritual healing is a very real thing. It is the miraculous, healing power within you that made you. Therefore as you turn to it and realize it…now really seeing self as whole, as beauty and perfection in ALL ways always. And as you fill your mind with these truths of God, as you forgive everybody including yourself. Of course, you'll have a marvelous healing. 

If we are blind and adhere to our blindness, then of course we can't be healed. Blindness is man's ignorance, his superstition and his fear, his belief that the will of God gave him his suffering. That’s his blindness.

Realize that it's normal and natural for you to be healthy NOW, joyous and free NOW, and realize your body is an instrument in which God dwells. You are the Tabernacle of the living God. You can't be free of your illnesses and clinging to ill will, bitterness, self-condemnation, hate, resentment. 

An alcoholic can't be healed and still adhere to his self-condemnation, self-criticism, his sense of guilt and his hatred, his loathing of himself. He MUST give up all of these. He MUST have goodwill in his heart for everyone. For love is the fulfilling of the law of health and harmony. He MUST pull from it love, peace and goodwill; and wish for every living being in the world what he wishes for himself. He will know when he is forgiven, because he can meet the person in his mind and there's no sting…only a wave of peace and goodwill. 

The healing presence is within you. Wonders can happen in your life. Begin to turn to a great peace of how they who love thy wonders happen in their life. Those who have found that inner peace, that great peace, who love THY law; nothing shall offend them.

With mine eyes stayed on THEE, God's presence of perfection; there is no evil in my pathway. The divine presence is everlasting within you. 

Realize now that the miraculous healing powers focused at that point in your mind. This power causes problems to shatter, making way for the healing power of God to flow through you. 

You do not create vision, for example, rather you manifest. We see through the eye, not with it. The cornea of the eye is stimulated by light waves from objects in space through the optic nerve and these stimuli are carried to the brain in the inner light or intelligence meet the outer light. In this manner, by a process of interpretation, we see your eyes symbolize divine love and delight in the ways of God. Plus, a hunger and thirst for God's truth. 

Your right eye symbolizes right thought and right action. The left eye symbolizes God's love and wisdom. Think righteous and radiate goodwill to all. You will focus perfectly. 

‘Receive thy sight’ he said. Immediately he received his sight and following him glorified God. 

Millions of people are blind. That is they are psychologically and spiritually blind, because they do not know that they become what they feel and think all day long.

Man is spiritually and mentally blind when he's hateful, resentful or envious of others. He does not know that he's actually secreting mental poisons, which tend to destroy him. That's his sickness. That's his disease, Disease is a lack of peace, a lack of equilibrium. All sickness is due to ill will. 

Thousands of people are constantly saying that there is no way to solve their problems and their situation is hopeless. What they're actually saying is 'God can't heal me.' Yet at the same time, they're saying ‘with God all things are possible’. They say ‘from whom all blessings flow’ 

but you see: they are atheists. They're denying what they are acknowledging, affirming and assuming. Such an attitude is the result of spiritual blindness. 

Man begins to see spiritually and mentally when he gets a new understanding of his mental powers and develops a conscious awareness that the wisdom and intelligence in his subconscious can solve all his problems. 

Everyone should become aware of the interrelationship and interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind. Persons who were once blind to these truths, after careful introspection, will now begin to see the vision of health, wealth, happiness and Peace of Mind that can be theirs NOW

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through the correct application of the laws of mind. 

The way of the spirit, yes the healing power of God is within you. Wonders can happen in your life, as you begin to say ‘God in the midst of me is healing me now.’ 

No mental or religious science practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist or medical doctor ever healed a patient. The psychologist or psychiatrist removed the mental blocks, likewise the surgeon removes the physical block, enabling the healing currents of God to flow through you. 

There are many different methods used to remove the mental, emotional and physical blocks which inhibit the flow of the healing life principle animating all of us. The healing principle resident in your subconscious mind can and does, if properly directed by you or someone else, heal your mind and body of all disease.

There is only one process of healing. There's ONLY ONE universal healing principle operating through everything. For everything is alive and God is life.

This life principle operates through the animal, vegetable and mineral Kingdom. As instinct and as law of growth, there are many approaches, techniques and methods using the universal power; but there is only one process of healing that is FAITH. According to your faith it is done unto you. 

All religions of the world represent forms of belief. These beliefs are explained in many ways. The law of life is the law of belief: what you believe about yourself, life and the universe is done unto you as you believe.