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You have a healing power deep within your soul!

You are a child of God, a child of the Universe, an individualized expression of the Most High. In God you live and move and have your being; in the Universe you live and move and have your being. God dwells within you; the Universe dwells within you. The whole Universe walks with you; you do not walk the path of your life alone. The Universe is dynamically involved in you; its dynamic flow is always expressing as you. Thus you are always in touch with the flow of healing power.

Once you capture the idea that you are a whole creature, a child of the Universe, the very expression of the Universal stream of life, you will not be satisfied until you find improvement in health. As one example of this dynamic connection, Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity movement, after a medical verdict that she only had a few months to live from terminal tuberculosis, got in touch with the flow of healing life and went on to live a full life for more than forty years.

It has been said that God is a circle whose center is everywhere. Know that God is a circle that is centered in you. All the attributes of the Infinite are in focus as you, flowing forth through you. You are in this flow right now. Indeed, you are this flow at the point where you are. Thus you are a child of the Universe, a Son or Daughter of God.

Meditate on this tremendous insight. It means that you are created in the image-likeness of an infinite idea. No matter what other influences may have left their mark on you from the outside, there is that of you that is begotten only of God, which is forever the divine flow from the inside.

You can be healed. You can be healed because you are whole! You have a healing power deep within your soul. Appearances may limit your judgment and your faith but the fundamental Truth remains: you are a child of the Universe, and spiritually you can never be cut off from the stream of life, what Solomon (Song of Sol. 4:15) and Jesus called “living water” and “a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:10, 14)

Early in the morning, take a few moments to “wait on the Lord,” to get yourself plugged in as it were. You can even do this while you are still in bed, before you get involved in the day’s activities. The current of life is within you as always, but you need to consciously get your thoughts on the right side. First, focusing in on your breath, affirm for yourself, “With every breath I breathe, I breathe the breath of God, and I am healed.”

Then you can also affirm something like this: “I am in the flow of life itself, and I move easily with the flow. I am free from tension, stress, and strain and I go forward in the flow, unhurried and unworried. I am radiantly and enthusiastically alive.” Finally, affirm, “I am a child of the Universe, established eternally in the healing stream of life. I am strengthened, renewed, restored, and made whole in every way.”

You can be healed! Remember that the healing stream is constant, not present only when you affirm that it is working. The need is not to overcome illness, but simply to open up the way whereby you get into the eternal flow of life. You have a healing power deep within your soul. You have a healing power ready to unfold, right where you are.

Remember, God is Blessing You Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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Are you bogged down in the belief in sickness and impotence? Then right now bring yourself to the present moment, and become aware that you can use your God given dominion over all things. God’s spirit of life, dynamic energizing life, dwells within you. It is there, and you have only to call it forth, put it into action, and you will begin to manifest perfect health in spirit, mind, and body.

Perhaps you have allowed yourself to be handicapped by fear and indecision. The first thing to do is to take your mind off the problem and perplexities and fix your faith in God. When you place your affairs in the Father’s loving care, all anxieties cease. Worrying incapacitates us for meeting life’s crises.

Use your faith, declare your dominion now. In II Corinthians 6:2 we read, “Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” And Jesus said, “Do you not say, ‘There are four months, then comes the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest.” (John 4:35)

Instead of having faith that sometime in the future your healing might take place, you can exercise your faith now, give thanks that your healing is already taking place and accept it now. “This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Ps. 118:24)

God is ever with you. Let Him quicken your mind, put the proper tools in your hands and lead you in the right decision. Through the guidance of the indwelling power of God you will be able to say the right word and do the right thing in every situation that may confront you.

If you seem to be weighed down by some circumstance, a steadfast faith in God will help you to lift up your head and to face the situation unafraid and confident. God’s omnipotent power is yours. God’s love surrounds you. His light is within you to guide you.

Perhaps you’ve allowed yourself to be fettered by hatred, resentment or suspicion. Turn your eyes instead upon the blessings of life and the blessedness of other human beings. If you feel that you’ve been treated unfairly, misused, or abused, it‘s time to exercise forgiveness. Then put it out of your mind. The only reality in any situation is the thought we have concerning it, the way we feel about it. This is the law of life.

“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely . . . think on these things.” (Phil. 4:8) Put the unpleasant thoughts right out of your mind by thinking of God’s goodness and greatness and love. Bless the person who has seemingly injured you. Behold the Christ in him or her.

Could it be that you have neglected the power of prayer? Prayer is the open sesame to the joys and riches of the kingdom, and yet we fail to use it.

Many marvelous answers to prayer have been outlined through the spontaneous faith of persons utterly unlearned in theology, psychology or metaphysics.

Remember the woman who came to Jesus for healing, hoping to push through the crowd to touch the hem of his garment without speaking or even being blessed by him? She probably knew nothing about the working of faith, but she had the secret of prayer. She had absolute faith, the courage to act, and the simplicity to accept. She used the necessary means. She believed if she could but touch the master, the healing would follow. And, confident in that faith, she pressed on, touched him, and was healed.

Simplicity of faith is the thing that always gets an answer, sometimes in the form of immediate, even seeming miraculous results. Sometimes, it may come slowly. Sometimes we lose patience and our faith grows weak. If we become faint hearted and fall back in our faith, then we must try again. Long years of wrong thinking, of imperfect practice, have often made deep grooves in the brain. It takes effort and continued practice before change.

Don’t be discouraged. Never give up. Keep faith in the latent powers within you. Remember those who have overcome insurmountable handicaps, and keep constantly in mind that you too can overcome. And you don’t have to wait. Whether your faith is small or great it is the key to riches of which you never dreamed. Remind yourself that “now is the acceptable time.”

Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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We can use our power of awareness to bring about healing in our lives.

Awareness is all-powerful. We create our universe through our awareness. We think of the universe as being out there and that’s what it is, that’s the reality. But the reality is that you create it from within yourself, and the universe is different for different people. You may see a friendly universe, another may see a universe that is not so friendly, and yet another may experience a terrible universe. It all starts within you.

There are two components of awareness. One is attention. When we give our attention to that which is negative, critical, or judgmental, then we tend to bring about in our world those negative situations that confirm our views. We see our world in a negative way, and then we have a bad experience in our world.

However, if we are purposeful and positive in our attention, and we give our attention to good outcomes and a sense of joy and friendliness in our universe, we tend to bring about in our experience health and wholeness, peace, joy, and harmony, all of the good things we would like to experience.

So the attention is an important aspect of awareness. As we become conscious of the power of our awareness, we can use it consciously to bring about that which we would want to experience in our lives.

By opening to an expanded awareness of the underlying reality of your life, which we call God, you become more fully aware that this reality is continuous and ever-present, equally present at all points in time and space. You give attention to that, and your intentions move to bring about right outcomes.

Years ago – in 1969, when Kathryn and I were first in ministerial school, there was something going on in a town close by there that was very significant in our understanding of the mind. It was at the Menninger Clinic, in Topeka, Kansas, where Elmer Green was performing experiments with an Indian spiritual adept called Swami Rama. Swami Rama had the ability to be able to voluntarily control the involuntary processes within his body, such as his blood pressure, his heartbeat and the rate of his heartbeat. He was able to raise the rate of his heartbeat or lower it just by giving attention and intention to it.

Elmer Green came to the ministerial school on more than one occasion to work with the students, and Kathryn will remember this. We were wired up with very primitive biofeedback equipment; that was the very beginning biofeedback equipment. We were wired up with electrodes on our hands and on our temples and we were invited to let our right hand become warm. And as we let our right hand become warm, we could see on the indicator scale that we were wired up to that temperature in our right hand going up as we voluntarily paid attention and intended to let the temperature rise in our right hand. In our left hand we were invited to let the temperature reduce, and on that indicator scale we could see the temperature going down. There was a difference of as much as five or six degrees from one hand to the other.

Why is this important? It’s important because this is the way the universe operates. As we give our attention and intention then we are able to affect how our universe works for us, because results follow upon intentions. The slightest intentions we have, the desires we have, bring about results. All desires bring about results.

So this is important for us to realize. That which we thought was involuntary, we can accept as being voluntary. Not only for the inner processes of our bodies, where we can focus our attention on that which needs healing and help to bring about that healing, but also in our outer world – which is connected to us. Remember that the underlying reality is everywhere and equally present in its entirety at every point in space and time.

So every part of God is present, meaning that all infinite intelligence is present where we are. So you can say, “Wherever I am, God is.” Wherever we are, infinite intelligence is also; and infinite intelligence responds to our attention and intention. As we expand our awareness, then we are able to bring about a more beneficial world for ourselves, for our loved ones and for our world in general.

What are you giving your attention to? The attention is first, and then the intentions follow that attention. The intention is the active part.

I’d like to suggest seven steps for you to take and apply to yourself:

1. Sit quietly and relax your mind, calm your whole being – because this doesn’t happen if you get anxious about it. Your intentions are interrupted by your anxieties, worries, and doubts. We have to be relaxed in mind and in a very natural way just focus our attention.

2. Intend the outcome that you want. Be specific about it. What is it you want? And do it in a natural way, in a gentle way, such as visualizing it or maybe verbalizing it through an affirmation (I have more vigor, more energy, greater health, etc.) You are intending an outcome.

3. Don’t get bogged down in the details of how it’s going to come about. Don’t force it or concentrate too hard. Just let it be very natural as though you were getting a glass of water or lifting your arm or whatever, just a natural movement of intending that outcome.

4. Expect and believe in the outcome, know that it is certain.

5. Realize that doubt and worry and attachment interfere with the process, interfere with your success. Those are the three biggest obstacles in us achieving our desires: worry, anxiety, and doubt. So we need to eliminate those.

6. Let go of the desire. Let go of it once you’ve identified it, you’ve put it out there. It’s like mailing a letter; you don’t have to do it twice. Just let it go, and wait for the result to come back.

7. This is a very important step. Be open to the feedback you receive. That’s where your awareness comes in again, because sometimes feedback comes in unexpected ways and can come either from within us or from our environment. But remember that any feedback you get, it is you who has elicited that feedback. It is coming because of the intention you put out. 

These are the steps, and that last step is really important.

This awareness is one of the healing secrets of the universe. One of your highest purposes is to be clear in your awareness of your oneness with the underlying reality of your life, the very presence of the living God. Be aware of that, and be aware of what you are giving attention to; then follow that by giving your intention to what you want to have happen in your life.

“Every good desire of the heart shall be fulfilled, either in ways we anticipate or in other ways that in God’s sight are even better.” – Ernest Wilson

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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Today, Thursday, March 19, is the twentieth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.

Assignment 20

Your body is a precious gift of God. It is your most prized possession. Through your body you express the thoughts and ideas and ideals of your mind. We are to love and cherish our bodies, for not to be privileged to express in the outer is real hell. Many people live in a hell of frustration.

Frustration is to live in vain, and to be defeated in bringing about our purpose. We have been given our bodies and lives to fulfill a special pattern.

We have belittled our bodies, talked against them, been ashamed of them, condemned them and subjected them to the power of ignorant thought. We have believed our bodies were evil and that in order to have freedom, we must cleanse them, or change them. In this cleansing and changing of that which was created perfect and for a special purpose, we have shut off the free flow of life, and sickness and disease run riot.

We must set our body free in our minds, we must teach ourselves the beauty of the body temple, for it is the outer expression of the “temple not made with hands, for God made everything good and we are curiously wrought, fearfully and wonderfully made.” Healing is not seeing and treating a so-called illness. It is a natural function of the body, like breathing.

With worry, fear, anxieties, apprehension, and loneliness plus our beliefs in the body being possessed of the devil, we have interfered with the true action of life. It has caused pressures, stoppage, and partial paralysis of the natural functions and even caused people to go out of their minds.

“You body is the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in it.” (I Cor. 3) To know this is to ensure health and freedom. The body is wonderfully obedient to a happy, joyous, carefree mind. To “care” for the body is not just in exercise, eating, and sleeping. The greatest healing power is the letting go of the body mind.

Take up new ideas, new interest, new love, new effort, and “take no thought for your physical life.” Leave the pain and discomfort, and trust the wisdom of your body to renew and recreate. Forget your body in the joy of living!

(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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