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Personal transformation means that you have the abiity to access the source of spiritual power and bring about positive and lasting change in your life.

You begin to look at your life from an awareness of your spiritual nature, with the realization that you are a spiritual being going through a human experience. And you find spiritual solutions to life’s problems and challenges.

The following three steps will help you to . . .

• Become aware of the power of your thought
• Choose to think from a consciousness of your spiritual nature
• Access the spiritual power that has always been within you
• Give yourself the order to do something for yourself
• Take some action to help yourself

The First Step in personal transformation is to know that you can change your thinking. When you change your thinking, you can change your life - one thought at a time.

Jesus taught that what you think in your mind is the source of all that counts: "Out of the heart are the issues of life." And the apostle Paul advises, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."

Spiritual solutions are the means by which you can transform your thoughts and free them from rigid ways and negative patterns. You do not really have to be upset or angry or afraid or insecure. You can think what you want to think. You can choose to think from a consciousness of your spiritual nature.

The Second Step in personal transformation is to choose to respond to circumstances and situations with the sort of attitude and feeling that will be beneficial and creative for you.

Declare to the obstacles in your life that you are not afraid, that you are far from weak, that you are all you want to be because you are a spiritual being.

Your subconscious mind will seize upon this attitude and feeling and upon these words, forming them into patterns of thought that will point the way to welcome changes in your life and to personal control over your destiny.

It is important to remember that positive thinking does not make creative power, nor does it change God or alter conditions. It simply aligns you with the power which is, and it lifts you to the level of the powerful. But the power has always been within you, ever-ready and ever-awaiting your recognition. It is contained within your own innate spirituality.

The Third Step in personal transformation is to remember the statement, "God helps those who help themselves." Have you ever given real thought to what is implied in that statement? Many people fail to apply the principles of Truth in their everyday living because they really don’t do anything about helping themselves. It takes all three steps working together to bring about personal transformation.

It’s not enough to speak positive words, or to acknowledge your innate spirituality that you are a spiritual being. Powerful and important steps as they may be, personal transformation also calls for some positive action on your part. That’s why Jesus in calling forth healing also called for some action on the part of the person: "Stretch forth your hand." "Pick up your bed and walk." "Go to the pool of Siloam and wash the mud from your eyes." "Go and sin no more."

No one ever accomplished anything without effort. It must be mental first of all; you must make the effort to think positively. When you have accomplished this, when you are thinking thoughts of health and strength and success; and when in the second step you have convinced yourself by affirmation, prayer, and meditation that God is working with you to heal you and help you, then comes the third step.

Give yourself the order to do something for yourself. Then make a whole-hearted attempt to do it. The accomplishment of this step will give you confidence to attempt more and more later on, and you will be surprised at the inflow of power you receive as you express the power you have.

If anything is worth having at all, it is worth a considerable effort to attain. Certainly health, happiness, success, and abundance are well worthwhile. So if you are in need of any of these, take some small initial action for yourself.

Remember that life is lived from inside out. Your first effort must be entirely within yourself, the mental work necessary to convince yourself of the truth that you wish to demonstrate. Right thinking requires determined effort, but the results are well worth it!

Personal Transformation

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Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham, a Unity minister for over thirty-five years, invites you to enjoy more articles on Spiritual Solutions and/or subscribe to the free Spiritual Solutions newsletter at www.spiritualsolutionsblog.com

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