Spiritual Solutions

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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