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HEALING THE SELF Our thoughts about the Self are the most vital thoughts we will ever think. The body is a perfect register of our mental (spiritual) state, reflecting the positive and negative thoughts we nurture as our attitudes. Our positive loving attitudes toward the Self reflect in our body as good health. Our negative, unloving attitudes toward the Self reflect as our illnesses. The Self includes you and everyone else.
The words we habitually fill our mental space with cause our experiences and reflect as health or disease in our bodies, wealth or poverty in our pockets, and truth or error in our mental state. We are not trained as children in what to think to bring positive experiences into our lives. We are not trained in what not to think to avoid illness and misfortune. We, as thinking beings, are particularly not trained in how to think correctly about our own Self. In our whole lifetime, we may learn little about the true nature of what we really are.
Correct thinking relates to our innate power to cause with our thinking—a power which we may not even be aware of within us, much less of its magnificence. Learning how to think correctly is vital to our health and well-being, because our own thinking CAUSES our health and life experiences. We choose our own feelings and attitudes to think, and our beliefs will manifest whether or not we want them to or are aware that they will.
Every city on earth has its share of people who suffer from spiritual illnesses, e.g., AIDS, alcoholism, drug addiction, clinical depression, and abusive situations, both as victim and victimized. Spiritual illnesses are caused from having a sick spirit. They are completely healable by changing one's attitude about the Self. People who suffer from these illnesses are filled with intense, unrecognized Self-hatred, which manifests as both internal and external torment. The opposite healing thought is Self-Love. But here, the human concept of Self and the spiritual concept of Self begin to fight. You cannot believe that you are humanly worthless and spiritually magnificent at the same time. One of these is based on missed-understanding; the other is based on Truth.
The biggest problems in your life happen because of your habitual, negative Self-talk. If you were born into a dysfunctional home or suffer from a spiritual illness, take a hard look at how you talk to your-Self in the silence of your Self-talk. If your parents suffered from spiritual illnesses, they did not love themselves and could not teach you what they did not know. You can learn now. By consciously reversing negative “feeling” words, like Self-hatred, to the opposite positive feeling words—Self-Love, you can reverse your illness to wellness. It is your own conscious attitude change about your-Self that causes your body to heal.
Your success in healing your-Self will depend on:
A human would doubt his ability to cause with his thoughts, which is a disabling, low-level concept of Self. A Spirit would believe in his ability to cause with his thoughts, which is an enabling, high-level concept of Self.
Believing in your-Self as able, powerful, and fully united with magnificent power through your own right thinking has everything to do with your success in healing. Miracles are the result of magnificent thinking, which you are completely capable of if you believe in your-Self.
Our words are filled with potent energy. They are free and abundant. Feeling words send immediate impulses into your bloodstream and thereby control your blood chemistry. The feeling words you entertain in your mind the majority of the time create your health and your life. We have adjectives without end to specifically define our negative feelings, and when we feel anger or fear, we use these adjectives on other people and on ourselves in negative judgments. These negative attitudes we form produce the specific varieties of our illnesses.
Creating health or illness through thinking specific words is an exact science. In the near future we will be able to pick up a spiritual dictionary that will tell us exactly which word we thought to produce which illness, and which word to think to overcome the illness. This dictionary will be vast in its scope because our ability to create with our thoughts is unlimited.
To heal your-Self, you must choose to think the direct opposite feeling word that you thought to produce the illness. It is fortunate that we do create our own illnesses, because it gives us complete control over them to the extent that we are willing to reverse and correct our negative thinking. At times the most difficult thing can be to recognize clearly enough and admit even to our-Selves exactly which negative word we are thinking and feeling in order to find the exact opposite positive word to think to counteract it, particularly if we are not used to paying attention to our own negative emotions and attitudes. You must be specific in reversing negative words exactly to achieve your goal of perfect health.
To discover your own negative attitudes, reflect on the most difficult problems you have faced in your life and on what your attitudes were toward the people involved. Write these emotional words down. These negative emotional words have embedded themselves in your deep mental space and are causing your persistent illnesses. Reverse these negative words consciously to begin to heal your body. Squarely face your reasons for anger or your reasons for fear. Take any actions you can to help improve or relieve the circumstances that caused these negative feelings. If you have done everything you know to do to improve a difficult situation and the problem does not improve, let it go, stay with Love, and forgive everyone. You have to take care of your-Self and your own well-being. Other people have to learn their lessons their own way. We have all experienced injustices and difficult people. Some experiences never seem to turn out right. Too often it's our own family members that we can't get along with. When our relationships are on the rocks, when our children die unexpectedly, when our finances are wiped out, or when our house burns down, how do we cope with these things?
When my son died six days after his eighteenth birthday in an automobile accident, I didn't handle it well at all. I cried constantly for months. I developed a severe pain in my right ankle and found my-Self limping. But, because I had previous training in spiritual healing and knew the dire effects of prolonged negative emotional thinking, I chose to think that I could stand the intense grief I was feeling from the loss of my precious son, which I knew was causing my limp and physical pain. I began to say, “I can stand it,” over and over, counteracting my negative feeling, “Oh, God. I can't stand this! This hurts so much.” Of course, being able to stand it was not the truth of what I was feeling. Even as the tears rolled down my cheeks, my limp and physical pain disappeared because I chose to think that I could stand my son's death. Many older people who have lost their spouse develop a painful limp and need to use a cane.
Their own deep negative feelings of pain and loss have created their loss of good feeling in their ability to stand. If they changed their thought back to the positive, “I can stand it,” just as I did, they too could heal themselves. They also have to be willing to let go. Whichever thought is more persistent, the negative or the positive, becomes their “God-thought” manifesting in their body and experience, because the word we think causes .
If you are healing your-Self of a chronic illness, it may take you a while to program in enough good thoughts to feel that you are having more good days than bad. But, if you knew that at the end of ANY period of time you would be healthier than you are now, would you begin to mentally treat your-Self? You bet! Every positive thought counts toward that moment when you can say, “I am well and I know it.” Never give up on your-Self.
As you work to heal your-Self, you may want to chart your progress on a calendar. Your illness may begin to come and go, as you consciously think more positive words, because the negative words will begin to be replaced and will surface in your mental space less often. Always remember to think that your illness is on the way out. If you decide it's not getting better, this is a negative thought. Your own thoughts will perfectly produce for you whatever you believe to be true. Post healing words around your house, on the mirrors, or on your desk so you will be reminded of these positive words when your mind has wandered away to other things. Have a “Word for the Day,” and hold that word in your mind all day long. It can be any good word—SELF-LOVE, SELF-PRAISE, PEACE, PROSPERITY, or WELL-BEING. They all work if you persist in thinking them. You are sowing word-seeds in your mental garden constantly. The garden soil doesn't know the difference between a lilac seed and a tumbleweed, just as your fertile mental soil doesn't know the difference between a positive or negative word. Either will produce for you. You are the gardener, and you choose the word-seeds to embed. Watch your thoughts and improve them constantly. You can use your NOW THOUGHT to change your DEEP ROLLING (embedded) THOUGHTS, which are the negative ones manifesting illness in your body or in your life right now. Really work IN your mental space. Begin to weed out those troublesome words. Become familiar with an often neglected part of your-Self.
A friend of mine some years ago had little bruises all over his shins that never seemed to heal. It looked like somebody stood in front of him daily kicking him in the shins so they stayed bruised all the time. We discovered that he had a habit of mentally saying, “I could just kick my-Self,” always getting on him-Self about whatever trivia came up during the day. When he became aware of his abusive Self-talk and stopped it, the bruises disappeared. What unloving, negative words do you use on your-Self? Self-Love refrains from ALL Self-abuse.
To heal our-Selves, we are always just working against our own past negative thinking. Start pushing positive words against your own negative Self-talk. Disagree with those negatives; stop supporting them. As you reverse and improve your mental attitudes, you improve your health, your relationships, and your life-style to the exact degree you believe you can.
Learn to love and praise your-Self at deep mental levels to connect with your natural ability to consciously cause. Only your limiting concept of Self as human stands in your way. How great will you let your-Self believe you are as a Spirit? Lift your-Self above the level of human missed-conception into the higher level of Spirit-being where you belong.
Recognize and honor your-Self as the magnificent GodSpirit you are with innate cause-ability at your point of thought. Make wise use of the power you were born with through conscious control, moment by moment, of the words you choose to think.
© 2006 by Nancy Lynne Harris. All Rights Reserved. Article excerpted from Open Minds Magazine , May 2001.
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