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I am fairly certain that most people who read my Weekly Messages
spend time each day in either meditation or sitting in the
Silence. I have been advocating these spiritual practices for
many years now in these Weekly Messages. I also advocate
affirmation, either in the form of affirmative statements or
following the process of spiritual mind treatment. I advocate
for these as I know personally, and have received feedback from
many, many people that they are an effective way to manifest
what we choose to have, to be, and to do. The thing though, is
that we must not let out thoughts stray from what we affirm,
silently claim, or pray for. And this can be tricky for most
people.
"A
new study from psychologists at Queen's University in Kingston,
Ontario, Canada reports observations of the transition from one
thought to another in fMRI brain scans. Though the researchers
didn't detect the content of our thoughts, their method allowed
them to count each one. Referred to as "thought worms," the team
says that the average human has 6,200 thoughts per day."
Referring to this new
Study, just the thought that we have over 6,000 thoughts each
day is amazing. Now I understand why Dr. Ernest Holmes stated we
should affirm "good and more good is mine" a thousand times each
day if necessary to manifest something good. The positive way to
look at this number of thoughts, however, is to know that most
of our thoughts are positive and focused on the good. The other
positive regarding this Study is that we can examine what
triggers our mind to create negative thoughts; i.e. watching or
reading too many News articles. There are a myriad of ways in
which we can guide our mind to register more positive thoughts,
and also more negative thoughts. Which one we choose will depend
on our attitude or state of mind each day.
How many of these 6,200
thoughts you had yesterday do you remember? Most of us remember
only a few. Are your dominant thoughts positive or negative?
This we must know for ourselves. This knowledge will give us
insight into whether our affirmations, silent meditations, and
prayers are doing their perfect work, or not.
In his book titled
"Dominant Mind," Dr. Robert H. Bitzer, a master of the Law of
Mind, writes; "How do you handle domination? How are you being
dominated? This question may make you bristle, because your
instant reaction is, "Nothing dominates me. I am free; I am
independent; no one has control over me at all."
You may not
realize it, but nevertheless, you are dominated .... perhaps by
people, perhaps by things, perhaps by thoughts. Life is choice,
and you always choose the level on which you function and are
subject to beliefs that dominate that level."
Rather
than think of yourself in terms of "labels" that the world has
attached to you, think of yourself as consciousness, or the soul
that knows and has the awareness that your thoughts and your
mind rule your life experiences. Your power of awareness, will
govern these 6,200 thoughts in ways you may not now can imagine.
Keep the Faith!
Rev-Bates
(Reverend Dr. Henry Lee Bates)
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