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It’s a joy to wake up in the morning full of expectancy and eager anticipation of good things happening all day. Christian Science makes feeling good in control a normal way of life.
So, when the following quote came through my email this morning, it caught my attention, and was simply too good not to share.
Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says “Oh no, she's awake!”
A week ago, a new acquaintance was telling me about a friend of his who was showing off his “hypnotic powers.”
He said that his friend was waiting for a woman to deliver a product and decided to use her as a subject for his mind-control methods. He was going to have the woman dress in blue, he said.
The new acquaintance of mine was quite impressed with his friend’s powers and wondered what my opinion was of his deeds.
He continued his story….
After a while, the woman arrived in a blue dress.
“Wow! Can you believe that?” He asked
He went on…
After the woman arrived, the two men told her about the mental signal they had sent her way, to have her come dressed in blue. The woman laughed and said, “That is quite interesting. I did not dress in blue this morning, but as I was driving to meet you, I spilled coffee on my dress and went back home to change. That’s when I put on the blue dress.”
Of course, this confirmed the hypnotist’s powers even more for the guy telling me the story.
He asked me if I believed mental manipulation like that was possible.
I told him I believed his story. And I used the story to bring out a spiritual lesson.
I said, “This kind of story is the very reason you want to defend your thinking everyday from outside mental influence. Your friend messed with this woman’s thinking, and she didn’t know it. Lots of people are trying to influence other people’s thinking everyday, maybe not consciously all the time, but it’s the same idea. You have to defend yourself from it.”
In Christian Science, this kind of mental manipulation is called mental malpractice.
I went onto explain that suppose the hypnotist had a turn of bad will and decided to influence another’s thinking into doing something detrimental, like hurt someone, or get ill, or make a mistake on an important project?
He got the point. He had been so enamored by his friends’ ability to control another’s thought that he didn’t think about the potential downside.
There are many hypnotists who perform on stage and advertise professional services such as to help people stop smoking or lose weight. And many people are attracted to this type of activity. On the surface, their acts appear innocent and even beneficial. But there is a major downside to be understood.
If we yield our thought to a hypnotist in one instance, we are liable to yield in another, and maybe without realizing it. It’s better to stay in control of one’s thoughts and yield only to the divine Mind influence. Then we’re always safe whether consciously aware of another’s mal-intent or not.
Hypnotism is not funny, really. It can be dangerous if actively or passively entertained as having real power.
In Science, hypnotism has no power at all, for there is one Mind governing all and no counter human mind to mess with the divine order. But this truth needs to be understood and lived to be demonstrated. Let’s do it!
July 4th is Independence Day in the United States, a time when US citizens celebrate their right to self-government and self-directed sovereignty.
There’s an even greater freedom than political and religious rights, though, that people the world over can celebrate. It’s the right to think spiritually.
No dictator, ruler or government can stop us from being spiritually minded. Whether the despot we dread takes the form of a king, a disease, a boss, a debt, a fear, or an unknown, our thinking is under our own control. We can choose to love. We can choose to think spiritually.
I heard a story once of a prisoner of war who spent an indefinite number of years in a dark cramped prison cell. To help maintain his sanity he etched the initials CT in the wall of his cell. The letters reminded him to Control Thought. He was not going to let the brainwashing tactics of his captors send his thinking into a downward spiral.
He daily prayed to stay spiritually minded and knew he could make that choice.
He knew there was one Mind over all,--the divine Mind,--and he proclaimed the one Mind to be his Mind. He understood that the one Mind was not influenced by people, places, or events in the world, and since the one Mind was his Mind, he could not be influenced by his captors, his prison environment and war circumstances either. He survived and eventually went home free with his sanity intact.
Paul wrote, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
Mary Baker Eddy responded with “Citizens of the world, accept the ‘glorious liberty of the children of God,’ and be free!”
You are a child of God. I am a child of God. We are all children of God, and as offspring of the one Father-Mother, we do not have to bow down to any mental despots. We live to serve God, the one harmonious, peaceful and healthy Mind.
Declare your independence from any mental despots and be free today! There’s no better time.
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