Health, Wealth and Happiness

In our last post we discussed the ideas of reward and punishment and our deep cultural belief in them. I suppose it appeals to the "fairness" we all seem to seek in a world never designed to be fair. The world is just in the sense of karmic justice; what you put out in life you do receive, pressed down to overflowing. What you sow you surely will reap, but rarely from the same person or in like manner.

Let's carry this discussion of Universal Law, the Law of the Most High God and the Indwelling God, who are one and the same, into the realms of health, wealth and that most elusive of human conditions - happiness. Just as there is Divine Justice in returning to us what we sow in like or greater measure, so it is with heath, wealth and happiness. Let's look at health, that most important of the three because without it, wealth is meaningless and happiness is fleeting.

What we mean when we speak of health is really wellness. Wellness is an overall feeling of physical and mental well being. We in the West are finally making the first strides toward learning what the East has known for over 3,000 years - that the Mind is the cause all everything that exists in our world including the state of our physical body.

To separate the Mind from the body, as Western Medicine has done for 1400 years, is to see our body as a machine that operates independently from the Mind; a mechanical device capable of getting "sick" without any help or hindrance from the very Mind that animates the body. What an incredible idea - one wonders how such supposedly learned men and women could believe this foolish notion and prescribe remedies based on this error thinking with a straight face!

What about germs, you say! Don't we get sick due to germs? Isn't that proven by Science? Yes, and NO! There are biological beings we call germs, viruses and the like and they do carry the seeds of certain diseases, we all accept that truth as a great discovery of Western Medicine. However, why is it that one person will succumb to flu every time flu season comes around (you can see where the dis-ease is caused already if you think about the term "flue season") and another person in the same environment and same circumstances will not? If the germ is the causative factor, then why aren't all who come in contact sick?

Well, you might say, one person's resistance to the dis-ease is stronger than an other's. Yes, that is true but why? What lowers the resistance? Our belief in the dis-ease and its inevitability in our lives is what sapps our ability to resist the agents of dis-ease that are all around us. This belief in disease programs the Mind to allow the carriers of the dis-ease into the body and allows the body to feel the symptoms of the dis-ease.

By now, you have probably noticed that I am writing dis-ease rather than than the usual disease. That is because disease is dis ease in the Mind - the Mind is not at ease and therefore neither is the body. Wherever the Mind goes, the body must follow. The body has no volition of its own, any one can see that. Without the Mind, the body can do nothing. It has no function other than to play host to the Mind. Do you realize that the Mind is NOT the brain? The brain is the electro-chemical organic computer that the Mind uses to communicate with it's host body.

Have you ever thought of the relation of your Mind to your body just this way? Think about it. No scientist knows where the Mind is located, the latest theory is that it is located in every cell of our body. I believe that the Mind is our Soul, they are one and the same. Our Mind is God in us, it's our Spirit, our Soul and it lives on after the body, the host, is no longer needed and is dust.

How do we maximize our health and well being using this divine principle of Mind Action? We stop thinking sick thoughts, we stop expecting illness at certain times of the year, (flu season, who declared that? Why the makers of cold and flue medicine, who else?) we stop talking about illness, sharing juicy stories of our operations and illnesses with our friends over lunch and begin to think wellness, health, well being.

Talk about how young we feel at 64, how amazing it is that even though we were once "sick" now we fee just fine. We use our Mind to heal our body, that is a gift given to every human on Earth by our Good Father. We all have the power within us to heal ourselves and others, if we so desire. Sometimes we cannot do this because we are too caught up in the symptoms of the illness to see the Truth. That is normal and is not to be seen as a failure or a sign of a lack of faith. You cannot expect the lobster sitting in the pot of boiling water to cure his condition - he may need a hand out of the pot. Sometimes, so do we.

We may want to seek help from a person who totally believes in our health, sees our health for us when we are too much in affect ( the symptoms of the illness) to see our wellness as Truth. These healing people in Science of Mind are called Practitioners and you could say they are professionals in healing the Mind which then heals the body. Through Spiritual Mind Treatment, our form of affirmative prayer, we see the Truth of our patient's Perfection, the Divine Truth of a perfect creation of a perfect being we call God. Prayer, properly applied, is the most powerful tool available for healing the Mind, Soul and Heart.

Oh, we do not deny the symptom, we just deny that it is our Truth. We say when we feel illness coming on, take a pill and a prayer! We do believe very much in using modern medicine to alleviate the symptoms while we heal the cause with prayer.

Illness is not who you are, it is only an experience you are having and it can be changed when you change your Mind. Your symptom of disease is a symptom of your belief in disease and illness. Once that is dispelled, so will be the illness. That is the power of so called "faith healers"; they induce absolute belief in the Mind of the one they are treating and thus the patient is often healed. They have no special gift other than charisma and the ability to transmit absolute certainty to another. You can do what they do when you learn how. The power to heal yourself and even others is your birthright but like any other great gift, if must be carefully developed and practiced. That is what we will teach here in this blog.

To be healthy, by all means take care of the physical body - do not induce poisons into it, eat well but in moderation. (by the way humans were designed to eat meat, be a vegetarian if you wish, but it is NOT our natural state, we are created to be omnivores - in other words we'll eat anything!)

Do all things in moderation - the Greeks knew it 2800 years ago and it is still the greatest truth there is. Most of all, fill your Mind, your Heart and your mouth with thoughts and words of good report. Think well, speak of wellness and good feeling, expect to be well regardless of all the reports of disease, flu other maladies. Be openhearted - shun resentment and bitterness; anger kills so be forgiving in all things. Remember that nothing and no one can make you happy. Happiness is an inside job, only you can make you happy and you are happy only when you believe that you are -regardless of the circumstances around you.

Happiness begets wellness. Sorrow, bitterness, anger kill the Spirit and with it destroy the body. Why do we have an epidemic of cancer in the world today? I believe the cause of cancer is sorrow, bitterness, resentment, unresolved anger and guilt. These very strong emotions turn the body against itself and that is the very definition of cancer. The location of your particular cancer will be the region of the body that harbors the anger, guilt, sorrow or the area of your abuse (smoking, drinking, gluttony).

This explains why the old fellow who drank a quart of whisky a day and smoked three packs of smokes every day, lived to be 96 in perfect health and a Mormon friend of mine who never drank and never lit a cigarette in his life, died of lung cancer at 49! One was happy, at peace with his world, even though he abused his body, his Mind was at peace. The other took marvelous care of his body but not such good care of his Mind,; guilt, sense of unworthiness, anger all took their toll on his well kept body.

Next week, we'll talk of wealth and material well being. Tune in for this one, it's always a favorite topic! Until then, may the God within you and the Most High God bless you, give you peace and make Her face to shine upon you!

Rev. Dore' Jacques Patlian