In class one day someone told me they felt affirmations didn’t work. Gently I told them “If you feel they don’t work, then they are working by not working.” What we focus on is what we attract into our experience.

Another student felt that when they were saying affirmations, or even the “realization” step of Spiritual Mind Treatment, they were lying. In Truth, they were not lying about the spiritual prototype they are creating with their thoughts, however, their desire to stay in integrity in the material world was working against them.

Then this morning I received an e-mail newsletter from Marty Marsh, author of The Law of Attraction for Everyday Living in which he included a three step process from a chapter called “Fire Your Desire”:

The first step is to declare what you want, using the words “I am in the process of _____” at the beginning … for instance, if one is Treating, Affirming or Intending for more money in their lives they would say:

"I am in the process of attracting all actions, thoughts, situations and experiences necessary to have all the money I need and want.

(Adding “I am in the process of …” would help the one that was uncomfortable about “lying.” Being creative, we are always in the process of something!)

The second step is to complete these sentences: (my examples follow)

• I love it when... I can pay my bills with ease

• I love knowing... I always have more than enough.

• I love how it feels... to never worry about money.

• I love the thought of... being able give away money.

• I get excited at the thought... of recognizing the Source within me

• I get excited when I picture...myself debt-free!

• I love seeing myself...as a financially independent person.

(This step would help the student who was feeling it didn’t work to get focused on what they wanted to feel.)

The third step is to take the thoughts and feelings and put it all together:

"I am delighted and grateful the Law of Attraction is creating and orchestrating all that needs to happen so I always have enough money for everything I want and need."

Marty Marsh says it is all about raising the vibration, which to me, is about raising our consciousness. There are so many delightful methods to play with in this wonderfully infinite field of creativity we reside in. Playing with Marsh’s process this morning reminded me of an even simpler one, created by the late Rev. Helen Street:

Divine Mind is now assisting me in attaining and maintaining the consciousness of …… having more than enough money for everything I want and need!

I personally like the simplicity of the last statement. I can trust Divine Mind to include the thoughts and feelings necessary. After all It is infinitely intelligent!!

Happy Manifesting!

Blessings, Rev. Angelica

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

There is only One Life – a Light that resides within me and all things. It is Power Itself. It is constantly attracting to Itself all It needs to express Itself as us, through our thoughts and feelings.

Therefore I now declare I am ready to step into a greater expression of this One Life. I let my Light shine so brightly that all who see me have a deeper awareness of their own Truth. As I attract more and more good into my life, I realize it has been there all along. All I had to do was open my heart and mind to It and It appeared.

Divine Mind is always assisting me in attaining the consciousness of highest good and greatest joy, in many different forms. I am so grateful I know this, and now, not only do I know it, but I have embodied it, and it is a part of me. Whether my good is in the form of money, health, love, creativity, inner peace, or all of them together, I know I am always in the process of creation, and this is good, very good.

I release these words to Spiritual Law, knowing they are done. And so It is.

Yesterday, Rev. Darlene Schneider and I traveled to Bellingham Wa., to attend a Religious Science International Regional Meeting. It was delightful to spend the day with 17 of our peers – greeting once again the ones we knew and meeting some we didn’t. It was also delightful to actively participate in the greater idea of our organization.

On the way home I was thinking about the growth I have seen in R.S.I. in the 20 years I have been a minister. I thought about this in alignment with the Law of Attraction. When I first started my ministry, there was strife in our organization. We spent time thinking about it, and talking about it -- not very nicely. The strife got worse until we finally decided to practice what we preach and change our minds. Since then, we have grown and become a more conscious organization.

Look back over the past 20 years of your life. I’m sure you will find you have had some amazing growth as well. Does our growth mean we won’t ever experience strife again. No! Life is full of ups and downs. The human experience is the co-existence of opposites. It is how we react to those ups and downs that is important! We have to consciously work at it! Wallace Wattles, author of The Science of Getting Rich wrote: "To think TRUTH regardless of appearance is laborious and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work a person has to perform." What I know is true is - it CAN be done!

Something else I now clearly understand, is that it is no longer appropriate for us to settle for “less than.” If you think about it, everything you are experiencing in your life right now is because you accepted it be that way. You’ve accepted your health, your wealth, your relationships, the way you do your work in our world. You’ve either accepted it as all good, or you might have settled for less than in one area or another. When I settle for less than, I loose my zest for life, my momentum, along this Sacred Path. How about you?

I’d like you to know that Life is conspiring to awaken us in every moment. Be a part of the conspiracy. Conscious people settle only for the best. Our best shines through our every action. Let your reactions to the experiences in your life be real, and let your actions be for the highest good and greatest joy for all.

Just think what our lives will be like 20 years from now!

Blessings, Rev. Angelica

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

I celebrate the One. One great Heart in which we all reside. One great Mind which we all use. One great Life we all live.

Today I choose to honour that great One by living my life magnificently. I no longer settle for anything that is not for my highest and best good. I open my mind, my heart and my arms to receive all the Universe is conspiring to give me. I am ready to be Spirit in action with grace and ease. As I survey my world, I see that who I am is of service to others.

This Life is God’s life and it is a great one! I love how it feels to have wonderful relationships, vibrant health and experience more than enough good in my life. I am so grateful to know these Principles, and to be willing to put them to use for the good of all.

Gratefully I release these words, knowing they are so, and so It is.