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The Law of Relaxation

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            Another of the great mental laws is the Law of Relaxation. In all mental working effort defeats itself. This is just the opposite of what we find on the physical plane, but it will not surprise us because we know that in many cases the laws of mind are the reverse of the laws of matter.
On the physical plane, the harder you press a drill the faster will it go through a plank. The harder you hammer a nail the sooner does it go into the wall. But any attempt at mental pressure is foredoomed to failure because the moment tension begins, the mind stops working creatively. When you try to force things mentally, when you try to hurry mentally, you simply stop your creative power.
In all mental working be relaxed, gentle, and unhurried for effort defeats itself.
…In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength…(Isaiah 30:15).
What great news! Not only is relaxation good for us, it also strengthens our ability to accomplish our mental work. Its good and good for us.
Relax and excel,
Z gardener

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The Law of Substitution

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 30, 2012| 2 Comments »

                       There are a few great laws that govern all thinking, just as there are a few fundamental laws in chemistry. We know that thought control is the key of destiny, and in order to learn thought control we have to know and understand these laws.
One of the great mental laws is the Law of substitution. This means that the only way to get rid of a certain thought is to substitute another one for it. You cannot dismiss a thought directly. You can do so only by substituting another one for it. If I say to you, “ Do not think of the Statue of Liberty,” of course, you immediately think of it. If you say, “I am not going to think of the Statue of Liberty,” that is thinking about it. But if you become interested in something else, you forget all about the Statue of Liberty—and this is a case of substitution.
When negative thoughts come to you, do not fight them, but think of something positive. Preferably think of God; but if that is difficult at the moment, turn your attention to something quite different.
But I say unto you, That ye resist no evil… (Matthew 5:39).
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding (Job 12:13).
When we fight or struggle with (resist) anything we give it power and being. We recognize it and feed it by directing effort toward it. Its like the misbehaving child that acts out to get attention. When the child realizes that misbehaving gets them ignored or sent to their room, they lose power and our attention.
If we are to live in the Eden God created for us, then we must develop the discipline of thought control. One of the best uses of that control will be the ability to substitute good thoughts and realities for bad ones. That will mean we are also able to substitute love, peace and joy for fear, conflict and sadness. That’s the way God planned it, and that’s the way God wants it to be.
Embracing good,
Z gardener

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If the Key Sticks

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            We have said that the Golden Key is simple, and so it is, but, of course, it is not always easy to turn. If you are very frightened or worried it may be difficult, at first, to get your thoughts away from material things. But by constantly repeating some statement of absolute Truth that appeals to you, such as There is no power but God, or I am the child of God, filled and surrounded by the perfect peace of God, or God is Love, or God is guiding me now, or, perhaps best and simplest of all, just God is with me—you will soon find that your mind is clearing. Do not struggle, be quiet but insistent. Each time that you find your attention wandering, just switch it straight back to God.
Do not try to think out in advance what the solution of your difficulty will probably turn out to be. This is technically called outlining, and will only delay the demonstration. Leave the question of ways and means to God. You want to get out of your difficulty—that is sufficient. You do your half, and God will never fail to do His.
…whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered…(Joel 2:32).
Have you ever been trying so intensely to do something that you can’t do it? For instance, so intense about unlocking your door that you jam the key or push on the door before you turn the key. If so, then you know that the key appears not to work. Another example is gripping your bat or golf club so hard that it restricts your swing. Last one, getting pulled over by police and you can’t seem to get your license out because you are so nervous about getting a ticket. These are different types of examples whereby the working “key” sticks even thought it is the right key.
This can also happen to applying the spiritual golden key. We do not have to force it, jam it or grip it. In fact, when we use the golden key, we are releasing our “death grip” on the problem and opening the door for God’s solution. Notice the words “God’s solution”. It may not be the outcome we envisioned, but it will be for our best good.
So take a deep breath, relax and let your faith turn the key quietly, confidently. Then get out of the way and let God act. Whoever thusly “calls on the name of the Lord shall be delivered”.
Keying confidently,
Z gardener

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Sharing the Key

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            In order to “Golden Key” a troublesome person or a difficult situation, think, “Now I am going to ‘Golden Key’ John, or Mary, or that threatened danger”; then lift John or Mary or the danger into the presence of God and think only of God.
Thereafter the person is certain to be in some degree a better, wiser, and more spiritual person. A pending lawsuit or other difficulty will probably fade out without coming to a crisis, justice being done to all parties concerned.
…O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant (2 Samuel 7:28).
Using the key to unlock a negative situation is one clearly identifiable way to demonstrate how well the key works.
Using the key to raise a problem up to God is the shortcut to resolution of the problem.
When confronted with a situation that is irresolvable by our actions, then break out the key and give the problem up to God.
Then witness the power and glory of the Creator coming to your rescue. Be prepared for the solution to be good for all involved, whether we feel the offender deserves it or not. That is the way God works and the way we will be healed.
Keying in on the solution,
Z gardener

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Unlocking the Door

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            Work by rehearsing everything that you know about God. God is Wisdom, Truth, inconceivable Love. God is present everywhere; has infinite power; knows everything. It matters not how well you may think you understand these things; go over them repeatedly.
The rule is to think about God, and if you are thinking about your difficulty you are not thinking about God. To be continually glancing over your shoulder in order to see how matters are progressing is fatal, because that is thinking of the trouble, and you must think of God, and of nothing else. Your object is to drive the thought of the difficulty right out of your consciousness, for a few moments at least, substituting for it the thought of God. If you can become so absorbed in this consideration of the spiritual world that you really forget for a while all about the trouble concerning which you began to pray, you will presently find that your trouble falls into new perspective, new relationships, so that it is no longer a difficulty.
…thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all (Nehemiah 9:6).
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? (Job 31:4).
Now we know about the Golden Key (think, God) and about how it is to be used. However, it is we who must turn the key and unlock the gates to our gardens. To walk in love, peace and hope each day, all we must do is use this key. Yet many will not accept the key and many will refuse to use the key, because it is difficult to let go of the negativity to which we are so accustomed.
When we let go of this negativity, deserved or not, then we let God take over and thereby walk with God in the Eden created for us. Nothing less will do, nothing more is required.
Turnkey for joy,
Z gardener

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The Golden Key

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            Study and research are well in their own time and place, but no amount of either will get you out of a concrete difficulty. Nothing but practical work in your own consciousness will do that.
Scientific prayer is the Golden Key to harmony and happiness. You need take no one’s word for it, and you should not. Simply try it for yourself, and see.
Whoever you are, wherever you may be, the Golden Key to harmony is in your hand now. This is because it is God who works, and not you, and so your particular limitations or weaknesses are of no account in the process. You are only the channel through which the divine action takes place, and your part is first to get yourself out of the way.
The actual method of working is simplicity itself. All that you have to do is this: Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God instead.This is the complete rule, and if only you will do this, the trouble, whatever it is, will presently disappear. It may be big or little, it may concern health, finance, a lawsuit, a quarrel, an accident, or anything else conceivable; but whatever it is, just stop thinking about it, and think of God instead—that is all you have to do.
The thing could not be simpler, could it? And yet it never fails to work when given a fair trial.
…With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).
Just because something is simple does not mean it will be easy. Changing the way we think is one of the most difficult things we can try to do. It will take commitment, discipline and will. Then, we must apply the new way we think to every situation we face. Yes, this is a lifelong pursuit. But it is well worth it.
What we get in return is every promise made in the Bible. For starters we receive peace, hope and joy. That would be enough, but all of God’s promises come to those who think about God instead of their problems.
Think God,
Z gardener

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God Is Principle

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

God Is Principle
            The seventh main aspect of God is Principle, and this is probably the one that is least understood. What does the word principle mean?
Consider a few generally accepted principles. “Water seeks its own level.” This is a principle. It is not only the course taken by a particular drop of water in a particular locality. It is true of all water everywhere. “The angles of any triangle always add up to 180 degrees.” It makes no matter what kind of triangle one may consider; as long as it is a triangle, this principle holds. These principles were true a billion years ago and they will be true a billion years hence.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8).
Prayer is answered because God is principle, eternally manifest in the same way. When we pray rightly we bring ourselves into harmony with His Law of Being. Prayer does not ask God to change the laws for our temporary convenience, but it tunes us in, so to speak, with divine Principle; if God were to make exceptions because we were in great difficulties (which, because of His nature, He could never do) we should never know where we stood. If the law of gravity were occasionally suspended without notice, say, because a very important man had fallen off a roof, you know what would happen to the world.
Each of the seven main aspects is a distinct quality like the elements in chemistry. A chemical element, as you know, is just itself and nothing else. Oxygen is an element because there is nothing in it but oxygen. Water on the other hand is a compound, a combination of hydrogen and oxygen. There are many attributes of God, such as wisdom, beauty, joy, and so forth, but they are compounds made up of two or more of the seven main aspects. Wisdom, for example, is the perfect balance of Intelligence and Love.
Beauty is the perfect balance of Life, Truth, and Love. In any true work of art, you will find that these three aspects are balanced. There are many such relationships and interdependencies —“Thou canst not pluck a flower without the trembling of a star.”
Now that we know the seven main aspects of God, will it change our lives for the better?  Knowledge without action is merely assent.
Personal conviction creates action on the part of those convicted.
May God’s grace open our eyes and ears to the conviction that reorders our lives and manifests these aspects of God in our gardens each day. Welcome to Eden, brothers and sisters.
Convicted to act,
Z gardener

 

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God Is Spirit

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            The sixth main aspect of God is Spirit. We know that God is Spirit but what does that mean? Spirit is that which cannot be destroyed or damaged. It is the opposite of matter. Matter wears out, but Spirit does not because Spirit is substance. Herbert Spencer defines substance as that which is not subject to discord or decay. Webster says, “that which underlies all outward manifestation…real, unchanging essence or nature…that in which qualities inhere…that which constitutes anything that is.” All this can only apply to spiritual things.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
(John 4:24).
You are Spirit. Spirit cannot die. Your true self will never die. You are eternal, divine, unchanging Spirit, in your true nature. The whole universe is a spiritual creation but we see it in a limited way. You have sometimes seen a window made of fluted glass, and you know that if you look at the street through this window everything will be distorted.  Nevertheless, you know that the distortion arises from your seeing wrongly. Our false vision causes us to know ourselves only from a seeming birth to a seeming death; but this is illusion too. This distorted vision of Spirit is really what we know as“matter.” Eucken says, “Reality is an independent spiritual world, unconditioned by the apparent world of sense” – and this is substance.
The real you is not made of matter but of spirit. That is the nature of God in us. Our bodies are the housing in which human spirit abides and manifests itself in the material world.
So, when we limit ourselves to that material world we perceive with our senses, we are in essence, walking blind. Let us today open our hearts, minds and our spirits so God can demonstrate his divine will, universal consciousness and holy spirit through us.
When we we do, we will fully know that God is us and we are children of God. Then, watch in wonder as God’s power manifests itself through us in miracles great and small. At once, our eyes will be opened and our spirits lifted so we can recognize and live in the garden God created for his children.
In spirit,
Z gardener

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God Is Soul

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            The fifth main aspect of God is Soul. Soul is that aspect of God by virtue of which He is able to individualize Himself. The word individual means “undivided.”Most people seem to think it suggests separateness but actually individual means undivided, and God has the power of individualizing Himself without, so to speak, breaking Himself into parts.
You are really an individualization of God. Only God can individualize Himself in an infinite number of units of consciousness, and yet not be in any way separate because God is spirit. Matter cannot be individualized. It can only be divided. So your real self, the Christ within, the spiritual man, the I Am, or the divine spark, as it is variously called, is an individualization of God. You are the presence of God at the point where you are.
Man may very well be compared to an electric light bulb. The electric current is present in all parts of the circuit, but it shines forth, or one might say, figuratively, becomes self-conscious, in the bulb. So divine Mind becomes self-conscious in you.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods? (John 10:34).
When you are called upon to perform some task or undertake some responsibility that seems too great for you, realize that you are one with God and the task will become “our business” instead of “my business.”
Think about this for a moment. We are undivided from God by virtue of our soul being God’s way of manifesting himself through our consciousness, or soul. God is not with us; God is us. We are God’s consciousness poking into the physical realm and the metaphysical realm as we experience it.
This means that we can be the channel through which God directly acts and exists in the reality we experience. Humans are the only entities other than God that can consciously conceive, create and build something that begins as a thought in our minds. So, what are we conceiving and building today? Are we conceiving hope, peace and joy? Are we building loving relationships and material edifices that raise up God and man?
Each and every thought and action is a creative act. Let us today affirm our birthright as children of God and build the creations that God desires for our best good. Remember, God is undivided from us and ready to manifest himself through us for good. We are not alone!
God R Us,
Z gardener

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God Is Intelligence

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on July 16, 2012| 1 Comment »

            The fourth main aspect of God is Intelligence. When you clearly realize that this is an intelligent universe it will make a major difference in you life. In an intelligent universe there cannot be disharmony because all ideas must work together for the common good. Neither can there be any lack. An engine that has been intelligently designed does not have any unnecessary parts and neither are any essential parts lacking.
It is especially important to realize that God is Intelligence because it sometimes happens that when people outgrow the childish idea that God is just a magnified man, they go to the opposite extreme and think of God as a blind force, like gravity or electricity. This means that they have lost all sense of the Love and Fatherhood of God, and such an idea is very little better than a subtle form of atheism.
God is not a person in the usual sense of the word, but God has every quality of personality except its limitation. The human mind cannot imagine personality that is not limited, but this difficulty arises from the limitation of the human mind itself, and of course this does not affect the nature of God. The Bible says, in effect, whatever you think I am, that will I be to you; this means that if we attribute to God every quality of an infinite, intelligent, loving personality, God will be just that to us. So we may say that we believe in a personal God.
Children and young people respond very readily indeed to a prayer for expression of Intelligence through them. If you are interested in a young person at college, pray several times a week that Intelligence will manifest through him and you will be surprised to find how his progress in his studies will increase. Remember also the wonderful fact that when you work for a person the result will be with him for the rest of his life.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! …(Romans 11:33).
How wonderful it is to have access to a personal God, who will become exactly what we need for our best good. However, we must believe in God if we want access to that God. When we believe, we act accordingly. So today, let us act as if God wants us to be the happiest, most fulfilled person on Earth. Then, watch the mountains move.
Seeking intelligence,
Z gardener

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