January 18, 2008 & Helpful Treatments

The following are a few prayer-treatments written by Dr. Ernest Holmes, author of "The Science of Mind," that may be helpful as a guide to our own personal treatments.

A TREATMENT FOR PROSPERITY
Today I accept God's gift of abundance. Today everything I am and have is increased. I identify everything I do with success. I think affirmatively and in all my prayers I accept abundance. Whatever I need - whenever I need it, wherever I need it, for as long as I need it - will always be at hand. ... I no longer see negation or delay or stagnation in my undertakings. Rather, I claim that the action of the living Spirit prospers everything I do, increases every good I possess, and brings success to me and everyone I meet. ... Everything I think about and do is animated by the Divine Presence, sustained by the infinite Power, and multiplied by the Divine Goodness. And so it is.

A TREATMENT FOR SELF-CONFIDENCE
Believing that there is an infinite Power in the universe, a Power for Good greater than I am, I now accept its action in my life. I know here is strength and a vitality, a livingness, flowing through me out into everything I think, or say, or do. ... I am peaceful, calm, and confident because I am the very embodiment of this Power, its energy and action. There is no sense of weakness or lack of strength. Rather, the fullness and the perfection of this Power is always present, always active. I completely and confidently recognize and accept the flow of this Power through me, manifesting itself in right ways in every aspect of my life. And so it is.

A TREATMENT FOR BUSINESS
In my business activities, I know I am in partnership with the Infinite. I identify myself with this partnership, knowing it always leads to success. I accept that the action of Infinite Intelligence is back of everything. It is always manifesting itself and it now does so through the thought pattern of success I am establishing for myself. ... Conditions and situations around me now start to correspond to my new ideas about them. The invisible Power indwelling and surrounding me, which is forever making manifest my thought, now creates for me the business success with which I have identified my thought. And so it is.

A TREATMENT FOR HANDLING DEPRESSION
Through praise and thanksgiving I recognize the Divine Presence in everything and everyone. I recognize the beautiful and perfect in everything. I praise and bless the spiritual Reality back of all things. I rejoice in the thought that I am dealing with the Presence and the Power which cannot be denied. I praise the abundance of good in all things and give thanks that this good is flowing into my experience in ever-increasing volume. I accept this good. I bless it, causing it to multiply in my life. ... I deliberately turn from everything that depresses and sing a song of praise, of gratitude and joy. I sing a song of the triumph of Spirit over all apparent negation. In the midst of darkness I sing a song of he dawn, for I know that the eternal Light dissipates all darkness. And so it is.

A TREATMENT OF LOVE
I permit Love to reach out from me to everyone I meet. I believe that Love is returned to me from every person I meet. I shall trust the guidance of this Love because I believe it is a Power of Good in the universe. I feel that Love is flowing through me to heal everything I encounter, to help everyone I contact. Love opens the way before me and makes it perfect and straight and immediate. Love forgives everything unlike itself and converts everything that seems commonplace into something wonderful, changing weakness into strength and fear into faith. Love is the all-conquering power of the Spirit. And so it is.

Keep the faith!
Rev. Bates