Integration of the Mind – Part Forty-Three

Visualizing With a Half Deck May Be “Not Cool”

Not many games you can play with this.

Most people have heard of or experienced a smattering of the science called Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP, which in simplistic terms is enhancing thinking power with emotions by linking the two together. Those who are practiced at this application cite almost miraculous changes to their lives.

To say that NLP doesn’t work is like sticking one’s head in the sand because it does work and demonstrably so. I find both NLP and Silva Mind Control far too complicated for my taste. If you tend to have a lazy mental streak akin to Brad Cullen’s, perhaps you would prefer my simple approach.

Because my past is swallowed up in working with people who tend to be religious, many of whom wonder if there isn’t something “wrong” with these two approaches (NLP and Silva) and a host of other kinds of mind/emotion control mechanisms. What religious people are asking is …does God really approve of these systems?

Does god disapprove? Ask!

It is an awesome responsibility to decide to be a spokesman for God in the lives of other people, so I’m not talking about whether these systems are “right” or “wrong” for anyone else. In fact, from my point of view and IT IS ONLY A POINT OF VIEW …the trouble mankind got into from the beginning was symbolized by “eating the fruit from the tree called Knowledge of Good and Evil.” Thinking, therefore, that they inherently knew the difference between right and wrong, as seen by God (by whatever other title or name).

Having experienced those same emotions of fear and wondering about how God views things, I understand it and don’t belittle those who are going through it; I am also careful not to get people to rush beyond this fear without a great deal of loving care …something instilled in me from working with a psychiatrist who dealt with people who had extreme emotional problems, often exacerbated by religious leaders trained in “pastoral counseling” and who perpetuated religious beliefs about what makes a person righteous to God.

I also had the privilege of helping and watching this same psychiatrist get past thinking that emotional problems had to take years or even months of “therapy” to get beyond them. How could a layperson with virtually no formal training to work with patients with psychological problems, help a psychiatrist get to the point of being more effective?

The first answer is that he thought I was one of the most “gifted” people he had ever met in having an insight into ways of overcoming some mentally or emotionally disturbed persons get immediately well, meaning not having a need for continuing therapy or drugs prescribed to control aberrant behavior.

From Source through you...intuitively.

Some folks, nowadays, might refer to what I do with emotionally disturbed people or those with physical problems as “intuitive healing.”

The second thing is that he had come to the place where he had a deep belief in the power of prayer. Let’s be clear about the kind of prayer I’m talking about here. Not the average mealy mouth prayer of the timid that goes something like: “Oh, God, if it be Thy will, please do such and such.” I know firsthand all about such praying, because that’s what I learned just the same as so many of us have learned as toddlers: “I lay me down to sleep, if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord, my soul to take.”

That bit of “praying” started me off down the path of going to bed every night scared to death of dying in my sleep! I’ve since learned I wasn’t alone in that “harmless” child’s prayer breeding terror in unsuspecting little people.

When this happens in your mind, the Kingdom has come.

My psychiatrist friend learned how to pray the way Jesus says (present tense) to pray, that is, speaking authoritatively into the spirit realm …commanding, declaring and demanding and that what shall be.

Remember the words, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (?) In the original language that is exactly what those words mean. The key issue is to know what “God’s will” is before you declare it and once you know it declare it and keep declaring it until it comes into existence.

Here’s a helpful hint to help us get through a few mental twists. I know (believe) that the SOURCE of everything has the desire and purpose (the “will”) that we should live in perfect health and prosperity. You may not necessarily share that belief …my telling you that it is true will have no effect until you are ready to change your internal belief about it. That’s why we’re here, Integration of the Mind – getting clear of conflicts.

Because of internal conflicts we often don’t live in perfect health and prosperity. If a person I have placed in authority over me, including a professional healthcare provider (“my doctor says”) or a spiritual leader (“my pastor says”) has planted an idea in my mind, and I believe that it is true, subconsciously or otherwise, and then my subconscious is bound by this “truth” to bring it about.

We can pray until we are blue in the face and nothing will come of it if we believe the opposite of what we are praying. The subconscious parts of our minds are constantly on guard, protecting us by preventing the very thing we are praying to come about.

Next up …one way of retraining the subconscious to allow a new belief to take hold.

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