Page 199 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

THE SANCTUARY OF THE SILENT HEALING POWER

When conditions seem severe denying them or trying to run away from
them does not alter them, only by understanding can we master all conditions.
Some will say that nervous conditions exist because of our lack of control

of our mind. But when you are only controlling your mind and thoughts you
are not understanding, you are merely contracting and this brings suppression
which is the cause of nervous conditions through fear.
You try to control your mind because you are afraid of what your

thoughts may produce. Some live in perpetual fear of what their thoughts will
produce for them. This is truly a lack of understanding of the Law of Creation.
Your mind is a vehicle through which many thoughts pass. When you look at

them as you would look at a flock of birds passing across a windless sky leaving
no trace you are free from their influence. Only when you fear them do you
drag them into your consciousness. “What I feared has come upon me.”

What is necessary is to have a pliable mind with understanding then
there is an immediate discernment of right values. Therefore control becomes
unnecessary. Controlling of the mind in this sense means limitation because it

becomes dominated by the idea of fear or the idea of escape.
When ideas come into your mind you try to brush them aside, at the
same time you try to focus your attention on a particular idea in opposition
to the idea or thought which you wish to escape from.

You will note that is not thinking. You are merely caught up in a struggle
between ideas. Thus you are causing repressions and confusion without gaining
any results.

When thoughts or ideas you do not desire come into your mind do not
fight with them or struggle with them, allow them to enter into your mind and
discern their true value. When you receive thoughts or ideas you will notice
that they are relative to you and then you can do what you like with them.

The true function of the mind is to receive thoughts and ideas without
strain. Then there is peace, and turmoil ceases. Mental alertness is the state
you should cultivate then you will discern what is happening. Anything that is

contrary to the happiness of your fellows would then be abandoned and
happiness is secured through co-operation.
Many people who think they are Spiritual are strained, they imitate and

hence are caught up in struggle. “True Being” is Living, you do not have
to imitate if you crave to be something, you will pursue your craving only to be
caught up in sorrow and confusion.

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