Dodging A Stroke
All throughout my sixty-nine years of life, I have tried to deal with going to the doctor in the same way as I deal with poison ivy – avoid it if humanly possible. I was successful in avoiding doctors for twenty-two years in a row.
As my body has aged however, I have found it necessary to choose a doctor and have regular checkups so as to nip any potential problems in the bud. The problem with aging is that my body is 69 but I am still 29 on the inside.
A few years back, I slipped and sprained my right knee while shoveling snow. It was quite painful the next day so I decided to go to one of those urgent care joints for a precautionary x-ray. While I was there, they took my blood pressure. The reading was extremely high and the attending physician told me to immediately schedule an appointment with my family doctor. I told her that I did not have one. She insisted that I see one as soon as possible so as to avoid a stroke.
Strokes are really horrible things. One in eight stroke victims die from strokes. The other seven out of eight are maimed resulting many times in some form of permanent disability. To me, a stroke that limited my self reliance, would be a fate much worse than death. So I scheduled an appointment with the doctor that my mother went to when she was alive.
My Doctor Loves Pills
The doctor put me on a treatment regimen of two anti-high blood pressure pills. Subsequent to blood work, he put me on a pill for my cholesterol and another pill for gastric reflux. He wanted to put me on another pill to reduce my potassium level. I told him “Enough with the pills already. I’ll stop eating bananas, beans and broccoli!” (three high potassium foods). He’s a good doctor but the guy absolutely loves pills. My doctor has a pill for every conceivable type of treatment. A pill for this. A pill for that. A pill to handle side effects from a pill. Big Pharma has a framed picture of this guy in their Hall of Honor.
What Is A Mental Prayer Treatment
A Mental Prayer Treatment is a method of prayer. No pills needed. It is done to bring about healing of a specific troubling situation. You cause the thoughts of your mind to focus on God. You can liken it to going to the hospital for surgery. A Mental Prayer Treatment is a surgical operation on your soul. It is different from a general prayer. The purpose of a general prayer is simply to visit with God.
General Prayer can be likened to fresh air, healthy food in the right amounts and regular exercise. You enjoy them as an end in themselves, but they also serve to keep you in good health.
The object of a Mental Prayer Treatment is to completely remove any thought of the troubling situation from your mind. Even if you are only successful in doing this for a short period of time, the healing of the situation commences. During the treatment (surgery) your total focus is on the One True Presence, God.
Part One, Part Two
A Mental Prayer Treatment consists of two distinct parts: the foundation idea and the affirming idea. Compare it to the construction of a house. The foundation idea is the solid foundation of the structure. The affirming idea is the actual construction of the house.
Treat as often as you feel led during the course of the day but treat at least twice every day. Between treatments, refrain from thinking of the problem. That just slows things down. The treatment is assuredly working if done in faith. Refrain from constantly digging up the seed to see if it is growing. That always turns out the same way – the seed is unable to grow.
Cause And Effect
Cause and Effect. Comedy team from the 60’s? Rock duo from the 80’s? No, not really. Cause and effect is a scientific principle. You do something (cause) and something happens as a result of what you did (effect). That’s it in a nutshell.
Treatment is your cause. Demonstration is the effect. Cause and Effect. You engage in a prayer action and the result of that action is the effect. Jesus Christ made the definitive scientific cause and effect statement in Matthew 6:33. “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Spiritual Math Equation
Your realization of the Presence of God, wherever you are, is the power that heals any situation. In the Old Testament book of Joshua, it is stated “Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened or dismayed. The Lord your God is with you wherever you go”
Take that to its logical conclusion. Look at it as a spiritual math equation. 1. God is perfection. 2. God is with you wherever you are. 3. No problem can survive the perfection of the Presence of God. 4. Thus, by seeking the Kingdom of God right where your problem is, the problem must disappear, because God is there with you.
Don’t Touch Me Nurse, I’m Sterile
Refrain from thinking of God in one place and the problem in another place. This merely affirms in your mind the power of the problem instead of the power of the Presence of God,
Your Mental Prayer Treatment is done in a restricted area. Have your personal mental security detail bar doubt from ever entering your mind. This is equivalent to the strict sterilization process that takes place during all surgical operations.
Treatment Idea
I first learned about the concept of the Mental Prayer Treatment from the writings of Emmet Fox. This is a beautiful method of prayer. As with all prayer, imaginative belief (faith) is essential.
Here is an example of the foundation part of a Mental Prayer Treatment:
God is fully present within me right now. God is the one true Presence, everything else is just shadow. Since God is perfect good, God is the cause only of perfect good. I am a child of God. In God I live. In God I move. In God I have my being. I am always in the Presence of God. I am caressed by the Peace of God. I am free. I do not fear the past, the present, or the future. I am thankful. I live in the freedom of the Kingdom of God.
The above foundation idea can be used with a great variety of specific affirming ideas. You can go online and search for others or you can construct your own. They can be longer. They can be shorter.
Affirming Idea
The affirming idea part of your Mental Prayer Treatment hones in on the specific thing that you desire to treat (heal). It can be geared to your finances, your relationships, your career, your health, or on behalf of another person or even a beloved pet.
A sample of an affirming mental idea for your finances is as follows:
Prosperity flows within me now. My faith yields my financial good health. I affirm my financial security. My inner belief is the evidence of my continuing plentiful supply of money. With all that I am, I am thankful.
Word
For many years I worked in a facility in an urban setting that had over 200 employees. The mens room was on the other side of the men’s locker room. You had to walk through the locker room to get to the restroom. Usually when I had to make the trip to the mens room, there was always a small contingent of employees conversing about this or that. One day I overheard a short snippet of a conversation between two guys that went as follows. First guy: “Yo, I fucked three bitches last night”. Second guy: “Word?” (Meaning: Are you telling the truth?) First guy: “Word!” (Meaning: It’s the truth.)
You can transpose the word “truth” for the word “word” in this beautiful verse from Isaiah 55:11. “So is my word that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it” (NIV)
The Royal Proclamation
A Mental Prayer Treatment is a word (or proclamation) to your subconscious mind. It is proclaiming the word (truth) in faith. Your subconscious mind is your connection to God. Thus, you are affirming to your subconscious mind, through you faith, that you believe the word that you are proclaiming.
In the time of the kings, if a king proclaimed something, he formally made it known to the kingdom that it is now the law of the land. The king knew that once he made the proclamation, it would come into force. He did not hope it would, he knew it would.
When you live in the Kingdom of God, your word can only be that which is directed by God. If your word is directed by God, it is truth, and thus it will return to you fully laden with success.
Inconceivable!
There was a comedy/adventure movie that came out in 1987 titled, “The Princess Bride”. It was an amusing movie with many good actors. One of those actors was a man named Wallace Shawn. He played a villian in the movie but he was a humorous villian. One of the lines that he said throughout his time in the movie was the word “inconceivable”. It has since become a well known meme. There are even t-shirts and sweatshirts for sale with Mr. Shawn’s face and the word “Inconceivable”. If you google the words “the inconceivable guy”, the search results will lead you to Wallace Shawn. Finally, at one point in the movie (after he says the word for the fifth time), one of his confederates says to him, “You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Let’s look at how the dictionary defines what the word “inconceivable” means. It defines the word inconceivable as “not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally”. When something is inconceivable, your mind is unable to mentally process its existence. Inconceivable goes beyond the word unbelievable. It means that you cannot even imagine it. You cannot believe in or not believe in something that your mind is unable to process.
Layer After Layer
Thus it is with the world of the “subconscious”. Layer upon layer of consciousness exists beneath your surface consciousness. What fully goes on there is truly inconceivable. What goes on there totally affects what you call the real world. The thing that you term “reality” is the world which your eyes can see, your ears can hear, your hands can touch. Everything that happens in the real world in which you live is a direct result of what is going on in the “subconscious world”.
What a Mental Prayer Treatment does, when done rightly, is penetrate to that subconscious world and alter “the real world” for your benefit or for the benefit of a loved one for whom you are treating.
Why?
Why do I write these blog posts? It does take time each month to write these articles. At the age of 69, time is not something I have a lot of before I “hit the road”. I believe the answer to my question is this – to get across to whoever may read these articles certain truths that I have learned in my sixty-nine years of life. I hope that whoever reads these truths then acts upon them to manifest good things in their life.
As the end of the line approaches for me, maybe I have five years, maybe ten, there is an urging within me directing me to put these truths out there. Neville Goddard once said that he felt a Divine urgency to give his lectures. He said that even if nobody came to his lectures, he would speak to the four lecture hall walls. Thus it is with this blog.
Glitches in my inner personality have thrown obstacles in the way of my manifesting efforts over the years. With that said, through the power of God, I have manifested a great number of beautiful things in my life using the principles that I describe. I am so thankful. Having been saved from death no less than four times, I figure that there is a reason why I am still here. When I perceive the urging of the Divine for me to do something, I do that something, whatever it is.
What Do You Have To Lose?
The Mental Prayer Treatment gets productive results. I know this because I have used it successfully for things both big and small. If you use this method of prayer, it will cost you nothing in terms of money. It will however cost you some time. It will also cost you the familiar comfort of your old way of doing things.
What do you have to lose? Let me list some of the things that you have to lose: your painful frustration due to repeated setbacks; your beating your head against the wall and getting the same unsatisfactory results; your utter exhaustion from continually running in place on the hamster wheel and getting nowhere; your looking in the mirror at yourself in despair and saying “You suck”.
Give yourself a Mental Prayer Treatment regarding something that is troubling you. Give yourself an opportunity to demonstrate God’s goodness, God’s power, God’s love. You do have it within you to do so. The proof of that is that you have been led to read this article.
May you always perceive the Peace and Presence of God.
Conceive. Believe. Receive.