How do we really heal?

From 1925-1935 writings as compiled by Mary Kretzmann in Divine Will Healing

Perfect health is given by God. Disease is man-made. The baby who is born blind, or who is born a moron, brings such a condition from a past form of existence. Diseases acquired from the past or created through transgressions of the laws in this life are the results of human error. God wants His children to enjoy health and happiness, but they create disease and sorrow by breaking His laws.

Human methods are limited

No doubt some medicines have healing power, since God gave herbs and minerals power to affect the body of man. We know from experience that medicine has power to heal, as is demonstrated by the wonderful healings effected by good drugs and good doctors. However, it must be remembered that medicine and doctors have limited power and often reveal their helplessness when confronted with chronic diseases. Therefore, to put your entire trust in medicine and not in God’s unlimited healing power, is sure to bring disillusionment.

God is the healer

Convince the mind first that all human methods of cure are limited in their healing power, and that only God’s all-permeating, all-healing power is unlimited. While sitting in silence in the morning and evening, and whenever you have time during the day, mentally affirm: "Father, Thy unlimited and all-healing power is in me. Manifest Thy Light through the darkness of my ignorance."

In healing, the power of the healer, great or small, is limited compared to the unlimited healing power of God. Hence, all healers, instead of commanding their own powers in healing, should invoke the unlimited divine power of healing to flow through them. Man’s power may fail but God’s power can never fail. Yet God cannot heal us until we open the gates of our own willingness to be healed.

The key: an interested, joyous will

Life force enters the body through the agency of an interested, joyous will. Learn to perform all your duties with a courageous cheerfulness welling up from within you; then you will see that a flood of vitality will move through your actions and your entire body. Do your daily duties, (even those which you have no interest in), with deepest attention and happiness, remembering that God is guiding and stimulating every worthwhile effort you are making to achieve a noble ambition. With the consciousness of God in your actions, and with the performance of noble actions, God and ceaseless energy will enter your body.

Strong will-power pulls energy from the conscious cosmic rays surrounding the body through the door of the medulla oblongata. A man with strong will-power, by his highly vibrating mind, can shake out disease, failure, and ignorance. But the will vibration must be stronger than the vibration of physical or inner disease. The more chronic the disease is, the stronger and more unflinching should be the determination, faith, and effort of will to get well.

Negative thoughts shut off the supply of energy

Remember that doubt, mental fatigue, worry, indifference, fear, restlessness, and timidity create counteracting static which makes it impossible for the cosmic energy to tune in with man. Mental and physical laziness are accompanied by listlessness and lack of energy.

Enthusiasm and willingness go hand in hand with fresh supplies of energy. The greater the will, the more inexhaustible the energy. Death cannot ensue as long as the will to live is present. It is only because man, after his exhausting struggle with disease, relaxes the hold of his will on life, that death can conquer. So omnipotent is the will of man.

This second is Perfection

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
This second is Perfection

This second in which you now live is right, just the way it is. 

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this second. 

This second is perfection, pure awareness, ultimate reality. 

But we do not live in the second. 

We live in the past or in the future.

 This is why the problems arise. 

But in this very moment, this very second, all is well, extremely well. 

You may be going through the most dastardly experiences in life, yet your mind dwells on these things, they get worse. 

But if you draw in your mind to the moment, to the second, everything will stop, and you'll be in perfect peace.

Learn to live in the now.

 There really is no past and there's no future. 

There's only this moment, and in this moment all is well.

 I know it appears sort of rough to some of you. You're thinking of what you have to do next week. You have to pay your bills, you have to go to the doctor, you have to get married, you have to get divorced. Your needs, your wants, your passions, all these things go through your mind all the time.

 But if you would only learn to live in the now, in the moment, nothing is ever happening in the moment.

The moment is eternal peace, eternal love, joy, happiness.

 Feel this. Feel the moment I'm referring to. 

How beautiful. 

When your mind begins to wander, creation begins for you.

 You lose the moment, and the world begins for you.

 According to your karma, your consciousness, your samskaras, you start creating this world, as soon as you begin to think. 

Thoughts are not your friend. 

They do not really belong to you. 

Do you feel the perfect silence?

As you breathe and you inhale, feel as if you're sucking in the whole world, the whole universe, and as you exhale, you're letting it out again.

 This exercise makes you feel that the whole universe comes from you, goes out and comes back.

 Like when you're sleeping. 

In deep sleep the universe is not here, the world is not here, your body is not here.

 As you awaken, everything is here.

 Do this with your breathing. 

You inhale, there's absolutely nothing. 

The universe has gone back into yourself. 

You exhale, and the universe is out there again, external to you.

 There is only the one Self, and you are that. 

You have no body. You have no mind. 

You are like boundless space.

The old you is beginning to disappear. 

The old you is thousands of words, millions of thoughts, reacting to everything that comes along. 

This you no longer exists. 

You are fresh and new.

 There is no longer any karma that can hurt you or do anything to you, no longer any samskaras that you have to experience. 

You have already crossed the ocean of samsara, and you are already the Bodhisattva. 

There's nothing you have to earn. 

There's nothing you have to pray for.

 There's no one you have to see. 

There's absolutely nothing you have to do. 

You are already free.

You are beyond freedom, beyond liberation, beyond delusion, beyond ignorance.

 You are neither wisdom nor ignorance.

 There are no words for you whatsoever. 

There's no description of what you are. 

There's no one to say. 

You are that pure awareness that has always been and will always be.

 There is absolutely nothing you have to do to earn it, for you are awake from the dream

. Feel this freedom you've never felt before.

 Feel the joy, the happiness, the love that you have become.

 Feel the reality.