The way to self-mastery is so plain that the wayfaring man, though a fool need not err therein. The following formula is a workable statement of the forces that bring things to pass. Its parallel with the spiritual philosophy of life is perfect. You need not spend years of time and money for lessons. Just take hold of the handles of this mental battery and hold until its full power gets into operation. Something will happen. You will learn how to help yourself. There are four factors in the formula:
I. The IDEAL. It matters not whether it would be perfect health, or personal influence and power among men, or prosperity in your material affairs. Just fill out the picture mentally. Imagine yourself as in position of this ideal. Picture yourself as being surrounded by every feature of your ideal. Don't affirm that you are when as yet you are not, but build an air castle as complete as your imagination can finish it, and then go in and take mental possession of it. Do this seven times a day.
II. The DESIRE. Earnestly desire the reality of your ideal. Wishing a thing to be true is the first step to believing it can be true, and the next step is willing that it shall be true. Earnestly desires it for your own comfort and success. Wish it to be real for the good you may be able to do unto others. Long for it that may fully express the divine life in you, and so honor the God “whose you are and whom you serve.” And in another word this is prayer, for “Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered the or unexpressed.”
III. The BELIEF. Earnestly believe in the “power that is within both to will and to do.” take that power into your confidence. You trust it to keep your heart beating, your blood circulating, the digestive and assimilative processes going, and in fact you leave to it in perfect confidence all the metabolism or changes to be made in the body without a doubt as to the outcome. You lie down to sleep at night without a question that it will keep your heart beating. If you had an idea that it would stop during the night you wouldn't sleep a wink that night. Now if you can put so much confidence in this hidden intelligent force inside you, just pull out one more stop, and believe that it will do these things just as you want them done. Intelligently direct it to do things just as you want them done, instead of some haphazard way, and you will find that it will keep the confidence inviolable. “According to your faith it shall be done unto you.”
IV. The WILL. This is the directing agent. It comes next in order, for, “Faith laughs at impossibilities, and cries, 'it shall be done.' ” Every force in your life and outside of it pivots finally on your will. “Be it unto thee even as thou wilt” makes “all power in heaven and in earth,” subject to that will. You can be anything you believe you can be and that you will to be. It takes the unseen things and makes them appear to the eyes or other senses. It takes your ideals and erects them into realities.
I. The IDEAL. It matters not whether it would be perfect health, or personal influence and power among men, or prosperity in your material affairs. Just fill out the picture mentally. Imagine yourself as in position of this ideal. Picture yourself as being surrounded by every feature of your ideal. Don't affirm that you are when as yet you are not, but build an air castle as complete as your imagination can finish it, and then go in and take mental possession of it. Do this seven times a day.
II. The DESIRE. Earnestly desire the reality of your ideal. Wishing a thing to be true is the first step to believing it can be true, and the next step is willing that it shall be true. Earnestly desires it for your own comfort and success. Wish it to be real for the good you may be able to do unto others. Long for it that may fully express the divine life in you, and so honor the God “whose you are and whom you serve.” And in another word this is prayer, for “Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered the or unexpressed.”
III. The BELIEF. Earnestly believe in the “power that is within both to will and to do.” take that power into your confidence. You trust it to keep your heart beating, your blood circulating, the digestive and assimilative processes going, and in fact you leave to it in perfect confidence all the metabolism or changes to be made in the body without a doubt as to the outcome. You lie down to sleep at night without a question that it will keep your heart beating. If you had an idea that it would stop during the night you wouldn't sleep a wink that night. Now if you can put so much confidence in this hidden intelligent force inside you, just pull out one more stop, and believe that it will do these things just as you want them done. Intelligently direct it to do things just as you want them done, instead of some haphazard way, and you will find that it will keep the confidence inviolable. “According to your faith it shall be done unto you.”
IV. The WILL. This is the directing agent. It comes next in order, for, “Faith laughs at impossibilities, and cries, 'it shall be done.' ” Every force in your life and outside of it pivots finally on your will. “Be it unto thee even as thou wilt” makes “all power in heaven and in earth,” subject to that will. You can be anything you believe you can be and that you will to be. It takes the unseen things and makes them appear to the eyes or other senses. It takes your ideals and erects them into realities.
Follow then this formula, and it will bring
strength out of weakness,
ease out of disease,
plenty out of penuary, and
personal power out of impotence.
The Voice Eternal: A Spiritual Philosophy of the Fine Art of Being Well (1914)
Dr. Thomas Parker Boyd (1864-1936)
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