Spirit-->mind-->body Healing: One Way to DO it today!

More Authority over Your Mind

2011-01-27T15:36:00.003-05:00

Do you sometimes feel trapped by intrusive or habitual thoughts, emotions, images? If you’ve tried changing your mind from the inside, try this practice of exercising authority over it from the outside.

Like a sculptor.

Picture in your mind how sculptors work-- they move and chisel outside and above the marble, wood, etc.,-- in a position of authority. They wouldn’t be able to shape it effectively if they were inside it.

This perspective may be helpful in reshaping your thoughts and feelings. In her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy describes the basis of this practice. She says that...

We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. (p. 248:13-- click here to read this in context)

One way to get outside and above the human mind-- in a position of greater authority over it-- is to practice the feeling of being the creation of Spirit, with full access to Her successful, healthy qualities of intelligence, order, spontaniety, happiness, confidence, love, etc,. Spiritual qualities and feelings such as these are shaping tools like the sculptor’s chisel...the more we practice them in our thinking, responding, relating and living, the more they re-form the structure, reactions and habits of the human mind.

So to carry the sculptor metaphor a bit further, another part of this practice is to make Spirit and Her qualities your artistic model. Like the artist, then, you will mentally look at, embrace and express this model's qualities to improve your sculpture-- to make the human mind healthier, more robust, kind, joyful...spiritually confident and self-reliant.

Eddy continues her explanation of this metaphor and its practice...

What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it?

...we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives. Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love — the kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear. (p. 248:15-18,25-- click here to read in context)

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*** Spirit is ALWAYS Talking to You

2009-06-01T16:32:00.011-04:00

No matter how sick or financially desperate or lonely you’re feeling today--you’re actually in a great position. You’ve got the innate capacity to experience direct messaging from infinite Spirit, the source of all health, intelligence, happiness and success!

Spirit is messaging you each moment, speaking directly to your consciousness—to your thinking, intuiting, feeling and being. And this communication from Spirit to you is not mediated or filtered by the brain, or by your immediate human circumstances.

In her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy describes Spirit’s intelligent, guiding energy as “ever present in human consciousness” and describes this communication as ongoing….

The intercommunication is always from God to His idea, man. (Click here to read this in her book)

Give yourself the gift of taking moments today to feel this divine communication occurring. Feel the affluence of warmth, purpose, energy and health in which Spirit is embracing you, right now.

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* * * Bring Spirit’s Regulation to Your Body

2009-04-27T14:54:00.015-04:00

Is a particular function or part of your body giving you problems?

Recognize that, even though the human mind sees these bodily functions as physical, God, the divine Mind, sees them as spiritual qualities, capacities or functions. And His government of that function is an active, intelligent energy that you can access now!

The Bible makes this point--that God activates the ordering power of “wisdom” and “truth” in our “inward parts”—not dysfunction, diseased action, or deterioration.

So today, practice putting that body function or part directly under divine Mind’s regulation. Practice feeling the healthy, firm embrace of this Mind, controlling the specific function or part with order, harmony and love.

Mary Baker Eddy discovered a spiritual explanation and practice of governing the body through the Spirit. She called it “Christian Science”, and pointed out its practicality in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures…

Christian Science acts as an alterative, neutralizing error with Truth. It changes the secretions, expels humors, dissolves tumors, relaxes rigid muscles, restores carious bones to soundness. The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind. (click here to read it in the book)

...Secretions have been changed, the structure has been renewed, shortened limbs have been elongated, ankylosed joints have been made supple, and carious bones have been restored to healthy conditions. (click here to read it in the book)

If you'd like help with a specific bodily or emotional issue...I'd love to help!

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A New Relationship with Your Body

2008-12-11T12:03:00.037-05:00

Feeling like a prisoner in your body? We generally entertain the perception that we live IN--inside of--our bodies. The problem with this perception is that when we feel "in" something, we also tend to feel that it controls us.

Here's a way to start reversing this perception today...and improving your health!

Every hour or two, set aside a minute to practice feeling your body is something you can act upon as its master...kind of like an artist looking at the block of granite she's about to sculpt. Then use your Spirit-sourced power to act upon and regulate your body through consciousness. In this practice minute, let Spirit govern your beliefs and emotions, aligning them more fully with Her divine harmony, order and unselfed love.

Your physical body is the mortal mind's misinterpretation of your spiritual identity in the likeness of God. You're not really a soul/identity within a body. You're a spiritual creation with divine authority and control over the body-- to "form and control it with truth."

St. Paul wrote (I Cor 9:27), "I keep my body under control and make it my slave...." Mary Baker Eddy explains how to practice this in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. A couple quick examples....

Sooner or later we shall learn that the fetters of man's finite capacity are forged by the illusion that he lives in body instead of in Soul [God], in matter instead of in Spirit. (click here to read this in Eddy's book)

If we follow the command of our Master [Jesus], "Take no thought for your life," we shall never depend on bodily conditions, structure, or economy, but we shall be masters of the body, dictate its terms, and form and control it with Truth. (click here to read this in her book)

Over the past 20 years, I've helped hundreds of people improve their health and success. Feel free to call or email me if you feel I might be able to help you...

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Energize Your Employment

2008-10-21T13:36:00.007-04:00

Feeling isolated or stagnant? Remember this: you’re an active element of a system—a connected, moving symphony of spiritual individuals, acting in concerted purpose. The creative, energizing intelligence of this system is infinite Spirit, the divine Mind.

It is already a spiritual fact that you are connected, needed, in-demand, fulfilling a divine, cosmic purpose.

You can attract this full, purposeful employment more into your life by making it a more habitual part of your consciousness. Every time you feel fear, discouragement or cluelessness about your career or employment, STOP for 60 seconds and practice feeling yourself embraced in this spiritual system. Practice feeling…

your connectedness to every other individual created by Spirit
the purpose with which divine Mind is already employing you to express Himself/Herself
engaged in this awesome symphony of positive, guided, productive divine energy

In her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy wrote about this spiritual system, of which you are an element:

Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind. The material and mortal body or mind is not the man. (click to read this in Eddy's book)

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Learn to Master Your Body through Spirituality

2008-09-03T16:38:00.011-04:00

Your feelings, thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, emotions and expectations literally steer your body. Every cell, organ and function, every chemical or electrical communication is informed and instructed by your consciousness.

So use this power to bless yourself by practicing Spirit-consciousness! Right at this moment, infinite, intelligent Love, God, is giving you intentions and images of thought that can produce greater peace, spiritual trust and love in your mind and heart—if you embrace and act upon them.

Take moments during the day to listen and tune into this river of divine consciousness, and then discipline yourself to consciously practice what you hear/learn during the day. This is a way to gain greater mastery of your body through spirituality.

In her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy expains practically and deeply how to use your consciousness in line the with divine to gain this mastery. She writes…

If we follow the command of our Master, "Take no thought for [don’t be anxious about] your life," we shall never depend on bodily conditions, structure, or economy, but we shall be masters of the body, dictate its terms, and form and control it with Truth. (click to read this passage in context)

Discard all notions about lungs, tubercles, inherited consumption, or disease arising from any circumstance, and you will find that mortal mind, when instructed by Truth, yields to divine power, which steers the body into health. (click to read this passage in context)

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Live Affluently Today

2008-06-17T13:26:00.027-04:00

At this very moment, divine Love is providing you an ever-present flow of intelligent energy, spiritual qualities and capacities, coming to you directly and specifically. This flow--the basis of the word "affluence"--is your source of provision today.

To utilize this source, act upon, make profitable use of, and generously give of the creativity, value and connectedness that result from this daily gift from Spirit. Such intentional actions create profitable employment, clients, investments or other means of income.

Take one minute periods of spiritual practice today to acknowledge this flow, and to feel the reassurance that comes from knowing you have it today, and that you'll have it forever. Then consciously act upon, or out from, this spiritual flow.

Speaking of Spirit’s affluence, Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures…

We shall obey and adore in proportion as we apprehend the divine nature and love Him understandingly,...rejoicing in the affluence of our God. (click here to read this passage now in the book online)

I’d love to support your innate capacity for affluence today!

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Making Peace in Yourself

2008-02-22T23:25:00.012-05:00

Many types of disease represent conflicts within the body—malignant cells, attacking viruses, over-reacting immune responses. Here’s a spiritual practice that can be part of calming and healing these conflict-based diseases (as well as other kinds of conflict in life!).

Jesus said that we’d be happy/prosperous/well if we act as “peace-makers”— producers of peace. He literally made peace through actions like calming storms that threatened community safety, and healing people who were experiencing aggessive emotional disturbance.

The Master seemed to literally embrace the people involved in these situations in a powerful, immediate sense of God’s love and control. His confidence in God enabled them to feel a heightened awareness of God’s all-encompassing government of harmony, going on at that very moment.

You can practice this same kind of peace-making within your self. The cells of your body, your immune system—every bodily function—are directed and governed by your thoughts and emotions. So take moments today to make peace in yourself by feeling divine Love’s peace—the same peace Jesus drew upon to calm the storm and mental illness.

In these meditative moments, feel your whole being under God’s peaceful control. Consciously submit your thoughts about your self, your possibilities, your life-purpose, your relationships, to the adjusting government of divine Love’s harmony and well-being.

Mary Baker Eddy explains this peace-making practice in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures….

If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in submission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love. (click to read this in the book now)

You have an innate ability to make peace in yourself because you are the creation of God, divine Love. Call or email me if you’d like specific help in developing this ability….

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Spirituality is About Growth, not Recession

2008-01-30T22:43:00.001-05:00

The r-word, recession, is HOT. The news, the presidential primaries, even chats with friends get wrapped up in it. The recession buzz can feel like a big load…especially if you need a job, have an escalating mortgage payment, or have built up credit card debt!

Recession is a collective mindset about reduced demand. We may forgo buying services or things we really need, or delay hiring a new employee, or approach possible job or financial opportunities with reduced confidence and clarity, because we feel this collective mental drag of reduced demand, reduced expectation, reduced opportunity.

Since our individual experience of employment, income and financial balance has so much to do with our consciousness, we each have the power to improve our financial condition right in the midst of recession. So here’s a spiritual practice you can start today: accept in your mind that Spirit, God, is the source of all demand. Embrace the feeling of God joyfully demanding of Herself, every moment, to express Her infinite being--fully, beautifully, productively.

This divine demand for the Infinite's own self-expression is never in recession. It’s a divine energy that’s always unfolding, right in your (and everyone else’s) consciousness. So take frequent moments during the day to practice feeling Spirit’s powerful unfoldment of specific opportunities to serve, to connect, to produce…right in your own heart and experience.

Here’s one way that Mary Baker Eddy describes this ever-present unfoldment of good/productive/intelligent energy and ideas in your life. It's in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures...

Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, — is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal. (click here to read this passage in context in her book)

Call or email me if you’d like specific help in spiritually addressing financial issues… and get a free introductory Christian Science treatment!

....and click here or just scroll down to the next blog to see how an actor (my son Chris!) applied practical spirituality to deal with a recession-experience last week.

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An Example of Spirituality vs. Recession

2008-01-30T22:22:00.000-05:00

guest blogger: Chris Harbur (actor, NY city)

...how a working actor applies spirituality to find immediate employment

I moved to New York 5 months ago after finishing a Children's Musical Theater national tour which took me to a different town every week so I had no overhead. For the first time in my life I was living on my own, paying rent, school loans and buying groceries (which is actually kinda fun! ha ha! Well not the rent part but cooking and what not).

I soon realized that as an actor in NY, I was going to have to make God an integral part of my day and that meant starting each day with consistent spiritual prayer-practices, and knowing with all my heart that my Shepherd is supplying me with both fulfilling work opportunities and the spiritual ideas and capacities that enable me to earn money.

One particular day a few weeks ago I was getting really anxious because I had about 5 different payments to make and I literally for the first time in my life was running out of money. I reached out to God that very moment and demanded that I was a talented, needed child of God and someone in New York right this moment would love to employ me.

I kid you not, 10 minutes later I received a phone call from my boss saying that another class has opened up (I teach sports to children a few hours a week) and he needed me to head the class and would pay me extra since I would be the only coach there. Moments later, I got an email from the director of my last show, saying that there is an awards show in 3 days and could I work backstage! It was like God was waiting for me to reach out so She could be like, "Duh Chris, I have a million things for you today!"

Wow, I am so grateful for God, and though I have not completely made my financial demonstration quite yet, I just wanted to express gratitude for the wonderful things God has done for me these last few months. Here is a passage I have been working with since I moved to NY. It's from Mary Baker Eddy's book Unity of Good:

God is our helper. He pities us. He has mercy upon us and governs every event of our careers.
(p. 3:27)

Chris Harbur

Everything Can Get Better

2007-10-16T13:10:00.001-04:00

The situation you’re in today can be improved and transformed into a blessing.

The physical or emotional disease that you or a loved one are experiencing can be relieved and healed.

Why? Because you’re surrounded by infinite, all-powerful, beneficent Spirit. Spirit’s intention for you is all and only good, loving and well. And Spirit’s intelligent, healing energy is penetrating and ever-present, directly addressing your consciousness with empowering, loving, intelligent thoughts. Right now.

How? Practice embracing these facts in your thoughts and feeling. Here are three action ideas. They’re most effective if done frequently during the day (at least three or four times) for brief periods (a minute or two):

1. Practice being more mentally available to Spirit, or divine Love, and to His/Her healing, encouraging impulses and intuitions to you.

2. Practice recognizing and feeling your worthiness to receive Spirit’s successful, healthy qualities, capacities, ideas and guidance.

3. Practice better—more Spirit-like—self-concept, expectations and emotional responses. Adjust to His/Her way of being and feeling.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy describes in detail how to discover and practice this divine power in your own life. She writes,

"Scripture informs us that "with God all things are possible," — all good is possible to Spirit…."(click here to read the complete passage now)

"Spiritual perception brings out the possibilities of being,...and so makes man the image of his Maker in deed and in truth." (click here to read the complete passage now)

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Spiritual Energy for Abundant Employment

2007-09-08T14:50:00.000-04:00

Here are three spiritual facts to consider if you’re unemployed, underemployed, lacking clients--or worried about the possibility of any of these. A spiritual fact is something that infinite Spirit already knows with specificity, certainty and energy.

Practice these facts in your mind during the day today. Acknowledge their truth, receive them, and expect results from them. Embrace the fact that Spirit is seeing you, relating to you, and experiencing you today with these three employment-producing capacities:

Usefulness: you’ve been created by infinite Spirit to express Him in a unique way, and Spirit NEEDS you and your specific way of being and doing.
Connectedness: your specific usefulness is recognized by and accessible to everyone--Spirit’s entire, infinite community of ideas.
Confidence: Spirit is constantly, directly communicating to you how wonderful, useful, attractive and successful you are at expressing Him. So you’re empowered to FEEL, right now, this confidence and all the positive energy and expectation that go with it.

Mary Baker Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is a great place to find out more about your God-given spiritual capabilities that, recognized and practiced, bring about wonderful, abundant employment. Here’s one passage that describes your innate connectedness & usefulness:

"All of God's creatures, moving in the harmony of Science, are harmless, useful, indestructible." (click here to read this in her book now, online)

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More Financial Wellness

2007-08-20T14:54:00.001-04:00

The markets—stock, housing or employment—go up and down, and each of us sometimes feels vulnerable about, or actually hurt by these economic cycles.

Here’s an idea that can give you more peace about market conditions and your own situation. It can also bring you more successful, constructive financial outcomes.

Your real assets and income—what makes you valuable, employable, able to earn income and to be of service to others—has to do with inner resources: your intentions, character, capabilities, energies and connectedness to others. Your real value isn’t limited to, or even defined by, the dollar value of your house, bank account, stocks or current employment.

In other words, your value is about inner resources that you use and offer in the service of others. Money and other physical assets are a manifestation of these resources, but are not the actual resource. It's your inner resources that produce greater peace and financial sufficiency.

And here's the great news! The Source behind these inner resources is the divine Mind. His (/Her) supply of His own spiritual qualities and capacities is infinite and ever-present. So, this divine Mind is the means by which you can expand your inner resources--and increase your financial wellness--today.

Right now, practice mentally turning to and communing with divine Mind as your source of increased capacity and creativity. Recognize that this ultimate source of your specific value is never lost--never even lessened. She’s always there to give you more of the spiritual qualities and capabilities you need for better employment, spending patterns, investment ideas and financial wellness. Qualities like creativity, insight, authenticity, attracting love and systematicity.

Then, act upon your expanding sense of these ideas & capacities.

Mary Baker Eddy explains in detail how this spiritual practice works in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She writes that people who practice her discovered ideas, called “Christian Science”, find that this practice...

… enhances their endurance and mental powers, enlarges their perception of character, gives them acuteness and comprehensiveness and an ability to exceed their ordinary capacity. The human mind, imbued with this spiritual understanding, becomes more elastic, is capable of greater endurance, escapes somewhat from itself, and requires less repose. A knowledge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities and possibilities of man. It extends the atmosphere of thought, giving mortals access to broader and higher realms. It raises the thinker into his native air of insight and perspicacity. (Click here to read this in the book online)

I’ve applied these ideas extensively in my own life and others’, and would be delighted to work with you...

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...and check out these practical financial wellness ideas in the Bible and Eddy's writings:
Luke 12:29-32
Science & Health p. 5:16-18
II Cor 9:8-11
Science & Health p. 264:13-18

Re-direct Your Mind and Body with Love

2007-07-30T13:51:00.000-04:00

Whether a disease is psychological or physical, its effect on us has to do with some function of the body being mis-directed. Auto-immune disorders, clinical depression and cancer are all examples of a bodily system—the immune system, brain or cells--being improperly directed or governed.

You can change physiological mis-direction with your consciousness when you practice putting it--putting your thoughts, emotions and responses--more consciously under divine Love’s direction and government.

Divine Love’s, infinite Spirit’s, character is utterly kind, orderly and beneficent. And when we make conscious and persistent efforts to embrace and live these qualities, it has a profound governing, healing effect on every bodily function and system.

Today, practice this every hour or two for a couple of minutes. Acknowledge, connect with, and put your feelings under the influence of divine Love’s healing energy. Practice feeling its joy, harmony and satisfaction. This is a way to practice obedience to Love’s government, and this practice heals mind and body.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy summarizes the healing effect of this practice:

"If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in submission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love."

Click this link to read the whole passage in her book, and you’ll see that she says the understanding that grows from this practice “…makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, instead of masters.”

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To read a couple of other ideas in Science and Health about practicing Love’s government, click any of the citations below:
p. 6:3 “Divine Love corrects and governs man.”
p. 14:6 “…obedience…to be absolutely governed by divine Love….”
p. 460:5-10 "...system of Mind-healing rests on...Love's essential qualities...."

Get More from Spiritual Practices

2007-07-21T13:16:00.000-04:00

Spiritual practices like prayer, affirmation, spiritual reasoning, and living spiritual qualities with diligence can be effective tools for healing body and mind. As with most tools, we get more out of them when we recognize WHY they work.

Spiritual practices work because they open our human consciousness to recognize, feel and trust more fully the real, present, immediate divine energy of infinite Spirit, or divine Love. This Love is the infinite individual. He, or She, is the real, infinite Person. And YOU are one of Her specific expressions of Her own intelligence, safety, harmony, loveliness, productivity and wellness.

Today, practice being “in relationship” with this infinite Person, or Spirit. Treat this unique, central relationship like one you’d be interested in taking to the next level with any friend or acquaintance. You would…

Listen to them
Learn about their personality or character, and their interests
Spend time and energy to getting closer to them
Expect a benefit from the relationship!

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is a book full of ideas and practices to continue developing your relationship with God. The author, Mary Baker Eddy, wrote that her system, called “Christian Science”,

"…brings God much nearer to man, and makes Him better known as the All-in-all, forever near." (click here to read this passage in the book online)

She also wrote that “…this self-same God is our helper. He pities us. He has mercy upon us, and guides every event of our careers. He is near to them who adore Him.” (Unity of Good, p. 3:27-1)

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Spiritual Practices Help Resolve Legal Problems

2007-07-14T13:35:00.000-04:00

If you or someone you care about is a subject of legal proceedings, what’s in your/their consciousness is a primary determinant of the outcome.

How so? Consciousness determines how we respond to adversarial situations, such as legal accusation, investigation or trial. And the more constructive our responses (in emotion, intention, perception, speech, action), the better the outcome for everyone involved.

If we’ve broken the law, spirituality enables a more authentic assessment of our personal behavior and of the emotions, presumptions or mental habits that produced the offending behavior. This kind of response opens the way to self-correction of these erring thoughts, because spirituality is about practicing the qualities and capacities of all-intelligent, all-connecting, all-loving Spirit.

So here’s something you can DO. Practice being aware that Spirit is the source of all justice. Mentally embrace the fact that Spirit's application of justice is equitable, based upon inner motives rather than simply external behavior. This practice, or prayer, enables us to respond to legal processes with greater honesty, humility and confidence. And with less fear.

Here’s another mental, spiritual action to try. Meditate on the fact that Spirit forgives as we self-correct, and is relating to us in the profound innocence that She bestows. Feeling more of the peace that comes with these spiritual facts enables us to respond to legal issues with greater poise and peace. With less inappropriate guilt or feeling we have something to hide.

Mary Baker Eddy’s words in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures are a good guide for approaching legal issues:

Let Truth uncover and destroy error in God's own way, and let human justice pattern the divine. (click here to read this in her book now)

My experience with effective spiritual practices is deep in this area. Give me a call/email for a complimentary discussion of how we might work together for your best legal outcome.

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Your Spiritual Power to Let Go

2007-06-28T15:54:00.001-04:00

When you’re struggling with a disease, a challenging relationship, or even a financial problem, it’s pretty easy to feel kind of helpless. Like some malicious power, or situation, or person, is taking advantage of you or hurting you.

Try out this idea: the difficulty and harmfulness of the disease or situation has something to do with a thought, belief or perception in YOUR mind. A medical opinion, a resentment, or a limited self-concept in YOUR thinking is very likely the predominant barrier to taking your next step toward complete resolution and healing.

So getting relief is about being more cognizant of these limiting thoughts, and learning to let them go. To get more comfortable with letting go, practice feeling the stability of your ever-available, immediate, limitless possibilities for well-being. These wonderful possibilities are the direct result of your relationship with infinite Spirit, divine Love, who is imparting to you every moment exactly the ideas and capacities you need for success. Realizing divine Love's reliability as a source of better thoughts makes letting go of limiting beliefs much easier.

Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 412) that applying her system of spiritual ideas, called Christian Science, enables us to unclasp the mind's hold on limiting beliefs and emotions:

"The power of Christian Science and divine Love is omnipotent. It is indeed adequate to unclasp the hold and to destroy disease, sin, and death." (click here to read this passage in the book online)

For a great practical example of the power of letting go, check out Carol's blog at InspirationHouse.org

I’ve been a professional practitioner of this system for many years, and would love to help you benefit from it. Just call or email me…

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The Power of Your Thoughts

2007-05-26T16:06:00.001-04:00

When it comes to doing good things with your life, and to keeping or restoring your health, remember that it is your thoughts—including attitudes, expectations, self-concepts, qualities of character, feelings, emotions—that ultimately determine your outcomes. What an incredible power!

Each of us is learning more about this power and how to use it to benefit ourselves and others. The good news is that infinite Spirit is giving you authority over the thoughts in your mind, and is continuously supplying your consciousness with empowering spiritual qualities and capacities. Whenever you act to express these more vividly in the details of daily life, they move you toward substantial accomplishments and progress vs. stasis, health and well-being vs. sickness or disability, and authentic relationships vs. loneliness or dysfunction.

So to intentionally practice a spiritual quality during the day, is to individualize Spirit’s power of goodness and health.

Here’s an example. Unselfed love is a spiritual quality. It is attractive to others. It is valuable. It is willing and energetic about being of service. It is patient enough to listen and learn. You can see how creatively weaving unselfed love-thoughts and behaviors into your day could alter and improve outcomes, and bring greater peace and healing to physical and emotional illness.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy explains how this spiritual practice works:

"Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power." (click here to read this in the book)

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Spirit is Giving You What You Really Want

2007-03-14T16:28:00.000-04:00

You’ve been created to be continuously blessed.

Blessing means: to regard with great favor, to make happy or satisfied, to confer prosperity upon. It goes back to the nature of Spirit Himself/Herself as utterly good, abundant and embracingly kind.

It also goes back to your true self, your inner spiritual selfhood that Spirit sees and knows, every moment. Having created this self of yours after His own likeness, Spirit is relating to you AS this spiritual self right now. So He is relating to you with blessing—communicating to you His delight, love, value and empowerment, with open-handed abundance.

So the trick is to relate to God in a way that aligns with the way He’s already relating to you!

Try making this a spiritual practice today. At least five times, take a couple of minutes to acknowledge your relationship with Spirit and the way Spirit is relating to you with blessing. Allow yourself, encourage yourself, to feel the well-being and blessing of this active, vital relationship that you have with the infinite.

This practice could be called “leaning on the sustaining infinite.” In her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy links this practice to the blessings you’re entitled to today:

”To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.” (CLICK to read this in the book)

If you’d like some help in accessing your blessing, don’t hesitate to call me!

Miles
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Mental Illness Healing Practices

2007-02-22T14:01:00.001-05:00

Mental illnesses-- depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc.-- can feel pretty hopeless to those looking for healing through mental means. The human mind, or brain, itself seems like the problem-- so how can the mind restore itself to balance?

Here are two spiritual practices to improve mental health.

First: all healing, restorative energy comes from infinite Spirit, the divine Mind. Not from the brain. Practice recognizing and feeling that you, or whomever you’re helping, has a spiritual source of balanced, healthy intelligence and mental function outside the body. This source, divine Mind, is always communicating its creative, orderly, healthy thoughts to each of us. And each of us has been created with the peace and power to listen, and to give increasing priority to these thoughts from Spirit.

Second: the brain is just another organ. It’s not really our mind. So it is susceptible of spiritual healing—restored to normal chemistry and function—through spiritualized consciousness, just as much as the heart, lungs, muscles or other tissues.

Accept the fact today that your individual consciousness is created and sustained by the divine Mind, beyond and above the physical brain. Intentionally use this spiritual awareness to recognize yourself or your friend as able to experience healing of brain function, just as they can with any other organ.

Mary Baker Eddy was a spiritual pioneer in the area of mental health. If you click here and type the word brain into the upper box, you can read every passage which includes that word in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

One of my favorites says understanding that infinite Spirit is the source of all mental function and intelligence…

“… makes the body harmonious; it makes the nerves, … brain, etc., servants, instead of masters.” (Click to read this in the book)

I’m always available (9am-9pm daily) by phone or email to support you or your family….

Miles
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Practice FEELING Good

2007-02-16T14:35:00.000-05:00

You already know that FEELING more connected with divine Love-- not just in your intellect, but in your heart-- will heal your illness, resolve your problem, or fill the void of emotional dysfunction.

So how can you get that feeling? One way is to PRACTICE it. You’re actually capable of intentionally producing feelings within yourself, just like you're capable of intentionally producing words or ideas.

I remember during a particularly stressful period at work, I used to take a break sitting in my car in the parking lot on a sunny day and open the sun roof. Then with my face turned toward the sunlight, I’d imagine myself on my favorite beach in the Bahamas. And for a few minutes, I felt greater calm and balance.

This experience taught me that I was capable of calling up peace through my own intention, without having to wait for perfect external circumstances.

As time went on, I began to realize that I could do much better-- I could call up deeper, spiritual feelings of joy, peace or unselfed love. And I could call up these feelings without needing to have them triggered by another person or a wonderful situation. I could regularly PRACTICE these feelings because divine Love was always embracing me in them and enabling me to express them.

Try it out for one day! This spiritual practice of feeling works best if you try it for just a minute or two, and then repeat it several times throughout the day.

Describing this practice of spiritual feeling or "sentiment", Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,

“...the exercise of the sentiments — hope, faith, love — is the prayer of the righteous. This prayer, governed by Science instead of the senses, heals the sick. ” (CLICK to read this in the book)

If you’d like some support in this practice, give me a call or email…

Miles
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One Way to Stop Suffering

2007-02-14T13:59:00.000-05:00

When we’re suffering, we see no end to our problem(s). They seem like mountains-- imposing and immoveable.

The most effective place to start alleviating the suffering is in our perception. For example, through fear, guilt, anger or frustration, we inadvertently amplify our problems and weaken our capacity to respond with greater clarity, authority and success.

Here’s one way to stop suffering. Your human problems are transitory. Trust me on this. Act now to CHOOSE. Use your God-given intention to CHOOSE your perception to a better place, to a more spiritual place. This is possible for you to do, because perception is thought. Your thought.

Infinite Spirit is talking with you right at this moment. She’s saying something like, “I love you more than you can imagine. Right now. I am giving you every intuition and mental quality you need to resolve this so-called ‘mountain’ of a problem. To Me, this mountain is no big deal. Mentally stay with Me, and I promise you’ll be successful.”

This kind of positive, spiritual thinking is spiritually scientific. Mary Baker Eddy writes about the science of it in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. (click here to read it now). She says that using this Christian Science-- like when you intentionally choose your perception toward a more spiritual place-- has powerful effects on your life and its outcomes:

“Science inevitably lifts one's being higher in the scale of harmony and happiness.” (click here to read this in the book)

I’m ready to help whenever you need it….

Miles
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Redefine Your Mind

2007-01-22T22:12:00.000-05:00

You already know that happiness, stress relief AND physical wellness result from changes in your mind. But how do you get free from the mind’s sick, repetitive, depressing or stressed patterns of thought and reaction?

One way is to redefine what you think of as your mind. Our “mind” is whatever we believe to be the source of our thoughts, feelings and responses. We’re prisoners of whatever we believe our “mind” to be. That is, our thoughts can rise no higher than what we believe our mind to be capable of.

So if you start to relate more fully to infinite Spirit as Mind—as living source of healthy, balanced, loving thought and feeling—it becomes possible to get progressively above and beyond the little mortal kind of mind that’s been hurting you.

Practice this today. Right now, take couple of minutes to acknowledge and embrace infinite Spirit as Mind. Consciously connect yourself to this healthy, knowing, joyful, intelligent source. Engage this Mind’s transformative capability to see the good in you and everyone else.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy describes this Mind’s nature and your relationship with it as the “divine Science.” She writes

“The effect of this Science is to stir the human mind to a change of base, on which it may yield to the harmony of the divine Mind.” (click here to read this in the book)

Call or email me if you’d like help doing this....

Miles
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A Spiritual Practice: Tend Your Thoughts

2006-12-18T22:50:00.001-05:00

Thinking that is balanced, joyful, grateful or loving improves emotional and physical health. It restores the immune system, reduces pain, and restores flexibility to muscles and joints.

I can hear someone saying, “…but I feel miserable and victimized. How could I possibly get more positive about my life?” Here’s a spiritual practice that helps me sort out and train my thoughts to better “mirror” the positive, peaceful and energizing qualities of Spirit.

When I’m feeling like life is unraveling or hopeless, or like I’m getting sick, I sometimes picture the thoughts in my mind as sheep or cattle, and myself as the shepherd or cowboy cattle driver-- yee-haa!:). The cowboy’s job isn’t to micromanage every individual head of cattle, but to tend to the ones that might be getting off the trail, or doing something dangerous or destructive. Through an act of intention, he heads them back to where they’re safe and guided. He doesn’t take it personally when cattle wander off. In fact, he knows that some will wander off, and that it’s his job to bring them back.

As with herding cattle, tending our thoughts is a skill that can be developed with persistence, practice and patience. Like most spiritual practices, it’s a skill that's best developed with frequent, short efforts-- such as several two-minute periods during the day-- to minimize frustration.

Mary Baker Eddy describes this practice as “sculpting” our thoughts:

"We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought.

We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually.... Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness, love — the kingdom of heaven — reign within us.…"
(from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures...click the above quote to read it in context, or the picture to read the book)

Spirit-mind-body treatment can help you tend sick or limiting thoughts. Drop me an email if you'd like to try it...

Miles
(561) 626-9043
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You’re Spiritually Structured

2006-12-14T13:43:00.000-05:00

If you’ve got a deteriorating joint, aching back or damaged bodily function, how you think about your body makes all the difference in how your body feels and functions.

Here’s what I mean. Our human minds habitually think of our selves, our bodies, as physical structures, operating under the guidance of biochemical and bioelectrical processes.

But that’s not how Spirit sees you or your structure. Spirit has already created you spiritually. Spirit sees you, right this moment, as a structure of spiritual ideas, qualities and capacities—healthy, well, whole, free, energized, powerful, graceful, loved and loving.

Unaided by spiritual sense, the human mind misinterprets your spiritual structure-- the one God has already created as you-- as limited and physical. But supported by such spiritual practices as affirmative prayer or spiritual listening, the human mind is touched by the Spirit, and begins to get the feeling that what it sees as a physical structure is in reality a healthy, spiritual structure. Glimpses of this spiritual fact cause physical healing.

Speaking of this healing process of spiritualization of the human mind, Mary Baker Eddy wrote in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,

“Working out the rules of Science in practice, the author has restored health in cases of both acute and chronic disease in their severest forms. Secretions have been changed, the structure has been renewed, shortened limbs have been elongated, ankylosed joints have been made supple, and carious bones have been restored to healthy conditions.” (Click here to read)

I’d be delighted to help you experience a greater degree of this healing insight and its physical results…

Miles
(561) 626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Making Your Diet Work

2006-11-19T21:53:00.000-05:00

The basic problem with dieting is our appetite…right? We get the munchies, go back for an extra portion, or supersize a #4 with extra cheese. Excessive appetite urges us to eat more than is necessary to sustain an appropriate body weight or waist.

In her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy offers a powerful insight for successful dieting:

“Appetite…reside[s] in mortal mind, not in matter.” (click here to read)

Unfulfilled emotions—deep hurts, low self-esteem, frustrations, fear-- what Eddy calls “mortal mind” make us feel needy, trying to fill the hole in our soul. So we try to calm these emotions with food, which doesn’t work. But we keep trying… and supersizing ourselves as a result.

Meditating on spiritual ideas makes dieting more successful by getting at the root of excessive appetite. Eddy’s book (to read it now, just click here) offers and explains such ideas on every page. The practice of spiritual qualities balances, centers, energizes, unselfs and satisfies consciousness by strengthening our sense of oneness with infinite Spirirt, or divine Love.

Eddy also describes in Science and Health a form of spiritual therapy, or treatment, that can help you address unfulfilled emotions. I've been practicing this method professionally for over 15 years. I'd be delighted to discuss it with you!

Miles
(561) 626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Spiritualizzzze & Feel Better!

2006-11-15T12:45:00.000-05:00

It's now mainstream: spiritualizing your consciousness has an immediate, positive effect on your health, happiness and well-being. What does “spiritualize” mean? How do you do it?

One answer is that “spiritualizing” means to make our thinking and feeling express more of the qualities, character, movement, energy and activity of Spirit. It’s not intellectualizing about Spirit. It’s doing the best we can today to perceive, think, feel and act more the way that Spirit, divine Love, is doing, right now.

Check these opportunity areas to spiritualize your consciousness…

1 My self-concept: Confident or self-condemning? Expectant of blessing, or doubtful? Joyful or cynical?

2 My sense of my place in the universe: Specifically known by Spirit, or vague? Established by my Creator as divine law, or only a possibility? Indispensable, or insignificant and marginalized?

3 My connections with others: Engaged or isolated? Giving or getting? Supportive or critical? Self-reliant or dependent?

Here’s a spiritual practice. For the each of the next few days, pick the first quality or condition in one of the pairs above. Then make a point of taking an action that you feel expresses it in some way, at least three times during that day. Be experimental and flexible, not technical or perfectionist about this practice.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy makes the point that spiritualization of consciousness will make you feel better…

"The body improves under the same regimen which spiritualizes the thought ..." (click here to read)

Miles
(561) 626-9043
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GET BLESSED-- Practice Gratitude

2006-11-09T15:46:00.000-05:00

You’ve GOT to try this. It’s simple, transforming and gets results.

A couple of months ago, our son Chris (check out his hilarious on-the-road blog) started doing something every night before bed. He journals three things from the day that he’s grateful for. Three. Every night. Without fail.

I love this spiritual practice because it builds a habitually spiritual outlook into everyday life. Chris says that after journaling gratitude for awhile, you start to think about it during the day. Anticipating the nightly list of three, you start to be more aware of meaningful little events during the day-- a spontaneous word of comfort from someone in the grocery line, or the resolution of a problem with your cell phone (yes…this really can happen!) :)

And your journal makes outstanding reading when you're having a horrible day.

Gratitude works because it lifts our minds out of absorption in our immediate situation, off our limitations, off what we DON”T have, and it gently forces us to explicitly recognize things (physical and experiential) we’ve already received. To be thankful for these things opens our connection with divine Love, the infinite spiritual source, who provides everything we need for happiness, health, progress and success.

I’ve got Mary Baker Eddy’s statement about gratitude on the wall of my office. It’s from her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:

“Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more.” (click here to read this in the book)

Miles
(561) 626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Expand Your Possibilities NOW

2006-11-05T23:22:00.000-05:00

Feeling dead-ended, out of options, arrested in your development? This limited feeling is always related to limited perception, to thinking within the four-dimensional world of physical space and time.

Now I’d like you to try expanding your perception. There are, right now, dimensions of YOUR life, being and perception that are way beyond your sensory limits.

Spiritual love-- unselfed, tender and powerful-- is from these broader dimensions. Recognize the warm immediacy of this love. Participate in it and practice it-- STOP reading this blog, and do something unselfish, right now. Acts of unselfed love connect you with the Source of love. They move your perceptions out of old, stale doldrums, open doors in your emotions and mind, and unfold next steps of peace, happiness and progress in your life’s work and contribution.

OK, now you can continue reading! ;) Love doesn’t have its origin in the brain or in any of the four conventional dimensions. It comes from the infinite Spirit-being, or divine Love itself. Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, is filled with practical approaches to connecting with this…

“…infinite, incorporeal Love, to whom all things are possible.” (Click here to read)

Click here for another spiritual practice to expand your sense of possibilities

I’ve helped lots of people experience expanding possibilities, quickly and effectively. Contact me any time….

Miles
(561) 626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Watching as a Spiritual Practice

2006-11-02T00:17:00.000-05:00

The old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you” is sooo wrong! Subconscious beliefs, operating unseen in our minds, do all sorts of destructive things.

Like forgotten or semi-forgotten memories of mistreatment or abandonment that cause us to be angry, defensive or guilty without understanding why. We may think that we “just have a bad temper”, but the real culprit is an old belief replaying itself, partly below the radar of conscious thought. And the anger resulting from this old belief promotes disease, relationship problems, career dysfunctions…you name it.

One spiritual practice for protecting ourselves from the effects of old, unseen beliefs is called “watching”-- being more mindful of the quality of our thoughts, mental processes, and emotional reactions. Mary Baker Eddy says a lot about this practice in her writings. For example, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures she writes,

“Because a belief originates unseen, the mental state should be continually watched that it may not produce blindly its bad effects.” (click here to read)

Today, devote 10 minutes to this practice of “watching”. Get quiet. Go someplace where no one will talk to you. Use this quietness to listen to your thoughts, not to direct them. Observe their tendency and processes. (click here for another passage on "watching")

If you notice that a thought seems to be attached to some kind of chronic unhappiness or reactiveness within you, try tracing it back a bit further. Recognize that these feelings are probably attached to a subconscious belief. Also recognize that embracing your relationship to the consistently good and all-powerful Spirit will inevitably lead you to the exposure and resolution of this belief.

….and let me know if I can help!

Miles
(561) 626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Let Spirit Act on Your Consciousness

2006-10-29T14:34:00.000-05:00

Acknowledge and enlist the energy-- the focused, directive power-- of the one, divine Mind, or infinite Spirit, acting on and within your consciousness right now.

Feel Mind’s love calming your fears. Feel His confidence and control undermining your insecurity. Feel His harmony and order reigning-in your chaos and distraction.

To get the most out of all the good that Mind is doing for you right now, practice this for a minute or two several times today.

In her amazing book of spiritual insights and practices, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy explains this kind of spiritual practice:

“…the divine Mind makes perfect, acts upon the so-called human mind through truth, leads the human mind to relinquish all error….” (click here to read)

If you’d like professional support in this practice, give me a call or email…I’d love to help!

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Relating to Spirit

2006-10-26T13:58:00.000-04:00

No matter what needs healing in your life-- health, relationship, finances-- what you need in order to improve things is an improvement in your consciousness.

This improvement could be a fuller capacity to love, or greater self-confidence, or maybe a little clearer grasp of harmony as it relates to a specific bodily function or part. Or maybe more awareness of emotional habits that are sabotaging your well-being.

Here's the good news! Infinite Spirit possesses NOW exactly the mental quality or capacity you need to have your healing. AND Spirit is relating this capacity to you now-- continuously, specifically, indestructibly. So you have an innate, living connection with the infinite Source that makes things better.

Where the rubber hits the road is to practice being in relationship with your Spirit-source. Practice developing your part of your relationship with Spirit just as you would with anyone else you’d like to know better, with whom you’d like to be in closer relationship:

Learn more about Spirit’s personality or nature
Listen for what Spirit is telling you (She’s always communicating great stuff to you)
Be intentionally willing to make the mental and emotional adjustments necessary to better attune yourself to Spirit’s way of communicating and being

These practices make an expanding relationship possible. And expanding your relationship with Spirit creates conditions for healing.

Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, is packed with ideas and practices to help you expand your relationship with Spirit. Eddy’s premise is that

“The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible….

…and call or email me if you’d like help with your specific healing process.

Miles
(561)626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Healthy Images

2006-10-23T13:54:00.000-04:00

“Disease” usually means that bodily functions or cellular processes are behaving in confused, unregulated, or destructive ways. Perhaps unhealthy pathogens aren’t being clearly recognized or effectively neutralized. Or maybe healthy structures are being erroneously attacked by the body’s own immune system.

Bodily processes are ultimately regulated by our perception, which directs the electro-chemical signals that the mind sends to the cells. Perceptions such as fear, isolation, self-hatred, anger or revved-up stress send the body a set of signals that promote and sustain disease. On the other hand, to intentionally and regularly reshape our perceptions with encouraging, invigorating spiritual images and ideas sends a set of signals that restores healthy processes.

Spiritual images come from the infinite Spirit, the divine Mind. Here’s an image you can practice today that will help restore the healthy action of your system.

As the spiritual creation of this Mind, you are built of His ideas and qualities. This Mind sustains, orders and regulates in harmony this spiritual structure that is the real you. In fact, He is right now regulating every detail of your being, including those details that the human mind sees as physical functions and cells.

Meditate on this healthy, spiritual image-fact several times today for a minute or two. Feel the divine order being established in whatever thought or function is causing you to suffer or fear for your well-being.

Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, includes hundreds of healthy spiritual images and ideas you can use any time you need to. Click here to read the book now. She writes,

"A material body only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal man possesses this body, and he makes it harmonious or discordant according to the images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness." (click here to read)

If you’d like help with this approach, don’t hesitate to call or email me….

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Death is Transition, not End

2006-10-18T11:13:00.000-04:00

The death of someone you love is one of the darkest hours of life. Their life is just done? That’s all there is to it? And what about me? Losing a family member or close friend feels worse than losing your arm.

Grieving about losing someone you love is normal and healthy. And during your grieving time, take heart that their life is continuing…that life will never stop for any of us. Since we’re created by the Spirit, who exists forever without limit or end, we each possess immortality. Our eternal Source is always seeing and supporting what he created us to be-- now and forever-- individual expressions of His infinite intelligence, life and love.

A fascinating phenomenon that, to me, corroborates eternal life is that there are thousands of people who have actually experienced “death”-- all brain, heart and pulmonary activity had stopped-- and subsequently were resuscitated. A significant percentage of these people (one estimate is 10%) had what is called a “near-death experience” (NDE). This means that even though they were medically “dead”, they had conscious experiences like leaving their previous physical body, viewing life experiences that involved moral choices, and understanding a continuity of their life in more conscious connection with all-forgiving, all-encompassing divine Love.

What these people experienced is very consistent with Mary Baker Eddy’s ideas about the nature of death: that it is not an end of life, but a transition step in a continuing path of life-learning and life-experience. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she writes,

“In the illusion of death, mortals wake to the knowledge of two facts: (1) that they are not dead; (2) that they have but passed the portals of a new belief.” (click to read)

"Mortals waken from the dream of death with bodies unseen by those who think that they bury the body." (click to read)

This means your loved one is OK, right now. They’re continuing to learn and love. And you will see them again.

And the same Spirit that is guiding, informing and loving them, is moving you forward too, opening expanded and deepening experiences of self, relationships and possibilities. Acknowledge this fact for a few moments every hour today.

...and let me know if I can help.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Learn more about near-death experiences and medical research about them at these websites:
HorizonResearch.org
InternationalAssociationforNear-DeathStudies.org

Yes, Love YOURSELF

2006-10-16T10:57:00.000-04:00

Loving yourself more actively helps resolve all sorts of problems. It contributes to healing any disease, whether physical or emotional.

You don’t need a logical human reason to love yourself. You’re entitled to do it because it's your Source's nature to love. Because of this nature, Mary Baker Eddy uses “Love” with a capital “L” in her writings, as a synonym for your spiritual Source. This divine Love is feeling love-- delighted, nurturing, accepting, energizing love-- specifically for you, right at this moment.

Keep opening your heart to this spiritual energy. Divine Love is continuously presenting His/Her love for you, directly to your consciousness, to your heart. He feels no judgment about what you’ve done or haven’t done-- only complete approval for who you are as He created you.

One secret of infinite Love’s ability to love you and approve you so unconditionally is that He sees and knows you in a different way than you’ve been seeing yourself. As your spiritual Source, He sees your original innocence, loveliness, intelligence, integrity, creativity, vigor and energy. And He sees these fully developed and fully expressed in you, NOW.

Speaking of how Love is seeing you today, Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,

“Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object.” (click here to read this passage in context)

Right now, imagine and feel this infinite Being embracing you as the "object" of its love, seeing the aura of its own beautiful nature defining & surrounding you.

Doesn’t that feel good? It’s an honest and healthy thing to do, because it’s true!

If you’d like to work with someone to help you love yourself more deeply and consistently, I’d love to help!

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Healing Undefined Anxieties & Insecurities

2006-10-11T16:45:00.000-04:00

Sometimes just turning your thoughts and feelings over to the divine Mind and drawing on His positive, intelligent energy is enough to remove emotional discomfort that has no evident cause.

If this spiritual practice isn’t relieving you of what you’re feeling today, take another step. Recognize that most of the human mind is subconscious-- ignorant of itself and its own activity. If you’re feeling anxious or depressed, these emotions may be the result of subconscious mental habits that started years ago, maybe even in very young childhood. These habits probably resulted from a traumatic situation, or from what someone did or said to you, at a time when you were emotionally defenseless.

It’s the first part of a powerful spiritual practice to become aware that your emotional discomfort today may have nothing to do with today’s circumstances, and that you don’t deserve to be burdened with it.

Of these subconscious emotional habits, Mary Baker Eddy writes in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,

“This mortal blindness and its sharp consequences show our need of divine metaphysics. Through immortal Mind, or Truth, we can destroy all ills which proceed from mortal mind.” (click here to read this passage in the book)

Eddy's words suggest the second part of this practice. Right now, nurture your sense of self, your prospects, your expectations, your relationship to infinite Mind and to others, and your place in the universe by accepting what the all-conscious Mind is feeling for you right at this moment. Embrace His total ACCEPTANCE of, CONFIDENCE in and DELIGHT with you, as His own unique spiritual creation.

Let me know if you’d like further support in this practice...

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

More Obedient = More Productive

2006-10-09T11:58:00.000-04:00

The little partnership that had employed me suddenly dissolved. Our cash flow was getting tight. How would I support my wife and three young children?

What seemed to complicate everything was that I’d left well-paid, high-benefits corporate management to be in this new venture. My wife and I had felt very guided-- impelled, actually-- to move away from corporate employment into something closer to self-employment, more in line with our specific individual talents and life goals. And even though this first attempt hadn't worked out, we felt we had to keep moving with this guidance. But I had to get productively employed-- get results & income-- fast.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy makes the point that greater creativity and productivity are linked to greater obedience: obedience to the guidance of infinite, all-intelligent Spirit, which she refers to as the divine “Mind”:

“In God's creation ideas became productive, obedient to Mind.” (emphasis added…click here to read this passage in her book)

As I worked through this panicky situation, I got a sense that to be “obedient to Mind” meant to take daily, sometimes humble, uncomfortable steps toward employment.

For example, my wife suggested that I start a management consulting practice. At first, I resisted in insecurity; but then I obediently listened. A few days later, I took a little step of calling friends who were doing consulting of various kinds to draw on their experience. Even though they weren’t particularly encouraging, I felt that another obedient step (also my wife’s idea!) was to start calling acquaintances in business to let them know I was starting a consulting practice and to discuss how I might help them.

The big point is that as I intentioned to live in more detailed obedience, submission, to divine Mind’s directive intuitions-- to humbly take little steps and to listen to my family and friends, even though I felt insecure and fearful about doing something I’d never believed that I could do-- to start my own business-- things began to work out. In fact, I was actually up and running with clients within a month or two!

Try this spiritual practice of daily obedience in your next step in life…and let me know if I can help.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Relate to your Source, not to your Outcome

2006-10-05T13:15:00.000-04:00

When you’re mentally practicing for spiritual healing or resolution, it’s really good to be persistent, systematic and ambitious about it. But it’s also possible to focus too much on the physical outcome you desire & get frustrated if it's not immediate.

It helps me to remember that divine Spirit-- not me, not my mind, & certainly not my body-- is the source, the “engine” or ultimate cause, of the healing I’m working for. Spirit is already totally aware of my (and your) total functionality, harmony, peace, sufficiency, love and well-being. This awareness, now-- by Spirit-- is the source of your healing outcome.

Our role in healing is to relate to Spirit’s love, embrace His joy and gratitude, get to know and feel His harmony. Sometimes fulfilling this role takes time, and involves looking at ourselves and removing emotional, previously subconscious obstacles. Too much focus on an outcome we-want-but-don’t-yet-have tends to pull us in the opposite direction and tends to make the problem seem even more imposing and to get us frustrated with ourselves.

In her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy suggests a spiritual practice for times when our minds are too focused on the physical outcome we’re working for. She writes,

“…reverse this action. Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality. Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts.” (click here to read this passage in the book)

If you find yourself struggling, I’m ready to help…

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

There's ALWAYS a Next Step

2006-10-01T17:14:00.000-04:00

You’ve prayed, meditated, listened and walked-your-talk. But the problem you’re trying to solve seems as big as ever. What can you do?

There’s always a next step. Always, always, always…because Spirit is infinite. She isn’t facing the limits you’re feeling. She’s already completely outside of and beyond your current problem. And She’s unfolding her infinity of ideas, capacities, inspiration, creativity and nonlinear guidance to you right at this moment. These infinite resources appear to you as your next step... your next thought... or your next spiritual practice for progress, resolution and healing.

Acknowledge Spirit’s unlimited being, knowing and feeling. Recognize how small, finite, blind and self-absorbed the problem-laden human mind is. Yield this sense of limited mind to unlimited, infinite Spirit-- its love, power, fullness, joy and progress. Get to know the mental, spiritual place where Spirit is already seeing and relating to you feeling Her freedom.

In her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy explains the need for the human mind to yield to the infinite's inevitable progress:

“…erring, finite, human mind has an absolute need of something beyond itself for its redemption and healing.” (click here to read in context)

If you’d like support in feeling and practicing more of your innate infinite being, beyond the limits of the human mind, just give me a call or email. I’d love to help!

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Negotiating with Spirit

2006-09-27T16:29:00.000-04:00

Business meetings, job interviews, health care appointments, sales calls-- these negotiations sometimes produce stress for most of us. Will I feel pressured? Will the outcome be positive?

Negotiation outcomes depend heavily upon the perspective that YOU bring to it. Why? Your perspective influences your behavior, emotions, and the energy you send out-- including facial expression, body language and tone of voice. And these all influence the other people in the meeting-- their perspectives and their reactions to you and your ideas.

So use your spirituality to improve your perspective and the outcome…for everyone. Acknowledge and embrace as a present fact that the divine Spirit is the only Mind in the room. Relate to this Spirit as Mind, the source of constructive thought. Your Mind, and the others', too. As daughters and sons of this Mind, we each possess innate capacities to be just, equitable, intelligent, practical, reasonable, fair, considerate and loving. This divine Mind is in control of every consciousness, now, embracing each one in clear-headed intelligence and tangible love.

Stay with this spiritual practice for at least a minute or two. Do it often until your emotions and intentions about the negotiations and the people involved begin to feel more positive. If the meeting is off in the future, practice this daily, right up through the end of the meeting.

Mary Baker Eddy explains the effectiveness of this spiritual practice in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:

“The understanding … that there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply the truth of immortal sense.” (click to read this passage in context)

Let’s work together to bring this powerful divine energy to your next negotiation!

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

PS Here are two more ideas to practice from Science and Health. Just click to read…
on page 544
on page 276

Always a Way to Move Forward

2006-09-24T22:30:00.000-04:00

Have you been feeling discouraged? Trying to spiritually heal a part of your life-- maybe a chronic illness, an addiction or bad habit, or a relationship with a family member or friend-- and feeling "stuck"?

Here's an idea to use right now. At least five times today, take a minute or two to be present with the fact that divine intelligence is communicating to you, now, EXACTLY the inspiration, new idea, evolving vision of your situation, or developing qualities of character that you need to make your next step of progress.

This specifically customized, spiritual enlightenment is a present resource to you, because Spirit is constantly sharing with you everything She feels, knows, sees and does. Yes...everything! All her love, all her intelligence, all her insightfulness, all her beauty, all her peace, all her well-being and harmony of structure and process.

Jesus made this point when he said, "The Father loves the son and shows him everything that He Himself does." (John 5:20) Mary Baker Eddy makes a similar point in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She writes that each of us is

"...the compound idea of God, including all right ideas;... [and] reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker." (click here to read this passage in context)

What you actually need is expanded ideas, qualities, or capacities...and divine Love is presenting them to you every moment.

If you'd like help with this spiritual practice, email me or give me a call.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Spiritual Reconstruction

2006-09-20T14:24:00.000-04:00

Really important things can get injured, worn out or broken-- things like relationships, finances, and bodily organs/functions.

Lucky for all of us, appropriate spiritual practices stimulate reconstruction in these areas. These practices are based on one key fact-- that infinite Spirit is producing spiritual images, ideas, qualities, feelings and capacities that you can embrace to produce a better functioning body, a more productive relationship, or a sufficiency of finances-- today.

Remember?...our emotions and perceptions form conditions in our bodies, our relationships and our finances. So acknowledge that Spirit is reproducing in your consciousness, now, a clearer conception of the spiritual ideas and laws needed to reconstruct the specific bodily part or function that's troubling you. Accept that Spirit, being all-knowing and all-creating, knows exactly the ideas you need to achieve this, and is communicating them to you now.

Remind yourself at least 5 times today (every couple of hours) that out of her own completeness, Spirit is supplying the unselfed, forgiving love and vision that enable you to take the next step in healing a wounded friendship. Embrace in your conviction that Spirit is giving you the understanding to dissolve whatever emotions or beliefs are blocking the creativity and confidence that will open up your career and finances.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy explains in depth this linkage of Spirit-mind-body, or Spirit-mind- relationship, or Spirit-mind-finances. Here's one example of her ideas on this subject...

"...mental and moral chemistry changes the material base of thought, giving more spirituality to consciousness and causing it to depend less on material evidence. These changes which go on in mortal mind serve to RECONSTRUCT the body." (click here to read this passage in context)

I'm a specialist in reconstruction through spiritual means, and I'd love to work with you.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Activism and Spiritual Practices

2006-09-18T00:14:00.000-04:00

Yep...the world has a lot of craziness in it! Environmental destruction, terrorism, religious strife, third world genocide, nature's extremes made disasters by poverty. The only way to feel truly at peace about the threats we face as a species is to make a personal commitment to become part of a solution process-- to be activists in our own lives.

And remember to include spiritual practices in your activism...because they have the power to transform emotions, impulses & beliefs that create and perpetuate mankind's destructive behavior and suffering.

For example, I've felt very impelled the past few months to participate in reducing religious conflict and violence. As a part of my activism, I'm engaging in a spiritual practice that I believe is helping in some way to calm sectarian terrorism. Several times every day for a few minutes, I embrace and meditate upon a specific, evolving vision of healing.

In my vision I mentally pour a salve of reassurance and love into the hurts that turn desperate, humiliated, hurting people into terrorists. I embrace them in a universal community of care-ers, whose Mind is divine Love. I see this community surrounding them with a firm grasp that restrains violence. I encourage them, "It's going to be OK...we're going to get through this together. We're no longer tolerating anyone being humiliated or excluded or pre-empted. We understand and honor your value and possibilities as a child of God."

Mary Baker Eddy's ideas in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures help inspire the vision underlying my activism:

"Immortals, or God's children in divine Science, are one harmonious family;...." (click here to read in context)

"With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power...." (click here to read in context)

You can do something today to further develop your activism & supporting spiritual practices to ease humanity's suffering....

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Getting What You're Entitled To

2006-09-13T21:31:00.000-04:00

You're entitled to a lot....like health and well-being, emotionally and physically....like purposeful, interesting and rewarding work....like productive, progressive relationships....like sufficiency of food, clothes and housing.

The reason you're entitled to these is that divine Spirit is your source.

So to experience greater sufficiency in these areas, try practicing a more frequent, conscious connection with your source-- to be more in relationship with Her. Grow in your understanding of how Spirit-- which is inherently non-physical-- can meet your needs for ordinary things like a job, a car, or being cured of migraine headaches.

The bottom line is that Spirit won't actually hand you a fistful of money, or park a new Prius in your driveway tonight. But She is, at this very moment, imparting to you-- far beyond what you currently realize-- the qualities of character, the energy, the identity/individuality, and the motives that will enable you to get what you need.

Think about it. Changes toward spirituality in your mental or emotional perspective-- away from fear or anger, for example-- produce better health. Demonstrating greater consistency of creativity, confidence, and more willingness to cooperate with other people will improve your employment and earning power. Expressing increased patience in your love will improve your relationship with your significant other.

So getting more of what you need is about practicing specific, relevant spiritual qualities more consistently, with more focus, as part of your relationship with Her.

Using the word "Soul" as a synonym for this divine Spirit-source, Mary Baker Eddy advised,

"Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul." (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 60)

I'd be delighted to help you get more of what you're spiritually entitled to.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Quicker Injury Recoveries

2006-09-10T22:02:00.000-04:00

If you're suffering from an injury, like a sports injury or an accident, why don't you try using your spirituality to improve your recovery?

Spirituality should be part of your rehab, because physical injury has mental components that slow down recovery. Like the fear part. The discouragement part. The feeling incomplete or impaired part. The traumatic memory part.

Starting with high school football, I went through a twenty-year period when one of my ankles was injured repeatedly. Toward the end of this period, I was out running one afternoon and wrenched the same ankle into a small hole covered by leaves. I was terrified...partly about the pain, but even more about the possibility of serious, permanent damage.

Almost at the instant of the accident, it came to me that the outcome was going to be better if I intentionally, consciously became more aware of the spiritual facts of this situation.

Here's what I mean by "spiritual facts." Infinite Spirit must see me and what I'm doing differently than I do. Since I am (as each of us is) His spiritual creation, Spirit must be seeing my spiritual self-- it's wholeness and well-being. What I see and think of as a physical ankle, He must see differently-- as an undamageable spiritual structure possessing strength, grace and wholeness.

While struggling with pain and fear, I kept calming myself with these spiritual facts, encouraging myself to see the situation from this spiritual perspective, rather than from a perspective of fear or damage.

Here's how Mary Baker Eddy describes the spiritual practice I was trying to embrace. It's from her Spirit-mind-body healing guidebook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:

"When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, "I am hurt!" Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.

Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics...." (click here to read the whole passage)

You can do this too. Improve your outcome by keeping your mind open to "divine metaphysics." Work with the energy of Spirit-- use your intention to reverse emotional trauma and the conviction of being damaged.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Build Up Your Immunity

2006-09-06T17:28:00.000-04:00

One of the best things you can do to stay healthier is strengthening your immune system. If you're looking for more ways to do this, here's an idea: regularly practice spiritual qualities like joy, gratitude and love. By "regularly practice" I mean embracing and expressing these qualities intentionally & creatively as part of your daily outlook and details. Working them into your lifestyle.

Why will this work for you? The most common (& self-imposed!) suppressants of immunity are negative emotions: fear, stress, anger, anxiety, guilt. When you're feeling these, your perceptions are telling the body that you're in danger or trouble. So as a result, blood, oxygen, etc. are sent to your arms and legs (so you can run away fast, or fight this perceived danger!) at the expense of other important functions-- like your immune system.

When you intention and practice love, or honestly and persistently express joy or gratitude, you are actively moving your perceptions from negative to positive. And one way the body responds to this change is to nurture your immune system.

This is both curative and preventative spiritual healing. It is a scientific practice, because it produces positive, replicatable physiological results for anyone who does it.

Mary Baker Eddy was a pioneer thinker in this field of spiritual healing. She wrote,

"A material body only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal man possesses this body, and he makes it harmonious or discordant according to the images of thought impressed upon it. You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness.... It is the mortal belief which makes the body discordant and diseased in proportion as ignorance, fear, or human will governs mortals."

Click here to read the complete passage in context in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Your innate connection with Spirit--the ultimate cause over mind and body--is the basis of your immunity, and of the method I've been practicing professionally since 1990. I'd be delighted to help you use Eddy's Spirit-mind-body approach more effectively in your life!

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Feel Spirit's Delight

2006-09-03T17:13:00.000-04:00

There are lots of times when it's appropriate, necessary and healing to feel Spirit's delight-- including her specific delight with you.

Spirit is all-intelligent Love, which has created you in his/her own image and likeness. This infinite being knows you in detail, just as she created you. She formed your unique character and way of being and doing as a unique, indispensable expression of herself. So OF COURSE she's delighted and utterly satisfied with you!

Been feeling depressed, guilty, self-condemning, insecure, or self-hating? Start getting better now by acknowledging that divine Love is seeing you and feeling about you differently-- very differently-- than you're feeling about yourself.

Take a minute now. Turn away from whatever craziness or fear or negative energy you're dealing with, and allow yourself to feel divine Love's unconditional acceptance of and delight with you...no matter how awkward this feeling seems...no matter how much of a mess you've made of something. Imagine her saying something like, "I love you. You're precious to me. The way I created you makes me so happy!"

Do this often during the day, and feel the healing effects in your emotions and body.

Click this to read an excerpt of one person's feelings of Spirit's acceptance as she read Mary Baker Eddy's ideas in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Click here to check out another passage in the book about Spirit's satisfaction with you.

You can always call me if you'd like help with this,

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Influence Your Mind & Body with Your Spirituality

2006-08-31T12:10:00.000-04:00

When we're sick or depressed, we usually feel like victims of the body or of some organ--heart, brain, muscle, etc.

Biologically, the immediate direction of body parts and functions comes from electro-chemical signals occurring at the cellular level. But many scientists feel that these signals are ultimately driven by perception. That is, not by actual external circumstances, but by an image or emotional context held in our mind, usually the less conscious parts of the mind.

Does your perception include habitual fear of failure or loss? Chronic anger or reactiveness? An ever-present mental loop-tape of self-doubt?

Maybe today's the day to take fuller charge of your perception! You have the God-given power and right to use your intention, or will, to spiritualize your perceptual images and feelings. You can consciously practice a greater awareness of the way the divine Spirit perceives Herself and perceives YOU, her spiritual creation, right now.

Here’s one way Mary Baker Eddy describes this practice in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures—a practical book that explains the Spirit-mind-body connection and methodologies for applying it to well-being and spiritual growth:

“The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering?...

...To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually....” (Click this link & look for lines 10-32 to see this passage in context.)

Try turning dysfunctional perceptions toward Spirit's healthy perceptions. Do this for very brief periods of time (like a minute or two) frequently (every hour or two) throughout the day.

And as always, let me know if I can help.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Employment Opportunity

2006-08-27T20:58:00.000-04:00

I've been unemployed or underemployed several times in my life. Getting successfully through these tough times is often about gaining the emotional stability necessary to be able to recognize & take advantage of employment opportunities that you might otherwise miss. And this means not getting lost in fear, shame, insecurity about your capabilities, anger about your previous job, etc.

Here are a few ideas I've worked with to emotionally nurture, strengthen and stabilize myself. If you're feeling edgy about finding better (or just finding) employment, try embracing these spiritual ideas for a few moments now....

You are eminently employable because the infinite Mind is employing you. Right this moment. He created you to express himself in a specific, important, unique, indispensable way. And He continues to hold you in infinite consciousness, sustaining in you such valuable qualities as intelligence, acuity, compassion, cooperation, persistence, creativity and energy.

This means that He needs you and supplies your capabilities to satisfy his own need for self-expression. So there is a spiritual basis of underlying, powerful demand for you, for your character, for your unique way of being and doing. This demand is unaffected by economic or hiring cycles, your age, even your education.

Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures has lots of employment-supporting ideas and practices. Here's one I like....click this link and check out lines 23 through 5 on the next page.

If you'd like some help with finding employment or expanding your career, I'd be delighted to work with you...

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

More Self-Confidence

2006-08-23T09:04:00.000-04:00

It creates happiness. It creates wonderful relationships. It creates career opportunities and fulfilling employment.

And the lack of it often undermines all these.

The "it" is confidence. You're entitled to feel it because the infinite created you for its own self-expression. This infinite, or divine Love, is totally delighted with her conception and her specific, spiritual perception of you. Divine Love is inherently confident being, and it is speaking to you--vitalizing your consciousness, embracing you in Her goodness and warmth at every moment, including this one.

This divine Love is empowering you now to express its own capacities of intelligence, creativity, peace, humor and appropriate authority. Because She is confident in you, you have an innate capacity to feel, and the right to feel, confident in yourself.

Even when you screw up, even when you disappoint other people or yourself--the basis of your confidence goes right on. It's a spiritual basis--your beautiful, wonderful, capable, powerfully good self as divine Love has already created you, is knowing you, and is empowering you TODAY.

Here is an idea on which you can base your self-confidence:

"God expresses in man [this is generic, including both sexes] the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis." (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures )

Click this link to read this passage, lines 9-15.

The following 3 pages or so include lots of other spiritual-confidence-building ideas and practices.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Your Spirituality Isn't Aging

2006-08-21T00:08:00.000-04:00

OK, I don't have a magical anti-aging formula, but I have found some ideas and practices that can help you a lot if you use them.

They all involve improving--specifically, spiritualizing--the signals or instructions that your mind sends your body. This practice works because spirituality involves ageless energy, painless movement, flexible strength derived from the infinite Spirit, who doesn't age or wear out. Because He, or She, is your creator, you already have within you a capacity to instruct your body toward more of His/Her agelessness!

A few years ago I began to get periodically aching joints. Not all the time, but sometimes at night. Then about a year ago, a pain in a hip I once injured woke me up. To me that meant that my mind, probably subconsiously, was somehow giving consent to a recurring pain there, maybe even deterioration.

I decided to try to more consciously influence this subconscious thought process, and impose upon it a few instructions that were more spiritual. First, I reminded myself and my thoughts about my hip that Spirit is ageless, flexible, moving and powerful. Never getting creaky. I also instructed my body-thoughts that Spirit didn't get injured. And I realized that Spirit, or divine Love, was at that moment, supporting this kind of more spiritual, enlightened instructing that I was doing.

The pain went away in about 10 minutes. I still experience joint pain sometimes, but it happens much less frequently than it used to. And this type of spiritual instructing usually stops it quickly.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy says,

"To remove the error producing disorder, you must calm and instruct mortal mind with immortal Truth."
(Emphasis added-- click here to read this passage in context--look for line 24).

That's the kind of instructing I was doing.

If you'd like me to help you try this, give me a call or email.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Spirituality Enhances Guidance for Today's Decisions

2006-08-16T09:53:00.000-04:00

Divine intelligence surrounds you and me. It's insightful, penetrating, creative, specific, balanced, happy, beautiful, playful and all-knowing. I'm finding that when I consciously tune into this divine Mind when I'm making personal or business decisions, I get guidance that in some way embodies these awesome qualities.

How does this work? I'll tell you two things I've learned so far.

First, you really do have to intentionally tune in. You have to listen with your mind and heart. When I'm making an important decision, I try to go often (like every hour or so, for a minute or two) to an emotional place apart from distractions like fear of failure or automatically outlined outcomes. I don't ignore other people's input, or what I've learned from prior experiences, or common sense in my decisions. But for these few moments every hour or two, I put everything aside except listening to infinite Mind, who knows what's best for me.

Second, you have to be ready for how spiritual guidance comes. Don't feel like you've got to hear a voice from the sky, or be struck with a physically obvious sign. That might happen, but it seems like for most people (including me), guidance comes oftener through intuitions about what to do. These intuitions sometimes come to me in gentle, recurring waves, opening my mind. Lots of times these waves of intuition don't lay out a grand plan, but just the next step.

And when you're focused on just trying to do the right thing, and ending up in the right place, just the next step is enough!

I can help with applying this guidance process. Check out Mary Baker Eddy's ideas on prayer to get more on this practice.

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

A Spiritual Practice for More Hope

2006-08-13T08:58:00.000-04:00

Are you feeling hopeless, lost, or overwhelmed today? Maybe you've been sick for a long time, or a relationship with a friend or family member has hardened. Maybe your career is tanking, or maybe it's the way the Middle East always seems to find a new turn for the worse.

Accept the fact right now that all-intelligent divine Love knows you specifically right at this moment, embracing your emotions, mind and body in Her warm and intelligent love. This divine energy is always going on. It's always available. It's healing, cleansing, restorative, transformative.

Making this ever-present divine Love more real for you and more effective in your life at this moment has to do with how you respond to it. Try these spiritual practices, which are intentional responses to divine Love:

acknowledge Her intelligent energy;
imagine how Her love feels;
embrace Her;
participate in Her presence;
consciously align your responses to situations today, no matter how small or large, with the peaceful, confident, constructive nature of this Love.

Check out Mary Baker Eddy's description of divine Love's nearness and power in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (starting at line 5)....

call or email me if I can help,

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com

Spirit-mind-body healing-- Experiencing Positive Energy

2006-08-09T10:24:00.000-04:00

"Spirit-mind-body healing" describes the links of causality in healing the body or the mind through spiritual means. It starts with infinite Spirit, spiritualizing the human mind and emotions, which results in physical healing.

In my practice, I've found that the safest and most comprehensive way to beneficially affect the body is through the mind, through consciousness. But when we're sick, consciousness is full of negative energy like fear, frustration, discouragement, even anger over the injustice of our illness-- qualities that accentuate suffering.

So healing is about a reversal of these negatives through the accession of spiritual energy, which is always positive-- qualities like peace, gratitude, and confidence in our ability to gain increasing control over our own body and experience. You have within you an innate ability to practice these kinds of positive qualities because you are connected to infinite Spirit, divine Love, which is inherently positive. These qualities or feelings of Spirit, entertained in the mind and practiced during the day, act to heal the body and emotions.

In Science and Health with Key to Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes,

"Spirit is positive."
"The body is not controlled scientifically by a negative mind."

(click to see first passage on line 13, then second passage on line 24, in context)

For more than 15 years, I've been fortunate enough to be in the profession of helping people experience positive Spirit more fully, along with the associated health benefits.

I'd love to help you, should you feel a need...

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com
MilesHarbur.com

Don't give up-- Bad Days (even bad weeks & YEARS) Can Bless You!

2006-08-06T12:24:00.000-04:00

Total catastrophe! Every possession lost.

After 25 successful years in business, our life savings, the equity in our house and our three teenage sons' college fund...gone. Even more hurtful, it was a theft-- stolen through a fraudulent investment perpetrated by someone who we thought was a devoted, spiritually-minded friend!

That was six years ago, and, miraculously, our family wasn't destroyed-- although we've been through some tough (really tough) times since then. And we're still recovering.

But working our way emotionally & spiritually through these circumstances, our family has become closer, more authentic, and learned to embrace Spirit's possibilities for healing and restoration.

In recovering, we've become more aware of how much we can help ourselves and others to address life with more positive, appreciative energy. And each of us has embarked on a new career that might never have been discovered if tragic circumstances hadn't sharply forced us to look at our lives and life-purposes differently.

One idea that really helped me get through all this was that it was not a waste of time, that we were all learning emotional and spiritual skills that would turn out to be incredibly valuable. I'm starting to get glimpses that this really is the case. It's like what Mary Baker Eddy wrote in her best-selling book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,

"Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.... Each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love."

(click & look for lines 30 & 14 to see these passage in context)

The very same capacity to experience restoration, renewal and spiritual growth out of tragedy is here for YOU TODAY. This book is loaded with practical ideas for emotional restoration & renewal. Call or email me if I can help...

Miles
561-626-9043
mh@MilesHarbur.com
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More Confidence about Your Health

2006-08-02T10:37:00.000-04:00

When our body (or parts of it) is sick, it can be scary. Maybe you just got a medical diagnosis, or maybe you're thinking about your cells, viruses or organs doing dysfunctional things or deteriorating.

You'll be less afraid if you meditate on the action of divine, infinite Love. Contemplate this Love knowing you, specifically, right now. Open your thoughts and emotions to feeling this Love embracing you. Let its inherent harmony re-order your mind. Acknowledge that this process is also harmonizing your biology.

Try this now.

Here's how Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures describes what you just did:

"Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew." (click & look at line # 23-26)

Let me know if I can help,

Miles
mh@MilesHarbur.com
MilesHarbur.com

Something to Try for Pain

2006-07-31T12:40:00.000-04:00

We're taught that pain comes from nerves, but what instructs the nerves to send this message?

It has to do with the mind. Our mind is holding perspectives about our situation, including whether it is threatening, unfair or painful. The brain sends these messages to nerves chemically and electrically.

So if you're feeling pain, why not work on changing your perspective? Why not overrule the blah blah blah of the brain, and send out better/less painful instuctions to the nerves?

Last week, pain woke me up in the middle of the night. It was the most intense nausea I've experienced in decades...maybe food poisoning? I felt like I might pass out.

I've been thinking a lot about the kind of instructions my mind is giving my body, so it came to me really quickly to change this debiliting instruction of nausea. I reached out to the spiritual power I call divine Love for these better instructions.

My thinking kind of went like this: "I know you're issuing instructions that are consistent with your nature...of kindness, peace and active harmony." Then for a few moments, I made mental efforts to reproduce these kinds of instructions in my consciousness, to really embrace a sense that Love was issuing these better instructions NOW.

I fell back asleep in a few minutes, and the next morning I woke up feeling pretty good.

I got the idea to do this from the author Mary Baker Eddy. In her book, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, she writes,

" When one's false belief is corrected, Truth sends a report of health over the body."

Give it a try! It certainly won't make you feel any worse. And you'll find that it gets easier with practice.

Miles
mh@MilesHarbur.com

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