Faith from the Science of Being Well

Only faith can allow you to connect yourself to health, and break your association with illness, in your thoughts.

To avoid illness, you must have confidence in your health. Without faith, you will question; with doubt, you will dread; and with fear, you will connect yourself to what you fear.

Fear illness, and your thoughts will take on the forms and patterns of disease. Your mind-body, which is original material, adopts the shape and action of anything you think about. You will be connected to illness if you fear it, dread it, have concerns about your protection from it, or simply consider it.

Here, allow me to elaborate. Creative force is provided to thoughts by the trust that resides in them.

Faithless thoughts produce empty shapes.

The Formless Substance, who knows all truth, trusts all that it thinks, since it only thinks truth. So, whatever it thinks causes.

However, if you think of a Formless Substance with no faith, you will realize that it could not force that Substance to move or acquire shape.

Make note of the fact that faith-based ideas alone have creative energy. Only ideas with confidence in them may alter function, or rekindle the Principle of Health and vigor.

If you lack confidence in health, you’ll have faith in illness. It will have no effect if you don’t have confidence in your health. If you lack confidence in your health, think about it for ten hours a day, and then fear it for just a few minutes, your fears will take control of your situation, because your fear is much more powerful than your faith. Your health idea will not have sufficient dynamic power to alter shape or motion.

To develop the Science of Being Well, you must trust in your health.

Confidence starts with belief. What are you believing in order to have faith in your health?

Consider the data and you can’t stop thinking that there is more health-power than disease-power. All facts:

The Thinking Substance pervades, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the cosmos in its original condition.

Forms are produced by thoughts, and motions are implemented by thoughts. Original Substance’s ideas are constantly of perfect health and flawless functionality. This substance, throughout the human body, exerts its influence toward wellness.

Man is a thinking and thinking-capable focus. His physical body is defined by the faith of his mind-body. If man thinks with confidence in the operation of health, he will execute internal activities in a healthy way, while exercising control over the exterior functions. If man thinks with faith of illness, or of the force of disease, his internal functioning will imitate disease.

We are experiencing Original Intelligent Substance. It is exerting pressure on us from all sides. He exists in a boundless ocean of health and strength; he then utilizes that power as he sees fit. If he unites himself with it by unflinching trust, he cannot fail to achieve health, because the power of this Substance is all the power there is.

Believing these things is essential to trust in health. If you believe them, you think that health is the inherent condition of man, and that everyone is living in Universal Health; that all the force of nature promotes health, and that everyone may get it. You will think that illness has no power in the cosmos; in reality, health has ten thousand times more power. And if you think that health is within your grasp, and that you know what to do to get it, you will have confidence in health. Read this book with attention, and make a decision to believe in and follow its lessons.

Faith without the personal application of faith doesn’t have much of an effect. First, you must establish health, and then create a conception of it. By faith, you must then declare that you are really achieving this idea.

Do not claim you are going to become better; you are already well.

To have confidence in your own health involves first believing that you are healthy.

be mentally healthy, and don’t say or do anything that contradicts that You should avoid speaking if you don’t accord with the claim: “I am completely healthy.” Always walk with your chest puffed out and your head held high; make sure that your physical movements and attitudes always express those of a healthy person. When you relapse into a condition of illness or weakness, change immediately. Look up. Visualize health and strength. refuse to see oneself as unhealthy

The practice of thankfulness will help you to better apply your beliefs.

When you think of yourself or your situation, offer gratitude to the Great Intelligent Substance for your perfect health.

Keep in mind that as Swedenborg taught, everything receives life from the Supreme, and in the same way, it is received by man via his faith. Lift your thoughts up to God and offer gratitude that you have been brought to the Truth and into full health of mind and body. Always have a thankful state of mind and make appreciation apparent in your words.

Your gratitude will help you dominate your area of thinking.

Whenever you consider illness, assert and thank God for your good health. In order to avoid having an undesirable idea enter your head, do this. Any idea linked in any way to illness is undesirable, and you may block its entry by firmly believing that you are well and expressing your gratitude to God. The old ideas will resurface shortly.

Gratitude has dual benefits: It increases your faith, and it helps you connect with the Almighty. You think that one Intelligent Substance gives life and all power to everything, and you feel grateful to It. It is clear that the closer you are to the Life Force, the more easily you may absorb life from it. Our connection with God must thus be a mental relation, because we are both mind and spirit. In other words, when we experience appreciation, we are in closer contact with God than when we never express thanks. To be ungrateful or unthankful is to break one’s link with the Supreme. The thankful mind is constantly gazing towards the Supreme, and is always ready to giving to it.

Man connects himself to the Principle of Life by trust in health, and by appreciation for the health he gets.

The will may be used to develop both faith and appreciation.