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THROUGH CREATIVE
THINKING
By Shirley Bell Hastings
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THE PROCESS
THOUGHT IS A FORCE.
THINKING IS THE PROCESS OF THOUGHT-
FORCE IN ACTION.
A DYNAMO IS A GENERATOR OF FORCE.
IT MUST BE STARTED
BEFORE IT CAN SEND OUT ITS FORCE,
CURRENT OR STREAM.
THOUGHT IS YOUR DYNAMO.
START IT.
LESSON I
THE START
"Father we come into Thy Presence."
You are seeking truth. As you find truth, practice
that truth; live with that truth; carry that truth into
all your experience; carry that truth through all your
day; make that truth live with you; live it all.
You have an equipment within you with which
you can create what you will. You are divine in your
nature. Realize that. Think of it! You can create
what you will. As part of your equipment you have a
mind. And more wonderful still, you have the free
use of a universal force to carry on and bring to a
complete finish that which the mind pictures, images,
thinks, decrees, and lives with.
You are by nature and by inheritance a free soul,
not bound but free. Withdraw into the chamber of
your mind (Lesson 6) . Close the doors for the time
being by closing the eyes, ears, touch, taste, smell.
Be relaxed in body. Now think, think, think, think—
1 am a creative being.
I create by thinking an idea, at the same time know
ing that I am connected with a universal force which
carries out to fulfillment the idea Iam thinking.
That makes me free for I can think what I wish to
think.
/. ": isicknest. It
pays to think happiness instead of misery
for1 the thought one thinks must react upon the
thinker. Keep the life, the mind, the being open, to
the highest ideas; then only the highest can come to
you.
You need not be poor if you can entertain a higher
idea than poverty. You need not be deaf if you can
entertain a higher idea than deafness. It is difficult to
raise the thinking to a higher idea, you say. Yes, it is.
If, however, you will deliberately and persistently
come back again and again to the higher idea, you
will find the thinking being raised to the higher idea
and you will find that idea taking its place in your life.
You are truly a free soul for you can have anything
you want if you want it hard enough to think it; if
you want it hard enough to frequently come back to
that idea, to live that idea, think that idea, keep the
picture of that idea in your mind. You work hard
over things you do not want. Why not put as much
energy into the idea you do want, always remember
ing to want the good.
Experiment for a few days. Think "there is a force
for me to use." Think it often. Think it until it gets
to be a habit of thinking with you. You are in trouble
perhaps, suffering physically, mentally, or both. Try
thinking yourself out. Think —
There universal force for me to use.
is a
YOUR BODY
WE ARE THINKING BEINGS ! 7 AM A THINKING BEING!
YOU ARE A THINKING BEING !
Through your thinking you create for there is a
force, a mighty universal force, wise and loving,
everywhere present, within and without. This uni
versal force runs according to your thinking and
produces the outer visible forms of your thinking.
This force flows toward good or evil as you think. If
you reverse your thinking, you reverse the flow of the
force. You are creative then, for as you think so
you become.
You are permitted to think anything you will.
You, of all created beings, have the power of choice.
You need only think what you allow yourself to
think. If you object to an idea, you can refuse to
think that idea. Then that idea and that thing can
not be created in your world.
The body is a part of your wonderful equipment.
The body is the temple, the Holy Temple. The think
ing being lives in this Holy Temple — the body. Every
it,
it,
is
good health.
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Your Body 15
I am a creative being.
I createby thinking ideas and at the same time
knowing that there is a Force at my disposal which is
universal, wise, and loving in its nature.
I choose my ideas and think them.
The Force brings them forth.
I can create as much as I can think.
* * *
LESSON IV
CONDITIONS
In This Lesson we are to Consider Conditions.
is he." Let
us wake up to this law. Let us think of
things as we want them to be, not as they are.
Resolve now to do your own thinking. Be the
divine thinker of your own thoughts. No one else
must do your thinking for you. No one else must
splash his ideas all over you, all over your mind, for
you to work out. If someone is making you unhappy,
start a different trend (your own trend) of thinking.
Go within your chamber of mind as frequently as
necessary and know that no one has the power to
make you unhappy unless you accept the idea and
permit it to take root in you. "No weapon that is
formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue
that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt
condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the
Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord."
(Isa. 54:17.) Think happiness and happiness will
come to you. You are the way to your own happi
ness. You can think the happy idea and soon you
will find happiness about you. The Force is the Great
Servant. It works out the ideas we give to it.
You need no longer be bound to lack if you will
live with the idea of plenty. You need no longer be
deaf if you will live with the idea of hearing.
Take the Lord's Prayer, write it down, study it.
Then think over this translation:
"Our Force that is within us, holy and sacred is
Thy nature.
Come forth and do for us on the outer as we are
thinking.
Give to us now all that we need for this demonstra
tion.
Give for our ignorance thy bright wisdom.
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As we give for the lack we find in others.
Let us not be led into the temptation of wrongly
using You.
Deliver us from imperfection.
Thine is the power and to Thee be the thanks for
ever.
Amen."
Withdraw into the closet of mind; close out the
outer; speak to the Force, the Father, the Source, the
Principle, the Cause of all things.
Study a subject if you would understand it. Prac
tice what you have studied that you may use the
knowledge you have acquired. Reading about the
automobile will not make you an automobile expert.
Study the automobile, and then if you do not use the
knowledge it can do you no good.
"As I give, so do I receive" is a universal law. Give
the idea to the Force. Make knowledge yours by
it,
I
LESSON V
THE PRESENCE
You have within you a mighty kingdom (area, state)
of mind. You have it within you and by moving
into this kingdom, into mind, you find it filled
with tremendous force which seems to work with
your idea and bring it into manifestation. To put
it in another way, there is a great divine activity
within you which runs according to your thinking,
according to your ideas. You are a part of this activ
it,
ity, this force. You are one with unified with it.
This activity or force the creator of all things,
is
—
erang we are judged. So we must judge with love
and wisdom. We must be just in our judgments, see
all things in their right relations. We find that love —
love in the highest sense —love or good will, the
is
is,
one
one with all the peace there one with all
is,
is,
there
one with all the plenty there
is,
is,
there
The Lord's Prayer, and think from different point
it
a
of view.
Practice this prayer. Practice in your everyday
it
it
as
is
a
goal in mind. You get your response according to
your earnestness.
Think this thought through the busy day —
God-force in the midst mighty, in the midst
me
of of
is
of
is
PRACTICE
This is a lesson on practice. Practice makes per
fect. Remember that!
First exercise: Practice looking inward. Withdraw
into the closet of mind. Shut the doors of sight,
sound, touch, taste, smell. When you enter this closet,
when you get in there, know this — "I AM." Think
about yourself something like this —
* * *
LESSON VII
it
it
grows. Look deep within the idea and picture the
Force busy building, busy attracting all it needs, busy
repelling all that might injure the growth.
Know that the Force residing in your idea always,
is
it
pleted.
As you meditate, fill your heart with love. Love
the Force which everywhere present about and
is
within you and within the image, the idea. Love the
idea or image itself. This love which you feel while
meditating upon the idea frees you and the idea and
permeates every part of you and of your idea.
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As you quietly come forth from meditating in your
closet you keep confidently remembering the living,
growing, powerful idea within you. When you find
it in visible form before you, silently give thanks to
the Force within it which brought it forth.
Actually get down to the practice of meditation.
Do not just read about it. Do not put it off. Take
time out and prove the value of this lesson.
LESSON VIII
GIVING A TREATMENT
The object of these lessons is to enable you to solve
your problems. There is a mighty Force ready to
bring you security if you will move even part way to
meet it. Your own mental attitude of doubt or fear
causes all the insecurity you feel. Change that atti
tude. How? Think these thoughts —
1 am a creative being.
I create by thinking ideas.
My ideas are brought forth by the wise and loving
Force.
I create as high as 1 can think.
My equipment consists of mind-force with my ideas
and feeling.
It is wise for me to love much while I am creating.
Practice makes perfect.
I will myself to practice meditation, to image the
idea I
wish to bring forth.
1 practice going into my closet of mind and closing
the door.
I practice living with the idea I wish to bring forth.
the
mind chamber, then imagine yourself gathering
Force which moving into your mind chamber from
is
force into the whole body or into any part of it. You
can project into purse, bank account, group, situ
it
it
shall
accomplish that which please, and shall prosper in
it
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