THE MENTAL EQUIVALENT

Emmet Fox coined the term “Mental Equivalent” over 80 years ago. It addresses the Law of Substitution in a practical sense. Simply, we take responsibility for the thoughts we dwell upon for we have learned that whatever we entertain in our minds eye will find outsourcing in our lives. The teaching found in the popular The Secret is based on this truth. We place the order for what appears in our lives by our habitual thinking. If we focus on lack, failure, unhappiness and ill health than these things are attracted to us just as surely as a moth is drawn to flame, bringing to bear the Law of Attraction. Does this mean we adopt a Polly Anna attitude and just ignore the conditions around us, fiddle while Rome burns, wishing for the best? Of course not. The Mental Equivalent teaches us to focus on what we desire in life, forcing out the negative and destructive thoughts that lurk to hold us back. Living on the Spiritual Basis we practice the Presence of God in all our activities, we train ourselves to see His presence in everything and everyone, rejecting the negative, for we now hold the ultimate truth of existence in our heart: we are eternal beings and the conditions we face today merely opportunities to demonstrate His omnipotence. We are stewards of this flesh, but we are not this flesh, we existed long before it was born and will continue long after it has returned to that from which it came, putting today‘s conditions in their proper perspective.

To be clear: having been broke and having had money, having money is better. Having enjoyed good health and lived with poor, good is preferable (how’s that for understatement). Peace in the family always preferable to conflict. What we have is a new basis for living, the basis of trusting and relying on God, in so doing our vision clears, our consciousness raised and we meet the inevitable challenges of daily living in the secular world with a sense of serenity that comes from having turned our will and lives over to the care of a Power Greater than Ourselves, who has all knowledge and power. Shalom Alechem (Peace to You).