Law Of Substitution And Prayer

How do we manifest consistent clarity in our thinking when clearly, we have no control over the thoughts that float up into our consciousness? Since there is no practical way of shutting down the flow of our thoughts, our course of action is upon immediate recognition of a negative thought is to supplant it with the positive. Think of it this way, if you decide not to think about elephants, you are in fact thinking about elephants, the subconscious then proceeds to remind you of elephants at every turn. The subconscious mind processes "think" (the action) and "elephant" (the subject) as the desired demonstration. Remember the last time a song or annoying jingle stuck in your mind? Try as we might every attempt to “not think about it" fails, it finally fading away when we became interested in something else, our attention diverted, the Law of Substitution in action.

Applying this to prayer, one of the eternal questions is why some prayers seemingly go unheard, yet we are promised that if “we knock, it will be answered, ask and we shall receive.” Now we have the key. Thought being causative (remember the jingle) if we pray but continue to place our interest, focus, on our lack, pain, discord, illness, the jingle etc. is it any surprise then when these things manifest in our life? When we pray with joy, keeping our focus, our interest on what we really want, we reap the positive. Simply put, any prayer that begins “I need” or “I want” only reinforces the sense of need or lack, not the hoped-for solution. We begin to own this lesson when we start “to think from the end”, to imagine what we will feel like (assiduously avoiding outlining the solution) when the prayer is answered and hold to that feeling. Then when negativity tries to worm its way back in, and it will for such is the nature of fear; reinvigorate the positive feeling, expunging the negative immediately with the positive mental equivalent, like replacing that annoying jingle by substituting a tune you love, not fighting the negative, but replacing it with the positive demonstration we desire.


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