365 March 25

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Treating for Others

"People frequently ask how they can help others and how their prayer or treatment reaches the other person. The method, the technique, and the approach are no different from that of helping oneself. For when you treat for yourself you affirm the spiritual Truth about yourself, recognizing the activity of Spirit in your life and affairs; when you treat for another, you affirm that same Truth about that person. The same procedure is followed concerning a group of people or a specific situation.

After having made this identification of the person or condition with the activity of God’s Love and Wisdom, your affirmation should contain an idea of the required good or right action. And your denials, if any, should repudiate that which denies this activity. You need never wonder how your thought gets to the other person, because it does not have to go anywhere. Every person is already established in the Universal Mind, whose creative Law must manifest the ideas presented to It. So the whole action takes place in your own consciousness. Your treatment, working through the Law of Mind, produces results according to your faith and conviction.

Today I affirm that every person I meet will be helped, every situation I contact will be harmonized, every activity I am engaged in will be made prosperous and complete. In addition to my specific treatment, the silent affirmation of my whole thought automatically reflects itself wherever I am, whatever I may be doing. Consequently, I know that a blessing rests upon everyone I meet in my experience and goes out to the whole world to benefit all humanity."

Whither can I go from your spirit? Whither can I flee from your presence? —PSALM 139:7”

Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes