Why Spiritual Treatment Works

There is a great simplicity to spiritual mind treatment. It involves an atmosphere of feeling, followed by words definitely formulated with a conviction that they are acted upon and fulfilled by Law for the person or purpose with which they are identified, and that what is implied in the words will transpire in the experience of the person or situation being treated.

We need to keep in mind the fact that in a spiritual mind treatment we do not send out any thought nor indulge in concentration. If we believe we are living in a spiritual Universe everything is everywhere present at all times, so there would be no place to send anything or to concentrate. This is a position similar to that which physics has taken, stating that the universe is a unity and there are no fragments. The laws of the universe are present and instantly available wherever one is. This would mean that there would always be an action of Law on what one thinks.

All the great thinkers of the ages have known this. Another way of stating the idea is that God is everywhere, and all of God is wherever God is. What God knows, God knows everywhere. It is for this reason that we can say we do not need to send out any thoughts, or concentrate anything. Who can concentrate the principles of harmony or beauty? They can only be used.

Spiritual mind treatment needs to start out with the premise, and belief, that there is but One Life, that Life is God, and that Life is perfect and is the life of the person being treated. We need to recognise that there is a Divine pattern of the person’s being behind him, or he would not be here at all. None of us make ourselves; we can only experience our being as an expression of that invisible Source of all being. So the person is in reality a spiritual being and there is a pattern of Perfection for his existence. Regardless of any outward appearance, within him nestles the seed of perfection.

Source: Ernest Holmes (Science of Mind Magazine - Feb 1989)