How Creative Thinking Works

The great exploration which the mind makes into the realm of spiritual healing is as fascinating an experience as anyone will ever have. We must be careful, however, to differentiate between this form of thinking and mere daydreaming. In daydreaming one sits around longing for things, and picturing oneself as having them, but in the very same moment being certain it could never be, letting one’s imagination run wild, soaring into realms of fancy.

Some people have done this and upon being told that they had not proceeded properly, have exclaimed: “But we understood that we could have anything we wished.”

In spiritual mind practice a person does not just “wish’ for things. He consciously uses his thought to set creative Power in motion and then accepts with expectancy the result. He is, in a certain sense, experimenting not with Mind Itself, but with his own thought, in seeing what use he can make of the creative Power of Mind.

This Creativeness we do not inject into Mind; it is already there, a natural Law in the universe.

In spiritual treatment the person thinks of himself as he would like to be. He should do this without contradicting the good of others, without seeking to coerce others. And he should do this in as absolute sense as is possible; that is, he should withdraw from any contemplation of the relative facts in the case and think only of the desired outcome as being established in Mind.

He takes the proposition which his mind can encompass – such as realising that he is surrounded by abundance and by right opportunity – and compels his mind to accept this idea as now being a fact in his everyday experience.

Consequently, his work is intensely practical, and even though he is an idealist, he is scientific in his application of this universal Principle of Mind to the problems of his daily living.

From it’s Up To You! By Ernest Holmes