The effectiveness of an affirmation is determined largely
by your understanding of the truth and the meaning back
of the words, “In praying use not vain repetition.” Therefore, the
your affirmation lies in the intelligent application of power
definite and specific positives. For example, a boy adds three
and three and puts down seven on the blackboard. The teacher
affirms with mathematical certainty that three and three are
six; therefore, the boy changes his figures accordingly. The
teacher’s statement did not make three and three equal six
because the latter was already a mathematical truth. The
mathematical truth caused the boy to rearrange the figures on
the blackboard. It is abnormal to be sick; it is normal to be
healthy. Health is the truth of your being. When you affirm
health, harmony, and peace for yourself or another, and when
you realize these are universal principles of your own being,
rearrange the negative patterns of your subconscious
mind based on your faith and understanding of that which
The result of the affirmative process of prayer depends
on your conforming to the principles of life, regardless of
appearances. Consider for a moment that there is a principle
of mathematics and none of error; there is a principle of truth
but none of dishonesty.
There is a principle of intelligence but none of ignorance;
there is a principle of harmony and none of disco.. There
sa principle of health but none of disease, and there is a
principle of abundance but none of poverty.
The affirmative method was chosen by the author for use
on his sister who was to be operated on for the removal of
gallstones in a hospital in England. The condition described
was based on the diagnosis of hospital tests and the usual
X-ray procedures.
She asked me to pray for her. We were separated
geographically about 6,500 miles, but there is no time or space
in the mind principle. Infinite mind or intelligence is present in its entirety at every point simultaneously. I withdrew all
thought from the contemplation of symptoms and from the
corporeal personality altogether. I affirmed as follows: “This
prayer is for my sister Catherine. She is relaxed and at peace,
poised, balanced, serene, and calm. The healing intelligence
of her subconscious mind, which created her body, is now
transforming every cell, nerve, tissue, muscle, and bone of her
being according to the perfect pattern of all organs lodged in
her subconscious mind. Silently, quietly, all distorted thought
patterns in her subconscious mind are removed and dissolved,
and the vitality, wholeness, and beauty of the life principle are
made manifest in every atom of her being. She is now open and
receptive to the healing currents, which are flowing through
her like a river, restoring her to perfect health, harmony, and
peace. All distortions and ugly images are now washed away by
the infinite ocean of love and peace flowing through her, and
it is so.”
I affirmed the above several times a day, and at the end
of two weeks my sister had an examination, which showed a
remarkable healing, and the X-ray proved negative.
To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this
attitude of mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the
contrary, you will receive an answer to your prayer. Your
thought can only affirm, for even if you deny something, you
are actually affirming the presence of what you deny.
Repeating an affirmation, knowing what you are saying
and why you are saying it, leads the mind to that state of
consciousness where it accepts that which you state as
true. Keep on affirming the truths of life until you get the
subconscious reaction, which satisfies.