HOW TO KEEP YOURSELF WELL

You would think that a discussion on how to keep yourself well would be a complex one. Actually, it's a simple one, because nothing is simpler than staying well. I say it's simple; I didn't say that it's easy.

It's easy only to the degree that you follow the simplest of precepts.

Let me share with you a healing I experienced some years ago. On that occasion, I was reading, for the first time, Conversations with God. The healing was not the first I had experienced using prayer and my understanding of God, my relationship to Him, and the nature of disease.

I had been in an automobile accident, and, as a result, experienced severe pain alone the left side of my body, from my neck down my left arm. The pain endured throughout the day, and interfered with my sleep, as I would often wake up in pain during the night, and found it difficult to find a position in which to sleep.

While reading CwG (Conversations with God), I asked God why I wasn't able to heal my condition. I knew what I needed to do to affect a healing, but I wasn't getting very far.

We must have dialoged for a while before I realized that I was talking to Him. What is to follow is what I remember of the discussion to the best of ability.

God asked me: "Do you know what the secret place of the Most High is?" I realized that the "secret place" was a term used in one of the passages from the Bible that had long resonated with me, and was one of my favorites, Psalm 91.

I told Him that I didn't. He said, "It is love."

I said something to the effect, "It doesn't say so in the passage."

He said, "Read it again." I retrieved my Bible thinking, I don't remember any such passage, God has to be wrong here. I found the Psalm that had been referenced, and read the following:

Psalm 91
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night ; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the
wicked.
9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in
trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my
salvation.

Foolish me. Of course it was there! When I read that line, to set my love upon God, I immediately reached out to Him with love, and as I did so, the pain, that had been my constant companion for over a month, disappeared. And, for the first time that night, I slept without pain, and without interruption to my sleep.

You can't imagine the intensity of my joy. I still rejoice for the freedom I found after reading the Psalm.

Here is what the "secret place" will protect you from:

the snare of the fowler
the noisome pestilence
the terror by night
the arrow that flieth by day
the pestilence that walketh in darkness
the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Here are some of its assurances:

no evil befall thee
neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder
the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

All of this and more shall be yours just by doing this one simple thing: set your love upon God; dwell in the "secret place."

Jesus cites the law of protection this way, as he answers a lawyer who is seeking to tempt him with the question:

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Book
Matthew, Chapter 22, Verse 36-40)

As an additional bonus, you get the following:

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew
him my salvation. (Italics is mine)

Your prayers, then, stand a greater chance of being manifested, if you have love towards God and your neighbor, than if your heart is bereft of love.

Obviously, dwelling in love is the key. And this is where the going gets tough. We'd rather indulge many other states of mind (worry, hatred, fear) than dwell in a state of love. Of course it doesn't have to be a big hatred, it can be a little one, such as prejudice, dislike, contempt.

It doesn't have to be a big fear, it can be a little one, such as concerns about failing, getting sick, having an accident, or not making the grade in some other way.

With a mind always on love, expressing it, thinking it, meditating it, practicing it, you don't have to worry about the "deadly" three negative states of mind.

IN SUMMATION

Now you have it. You may build on the foundation I've set here if you choose. But none of this will bear fruit without effort. The more the effort the greater the fruit.

You will find, as I have found, that not everyone wishes to be awaken. Some are comfortable in the Matrix. The movie speaks some truths about the physical, visual, deception that we're generating and are accepting as real. Sprit is operating around a physical overlay. The overlay is not real, and would cease to be without Spirit.

Some have had the courage to look behind the Matrix, behind the scaffolding of material existence.

Although it appears that our world is physical, we live within a mental universe. And we profoundly impact that world with our thoughts and beliefs, on both the individual and universal level.

Everything in this world has conditioned us to accept ourselves as physical, to believe the lie. It's the greatest of illusions. We've had a lifetime of conditioning that affirms our identity as being physical and material. Yet, if we've never been physical, then we're spiritual beings. As spiritual beings, we can't be imperfect, not even as (so it seems) beings in physical bodies.

If you would be a consistent healer, this must be the premise you accept as your truth.

The more we dwell within the absolute, the more the world of relativity will reveal what it truly is: an illusion. When we dwell in love, we dwell in God, the Absolute.