How Your Mind Can Keep You Well
By Margaret Langry

There once was a little girl named Margaret. She had an incredible imagination. She was a Starfleet captain, exploring incredible new worlds and mingling with aliens. She excavated in Africa with Mary Leakey discovering our earliest human ancestors.
Margaret was bold and spoke her mind. She was smart and could do anything. She was also a very sensitive girl. If you stepped on her backpack she’d experience its pain and cry. She took everything very seriously because she felt things so deeply. Sometimes she’d pick up on other peoples’ thought forms and act them out, thinking that they were her own.
Margaret’s parents loved her but they also had four unruly teenagers and they demanded a lot of their attention. There were so many things she wanted to do but was often told, “No, you can’t do that,” meaning, “You don’t have permission because we have no time.” However, she heard it so often she understood “You aren’t capable of doing that.”
As she grew older, Margaret became very angry and frustrated and she developed a rebellious and stubborn attitude. It was an incredible burden. She blamed everyone else for her unhappiness and her problems. She didn’t understand why other people had such an easy time in life, getting what they wanted without effort. She had to work her fingers down to bone to get by but still never quite got what she wanted. She was so angry with God for sticking her with such a miserable life. Margaret didn’t understand that God had given her everything she had ever asked for. Huh? How can that be? God gave her all these trials and tribulations because she had asked for them?
Why would any right-minded person ask for pain and misery? No one thinking “right” would ever ask for that. The thoughts, beliefs and ideas we entertain are what we’re going to manifest in life. When we speak we send a vibration through our bodies. Our bodies are 80% liquid so that vibration passes through very easily. Since the body is so plastic and pliable it forms itself according to what we are commanding it to do.
Why does that happen? Things go haywire when we begin thinking that we are separate from God. He’s the Source and a very generous giver. Everything we say is a prayer for or against ourselves. Every time we say, “I am …” we invoke God, creating that consciousness for ourselves. How often have I said to myself, “I’m fed up with… (or tired, frustrated, angry, etc)”? Each time I invoke that thought I fill myself up with whatever’s bugging me, and God sends more opportunities to experience it. The body can be tired or experience frustration or anger, but the infinite spirit cannot.
Study the works of Jesus and other spiritual teachers like Rev. William H. Duby, Mark Reymont, Catherine Ponder, Napoleon Hill (author of Think and Grow Rich) or Claude Bristol (the author of the Magic of Believing). They illustrate that everything begins with the thoughts we hold in mind. We can think ourselves rich or poor, sick or healthy. It’s all up to you and what thinking you choose to entertain. However you choose, you have to take responsibility for it. Remember, God is a hilarious giver and whatever you request He’s ready to give.
Rev. Bill said healing starts when we tune into who we really are, that infinite spirit of life. How do we tune in? How can we start that process and break the chains of old habits and negative thinking? Start by making the decision to grow and unfold.
Two of the most powerful life changing words that Rev. Bill spoke to me were “What if?” Each and every time I didn’t think I could do something or someone else didn’t believe me capable I thought to myself, “Well, what if?” I wanted to quit a job I had had for 10 years and start my own business but I was afraid. No one in my family had ever owned their own business. I didn’t believe I had what it would take. I asked myself, “What if I quit my job, what would happen?” All the possibilities loomed before me. But as I kept asking “What if?,” and applying the tools and techniques I had learned at the Spiritual Rights Foundation, I broke through all the thoughts that kept me limiting my potential for growth, unfoldment and prosperity. I jumped off the bandwagon of negativity and complaining. I tuned into that incredible potential that the universe had to offer and began manifesting my true goals, such as owning my own business.
Recently I’ve been imaging myself totally healthy and at the weight I want to be. I’ve been picturing how that would feel, what kind of activities I’d be doing, how I’d look in my favorite jeans. People have been coming up to me asking if I’ve lost weight. By imaging and feeling that I’m healthy and slim, my body is matching that vibration.
God has created this incredibly abundant universe. It’s a candy store with all our favorite treats. All we have to do is step through the threshold and choose. It’s all there for us to enjoy if we’re ready to receive.