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dissipates every
adverse thought. My body is the pure and Holy Temple of the Living
God, and every organ and every function is now in Divine Order and
Harmony."

All the organs of my body are functioning normally and I am well,
whole and complete.
All is mind, all is God, all is universal energy. I am part of creative
force and I am health, abundance, joy and peace.
I am filled, I am thrilled with Life Eternal and I radiate that life within
to me and without to all.
Every experience of my life has been for my good and I am happy in
living.
God is Spirit. I (use your own name) am life. Life Spirit is now flowing
through me freely and I am well, whole and complete.
"Be still and know that I am God."
USE THE FOLLOWING AS A BASIS FOR YOUR MEDITATION
AS YOU DEMONSTRATE HEALTH. OF COURSE, YOU MAY
USE OTHER THOUGHTS PROVIDED THEY ARE
CONSTRUCTIVE HEALTH THOUGHTS.
You may practice the Silence sitting, reclining, or in bed.
There is no better way to learn how to relax than by going into the
Silence. Are you tense? Let go. Relax.
Then direct the mind to go from one part of the body to another. Take a
deep breath between each change of your consciousness. Be sure to use
the diaphragmatic or abdominal breathing--breathing through the
nostrils, mouth closed until the muscles of the abdomen expand.
The best time to hold the Silence is as you retire at night, and just as
you awaken in the morning.[2] But you should hold your thought at
least three times a day, without stress or strain, without doubt or worry,
passive in mind and body--perfectly relaxed.
Hold the Silence or thought upon retiring at night, awakening in the
morning, and at noon day. Of course, you may take any other time that

is convenient. You may concentrate on the roadway, street car, home or
office, but it is well, if possible, to have one room for your Silence.
Most people in that way will build up stronger vibrations. At noon now
there are all over the world thousands of others holding Silence so that
there is a great combined mental force working together at one time for
success, health, prosperity and happiness, and we therefore get the
benefit of this great vibration.
The more often you hold the Silence without stress or strain, as a rule,
the quicker may be the demonstration.
The real part of me is Spirit, not matter. I believe that this body of mine
is a Tabernacle for the Spirit. The real "I am" within me is therefore
Spirit. The real "me" is Spirit.
This Spirit is the God Spirit. This is what Jesus meant when in the
fourteenth chapter of John and again in the seventeenth chapter of the
same Gospel, speaking to His Disciples He referred to "I in you, you in
Me and We in God."
My Spirit is a part of the God Spirit. God is health, God is perfection,
God is abundance, God is harmonious. Therefore, the real "I am" is
God; the real "I am" is health, perfection, abundance and harmony.
When I am sick I know that it is the material of me that is sick, not the
God Spirit; it is my physical being which is out of harmony, it is this
Tabernacle of which Paul speaks, housing my spirit, which gives me
pain and suffering. The real "me" is not sick, it is my body.
For centuries we have held to a wrong idea of life. We have thought
that life is material; but life is spiritual, it is the invisible within me
which is eternal, which is God. Many still believe that life is material
and matter, instead of mind and spirit. I no longer hold that conception.
I believe that all is mind and Spirit.
Just here is where the healing methods of drugs and the scientist's
explanation of life is so limited. Not until we recognize that life is
really a thing of spirit--not matter but mind--not material but

spiritual--do we come into an understanding of Truth.
Jesus said, "God is Spirit," and on different occasions told His
Disciples that this Spirit was within them as well as within Himself.
Therefore, this same Spirit is within me and this same Spirit is the God
Spirit of health, abundance, happiness, harmony and perfection.
God is all health, all abundance, all harmony, peace and perfection.
Therefore the God Spirit within me is the same. I am sick in body; not
in mind, not in Spirit.
Inasmuch as I cannot conceive of God being sick neither can I conceive
of my Spirit being sick. My spirit is health, perfection and harmony.
My body may not be well,