Treat Yourself to Life: Understanding the Power of Spiritual Mind Treatment
by Raymond Charles Barker
Raymond Charles Barker, a leader in the New Thought spiritual movement, teaches how to improve all areas of your life by means of a technique known as Mind Treatment.
This little book was one of the classic texts in my mom’s library (I actually still have her original copy with a purple cover). It is the precursor to what many call the Law of Attrraction. It explains how, through spiritual mind treatment, you can deliberately impress the subconscious with a creative idea so that it can manifest. Dr. Barker opened the First Church of Religious Science in New York City in 1946, was President of the International New Thought Alliance and a well-known minister, author and teacher. As he explains:
A power is in you right at this instant waiting to be released into the creative action which is your natural birthright, whether it is in your own health, your relations with other people, or your own work.
Dr. Barker puts forth that the book is not written to give you faith. It is written to show you how to translate your faith into right subconscious action, to produce the results you want. Your results will be determined by your ability to let go of the past, to realize the greatness of the moment, and to accept for yourself increased good in the future. Your future is self-determined.
A Spiritual Mind Treatment is using your conscious mind to select what you want, and direct your subconscious mind to bring this into objective experience.
He explains the difference between prayer, meditation and treatment. According to Dr. Barker, prayer is an action on the part of man reaching out to a God in order to get something; it indicates petition. Meditation is the act of absorbing an idea into consciousness. As you meditate upon an idea you absorb it into the structure of your thought, and it becomes you. Meditation is a quiet, relaxed absorption of ideas. The difference between meditation and treatment is absorption. In prayer you beg for an idea. In meditation you absorb an idea. In treatment you project an idea.
Treatment is the synchronization of the individual with the universal mind. It is the blending of the individual with the universal, so that the individual merely becomes the vehicle through which the universal acts and the individual can direct that action to a given end. A treatment is nothing more or less than a directive action of the subconscious mind. The moment will power enters in, it is no longer a spiritual treatment. Dr. Barker explains:
In spiritual treatment, I realize that I am in a power which is already in action, and which I merely let happen through me. I clear my thought regarding a situation in order to let my good happen, because I am not treating conditions, I am treating consciousness.
If you start with the premise that the creative power of the infinite mind is already waiting to flow through you, then everything is possible if you choose and direct your subconscious mind.
FAVORATE INSIGHTS
“This reciprocal action between your patterns of thought and feeling, and the universal life has determined every experience which you have ever had, are having or will ever have.” (p. 3)
“The greatest sages, saints and messiahs had minds no greater and no finer than yours. Only, they knew how to use them. They knew how to keep their minds directed to creative ends.” (p. 4)
“Your mind determines your experience. Your thinking and feeling nature is the cause of your experience.” (p. 4)
“Your results will be determined by your ability to let go of the past, to realize the greatness of the moment, and to accept for yourself increased good in the future. Your future is self-determined.” (p. 4)
“You can have only four basic problems, health, wealth, love and self-expression.” (p. 5)
“In prayer you beg for an idea. In meditation you absorb an idea. In treatment you project an idea.” (p. 9)
“I clear my thought regarding a situation in order to let my good happen, because I am not treating conditions, I am treating consciousness.” (p. 11)
“You are a conscious thinker in a subconscious atmosphere… What you clearly think takes form because it is the nature of the subconscious to project form.” (p. 13)
“Life is heaven or hell, according to your viewpoint of it. Your viewpoint of it is conditioned by your mental awareness of it.” (p. 13)
“The entire action of the universe is a mental action… Whatever concept your accept, whatever ideas you accept, these will determine your experience in the world.” (p. 17)
“Life is not a struggle… it is a cooperative process.” (p. 20)
“Cease the endless contemplations of where you are and start contemplating where you want to go.” (p. 21)
“Since God’s mind is everywhere evenly present, it is in you and it is in you as a potential. It is in you as an intelligence which you can release and thereby change your world.” (p. 21)
“Prosperity is a pattern; it is a habit.” (p. 22)
“If you are able today to do everything you want to do today, and can do it in the way you want to do it, you are prosperous.” (p. 24)
“Anything you love increases and anything you criticize moves out of your life. The first step toward prosperity… is to love money.” (p. 28)
“When the barometer on your bank account goes down, it is merely an indication that it will go up again; if you remain open to the idea of money.” (p. 29)
“The law of prosperity is banded on the perpetual circulation of God’s ideas in the infinite mind. A great circuclation of creative thought is pouring into your consciousness now and appearing in your world as cash.” (p. 33)
“Love is the power which draws ideas together and maintains them in right relationship… The law of love, this cohesive law, can draw together only that which is similar.” (p. 41)
“There is only one mind, the creative mind of this universe. There is only one law of its action, and it is acceptance and belief. You are in the midst of a power which is saying to you, ‘Use me, direct me, express me. I am ready. Are you?'” (p. 58)
“Your consciousness, your thinking-feeling process of life, is what you are. You did not create it, nor can you stop it. You are it. Consciousness is something which you cannot create; you cannot destroy; you can only direct.” (p. 71)
“Every instant that you watch your thought, deny the negative out of your mind, and think of the positive, you have permanently improved your consciousness.” (p. 90)
“The only obstacle to treating yourself to life at this instant is your own thought, and fear is the greatest obstacle to your mental growth. Replace it with faith through consistent treating and you will become what you wish to be.” (p. 106)
“You were created to be an individual expressing yourself.” (p. 113)
“There is something in you which your worry can never destroy, but which your faith, your vision and your belief can affirm and thus make you the person you are going to be.” (p. 116)
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