CREATIVITY - PART 2

So why doesn’t it always happen? I’m sure there were times when you had the idea, you felt the emotion, and still it didn’t happen. What was wrong? Why didn’t it work as a formula?

There are a lot of possible reasons. Maybe the idea was unclear. Did you ever have an idea that was fuzzy, like it was something you thought you wanted but you hadn’t ever really thought about what you would do if you had one? Would you like to own a yacht? Could you afford the repairs on a yacht? The docking fees? Would you really take time out to sail it? Would you go broke buying gas for a Rolls-Royce? Would you really want to do the housework on a twenty-room home, or pay the maid? Are you ready to become an employer, and handle payrolls and deductions and workman’s compensation?

Many an idea is not ready to form into anything, and so it doesn’t. What happens is your subconscious is smarter that your conscious self – it knows when there isn’t a full-grown idea.

The emotion is another issue. There are really only two basic types of emotions; fear and desire. They cancel each other out. If you have conscious desire but unconscious fear, guess what happens? Nothing happens. If the fear outweighs the desire, you could even move away from your goal.

Until you identify the source of your blockage and deal with it, things may not go your way. Wise people will end up doing prayer treatments for each small roadblock, rather than just one BIG treatment for their great goal in life.

Remember what a prayer treatment is. It is the idea positively stated plus the corresponding emotion. What you are doing is psychologically treating your own mind to enhance belief – to build your faith, in other words.

Religious Science is so named because this is a scientifically sound process. It is a ‘soft’ science in the same way that psychology is a soft science. The results are provable when applied in a statistical manner, but that does not mean it will definitely work for you in a single instance – that would make ours a formula religion, and it isn’t.

When you treat to enhance your belief, to build your faith in what you desire, eventually it will tip some inner scales to provide you with a certainty. Many individual circumstances will combine to allow this to happen. Because prayer is statistically sound, you will build up the odds in you favour. You treat to enhance your belief until it becomes true faith.

When you achieve faith, the emotions that you should look for is joy and gratitude. These are the signs of a completed prayer. But in the gospel of James 2:17, he says “faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.” We have a different saying for this; “Treat (pray), and then move your feet.” The proof of your faith, finally, is in your willingness to take action. You treat to enhance your belief until it turns to faith. Faith is described in the Bible as “The substance of things unseen.” You are giving substance to those things that you have dreamt of.