To have success in practicing spiritual life help, to see results and experience fruitage (as Joel Goldsmith would say), you will need to work with your mind. Specifically you will need to bring your thinking under control and direct it rather than letting it go off in whatever direction it chooses and drag you along. This might be referred to as establishing dominion over the mind. The mind is like the body: a tool for use while we seem to inhabit the world. Tools are ours to use as it benefits us but we have to take control over them, consciously, to make them work in our best interests. If we don’t take control over the mind and its capacity to think, it can act like a power lawn mower running at full throttle without anyone to steer it — it can become quite destructive.
In previous writings I discussed how emotional disturbances like depression and anxiety are thinking based: thoughts that express negative sentiments come into awareness, are accepted as the truth, and trigger emotional disturbances. These disturbances are given specific names, depression or anxiety or rage or whatever else, but they are triggered by thinking and more specifically automatic thinking, which is to say thinking that comes into awareness without conscious effort.
This was an excerpt from The Life Help Journal article: Why doesn’t God answer prayers? This is a membership article, with excerpt preview for non members. Access the article Here.
