Category: The Power Of Mantras

I’ve always believed that all of us have the potential to become one with God, but it’s our ego that’s often causes us to become separate instead and feeling alone because of it. I’ve worked hard to utilize the power of affirmations and mantras in the hopes to correct that and there is one that I feel has impacted that greatly. I discovered it late last year in one of my many devotional readings and been reciting it each day ever since. I wanted to share it with all of you, as I feel it has had a positive impact upon my spiritual journey towards oneness with Source. And it’s my hope that it becomes one you utilize as well on your own spiritual paths in life.

Here is the daily affirmation:

“There is one life, that life is God, that life is my life now. Every organ, action, and function of my physical body is in harmony with the divine Life. There is perfect assimilation, perfect circulation, and perfect elimination. If there is anything in me that does not belong, it is removed. If there is anything my physical being needs that it does not appear to have, it is supplied. My body is daily renewed after that image of perfection of it which is held in the mind of God. I affirm, then, that my body is the body of God; the life of the Spirit does circulate through it, the Law of the Spirit does govern it, the love of the Spirit does sustain it. My whole life is God in action.”

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

People often tell me that prayer and affirmations are dumb and that they won’t ever heal me. To many the notion of praying and affirming oneself well seems impossible or outright ludicrous. Myrtle Fillmore, a cofounder of Unity, believed otherwise.

As a child, Myrtle was constantly sick, suffering from tuberculosis. After attending a New Thought lecture in 1886, she came away with one statement that became the catalyst to changing her life. She began to say that statement every day after that lecture. It became an affirmation of her life, a repetitive prayer of sorts. And as she continued to say it daily, she maintained a faith that she could be healed. She stopped looking to a God that was only outside of herself and began to believe that God, the all-powerful Healer, was already within her, in every part of her mind, heart, and body. She also did her best to remain optimistic, getting the rest she needed, taking care of her body as best as she could, and blessing it for all the wonderful work it was accomplishing. Eventually she became completely free of a disease that originally was most likely going to be a death sentence for her.

I too believe in the power of God within me and I have been on a similar path that Myrtle once was on, of self-healing for some time now. There are days though where I want to give up, but I don’t. Because I’m determined. And I do my best like Myrtle Fillmore once did, to keep the faith through all the pain and suffering, and continue to believe that the Grace and Power of God within me will eventually heal me. For years I have used prayer, affirmations, gratitude, and meditation, along with some healthy living to foster an environment within me that I believe God is using to help heal me from the inside out.

After reading about Myrtle’s life, I was most definitely inspired to share a small bit about her story and the declaration that started it all for her. That declaration is a very powerful affirmation and one I am using now in my own prayers to help me keep trusting and believing, and to not give up before the miracle finally happens. Because it will.

“I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.”

I hope you may find inspiration in Myrtle Fillmore’s story, as well as in her healing statement, as I most assuredly already have…

Blessings.

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

In the past few months, I’ve had to deal with reoccurring styes in my right eye that I’ve determined are related to the difficult healing process I’ve been going through. Being a sound believer in the mind-body connection, I looked up in Louise Hay’s book, “You Can Heal Your Life,” what styes signify. Ironically, it totally made sense after reading it.

In Hay’s book, the probable cause of a stye is when someone has been “looking at life through angry eyes” and oh, how I can absolutely identify with that. Given the amount of pain and suffering I’ve had to endure for many years now, I definitely have found myself quite a bit lately being filled with anger. Angry with God, angry with my partner, angry with sponsees, angry with the way the world is, angry at far too many things really. While most of that anger hasn’t been expressed externally, because I’ve seen the damage my anger expressed outward has caused too many times, it’s remained repressed within me instead. But, when a second round of having a stye in my right eye occurred not too long after the first went away, and my upper eyelid became pretty swollen, I felt there was something I wasn’t paying attention to. That’s precisely when I looked up in Hay’s book and identified one probable cause of a stye.

This is a one of the main reasons why I like the “You Can Heal Your Life” book so much because not only does it list the probable cause of an ailment, it also lists a mantra that can be used to create a new thought pattern. In this case, the mantra given was perfect and one I’ve been regularly saying throughout my day now. It indeed has been helping me, as I’ve felt far less angry and far more accepting of many of the unfortunate circumstances of life I’m currently dealing with.

The affirmation in the book is as follows:

“I choose to see everyone and everything with joy and love.”

In the past bunch of months where my physical ailments have been so extremely challenging to deal with, I haven’t been seeing much of anyone or anything with joy and love. So, I began saying this mantra and started noticing a shift in my thoughts pretty quickly and decided to slightly alter the affirmation to encompass my specific spiritual journey.

Here’s how I say it now:

“I choose to see everyone and everything with absolute joy and unconditional love, including myself and all my health and healing.”

And there you have it. A very powerful affirmation that I’ve been saying quite frequently these days and benefitting from it. So, whether you have a stye or not, maybe you might find some benefit from this mantra as well…

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson