According to a report from the World Health Organization, the average life expectancy of most people in wealthy nations hovers around the 80 year mark, (86 for women in Japan). So if you subtract 18 years for when we become adults, multiply that by 365 days of the year, we get approximately 25,000 mornings we’ll awaken as an adult.
That’s how many mornings we can expect to wake up, drink the coffee, read the paper, walk the dog and decide what to do next. Most of us will go on doing what we do every morning. And maybe wonder what’s missing?
The Science of Mind teaches that in order to put a new, revitalized spin on our mornings and change our lives, we must first change our thinking. We teach how one first must explore just what our thoughts consist of.
Scientists tell us that we have some 65,000 thoughts a day. That’s a whole lot of thinking. However, 90 percent of those thoughts are the same repetitive ones we had the day before, and the day/weeks before that, and on and on.
Doctor Joe Dispenza, D.C., with a continued study and interest in neuroscience, writes that when we continue to think the same thoughts day in and day out, this leads to making the same choices, which lead to the same behaviors, create the same experiences, produce the same emotions and on and on until we realize nothing’s changed.
The Science of Mind has a method of prayer that can awaken and lead you to a profound awareness of your thoughts and put you in touch with your inner being, higher self, your personal Kingdom of God. We call it Spiritual Mind Treatment. Such prayer points the way to how to change your tired, unconscious thinking process and create a revitalized, balanced life of joy.
Rev. Patricia Ballard is pastor of the Oroville Center for Spiritual Living.