Your Right to be Well

The above statement should be declare to yourself every morning because

It is your natural right to be well – sound in health – physically and mentally. He made the world and saw that it was good. He is good, perfect and made us in his own image.

The millions of people who make periodic visits to doctors, mental and spiritual healers have an innate feeling that they have a right to be well. There are some who have succumbed to the feeling that owing to past happenings, or a sense of guilt, they forfeited their right to be well. And there are others who assert that it is the will of God that they should suffer from ill-health; but they are in a minority; most people feel instinctively they should be well. It would not be possible to have this innate feeling unless there was within the being of each one of us, perfect sense of well-being. You have a right to be well because well-being is already within you, it is inherent, and is your birth right.

The human mind requires encouragement, and a belief in the goodness of God’s creation, as a plant needs water. If we accept goodness (health) as the inherent, normal state, then we must accept that all wrongful, hard and hurtful mental attitudes, moods and feelings are implanted features of environmental origin. You have the right to be well, but it is your responsibility to excise that right. You do exercise that right whether you know it or not, because your thought is in control of your experience, and can direct your thinking along whatever lines you choose. As children, we do not exercise our power to choose what we shall think; we are guided and directed by our parents and teachers, sometimes wisely and sometimes unwisely according to the knowledge and understanding of such parent. When we become adult, and to the extent that we mature, we put away childish things, and learn to think for ourselves. It is then that we begin to question the wisdom of much that we have learnt as children, particularly if our experiences are not to our liking, and we are indeed fortunate when we learn that our thought is in control of our experience, and we can direct our thinking. Your mind can heal you because what your mind can fabricate, your mind can liquidate. This is observable as it operates throughout nature; forms are fabricated, and liquidated through decay or change of chemical action. A state of expectancy is a great asset. Then you must understand that the body is built and maintained by law. The law of mind. This law of mind is obedient to conscious direction. It reacts intelligently to intelligent direction. The millions of new cells which are constantly growing within your body immediately take on the atmosphere of the surroundings in which they find themselves. This atmosphere may be considered as wholesome, happy, and optimistic, therefore health; or the opposite – gloomy, anxious, discouraged, apprehensive, and frightened, therefore weak and sickly. This atmosphere is the sum total of the way you are allowing yourself to think and feel. Early to bed and early to rise will not of necessity make a man healthy, wealthy and wise, but an habitual attitude of right thinking will do so. The habit of keeping your mind pin-pointed on the inherent goodness within you.