How Habits Are Acquired and Treated ~ Ernest Holmes
"What is a habit? A habit is desire objectified - "the continuous character of one's thoughts and feelings" - desire for something that will give satisfaction. At the root of all habit is one basic thing: the desire to express life. There is an urge to express in all people, and this urge, operating through the channels of Creative Mind, looses energy into action, and compels the individual to do something. Back of all this desire is the impulse of Spirit to express. In man, this impulse must express at the level of his consciousness.
Some express themselves constructively and some destructively. Suppose a man who has the liquor habit comes to you to be healed. You would not treat that habit. You would not pray for the man to be healed. You would know that you are dealing with a man who has the desire to express life and who, for the moment, thinks he must express it in terms of intoxication. He once thought this expressed reality to him. He now knows that it does not, but he cannot with mere will-power stop it, for the habit appears to have taken complete possession of him. (We might well remember always that unless we control thought, it will control us.)
In giving treatment, first recognize who and what this man is, saying something like this: "This man is the full and complete expression of Truth, and as such he is free from any sense of limitation. He is not bound by any sense of inferiority, which he needs to cover up, for he is a unique individuality, expressing all the attributes of God. He is free from any delusion or fear of delusion. He knows that the Spirit of Truth within him is complete and always satisfied. He has no longing outside of the longing to express his own divinity, and he has the assurance that he shall be able to gratify this: 'Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness (right living) for they shall be filled.' This thing which calls itself the liquor habit has no power over him and cannot operate through him. By the power of this word which I am now speaking, this habit is completely destroyed and forever obliterated." Then mentally see him free and harmoniously expressing life and happiness."
"What is a habit? A habit is desire objectified - "the continuous character of one's thoughts and feelings" - desire for something that will give satisfaction. At the root of all habit is one basic thing: the desire to express life. There is an urge to express in all people, and this urge, operating through the channels of Creative Mind, looses energy into action, and compels the individual to do something. Back of all this desire is the impulse of Spirit to express. In man, this impulse must express at the level of his consciousness.
"For each, for the joy of working and each in his separate star,
Shall paint the thing as he sees It, for the God of things as they are."
Some express themselves constructively and some destructively. Suppose a man who has the liquor habit comes to you to be healed. You would not treat that habit. You would not pray for the man to be healed. You would know that you are dealing with a man who has the desire to express life and who, for the moment, thinks he must express it in terms of intoxication. He once thought this expressed reality to him. He now knows that it does not, but he cannot with mere will-power stop it, for the habit appears to have taken complete possession of him. (We might well remember always that unless we control thought, it will control us.)
In giving treatment, first recognize who and what this man is, saying something like this: "This man is the full and complete expression of Truth, and as such he is free from any sense of limitation. He is not bound by any sense of inferiority, which he needs to cover up, for he is a unique individuality, expressing all the attributes of God. He is free from any delusion or fear of delusion. He knows that the Spirit of Truth within him is complete and always satisfied. He has no longing outside of the longing to express his own divinity, and he has the assurance that he shall be able to gratify this: 'Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness (right living) for they shall be filled.' This thing which calls itself the liquor habit has no power over him and cannot operate through him. By the power of this word which I am now speaking, this habit is completely destroyed and forever obliterated." Then mentally see him free and harmoniously expressing life and happiness."
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