EFFECTS OF MENTAL STRESS We are mental creatures, and our life is in our mind. Our happiness depends upon our state of mind. Our physical conditions exhibit our frame of mind, and we can progress in life and create a proper destiny only as we cultivate the thinking which is common to the Mind of the Creator.
Mind is positive and negative. Mortal mind is negativeundeveloped. The Supreme Mind is positive-developed in wisdom.
Whatever thoughts we listen to or speak, or whatever thoughts we allow to remain in our minds, will bear fruit. Condemnation, envy, prejudice, and all the thoughts and words of mortal mind, are negative. They are nothing and lead to nothing, which is dissolution. The words of truth will gain the mastery over all the beliefs and expressions of error, for these are negative conditions which the positive thoughts of truth overcome.
Beliefs of sin, sickness and death are also negative. We can free ourselves from these thoughts by denial of them, and we can place our minds in unity with the positive pole of life and peace by the affirmation of truth. We are one with the almighty 19
