A primary method for gaining a mind full of peace is to practice emptying the mind. It is recommended at least twice a day, more often if neccessary. Practice emptying your mind of fears, hates, insecurites, regrets, and guilt feelings. The mere that you consciously make this effort to empty your mind tends to give relief.

Always filled your mind with creative and healthy thoughts. Then when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading Occupied. They struggle for admission, for having live in your mind for a long time, they feel at home there. But the new and healthy thoughts which you taken in will now be stronger and better fortified, and therefore able to repulse them. Presently the old thoughts will give up altogether and leave you alone. You will permanently enjoy a mind full of peace.

Another healing word is Serenity. Picturize serenity as you say it. Repeat it slowly and in the mood of which the word is a symbol. Words such as these have a healing potency when used in this manner.

Another effective technique is the daily practice of Silence. To obtain this you must devote yourself at least a quarter of a Silence or go to a place that has a full of Quite place.

God is the source of all energy - energy in the universe, atomic energy, electrical energy and spiritual energy. Indeed every form of energy derives from the creator. The Bible emphasizes this point when it says, He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might hr increaseth strength. (Isaiah 40:29)

In another statement the Bible describes the energizing and re-energizing process ...in him we live (that is have vitality), and move (have dynamic energy), and have our being (attain completeness). (Acts 17:28)

The body is designed to produced all needed energy over an amazingly period of time. If the individual takes reasonable care of his body from his standpoint of proper diet, exercise, sleep, no physical abuse, the body will produce and maintain astonishing energy and sustain itself in good health. If he gives similar attention to a well balanced emotional life, energy will be conserved. But if he allows energy to leaks caused by hereditary or self-imposed emotional reaction of a debilitating nature, he will be lacking vital force. The natural state of the individual when body, mind, and spirit work harmoniously is that of a continuous replacement of necessary energy.

To accomplish this, relax physically. Then conceive of your mind as likewise relaxing. Follow this mentally by visualizing the soul as becoming quiescent. Then pray as follows: Dear God, you are the source of all energy. You are the source of the energy in the sun, in the atom, in all flesh, in the bloostream, in the mind. I hereby draw energy from you as from an illimitable source. Then practice believing that you receive the energy.

When you pray do not be like hypocrites. They love to stand up and pray in the house of worship and on the street corners, so that everyone will see them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full. But when you pray, go to your own room, closed the door, and pray to your father, who is unseen. And your father, who sees what you do in private will reward you. (Matthew 6:5)

When you pray, do not use a lot of meaningless words, as the pagans do, who think that their god will hear them because their prayers are long. Do not be like them. Your Father knows already what you need before you ask him.

If you forgive others the wrongs they have done to you, your father in heaven will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your father will not forgive the wrongs that you have done.

The happiness habit is develop by simply practicing happy thinking. Make mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times everyday. If unhappiness thought should enter your mind, immediately stop, conciously eject it, and substitute a happiness thought. Every morning before arising, lie relaxed in bed and deliberately drop happy thoughts in to your concious mind. Let a series of picture passes accross your mind of each happy experience you expect to have during the day. Savor their joy. Such thoughts will help cause events to turn out that way. Do not affirm that things will not go well that way. By merely saying that, you can actually help by making it so. You will draw to yourself every factor, large and small, that will contribute to unhappy conditions.

Tomorrow try this plan instead. When you arise, say out loud three times this one sentence, This is the day which the lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24) Only personalized it and say I will rejoice and be glad in it. Repeat it in a strong, clear voice and with positive tone and emphasis. The statement, of course, is from the Bible and it is a good cure for unhappiness. If you repeat it that one sentence three times and meditate on the meaning of the words you will change the character of the day by starting off with a happiness psychology.

The word Fume is to boil up, to blow off, to emit vapor, to be agitated, to be distraught, to seethe. The word Fret is equally descriptive. It is a reminiscent of a sick child in the night, a petulant half cry, half-whine. It ceases, only to begin again. It has an irritating, annoying, penetrating quality. To fret is a childish term, but it describes the emotional reaction of many adults.

The Bible advice us to Fret not thyself... (Psalm 37:1) This is sound advice for the people of our time. We need to stop Fumming and Fretting and get peaceful if we are to have power to to live effectively. And how do we go about doing so?

A first step is to reduce your pace or at least the tempo of your pace. We do not realized how accelerated the rate of our lives has become, or the speed at which we are driving ourselves. Many people are destroying their physical bodies by this pace, but what is even more tragic, they are tearing their minds and souls to shred as well. It is possible for a person to live a quiet existence physically and yet maintain a high tempo emotionally. Even an invalid can live at too high a pace from that standpoint. The character of our thoughts determines pace. When the mind goes rushing on pell-mell from one feverish attitude to another it becomes feverish and the result is a state bordering on petulance. The pace of modern life must be reduce if we are not to suffer profoundly from its debilitating over-stimulation and super-excitement. This over-stimulation produces toxic poisons in the body and creates emotional illness. it produces fatigue and sense of frustration so that we fume or fret about every thing from our personal troubles to the state of the nation and the world. If the effect of this emotional disquiet is so pronounce physically, what must its effect be on that deep inner essence of the personality Known as the soul?

It is impossible to have peace of soul if the pace is so feverishly accelerated. God would not go that fast. he will not endeavor to keep up with you. He says in effect, Go ahead if you must with this foolish pace and when you are sworn out I will offer my healing. But I can make your life so rich if you will slow down now and live and move and have your being in me. God moves imperturbably, slowly and with perfect organization. The only wise rate at which to live is Gods rate. God get things done and they are done right and he does them with out hurry. He neither fumes nor frets. He is peaceful and therefore efficient. This same peace is offered to us - Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you ... (John 14:27)

The most powerful force in human nature is the spiritual power technique taught in the bible. Very astutely the Bible emphasizes the method by which a person can make something of himself. Faith, belief, positive-thinking, faith in God, faith in other people, faith in youself, faith in life. This is the essence of the technique that it teaches. if thou canst believe, it says all things are possible to him that believeth. (Mark 9:23) If ye have faith ... nothing shall be impossible unto you. (Matthew 17:20) According to your faith be it unto you. (Matthew 9:29) Believe - believe so it drives home the truth that faith moves mountain.

To learn to believe is of primary importance. It is the basic factor of succeding in any undertaking. When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you. But if you expect the worst, you released from your mind, the power of repulsion which tends to force the best from you.

So the formula is to know want you want, test it to see if it is a right thing, change yourself in such a manner that it will naturally come to you, and always have faith. With the creative force of belief you stimulate the particle gathering together of circumstances which brings your cherish wish to pass.

If you are thinking thoughts of defeat (Negative), I urge you to rid yourself of such thoughts, for as you think defeat you tend to get it. Adopt the I don not believe in defeat attitude.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Practice emptying your mind daily. This should be done preferably before retiring at night to avoid the retention by the conciousness of worries while you sleep. During sleep, thoughts tends to seek more deeply into the sub-concious. The last five minutes going to sleep are extraordinary importance, for in that brief period the mind is most receptiveto suggestion. It tends to absorb the last ideas that are entertained in waking conciousness.

This process of mind drainage is important in overcoming worry, for fear thoughts, unless drained off, can clog the mind, and impede the flow of mental and spiritual power. But such thought can be emptied from the mind and will not accumulate if they are eliminated daily. To drain them, utilize a process of creative imagination. Conceive of yourself as actually emptying your mind of all anxiety and fear. Picture all worry thoughts as flowing out as you would let water flow from a basin by removing a stopper. Repeat the following affirmation during this visualization: With Gods help I am now emptying my mind of all anxiety, all fear, all sense of insecurity. Repeat this slowly five times, then add, I believe that my mind is now emptied of all anxiety, all fear, all sense of insecurity. Repeat that statement five times, meanwhile holding a mental picture of your mind is being emptied of these concepts. Then thank God for thus freeing you from fear.

Christianity teaches that in all the difficulties, problems, and circumstances of this life God is closed by. We can talk to him, leanupon him, get help from him, and have the inestimable benefits from his interest, support and help. Practically everybody believes in a general that this is true, and many have experienced the reality of this faith.

In getting correct solutions to your problem, however, it is a necessery to go step further than believing this, for one must actually practice the idea of presence. Practice believing that God is as real and actual as your wife, or your business partner, or your closest friend. Practice talking matters over with him, believe that he hears and gives thought of your problem. Assume that he impresses upon your mind through conciousness the proper idea and insights necessary to solve your problems. Definitely believe that in these solution there will be no error, but that you will be guided to actions according to truth which results in right outcomes.

Throughout the Bible the truth is empahasized again and again that If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ... nothing shall be imposible unto you. (Matthew 17:20) The Bible means this absolutely, factually, competely, and literally. It is not an illusion, it is not a fantasy, It is not an illustration, nor a symbol, nor a metaphor, but the absolute fact - Faith, even as a grain of mustard seed, will solve your problems, any of your problems, all your problems, if you believe it and practice it according to your faith, be it unto you. Matthew (9:29) The requirement is faith, and directly in proportion to the faith that you have and use will you get results. Little faith gives you little results, medium faith gives you medium results, great faith gives you great results. But in the generosity ol Almighty God, if you have only the faith symbolized by grain of mustard seed, it will do amazing things in solving your problems.

In all of the investigation I have made into a succesful cases of healing, there seem to be certain factors present. First, a complete willingness to surrender oneself into the hands of God. Second, a complete letting go of all errors such as sin in any form and a desired to be cleansed in the soul. Third, belief and faith in a combined therapy of medical science in harmony with the healing power of God. Fourth, a sincere willingness to accept Gods answer, whatever it may be, and no irritation or bitterness against his will. Fifth, a substantial, unquestioning faith that God can heal.

The formula consist of three parts. First, during the first stages, when absolute rest was demanded, I heeded the admonition of the Psalmist, Be still and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10) That is to say, he completely relaxed and rested in the hands of God. Second, as the day grew brighter, I used the affirmation, Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. (Psalm 27:14) The patient put his heart under the care of God and God place his hand of healing upon his heart and renewed it. Third, finally with the return of strength came a new assurance and confidence to which I gave expression in the affirmation, I can do all things thriugh Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippian 4:13) In this he affirmed positively that strength was being conferred upon him and in so doing he re ceived new Power.

It has been said that thoughts are things, that they actually possess dynamic power. Judged by the power they exercise one can readily accept such an appraisal. You can actually think yourself into or out of situations. You can make yourself ill with your thoughts and by the same token you can make yourself well by the use of a different and healing type of thought. Think one way and you attract the conditions which that type of thinking which indicates. Think another way and you can create an entirely different set of conditions. Conditions are created by thoughts far more powerfully than conditions creates thoughts.

Think positively, for example, and set in motion positive forces which bring positive resuslts to pass. Positive thoughts create around yourself an atmosphere propitious to the development of positive outcomes. On the contrary, think negative thoughts and you create around yourself an atmosphere propitious to the development of negative results.

To your circumstances, first start thinking differently, Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Hold that picture, develop it firmly in all details, believe in it, pray about it, work at it, and you can actualize it according to the mental image emphasized in your positive thinking.

This is one of the greatest laws in the universe. Ferverently do I wish I had discovered it as very young man. It dawned upon me much later in life and I have found it to be one of the greatest if not my greatest discovery, outside my relationship to God. And in a deep sense this law is a factor in one relationship with God because it channels Gods power into personality.

This great law briefly and simply stated is that it you think in negative terms you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms you will achieve positive results. That is the simple fact which is at the basis of an astonishing law of prosperity and success. In three words: Believe and succeed. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive them. (Matthew 21:22)

One of the simplest method for reducing tension is to practice easy-does-it attitude. Do everything more slowly, less hectically, and without pressure.

The secret is to keep the mind quiet, avoiding all hectic reactions of haste, and to practice peaceful thinking. The essence of the art is to keep the tempo down; to perform your responsibilities on the basis of the most efficient conservation of energy. It is advisable to adopt one or two workable plans through the use of which you can become expert in the practice of relaxed and easy power.

To become relax follow these three point formula. First, collapse physically. Let go every muscle in the body. Inhaling tends to relax, and exhaling contracts the muscle. A sharp exhaling helps increased power and controlled breathing also trains the body. Second, drain the mind. Several times each day drain the mind of all irritations, all resentment, disappointments, frustration, and annoyance. Third, think spiritually. It means to turn the mind at regular intervals to God. At least three times a day. This keeps you in tune with Gods harmony. It refills you with peace.

Now relax. Take three deep breaths-in and out slowly. Practice resting yourself in God. Practice depending upon him for his support and power. Belive he is giving it to you now and don not get out of touch with that power. Yield yourself to it-let it flow through you.

To draw upon that higher power is to learn to take positive, optimistic attituted toward every problem. In direct proportion to the intensity of the faith which you muster will you receive power to meet your situation.