From: seove@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (ERIC OVERTON)
Subject: A Morning Meditation
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Date: 21 Aug 1992 10:26 EDT  

A MORNING MEDITATION

"EVERY MORNING IS A FRESH BEGINNING.  Everyday is a world made
new."

Today is a new day.  Today is my world made new.  I have lived
all of my life up to this moment, to come to this day.  This
moment-- this day-- is as good as any moment in all eternity.  I
shall make of this day-- each moment of this day-- a heaven on
this earth.  This is my day of opportunity.

This morning the power of Life (which is the only power there is)
pours through me in an unlimited way.  My mind and my body are
thoroughly cleansed and I thrill to the possible experiences
which lies before me today.  I am thankful for all my experiences
of the past which have taught me how to successfully meet each
situation as it comes.

I am thankful for all my GOD-given equipment which helps me to
meet today, and I shall use it well.

I am blessed with a perfect body.  It is dependable.  Every
organ, every cell of this body has its function and is directed
by an inner intelligence into perfect action.  This body is a
fine piece of equipment and its energy and skill will do whatever
is required of it, this day.  It responds to all my needs.  I
have absolute confidence in this body.  It is made of the eternal
energy of Life.

My mind is a fine piece of equipment.  Since my mind is the my
use of the one mind (the mind that knows all, sees all, and
creates all), my mind knows the answer to every problem and knows
that it knows.  Since there is one mind common to all
[individuals], my mind is never weak.  It is the mind that was in
[all great people].  I have all the equipment necessary for me to
successfully meet this day.

This morning I have greater real assets than ever before in my
life so I can move forward today into greater activity than every
before.  I can be and do what I should be and do.

This morning I have more experience to draw upon than ever before
in my life.  I also have more mental strength for I have better
understanding of myself.  For this I am thankful!

Every day I go forward.  Life has great expanses to be explored. 
There is a most interesting road before me to travel.  There is
much to be done; and I do all that lies before me to be done with
efficiency and strength, with courage and enthusiasm.





I know I am in this world to be a wholesome, glorious expression
of Life.  So I ask myself, "What can I do today to make this a
better world?  How can I help someone?  How can I relieve some
pain, suffering or heartache?  How can I best serve Life?"  I,
too, want to say with that great master, "I come that they might
have Life."  That is also my motive-- to serve.  I know when I
serve unselfishly, I am best served. 

How can I do the task before me in a better way than I ever have
done?  How can I make someone happy?  I know when I make someone
happy, my own happiness is intensified.

I now resolve that every person I meet today will be a better
person because I will inspire him to greater hope, faith,
freedom, and happiness.  A new life begins for me today whether I
am twenty, forty, sixty, or eighty.

I will go through this day with courage, with faith, with
enthusiasm. I will carefully examine my thoughts.  I will guard
my mental house so that no negative thoughts find entrance.

My motives are beyond reproach.  My acts are governed by an inner
intelligence and wisdom which knows more about me and my needs
than I consciously know about myself.  "The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.  He leadeth me beside the still waters.  He
restoreth my soul.  He leadeth me in the path of righteousness. 
I will fear no evil.  Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me." 
My inner subconscious mind-- the Lord or Law of my Life-- leads
me into right situations.  It built my body.  It sustains my
physical equipment and directs my affairs.  It thinks through me. 
It directs and guides me.  It created me and sustains me.

I have right ideas.  I have strength.  I fear not; for the Father
of Life-- Nature-- Infinite Mind-- in me doeth the work.

I never fail.  I cannot fail.  I abide under the shadow of the
Almighty so no harm can come to me.  Every moment I am sustained-
- maintained-- directed-- led.  "I can do all things through
[God] which strengtheneth me."  [God] is the Power or Nature or
Life within me.  I depend on this power within me.  I no more can
be separated from it than the wave can be separated from the
ocean or the shaft of sunlight from the sun.

I listen closely to that inner voice of wisdom and I do not make
mistakes.









The Divine Mind within me, called by some "subconscious mind", by
others "God" or "Creative Mind", is my great servant, counselor
and protector.  It is not limited by time or space.  It keeps me
from doing anything which might harm me or harm another person. 
It leads me--guides me--into right action at all times.  It is
the source of all my ideas. It leads me into paths of peace.  It
lets no thoughts of fear, anxiety or worry control me, for all
problems in my world are adjusted by this infinite inner mind.  I
depend on it to digest my food, to keep my heart beating, to keep
my blood circulating and all my body processes functioning.  I
choose to let it direct me to be at the right place at the right
time, to do the right thing and to say the right word.  

My inner mind subconscious mind--the one infinite mind--leads me
safely through this day. As I go forward into this day, I have no
resistance--no resentment--toward any person, any situation.  My
mentality is clear.  I have no hatred, no unforgiveness in my
heart.  I am relaxed and fearless.  I feel no strain.  I feel
only perfect confidence.

This is the day!  The day which great good can come to me.  I
expect it.  I accept it.  I give thanks for it.  I know that all
my loved ones are led, cared for, and sustained by the same
infinite, creative mind.  They are guided, sustained and
protected by the power and the wisdom of the infinite Life which
surrounds them.  They are guided, sustained and protected because
the love of infinite Life is devoted to them.  Today no one or no
thing can hurt them or me.  As I go forth to meet my day, I am
protected from all harm because I know neither fear, hatred nor
resentment.

Faith in Life and love for Life and men is my watchword for
today.  Since I am master of myself today, I am master of every
situation.  There is that within me which is stronger than
anything outside me.  Every step I take this day is in the
direction of more good--greater happiness.  Each step I take
affords me a glorious vision of magnificent achievement.  

I look to this day for it is life--the very Life of Life.  In its
course lie all the realities of existence.  The bliss of growth--
the glory of action--the splendor of beauty.  Yesterday is now a
dream and tomorrow is a vision.  Today well-lived makes every
yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of
hope.

This day is Life's magnificent.gift to me.


                   "The Miracle of Mind Power"   by Dan Custer