to believe that we possess the good we desire even though we do not see any possible way for it to happen. This also can be reduced to a simple method. We can say, “I do accept this good. I do believe my prayer is answered. I do affirm the presence of love, friendship, happiness, prosperity, health, peace – whatever the need may be – and nothing in me denies, rejects, or refutes it. I do accept it.”

After we have done this for a while, there will come a gradual acceptance of our affirmation. We will learn that as the subjective reactions of our thought build up an affirmative attitude, things will begin to change in our environment. It may take a little time, but we now have courage, knowing that we are dealing with a definite Principle and that it cannot fail.

Sometimes when we try to reverse our whole thought process, we find it a little difficult, for the old negative thought patterns come to the surface and deny us the right to think affirmatively, the right to use this great, silent, invisible, creative Power for definite purposes.

Sometimes when a negative thought arises, if we say, “It isn’t so. You have no power; you have no reality; you have no existence,” that particular negation will instantly dissolve. Or we may try another method and instead of denying its existence, affirm the opposite. Then we will find the negation gradually disappearing. By experimenting, we can discover how to meet the denials of life and gradually convert them into great affirmations.

This should never be done with any sense of morbidity or struggle, or in any sense that we are fighting an opposing force, but rather, with a calm, peaceful, inward assurance, because we know what we are doing and why; we understand how the Law of Mind works; we know how to use It, and we are, perhaps for the first time, applying It for definite purposes. We are experimenting, but we are experimenting with the fundamental Law of our own being, the Law, which we believe finally, governs everything in our life. So we are doing something not only worthwhile, but something