A G R E E . W I T H . Y O U R . A D V E R S A R Y

“How? They’re only thoughts. Watch them on the screen of your mind.

When the mind is jittery and jumpy and fearful it can think of a million and one things just now. What of it? If you can’t overcome your thought in your mind when you know that’s all that it is, you’ve got to stay there till you do coz you’re not ready for the bigger.

Now suppose you could watch that thought on the screen of your mind – till one of you loses: the thought or you – till you conquer it, till you overcome it, until the thought subsides and says “I give up!” That’s wrestling with your adversary and that’s also agreeing with your adversary. You’re not reacting to the point that you run out and do something. You’re staring it down. You’re looking straight at it with no resistance. You’re even determined that it’s going to bless you.

Finally you find that you have the power. It might take longer than you had wanted to devote to it but you have the power to overcome the thought; and once you do you feel that great vacuum within, and you know “I have won! The thought is dead!” It might come back tomorrow or an hour from now but right now you know “I have won!” I’m in a silence [what I was striving for before the intruding thought came]; the prize is too big to lose.

The prize is so great that we’re told to sell all that we have just to attain the recognition of our own Soul. Now we are lifted beyond human limit. We can know understand how a Jesus can bring real food – that’s real food – to fill a need. How? that’s Soul power!”

So spake Herb Fitch in 1967 in his ‘Rising from Sense’ seminar.

You can actually have a lot of fun staring down those reoccurring thoughts and explaining to them: “You don’t even have the right to plant unwanted feelings in my gut. You wanna know why? I’ll tell you why. For starters I don’t have a gut coz I’m not a mortal being. Secondly, you’re just a thought and I am my own Soul. So nothing further needs to be said. Try talking to my Soul. Good luck with that – you’ll need it.”

Can you imagine your immortal Soul being pushed around by an intriguing thought or feeling?

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