111 Confirmation

Prayer and fasting heals just about anything in a few short days
It's a strange predilection of mankind that we look for confirmation for our aliments. We look to see what happened to everybody else who has experienced similar symptoms to ours, and in doing so, we do ourselves a great disservice. What many people don't realize is that just because somebody else developed a chronic condition after showing similar symptoms to ours doesn't mean that we will do the same.We are all dealing with toxic thoughts, substances, and experiences in our world that may or may not present us with short term aches, pains, bumps, zits, and so forth. It's a part of life nowadays. What we oftentimes forget is that a great many of the things we think we have "wrong" with us are only temporary. They'll go away by themselves in a short time if we leave them alone. Oh sure, sometimes we'll need to adjust our diet or our work habits for awhile, and that is natural.But it's unnatural for us to look too deeply for confirmation for the causes for our aliments. In fact, we put ourselves in harm's way when we delve too deeply, parading every disease imaginable before us, in our quest to find out the cause of an ache or pain. We tend to make things chronic that would have only been temporary. You see people do this all the time. They'll get a new bump somewhere on their body and begin to mull over all the reasons as to how it could possibly have gotten there. They'll check out magazines, talk to friends, and have doctors run test after test as they seach frantically to find out what happened to others who also had similar bumps. In order to validate their own theories (which are growing rapidly now), they'll even resort to looking for coincidences. For example, while walking through a popular coffee shop, they might notice a newspaper sitting on a table with an article in it that describes what happened to a person who had a similar bump - and lo and behold, they treat this as a confirmation for their own condition, and thus make it worse.Fortunately, there are a couple of good antidotes for the toxicity in our world today. First, we can always remind ourself that we are creating whatever we put our attention on, and that when we dig too deeply in search of explanations for our aches and pains, we run the risk of bringing other possibilities into the picture that have nothing to do with our original situation. Instead, we can tell ourself that we are fine and that we do not choose to use our body to act out any sickness scenarios. According to the Law, as we envision ourselves being happy, healthy, and whole, that is what we will create.And second, we can trust that whatever is bothering us is only temporary and will go away on it's own very soon. The shamans and medicine men of old knew that prayer and fasting healed almost everything in a few days. It could be that instead of spending our precious energy in search of confirmation for what ails us, we could stop eating or begin a Master Cleanse, retire into a quiet place where we can be alone for awhile, and ask God to help us. Please understand that we are not saying there is anything wrong with going to a medical practitioner. If you believe that a doctor will help you, then, by all means, that is the route for you to follow. Likewise, if you have a broken bone or need a cut stitched up, then doctors are the experts and can be of great help. But when it comes to diagnosing sicknesses, it's a guessing game and we are still in the medical dark ages. It's easy to come out of a hospital or doctor's office nowadays feeling worse than when you went in. On the other hand, if you can bring yourself to believe in it, you have a just as good or better chance of getting rid of your health challenges through prayer and fasting than by all the remedies prescribed by the credentialed medical establishment. That's a universal fact.
My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am purifying my body every-so-often through prayer and fasting.

~The Intenders Bridge~