The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity. Catherine Ponder
to bring in each week. Previously, he had tried thinking in terms of boosted monthly income, but the figures had seemed too large for him to accept mentally. When he brought it down to a weekly level, it seemed easier for his mind to accept the idea of the weekly increase, and so it quickly manifested.
I agree with the writer of the Book of Proverbs when he instructed us, Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck; write them upon the tablet of thy heart; so shalt thou find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and man. (Proverbs 3:3,4) When you are trying to find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man, the writing-out technique is indeed powerful.
Write to Their Angel
If you seek understanding regarding financial matters, it is good to secretly write out notes to those involved, seal those notes and place them in your Bible for the time being. The mystics used to teach that everyone has an “angel” or higher self, and that when we cannot reach that angel in the usual ways, we should secretly write to it. In fact, the mystics even went so far as to describe seven types of people with whom it is easier to deal satisfactorily, by writing their “angel,” than by trying to reason with them in the usual ways.
Perhaps you are thinking, “I am sure that is fine mysticism, but how practical is this angel-writing method?” Well, you should realize that anyone you are having difficulty with, you have not been able to reach in the usual ways. So what have you to lose, by secretly trying to reach them through their higher self or “angel”?
A businessman was having difficulty closing a business matter which had long been pending. Everyone involved was quite congenial and wished to conclude this matter, except one man who kept changing his mind and who seemed quite unsure about everything. This man kept things unsettled. In desperation this businessman decided to try the angel-writing method. It seems that the man giving the trouble was timid, apprehensive, always fearful about something. The businessman secretly wrote out just the opposite: “To the angel of (let us say) John Brown, I bless you and give thanks that you are bringing to a perfect conclusion this business matter, and that all concerned are satisfied and blessed by it.” This businessman wrote out this statement fifteen times, because he had learned that the ancients believed in using the number fifteen to break up and dissolve hard conditions. Within a few days this businessman telephoned me long distance to report that the person causing the difficulty had visited his office and had said, “Come down to my office tomorrow morning and the papers will be ready for signatures. This situation has been delayed too long, and I am anxious to conclude it.” The transaction was quickly completed.
Note-Writing Gets the Bills Paid
Another note-writing technique that is particularly helpful in getting the bills paid is this: When those bills begin to arrive in the mail, instead of silently resenting them, write on the envelopes, I give thanks for your immediate and complete payment. You are immediately and completely paid through the rich avenues of Divine Substance. It is also good, when the bills have already piled up, to make a list of those owed and the amount owing, and beside or beneath each one to write out the same statement concerning their immediate payment. A businessman once brought a file folder full of bills and said, “How can I possibly use the power of prosperous thinking to get these paid? Some of them are several months old.” We then sat for an hour or so, making a list of the amounts owed and to whom, listing first those owed the longest and those which were the most urgent. We then wrote out the above statement about their immediate payment. Since it seemed humanly impossible to pay all these bills immediately, we then made a second list, showing the ones that should be absolutely paid within the next week, along with the statement, I give thanks that you are immediately and completely paid by _________and listed the date a week hence.
Once a week this businessman came with his file folder of bills and we watched them get paid step-by-step. It took about two months to completely bring his financial affairs up-to-date. When he did, it was agreed that he would use this same technique at the first of each month to get current bills paid on time. This method seemed to help him gain control in this thinking about his financial affairs. Once he gained mental dominion, he was able to meet his financial obligations on time.
Woe Unto Them That Write About Their Troubles
It was Isaiah who advised us, Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to writers that write perverseness. (Isaiah 10:1) This surely applies to one’s financial affairs. A man I know was having business difficulties. At the start, they were not too urgent and with a change of attitudes could doubtless have been solved easily. But not realizing this, in his worried state of mind, this man began writing about his difficulties in detail to a number of his friends. As he magnified the difficulty in his mind and in the minds of others, it literally multiplied in his affairs. After he began to apply prosperous thinking to the situation, it took him several months to clear it up. He found it necessary to stop talking about his troubles to others and to stop putting anything negative in writing. When he started reversing the process and secretly writing out how he wished his business affairs to be, his difficulties began to diminish for the first time in months.
In like manner, it is good in the face of adverse appearances to secretly write out each day how you wish your affairs, might be, in contrast to how they appear. Not only does that help your mind to accept the improvement you desire; but it is as though your written out desire goes out into the ethers and is subconsciously tuned in on and everyone concerned begins to cooperate and help. Again, it may seem a mystical method, but if it produces practical, helpful results for you, why not dare to be a modern mystic?
Gain Control of Your Past and Future
It is also good to gain control of the past or future by writing out statements concerning them. I find in counseling people that many are still living in the past and regretting past mistakes; but the backward look keeps you from going forward and making present and future progress. I also realize that many fine people are afraid of the future. In either event, write out how you wish things might have been concerning some past mistake; or how you wish your life to be in the present and in the future. When you write out notes about how you wish past events might have been that have proved disappointing, it seems to take the “sting” out of the memory of those events. I have known of several instances where those involved in past unhappy experiences would write, telephone or appear to say the incident no longer mattered, and that all were forgiven concerning it. In some instances, better relationships than ever were happily reestablished between those who had experienced past bitter grievances and misunderstandings.
In like manner, if there is some future event that seems to threaten you, take control of it in your thinking by making lists concerning the way you wish it to be. If there is a business conference about which you are unsure, write out the names of all involved and write out definite statements of harmony, understanding and perfect results that you desire to see come forth. Since there is no time factor in the mental realm, your mind can project itself into a future experience and can prepare harmony and right results ahead of time, so that everything will move easily, quickly and successfully. The mind is man’s wonderful servant, when he realizes this and trains his mind to work for him.
One of the most successful young executives I have ever met told me that, while he was still in his teens, he wrote out a twelve year plan of progress for himself, which has amazingly manifested itself for him. Although he is still under thirty, he is considered wealthy, and it has been predicted that he will surely become a millionaire within the next ten years.
This Method Is All Powerful!
The creative law of prosperity can be all-powerful for producing success and happiness concerning your past, your present and even your future. There are desires that all of us wish to see come into visible expression and to grow into fine results. Why not begin quietly joining countless others in producing greater good in your life through these creative methods for prosperity? Begin now by first asking yourself just what it is that you honestly desire most in your life. Be specific, be definite, and sincere with yourself. Then write down your dominant desires. Thereafter, declare in privacy,