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Natural Cold Flu Remedy

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– Rev. John W. Adams –
When the weather turns colder, people often believe that this is their time to experience colds or flu. It is promulgated by the news media. The best thing is to not accept it as a given. When you eat, drink, and think right, you will be healthy and stay well. Like a well-tuned and cared for car, your body is designed to run smoothly and perfectly and will when it is well-tuned and cared for. Sometimes, even with the best of care, our bodies may get out of harmony, and symptoms appear. I offer the following remedy to help restore your body to harmony and well-being.

This cold/flu remedy is very healing, and it works well as a preventative, too.

Hot Ginger Bath and Hot Ginger/Lemon Tea

  • Hot Ginger Bath: Fill a bath tub as full as possible with warm water. (Warmer than usual, but not too hot.) Add 3 heaping tablespoons of ground ginger as the tub is filling. (Optional) Add 1-2 ounces, Olbas Herbal Bath. (Found in health food stores.)
  • Hot Ginger/Lemon Tea: In a large cup or a mug, place 1 teaspoon ground ginger and juice from one lemon. Add boiling water. If you desire sweetener, add one teaspoon raw honey.
  • Soak in the ginger bath for 20-30 minutes. Ginger helps to draw toxins out of the body. Drink the Ginger Tea while soaking.
  • While soaking, listen to gentle, soothing music. As you soak, let this thought run through your mind, over and over: “I relax, let go, and let God. I relax, let go, and let God.” And/or, sing the song mentioned below.
  • After bathing, lie down on a large towel on your bed. Cover up with one or more blankets. Your body will perspire. Go to sleep. When you awaken, you will feel better.

Think, Eat, and Drink Right

I have found this remedy to work rather quickly. As a preventative, it will help to keep your body healthy, if you take a hot ginger bath occasionally, or when symptoms first appear. The best thing is to think, eat, and drink right.

Avoid white refined sugar and sugar substitutes. Raw honey is best. Eat lots of fresh fruits (organically grown are best) and drink plenty of water and natural juices. Avoid carbonated drinks, and heavy, hard-to-digest foods that clog and toxify the digestive system.

Have a good massage from a Certified Massage Therapist. Massage releases toxins from the body and puts the body back into balance and harmony. Chiropractic is healing, too.

As with all dis-eases, colds and flu are not natural to the body. They are the result of angry, condemning thoughts and feelings. Hasten natural healing, or prevent illness by thinking loving, forgiving thoughts about yourself and other people.

Forgive everything and everybody who needs to be forgiven by you, beginning with you. Love and appreciate your body. Tell it how wonderful it is, and thank your body for serving you so well. Practice the Presence of God in your body. This will prolong your life.

Use Positive Healing Prayers such as:

“Through God in me, my body is healthy and well.” “Divine Order is now established and maintained in my mind and body.”

“Health and strength and healing power vibrate through me hour after hour.”
(The latter may be sung to the tune of, “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” Just repeat the words through the song.)

For more enlightenment on health and natural healing, read the articles: “Healing is Always Possible,” “Appetite, Food, and Living” and ”Health is Natural”.

Appetite Food Living

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– Rev. John W. Adams –“
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.” – John 13:17

It’s Your Body. Choose Wisely!

God has given you the ability to discriminate; to choose wisely; to choose those things that your body needs to be healthy, whole and filled with energy. God in you is infinite wisdom and intelligence always guiding you as you let Him in all that you think, feel, say, and do. You have the divine capacity to think rightly about what to eat and to intelligently regulate your appetite; to choose only food that is right for your body. It is wise to listen for and follow that guidance.

Infinite Intelligence in you knows what your body needs. It is in every cell of your body. Listen to your body. It will tell you exactly what it needs in the way of nourishment and exercise. Do not dismiss this as invaluable. Since Infinite Intelligence is in every cell of your body, your whole body is supremely intelligent and knows what it needs for ultimate health and maintenance. It will tell you when you ask and then listen. Pay attention to your body.

A very important thing to remember is that your body is a temple of the living God. His loving, wise spirit lives in every cell and moves through your consciousness at all times. He is the very life of your body – that which makes you intelligently and positively alive. The more you become aware of this, the healthier you are mentally, emotionally, and physically.

It is also important to remember to feed your body with wise and loving thoughts and words. Tell your body often how wonderful it is! Yes, it really is! It is the only one you presently have, so be nice to it!

Speak Kindly to and About Your Body

Never disparage your body in any way, no matter how it may look or seem to be. One time, in my early years, I worked for a short time in the shoe department of a big department store. Mostly women would come in, try on, and buy shoes. One time a lady whose feet were especially out of shape with sores and calluses all over them, said, “I have bad feet.” Silently, I agreed! Little did she realize that she had helped to make them that way by continually thinking of them as bad.

If part of your body doesn’t seem to function or look as you think it should, then bless that part knowing that God’s perfection permeates it, and give thanks for that particular part functioning perfectly now. As you bless it, it will respond and work even better and will take on a healthier, more beautiful appearance. It is an internal organ it will function more harmoniously and perfectly, too.

Feed Your Body With Alive Foods!

Know that God gives you the ability and the wisdom to choose only alive foods – foods that do not have to be slaughtered or to experience violence in order for you to be fed. Infinite Intelligence in you guides you in selecting only alive foods such as fruits, grains, nuts, legumes, and vegetables. All the nutrients your body needs for proper nourishment are abundantly provided through these excellent sources of food.

As you practice this wise and loving way of eating and feeding your body, you are contributing to the peace, love, harmony, health, and prosperity of the world, as well as to yourself.

Eating in this way provides you with all the strength and energy you really need. This is the way of a healthy, happy, vibrant life. It helps you to have the beautiful, strong and healthy body you desire – one that is truly positively alive! This has been my way of life for nearly thirty years, and people often remark at the healthy appearance of my skin and at my level of energy although I have been on the planet for quite a long time.

When some asks me why I am a vegetarian, I often say, “Animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends!” But it is a very spiritual activity that more enables me to know my oneness with all life. It is truly the way of peace and plenty on our planet. But pray for your own guidance and do what is right for you and your body.

No Reason for Your Body to Wear Out

Pray this Positive Prayer for Health:

God gives me the ability to control my appetite, select my food wisely, and choose the way in which I live.

For further enlightenment on healing and healthy living, read these articles, “Healing is Always Possible” and “Rev. John’s Natural Cold/Flu Remedy”.

Healing Is Always Possible

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– Rev. John W. Adams –
“Your faith has made you well.” – Mark 5:34

The Healing Activity of God

The place to start when there is a healing need is to realize that healing is possible, that health is the natural state of your body.

It is wise to begin by thinking of the good health you desire. Rather than focusing your attention upon the health problem, focus your attention fully upon the healing life activity of God within you, and see with your imagination, the healthy condition you desire to experience.

As you turn your thoughts to God’s healing presence within you, you become a center of His healing, renewing, and regenerating activity.

Allow your thinking to move deep within yourself and then relax and let go knowing and feeling God’s loving, healing presence and power within. Accept in faith that God is healing you now. Believe that His healing life activity is very busy in every cell of your body. Give thanks that it is doing its perfect work now.

Sickness Is not God’s Will for You

Inharmonious conditions of the body are the result of thinking and of holding error thoughts. Since thought is creative, refuse to hold error thoughts any longer. Wrong or error thoughts are those in which you believe that sickness is natural, that it may be God’s will for you to suffer, or that since other people experience illness, you are supposed to do that, too. This is simple not true.

No longer believe that any seeming physical condition is real, that it is lasting. Believe that it is now dissolving through the power of God’s mighty healing life-energy permeating you in mind and body. This is true regardless of how serious any apparent healing need may be.

As you do, you activate and release God’s healing life-energy and it does its perfect work. Remember: God wants you to be well, healthy, joyously and radiantly alive. He wants you that way now and is restoring you to perfection now. So do not interrupt the flow of healing energy with doubts and fears.

God Is the One Realty

Sickness is not real, no matter how it may appear. It has no power in and of itself other than what you give it with your thought. God is the one reality and is all power, absolute-good. His healing power is at work in you now. Believe this is so. It is!

Relax deeper into the realization of God’s infinite, healing life. God is your life. That life is perfect. The perfect life of God is healing you right now. As you focus your thought and feeling upon His perfect life in you, it feeds your subconscious mind with positive ideas causing the pure life-energy of God to bathe every cell of your body, cleansing, renewing, regenerating and healing all that needs to be restored to perfection.

Take hold of the life idea with your whole consciousness. Believe that life is real, that health is the natural state of your body, and let go of everything less than this Truth. No longer believe that sickness is something you cannot avoid. Believe that perfection is natural to you and hold to this in your inner-most thoughts and feelings.

Healing Comes Through Peace

Practice being at peace. Feel the peace of God as it pervades your thinking and feeling, and your body as it bathes every cell, nerve, muscle, bone, and organ. Relax and let go. Let go of all tension, stress and strain. In peace you find rest, renewal, and healing. Quietly claim, accept, and give thanks for the peace of God in you now, and for His healing life activity perfecting your entire body now.

Today, rest in the assurance that God, in you, is continuing to heal you, and His perfection is now manifesting in every part of your body. Keep your consciousness centered in His omnipresent life, love, intelligence, and substance. Practice the presence of God in your mind, heart, and body knowing that health and wholeness, aliveness and wellness are natural to you now.

If you are confined to bed, then relax and rest in the conscious realization that right where you are, God is. Accept that His perfect life is active in your mind and body every moment, healing you completely now.

You are God’s Image and Likeness

Give thanks continually for God’s life activity healing you; making you more and more positively alive! Affirm health and perfection as your divine right. Do this especially when a healing need appears to be severe. Remember that God created you in His image and likeness of absolute perfection. Affirm and accept that this is so now. It is!

Believe and accept this Truth deep within your soul and keep on doing so. As you do this, in faith, every moment the great healing life-force that is God, is restoring your body to wholeness. Your faith is making you whole. You are, right now, positively alive!

A Prayer for Healing:

I now relax, let go, and let God’s infinite life activity do its perfect work in my mind and body. I am healthy, whole, complete, and positively alive now!

For further enlightenment on health and healing, read the articles, “Appetite, Food, and Living” and “Rev. John’s Natural Cold/Flu Remedy”.

Healing Your Body

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Health is Natural

– Rev. John W. Adams –

A person actually has to work at it to be unhealthy, but many people do work at being sick through their negative words, wrong thinking, and ignorant, even abusive treatment of their bodies. To be prosperous in health means to feel the vitality and life of God moving through your entire being, making you feel really alive and alert and enthusiastic.

Right thinking is essential to health and wholeness. This means to discipline your thinking so that it is always in harmony with divine law. This requires the speaking of positive, uplifting words which set up a strong, healthy vibration which protects it from anything that might try to destroy it.

Right eating and exercising are very important, but right thinking is of equal or greater importance. Right thinking will guide you to eat the foods that are most beneficial and life-sustaining for your body.

You are a spiritual being; therefore you must comply with spiritual laws and principles. As a spiritual being, you are invincible. You are not prone to disease. If you would know the Truth, your body is always healing itself. It just asks for you to cooperate with the divine life activity always present in your body. There are no incurable diseases. Disease has no substance in and of itself.

Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of Unity, wrote:

“There is no such thing as an incurable ‘disease’ in the body. The activities, weaknesses, and abnormalities to which the medical profession gives names are but the effort of the God-given inner Intelligence to deal with conditions that the individual has produced by his failure to understand the Truth, to recognize himself as a perfect child of God, and to live by the divine law of life.

“Anything which does not measure up to the Christ pattern of perfection can be changed. Anything which the idea of God-Mind, expressing in the mind of man, has not produced can be dissolved into the original nothingness, by the understanding and application of the power of spiritual thought and the resultant spiritual action.”

Myrtle Fillmore goes on to say:

“There is nothing in the cell structure of the so-called cancer that will not respond readily to the radiations of love, life, and substance. The appearance is but the effect of concentrating attention upon negative beliefs and undesirable conditions.”

Today, even the medical profession is saying that disease is primarily caused by wrong thinking, stress, and other mental conditions. Of course, metaphysicians have known this for over a hundred years. And, if we go back to the time of the Great Metaphysician, this understanding has been with us for over 2000 years! Jesus never gave any credence to disease. He knew only one reality: God, Absolute-Good. He always spoke to, and made contact with, the God-perfection in every person who asked for healing.

The apostle Paul said,

“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” He was voicing a powerful Truth that whatever you experience is caused by thinking and you can change it by changing the thoughts you hold in mind.

Now is a good time to use your mind for healing your body, if there is any dis-ease or inharmony in it. Within your body are trillions and trillions of cells which feel your every thought, and hear your every word. That is quite an audience and it is your job to be kind to your audience because it depends on what you feed it through your thoughts, feelings, and words. Also, the food and drink you put into it.

Many years ago, I experienced my own spiritual healing. I was miserable. Medical help was not doing the job for me, so I prayed and began to affirm that the life-giving activity of God was healing my body. It was like a miracle! Within a few days, I was completely healed and there has been no reoccurrence. I know, by my own experience, that the body cooperates with you when you treat it properly.

May Rowland, the former director of Silent Unity, wrote:

“When the body refuses to do its work properly man gets very perplexed with it and resorts to all kinds of remedies that do not get at the cause of the difficulty, and relief is only temporary.

“If you say you are sick, weak, or old, it is the very nature of your body to cooperate with what you say, because you are the authority in your own body temple. If you want to have a beautiful, healthy, strong body, then you must cooperate with it by approving of it, by giving it life-giving, health-giving ideas.”

The bottom line is: Health is Natural. The only reason a body becomes “dis-eased” is because it is given the wrong messages, wrong food, and treated as though it is not worth your highest and best thoughts and words.

Now you know: To have a naturally healthy body is to stop interfering with its naturalness.

Feed it with harmonious, positive, alive and loving thoughts, words, food and feelings, and it will love you and respond accordingly.

The Unity way of Healing Various Bodily Conditions

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There should be no such word as “incurable.” The word “incurable” is untrue, false from beginning to end. – Ruthanna Schenck

Please note:  The following information and healing treatments are tried and true.  There is power in your spoken word, especially your word of Truth to heal any condition.  This is spiritual healing and will work for you when you put your faith in it.  Relax.  Release all fear, worry, or anxiety.  Focus on love, life, peace, harmony, and Truth.

How long should you use statements for a particular healing need?  There is no set time.  It is best to pray (affirm statements) until you have a definite sense of peace and healing, or until what you are praying for is healed.  Some people get immediate results.  With others, it takes longer.  With God ALL things are possible, especially when you speak your healing word in understanding faith.

Do not strain to affect a result.  Relax, speak your word of power and “know” that what you declare is true now, regardless of the appearance.   Realize that what you declare for a certain part of your body, affects every part of your body.  After making your declaration of Truth, it is very helpful to relax and meditate for a few minutes, at least.  Allow yourself to feel joy and gratitude just as though healing has taken place.  You may not feel healing taking place, but when you speak your word, healing, divine restoration, is happening, even as you speak.