Spiritual Living Center: Prayer Treatments

Wise Women at the
Crossroads! Feb. 8, 9, 10, 2008
12th Annual Wise Women Retreat
If not now….then when?


Miracle Springs Resort and Spa www.miraclesprings.com



Dr. Jane Claypool Dr. Heather Clark Rev. Lisa Stewart-de Snoo Jude Boyd - Songstress

Dear Powerful and Wise Women,
Spiritual retreat and inner work in the company of Powerful Women! What could be better?

So many of you want to make plans and are asking for the Wise Women Weekend details – so here is the “bare bones” information. Check orbitz.com for flight information and consider car pooling to O’Hare. Flying DIRECLY into PSP (Palm Springs Airport) is truly the MOST convenient!!!! Other ideas: www.cheaptickets.com www.priceline.com

Tell your friends! This is an awesome weekend to give yourself! Come with a friend, partner, your Mother or your daughter, daughter-in-law, or all of the above. February in the desert is a perfect 70+ degrees. There is a great street fair in Palm Springs on Thursday night when Palm Canyon Drive is closed to automobile traffic from 6 – 10 p.m.— (free activity)

That’s where I get my special artisan “glass jewelry” – my favorite!! Note: It really is MOST convenient if you stay on grounds at Miracle Springs Resort, a modestly priced spa hotel with seven hot spring pools open 24 hours a day. Desert Hot Springs is an “old fashioned” (not fancy) desert town built on top of geo thermals. (Hot Springs).

Joshua Tree National Monument and many sacred Indian Canyons are close by and there many attractions in Palm Springs/Palm Desert area if you choose to stay an extra couple of days.


Wise Women Weekend
Feb. 8-10
Miracle Springs Resort and Spa
Desert Hot Springs, CA
Cost: $245.00 with Early Bird Discount – includes conference and meals from Friday supper to Sunday lunch. Does not include your room – that way you have freedom to choose a single, double or more for each room. Karyn will do her best to find you a roomy or talk to Rev. Lisa if you’d like to find a Wisconsin roomy!

Miracle Springs Resort has rooms reserved for conference participants. Mention WW for a special rate.

www.miraclesprings.com
1-800-400-4414

FOR CONFERENCE RESERVATIONS call Karyn Allen
karyn@cvcrs.org
San Juan Capistrano Valley Church
949-240-6463 x103

After Jan. 8th Wise Women Conference is $295.00 **** Milwaukee women have special permission to use the “Early Bird” price UNTIL JAN. 20TH. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE DON’T DRIVE KAREN CRAZY!

Make checks payable to:

CVCRS
BE VERY CLEAR that your check is for Wise Women

Leaders:
Dr. Jane Claypool
Dr. Heather Clark
Rev. Lisa Stewart-de Snoo

Looking forward with expectancy to the best ever – WISE WOMEN WEEKEND!
With so much love and gratitude for each of you,
Lisa.
Special Music – Jude Boyd

WHAT IS SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT
Spiritual mind treatment (simply called "treatment") is a form of prayer used by Dr. Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science and author of The Science of Mind as well as many other metaphysical works. Holmes taught that there is a scientific reasoning underlying all prayer, and that through this process of reasoning we are treating our own mind about the subject of our prayer.

Prayer, whatever form is used, does nothing to God. It actually brings the one praying to a "realization" of God, a realization that all is well and that he/she is not alone in dealing with the situation. This realization in itself does the "healing."

Treatment consists of five steps. It can be done individually or as a group. In the beginning, you may find it easier and more comfortable to simply read the steps as written (generic as they may be). When you begin your own deepening process as the result of treatment, you will find value in wording each step yourself so it more closely suits your situation. Therefore, at the beginning of each step is an explanation of its purpose.

The power of prayer has been known to humanity since the beginning of time. Each of us has found our own ways to experience and express our connection to that "something" which is greater than our daily events and challenges. Spiritual Mind Treatment is one of those many ways. You are certain to find it effective and uplifting.

How To Do A Spiritual Mind Treatment
Step 1 Recognition
In the beginning, God...Begin by recognizing that "God is all there is," including the practice of the prayer. Name as many attributes of God that you can think of to begin "treating your mind" that there is a power greater than you are and greater than the issue at hand. Remember: you are not making God these things; you are reminding yourself that this is what God is. You might say:

"God is. Whatever I may call It - Spirit, Infinite Intelligence, Divine Love, Total Peace - It is always the same: It is timeless, changeless, everywhere present and completely powerful to heal and renew me and this situation in my life. It is courage and pure joy. It is profound peace and uplifting laughter. It is total wisdom and the spontaneity to enjoy life."

Step 2 Unification
It is easy to recognize that God is all these things. And it is often more difficult to see your unity with God and know that you are those same attributes. You are "made in the image and likeness of God." How can you be anything but the magnificence, power, love, etc. that you have just declared God is?

"God and I are One. I know that I am infinite intelligence, deep peace, unconditional love, courage, harmony and joy. I am what God is. God is expressing through me right now in every way. I have all answers within with God as my source. Every cell of my body is God, every situation is God, every thing in my life now is God."

Step 3 Realization
The first two steps are often compared to meditation. When you have experienced a richness and a deepening as a result of the first two steps, the third step is a declaration of the Truth you have realized. It is always worded in the first person and in the present tense. You are not asking for anything. You are declaring and affirming that it is the Truth and is already done. REMEMBER: You are treating your own mind about this. The entire Kingdom has already been given to you. If you don't believe it, God can't do anything more for you. If you are doing this treatment for someone else you substitute their name where yours is indicated.

"I now speak my word for myself. The Truth of God is the Truth of my life. I easily and effortlessly know my greater good, know it is my Divine right and the truth of my being to experience the highest and best good for myself. I am always in the right place and the right time. The Wisdom of God within me guides my every move. I experience unconditional love flowing through me at all times. I feel the perfection of God in every cell of my body. I am total harmony and joy in every area of my life. I see God in every situation in my life."

Step 4 Thanksgiving
Here you express your gratitude for the successful completion of your declaration of Truth and for your willingness to see it, believe it, and surrender to its unfoldment.

"I give thanks for the realization of this treatment and the perfect working of the spiritual law which responds to my thoughts and words. I am confident and joyous that my good is already unfolding through me as me."

Step 5 Release
It's time to release it to Spirit. You've done your work; now know the Law will do its work - through you.

"In this feeling of gratitude. I release this treatment to the Law. I know it was done before I even asked. I release any doubts or fears and simply allow it to be my good, right now. I have declared it to be so. And So It Is!"

...I create new heavens and a new earth...
Isaiah 65:17

"Limitation is not in Principle nor in Law, but only in the individual use we make of Principle."
Science of Mind 118

In this moment, I breathe in and consciously move from the finite to the infinite. I remind myself that there is a Divine Creative Intelligence beyond my comprehension of It, and it is magnificence Itself. I call it God, I call it Spirit, I call it Good and Perfect. It is Love itself. I recognize in this and all moments that essence of me is It. I am one with this One. I live and move and have my very being in It, and It expresses through and as me. Just as this Creative Intelligence is not limited by Its creation, I am not limited in any way, shape or form from my past or present experience.

In this moment I am made new. In this moment I accept new beginnings for myself. I accept profound wisdom; I accept that I am wise in every action and activity of my life. I accept vibrant and vital health and happiness in my emotions, my mind, my body and my spirit. I accept balance and power and recognize there is no conflict in those ideas.
I accept a more permanent soulshakingrocking happiness and joy than I have ever accepted before.

Today, I eliminate any thoughts, feelings, beliefs that are known or unknown in my cellular body, in my memory, from this life or any other lifetime that are self-condemning or play out a story of victim of any way shape or kind. Today, I consciously eliminate any unconscious behavior or shadow belief in lack or limitation. Today, I go beyond any fear and step boldly into a new, magnificent experience. Today, I am the consciousness of unlimited good in my life. Today, and everyday, I have the consciousness of now and newness.

Today, I begin anew. Today is a new beginning for my life. I accept prosperity in every form. I accept spiritual deepening and quickening as I move along a deeply personal path of self-realization.

I accept my good and I accept my God as one.

I fill myself with gratitude. I breathe in gratitude and I exhale gratitude.

I am grateful. And I live today as though the words of this treatment are already accomplished. Today, I am wise. Today, I am powerful. Today, I am health. Today, I am joy! Thank you God!

I release this powerful word to a perfect law that responds to me before the words were spoken.

And so it is.

Lisa de Snoo