Have you noticed recent headlines concerning swine flu? They certainly are lessons on the importance of avoiding self-fulfilling prophecies.
Article headlines these days take as a given that swine flu will cause widespread illness this winter. “Experts” aren’t sure how many people will be hit, but the mental picture they paint is not pleasant no matter how you look at it from their point of view.
These types of alarms are calls for conscientious metaphysicians everywhere to defend the population from unnecessary suffering.
Swine flu pandemic should not be a foregone conclusion. It is not imperative. It is spiritually stoppable and preventable. It doesn’t need to happen.
But we cannot sit on our mental laurels and be passive observers. The fear and worry circulating in public thought about the flu needs to be neutralized and replaced with calm and a secure understanding of God’s omnipresent care and protection.
God’s infinite love is a most powerful influence on the health and well being of mankind. This love is always active on everyone’s behalf, shielding from harm, protecting from contagion, and providing spiritual immunity to material infection. As children of God, we do not live in a chaotic universe of mindless unmerciful forces. We live in a universe of divine Love, where an all intelligent Mind guides and governs the well being of all creatures.
The current growing fear in public thought can be counteracted with an even stronger sense of God’s omnipresent Love that protects one and all from any type of pandemic. An understanding of spiritual truth is the most powerful vaccination against contagion on earth. And it is here to bless one and all.
In preparing for the winter season a few months away, I’ve decided to anticipate health, peace, safety, protection, calm, and well being. I’m striving to abide in a consciousness of spiritual love that knows no fear and is not exposed to any harmful influences.
There is no fear in Love, God, because in Love, there is nothing to fear, not even swine flu.
I’m looking forward to a winter of peace, health and harmony. What are you expecting?
Thanks for this. Working in a school, I am being almost constantly bombarded with the predictions and concerns of the “experts.” It’s helpful to be reminded that “God’s infinite love is a most powerful influence on the health and well being of mankind” and that I can expect to see evidence of this great truth in my daily experience.
I am very grateful for your insights regarding the subject of an outbrak of swine flu; certainly gives me great ideas to work with to handle this.
Thanks Evan.
These truths give us much to anticipate with Love guiding.
I was thinking this morning about the need to band together as metaphysicians to resist all the fear and hype concerning swine flu. Thank you for this timely article and so well worded. Sign me on!
Hey Evan, just wondering — The 1918 Spanish Flu happened in the immediate wake of WWI. In particular, this caught my eye:
“Consequently, during modern pandemics, health officials pay attention when the virus reaches places with social upheaval, looking for deadlier strains of the virus.[41]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
So could just praying against the swine flu now as an isolated thing be as effective as praying against it and underlying discord, like say Afghanistan?
I’m also thinking about Gulf War Syndrome from the 90s war in Iraq.
Seems warfare is the most egregious evil suggestion going — a pandora’s box of evil suggestions, opened.
Oh yes, I think it’s all tied together. To counteract the fear of swine flu, we need to counteract the fear of out of control situations, which includes the seeming threat of terrorism, war, etc. Swine flu is not the “real issue.” Understanding God’s absolute, harmonious and loving control over all, and mankind’s protection and safety in that love, is perhaps the greater need.
Thanks for this, talk about Divine timing. The news was on this morning when I woke up, they had a long story going about the swine flu. I was half listening but the mental suggestion tried to break through. But as quickly as it started I began to correct my thought. And this really helped to back it up. Thanks =)
Two comments: Experts. definition.
An”X” is an unknown quantity. A spurt is a drip under pressure.
An expert is someone who carries a briefcase and lives more than 50 miles away.