PART III

CONTROLLING NERVOUSNESS
Question—Although I have nothing particular to worry about except my own mental condition, I am obsessed with a terrible fear of losing my mind. Every little thing disturbs me and I don't seem to have the manhood to conquer this nervous trouble.

ANSWER—We are told that we become like that unto which we look upon. So it is quite necessary for you to handle this fear that disturbs you. As you realize it is a nervous reaction, your work can be definitely handled, and daily practice will soon free you from this habit. Back in the subjective are the images of thought acting themselves out in our objective experiences, and it is there that this false image of obsession has taken hold; it, therefore, must be neutralized and destroyed by definite and specific work.

Take up the work daily, and say in your treatment: "There is only the One Mind—the Mind of God, and it knows I am FREE and FEARLESS—free from this undesirable and usurping fear. I know this fear has no foundation, that it has no power or life in itself, and that it cannot stand before my neutralizing word. I know that my word spoken for my freedom from this obsessing fear is perfect, and deals with a perfect law, and frees me from all fear and sense of burden. I know that my word represents a perfect idea of truth. It has perfect life and establishes the law of peace and harmony, and restores me to complete normalcy. (page 63) I know there is nothing in me that repudiates peace, for I am a center of divine Consciousness and I AM AT PEACE."

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