COMPETITION
Question—How would you handle the idea of poor business? When the volume of business in a certain line is limited and there are several companies after it, how do you dispose of the reality of competition?

ANSWER—We would handle the idea of poor business through the counter realization that the Divine Mind is ever 0perating in our affairs and that there can be no inaction in this Mind. If our thought rises to the place where we perceive that there is no competition and no monopoly, it will either prove to us, in our immediate business, that we have no competitors whom we need to fear, or the result will be that we shall be brought into some field of action where there will be no need to think of competition.

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RAISE OF SALARY
Question—I would like to know if it is right for me to use your mental treatment methods for a raise in my husband's salary. He likes his work but puts in long hours and the salary is very small. We are grateful for it but feel we need more supply as we are in debt and cannot pay our bills, on the present salary. We would greatly appreciate learning how to improve our thought so we can meet this situation.

ANSWER—I would treat directly to know that b0th you and your husband are surrounded by opportunities for self- expression and that every need in your life is met through the law of abundance, looking not to the source but to the idea. There is an inherent power in true ideas which causes them to take form in the objective world and become a part of the experience of every day life. Your belief in and receptivity to this inherent power definitely embodied in your ideas will find an outlet. (page 119)

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