If there was ever a confusion of concepts, it’s this one.  It’s been in the high 90s here in NYC for the past week and it seems like everybody I’m running into lately is struggling with a summer cold.  The whole concept, or should I say ‘miss-concept’, is so proliferate that I guess I decided to join the party – or should I say ‘got duped into’ joining the party.

I mean really, what a weird thing to begin with – get a cold when it’s hot.  Shows how mental these things are in the first place.  To begin with, the expression, “in the first place” is the operative word here in my experience.  I decided to join the party because I didn’t protect my thought as I usually do when I started being bombarded with all the bad news.

Before I knew it, I woke up with that worn down feeling, that tickle in the throat, that runny nose – you know the routine.  But this time I caught it in time.  I caught it and I beat it.  Here’s how I did it.

First of all I corrected the opening false suggestion.  That was pretty easy because the whole idea of getting a cold when it’s so hot was just a bit ridiculous to begin with.  Looking at the ludicrousness of this notion, I saw immediately that I could not blame my ill feeling on weather or germs or contact with people who were operating under the same false belief.  I saw the opening supposed cause for what it was – simply a lie.

I quickly realized that the suggestion of all my friends was not the cause of my discomfort, but rather it must be some form of slippage of thought on my part.  Just realizing this simple fact of truth put an instant stop on the progress of my supposed illness.  I never got any worse.

Trouble was, I never got any better either – until I solved in thought the other part of the problem.

I lived with a minor irritation for about 24 hours until I took the time to sit and figure out where in life I was being ‘cold’ to people.  I also looked at where my thought had turned ‘cold’ on a given subject.  I found several instances of each.

So as I found them, I healed them.  I corrected the thinking behind the mistaken moments.  If it was a personality problem with someone, I cleaned up the coldness I was feeling by seeing them differently, by seeing the goodness of man and separating them from the miss-perceived error of my thinking.  In other words, I warmed up towards them.  As I did this, one by one, I began to feel instantly better and better.

It was clear that I was on to something here and that it was working and so I never succumbed to the ‘natural’ progression of the disease – sore throat, coughing, going through boxes of Kleenex, and going to bed.  Instead, I stayed on top of it because I got quickly identified and got on top of my own frozen thoughts, thawed them out and replaced them with far warmer ones.

Essentially I eliminated the real cause of the effect on two different levels:

1. I saw the false belief of the first cause for what it was and replaced it with the truth.  I saw this whole silly notion of ‘summer cold’ as simply a human mistake and replaced it with a much more logical thought.  I decided to not be duped by this world thought and take a hold of my own consciousness and govern it properly.
2. I corrected my own cold thoughts that had gathered in my far too disconnected mind and saw the real truths of my fellow man and the real truths of my erroneous thinking.  Once corrected, the effects of that thinking – the tickles, the sniffles and the weakened being disappeared and I beat the sucker.

One might ask, “Where was God in all this?”  He or It was right there.  God was the truth.  I did not pray for a healing from some anthropomorphic being.  I connected with the truth.  I understand that truth to be God.  I turned coldness into love.  I understand that love to be God.  I turned lack of life into fullness of life.  I understand life to be God.  And I followed the logical principles of thought to their perfect conclusions – I cleaned up my thought.  I understand principle to be God.

I turned what might normally be two weeks of suffering into two days of minor irritation as I won the battle – not the battle of body, but the battle of mind.

Simply put, the cold was a result of mistaken thought.  I corrected the thought and so there could be no ill effect of the mistake because the mistake had been corrected.  2+2 ain’t 5.  It’s four.

Now things all add up.  I’m well.  I took no cold medicine.  I ate no special foods.  I only changed my thought because I recognized that it was only thought that got me the beginnings of the cold in the first place.

Now I’m grateful to God, to the truth I have understood and put into effect in my life to heal my mistaken thought.

I am well.  I am not at the result of such a bogus suggestion of our material world.  Summer cold – bah humbug.  I am simply free from my limited and erroneous thinking.  Not only that, my whole countenance has changed.  I’m happier.  I’m not shadowed by my misconceptions about some of the people in my life and I’m much more mentally prepared to deal with the events of life as they unfold.

Not only did God’s truths heal the cold, but they also infused my life with far better kind of thinking that naturally opens up vistas of positivity.  Life is better.

Now instead of having a cold, I have a warm.

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