Ernest Holmes - How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE

BOOKS BY ERNEST HOLMES

Can We Talk to God?

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Creative Ideas

Creative Mind and Success

Effective Prayer

Good for You

How to Use the Science of Mind

Ideas for Living

It Can Happen to You

Questions and Answers on the Science of Mind

The Beverly Hills Lectures

The Magic of the Mind

The Science of Mind

The Science of Mind Approach to Successful Living

The Voice Celestial

This Thing Called Life

This Thing Called You

Thoughts Are Things

What Religious Science Teaches

Words That Heal Today

HOW TO
CHANGE
YOUR LIFE

Ernest Holmes

A Science of Mind Book

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eISBN-13: 978-0-7573-9410-2 eISBN-10: 0-7573-9410-8

Copyright 1982 by Science of Mind Publishing
First Edition: December 1982
Second Printing: October 1996
Second Edition: May 1999
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CONTENTS

I
Basic Ideas of the Science of Mind

A simple explanation of why your thoughts have power. How you can change your life by changing your thinking.

II
A Sensible Viewpoint for Todays World

A deeper look at the life-changing power you have. Some key Science of Mind perspectives.

III
A Summary of Important Science of Mind Principles

Ideas about life and God essential to modern spiritual understanding. Supportive quotations from the worlds timeless writings.

IV
A Science of Religion and a Religion of Science

How science and spirituality, once believed to be antagonists, are coming together.

V
How to Give a Spiritual Mind Treatment

Step-by-step instructions on how to use the Science of Mind for your personal need.

VI
Spiritual Mind Treatments for Personal Use

Forty inspirational guides to solving problems and changing your life. Followed by affirmations for specific application.

PUBLISHERS
INTRODUCTION

This remarkable book contains some of the most powerful ideas you will ever read. If you sincerely apply them, you can have happiness, health, financial security, loving relationships and any other good things you desire. You can dissolve fear, stress and anxiety. And you can gain a greater insight into your true nature as a human being.

The author, Dr. Ernest Holmes (18871960), was one of Americas outstanding spiritual teachers. Through lectures, radio and television programs, tape recordings, books and magazines, he introduced millions of people to the simple principles for successful living which he called the Science of Mind.

Those principles, along with a technique for applying them, are thoroughly described in this book. Also included are many specific examples, so you can use the Science of Mind directly for your personal needs.

Are you ready to change your life for the better? If you are, you can start right now. You have found what youre looking for. Welcome to the Science of Mind!

In How to Change Your Life, Dr. Ernest Holmes has given the world another spiritual classic. If you seem to experience lack, limitation, fear, worry or insecurity, take heart! Turn to any page within this book and you will realize that your experience is simply an idea shortage! There is nothing outside of yourself that is missing, if you will but look within to the vast storehouse of consciousness right at the center of your own being.

Embodying and practicing the universal truths in How to Change Your Life will teach you to tap directly into the spiritual laws that create, support and maintain the entire cosmos. Although this book was written in 1957, just as two and two will eternally equal four, so does truth, written during any age and time, equal truth.

Dr. Holmes was a great spiritual scientist who provides empirical evidence for his realizations of the original purpose of life. You, too, by experimenting in the laboratory of your own life using the techniques described in these pages, will prove as he did that thoughts are the things that create your life.

Dr. Ernest Holmes was a man of great spiritual passion and understanding. As you will experience, he taught universal principles in a way that offered them to people on all levels of the sacred journey, in all the stages of awakening.

So journey into a remarkable invisible realm that awakens your highest potential.

Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith

I
Basic Ideas of
the Science of Mind

A simple explanation of why your thoughts have power. How you can change your life by changing your thinking.

1 Your Dreams Can
Come True!

E very human being thrills at the thought of having dreams come true! The idea means different things to different people. To you it may mean physical health: the ability to walk, run, play, to engage in activity. To me, it may mean abundance: money, a home, a caropulence. To another, dreams may involve education, or the ability to get along with people. Whatever your personal desires may be as long as they do not hurt yourself or someone elseyou have a right to attain them... and you can.

The ability to attain your goalsto control your experiences and have them result in happiness, prosperity and successlies in your own mind and the way you use it. This means you control your own experienceyou are really in charge of your affairs and the way they are to develop.

Let us sum it up this way: My thought is in control of my experience, and I can direct my thinking.

Read that again and then say it aloud. It is a most astounding statement and at first may even seem far-fetched. But because you are a thoughtful person with an open mind, ready to be shown what you may not at first understand even what does not seem entirely believableyou will be willing to take that statement under consideration and hear the reasons for it. Certainly you do not have to believe it nor do you wish to until you have investigated it, heard the arguments in its favor, and observed whether or not it works for you after you have given it a fair trial. That is the way the intelligent mind approaches any new idea.

IT HAS TO MAKE SENSE

No one can force a new belief upon another; no one has the right to attempt to do so. Only when we have made the appropriate intellectual inquiries and investigations for ourselves can we honestly decide whether to accept or reject what is presented to us. We are not going to allow ourselves to be coerced into anything of which our own good judgment does not approve. However, we cannot bring our good judgment to bear upon anything in fullest measure until we have been fair in our efforts to understand it and then faithful in our attempts to test it, to see if it actually does work for us.

If you were raised under Christian influences in the home and church, you will probably feel particularly sensitive about things that sound religious. You will be inclined to say, I do not want anything to disturb my faith in God as an Overruling Providence and in Jesus as the Wayshower for men and women through his practical application of a loving, useful life and his triumphant conquest even over death itself.