Dr. Joseph Murphy - You Can Change Your Whole Life

You Can Change Your Whole Life

TITLES BY JOSEPH MURPHY

AVAILABLE IN PRINT AND EBOOK FROM G&D MEDIA

This Is It

How to Use Your Healing Power

Living Without Strain

Love is Freedom

Magic of Faith

Peace Within Yourself

Pray Your Way Through It

Prayer is the Answer

Quiet Moments with God

Techniques in Prayer Therapy

The Miracles of Your Mind

Traveling with God

You Can Change Your Whole Life

AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FROM G&D MEDIA

Believe in Yourself

Fear Not

How to Attract Money

How to Use the Power of Prayer

Nuclear Religion

Riches Are Your Right

Stay Young Forever

The Healing Power of Love

The Meaning of Reincarnation

Why Did This Happen to Me?

You Can Change Your Whole Life

Joseph Murphy

Ph.D., D.D.

Published 2019 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

No part of this book may be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner whatsoever, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. No liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained within. Although every precaution has been taken, the author and publisher assume no liability for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

Design by Meghan Day Healey of Story Horse, LLC

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

ISBN: 978-1-7225-0146-4

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2245-2

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Contents

Banish That Feeling Of Guilt

But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

EZEKIEL 19:2122.

T he wicked are the bewitched and means anyone who thinks negatively and destructively. Life holds no grudge against any living being in the world. God is Life, and this Life-Principle is moving in you now animating, sustaining, and strengthening you. If you are wondering where God is, the Life-Principle in you is God. You are alive with the life of God.

Life is forever forgiving us. We must let the scales of superstition fall from our eyes and become aware of simple truths which were always known. Truth has been distorted, twisted, and prostituted beyond recognition. This is why guilt is universal. In all ages people have been told to banish this sense of guilt, and they employed various ceremonies and rituals for this purpose. In olden days they sacrificed their bullocks and doves to propitiate the gods of wrath. When storms came, crops ruined, or a great drought prevailed, the people believed the gods were angry. The jungle priest had to give the people an answer. If he did not give the people an explanation, they killed him. Therefore, the jungle priests gave answers which satisfied the superstitious imaginings of these people.

In remote parts of the world, people have sacrificed their children to appease the so-called angry gods of flood, fire, and famine. This is somewhat like paying a gangster, giving him tribute every week so he will not throw a bomb into your store in order to curry favor with him.

If you burn your hand, life forgives you, reducing the edema, giving you new skin, tissue, and cells. Life does not hold a grudge against you. If you injure your hand, cutting it severely, life forgives you. New cells build bridges over the cut. Life is always forgiving you. Life is givingness and forgiveness. If you take some bad food, life forgives you, too, and causes you to expel and regurgitate it. Life has no ill-will against you.

We must learn to use the Life-Principle the right way and cease going against the stream of life. When a child is born, it is Universal Life individualizing Itself and appearing in your home; rejoice! The child has no discrimination nor discernment; it has not begun to use its reason as yet; therefore it is subject to the mood of parents. Every child wants to follow its own inner inherent drives, and it thinks nothing evil about these things, but the father or mother who does not understand says, You little brat, you are a sinner. You are a naughty boy. God is going to punish you. You are going to suffer for this. The child is baffled; he cannot reason out what is wrong as he lacks discernment. He, therefore, feels cut off from love, protection, and security for that is what the mother represents to him. He feels that his mother is angry, and he reacts perhaps by micturating at night, indicating the child wants to drown his mother in resentment. The child may also react in this way by becoming timid, weak, and inferior, showing a deep sense of rejection.

A young boy might react to a cruel tyrannical father by becoming hostile, belligerent, and resentful. He knows his father is a big man, so he suppresses his anger. His rage is suppressed and it becomes a festering sore. Later on he finds himself opposed to authority because he has been against his father all his young life. He gets in trouble with the policeman, the professor at school, and other symbols of authority. He is always fighting his father, and he does not know it because no one has ever taught him how his mind works.

The President of the United States is subject to authority. Congress has power over him. We have to live and adjust to authority. Wherever we go, there is authority. We must learn to establish control over our thoughts, feelings, and responses. We must take charge of our own minds. When we do take charge of this motley crew in our minds and say to them, I am the master, I am going to order my thoughts around and tell them what to give attention to, we will be like an employer ordering his employees to execute his instructions.

Man must take charge of his own mind and not permit others to govern it for him. Creed, dogma, tradition, superstition, fear, and ignorance rule the mind of the average man. The average man does not own his own mind. It does not belong to him. It is often ruled over and governed by the rank superstitions of others.

We must realize that a great sense of guilt comes from what is called conscience. A great number of people think that the voice of conscience is that of God. It is not. Conscience is your inner feeling and the voice of someone else. Often it is the voice of fear, superstition, and weird concepts of God. I knew a boy who feared that he would be punished by God because he did not go to church on Sunday. This is the inner voice of superstition and false belief implanted in his subconscious by his parents or teachers. This belief on the part of the boy gave him a sense of guilt, and he felt that he must be punished.

When you were young, you were given taboos, restrictions, homilies, and a series of donts. You were perhaps told that you were evil, a sinner, and that God would punish you. Perhaps you were told of a lake of fire waiting for you, if you did not behave and believe in a particular creed. The minds of children are contaminated and polluted with all kinds of strange notions and false doctrines.