Text of the meditation
To dwell continually in good thoughts is to throw around oneself a psychic atmosphere of sweetness and power that leaves its impress upon all who come in contact with it. As the rising sun puts the helpless shadows to rout, so all the impotent forces of evil are put to flight by the searching rays of positive thought that shine forth from a heart made strong in purity and faith.
Where there is sterling faith and uncompromising purity, there is health, there is success, there is power. In such a person, disease, failure and disaster can find no lodging, for there is nothing on which they can feed. Even physical conditions are largely determined by mental states, and the scientific world is rapidly being drawn to this truth.
The old, materialistic belief that a person is what their body makes them is rapidly passing away, and is being replaced by the inspiring belief that a person is superior to their body, and that their body is what they make it by the power of thought. There is no evil in the universe that does not have its root and origin in the mind.
James Allen (1864–1912), Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year (1913) – public-domain text, gently modernised.
The original 1913 text is in the public domain.
