1. What is Science of Mind?
My thought is in control of my experience, and I can control my thinking.
The ability to control my experiences and have them result in happiness, prosperity and success lies in my own mind and my use of it.

2. Your Personal Importance
The Ability to Control My Experiences, and have them result in happiness, prosperity and success lies in my own mind and my use of it.

3. What is Mind?
According to Science, practically everything can be scientifically reduced one invisible essence, something which can be detected by the physical senses.
Different names are given to it: Energy, Principle, Universal Intelligence, Universal Mind, Consciousness, Spirit, God.
Ernest Holmes called it Mind.

4. Everything is An Aspect of Mind
Conscious Mind: That which Directs
Creative Medium: That which Obeys and Creates
Physical World, Conditions and Experiences: That which is created.

5. Process of Thought
Direction
Creation
Result

6. YOU Everything is Mind and YOU are therefore part of it.
Mind expands and produces according to your expanding thought.
You have the right and power to think what you want to think: you may create desired good conditions for yourself and others.
You can control your good and may transform your life into an experience of happiness, health and prosperity.

7. Health You can achieve health by right thinking.
It is through LAW that the body is built and maintained.
The LAW of MIND responds to a persistent idea and automatically maintains it.
MIND responds to mind.

8. I am strong and free through the ACTION of God in me.
Affirmations
I am strong and free through the ACTION of God in me.
I am well and successful in everything I do.

9. Plant Deeply in Your Mind 4 Basic Ideas
You are completely surrounded by and are part of Mind. It interpenetrates your being. It is what you are.
This Mind is completely creative, manifesting what you think and believe as form or some experience.
Mind answers to mind. Mind creates for you according to the pattern you make for IT-by your clearly defined thoughts for good- if you believe it will.
Because of this you can choose to remain in good health or be healed if you are now ill. In the same manner you can choose to bring into your experience any other good condition.

10. Your Thinking and Finances
Recognize the truth that universal abundance surrounds you.
Understand and believe in the responsiveness of the One Mind.
Know your right and ability to speak your word believingly, that the Activity of Mind as Law will manifest the good you choose.
Declare your good and know it is made manifest. Let there be no doubt or worry.
Act in every practical way you can. Life is Action.

11. Foundations for Prosperity
I am prospered because I believe in prosperity.
I accept the responsiveness of the Universe.
“Unto everyone that hath shall be given.”

12. Rebuilding Your Life
Man, as Son of God, inherits the qualities and powers of the Father.
For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to hath life in himself.

13. Rebuild Your Life
Think of your goal.
Disregard the undesirable.
Do not belittle your Divine Inheritance.
Your life if the life of God within you.
You have access to the Wisdom of God.
Creativity is at the Center of You.
As He is, so are we, in this world.

14. You Determine Your Welfare
Man, know thyself.
There is no separation between You and God.
Improve your habits.
Your true nature is the nature of God.
What you really are is life, love, wisdom, Peace, Power, Beauty and Joy.
Give the Law new instructions.
Eliminate the objectionable habit.
You are never a failure until you admit it.
Emphasize love and righteousness.

15. Focus Love Faith Unselfishness Moral Rightness
MAN DETERMINES HIS OWN WELFARE.

16. The Power of Directed Emotions
Everything according to the Law
Careful Preparation
Careful Planting
Forgive Yourself
Avoid A False Sense of Guilt

17. Conscience Building Phases of Development in Childhood.
A Primitive Impulse of Love
A profound need for holding on to parent's love and being obedient to them.
A synthesis of the child's impulse for self-criticism with parental criticism.
The modification of all these feelings with the experience of life.

18. Transformation
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
You and your affairs will be renewed as you transform your thinking.

19. Finding Life's Riches
Believe
Declare
Accept

20. Spiritual Growth
Dominion of the Body
An Atmosphere of Health
Right Emotional Control
You Can Change Your Environment
Spiritual Realization
Automatic Results

21. The Sincere Desire
Prayer is the cleansing of thought, perfect believing, clear affirmation, and right action.
Prayer is the Soul's Sincere Desire
Uttered or Unexpressed
The Motion of a Hidden Fire
That Trembles in the Breast (Old Hymn)‏

22. Making a Mental Equivalent
To create what you want involves creating a “mental equivalent” of what you desire.
You need to FEEL that the desired result is here now and is yours now. And it will be.
This is the LAW. It manifests what we accept. This is Faith.
It is helpful, once the mental equivalent is formed, to put it into words and speak them forth.

23. Declaring What You Want
Declaration is the step in the process which unifies Faith and Works.
A declaration is an affirmative statement made with spiritual awareness, with understanding and acceptance.
This is a spiritual process of making yourself receptive.
You will need to tend your mental garden.

24. Right Action
The good you have chosen for yourself and have planted in the realm of Cause, will require your affirmative thinking all the time, and it needs right action too.
God does for us what he does through us.
The price, in this objective world, usually consists of good work, systemic study, personal development and concrete action.
This is right action. Faith without works is dead.

25. Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
Declare right action into operation. Then go a step deeper.
Realize that no one is wise enough to know exactly how it needs to happen. Others may need to be involved. Your vision is limited.
Trust that Infinite Mind can see all that needs to be involved underneath, around, past, present and future.

26. Do Not Outline
The most carefully thought out plans make appear to not be working. Do not judge too quickly.
Be of calm assurance that “Right Action” is manifesting in the events that occur for you have believingly and and specifically declared your acceptance of it.
You can be certain that what is right is being done.

27. What is Prayer?
Prayer is contact of man's mind with God-Mind, in a way that shall result in bringing to pass a desired good.
Effective prayer is the cleansing of thought, clear affirmation and right action, knowing your relationship with a higher power and your rights to material, emotional an physical supplies, and giving thanks.

28. Prayer
Thou shalt make a prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. Job

29. According to Your Faith
Enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
“Closet” means a a temporary shutting of the mind, an inner private place free of distraction.

30. Inner Spiritual Nature
Study
Prayer
Realization

31. Physical Healing
There is One Life, and that Life is God. That Life is Perfect, and that Life is My Life NOW.
My body is a manifestation of the Living Spirit. It is created and Sustained by the One Presence and One Power.
The Power is flowing in and through me now, animating every organ, every action and every function of my physical body now.
There is perfect circulation, perfect assimilation and perfect elimination.

32. Physical Healing, continued
There is no congestion, no confusion and no inaction.
I am One with the Infinite rhythm of Life, which flows through me in Love, in Harmony and in Peace.
There is no fear, no doubt, and no uncertainty in my mind.
I am letting that life which is perfect flow through me. It is my life NOW.
There is One Life, that Life is Perfect, that Life is God's life, that Life is My Life NOW.

33. Prayer Treatment
Science of Mind Treatment is based on the belief or the theory, which we feel has a sound basis, that there is a Principle of Intelligence in the Universe, which is not only creative, giving rise to objective form, but is immediately responsive to our consciousness, and being universal, it is omnipresent, and being omnipresent it is not only where we are, it is who we are.

34. Religious Science
This thinking does not belong to any sect, to any group, to any class, and most certainly not to any person.
There is no claim of special revelation; rather, for this particular system of thought there have been gathered together facts from all ages and all people, from all philosophies and religions.
And using practical methods, which any other scientific research would use, it is able to, and does, present a Science of Mind with a message of freedom.

35. Declaration of Principles
We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty, One indestructible, Absolute, and Self-Existent Cause.
We believe this One manifests Itself in and through all creation, but is not absorbed by Its creation.
We believe that the manifest universe is the body of God, it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God.
We believe in the incarnation of this Spirit in all people and that we are all incarnations of the One Spirit.
We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding.
We believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us and that we experience the Kingdom of Heaven to the degree that we become conscious of it.
We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all.

36. Declaration of Principles, continued.
We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God.
We believe that God is personal to all who feel this indwelling Presence.
We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of human kind, and that each may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the Indwelling God.
We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God, and that we are surrounded by this creative Mind which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it.
We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind.

37. Declaration of Principles, continued.
We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this Mind.
We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving Kindness, and eternal Givingness of Life to all.
We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny, for we understand that the Life of each of us is God!
We believe that God is personal to all who feel this indwelling Presence.
We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of human kind, and that each may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the Indwelling God.

38. Declaration of Principles, continued.
We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God, and that we are surrounded by this creative Mind which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it.
We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind.
We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this Mind.
We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving Kindness, and eternal Givingness of Life to all.
We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny, for we understand that the Life of each of us is God!
Ernest Holmes