Structures harness the extraordinary power of the imagination to transform the inner narratives that drive and confine our functioning in the World. The human body is the soul presented in its richest and most expressive form. We share of thoughts, physical sensations, ideas, ideals, hopes, and feelings and all life experiences. We call for a new appreciation for the laws of imagination to keep us moving into ever newer and deeper insights. Blame is a defensive substitute for an honest examination of life that seeks guidance in our mistakes. It is a way of averting consciousness of error. Rather than blame, we could respond. Of course, we can never undo what happened in the past, but we can create new emotional scenarios intense and real enough to defuse and counter some of those old ones. Sometimes our senses pick up sounds around us, but our attention sinks into an area sheltered from life. The healing tableaus of structures offer an experience that many may never have believed was possible for them: to be welcomed into a World where people delight in them, protect them, meet their needs, and make one feel at home. Listening to the messages of the body is not the same as blaming the individual. This seems to give people confidence and strength. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Wounding takes us deep into the invisible World. In the heroic struggle to be someone, to make life work and to find happiness, thing we do may inflict wounds on something much more deep than our beings. The very foundations of existence can be affected, and so disease and illness arise as from some profound, mysterious place, very much as a divine apparition. We know that panic symptoms (symbols) are maintained largely because the individual develops a fear of the bodily sensations associated with panic attacks. The attack may be triggered by something he or she knows is irrational, but fear of the sensation keeps them escalating into a full-body emergency. This could be because people are enduring pain and being forced to recall that pain over and over and dealing with things that threaten their peace, safety and security in real life. The experience of fear derives from primitive responses to threat where escape is thwarted in some way. People’s lives will be held hostage to fear until that visceral experience changes. The price for ignoring or distorting the body’s messages is being unable to detect what is truly dangerous or harmful for you, just as bad, what is safe or nourishing. Self-regulation depends on having a friendly relationship with your body. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

When we do not feel safe in our own body, we usually have to rely on external regulations—from medication, drugs like alcohol, constant reassurance, or compulsive compliance with the wishes of others. Many people respond to stress not by noticing and naming it, but by developing migraine headaches, asthma attacks, intestinal disturbances, and some even experience internal bleeding. Suppressing our inner cries for help does not stop our stress hormones from mobilizing the body. Even though you may learn to ignore your relationship problems and block out your physical distress signals, they will show up in symptoms that demand your attention. It is important to focus on identifying the link between your physical sensations and your emotions. Accepting that we are wounded, we enter life differently than if our only concern is to overcome the wound. When we respond to the mysterious appearance of an illness, we live with responsibility to fate. If we allow sickness to lead us into wonder about the very base of experience, then our spirituality is strengthened. We wish joy instead of tears, gladness instead of sorrow, peace instead of disturbance, success instead of failure, life instead of death. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

The modern body is an efficient machine that needs to be kept in shape so that its organs will function smoothly for as long as possible. We are already familiar with the mental law of cause and effect, with the idea that mind in action is law, and with the principle upon which all mental practice is based; that we are surrounded by God, and he receives the impress of our thoughts and action upon them. We cannot change the nature of the law, nor can we change the nature of our being, but we can think and act differently, and the law, being subjective to our thought, must change its tendency toward us. The World lives and breathes, and we can draw its spirit into us. What we do to the World’s body, we do to our own. God is the High Chancellor, and whatsoever a person does to you, is also what they shall reap. “Lord Almighty, you who judge righteously, and test the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you I have committed my cause (Jeremiah 11.20).” This suggests that the various treatments employed on the physical plane have counterparts in the soul. In a very real sense, we do not cure our aliments, they cure us, by restoring our religious participation in life. We are not masters of this World, we participate in its life. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

The new patterns of belief must be found in a higher consciousness and deeper realization of human’s position in the creative order as a dispenser of the divine gifts and as the recipient of the infinite will and willingness. We need to repudiate the belief that we are bound. We need to know that the spirit within us is now free, complete, and perfect. There is not a person living who cannot change one’s thought, at least somewhat. We can all improve and broaden our mental reaction right where we are, and with each new and better mental outlook there will come a corresponding reaction in our objective World. When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their music, and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its music underground, so the we experience the body as an instrument and see its musical tones only in illness. Fortunately, we still have a few institutions that foster an imaginal body. Fashion, for instances, brings a considerable amount of fantasy to the body. Cosmetics and perfumery are available to women, and cologne to men, and it can be an important aspect of cultivating the body’s soul. To understand the working of the law is knowledge, but to use it constructively is wisdom. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

Tending to the body in all its physicality is an important part of the care of the soul. Daily we must consciously reverse our position in the law, knowing that we are no longer subject to the race suggestion of lack, limitation, want, or fear; knowing that the spirit is with us and for us and operating through us; knowing that all good is ours, and specifically declaring that the particular good we desire is now made manifest. We are not alone nor unacknowledged. The soul is involved in the perception of an intimacy between human personality and the World’s communing body. How marvelous is God to have allowed us to live on Earth—a place where the stranger can find rest, protection, and care. And once again, we feel the flush of soul as it becomes animated by a new appreciation for its own art. To truly enjoy life, faith and expectancy are necessary, and above all, a great inner flexibility. We must have a knowledge that we can change bondage into freedom one of the greatest joys we can contemplate. May the Heavenly Father command it and arrange it, and may the Holy Spirit appease the hearts of those against us. Come, Holy Spirit, enlighten the hearts of those who can favour us or those who can help us. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6