Shine Your Light and Live Longer
—Dr. James Rouse

What if your life could be like your favorite movie, with you starring as its producer, director and hero? Courageous living and epic giving can flourish beyond Hollywood, according to Dr. James Rouse, and they may provide the key to a long, happy life. Rouse has studied the inhabitants of Okinawa, Japan, which boasts the largest population of centenarians in the world. These remarkable people thrive on “ikigai” — healthy passion and plenty of reasons to get up in the morning.

Rouse argues that each of us already creates our own screenplay, either by design or by default. Why not build it by design? Rouse’s infectious enthusiasm will make you a believer in this video: “The Hero’s Journey: Creating a Life You Love.” Learn how to forge the neural networks for your ultimate life, making it a movie you would want to watch over and over again!

Read more in Rouse’s powerful column “Find Your Ikigai” in the June 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

An App to Change Your Thinking and Your Life
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Now daily inspiration is as close as your mobile phone! Available for both Apple and Android, the Science of Mind 365 App boosts the soul with a full year of meditations from Dr. Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science and Science of Mind. Beautifully read by actor and practitioner Scott Vance, the meditations include quotes from scripture and great philosophers.

Introducing Rebecca Hiraoka: Advocate for Women

“Girls are taught to seem, to appear — not to be and do.” — Abigail May Alcott

With a background in women’s and low-income communities’ wellness, Rebecca Ann Hiraoka brings an advocate’s perspective to women’s contributions throughout history. In a fascinating article on “Early Mothers of New Thought” in this month’s issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine, Hiraoka reveals the mother of Louisa May Alcott as a surprisingly forward-thinking feminist with a fierce intellect and compassionate heart. Despite living in the 1800s, excluded from politics and religion, Alcott and other women found ways to transcend poverty, influence others and demand that their voices be heard.

For 150 years, Abigail Alcott’s writings were lost to the public. Hear the amazing story of how these writings were found in an attic by descendant Eve LaPlante and how they echo the struggles and triumphs of women today. Click here for video

Hiraoka works for Centers for Spiritual Living and is studying to be a nurse midwife and practitioner.

Upgrade Your Prayer Game in Five Steps

Are you ready to receive more good, love and beauty in your life? Give affirmative prayer a try. This simple five-step formula offers mind-altering, life-transforming power. You’re worth it!

• Recognition. Recognize that there is one perfect Intelligence that creates everything out of itself. “There is One Mind.”
• Unification. State that you are one with that Intelligence or Spirit, with unlimited access to the Divine. “The same Mind that created the universe is my mind now.”
• Realization.  With prayer, we put the creative law into motion. Declare the truth of your being with your word, knowing it is already so in the Mind of Spirit. For example, “I focus only on the highest and best ideas for my life.”
• Thanksgiving. Thank Spirit that your prayer has already become a reality. “I give great gratitude for the creative power of the Law.”
• Release. Like a seed that has been planted, don’t hang on to your prayer and don’t go digging it up. Simply release and trust. “I let go and let God.”

Read more about the power of affirmative prayer in the June 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

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