Your Word is Your Wand
Florence Scovel Shinn
Chapter 4 – HAPPINES
Year – 1928

HAPPINES
In that wonderful moving picture, ʺThe Thief of Bagdad,ʺ
we were told in letters of light that happiness must be earned!
It is earned through perfect control of the emotional nature.
There can be no happiness where there is fear,
apprehension or dread. With perfect faith in God comes a
feeling of security and happiness.
When man knows that there is an invincible power that
protects him and all that he loves, and brings to him every
righteous desire of the heart, he relaxes all nervous tension
and is happy and satisfied.
He is undisturbed by adverse appearances, knowing that
Infinite Intelligence is protecting his interests and utilizing
every situation to bring his good to pass.
ʺI will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in a desert.ʺ
Uneasy lies the head that wears a frown. Anger,
resentment, ill‐will, jealousy and revenge rob man of his
happiness and bring sickness, failure and poverty in their
wake.
Resentment has ruined more homes than drink and killed
more people than war.
For example: There was a woman who was healthy and
happy and married to a man she loved.
The man died and left part of his estate to a relative. The
woman was filled with resentment. She lost weight, was
unable to do her work, developed gall‐stones and became
very ill.
A metaphysician called upon her one day. He said:
ʺWoman, see what hate and resentment have done to you;
they have caused hard stones to form in your body and
only forgiveness and good‐will can cure you.ʺ
The woman saw the Truth of the statement. She became
harmonious and forgiving and regained her splendid
health.
AFFIRMATIONS
I am now deluged with the happiness that was planned for
me in the Beginning. My barns are full, my cup flows over
with joy.
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My endless good now comes to me in endless ways.
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I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way, and my
wonderful joy has come to stay.
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Happy surprises come to me each day. ʺI look with wonder
at that which is before me.ʺ
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I walk boldly up to the lion on my pathway and find it is a
friendly airedale.
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I am harmonious, happy, radiant; detached from the
tyranny of fear.
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My happiness is built upon a rock. It is mine now and for all
eternity.
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My good now flows to me in a steady unbroken, ever‐
increasing stream of happiness.
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My happiness is Godʹs affair, therefore, no one can
interfere.
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As I am one with God I am now one with my heartʹs desire.
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I give thanks for my permanent happiness, my permanent
health, my permanent wealth, my permanent love.
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I am harmonious, happy and Divinely magnetic, and now
draw to me my ships over a calm sea.
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Godʹs ideas for me are perfect and permanent.
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My heartʹs desire is a perfect idea in Divine Mind,
incorruptible and indestructible, and now comes to pass,
under grace in a magical way.