Back to Basics- How to Use it

In last week’s wisdom talk, I shared with you a personal story about a time when prayer was needed beyond what I felt I could hold alone. Faced with a situation that seemed overwhelming, I reached out to our practitioners for prayer. Together, we held in prayer-filled consciousness a young man who had been declared brain dead, affirming life, presence, and possibility when all medical indicators said otherwise.

What followed was nothing short of miraculous. When I walked into the ICU to pray with that family, that same young man actually tried to get up from his bed.

That experience remains a powerful reminder that we are never meant to walk this path alone. There are moments when circumstances feel too heavy, too complex, or too frightening for our individual prayer to carry—and in those moments, reaching for support is not weakness. It is wisdom. It is how we allow the Law to be used through collective consciousness, love, and faith.

Each January, we return—intentionally—to the fundamentals of the Science of Mind. Not because we’ve forgotten them, but because life has a way of layering on complexity. And when things feel overwhelming, spiritual wisdom always invites us back to what is simple, reliable, and true.

This week, we arrive at the practical heart of the teaching: How to Use It.

Because knowing that there is a Spiritual Law is not the same as actually using it.

Principle Is Always Working—But It Only Responds

One of the most important distinctions in the Science of Mind is this: Principle does not initiate. It responds.

Spiritual Law is neutral, precise, and impersonal. It doesn’t decide for us. It doesn’t choose outcomes on our behalf. It simply and faithfully responds to whatever is impressed upon it through consciousness.

That can feel confronting at first. But it is also deeply empowering.

The Law doesn’t bring us what we want—it brings us what we consistently accept as true.

So when we ask, How do I use It? the real question becomes: What am I impressing upon It?

Conscious Use Begins with Awareness

Using the Law begins with noticing.

Notice the thoughts you return to again and again. Notice the stories you tell yourself about life, about others, about what is possible. Notice where your attention habitually rests—on fear or trust, separation or unity, scarcity or sufficiency. Be aware that your thoughts are things and create after their own kind. Persistant thoughts become our beliefs.

A belief, after all, is simply a thought we continue to think.

The Law takes its cue not from our occasional affirmations, but from our dominant patterns of belief. Awareness is the first act of spiritual responsibility—not blame, but clarity.

How We Use the Law Individually

We use the Law internally before it ever shows up externally.

Each time we choose to meet life from alignment rather than reaction, we are using the Law. When we choose compassion over judgment, trust over fear, responsibility over blame—we are impressing the Law with a new pattern.

This is not about perfection. It is about practice.

Inner alignment always precedes outer demonstration. And as consciousness shifts, experience follows.

How We Use the Law Together

We were never meant to practice this teaching alone.

Coming together in conscious community helps us nurture beliefs that may be difficult to sustain on our own. When we pray together, sit in silence together, listen deeply to one another, we are literally shaping collective consciousness.

This is why our Healing Circles, Book Studies, Beloved Community gatherings, Ubuntu circles, and Sahita circles matter so deeply. They are not just programs—they are living laboratories for the conscious use of Spiritual Law.

Together, we remember who we are. Together, we practice believing something new about our human condition—and about the possibility of healing.

From Inner Practice to Spiritual Activism

As consciousness awakens, something else happens: our circle of care expands.

Using the Law is not about withdrawing from the world—it is about engaging it differently. As inner awareness deepens, compassion naturally increases. Spiritual understanding gives rise to spiritual activism—not rooted in anger or fear, but in love, justice, and shared humanity.

When we awaken to One Life, we cannot ignore the well-being of the whole.

This is why we are now sharing what we have learned through years of Beloved Community work with our CSL Camp advisors and preparing to offer these teachings to the wider CSL movement. This is consciousness in motion.

When It Feels Like Nothing Is Happening

There are moments when we wonder if the teaching is working—especially when change feels slow.

But the Law is never inactive. It is always accumulating the dominant impressions of consciousness. New awareness takes time to outweigh old conditioning.

This is not denial. It is integration.

Our work is to stay consistent. Stay aligned. Stay clear. Continue to forge alliances with our prayer warrior partners, practitioners, ministers.

How to Practice This Teaching This Week

Stay grounded and intentional:

• Pay attention to the meaning you are giving your experiences.

• Gently redirect your focus toward thoughts of connection, not isolation.

• Let your words arise from confidence in Life, rather than anxiety.

• Move through your days as one who knows they are held, guided, and supported.

And then, without strain or forcing, allow the Law to do what it unfailingly does—respond.

At that point  you can choose to take everything for your learning, upliftment and growth

Closing Reflection

The Science of Mind doesn’t just teach us what God is. It teaches us what God does.

It awakens us. It dissolves the illusion of separation. It empowers us to live, love, and serve more fully.

Using the Law is not about escape—it is about embodiment. As we consciously partner with Principle, Life expresses itself as greater peace, deeper connection, and a more compassionate world.

And that is how we use It.

A Final Invitation

You do not have to carry your healing, your questions, or your longing alone.

I invite you to join us in our Creating Beloved Community Healing and Listening Circle this coming Monday night 1/26/26 at 6pm in the Ahiah Zoom room—a sacred space to come together in compassion, to listen deeply, to be witnessed, and to commit together to awakening from suffering.

As we gather with open hearts and shared intention, we remember our oneness, strengthen our faith, and allow the Law to work through us collectively.

Come be part of this healing field. Come sit with us. Come awaken with us.

You are not alone. You are a part of a loving community.

Always remember that we are surrounded by Blessings and Light,

And that Healing is taking place in this very moment.

Richest Blessings,

RevMichael (Kisumma)