Who Am I?

Rewiring Consciousness

Part 4

Who Am I?

Ernest Holmes wrote: “There’s only one Life. That Life is God’s Life. That Life is perfect. That Life is my life now!”

Can you repeat this statement to yourself—and believe it? Because that is the level of consciousness we must begin to embody if we want to experience the full power of our Spiritual Mind Treatment.

Ernest Holmes also wrote that “the answer to the prayer is in the prayer.” This statement appeared often on our exams, and we were asked to explain what it meant.

Let’s move beyond religion for a moment and focus on what prayer truly is. I don’t want us to become resistant because of past ideas about religious dogma or a judging God.

Gregg Braden wrote a book called The Lost Mode of Prayer. I read that book, and I can tell you—the form of prayer he describes has never actually been lost. It is Spiritual Mind Treatment. It may be misunderstood. It may feel hidden to many. But it does not belong to any religion or sect. In truth, we are using this form of prayer every time we open our mouths.

Every time we say:
“I am poor,”
“I am stuck,”
“I am so sick of this,”

—or—

“I am happy,”
“I feel rich,”

we are praying.

Why? Because we are identifying with those statements. To say “I am” is to declare identity. It is to take ownership of a state of being. And the Law—this Universal Intelligence—responds to that identity with precision. The answer to the prayer is in the prayer because the consciousness from which we speak determines the experience that follows.

No prayer goes unanswered. And it is not an outside Power deciding our fate. It is the identity from which we are living that shapes our demonstration. This brings us to the second step of Spiritual Mind Treatment.

Today, it is often called Unification. But Ernest Holmes originally called it Identification—and personally, I prefer that word. Because this step is about claiming identity. Identification is the moment we stop asking life to change and begin becoming the one for whom change is natural.

We have already begun to feel into the Presence—that Universal Power that is everywhere present. Now we go further. To effectively treat, we must begin to claim this Power as our very breath, our soul, our consciousness.

This is not about words. This is about communion. It is about letting go of anything that appears to stand between us and this Power. As the mystic Meister Eckhart once said: “Between God and the soul there is no between.” Are you ready to claim this Power as your own?

Many people do not experience the life they desire—not because it is unavailable—but because, at some level, they do not feel deserving. You might resist that idea. But I can tell you from my own life—I lived for years feeling undeserving. When I first came to this teaching, I was dealing with sciatica and was deeply in debt. I could not experience healing until I forgave myself and realized that no one was holding anything against me…except me.

Ernest Holmes wrote: “The person who dares to fling their thought into Universal Intelligence with the assurance of one who realizes their divine nature…will find an ever-creative good at hand to aid them. To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate.”

In simpler terms: Nothing in our lives happens by accident or by fate alone. We are participating in the creation of our lives with every thought we think, every word we speak, and every level of love we allow ourselves to feel.

So, let’s take this moment to consider a new identity. Joe Dispenza often speaks about people who have healed from illness—not by focusing on the illness itself, but by becoming entirely different people. They began to love themselves. They began to feel their own worth. They began to embody a new identity. And from that new identity, the old conditions could no longer remain.

I believe this is the essence of Identification. We can expand our identity as we forgive, as we love, and as we consciously choose to do so.

Pace, Gioia, Amore per sempre (Peace, Joy, Love Always),
Rev. Dr. Rita Andriello-Feren