How do we help people?  How do we help when we can see they need help but they don’t recognize their need?

Possibly the greatest internal struggle that any of us deal with is this conundrum of values.  And in the Science of Mind we run smack up against this paradox every time we are called to help another or join in a cause.  For most people the question simply comes down to time and inclination after all isn’t it obvious that we would reach out and help a sick, injured or helpless individual?  It’s the Good Samaritan thing right?

Not necessarily, not when we come to believe in the eternality of the soul, a soul with an agenda to awaken to its ability to self determine all events and encounters.  In teachings of New Thought such as the Science of Mind we believe that every human being has the power to choose the experience and chooses that experience by their individual patterns of thought both conscious and unconscious.  We believe that every individual has a deep drive, a desire, to realize their own potential. Accordingly this awakening can only happen as we take control of our thoughts and subsequent feelings.  Every time we allow outside information move us away from even subtle feelings of good we are disempowering ourselves. 

As New Thought practitioners and practitioners of the Law of Attraction it is important that we consider the sovereignty of every soul.  We must ensure that our thoughts and actions are not infringing on their freedom to choose; even when we believe their choices are causing them to suffer.  We think and choose our lives by free will. And interfering with the free will of another person by projecting upon them our personal concept of their greatest good is a form of trespassing.  It is an invasion of their personal sovereignty.

This is a very important issue not just for the person we may be wanting to help but also for ourselves because laws do not play favorites, they work all the time, even when we are unconscious of what we are doing.  So if we are unconsciously interfering with another person’s life and choices we are still interfering and the Law of Attraction is still working on us.  And we will get, in exact measure to our mental and physical output, an experience that aligns with our meddling.

Still it is human nature to desire to help another person.  The single greatest joy in life is to truly be able to participate in the enrichment of another life. All one need do is witness the elation on the faces of parents of newborns.  So how do we help?  We do best to wait until they ask for themselves and not when they ask for their children co-workers or spouses.  When a person asks for him or herself they are consciously or unconsciously giving permission.