Applying Faith To Doubt
by Wayne Dyer
 

I cannot stress strongly enough the importance of meditation. It is through meditation that one can realize conscious contact with God and banish doubt.

Meditation is an exquisite practice for reducing stress, relieving fatigue, nourishing the soul and having a general feeling of well being. However, the primary value of meditation is in allowing you to make conscious contact with God and thus establish an inner faith that this divine presence is available at all times. This knowing within yourself that you have conscious contact with God dissolves any doubts you may have yourself and frees you from the doubts others may direct toward you. This is what constitutes faith.

I feel it is imperative to reiterate the role of meditation in establishing faith. God is indivisible, the one power, the source of all life. God is wherever you are, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. God is not only all of those things, but also always, only here in the present moment. The now, just like zero in mathematics, can never be divided. The equivalent of this indivisible oneness in your personal life experience is silence. You can never divide silence in half because there is only one, indivisible silence. Meditating and practicing this silence on a daily basis allows you to come to know God, rather than knowing about God. This direct experience, attained by silencing the mind brings you a degree of faith that remains unshaken and untouched by the doubts or fears of anyone, including yourself. This is the value of meditation in creating faith that erases all doubts. The truly enlightened and outstanding people of our world have a constant spiritual partner, God, whose voice is the voice of silence.

There are many outstanding training programs, books and tapes available to teach you the techniques of meditation. I have also discussed meditation and given specific suggestions on how to meditate in several of my earlier books including Manifest Your Destiny, Your Sacred Self, Real Magic and You’ll See It When You Believe It.

Practice developing a trust in the unknown. By the unknown I refer to that which is impervious to our senses. As incarnated physical beings we tend to rely on our senses to determine what is real. If we can’t see, touch, taste, feel or smell it, then we tend to believe it must not exist. Faith involves going beyond the senses to make spiritual consciousness the place that we trust, even though it is a frequency that vibrates so fast that it transcends the capacities of our five senses.

When I first began writing books I had an absolute faith that I would be able to have them published. My faith was always intact and firm even as I heard doubts that a beginning author would be able to secure a major publishing house, doubts from the experiences of others who told me of their failed attempts and doubts from experts who “knew” the business. As a young college professor I announced to my classes that I would have my book published and even what media outlets I would be visiting. I did this and much more from a trust in the unknown that was a burning desire to transform an idea into a physical reality. This kind of trust in the unknown is like an invisible and invincible magnet that attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and expects. It is trusting in the unknown.

Develop trust despite the absence of physical evidence as perceived by your senses. No matter the circumstances or obstacles, once you draft the dream the way can be cleared and the universe responds and works with you to manifest that idea into a physical reality. It has always worked for me.

As a child I rehearsed how I would talk on television shows. As a college student sitting in classrooms listening to bored professors regurgitating the same old material I visualized myself being uplifting, fun, entertaining and informative to large audiences around the world. I had nothing but a dream to work with in foster homes, in the US Navy and in college. If you have faith in your dreams and persistently stick to them, you will douse that smoldering fire of doubt with faith in your idea. Trust that the unknown is knowable and that it is vastly greater than the known. Or as the Buddhist proverb tells us, “If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.”

Excerpted from There’s A Spiritual Solution
To Every Problem

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is the renowned bestselling author of 15 books of nonfiction and three textbooks and has a doctorate in counseling psychology. He lectures across the country and appears regularly on radio and television.