New Thought Philly Sunday Inspiration
Oct 18, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Rev. Bill Marchiony is back to share some of the insight from the 2026 ANTN Retreat at Unity Village. The ...
Bill MarchionyHost
My friend Skip Jennings reminded us that even though we are spiritual beings, we live in our bodies.
He calls it the body temple, and that one of our first responsibilities is to take care of the body temple so that we can live the life and experience that we're having.
She did a talk about beyond affirmations, and she refers to herself as a practical prayer junkie or a spiritual mind treatment junkie.
And she's also noticed that if you are trying to do a prayer, either for yourself or for someone else, and there's resistance or there's doubt or there's hesitation, the prayer's not going to work.
So when I'm doing a session with a client, if I believe that something new and wonderful is possible for the client, and the client doesn't believe it, then nothing's really going to change because it's done according to the combined belief.
When there's a little bit of opening for the client, then that new belief that I'm bringing in becomes really powerful.
We can get frozen up, and it's something that we're maybe not even aware of mentally or emotionally, but when our nervous system shuts down, then we're not receptive.
But if your nervous system is not being receptive, one of the things you can do is just put your hands on either shoulder.
And this tends to synchronize the hemispheres of the brain and can calm down our nervous system a little bit.
And you'd think, how can it do that? And the answer is, it's none of your business how.
My friend Skip Jennings reminded us that even though we are spiritual beings, we live in our bodies.
He calls it the body temple, and that one of our first responsibilities is to take care of the body temple so that we can live the life and experience that we're having.
She did a talk about beyond affirmations, and she refers to herself as a practical prayer junkie or a spiritual mind treatment junkie.
And she's also noticed that if you are trying to do a prayer, either for yourself or for someone else, and there's resistance or there's doubt or there's hesitation, the prayer's not going to work.
So when I'm doing a session with a client, if I believe that something new and wonderful is possible for the client, and the client doesn't believe it, then nothing's really going to change because it's done according to the combined belief.
When there's a little bit of opening for the client, then that new belief that I'm bringing in becomes really powerful.
We can get frozen up, and it's something that we're maybe not even aware of mentally or emotionally, but when our nervous system shuts down, then we're not receptive.
But if your nervous system is not being receptive, one of the things you can do is just put your hands on either shoulder.
And this tends to synchronize the hemispheres of the brain and can calm down our nervous system a little bit.
And you'd think, how can it do that? And the answer is, it's none of your business how.
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