PPS Oral Exam Flashcards
What’s Science of Mind?
A spiritual teaching founded by Ernest Holmes as a culmination of the great truths of all religions and science. The fundamental teaching is that we are all one with God and with the process of creating reality through thought.
What’s a practitioner?
Practitioners are committed to learning, practicing, and applying Science of Mind teachings. Practitioners have a daily spiritual practice, are living examples of our teaching and faith, and are consistently revealing spiritual truths. Practitioners also provide spiritual support and prayer.
What is a specific demonstration you have seen for yourself?
I have seen many. Release of the self-deficiency focus that drove my psyche for most of my life before my 50s. Re-connection to love with my partner during a highly contentious time in our relationship. Finding a job that was a great fit with me in culture, mission, compensation, and business type. Healing a strained calf.
What is a current situation that you are working through.
I’m reprogramming my self-talk to clean up unconscious habitual failure-focused thought.
What has been a specific demonstration you had for others?
My mother reached a higher place of love with herself and peace with the Universe’s love for her before she passed on recently.
Describe your path, transformation, and unfolding in becoming a practitioner.
Supporting others calls to me, pulls me, and draws me. Supporting others serves me in that it calls for and supports my own healing and growth, and provides the meaning I seek in this life.
I’ve been transformed by profound and deep healing and growth. My healing has been in releasing chronic lifelong undiagnosed anxiety through counselling, medication, and spiritual study. A lifetime of self-deficiency focus has been replaced with a focus on the true good that is.
I see myself unfolding slowly and in directions that will be revealed to me at the perfect time. In the present, I am focused on using my practitioner course to help me be a better husband, father, relative, professional, friend, and citizen, as well as to serve with excellence as a licensed practitioner in our member community. I’m open to future clarity on what directions I can serve best in. I could see these being anything from continuing practitioner service to the ministry.
What does active mean?
An active practitioner is frequently involved in sacred services with and outreach to the member community. An active practitioner attends services frequently and also supports the member community through programs and activities. An active practitioner takes the initiative to find creative ways to be active under challenge
What does loyal mean?
A loyal practitioner holds the highest and best interests of the member community by promoting harmony and oneness, being grounded in truth, and having loyalty that is balanced and healthy. A loyal practitioner also behaves in congruence with CSL Shared Values and Guiding Principles.
What does supporting mean?
A supporting practitioner gives to the member community with a tithing consciousness, asks “what can I do”, and fosters harmony, growth, and spiritual integrity.
How does is an active, loyal, and supporting practitioner demonstrate being so?
Enthusiastically involved in events as a practitioner and member.
Appreciates and honors community leadership.
Understands own leadership role in modeling Science of Mind principles in action.
Adds value to the member community with financial support, time, talent, and creative expression.
Committed to the highest good.
Has a loving heart.
Has relationships of open communication, collaboration, mutual growth, and mutual understanding.
How does a loyal practitioner resolve conflict within the member community leadership.
Through personal practice (prayer, practice, consciousness, and directly with those in conflict with).
In confidence by refraining from gossip and complaining, and by talking only with those who can help us grow spiritually to a better outcome.
By being direct in speaking with those in conflict with, and by sharing feelings with personal perspective about perceptions, feelings, and personal experience.
By getting help with conflict mediation and asking for support.
By following Policy and Procedure Manual Section 7.1 Code of Ethics and if necessary, contacting Home Offices Department of Ethics and Professionalism.
What’s most important in delivering an invocation?
Ask if 5-stage or not (usually not).
Stages 1 and 2, plus affirming the good unfolding in the time to come together.
What’s most important in delivering a benediction?
Names the good accomplished, then Steps 4 and 5 (without mention of automatic action of the law).
