There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
1. Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world.I
²It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance, or any limits of any kind.
³The power of your holiness is absolutely unlimited because it establishes you as a Son of God, in union with the Mind of your Creator.
⁴Through your holiness, the Power of God is made manifest.
⁵Through your holiness, the Power of God is made available to you.
⁶And there is nothing the Power of God cannot do.
2. Your holiness, then, can remove all pain, end all sorrow, and solve all problems.
²It can do so in connection with yourself and with anyone else.
³It can help anyone equally, because its power to save is the same for everyone.
⁴If you are holy, so is everything God created.
⁵You are holy because all things He created are holy.
⁶And all things He created are holy because you are.
3. In today’s exercises, we will apply the power of your holiness to all problems, difficulties, or suffering of any kind that you or anyone else may seem to experience.
²We will make no distinctions because there are none.
4. In the four longer practice periods—each preferably five minutes—repeat today’s idea, close your eyes, and then search your mind for any sense of loss or unhappiness of any kind, as you perceive it.
²Try to make as little distinction as possible between situations that are difficult for you and those that are difficult for someone else.
³Identify each situation specifically, and also name the person concerned.
⁴Apply today’s idea in this way:
⁵In the situation involving ____ in which I see myself, there is nothing my holiness cannot do.
⁶In the situation involving ____ in which ____ sees himself, there is nothing my holiness cannot do.
5. From time to time, you may wish to vary the procedure and add some thoughts of your own that seem relevant.
²You may, for example, include thoughts such as:
³There is nothing my holiness cannot do because the Power of God lies in it.
⁴Introduce any variation that appeals to you, but keep the exercises focused on the central idea: There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
⁵The purpose of today’s exercises is to begin instilling in you the awareness that you have dominion over all things because of what you are.II
6. In the shorter and more frequent applications, use the idea in its original form, unless a specific problem arises for you or someone else.
²In that case, apply the idea specifically to that problem.
I The “laws of this world” are the result of having misunderstood your own identity. They are the natural consequence of considering yourself separate from God and blaming yourself for it. They are the projection outward of this guilt, which now seems to threaten you.
That is not true. It is a situation you imagine and sustain in your mind through the power of your belief. You have imprisoned yourself with that description of yourself you have accepted as true. Again, it is not true.
The truth is that you are holy, because you remain as God created you, even though in your arrogance and confusion you think otherwise and punish yourself for it. Your holiness has the power to undo all this for the simple reason that it is the truth.
To exercise that power, to make it effective in your awareness so it can correct the nightmare you live in, you simply have to believe differently. Until that happens, you will not be able to make effective the power of your holiness, which, though all-encompassing, cannot restrict the freedom God gave you to create as you will.
There is nothing the power of your holiness cannot do, but it is also true there is nothing the power of your belief cannot make you believe. While you do not have the power to change what you are—the perfect Son of God—you do have the power to believe whatever you wish.
II Genesis 1:28: “And God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”
The word “dominion“ here does not refer to dominion over people or things, but over your own attack thoughts, which shape the world as you perceive it: “…all manner of problem, difficulty or suffering that may occur to you…” (3:1).
“…you have dominion over all things because of what you are”—the creator in your mind of your own thoughts.
Remember that the world you believe you live in is of your own making, for you have created it for yourself by believing in it.
This reinterpretation shifts the focus from an external sense of control to an internal dominion of the mind. To subdue is not to impose will upon the outer world, but gently to reclaim authority over the thoughts that generate illusions of fear, separation, and conflict.
The dominion granted in Genesis is, therefore, a reflection of your innate creative power: the capacity to choose the thoughts you believe in, to discern between truth and illusion. This is the true meaning of creation—not to shape the external world by force, but to shape your inner world through the recognition of your holiness.
In this understanding, the biblical passage transcends its traditional interpretation and aligns with the central teaching of the Course: “You have dominion over all things because of what you are.” This dominion does not refer to power over others, but to the sovereignty of the mind that remembers its unity with God.