Stillness · “Stillness Reveals”
Realizing the Power Within
Turn inward and consciously realize the Infinite Life and Power of God at one’s own centre — so that one acts from that realized contact rather than from a sense of weakness.
Morning and evening, sit quietly and turn attention inward to your own centre. Realize — don’t beg — that the Infinite Life and Power of God is already here, and that you are one with it. Affirm: “Within me are infinite powers seeking expression… now I will that they be called into activity.” Hold it until it is felt, not just spoken. Then carry that settled confidence into your work. (A realization that builds inner confidence — not a guarantee of outcomes; keep your practical action.)
What it is
The root practice of Hamblin’s whole system. Where most New Thought “indwelling power” teachers stay vague, Hamblin’s claim is blunt and theistic: “Man possesses, did he but know it, illimitable Power. This Power is of the Spirit, therefore, it is unconquerable.” The work is not to acquire power but to realize a Power already present at one’s own centre — the Infinite Life of God, in whom “we live, and move, and have our being.” He calls the failure of most people simple ignorance of this: “There is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things.” So the practice is a daily, deliberate inward turning and realization: “Look within for Power… If you are perplexed, look within, and light and leading will come, for you are one with, and form a part of, the Great Universal Mind.” This is a realization practice (becoming consciously aware that the Power is here, now, within), distinct from a breath protocol or a trance.
The Method
Faithful to Hamblin (Within You is the Power; affirmation from Dynamic Thought):
- Set aside time, morning and evening. Hamblin prescribes a regular short sitting — “daily practice: morning and evening, set aside time to realize your true nature.” No special posture; an undisturbed quiet is enough.
- Turn the attention inward, to your own centre. “Look within for Power. Man has, in his subliminal mind, transcendental faculties, but to the multitude, these are unsuspected and undiscovered.” Withdraw attention from outer noise and direct it to the indwelling Life.
- Realize the Power is already present — God within. The aim is realization, not request: feel and acknowledge that the Infinite Life and Power of God is here, at your centre, and that you are “one with, and form a part of, the Great Universal Mind.” Hamblin insists results turn on this: “It is all a question of realization.”
- Affirm it deliberately. His core affirmation: “Within me are infinite powers seeking expression. In the past, because I did not know of their existence, they have been stifled and suppressed. Now I ‘will’ that they shall be called into activity, and find perfect and full expression.”
- Claim the oneness. “Now by the power of my thought-forces I am allied with and joined to the Infinite Principle of Good, and we have become one.” Hold this until it is felt, not merely said.
- Carry the realized contact into action. “Have you a great task to perform? Look within, and you will find all the strength, energy, perseverance and ability that you require.” Then go and act from that settled sense, not from anxiety.
Source & Lineage
Within You is the Power (1921), Ch. I “Infinite Life and Power” and Ch. XIII; the working affirmation is from Dynamic Thought (1921), “Meditate on the Infinite Powers Within” and “Look within for Power.” Henry Thomas Hamblin (1873–1958), a British optician turned mystic who founded the Science of Thought Review (1921).
His “indwelling Power” descends from Ralph Waldo Trine’s In Tune with the Infinite and the wider New Thought “God within” theme, but Hamblin grounds it in an explicit, devotional theism (Cosmic Law, the omnipresence and all-goodness of God).
Common refinements
Reciting instead of realizing. Hamblin is explicit: “It is all a question of realization.” The affirmation does nothing as dry words; it must become a felt recognition.
- Begging rather than claiming. This is not petition (“please give me power”) but recognition (“the Power is already here”). Petition keeps you in lack.
- Grandiosity / magical expectation. “Illimitable Power” can inflate, or curdle into self-blame on failure. Hold the modest true claim — “I have more capacity than I’m using” — rather than literal limitlessness.
- Forcing. Hamblin himself warns against forced trances and psychic-development tricks; keep it a calm, sober realization.