THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.  But with sound self confidence, you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self confidence leads to self realization and successful achievement.

          The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith.  Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.    

          If your mind is obsessed by thought of insecurity and inadequacy it is, of course, due to the fact that such ideas have dominated your thinking over a long period of time. 

          We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think.  In our thoughts, we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.  And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.

          Lack of self confidence apparently is one of the greatest problems besetting people today.

                   Everywhere you encounter people who are inwardly afraid, who shrink from life, who suffer from a deep sense of inadequacy and insecurity, who doubt their own powers.

 Attitudes are more important than facts. That is worth repeating until its truth grips you.  Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude towards that fact.

  They conquer who believe they can. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain”.  Practise confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities will soon have no power over you.

Following are ten simple, workable rules for overcoming inadequacy attitudes. 

1. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.  Hold this picture tenaciously.

2. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

3. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination

4. Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them.

5. Ten times a day repeat these dynamic words : If God be for us, who can be against us.

6. Ten times each day practice the following affirmation, repeating it out loud if possible.  “I can do all things through God which strengthened me.

7. Make a true estimate of your own ability.  Then raise it ten percent.

8. Put yourself in God’s hands.  To do that simply state : “I am in God’s hands.”

9. Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you.  Believe that you now RECEIVE power from him.

10.                   Get a competent counselor to help you understand why you do what you do.

A Peaceful Mind Generates Power

The essence of the secret lies in a change of mental attitude.

Silence is a healing, soothing, healthy practice.  No man or woman of my acquaintance who knows how to practice silence and does it has ever been sick to my knowledge.

In the circumstances of modern life with its acceleration of pace, the practice of silence is admittedly not so simple as it was in the days of our forefathers. A vast number of noise producing gadgets exist that they did not know and our daily programme is more hectic.

          There is a factor in the matter of inner peace which must be stated because of its importance.  Frequently I find that people who are lacking in inner peace are victims of a self-punishment mechanism.  At some time in their experience, they have committed a sin and the sense of guilt haunts them.

How To Have Constant Energy

How we think we feel has a definite effect on how we actually feel physically.  If your mind tells you that you are tired, the body mechanism, the nerves, and the muscles accept the fact.  If your mind is intensely interested, you can keep on at an activity indefinitely.

By supplying attitudes of faith to the mind, it can increase energy.

The body is designed to produce all needed energy over an amazingly long period of time.  If the individual takes reasonable care of his body from the standpoint of proper diet, exercise, sleep, no physical abuse, the body will produce and maintain astonishing energy and sustain itself in good health.

          The natural state of the individual when body, mind, and spirit work harmoniously is that of a continuous replacement of necessary energy.

Every great personality, who has demonstrated the capacity for prodigious work has been a person in tune with the Infinite.  Every such person seems in harmony with nature and in contact with the Divine energy.

                   The effect of guilt and fear feelings on energy is widely recognized by all authorities having to do with the problems of human nature.

          Energy drainage occasioned by fear and guilt is of such an amount as to leave little power to be applied to a person’s job.

          You must eradicate fear and guilt before you will ever be able to sleep and regain your strength.

Try Prayer Power

           

Why not try prayer power?

Experts in physical health and well being often utilize prayer in their therapy, Disability, tension, and kindred troubles may result from a lack of inner harmony.        

          People are doing more praying today than formerly because they find that it adds to personal efficiency. Prayer helps them to tap forces and to utilize strength not otherwise available.

 “Prayer is the greatest power available to the individual in solving his personal problems.  Its power astonishes me.”

          It is important to realise that you are dealing with the most tremendous power in the world when you pray.  You would not use an old-fashioned kerosene lamp for illumination.       .

          Following are ten rules for getting effective results from prayer :

·       Set aside a few minutes every day. Do not say anything.  Simply practise thinking about God.  This will make your mind spiritually receptive.

·       Then pray orally, using simple, natural words. Tell God anything that is on your mind.  Do not think you must use stereotyped pious phrases.  Talk to God in your own language. He understands it.

·       Pray as you go about the business of the day, on the subway or bus or at your desk.  Utilise minute prayers by closing your eyes to shut out the world and concentrating briefly on God’s presence.  The more you do this every day the nearer you will feel God’s presence.

·       Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God’s blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

·       Pray with the belief that sincere prayers can reach out and surround your loved ones with God’s love and protection.

·       Never use a negative thought in prayer.  Only positive thoughts get results.

·       Always express willingness to accept God’s will.  Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you.  It may be better than what you ask for.

·       Practice the attitude putting everything in God’s hands.  Ask for the ability to do your best and to leave the results confidently to God.

·       Pray for people you do not like or who have mistreated you.  Resentment is blockade number one of spiritual power.

·       Make a list of people for whom to pray.  The more you pray for other people, especially those not connected with you, the more prayer results will come back to you.

How To Create Your Own Happiness

Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? The answer – you do!

          A television celebrity had as a guest on his programme an aged man. It was so naïve, so apt, that the audience roared with laughter.  They loved him.  The celebrity was impressed, and enjoyed it with the others. Finally he asked the old man why he was so happy. “you must have a wonderful secret of happiness”

          “No,” replied the old man, “I haven’t any great secret.  It’s just as plain as the nose on your face.  When I get up in the morning. he explained, “I have two choices-either to be happy or to be unhappy, and what do you think I do? I just choose to be happy, and that’s all there is to it.”

          Children are more expert in happiness than adults. The adult who can carry the spirit of a child into middle and old age is a genius, for he will preserve the truly happy spirit with which God endowed the young. 

         

          Out of the happiness habit comes happy life because we can cultivate a habit, we therefore have the power to create our own happiness.

          The happiness habit is developed by simply practicing happy thinking.  Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

          While dressing or shaving or getting breakfast, say aloud a few such remarks as the following : I believe this is going to be a wonderful day.  I believe I can successfully handle all problems that will arise today. I feel good physically, mentally, emotionally.

          I once knew an unhappy sort of fellow who always said to his wife at breakfast : This is going to be another tough day, it might turn out pretty well. But things really started going badly with him, which was not surprising, for if you visualize and affirm an unhappy outcome, you tend thereby to create just that type of condition.  So affirm happy outcomes at the start of every day, and you will be surprised at how often things will turn out so.

          If happiness is determined by our thoughts it is necessary to drive off the thoughts which make for depression and discouragement.

Stop Fuming And Fretting

          Many people make life unnecessarily difficult for themselves by dissipating power and energy through fuming and fretting.

           We need to stop fuming and fretting and get peaceful if we are to have power to live effectively.

          A first step is to reduce your pace or at least the tempo of your pace.  We do not realise how accelerated the rate of our lives has become, or the speed at which we are driving ourselves.

          This is impossible to have peace of soul if the pace is so feverishly accelerated.  God won’t go that fast.  He will not endeavor to keep up with you.

                   To attain this efficient state of living, the practice of thinking peaceful thoughts is recommended. Every day we perform a series of acts designed to care for the body properly.

          At least once in every twenty-four hours, preferably in the busiest part of the day, deliberately stop whatever you are doing for ten or fifteen minutes and practice serenity.

          In attaining emotional control, the daily practice of healing techniques is of first importance. Emotional control cannot be gained in any magical or easy way.  You cannot develop it by merely reading a book, although that is often helpful.  The only sure method is by working at it regularly, persistently, scientifically, and by developing creative faith.

Following is a technique consisting of six points  :

       I.      Sit relaxed in a chair.  Completely yield yourself to the chair. Starting with your toes and proceeding to the top of your head, conceive of every portion of the body as relaxing.  Affirm relaxation by saying : “My toes are relaxed-my fingers-my facial muscles”.

    II.      Think of your mind as the surface of a lake in a storm, tossed by waves and in tumult.  But now the waves subside, and the surface of the lake is placid and unruffled.

 III.      Spend two or three minutes thinking of the most beautiful and peaceful scenes you have ever beheld.

IV.      Repeat slowly, quietly, bringing out the melody in each, a series of words which express quietness and peace.

a Tranquility b Serenity c Quietness

Think of other such words and repeat them.

  V.      Make a mental list of times in your life when you have been conscious of God’s watchful care and recall how, when you were worried and anxious. Then recite aloud “So long thy power hath kept me, sure it STILL will lead me on.”

VI.      Repeat the following, which has an amazing power to relax and quiet the mind “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee”.  Repeat this several times during the day. This is the best known medicine for taking tension from the mind.

Expect The Best And Get It

          A law recognized alike by psychology and religion, namely, change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief.  Learn to expect, not to doubt.

          A major key to success in this life, at attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and through all there is of yourself into your job or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you’ve got.  Give every bit of your self.  Hold nothing back. Life cannot deny itself to the person who gives life his all.  But most people, unfortunately, don’t do that.  In fact, very few people do, and this is a tragic cause of failure, or, if not failure, it is the reason we only half attain.

Let me give you four words as formulation of great law-FAITH POWER WORKS WONDERS.

         

I Don’t Believe In Defeat

If you are thinking thoughts of defeat, I urge you to rid yourself of such thoughts, for as you think defeat you tend to get in.  Adopt the “I don’t believe in defeated” attitude.

Do the following prayer

v   “I believe I am always divinely guided.”

v   “I believe I will always take the right turns of the road.”

v   “I believe god will always make a way where there is no way.”

Please say the following line aloud : “I don’t believe in defeat.  Continue to affirm that until the idea dominates your subconscious attitudes”.

How To Break The Worry Habit

Why should we take the worry problem thus seriously.? The reason is clear “Anxiety is the great modern plague.” and “fear is the most disintegrating enemy of human personality” and “worry is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.

A scientific expert on length of life made a study of some 450 people who lived to be one hundred years of age.  He found that these people lived long and contended lives for the following reasons : (I) They kept busy (2) They used moderation in all things (3)  They ate lightly and simply (4) They got a great deal of fun out of life. (5) They were early to bed and early up.  (6)  They were free from worry and fear, especially fear of death. (7)  They had serene minds  and faith in God.

Here are some points of  worry-breaking formula :

a)    Say to yourself – Worry is just a very bad mental habit.  And I can change any habit with God’s help.

b)    You become a worrier by practicing worry.  You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith.

c)    Pray, using this formula :  I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord’s hand.

d)    Practise saying something positive concerning everything about which you have been talking negatively.

e)    Never participate in a worry conversation.

f)     Cultivate friendship with hopeful people.  Surround yourself with friends who think positive, faith producing thoughts and who contribute to a creative atmosphere.  This will keep you re-stimulated with faith attitudes.

Power To Solve Personal Problems

There are 10 simple suggestions as concrete technique to use generally in solving your problems :

1.      Believe that every problem there is solutions

2.      Keep calm.  Tension blocks the flow of thought power.  Your brain cannot operate efficiently under stress.  Go at your problem easy like.

3.      Don’t try to force an answer.  Keep your mind relaxed so that the solution will open up and become clear.

4.      Assemble all the facts impartially, impersonally, and judicially.

5.      List these facts on paper.  This clarifies your thinking bringing the various elements into orderly system.  You see as well as think.  The problem becomes objective, not subjective.

6.      Pray about your problem, affirming that God will flash illumination into your mind.

7.      Believe in and seek God’s guidance.

8.      Trust in the faculty of insight and intuition.

9.      Go to church and let your subconscious work on the problem as you attune to the mood of worship. Creative spiritual thinking has amazing power to give “right” answers.

10.                        If you follow these steps faithfully, then the answer that develops in your mind, or comes to pass, is the right answer to your problem.

How To Use Faith In Healing

In the prevention of sickness and in healing mind and body, do not fail to draw upon one of the greatest resources available to you – The faith that heals.

Following are some practical suggestions :

·       Pray for the doctor.  Realise that God uses trained human instrumentality to aid.  His healing powers.

·       Whatever you do, do not become panicky or filled with fear, for if you do, you will send out negative thoughts and therefore destructive thoughts in the direction of your loved one when he requires positive and healing thoughts to assist him.

·       It is also important that harmony prevails in the family, that is a spiritual harmony.

·       Form a picture in your mind of the loved one as being well.  Visualise him in perfect health.  Picture him as radiant with the love and goodness of God.

When Vitality Sags, Try This Health Formula

Since irritation, anger, hate, and resentment have such a powerful effect in producing ill-health, what is the antidote ?

          A consistent application of following suggestions can produce feelings of well beings :

1.      Remember that anger is an emotion, and an emotion is always warm, even hot.  Therefore, to reduce an emotion, cool it.

2.      Say aloud to yourself : Don’t be a fool.  This won’t get me anywhere, so skip it.

3.      Make a list of everything that irritates you.  No matter how inconsequential it may be or how silly each is, list it just the same.  The purpose in doing this is to dry up the tiny rivulets that feed the great river of anger.

4.      Make each separate irritation a special object of prayer.  Get a victory over each, one at a time.

5.      Train yourself so that every time you feel the surge of anger you say : Is this really worth what it is doing to me emotionally?

6.      When a hurt feeling situation arises, get it straightened out as quickly as possible.  Don’t brood over it for a minute longer than you can help.

7.      Apply grievance drainage to your mind.  That is, open your mind and let the grievance flow out.  Go to someone you trust and pour it out to him until not a vestige of it remains within you.  Then forget it.

8.      Simply start praying for the person who has hurt your feelings.  Continue this until you feel the malice fading away.

9.      Before you have forgiven a person that many times you will be free of resentment.

Inflow Of New Thoughts Can Remake You

 “The greatest discovery of new generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” As you think, so shall you be.  So flush out all old, tired, worn-out thoughts.  Fill your mind with fresh, new creative thoughts of faith, love, and goodness.  By this process you can actually remake your life.

Relax For Easy Power

Here are some rules for taking the hard way out of your job.  Try these proven methods for working hard easily.  They will help you to relax and have easy power :

a)    Don’t get the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders.

b)    Determine to like your work.  Then it will become a pleasure, not drudgery.

c)    Plan your work- work your plan.  Lack of system produces that I’m swamped’ feeling.

d)    Don’t try to do everything at once.  That is why time is spread out.

e)    Get a correct mental attitude, remembering that ease or difficulty in your work depends upon how you think about it.

f)     Become efficient in your work.  “Knowledge is power”.  It is always easier to do a thing right.

g)    Practise being relaxed. 

h)    Discipline yourself not to put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

i)      Pray about your work.  You will get relaxed efficiency by so doing.

How To Get People To Like You

You may hear someone say :  “I don’t care whether people like me or not”.  But whenever you hear anyone say that, just put it down as a fact that he is not really telling the truth.

Here are 10 practical rules for getting the esteem of others.  The soundness of these principles has been demonstrated innumerable times.  Practise them until you become expert at them and people will like you.

1.      Learn to remember names.  Inefficiency at this point may indicate that your interest is not sufficiently outgoing.  A man’s name is very important to him.

2.      Be a comfortable person so there is no strain in being with you-be an old-shoe, old-hate kind of individual.

3.      Acquire the quality of relaxed easy-goingness so that things do not ruffle you.

4.      Don’t be egotistical.

5.      Cultivate the quality of being interesting so that people will want to be with you and get something of stimulating value from their association with you.

6.      Study to get the “scratchy” elements out of your personality, even those of which you may be unconscious.

7.      Drain off your grievances.

8.      Practice liking people until you learn to do so genuinely.

9.      Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement, or express sympathy in sorrow or disappointment.

10.                        Get a deep spiritual experience so that you have something to give people that will help them to be stronger and meet life more effectively.  Give strength to people and they will give affection to you.

How To Draw Upon That Power

This power is constantly available.  If you open to it, it will rush in like a mighty tide.  It is there for any body under any circumstances or in any condition.  This tremendous inflow of power is of such force that, in its inrush, it dives everything before it, casting out fear, hate, sickness, weakness, moral defeat, scattering them as though they had never touched you, refreshing and re-strengthening your life with health, happiness and goodness.