I believe I can successfully handle all the problems that will arise today. “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. Every morning before arising, lie relaxed in bed and deliberately drop happy thoughts into your conscious mind.” (61) If an unhappiness thought should enter your mind, immediately stop, consciously eject it, and substitute a happiness thought. “Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day. The unhappiness-producing process always makes important use of the ingredients of fear and worry.” (60) Our unhappiness is further distilled by saturating the consciousness with feelings of resentment, ill will, and hate. “We manufacture our own unhappiness by thinking unhappy thoughts, by the attitudes which we habitually take, such as the negative feeling that everything is going to turn out badly, or that other people are getting what they do not deserve and we are failing to get what we do deserve. 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 for which God endowed the young.” (58) “Children are more expert in happiness than adults. I choose happiness,” and you can be quite certain of having your choice.” (58) But say to yourself, “Things are going nicely. Go around telling yourself that things aren’t going well, that nothing is satisfactory, and you can be quite sure of being unhappy. It is the easiest thing in the world to accomplish. The more you pray for other people, especially those not connected with you, the more prayer results will come back to you.” (56) Resentment is blockade number one of spiritual power. Pray for people you do not like or who have mistreated you. Ask for the ability to do your best and to leave the results confidently to God. Practice the attitude of putting everything in God’s hands. Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. Only positive thoughts get results.Īlways express willingness to accept God’s will. Pray with the belief that sincere prayers can reach out and surround your loved ones with God’s love and protection. The more you do this every day the nearer you will feel God’s presence.ĭo not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God’s blessings are being vien, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks. Utilize minute prayers by closing your eyes to shut out the world and concentrating briefly on God’s presence. Pray as you go about the business of the day, on the subway or bus or at your desk. Do not think you must use stereotyped pious phrases. Then pray orally, using simple, natural words. This will make your mind spiritually receptive. “Following are ten rules for getting effective results from prayer: When either failure or success is picturized it strongly tends to actualize in terms equivalent to the mental image pictured.” (46) People who assume failure tend to have failure. The man who assumes success tends already to have success. “The basic factor in psychology is the realizable wish. The result is that he tires quickly.” (37) “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 won’t have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.” (35) The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. If you’re not getting into good causes, no wonder you’re tired. Don’t sit around moaning about things, reading the papers, and saying, “Why don’t they do something?” The man who is out doing something isn’t tired. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired doing nothing. You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. “He was pouring himself out, and you never lose energy and vitality in so doing. Then conceive of your mind as likewise relaxing.” (34) “It is not hard work that drains off energy but emotional upheaval.” (31) If your mind is intensely interested, you can keep on at an activity indefinitely.” (29) If your mind tells you that you are tired, the body mechanism, the nerves, and the muscles accept the fact. “How we think we feel has a definite effect on how we actually feel physically. “People who were carrying worries in their minds might go to the stern of the vessel and imaginatively take each anxious thought out of the mind, drop it overboard, and watch it disappear in the wake of the ship.” (18) “If you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paper and make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you.” If you like the quotes, buy the book here. Below are the quotes I found most interesting. I recently read The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |