The world's greatest thinkers, philosophers, educators and religious leaders proclaim through the ages...

YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS MAKE IT

Your thoughts control your life. But you control your thoughts. You are free to think success thoughts — positive thoughts or failure — negative thoughts.

Here are a few of the great men who emphasize: "Our thoughts control our lives."

HENRY FORD: "Whether you think you'll succeed, or think you'll fall, you are right."
EMERSON: "All thought tends to convert itself into action."
WILLIAM JAMES: "Dynamic thought or belief helps create the actual fact."
BUDDHA: "All that we are is the result of our past thoughts."
THE BIBLE: "As a man thinketh, so is he."

These are but a few. Many whole books have been written on this single theme. It forms the basis of all the books on "Positive Thinking and Positive Mental Attitude."

I assume you want quick results. Although positive thinking alone can in time revolutionize your life, this step alone takes a long time ...usually years.

Fortunately, there's a quicker way than positive thinking. That's the method of ACTION, DOING, EXERCISE, PRACTICE. You'll develop more power, physical, mental, or any skill in 30 minutes of practice than in 20 years of positive thinking.

No one ever became a champion athlete or master musician in 20 years of positive thinking about music or athletics UNLESS HE ALSO PRACTICED. Even the Bible states: “Faith without works is dead”.

But the fastest method of all, so far discovered, is action and positive thinking combined. That's the method used in this program.

I have the greatest respect for Positive Thinking, Affirmations, Auto Suggestion, Meditation, Self Image Psychology, Cybernetic Goal Seeking, Self Hypnosis and other psychic aids. I recommend them and use some of them myself. Athletic and stage directors use them to help turn losers into winners.

All of them help. But let's face it. That's all they do. They merely help. Their chief help is that they motivate us to take action ...they activate idle brain cells to think up ways to realize our aims. They impel us from within to explore all angles.

When we wander from our goal, they draw us through Cybernetic action straight back to our goal. When we become discouraged, a new group of brain cells spurs us to continue. When we meet obstacles another group of brain cells goes to work to find ways to lick those obstacles.

Yes, all these psychic aids are helpful. But the actual developing is brought about by action, by doing, by practice. Whether you want to develop your muscles, your mind or some skill, the real DEVELOPER is ACTION, PRACTICE. Only ACTION gets things done. Only action moves mountains.

The factor that makes this program different from others ...that makes it a high speed program, is action, doing, practice.

Just as a man alone is not a unit of society, nor a woman alone, but the two together form a single unit, so positive thinking alone, or action alone, are strictly limited. Joined together they can become miracle workers ...can revolutionize your life ...fast.

Positive thinking and a positive mental attitude are about the same as KEEPING OUR HIGHEST MOMENTS PERMANENT.

IF… ONLY WE COULD MAKE OUR HIGHEST MOMENTS PERMANENT!

What magnificent beings we would be — what great things we could accomplish. But, since the spirit is willing, but the flesh weak, we let our resolutions cool — our visions fade — until it's more convenient to carry them out — and they are gone — forever.

Why? I don't know why our minds work that way, but I do know how to remedy it. There is a limit to the intensity of any resolution. There's also a limit as to how long it will last. But, fortunately, there's no limit to how often we can renew it.

As our bodies need daily food for top performance, so we need daily mental food for our minds, wills, and spirits, for top performance. We need reminders not once a year, or quarterly, or monthly, or weekly. We need to be reminded EVERY DAY.

Since much of our success depends on keeping our highest moments permanent — keeping an optimistic attitude, we'll begin with one of the most effective of all methods: AUTO SUGGESTION — talking to ourselves.

AUTO SUGGESTION - THE POWER BUILDER

Henry Kaiser, America's greatest builder; William. James, our greatest psychologist, and most other great thinkers tell us: "Never neglect that powerful aid: auto suggestion, for developing confidence and courage and an optimistic attitude." Talking to ourselves is a dynamic tool for changing ourselves from losers to winners — often instantly.

Auto suggestion harnesses the powerful subconscious mind — that universal mind — the God mind, where all power dwells, and where all things are possible.

Recently, promoters have given auto suggestion fancy names like: SELF IMAGE PSYCHOLOGY, CYBERNETIC GOAL STRIVING, SLEEP LEARNING, HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION, AUTOMATIC COMPUTER, BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHIC this and that. They are all good, but what they all boil down to is just old fashioned auto suggestion, as promoted by Coue with his: EVERY DAY, IN EVERY WAY, I'M GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. Even the Bible states: LET THE WEAK SAY, "I AM STRONG."

“I HAVE PROMISED MY GOD THAT I WILL DO IT." That auto suggestion by Abraham Lincoln did more to free the slaves than all his years of silent thinking and all the discussions in Congress and in the antislavery organizations.

Few people realize the gigantic creative power of boldly asserting that they are, or have or can do the thing they want. Great things are achieved by people having an overmastering conviction, spoken aloud that they can do a thing.

Tell yourself daily (out loud if alone) I am strong, healthy, prosperous, popular, lucky, confident, courageous, because I am heir to all of nature's infinite supply.

There's nothing that will lift a coward to heroic deeds like telling himself: I am BOLD, STRONG, VIGOROUS. The intensity of your claim gives it driving power — helps it penetrate that powerful, subconscious mind. The more intense, the deeper it penetrates and the longer it will last.

I am often asked: "When we are feeling blue and depressed, does it really help to say, 'I'm strong, happy, cheerful'?" YES, IT SURELY DOES. Why? Because by forcing positive thoughts you are expelling negative ones. We can't think two opposite thoughts at the same time. Our thoughts control our attitudes and feelings. By changing our thoughts we change our feelings. Even the Bible says: LET THE WEAK SAY, I AM STRONG. Keep your mind filled with positives and there will be no room for negatives. That's the whole purpose of these daily affirmations — to keep our highest moments permanent.

There is much more power in words spoken aloud than in silent thinking. It makes a deeper impression on the mind — reaches deeper into the subconscious mind. It's remembered longer and has a greater impact on us, just as written words have a greater impact than silent thinking.

We are so used to our silent thoughts (they're usually constant) that they impress us little or not at all. Stoutly and strongly and constantly tell yourself you can do, or be, or have whatever it is you want. Don't say; I will be a success. Say; I am a success now. Tell yourself, since you were made in God's image, you are part of his universe — that rightful-heir of all the good things in nature.

Telling yourself that you have a thing often arouses powers you never knew you had. They were there all the time, but latent, asleep. Our talking to ourselves discovers and awakens them.

When once you get a glimpse of the giant power within you and experience its help, you'll never again be satisfied with a half life. There's no fault, large or small, you can't cure by courageously talking to yourself. But never assert negatively.
Never say, "I am not weak." Say, "I am strong." Auto suggestion in its highest form is an appeal to our higher self, to that God within.

It's never too late to claim our birthright, no matter how low morally or financially we have sunk. There's always more good than bad in EVERYBODY. But we must not claim it timidly, but bravely. We must realize we are part of God's great treasure, heirs to all abundance — all power.

THE TWO MOST POWERFUL TIMES OF THE DAY

All great thinkers have established that any seriously wanted desire permeates the deep, subconscious mind and tends to attract that desired object. They have also established that the best time for auto suggestion is when the conscious mind is least active. That's when the conscious mind is least likely to interfere or limit the subconscious from accepting our suggestions. In the evening, just before falling asleep, and in the morning, before we are fully awake, are excellent times.

Take advantage of these two times. At night, just before dropping off to sleep, repeat your suggestions. At the same time, form as clear a mental picture of the thing you want to do, or be, or have, as you can and as already yours.

However troubled or worried you are, take time to compose yourself and get into a good mood before retiring. The mind processes that are working when retiring continue many hours during the night. These impressions before retiring tend to influence the mind in the direction of the dominant impressions.

The mental bath before retiring is just as vital as the physical bath. Before retiring always fill your mind with expectations and hopes. Imagine the person you want to be as perfect, ideal. Peaceful, tranquil thoughts before retiring can actually add years to your life.

We are just beginning to realize the giant creative power of our subconscious minds as the great inner mental computer to build the kind of life we want. Our subconscious minds are just as active when we are asleep as when awake. Take advantage of this inner computer to help you become what you want to be or have or do. Great inventors — Edison, Kettering, Newton, and others — have long known how to enlist their subconscious minds to solve problems and invent new things.

Don't be disappointed if you don't get immediate results. Your present state was not developed overnight. It was built up by years of thinking, acting, and doing. Patience works wonders.

Walt Whitman used to affirm: “I myself am good fortune. I am good luck. I am part of the great resources of the universe. They were made for me. They are my birthright. They are mine.”

We can conquer our moods. We can become what we want to be. By auto suggestion, we can work almost miracles with our lives, regardless of our present state. We can change it. By auto suggestion we can convert ourselves into magnets to attract anything we want.

There is much talk about preventive medicine. It's excellent. It's the wave of the future. But it's just as vital in the mental field. By constant auto suggestion we can keep positive thoughts which will automatically keep negatives out.

That old teaching that man was born in sin and is a worm of the dust is gradually giving way to the kind God, making man in God's image, lifting him to divine heights, a part of the great universe. Instead of the weak, degraded being, the new philosophy shows man as exalted, sublime, divine, with new dignity, new meaning. More and more we are learning it's a crime to depreciate ourselves — God's creatures, just below the angels.

The new philosophy shows that we are largely the products of our own making. If we are worms of the dust, it is we who made us that way by our own thoughts, words, choices, and actions. It's true that God created us, but WE OURSELVES molded our characters.

In short, the new philosophy is showing us that thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and moods are seeds that produce harvests like themselves. So it's up to us whether we'll cash in on the new philosophy, or continue believing we are victims of original sin and eternal Hell is our fate.

It's only in recent years that advanced thinkers are making it known that WE BECOME WHAT WE MOST CONTINUALLY THINK ABOUT. In fact, William James claims that's the most valuable and useful discovery in all psychology.

And our out loud auto suggestions will do more to help us attract the things we want to have, or do, or be, than anything else, with the possible exception of writing it down as our constant reminders.

At least once every day resolutely affirm: I am power, I am courage, I am health, I am vigor, I am strong, I'm unconquerable, I'm abundance because I was made in the likeness of God. I am all good, all supply, because I'm the heir of all the abundance of the universe.

By Frank Tibolt, author of A Touch of Greatness

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