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The Power of Positive Thinking
by Norman Vincent Peale
One
Believe in yourself
1. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture. Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures. So always picture "success" no matter how badly things seem to be going at the moment.
2. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, deliberatly voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
3. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Depreciate every so-called obstacle. Minimize them. Difficulties must be studied and efficiently dealt with to be eliminated, but they must be seen for only what they are. They must not be inflated by fear thoughts.
4. Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as YOU can. Remember also that most people, despite their confident appearence and demeanor, are often as sacred as you are and as doubtful of themselves.
5. Ten times a day repeat these dynamic words, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31) (Stop reading and repeat them NOW slowly and confidently.)
6. Get a competent counselor to help you understand why you do what you do. Learn the origin of your inferiority and self-doubt feelings which often begin in childhood. Self-knowledge leads to a cure.
7. Ten times each day practice the following affirmation, repeating it out loud if possible. "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." (Philippians 4:13) Repeat those words NOW. That magic statement is the most powerful antidote on earth to inferiority thoughts.
8. Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it to 10 percent. Do not become egotistical, but develop a wholesome self-respect. Believe in your own God-released powers.
9. Put yourself in God's hands. To do that simply state, "I am in God's hands." Then believe you are NOW receiving all the power you need. "Feel" it flowing into you. Affirm that "the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21) in the form of adequate power to meet life's demands.
10. Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now RECEIVE power from Him.
Two
A Peaceful Mind Generates Power
Practice emptying your mind of fears, hates, insecurities, regrets, and guilt feelings.
Immediatly start filling your mind with creative and healthy thoughts.
Now and then during every day allow motion pictures of peace slowly to cross your mind.
Practice the technique of suggestive articulation, that is, repeat audibly some peaceful words.
"Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient."
Another effective technique in developing a peaceful mind is the daily practice of silence. Everyone should insist upon not less than a quarter of an hour of absolute quiet every twenty-four hours. Go alone into the quietest place available to you and sit or lie down for fifteen minutes and practice the art of silence. Do not talk to anyone. Do not write. Do not read. Think as little as possible. Throw your mind into neutral. When you have attained a quiescent state, then begin to listen for the deeper sounds of harmony and beauty and of God that are to be found in the essence of silence.
Thomas Carlyle said, "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."
Ask God to "Let Thy peace flow into our mind, into our soul, and into our body."
Three
How to Have Constant Energy
"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (Isaiah 40:31)
"He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength." (Isaiah 40:29)
"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10)
To avoid tiredness and to have energy, feel your way into the essential rhythm of Almighty God and all His works.
Pray as follows: "Dear God, You are the source of all energy. You are the source of the energy in the sun, in the atom, in all flesh, in the bloodstream, in the mind. I hereby draw energy from You as from an illimitable source."
Then practice believing that you receive energy. Keep in tune with the Infinite.
Four
Try Prayer Power
Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. (Psalms 46:1)
"Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)
If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father in heaven." (Matthew 18:19)
According to your faith be it unto you (Matthew 9:29)
What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them (Mark 11:24)
Prayerize, Picturize, Actualize
1. Set aside a few minutes every day. Do not say anything. Simply practice thinking about God. This will make your mind spiritually receptive.
2. 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 languages. He understands it.
3. Pray as you go about the business of the day, on the subway or bus or at your desk. Utilize 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.
4. 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.
5. Pray with the belief that sincere prayers can reach out and surround your loved ones with God's love and protection.
6. Never use a negative thought in prayer. Only positive thoughts get results.
7. 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.
8. Practice the attitute of putting everything in God's hands. Ask for the ability to do your best and to leave the results confidently to God.
9. Pray for people you do not like or who have mistreated you. Resentment is blockade number one of spiritual power.
10. 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.
Five
How to Create Your Own Happiness
When you get up say three times "This is the day the Lord hath made. I will rejoice and be glad in it."
Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by.
"In Him was life; and the life was the light of men." (John 1:4)
Six
Stop Fuming and Fretting
1. 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."
2. 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.
3. Spend two or three minutes thinking of the most beautiful and peaceful scences you have ever beheld, as, for example, a mountain at sunset, or a deep valley filled with the hush of early morning, or a woods at noonday, or moonlight upon rippling waters. In memory relive these scenes.
4. Repeat slowly, quietly, bringing out the melody in each, a series of words which express quietness and peace, as, for example, (a) tranquillity (say it very deliberatly and in a tranquil manner); (b) serenity; (c) quietness. Think of other such words and repeat them.
5. 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, He brought things out right and took care of you. Then recite aloud this line from an old hymn, "So long Thy power hath kept me, sure it SHALL will lead me on."
6. 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." (Isaiah 26:3) Repeat this several times during the day, whenever you have a fraction of a moment. Repeat it aloud if possible, so that by the end of the day you will have said it many times. Conceive of these words as active, vital substances permeating your mind, sending into every area of your thinking a healing balm. This is the best-known medicine for taking tension from the mind.
Seven
Expect the Best and Get it
"If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." (Mark 9:23)
Throw your heart over the difficulty bar and your body will follow.
Throw the spiritual essence of you over the bar and your material self will follow in the victory groove thus pioneered by your faith-inspired mind.
Emerson said, "Beware of what you want for you will get it."
"Have faith in God for verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith." (Mark 11:22-23)
"I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best."
Eight
I Don't Believe in Defeat
"I can do all things through Christ which strentheneth me."(Philippians 4:13)
There is no difficulty you cannot overcome.
"I believe I am always divinely guided".
"I believe I will always take the right turn of the road."
"I believe God will always make a way where there is no way."
With God all things are possible.
Nine
How to Break the Worry Habit
Whatever you believe you can do, you can do, with God's help.
1. Say to yourself, "Worry is just a very bad mental habit. And I can change any habit with God's help."
2. You became a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by praciticing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.
3. How do you practice faith? First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.
4. Pray, using this formula, "I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good."
5. Practice saying something positive concerning everything about which you have been talking negatively. Talk positively. For example, don't say, "This is going to be a terrible day." Instead, affirm, "This is going to be a glorious day." Don't say, "I'll never be able to do that." Instead, affirm, "With God's help I will do that."
6. Never participate in a worry conversation. Shoot an injection of faith into all your conversations. A group of people talking pessimistically can infect every person in the group with negativism. But by talking things up rather than down you can drive off that depressing atmosphere and make everyone feel hopeful and happy.
7. One reason you are a worrier is that your mind is literally saturated with apprehension thoughts, defeat thoughts, gloomy thoughts. To counteract, mark every passage in the Bible that speaks of faith, hope, happiness, glory, radiance. Commit each to memory. Say them over and over again until these creative thoughts saturate your subconcious mind. Then the subconscious will return to you what you have given it, namely, optimism, not worry.
8. Cultivate friendships with hopeful people. Surround yourself with friends who think positive, faith-producing thoughts and who contribute to a creative atmosphere. This will keep you restimulated with faith attitudes.
9. See how many people you can help to cure their own worry habit. In helping another to overcome worry you get greater power over it within yourself.
10. Every day of your life conceive of yourself as living in partnership and companionship with Jesus Christ. If He actually walked by your side, would you be worried or afraid? Well, then, say to yourself, "He is with me." Affirm aloud, "I am with you always." Then change it to say, "He is with me now." Repeat that affirmation three times every day.
Ten
Power to Solve Personal Problems
1. Believe that for every problem there is a solution.
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 on the promise of the 73rd Psalm, "Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel."
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.
Eleven
How to Use Faith in Healing
1. Spiritual forces as well as medical technique are important in healing.
2. Pray that the doctor may be an open channel of God's healing grace.
3. 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.
4. Remember that God does nothing except by law. Also remember that our little materialistic laws are only fragmentary revelations of the great power flowing through the universe. Spiritual law also governs illness. God has arranged two remedies for all illness. One is healing through natural laws applicable by science, and the other brings healing by spiritual law applicable through faith.
5. Completely surrender your loved one into the hands of God. By your faith you can place him in the flow of Divine power. There is healing there, but in order for it to be effective the patient must be completely released to the operation of God's will. This is difficult to understand and equally difficult to perform, but it is a fact that if the great desire for the loved one to live is matched with an equally great willingness to relinquish him to God, healing powers are amazingly set in motion.
6. It is also important that harmony prevail in the family, that is, a spiritual harmony. Remember the emphasis in the scripture, Matthew 18:19: "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." Apparently disharmony and disease are akin.
7. Form a picture in your mind of the loved one as being well. Visualize him in perfect health. Picture him as radiant with the love and goodness of God. The conscious mind may suggest sickness, even death, but nine tenths of your mind is in the subconscious. Let the picture of health sink into the subconscious and this powerful part of your mind will send forth radiant health energy. What we believe in the subconscious we usually get. Unless your faith controls the subconscious, you will never get any good thing, for the subconscious gives back only that which your real thought is. If the real thought is negative, the results will also be negative. If the real thought is positive, you will get positive and healing results.
8. Be perfectly natural. Ask God to heal your loved one. That is what you want with all your heart, so ask Him please to do it, but we suggest that you say PLEASE just once. Thereafter in your prayer, thank Him for His goodness. This affirmative being will help to release God's loving care. This joy will sustain you, and remember that joy itself possesses healing power.
Twelve
When Vitality Sags, Try This Health Formula
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." At that moment it may be a bit hard to pray, but try it anyway; at least conjure up a picture of Jesus Christ in your mind and try to think of Him mad just as you are. You can't do it, and the effort will serve to puncture your angry emotions.
3. Count to ten or say "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name." Say this ten times and your anger will lose its power over you.
4. Make a list of everything that irritates you. The purpose in doing this is to dry up the tiny rivulets that feed the great river of anger.
5. Make each separate irritation a special object of prayer. Get a victory, over each, one at a time. Snip away by prayer each annoyance that feeds your anger. In this way you will weaken your anger to the point where presently you will gain control over it.
6. Affirm: "It isn't worth it to spend $1000 worth of emotion on a five-cent irritation."
7. When you are hurt put some spiritual iodine on the hurt at once by saying a prayer of love and forgiveness.
8. Apply grievance drainage to your mind. Go to someone you trust and pour it out to him until not a vestige of it remains within you. Then forget it.
9. Simply start praying for the person who has hurt your feelings. Continue this until you feel the malice fading away.
10. Say this little prayer: "May the love of Christ fill my heart." Then add this line: "May the love of Christ for (insert the other's name) flood my soul."
11. Actually take the advice of Jesus to forgive seventy times seven. To be literal, that means four hundred ninety times. Before you have forgiven a person that many times you will be free of resentment.
12. Pray, "Even as You can convert a person's morals, so now I ask You to convert my nerves. As You give power over the sins of the flesh, so give me power over the sins of the disposition. Bring my temper under Your control. Give me Thy healing peace in my nervous system as well as in my soul."
Thirteen
Inflow of New Thoughts Can Remake You
1. For the next 24 hours, delibrately speak hopefully about everything, about your job, about your health, about your future. Restrain from negative habit even if it requires an act of will.
2. After speaking hopefully for 24 hours, continue the practice for one week, then you can realistic which is the dawning of the positive outlook.
3. "Have faith in God for verily I say unto you, that whosover shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith." (Mark 11:22-23)
4. Commit each faith phrases to memory. Effort and time will be needed to unlearn your negative pattern.
5. Get closer to those with a positive point of view for a while, until you have absorbed their spirit, then you can go back amoung negative friends and give them your newly acquired thought pattern without taking on their negativism.
6. Avoid argument, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
7. Pray a great deal and always let your prayer take the form of thanksgiving on the assumption that God is giving you great and wonderful things; for if you think He is, He surely is. "According to your faith be it unto you." (Matthew 9:29)
Fourteen
Relax for Easy Power
1. Don't get the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. Don't strain so hard. Don't take yourself so seriously.
2. Determine to like your work. Then it will become a pleasure, not drudgery. Perhaps you do not need to change your job. Change yourself and your work will seem different.
3. Plan your work-work your plan. Lack of system produces that "I'm swamped" feeling.
4. Don't try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out. Heed that wise advice from the Bible, "This one thing I do."
5. Get a correct mental attitude, remembering that ease or difficulty in your work depends upon how you think about it. Think it's hard and you make it hard. Think it's easy and it tends to become easy.
6. Become efficient in your work. "Knowledge is power." It is easier to do a thing right.
7. Practice being relaxed. Easy always does it. Don't press or tug. Take it in your stride.
8. Discipline yourself not to put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Keep your work up to schedule.
9. Pray about your work. You will get relaxed efficiency by so doing.
10. Take on the "unseen partner." It is surprising the load He will take off you. God is as much at home in offices, factories, stores, kitchens, as in churches. He knows more about your job than you do. His help will make your work easy.
Fifteen
How to get people to like you
1. Learn to remember names.
2. Be a comfortable person so there is no strain in being with you-be an old-shoe, old-hat kind of individual. Be homey.
3. Acquire the quality of relaxed easy-goingness so that things do not ruffle you.
4. Don't be egotistical. Guard against giving the impression that you know it all. Be natural and normally humble.
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. Sincerely attempt to heal, on an honest Christian basis, every misunderstanding you have had or now have. Drain off your grievances.
8. Practice liking people until you learn to do so genuinely. Remember what Will Rogers said, "I never met a man I didn't like." Try to be that way.
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.
Sixteen
Prescription for Heartache
An excellent and normal release from heartache is to give way to grief.
The deeper remedy for heartache is, of course, is the curative comfort supplied by trust in God.
So in this faith, which is a sound, substantial, and rational view of life and eternity, you have the prescription for heartache.
Seventeen
How to Draw upon That Higher Power
"Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (Isaiah 40:28-31)
God Loves You; So Do I
All Things Are Possible to him that believes.
Mark 9:23
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