Showing posts with label LDA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LDA. Show all posts
Friday, March 15, 2019
Por qué no encuentro pareja?
si estas aquí hoy lo más probable que te estés cuestionando por qué no tiene pareja, independiente si eres heterosexual u homesexual. Muchas personas pueden tener un cuerpo precioso o una inteligencia maravillosa pero estan solas.
es correcto tratar de atraer pareja?
Chequear Chakra del Corazón
07-04-2019
He visto la serie en Netflix "Osmosis" y me ha hecho pensar bastante sobre el algoritmo de nuestra pareja ideal, y bueno también he vuelto a recuperar mi fe en que todos tenemos un alma gemela, por otro lado fui a verme la suerte con las cartas del Tarot y la Sra me dijo simplemente "que el amor llegará a mi vida de aquí o tal vez en 20 años más" o sea tengo 32 y tengo una probabilidad de encontrar el amor a los 52 años, en realidad no me dio mucha fe, por lo que he andado un poco con el bajón, no porque no encuentre el amor, si no porque no encuentro pareja lo cual me bajonea emocionalmente, no creo ser un monstruo pero creo ser lo suficientemente inteligente para atraer uno.
O sea puedo atraer viajes, comida, dinero, oportunidades ... pero aun así no puedo atraer mi pareja ideal? no encuentro bastante extraño. Algo ocurre y lo voy a descubrir.
Bueno por otro lado he descubierto si rompo ciertos patrones puedo atraer diferentes situaciones, es como casi salir un deja Vu o un limbo temporal. A modo ejemplo si hoy tomo el camino A y mañana el B, podre atraer situaciones que me permitan descubrir diferentes alternativas para atraer mi pareja ideal.
Así que debe un poco la rutina del trabajo a la casa los días miércoles, por lo que estoy haciendo actividades que haría con mi pareja ideal como ir a un Spa, al museo o cosas culturales. (Creo que hubiera hecho eso con Rodrigo C).
Etiquetas:
amor,
LDA,
Pareja Ideal
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Los siete principios (Kybalión - Wikipedia)
Los siete principios, o axiomas, como están descritos en el Kybalión son:
- Mentalismo. El Todo es mente; el universo es mental.
- Correspondencia. Como es arriba, es abajo; como es abajo, es arriba. Afirma que este principio se manifiesta en los tres Grandes Planos: El Físico, El Mental y El Espiritual.
- Vibración. Nada está inmóvil; todo se mueve; todo vibra.
- Polaridad. Todo es doble, todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son medias verdades, todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse.
- Ritmo. Todo fluye y refluye; todo tiene sus períodos de avance y retroceso, todo asciende y desciende; todo se mueve como un péndulo; la medida de su movimiento hacia la derecha, es la misma que la de su movimiento hacia la izquierda; el ritmo es la compensación.
- Causa y efecto. Toda causa tiene su efecto; todo efecto tiene su causa; todo sucede de acuerdo a la ley; la suerte o azar no es más que el nombre que se le da a la ley no reconocida; hay muchos planos de casualidad, pero nada escapa a la Ley.
- Generación. El género existe por doquier; todo tiene su principio masculino y femenino; el género se manifiesta en todos los planos. En el plano físico es la sexualidad.
El principio de Generación es totalmente en su sentido hermético y el
sexo, es la acepción ordinariamente aceptada del término, aunque no son
lo mismo. La palabra género deriva de la raíz latina que significa
"concebir, procrear, generar, crear, producir". Un momento de
consideración sobre el asunto demostrará que esa palabra tiene un
significado mucho más amplio y general que el término sexo, pues este se
refiere a las distinciones físicas entre los seres machos y hembras. Es
necesario que esta distinción se imprima en la mente, porque ciertos
escritores que han adquirido algunas nociones de filosofía hermética han
tratado de identificar este séptimo principio con erróneas y a veces
reprensibles teorías y enseñanzas concernientes al sexo (Libro el
Kybalión, Los tres iniciados editado en español)
Etiquetas:
7 Principios,
Casualidad,
Causa y Efecto,
Correspondencia,
Filosofía,
Generación,
Género,
Kybalion,
LDA,
leyes,
Mentalismo,
Metafísica,
Polaridad,
Ritmo,
Vibración,
Vida
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Post 193 - Cocreando y manifestando (realizate.com)
A cada instante manifestamos nuestra vida, algunas veces creemos que es la casualidad la que hace que sucedan las cosas; la verdad es distinta a esto; la causa es el resultado natural de nuestros pensamientos, sentimientos, creencias, decisiones y acciones.
Cuando cosechamos los frutos de nuestro trabajo y esfuerzo tendremos el privilegio que todo se alinee armónicamente, que se posicione. Así se dan las condiciones adecuadas que permiten que las situaciones se materialicen o que por lo menos tiendan a ello, lo que es una característica necesaria que hace que con frecuencia ocurran.
Estudios científicos comprueban esto último, la duda surge cuando reiteradamente deseamos algo que nunca llega, desde hace tiempo, la razón que explica mayormente esto se encuentra en la falta de armonía y de congruencia de nuestra vibración.
La manifestación es cuando algo que se muestra, se hace obvio, frecuentemente lo confundimos con magia o añadimos comúnmente todo género de explicaciones místicas. Si bien es cierto que son relativamente correctas ello sucede cuando hemos hecho uso de las herramientas para co-crear. Dicho así los milagros son posibles, se pueden impulsar las sincronías para la consecución de nuestros deseos, se necesita trabajar fina y detalladamente con la energía, transformarla y dirigirla exactamente a donde queremos, insistiendo en ello.
Si el interiorizar la información de nuestros proyectos lo convertimos en un hábito, si adicionalmente lo situamos en el subconsciente, serán erradicadas nuestras creencias limitantes y lograremos nuestros fines, los propuestos que a veces vemos distantes.
La conciencia despierta poco a poco, te sugiero observar este proceso, anota con cuidado en un diario la evolución derivada de todas y cada una de las experiencias, el simple hecho de ponerlo por escrito facilita su valoración.
Cuando queremos que algo se materialice es importante que nos cuestionemos claramente qué es aquello que deseamos; existen múltiples opciones con una energía potencial que están presentes, las ideas y la información siempre están flotando en el aire, se requiere un mayor grado de conciencia para percibirlas. Para lograr lo anterior la herramienta de la intuición es de gran valía, nos permite sintonizar con esas ideas y entrar en esa sinergia.
Unirnos al potencial que todo ello representa es colocarnos en el viaje de la vida en el papel de socio, permitir la manifestación de aquello que pretendemos.
Los grandes descubrimientos han partido de estos principios, tú también tienes esa misma capacidad para hacer real lo que imaginas, aplica tus conocimientos, los que están a tu disposición al acercarte a la Ley de Atracción, el aprendizaje es infinito y cada día te permite desarrollarte en mayor grado.
La tarea es formular los decretos concisos y precisos, delimitar aquello que es nuestro objetivo, despojarnos y quitarnos lo mismo miedos que dudas; así le darás la alternativa para que las cosas sucedan.
De la misma forma en que la tecnología y la ciencia son empleadas para crear y transformar se puede hacer con la energía; volver la vista atrás, emplear los secretos de la antigüedad en donde los maestros entendían a la perfección el funcionamiento de la física cuántica, observaban el potencial de nuestros pensamientos y sus manifestaciones, si nos enfocamos, si somos cuidadosos y constantes podemos materializar aquello que deseamos.
La ruta lleva sus pausas y su sincronía, paso a paso nuestros pensamientos van eligiendo, van filtrando información y nos enfocan en aquello que queremos darle vida.
Ahora que has elevado tu nivel de conciencia tienes la capacidad de cocrear, tomar una alternativa y dirigirla a un propósito concreto.
Nuestro universo tiene opciones infinitas, hoy estás en la disposición de escoger lo que deseas que sea construido, visualizarlo es un principio, sentirlo una consecuencia, al actuar así pronto tendrás a la vista los resultados de la magia, la que sorprende.
¡Qué tengas un mágico día!
Etiquetas:
193,
Abril,
Acciones,
Creencias,
Decisiones,
Filosofía,
LDA,
Metafísica,
Pensamientos,
Post,
realizate.com,
Sembrar para Cosechar,
Sentimientos,
Terry Guindi
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Visualiza y afirma los resultados que deseas: Una guía paso a paso
Por Jack Canfield
Usted tiene un poder impresionante que la mayoría de nosotros nunca se les ha enseñado a usar con eficacia.
Los atletas de élite lo usan. El super
rico lo usa. Y ejecutantes máximos en todos los campos ya lo utilizan.
Ese poder se llama Visualización.
La práctica diaria de visualizar sus sueños puede acelerar su logro de esos sueños, metas y ambiciones.
La visualización de sus metas y deseos logra cuatro cosas muy importantes.
1.) Activa su subconsciente creativo que comenzará a generar ideas creativas para lograr su objetivo.
2.) Programa su cerebro para percibir más fácilmente y reconocer los recursos que necesita para alcanzar sus sueños.
3.) Se activa la ley de la atracción,
llamando así a su vida las personas, los recursos y las circunstancias
que se necesita para alcanzar sus metas.
4). Construye su motivación interna para tomar las acciones necesarias para alcanzar sus sueños.
La visualización es realmente muy simple.
Te sientas en una posición cómoda, cierre los ojos e imagine - con el
mayor detalle vívido como sea posible - lo que estaría mirando si el
sueño tiene ya se hubiese realizado. Imagina estar dentro de ti mismo,
mirando a través de los ojos en el resultado ideal.
Ensayo mental
Los atletas llaman a este proceso de
visualización "ensayo mental", y lo han estado utilizando desde la
década de 1960 cuando lo aprendimos de los rusos.
Todo lo que tienes que hacer es dejar de
lado unos minutos al día. Los mejores momentos son cuando se despierte
por la mañana, después de la meditación o la oración, y justo antes de
irse a la cama. Estos son los momentos que más relajado está.
Siga los tres pasos siguientes:
PASO 1. Imagínese
sentado en una sala de cine, las luces tenues, y luego comienza la
película. Es una película de haciendo lo que quiere hacer mejor. Ver los
detalles que se pueden crear, incluyendo su ropa, la expresión de tu
cara, los pequeños movimientos del cuerpo, el medio ambiente y cualquier
otra persona que podría estar alrededor. Añadir cualquier sonido que
quiere escuchar - tráfico, la música, la gente hablando, gritando. Y,
por último, vuelva a crear en su cuerpo cualquier sentimiento que usted
piensa que podría estar experimentando a medida que participe en esta
actividad.
PASO 2. Salga de su
silla, camine hacia la pantalla, abra una puerta en la pantalla y entre
en la película. Experimente ahora todo de nuevo desde el interior de sí
mismo, mirando a través de sus ojos. Esto se llama una "imagen
encarnada" en lugar de una "imagen distante." Va a profundizar el
impacto de la experiencia. Una vez más, vea todo en detalle vivo,
escuche los sonidos que se escuchan y sienta las sensaciones que se
sienten.
PASO 3. Finalmente,
camine fuera de la pantalla que sigue mostrando la de su actuación
perfectamente, vuelve a tu asiento en el teatro, extienda la mano y
agarre la pantalla y reduzcala al tamaño de una galleta. A continuación,
lleve esta pantalla en miniatura hasta la boca, masticarlo y tragarlo.
Imagine que cada pequeña pieza - al igual que un holograma - contiene la
imagen completa de su buen desempeño. Imagínese todas estas pequeñas
pantallas que viajan hacia su estómago y salen a través del torrente
sanguíneo a todas las células de tu cuerpo. Luego imagine que cada
célula de tu cuerpo está iluminado con una película de ti funcionando
perfectamente. Es como una de esas ventanas de la tienda de
electrodomésticos donde 50 televisores están sintonizados en el mismo
canal.
Cuando haya terminado este proceso -
debería tomar menos de cinco minutos - usted puede abrir los ojos y
seguir con su vida. Si hace esta parte de su rutina diaria, usted se
sorprenderá de la cantidad de mejora que verá en su vida.
Crear imágenes de su meta
Otra técnica poderosa es la creación de
una fotografía o una imagen de sí mismo con su meta, como si ya se
habían completado. Si una de sus metas es ser dueño de un auto nuevo,
tome su cámara a su distribuidor local de automóviles y tómese una foto
de si mismo sentado tras el volante de su coche ideal. Si su objetivo es
visitar París, encuentre una foto o un póster de la Torre Eiffel y
corte una foto de sí mismo y póngalo en escena.
Crea una imagen visual y una afirmación para cada objetivo
Le recomendamos que busque o cree una
imagen de cada aspecto de su vida de ensueño. Cree una imagen o una
representación visual por cada gol que tiene - financieros, carrera,
recreación, nuevas destrezas y habilidades, cosas que desea comprar, y
así sucesivamente.
Cuando estábamos escribiendo la primera Sopa de Pollo para el Alma ®, sacamos una copia de la lista de best seller del
New York Times, que escaneamos en nuestro ordenador, y utilizando la
misma fuente que el periódico, escribimos Sopa de Pollo para el Alma en
la posición número uno en la categoría "Consejo
Paperback, How-To y misceláneo". Nos imprimieron varias copias y los
colgó en la oficina. Menos de dos años después, nuestro libro es el
libro número uno en esa categoría y se quedó allí durante más de un año!
Tarjetas de índice
Nosotros practicamos una disciplina
similar cada día. Cada uno de nosotros tiene una lista de alrededor de
30-40 goles que estamos trabajando actualmente. Escribimos cada objetivo
en una tarjeta de 3x5 y guardamos las tarjetas cerca de nuestra cama y
las llevamos con nosotros cuando viajamos. Cada mañana y cada noche nos
vamos a través de la pila de cartas, una a la vez, leemos la tarjeta,
cerramos los ojos, vemos la realización de ese objetivo en su perfecto
estado deseado durante unos 15 segundos, abrimos los ojos y repetimos el
proceso con la siguiente carta.
Utilizar afirmaciones para apoyar su visualización
Una afirmación es una declaración de que
no sólo evoca una imagen, sino la experiencia de ya tener lo que
quieres. He aquí un ejemplo de una afirmación:
Estoy felizmente de vacaciones 2 meses
fuera del año en un paraíso tropical, y trabajo sólo cuatro días a la
semana, soy dueño de mi propio negocio.
Repetir una afirmación varias veces al
día te mantiene enfocado en su objetivo, refuerza su motivación, y
programa su subconsciente mediante el envío de un pedido a su equipo a
hacer lo que sea necesario para que esa meta suceder.
Resultados esperados
A través de escribir sus metas,
utilizando el poder de la visualización y repitiendo tus afirmaciones,
puede lograr resultados asombrosos.
La visualización y las afirmaciones
permiten cambiar tus creencias, suposiciones y opiniones acerca de la
persona más importante en su vida - ¡USTED! Le permiten aprovechar los
18 mil millones de células cerebrales y hacer que todas trabajen en una
dirección y con un propósito singular.
Su subconsciente se convertirá en un
proceso de transformación para siempre. El proceso es invisible y no
toma mucho tiempo. Simplemente pasa, siempre y cuando tome tiempo para
visualizar y afirmar, se rodee de gente positiva, lea libros edificantes
y escuche programas de audio que inunden su mente con pensamientos
positivos y mensajes reafirmantes.
Repite tus afirmaciones cada mañana y
noche durante un mes y se convertirán en una parte automática de su
pensamiento ... entretejido en la trama misma de su ser.
Jack Canfield
Líder de Potencial Humano Pensamiento, Motivador de Exito, Orador. Autor de la serie Best Seller "Sopa de Pollo para el Alma". Puedes visitar su página: http://www.jackcanfield.com/
Fuente: http://www.anamariapolo.net/nuestrosexpertos_detalle.php?link=Visualiza_y_afirma_los_resultados_que_deseas:_Una_guia_paso_a_paso
Etiquetas:
1 Mes,
15 Segundos,
Afirmaciones,
Cerebro,
Cine,
Deseos,
Ensayo Mental,
Guía,
Ideas,
Imagen,
LDA,
Meditación,
Mente,
Minutos,
Oración,
Practicar,
Sentimientos,
Subconsciente,
sueños,
Visualizar
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Desire—The First Law of Gain
"Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits—and then
Re-mold it nearer to the Heart's Desire!"
—The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits—and then
Re-mold it nearer to the Heart's Desire!"
—The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
If you
had a fairy wishing ring, what one thing would you wish for? Wealth?
Honor? Fame? Love? What one thing do you desire above everything else in
life?
Whatever it is, you can have it. Whatever you desire, wholeheartedly,
with singleness of purpose—you can have. But the first and
all-important essential is to know what this one thing is. Before you
can win your heart's desire, you've got to get clearly fixed in your
mind's eye what it is that you want.
It may sound paradoxical, but few people do know what they want. Most
of them struggle along in a vague sort of way, hoping—like Micawber—for
something to turn up. They are so taken up with the struggle that they
have forgotten—if they ever knew—what it is they are struggling for.
They are like a drowning man—they use up many times the energy it would
take to get them somewhere, but they fritter it away in aimless
struggles—without thought, without direction, exhausting themselves,
while getting nowhere.
You've got to know what you want before you stand much chance of
getting it. You have an unfailing "Messenger to Garcia" in that
Genie-of-your-Mind—but YOU have got to formulate the message. Aladdin
would have stood a poor chance of getting anything from his Genie if he had not had clearly in mind the things he wanted the Genie to get.
In the realm of mind, the realm in which is all practical power, you
can possess what you want at once. You have but to claim it, to
visualize it, to bring it into actuality—and it is yours for the taking.
For the Genie-of-your-Mind can give you power over circumstances.
Health, happiness and prosperity. And all you need to put it to work is
an earnest, intense desire.
Sounds too good to be true? Well, let us go back for a moment to the
start. You are infected with that "divine dissatisfaction with things as
they are" which has been responsible for all the great accomplishments
of this world—else you would not have gotten thus far in this book. Your
heart is hungering for something better. "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness (right-wiseness) for they shall be filled." You are
tired of the worry and grind, tired of the deadly dull routine and daily
tasks that lead nowhere. Tired of all the petty little ills and
ailments that have come to seem the lot of man here on earth.
Always there is something within you urging you on to bigger things,
giving you no peace, no rest, no chance to be lazy. It is the same
"something" that drove Columbus across the ocean; that drove Hannibal
across the Alps; that drove Edison onward and upward from a train boy to
the inventive wizard of the century; that drove Henry Ford from a poor
mechanic at forty to probably the richest man in the world at sixty.
This "something" within you keeps telling you that you can do
anything you want to do, be anything you want to be, have anything you
want to have—and you have a sneaking suspicion that it may be right.
That "something" within you is your 'subconscious self, your part of
Universal Mind, your Genie-of-the-brain. Men call it ambition, and
“Lucky is the man,” says Arthur Brisbane, “whom the Demon of Ambition
harnesses and drives through life. This wonderful little coachman is the
champion driver of all the world and of all history.
“Lucky you, if he is your driver.
“He will keep you going until you do something worth while—working, running and moving ahead.
“And that is how a real man ought to be driven.
“This is the little Demon that works in men's brains, that makes the
blood tingle at the thought of achievement and that makes the face flush
and grow white at the thought of failure.
“Every one of us has this Demon for a driver, IN YOUTH AT LEAST.
“Unfortunately the majority of us he gives up as very poor, hopeless
things, not worth driving, by the time we reach twenty-five or thirty.
“How many men look back to their teens, when they were harnessed to
the wagon of life with Ambition for a driver? When they could not wait
for the years to pass and for opportunity to come?
“It is the duty of ambition to drive, and it is your duty to keep Ambition alive and driving.
“If you are doing nothing, if there is no driving, no hurrying, no working, you may count upon it that there will be no results. Nothing much worth while in the years to come.
“Those that are destined to be the big men twenty years from now, when the majority of us will be nobodies, are
those whom this demon is driving relentlessly, remorselessly, through
the hot weather and the cold weather, through early hours and late hours.
“Lucky YOU if you are in harness and driven by the Demon of Ambition.”
Suppose you have had disappointments, disillusionments along
the way. Suppose the fine point of your ambition has become blunted.
Remember, there is no obstacle that there is not some way around, or
over, or through—and if you will depend less upon the 10 per cent of
your abilities that reside in your conscious mind, and leave more to the 90 per cent that constitute your
subconscious, you can overcome all obstacles. Remember this—there is no
condition so hopeless, no life so far gone, that mind cannot redeem it.
Every untoward condition is merely a lack of something.
Darkness, you know, is not real. It is merely a lack of light. Turn on
the light and the darkness will be seen to be nothing. It vanishes
instantly. In the same way poverty is simply a lack of necessary supply.
Find the avenue of supply and your poverty vanishes. Sickness is merely
the absence of health. If you are in perfect health, sickness cannot
hurt you. Doctors and nurses go about at will among the sick without
fear—and suffer as a rule far less from sickness than does the average
man or woman.
So there is nothing you have to overcome. You merely have to acquire
something. And always Mind can show you the way. You can obtain from
Mind anything you want, if you will learn how to do it. "I think we can
rest assured that one can do and be practically what he desires to be,"
says Farnsworth in "Practical Psychology." And psychologists all over
the world have put the same thought in a thousand different ways.
"It is not will, but desire," says Charles W. Mears, "that rules the
world." "But," you will say, "I have had plenty of desires all my life.
I've always wanted to be rich. How do you account for the difference
between my wealth and position and power and that of the rich men all
around me?"
The Magic Secret
The answer is simply that you have never focused your desires into
one great dominating desire. You have a host of mild desires. You mildly
wish you were rich, you wish you had a position of responsibility and
influence, you wish you could travel at will. The wishes are so many and
varied that they conflict with each other and you get nowhere in
particular. You lack one intense desire, to the accomplishment of which you are willing to subordinate everything else.
Do you know how Napoleon so frequently won battles in the face of a
numerically superior foe? By concentrating his men at the actual point of contact! His artillery was often greatly outnumbered, but it accomplished far more than the enemy's because instead of scattering his fire, he concentrated it all on the point of attack!
The time you put in aimlessly dreaming and wishing would accomplish
marvels if it were concentrated on one definite object. If you have ever
taken a magnifying glass and let the sun's rays play through it on some
object, you know that as long as the rays were scattered they
accomplished nothing. But focus them on one tiny spot and see. how
quickly they start something.
It is the same way with your mind. You've got to concentrate on one idea at a time.
"But how can I learn to concentrate?" many people write me.
Concentration is not a thing to be learned. It is merely a thing to do.
You concentrate whenever you become sufficiently interested in anything. Get so interested in a ball game that you jump up and down
on your hat, slap a man you have never seen before on the back, embrace
your nearest neighbor—that is concentration. Become so absorbed
in a thrilling play or movie that you no longer realize the orchestra is
playing or there are people around you—that is concentration.
And that is all concentration ever is—getting so interested in some
one thing that you pay no attention to anything else that is going on
around you.
If you want a thing badly enough, you need have no worry about your
ability to concentrate on it. Your thoughts will just naturally center
on it like bees on honey.
Hold in your mind the thing you most desire. Affirm it. Believe it to be an existing fact. Let me quote again the words of the Master, because there's nothing more important to
remember in this whole book. "Therefore I say unto you, what things
soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them."
And again I say, the most important part is the "believe that ye receive them."
Your subconscious mind is exceedingly amenable to suggestion. If you
can truly believe that you have received something, can impress that
belief upon your subconscious mind, depend upon it, it will see that you
have it. For being a part of Universal Mind, it shares that Universal
Mind's all-power. "The Father that is within me, He doeth the works."
Your mind will respond to your desire in the exact proportion in which
you believe. "As thy faith is, so be it unto thee."
The people who live in beautiful homes, who have plenty to spend, who
travel about in yachts and fine cars, are for the most part people who
started out to accomplish some one definite thing. They had one clear goal in mind, and everything they did centered on that goal.
Most men just jog along in a rut, going through the same old routine
day after day, ekeing out a bare livelihood, with no definite desire
other than the vague hope that fortune will some day drop in their lap.
Fortune doesn't often play such pranks. And a rut, you know, differs
from a grave only in depth. A life such as that is no better than the
animals live. Work all day for money to buy bread, to give you strength
to work all the next day to buy more bread. There is nothing to it but
the daily search for food and sustenance. No time for aught but worry and struggle. No hope of anything but the surcease of sorrow in death.
You can have anything you want—if you want it badly enough. You can
be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish
anything you set out to accomplish—if you will hold to that desire with
singleness of purpose; if you will understand and BELIEVE in your own
powers to accomplish.
What is it that you wish in life? Is it health? In the chapter on
health I will show you that you can be radiantly well—without drugs,
without tedious exercises. It matters not if you are crippled or
bedridden or infirm. Your body rebuilds itself entirely every eleven
months. You can start now rebuilding along perfect lines.
Is it wealth you wish? In the chapter on success I will show you how
you can increase your income, how you can forge rapidly ahead in your
chosen business or profession.
Is it happiness you ask for? Follow the rules herein laid down and
you will change your whole outlook on life. Doubts and uncertainty will
vanish, to be followed by calm assurance and abiding peace. You will
possess the things your heart desires. You will have love and
companionship. You will win to contentment and happiness.
But desire must be impressed upon the subconscious before it can be
accomplished. Merely conscious desire seldom gets you anything. It is
like the day-dreams that pass through your mind. Your desire must be
visualized, must be persisted in, must be concentrated upon, must be impressed upon your subconscious mind. Don't bother
about the means for accomplishing your desire—you can safely leave that
to your subconscious mind. It knows how to do a great many things
besides building and repairing your body. If you can visualize the thing
you want, if you can impress upon your subconscious mind the belief that you have it,
you can safely leave to it the finding of the means of getting it.
Trust the Universal Mind to show the way. The mind that provided
everything in such profusion must joy in seeing us take advantage of
that profusion. "For herein is the Father glorified—that ye bear much
fruit."
You do not have to wait until tomorrow, or next year, or the next world, for happiness. You do not have to die to be saved. "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." That does not
mean that it is up in the heavens or on some star or in the next world.
It means here and now! All the possibilities of happiness
are always here and always available. At the open door of every man's
life there lies this pearl of great price—the understanding of man's
dominion over the earth. With that understanding and conviction you can
do everything which lies before you to do and you can do it to the
satisfaction of everyone and the well-being of yourself. God and good
are synonymous. And God—good—is absent only to those who believe He is
absent.
Find your desire, impress it upon your thought, and you have opened
the door for opportunity. And remember, in this new heaven and new earth
which I am trying to show you, the door of opportunity is never closed. As a matter of fact, you constantly have all that you will take.
So keep yourself in a state of receptivity. It is your business to
receive abundantly and perpetually. The law of opportunity enforces its
continuance and availability. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is
from above and cometh down from the Father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Infinite Mind saith to every man, "Come ye to the open fountain." The
understanding of the law of life will remedy every discord, giving
"Beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness."
Believe that you share in that goodness and bounty. Act the part you wish to play in this life. Act healthy, act prosperous, act happy. Make
such a showing with what you have that you will carry the conviction to
your subconscious mind that all good and perfect gifts ARE yours.
Register health, prosperity and happiness on your inner mind and some
fine morning soon you will wake to find that you are healthy, prosperous and happy, that you have your dearest wish in life.
“The Soul's Sincere Desire”
Do you know what prayer is? Just an earnest desire that we take to
God—to Universal Mind—for fulfillment. As Montgomery puts it—"Prayer is
the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed." It is our
Heart's Desire. At least, the only prayer that is worth anything is the
prayer that asks for our real desires. That kind of prayer is heard. That kind of prayer is answered.
Mere lip prayers get you nowhere. It doesn't matter what your lips
may say. The thing that counts is what your heart desires, what your
mind images on your subconscious thought, and through it on Universal
Mind. "Thou, when thou prayest, be not as the hypocrites are; for they
love to pray standing in the synagogue and at the corners of the
streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have
their reward."
What was it these hypocrites that Jesus speaks of really wanted? "To
be seen of men." And their prayers were answered. Their sincere desire
was granted. They were seen of men. "They have their reward." But as for
what their lips were saying, neither God nor they paid any attention to it.
"Thou, when thou prayest enter into thy closet, and when thou hast
shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father
which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." Go where you can be
alone, where you can concentrate your thoughts on your one innermost
sincere desire, where you can impress that desire upon your subconscious
mind without distraction, and so reach the Universal Mind (the Father
of all things) .
But even sincere desire is not enough by itself. There must be
BELIEF, too. "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that
ye receive them and ye shall have them." You must realize God's ability
to give you every good thing. You must believe in his readiness to do
it. Model your thoughts after the Psalmists of old. They first asked for that which they wanted,
then killed all doubts and fears by affirming God's power and His
willingness to grant their prayers. Read any of the Psalms and you will
see what I mean. So when you pray, ask for the things that you want.
Then affirm God's readiness and His Power to grant your prayer.
Glenn Frank, in "The Soul's Sincere Desire," gives some wonderfully helpful suggestions along these lines. To quote him:
“For money troubles, realize: There is no want in Heaven, and affirm:
“Our Heavenly Father, we know that
thy Love is as infinite as the sky is infinite, and Thy Ways of
manifesting that love are as unaccountable as the stars of the heavens.
“Thy Power is greater than man's horizon, and Thy Ways of manifesting that Power are more numerous than the sands of the sea.
“Thy Power is greater than man's horizon, and Thy Ways of manifesting that Power are more numerous than the sands of the sea.
“As Thou keepest the stars in their
courses, so shalt Thou guide our steps in perfect harmony, without clash
or discord of any kind, if we keep our trust in Thee. For we know Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he
trusteth in Thee. We know that, if we acknowledge Thee in all our ways,
Thou wilt direct our paths. For Thou art the God of Love, Giver of every
good and perfect gift, and there is none beside Thee. Thou art
omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, in all, through all, and over
all, the only God. And Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the
Glory, forever, Amen.
“For aid in thinking or writing, realize: There is no lack of ideas, and affirm:
“Thy wisdom is greater than all
hidden treasures, and yet as instantly available for our needs as the
very ground beneath our feet.“
“For happiness: There is no unhappiness in Heaven, so affirm:
“Thy joy is brighter than the sun at
noonday and Thy Ways of expressing that Joy as countless as the
sunbeams that shine upon our path.”
This is the kind of prayer the Psalmists of old had recourse to in
their hours of trouble—this is the kind of prayer that will bring you
every good and perfect gift.
Make no mistake about this—prayer is effective. It can do
anything. It doesn't matter how trivial your desires may be—if it is
RIGHT for you to have them, it is RIGHT for you to pray for them.
According to a United Press dispatch of May 3, 1926:
“Prayer belongs to the football field as much as to the pulpit, and a
praying team stands a good chance of 'getting there,' Tim Lowry,
Northwestern University football star, told a large church audience
here.
“‘Just before the Indiana-Northwestern game last year,’ Tim said. ‘we worried a great deal about the outcome. Then we saw that bunch of big husky
Indiana players coming toward us and we knew something had to be done
quick.
“‘Fellows,’ I said, ‘I believe in prayer and we better pray.’ We did and won a great victory.
“When the next game came, every fellow prayed again.
“You don't need to think that churches have a copyright on prayer."
In "Prayer as a Force," A. Maude Royden compares the man who trusts
his desires to prayer with the swimmer who trusts himself to the water:
“Let me give you a very simple figure which I think may perhaps
convey my meaning. If you are trying to swim you must believe that the
sea is going to keep you afloat. You must give yourself to the sea. There is the ocean and there are you in it, and I say to
you, 'According to your faith you will be able to swim!' I know
perfectly well that it is literally according to your faith. A person
who has just enough confidence in the sea and in himself to give one
little hop from the ground will certainly find that the water will lift
him but not very much; he will come down again. Persons who have enough
confidence really to start swimming but no more, will not swim very far,
because their confidence is so very small and they swim with such rapid
strokes, and they hold their breath to such an extent, that by and by
they collapse; they swim five or six, or twelve or fourteen strokes, but
they do not get very far, through lack of confidence.
“Persons who know with assurance that the sea will carry them if they do certain things, will swim
quite calmly, serenely, happily, and will not mind if the water goes
right over them. 'Oh,' you say, 'that person is doing the whole thing!' He can't do it without the sea!
You might hypnotize people into faith; you might say, 'You are now in
the ocean; swim off the edge of this precipice' (which is really a
cliff). You might make them do it, they might have implicit faith in
you, you might hypnotize them into thinking they were swimming; but if
they swam off the edge of the cliff they would fall. You can't swim
without the sea! I might say to you, 'It lies with you whether you swim
or not, according to your faith be it unto you'; but if the sea is not
there you can't swim. That is exactly what I feel about God. 'According
to your faith be it unto you.' Yes, certainly, if you try to swim in that ocean
which is the love of God your faith will be rewarded, and according to
your faith it will be to you. In exact proportion to your faith you will
find the answer, like a scientific law. There is not one atom of faith
you put in God that will not receive its answer.”
But remember: you would not plant a valuable seed in your garden, and
then, a day or a week later, go out and dig it up to see if it were
sprouting. On the contrary, you would nourish it each morning with
water. It is the same with your prayers. Don't plant the seed of your
desire in your subconscious mind and then go out the next morning and
tear it up with doubts and fears. Nourish it by holding in thought the
thing you desire, by believing in it, visualizing it, SEEING it as an accomplished fact.
If you ask for my own formula for successful prayer, I would say—
1st. Center your thoughts on the thing that you want. Visualize it.
Make a mental image of it. You are planting the seed of Desire. But
don't be content with that. Planting alone will not make a seed of corn
grow. It has to be warmed by sunshine, nurtured by rain. So with the
seed of your Desire. It must be warmed by Faith, nurtured by constant
Belief. So—
2nd. Read the 91st and the 23rd Psalms, just as a reminder of God's power and His readiness to help you in all your needs.
3rd. Don't forget to be thankful, not merely for past favors, but for the granting of this favor you are now asking!
To be able to thank God for it sincerely, in advance of its actual material manifestation, is the finest evidence of belief.
4th. BELIEVE! Picture the thing that you want so clearly, see it in
your imagination so vividly, that for the moment, at least, you will
actually BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE IT!
It is this sincere conviction, registered upon your subconscious
mind, and through it upon Universal Mind, that brings the answer to your
prayers. Once convince your subconscious mind that you HAVE the thing
you want, and you can forget it and go on to your next problem. Mind
will attend to the bringing of it into being.
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Friday, June 15, 2012
The Primal Cause
"And the earth was
Without form and void;
And darkness was upon
The face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved
Upon the face of the waters." Genesis 1:2.
Without form and void;
And darkness was upon
The face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved
Upon the face of the waters." Genesis 1:2.
III
The Primal Cause
This
city, with all its houses, palaces, steam engines, cathedrals and huge,
immeasurable traffic and tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions
of Thoughts made into one—a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought,
embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, coaches,
docks and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
—Carlyle.
—Carlyle.
For
thousands of years the riddle of the universe has been the question of
causation. Did the egg come first, or the chicken? "The globe," says an
Eastern proverb, "rests upon the howdah of an elephant. The elephant
stands upon a tortoise, swimming in a sea of milk." But then what?
And what is life? As the Persian poet puts it—
"What without asking, hither hurried whence,
And without asking whither hurried hence?"
And without asking whither hurried hence?"
It has been said that every man, consciously or unconsciously, is
either a materialist or an idealist. Certainly throughout the ages the
schools of philosophy as well as individuals have argued and quarrelled,
but always human thought through one or the other of these channels
"has rolled down the hill of speculation into the ocean of doubt."
The materialist, roughly speaking, declares that nothing exists but matter and the forces inherent therein.
The idealist declares that all is mind or energy, and that matter is necessarily unreal.
The time has come when people have become dissatisfied with these unceasing theories which get them
nowhere. And today, as the appreciation of a Primal Cause becomes more
clearly defined, the spiritual instinct asserts itself determinedly.
"Give me a base of support," said Archimedes, "and with a lever I will move the world."
And the base of support is that all started with mind. In the
beginning was nothing—a fire mist. Before anything could come of it
there had to be an idea, a model on which to build. Universal Mind
supplied that idea, that model. Therefore the primal cause is mind.
Everything must start with an idea. Every event, every condition, every
thing is first an idea in the mind of someone.
Before you start to build a house, you draw up a plan of it. You make an exact blue-print of that plan, and
your house takes shape in accordance with your blue-print. Every
material object takes form in the same way. Mind draws the plan. Thought
forms the blueprint, well drawn or badly done as your thoughts are
clear or vague. It all goes back to the one cause. The creative
principle of the universe is mind, and thought is the eternal energy.
But just as the effect you get from electricity depends upon the
mechanism to which the power is attached, so the effects you get from
mind depend upon the way you use it. We are all of us dynamos. The power
is there—unlimited power. But we've got to connect it up to
something—set it some task—give it work to do—else are we no better off
then the animals.
The "Seven Wonders of the World" were built by men with few of the
opportunities or facilities that are available to you. They conceived
these gigantic projects first in their own minds, pictured them so
vividly that their subconscious minds came to their aid and enabled them
to overcome obstacles that most of us would regard as insurmountable.
Imagine building the Pyramids of Gizeh, enormous stone upon enormous
stone, with nothing but bare hands. Imagine the labor, the sweat, the
heartbreaking toil of erecting the Colossus of Rhodes, between whose
legs a ship could pass! Yet men built these wonders, in a day when tools
were of the crudest and machinery was undreamed of, by using the
unlimited power of Mind.
Mind is creative, but it must have a model on which to work. It must have thoughts to supply the power.
There are in Universal Mind ideas for millions of wonders greater far
than the "Seven Wonders of the World." And those ideas are just as
available to you as they were to the artisans of old, as they were to
Michael Angelo when he built St. Peter's in Rome, as they were to the
architect who conceived the Woolworth Building, or the engineer who
planned the Hell Gate bridge.
Every condition, every experience of life is the result of our mental attitude. We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have
only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have,
all depend upon what we think. We can never express anything that we do
not first have in mind. The secret of all power, all success, all riches, is in first
thinking powerful thoughts, successful thoughts, thoughts of wealth, of
supply. We must build them in our own mind first.
William James, the famous psychologist, said that the greatest
discovery in a hundred years was the discovery of the power of the
sub-conscious mind. It is the greatest discovery of all time. It is the
discovery that man has within himself the power to control his
surroundings, that he is not at the mercy of chance or luck, that he is
the arbiter of his own fortunes, that he can carve out his own destiny.
He is the master of all the forces round about him. As James Allen puts
it:
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”
For matter is in the ultimate but a product of thought. Even the most
material scientists admit that matter is not what it appears to be.
According to physics, matter (be it the human body or a log of wood—it
makes no difference which) is made up of an aggregation of distinct
minute particles called atoms. Considered individually, these atoms are
so small that they can be seen only with the aid of a powerful
microscope, if at all.
Matter—
Dream or Reality?
Until recently these atoms were supposed to be the ultimate theory
regarding matter. We ourselves—and all the material world around us—were
supposed to consist of these infinitesimal particles of matter, so small that
they could not be seen or weighed or smelled or touched individually—but
still particles of matter and indestructible.
Now, however, these atoms have been further analyzed, and physics
tells us that they are not indestructible at all—that they are mere
positive and negative buttons of force or energy called protons and
electrons, without hardness, without density, without solidity, without
even positive actuality. In short, they are vortices in the
ether—whirling bits of energy—dynamic, never static, pulsating with
life, but the life is spiritual! As one eminent British scientist put it—"Science now explains matter by explaining it away!"
And that, mind you, is what the solid table in front of you is made of, is what your house, your body, the whole world is made of—whirling bits of energy!
To quote the New York Herald-Tribune of March 11, 1926: "We
used to believe that the universe was composed of an unknown number of
different kinds of matter, one kind for each chemical element. The
discovery of a new element had all the interest of the unexpected. It
might turn out to be anything, to have any imaginable set of properties.
"That romantic prospect no longer exists. We know now that instead of
many ultimate kinds of matter there are only two kinds. Both of these
are really kinds of electricity. One is negative electricity, being, in
fact, the tiny particle called the electron, familiar to radio fans as
one of the particles vast swarms of which operate radio vacuum tubes.
The other kind of electricity is positive electricity. Its ultimate
particles are called protons. From these protons and electrons all of
the chemical elements are built up. Iron and lead and oxygen and gold
and all the others differ from one another merely in the number and
arrangement of the electrons and protons which they contain. That is the
modern idea of the nature of matter. Matter is really nothing but electricity."
Can you wonder then that scientists believe the time will come when mankind through mind
can control all this energy, can be absolute master of the winds and
the waves, can literally follow the Master's precept—"If ye have faith
as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove
hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be
impossible unto you."
For Modern Science is coming more and more to the belief that what we call matter is a force subject wholly to the control of mind.
How tenuous matter really is, is perhaps best illustrated by the fact
that a single violin string, tuned to the proper pitch, could start a
vibration that would shake down the Brooklyn Bridge! Oceans and
mountains, rocks and iron, all can be reduced to a point little short of
the purely spiritual. Your body is 85 per cent water, 15 per cent ash
and phosphorus! And they in turn can be dissipated into gas and vapor.
Where do we go from there?
Is not the answer that, to a great degree at least, and perhaps
altogether, this world round about us is one of our mind's own creating?
And that we can put into it, and get from it, pretty much what we wish? You see this illustrated every day. A panorama is
spread before you. To you it is a beautiful picture; to another it
appears a mere collection of rocks and trees. A girl comes out to meet
you. To you she is the embodiment of loveliness; to another all that
grace and beauty may look drab and homely. A moonlit garden, with its
fragrant odors and dew-drenched grass, may mean all that is charming to
you, while to another it brings only thoughts of asthma or fever or
rheumatism. A color may be green to you that to another is red. A
prospect may be inviting for you that to another is rugged and hard.
To quote "Applied Psychology," by Warren Hilton:
“The same stimulus acting on different organs of sense will produce different sensations. A blow upon the eye will cause you to 'see stars'; a similar blow upon the ear will cause you
to hear an explosive sound. In other words, the vibratory effect of a
touch on eye or ear is the same as that of light or sound vibrations.
“The notion you may form of any object in the outer world depends
solely upon what part of your brain happens to be connected with that
particular nerve-end that receives an impression from the object.
“You see the sun without being able to hear it because the only
nerve-ends tuned to vibrate in harmony with the ether-waves set in
action by the sun are nerve-ends that are connected with the brain
center devoted to sight. ‘If,’ says Professor James, ‘we could splice
the outer extremities of our optic nerves to our ears, and those of our
auditory nerves to our eyes, we should hear the lightning and see the thunder, see the symphony and hear the conductor's movements.’
“In other words, the kind of impressions we receive from the world
about us, the sort of mental pictures we form concerning it, in fact,
the character of the outer world, the nature of the environment in which
our lives are cast—all these things depend for each one of us simply
upon how he happens to be put together, upon his individual mental
make-up.”
In short, it all comes back to the old fable of the three blind men
and the elephant. To the one who caught hold of his leg, the elephant
was like a tree. To the one who felt of his side, the elephant was like a
wall. To the one who seized his tail, the elephant was like a rope. The world is to each one of us the world of his individual perceptions.
You are like a radio receiving station. Every moment thousands of
impressions are reaching you. You can tune in on whatever ones you
like—on joy or sorrow, on success or failure, on optimism or fear. You
can select the particular impressions that will best serve you, you can
hear only what you want to hear, you can shut out all disagreeable
thoughts and sounds and experiences, or you can tune in on
discouragement and failure and despair.
Yours is the choice. You have within you a force against which the
whole world is powerless. By using it, you can make what you will of
life and of your surroundings.
"But," you will say, "objects themselves do not change. It is merely the difference in the way you look at them." Perhaps. But to a great
extent, at least, we find what we look for; just as, when we turn the
dial on the radio, we tune in on whatever kind of entertainment or
instruction we may wish to hear. And who can say that it is not our
thoughts that put it there? Who, for the matter of that, can prove that
our surroundings in waking hours are not as much the creature of our
minds as are our dreams? You've had dreams many a time where every
object seemed just as real as when you were awake. You've felt of the
objects, you've pinched yourself, yet still you were convinced that you
were actually living those dreams. May not your waking existence be largely the creation of your own mind, just as your dream pictures are?
Many scientists believe that it is, and that in proportion as you try to put into your surroundings the good things you desire, rather than the evil ones you fear, you will find those good things.
Certain it is that you can do this with your own body. Just as certain
that many people are doing it with the good things of life. They have
risen above the conception of life in which matter is the master.
Just as the most powerful forces in nature are the invisible
ones—heat, light, air, electricity—so the most powerful forces of man
are his invisible forces, his thought forces. And just as electricity
can fuse stone and iron, so can your thought forces control your body,
so can they make or mar your destiny.
The Philosopher's Charm
There was once a shrewd necromancer who told a king that he had discovered a way to make gold out of sand. Naturally the king was interested and
offered him great rewards for his secret. The necromancer explained his
process. It seemed quite easy, except for one thing. Not once during
the operation must the king think of the word Abracadabra. If he did,
the charm was broken and the gold would not come. The king tried and
tried to follow the directions, but he could not keep that word
Abracadabra out of his mind. And he never made the gold.
Dr. Winbigler puts the same idea in another way: "Inspiration,
genius, power, are often interfered with by the conscious mind's
interposing, by man's failing to recognize his power, afraid to assist
himself, lacking the faith in himself necessary to stimulate the
subconscious so as to arouse the genius asleep in each."
From childhood on we are assured on every hand—by scientists, by
philosophers, by our religious teachers, that "ours is the earth and the
fullness thereof." Beginning with the first chapter of Genesis, we are
told that "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth—and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth." All through the Old and the
New Testament, we are repeatedly adjured to use these God-given powers.
"He that believeth on me," said Jesus, "the works that I do shall he do
also; and greater works than these shall he do." "If ye abide in me, and
my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done
unto you." "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." "The kingdom of God is within
you."
We hear all this, perhaps we even think we believe, but always, when
the time comes to use these God-given talents, there is the "doubt in
our heart."
Baudouin expressed it clearly: “To be ambitious for wealth and yet
always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get
what you long for, is like trying to reach east by travelling west.
There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is
always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure.
“There is a saying that every time the sheep bleats, it loses a
mouthful of hay. Every time you allow yourself to complain of your lot,
to say, 'I am poor; I can never do what others do; I shall never be
rich; I have not the ability that others have; I am a failure; luck is
against me;' you are laying up so much trouble for yourself.
“No matter how hard you may work for success, if your thought is
saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts,
neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.”
And that is responsible for all our failures. We are like the old
lady who decided she wanted the hill behind her house removed. So she
got down on her knees and prayed the good Lord to remove it. The next morning she got up and hurried to the window. The
hill was still in its same old place. "I knew it!" she snapped. "I gave
Him his chance. But I knew all the time there was nothing to this
prayer business."
Neither is there, as it is ordinarily done. Prayer is not a mere
asking of favors. Prayer is not a pæan of praise. Rather prayer is a
realization of the God-power within you—of your right of dominion over
your own body, your environment, your business, your health, your
prosperity. It is an understanding that you are "heir of God and co-heir
with Christ." And that as such, no evil has power over you, whereas you
have all power for good. And "good" means not merely holiness. Good
means happiness—the happiness of everyday people. Good means everything
that is good in this world of ours—comforts and pleasures and prosperity for
ourselves, health and happiness for those dependent upon us. There are
no limits to "Good" except those we put upon it ourselves.
What was it made Napoleon the greatest conqueror of his day?
Primarily his magnificent faith in Napoleon. He had a sublime belief in
his destiny, an absolute confidence that the obstacle was not made which
Napoleon could not find a way through, or over, or around. It was only
when he lost that confidence, when he hesitated and vacillated for weeks
between retreat and advance, that winter caught him in Moscow and ended
his dreams of world empire. Fate gave him every chance first. The
winter snows were a full month late in coming. But Napoleon
hesitated—and was lost. It was not the snows that defeated him. It was not the Russians. It was his loss of faith in himself.
The Kingdom of Heaven
"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Heaven is not some far-away
state—the reward of years of tribulation here. Heaven is right here—here
and now! When Christ said that Heaven was within us, He meant just what
He said—that the power for happiness, for good, for everything we need
of life, is within each one of us.
That most of us fail to realize this Heaven—that many are sickly and
suffering, that more are ground down by poverty and worry—is no fault of
His. He gave us the power to overcome these evils; He stands ready and
waiting to help us use it. If we fail to find the way, the fault is
ours. To enjoy the Heaven that is within us, to begin here and now to live the life eternal,
takes only a fuller understanding of the Power-that-is-within-us.
Even now, with the limited knowledge at our command, we can control
circumstances to the point of making the world without an expression of
our own world within, where the real thoughts, the real power, resides.
Through this world within you can find the solution of every problem,
the cause for every effect. Discover it—and all power, all possession is
within your control.
For the world without is but a reflection of that world within. Your
thought creates the conditions your mind images. Keep before your mind's
eye the image of all you want to be and you will see it reflected in
the world without. Think abundance, feel abundance, BELIEVE abundance, and you will find that as you think and feel and believe,
abundance will manifest itself in your daily life. But let fear and
worry be your mental companions, thoughts of poverty and limitation
dwell in your mind, and worry and fear, limitation and poverty will be
your constant companions day and night.
Your mental concept is all that matters. Its relation to matter is
that of idea and form. There has got to be an idea before it can take
form. As Dr. Terry Walter says:
“The impressions that enter the subconscious form indelible pictures,
which are never forgotten, and whose power can change the body, mind,
manner, and morals; can, in fact, revolutionize a personality.
“All during our waking hours the conscious mind, through the five senses, acts as constant feeder to the subconscious; the senses are the temporal
source of supply for the content of the soul mind; therefore it is most
important that we know and realize definitely and explicitly that every
time we think a thought or feel an emotion, we are adding to the content
of this powerful mind, good or bad, as the case may be. Life will be
richer or poorer for the thoughts and deeds of today.”
Your thoughts supply you with limitless energy which will take
whatever form your mind demands. The thoughts are the mold which
crystalizes this energy into good or ill according to the form you
impress upon it. You are free to choose which. But whichever you choose,
the result is sure. Thoughts of wealth, of power, of success, can bring
only results commensurate with your idea of them. Thoughts of poverty and lack can bring only limitation and trouble.
"A radical doctrine," you'll say, and think me wildly optimistic.
Because the world has been taught for so long to think that some must be
rich and some poor, that trials and tribulations are our lot. That this
is at best a vale of tears.
The history of the race shows that what is considered to be the learning of one age is ignorance to the next age.
Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, Editor of Science Service, speaking of
the popular tendency to fight against new ideas merely because they were
new, said: "All through the history of science, we find that new ideas
have to force their way into the common mind in disguise, as though they
were burglars instead of benefactors of the race."
And Emerson wrote: "The virtue in most request is conformity.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but
names and customs."
In the ages to come man will look back upon the poverty and
wretchedness of so many millions today, and think how foolish we were
not to take advantage of the abundance all about us. Look at Nature; how
profuse she is in everything. Do you suppose the Mind that imaged that
profuseness ever intended you to be limited, to have to scrimp and save
in order to eke out a bare existence?
There are hundreds of millions of stars in the heavens. Do you
suppose the Mind which could bring into being worlds without number in
such prodigality intended to stint you of the few things necessary to
your happiness?
What is money but a mere idea of mind, a token of exchange? The paper money you have in your pockets
is supposed to represent so much gold or silver currency. There are
billions upon billions of this paper money in circulation, yet all the
gold in the world amounts to only about $8,000,000,000. Wealth is in
ideas, not in money or property. You can control those ideas through
mind.
Reduced to the ultimate—to the atom or to the electron—everything in
this world is an idea of mind. All of it has been brought together
through mind. If we can change the things we want back into mental
images, we can multiply them as often as we like, possess all that we
like.
“To Him That Hath”—
Take as an example the science of numbers. Suppose all numbers were of metal—that it was against the law to write figures for ourselves.
Every time you wanted to do a sum in arithmetic you'd have to provide
yourself with a supply of numbers, arrange them in their proper order,
work out your problems with them. If your problems were too abstruse you
might run out of numbers, have to borrow some from your neighbor or
from the bank.
"How ridiculous," you say. "Figures are not things; they are mere
ideas, and we can add them or divide them or multiply them or subtract
them as often as we like. Anybody can have all the figures he wants."
To be sure he can. And when you get to look upon money in the same way, you will have all the money you want.
"To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." To him that hath the right idea
everything shall be given, and from him who hath not that right idea
shall be taken away everything he hath.
Thought externalizes itself. What we are depends entirely upon the
images we hold before our mind's eye. Every time we think, we start a
chain of causes which will create conditions similar to the thoughts
which originated it. Every thought we hold in our consciousness for any
length of time becomes impressed upon our subconscious mind and creates a
pattern which the mind weaves into our life or environment.
All power is from within and is therefore under our own control. When
you can direct your thought processes, you can consciously apply them
to any condition, for all that comes to us from the world without is what we've already imaged in the world within.
Do you want more money? Sit you down now quietly and realize that
money is merely an idea. That your mind is possessed of unlimited ideas.
That being part of Universal Mind, there is no such thing as limitation
or lack. That somewhere, somehow, the ideas that shall bring you all
the money you need for any right purpose are available for you. That you
have but to put it up to your subconscious mind to find these ideas.
Realize that—believe it—and your need will be met. "What
things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive it and ye
shall have it." Don't forget that "believe that ye receive it." This it is that images the thing you want on your subconscious mind. And this it is that brings it to you. Once you can image the belief clearly on your subconscious mind, "whatsoever it is that ye ask for…ye shall have it."
For the source of all good, of everything you wish for, is the
Universal Mind, and you can reach it only through the subconscious.
And Universal Mind will be to you whatever you believe it to be—the
kind and loving Father whom Jesus pictured, always looking out for the
well-being of his children—or the dread Judge that so many dogmatists
would have us think.
When a man realizes that his mind is part of Universal Mind, when he
realizes that he has only to take any right aspiration to this Universal
Mind to see it realized, he loses all sense of worry and fear. He
learns to dominate instead of to cringe. He rises to meet every
situation, secure in the knowledge that everything necessary to the solution of any problem is in Mind, and
that he has but to take his problem to Universal Mind to have it
correctly answered.
For if you take a drop of water from the ocean, you know that it has
the same properties as all the rest of the water in the ocean, the same
percentage of sodium chloride. The only difference between it and the
ocean is in volume. If you take a spark of electricity, you know that it
has the same properties as the thunderbolt, the same power that moves
trains or runs giant machines in factories. Again the only difference is
in volume. It is the same with your mind and Universal Mind. The only
difference between them is in volume. Your mind has the same properties
as the Universal Mind, the same creative genius, the same power over all
the earth, the same access to all knowledge. Know this, believe it, use it, and "yours is the earth and
the fulness thereof." In the exact proportion that you believe yourself
to be part of Universal Mind, sharing in Its all-power, in that
proportion can you demonstrate the mastery over your own body and over
the world about you.
All growth, all supply is from the world-within. If you would have
power, if you would have wealth, you have but to image it on this world
within, on your subconscious mind, through belief and understanding.
If you would remove discord, you have but to remove the wrong
images—images of ill health, of worry and trouble from within. The
trouble with most of us is that we live entirely in the world without.
We have no knowledge of that inner world which is responsible for all the conditions we meet and all the experiences we have. We have no conception of "the Father that is within us."
The inner world promises us life and health, prosperity and
happiness—dominion over all the earth. It promises peace and perfection
for all its offspring. It gives you the right way and the adequate way
to accomplish any normal purpose. Business, labor, professions, exist
primarily in thought. And the outcome of your labors in them is
regulated by thought. Consider the difference, then, in this outcome if
you have at your command only the limited capacity of your conscious
mind, compared with the boundless energy of the subconscious and the
Universal Mind. "Thought, not money, is the real business capital," says
Harvey S. Firestone, "and if you know absolutely that what you are
doing is right, then you are bound to accomplish it in due season."
Thought is a dynamic energy with the .power to bring its object out
from the invisible substance all about us. Matter is inert,
unintelligent. Thought can shape and control. Every form in which matter
is today is but the expression of some thought, some desire, some idea.
You have a mind. You can originate thought. And thoughts are
creative. Therefore you can create for yourself that which you desire.
Once you realize this you are taking a long step toward success in
whatever undertaking you have in mind.
More than half the prophecies in the Scriptures refer to the time
when man shall possess the earth, when tears and sorrow shall be
unknown, and peace and plenty shall be everywhere. That time will come. It is nearer than most people think possible. You are
helping it along. Every man who is honestly trying to use the power of
mind in the right way is doing his part in the great cause. For it is
only through Mind that peace and plenty can be gained. The earth is
laden with treasures as yet undiscovered. But they are every one of them
known to Universal Mind, for it was Universal Mind that first imaged
them there. And as part of Universal Mind, they can be known to you.
How else did the Prophets of old foretell, thousands of years ago,
the aeroplane, the cannon, the radio? What was the genius that enabled
Ezekiel to argue from his potter's wheel, his water wheel and the stroke
of the lightning to an airplane, with its wheels within wheels, driven
by electricity and guided by man? How are we to explain the descriptions of artillery in the
Apocalypse and the astonishing declaration in the Gospels that the
utterances of the chamber would be broadcast from the housetops?
“To the Manner Born”
Few of us have any idea of our mental powers. The old idea was that
man must take this world as he found it. He'd been born into a certain
position in life, and to try to rise above his fellows was not only the
height of bad taste, but sacrilegious as well. An All wise Providence
had decreed by birth the position a child should occupy in the web of
organized society. For him to be discontented with his lot, for him to
attempt to raise himself to a higher level, was tantamount to tempting
Providence. The gates of Hell yawned wide for such scatterbrains, who were lucky if in this life
they incurred nothing worse than the ribald scorn of their associates.
That is the system that produced aristocracy and feudalism. That is
the system that feudalism and aristocracy strove to perpetuate.
The new idea—the basis of all democracies—is that man is not bound by
any system, that he need not accept the world as he finds it. He can
remake the world to his own ideas. It is merely the raw material. He can
make what he wills of it.
It is this new idea that is responsible for all our inventions, all
our progress. Man is satisfied with nothing. He is constantly remaking
his world. And now more than ever will this be true, for psychology
teaches us that each one has within himself the power to become what he wills.
Learn to control your thought. Learn to image upon your mind only the things you want to see reflected there.
You will never improve yourself by dwelling upon the drawbacks of
your neighbors. You will never attain perfect health and strength by
thinking of weakness or disease. No man ever made a perfect score by
watching his rival's target. You have got to think strength, think
health, think riches. To paraphrase Pascal—"Our achievements today are
but the sum of our thoughts of yesterday."
For thought is energy. Mental images are concentrated energy. And
energy concentrated on any definite purpose becomes power. To those who
perceive the nature and transcendency of this force, all physical power sinks into insignificance.
What is imagination but a form of thought? Yet it is the instrument
by which all the inventors and discoverers have opened the way to new
worlds. Those who grasp this force, be their state ever so humble, their
natural gifts ever so insignificant, become our leading men. They are
our governors and supreme law-givers, the guides of the drifting host
which follows them as by an irrevocable decree. To quote Glenn Clark in
the Atlantic Monthly, “Whatever we have of civilization is their
work, theirs alone. If progress was made they made it. If spiritual
facts were discerned, they discerned them. If justice and order were put
in place of insolence and chaos, they wrought the change. Never is
progress achieved by the masses. Creation ever remains the task of the individual.”
Our railroads, our telephones, our automobiles, our libraries, our
newspapers, our thousands of other conveniences, comforts and
necessities are due to the creative genius of but two per cent of our
population.
And the same two per cent own a great percentage of the wealth of the country.
The question arises, Who are they? What are they? The sons of the
rich? College men? No—few of them had any early advantages. Many of them
have never seen the inside of a college. It was grim necessity that
drove them, and somehow, some way, they found a method of drawing upon
their Genie-of-the-Mind, and through that inner force they have reached
success.
You don't need to stumble and grope. You can call upon your inner forces at will. There are three steps necessary:
First, to realize that you have the power;
Second, to know what you want.
Third, to center your thought upon it with singleness of purpose.
To accomplish these steps takes only a fuller understanding of the Power-that-is-within-you.
But what is this power? Where should you go to locate it? Is it a
thing, a place, an object? Has it bounds, form or material shape? No!
Then how shall you go about finding it?
If you have begun to realize that there is a power within you,
if you have begun to arouse in your conscious mind the ambition and
desire to use this power—you have started in the pathway of Wisdom.
If you are willing to go forward, to endure the mental discipline of
mastering this method, nothing in the world can hinder you or keep you
from overcoming every obstacle.
Begin at once, today, to use what you have learned. All growth comes
from practice. All the forces of life are active—peace—joy—power. The
unused talent decays. Open the door
"Behold I stand at the door and knock; if ANY MAN hear my voice and
open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him and he with
me."
So let us make use of this dynamo, which is you. What is going to start it working? Your Faith,
the faith that is begotten of understanding. Faith is the impulsion,
the propulsion of this power within. Faith is the confidence, the
assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing that the right idea of life will
bring you into the reality of existence and the manifestation of the All
power.
All cause is in Mind—and Mind is everywhere. All the knowledge there
is, all the wisdom there is, all the power there is, is all about you—no
matter where you may be. Your Mind is part of it. You have access to
it. If you fail to avail yourself of it, you have no one to blame but
yourself. For, as the drop of water in the ocean shares in all the
properties of the rest of the ocean water so you share in that
all-power, all-wisdom of Mind. If you have been sick and ailing, if
poverty and hardship have been your lot, don't blame it on "fate." Blame
yourself. "Yours is the earth and everything that's in it." But you've
got to take it. The power is there—but you must use it. It is round about you like the air you breathe. You
don't expect others to do your breathing for you. Neither can you expect
them to use your Mind for you. Universal Intelligence is not only the
mind of the Creator of the universe, but it is also the mind of MAN, your intelligence, your mind. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus!"
So start today by KNOWING that you can do anything you wish to do,
have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. The rest
will follow.
"Ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you."
Etiquetas:
2012,
Chapter 3,
June,
LDA,
Robert Collier,
The Kingdom Of Heaven,
The Primal Cause,
The Secret Of The Ages
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