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The Power of Concentration
HOW CONCENTRATED THOUGHT
LINKS ALL HUMANITY TOGETHER
LESSON V.
It is within your power to gratify your every wish.
Success is the result of the way you think. I will show you how
to think to be successful.
The power to rule and attract success is within yourself. The barriers
that shut these off from you are subject to your control. You have
unlimited power to think and this is the link that connects you
with your omniscient source.
Success is the result of certain moods of mind or ways of thinking.
These moods can be controlled by you and produced at will.
You have been evolved to what you are from a lowly atom because
you possessed the power to think. This power will never leave you,
but will keep urging you on until you reach perfection. As you evolve,
you create new desires and these can be gratified. The power to
rule lies within you. The barriers that keep you from ruling are
also within you. These are the barriers of ignorance.
Concentrated thought will accomplish seemingly impossible results
and make you realize your fondest ambitions. At the same time that
you break down barriers of limitation new ambitions will be awakened.
You begin to experience conscious thought constructions.
If you will just realize that through deep concentration you become
linked with thoughts of omnipotence, you will kill out entirely
your belief in your limitations and at the same time will drive
away all fear and other negative and destructive thought forces
which constantly work against you. In the place of these you will
build up a strong assurance that your every venture will be successful.
When you learn thus how to concentrate and reinforce your thought,
you control your mental creations; they in turn help to mould your
physical environment, and you become the master of circumstances
and the ruler of your kingdom.
It is just as easy to surround your life with what you want as it
is with what you don't want. It is a question to be decided by your
will. There are no walls to prevent you from getting what you want,
providing you want what is right. If you choose something that is
not right, you are in opposition to the omnipotent plans of the
universe and deserve to fail. But, if you will base your desires
on justice and good will, you avail yourself of the helpful powers
of universal currents, and instead of having a handicap to work
against, can depend upon ultimate success, though the outward appearances
may not at first be bright.
Never stop to think of temporary appearances, but maintain an unfaltering
belief in your ultimate success. Make your plans carefully, and
see that they are not contrary to the tides of universal justice.
The main thing for you to remember is to keep at bay the destructive
and opposing forces of fear and anger and their satellites.
There is no power so great as the belief which comes from the knowledge
that your thought is in harmony with the divine laws of thought
and the sincere conviction that your cause is right. You may be
able seemingly to accomplish results for a time even if your cause
is unjust, but the results will be temporary, and, in time, you
will have to tear down your thought edifice and build on the true
foundation of Right.
Plans that are not built on truth produce discordant vibrations
and are therefore self-destructive. Never try to build until you
can build right. It is a waste of time to do anything else. You
may temporarily put aside your desire to do right, but its true
vibrations will interfere with your unjust plans until you are forced
back into righteous paths of power.
All just causes succeed in time, though temporarily they may fail.
So if you should face the time when everything seems against you,
quiet your fears, drive away all destructive thoughts and uphold
the dignity of your moral and spiritual life.
"Where There Is A Will There Is A Way." The reason this
is so is that the Will can make a way if given the chance to secure
the assistance of aiding forces. The more it is developed the higher
the way to which it will lead.
When everything looks gloomy and discouraging, then is the time
to show what you are made of by rejoicing that you can control your
moods by making them as calm, serene and bright as if prosperity
were yours.
"Be faithful in sowing the thought seeds of success, in perfect
trust that the sun will not cease to shine and bring a generous
harvest in one season."
It is not always necessary to think of the success of a venture
when you are actually engaged in it. For when the body is inactive
the mind is most free to catch new ideas that will further the opportunity
you are seeking. When you are actually engaged in doing something,
you are thinking in the channels you have previously constructed
and the work does not have to be done over again.
When you are in a negative mood the intuitions are more active,
for you are not then controlling your thoughts by the will. Everything
we do. should have the approval of the intuition.
When you are in a negative mood you attract thoughts of similar
nature through the law of affinity. That is why it is so important
to form thoughts of a success nature to attract similar ones. If
you have never made a study of this subject, you may think this
is all foolishness, but it is a fact that there are thought currents
that unerringly bring thoughts of a similar nature. Many persons
who think of failure actually attract failure by their worries,
their anxieties, their overactivity. These thoughts are bound to
bring failure. When you once learn the laws of thought and think
of nothing but Good, Truth, Success, you will make more progress
with less effort than you ever made before.
There are forces that can aid the mind that are hardly dreamed of
by the average person. When you learn to believe more in the value
of thought and its laws you will be led aright and your business
gains will multiply.
The following method may assist you in gaining better thought control.
If you are unable to control your fears, just say to your faulty
determination, "Do not falter or be afraid, for I am not really
alone. I am surrounded by invisible forces that will assist me to
remove the unfavorable appearances." Soon you will have more
courage. The only difference between the fearless man and the fearful
one is in his will, his hope. So if you lack success, believe in
it, hope for it, claim it. You can use the same method to brace
up your thoughts of desire, aspiration, imagination, expectation,
ambition, understanding, trust and assurance.
If you get anxious, angry, discouraged, undecided or worried, it
is because you are not receiving the co-operation of the higher
powers of your mind. By your Will you can so organize the powers
of the mind that your moods change only as you want them to instead
of as circumstances affect you.
I was recently asked if I advised concentrating on what you eat,
or what you see while walking. My reply was that no matter what
you may be doing, when in practice think of nothing else but that
act at the time. The idea is to be able to control your unimportant
acts, otherwise you set up a habit that it will be hard to overcome,
because your faculties have not been in the habit of concentrating.
Your faculties cannot be disorganized one minute and organized the
next. If you allow the mind to wander while you are doing small
things, it will be likely to get into mischief and make it hard
to concentrate on the important act when it comes.
The man that is able to concentrate is the happy, busy man. Time
does not drag with him. He always has plenty to do. He does not
have time to think over past mistakes, which would make him unhappy.
If despite our discouragement and failures, we claim our great heritage,
"life and truth and force, like an electric current,"
will permeate our lives until we enter into our "birthright
in eternity."
The will does not act with clearness, decision and promptness unless
it is trained to do so. There are comparatively few that really
know what they are doing every minute of the day. This is because
they do not observe with sufficient orderliness and accuracy to
know what they are doing. It is not difficult to know what you us
doing all the time, if you will just practice concentration and
with a reposeful deliberation, and train yourself to think clearly,
promptly, and decisive. If you allow yourself to worry or hurry
in what you are doing, this will not be clearly photographed upon
the sensitized plate of the subjective mind, and you therefore will
not be really conscious of your actions. So practice accuracy and
concentration of thought, and also absolute truthfulness and you
will soon be able to concentrate.
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