CAN YOU BE ANYTHING DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU THINK?


Our thoughts make us what we are. Emerson said, “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” The biggest problem we have to deal with is choosing the right thought.

OUR LIFE IS WHAT OUR THOUGHTS MAKE IT.

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable. If we think fear thoughts, we will be fearful. If we think sickly thoughts, we will probably get ill. If we think failure, we will certainly fail.

Before you became anything, you first thought about it. Be concerned about your problems, but do not be worried. Concern means realizing what the problems are and calmly taking steps to meet them; Worrying means going around in maddening, futile circles.

 Our mental attitude has an almost unbelievable effect even on our physical powers. The famous British Psychiatrist, J.A. Hadfield, gives a striking illustration of that fact in his splendid 54-page booklet: the psychology of power. ”I asked three men,” he writes, “to submit themselves to test the effect of mental suggestion on their strength, which was measured by gripping a dynamometer.” He told them to grip the dynamometer with all their might. He had them do this under three different sets of condition.

When he tested them under normal waking conditions, their average grip was 101 pounds. When he tested them after he had hypnotized them and told them that they were very weak, they could grip only 29 pounds- less than a third of their normal strength. (One of these men was a prize fighter; and when he was told under hypnosis that he was weak, he remarked that his arm felt tiny, just like a baby’s.)

When Captain Hadfield then tested these men a third time, telling them under hypnosis that they were very strong, they were able to grip an average of 142 pounds. When their minds were filled with positive thoughts of strength, they increased their actual physical powers almost fifty per cent.

Men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. There is nothing wrong with either your body or your mind. It is not the situations you have met that have thrown you; it is what you think of these situations.  “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

“He who conquers his spirit is mightier than he who taketh a city.”


What powers our thought, can take over our mind and body. You can have your thoughts work for you instead of against you. Our peace of mind and the joy we get out of living depends not on where we are, or what we have, or who we are, but solely upon your mental attitude.

 

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

 

Napoleon had everything men usually crave- glory, power, riches- yet he said, “I have never known six happy days in my life;” while Helen Keller- blind, deaf, dumb- declared: “I have found life so beautiful.” Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Montaigne, the great French philosopher, adopted these seventeen words as the motto of his life: “a man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.” And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us.

James Allen said in his book called ‘As a man thinketh:’ “A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him…. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are….. The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very self… All that a man achieves is the direct result of his own thoughts… A man can only rise, conquer and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.”

According to the book of Genesis, the creator gave man dominion over the whole wide earth. But let us desire dominion over our thoughts; dominion over our fears; dominion over our mind and over our spirit.


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  1. AnonymousMay 13, 2020 at 5:51 AM

    I am always overwhelmed by replaying thoughts of what happened to me and thoughts of what I will do in future. I am fighting really hard to change my thoughts and live one day at a time.

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