MORE ON LEARNING ENGLISH= THE power of POS.THINKING
Contents
Introduction: What This Book Can Do for You
Chapter 1: Believe in Yourself .......................
Chapter 2: A Peaceful Mind Generates Power
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Chapter 3: How to Have Constant Energy.....
4: Try Prayer Power.......................
Chapter 5: How to Create Your Own Happiness
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Chapter 6: Stop Fuming and Fretting ..........
Chapter 1:
Believe in Yourself
Believe in yourself!
Have faith in your
abilities!
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers you
cannot be successful or happy.
But with
sound self-confidence you can succeed.
A
sense of inferiority and inadequacy
interferes with the attainment of your
hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.
Because of the importance of this mental
attitude, this book will help you believe in
yourself and release your inner powers.
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It is appalling to realize the number of
pathetic people who are hampered and
made miserable by the malady popularly
called the inferiority complex.
But you
need not suffer from this trouble.
When
proper steps are taken, it can be
overcome.
You can develop creative faith
in yourself—faith that is justified.
After speaking to a convention of
businessmen in a city auditorium, I was on
the stage greeting people when a man
approached me and with a peculiar
intensity of manner asked, "May I talk with
you about a matter of desperate
importance to me?"
I asked him to remain until the others had
gone, then we went backstage and sat down.
"I'm in this town to handle the most
important business deal of my life," he
explained.
"If I succeed, it means
everything to me.
If I fail, I'm done."
I suggested that he relax a little, that
nothing was quite that final.
If he
succeeded, that was fine.
If he didn't, well,
tomorrow is another day.
"I have a terrible disbelief in myself," he
said dejectedly.
"I have no confidence. I
just don't believe I can put it over.
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. I am
very discouraged and depressed.
In fact,"
he lamented, "I'm just about sunk.
Here I
am, forty years old.
Why is it that all my
life I have been tormented by inferiority
feelings, by lack of confidence, by self-doubt?
I listened to your speech tonight in
which you talked about the power of
positive thinking, and I want to ask how I
can get some faith in myself.""
There are two steps to take," I replied.
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"There are two steps to take," I replied.
"First, it is important to discover why you
have these feelings of no power.
That
requires analysis and will take time.
We
must approach the maladies of our
emotional life as a physician probes to find
something wrong physically.
This cannot
be done immediately, certainly not in our
brief interview tonight, and it may require
treatment to reach a permanent solution.
But to pull you through this immediate
problem, I shall give you a formula which
will work if you use it.
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"As you walk down the street tonight, I
suggest that you repeat certain words
which I shall give you.
Say them over
several times after you get into bed.
When
you awaken tomorrow, repeat them three
times before arising.
On the way to your
important appointment say them three
additional times.
Do this with an attitude of
faith and you will receive sufficient
strength and ability to deal with this
problem.
Later, if you wish, we can go into
an analysis of your basic problem, but
whatever we come up with following that
study, the formula which I am now going
to give you can be a large factor in the
eventual cure."
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Following is the affirmation which I gave
him—"I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me" (Philippians
4:13).
He was unfamiliar with these words,
so I wrote them on a card and had him
read them over three times aloud.
"Now, follow that prescription, and I am
sure things will come out all right."
He pulled himself up, stood quietly for a
moment, then said with considerable
feeling, "O.K., Doctor. O.K."
I watched him square his shoulders and
walk out into the night.
He seemed a pathetic figure, and yet the way he carried
himself as he disappeared showed that
faith was already at work in his mind.
Subsequently, he reported that this simple
formula "did wonders" for him and added,
"It seems incredible that a few words from
the Bible could do so much for a person."
This man later had a study made of the
reasons for his inferiority attitudes.
They
were cleared away by scientific counseling
and by the application of religious faith.
He
was taught how to have faith and was
given certain specific instructions to follow
(these are given later in this chapter).
Gradually he attained a strong, steady,
reasonable confidence.
He never ceases
to express amazement at the way in which
things now flow toward, rather than away,
from him.
His personality has taken on a
positive, not negative, character so that he
no longer repels success, but, on the
contrary, draws it to him.
He now has an
authentic confidence in his own powers.
There are various causes of inferiority
feelings, and not a few stem from
childhood.
He never ceases
to express amazement at the way in which
things now flow toward, rather than away,
from him.
His personality has taken on a
positive, not negative, character so that he
no longer repels success, but, on the
contrary, draws it to him.
now has an
authentic confidence in his own powers.
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There are various causes of inferiority
feelings, and not a few stem from
childhood.
An executive consulted me about a young
man whom he wished to advance in his
company.
But," he explained, "he cannot
be trusted with important secret
information and I'm sorry, for otherwise I
would make him my administrative
assistant.
He has all the other necessary
qualifications, but he talks too much, and
without meaning to do so divulges matters
of a private and important nature.
Upon analysis I found that he "talked too
much" simply because of an inferiority
feeling.
To compensate for it he
succumbed to the temptation of parading
his knowledge.
He associated with men who were rather
well to do, all of whom had attended
college and belonged to a fraternity.
But
this boy was reared in poverty, had not
been a college man or fraternity member.
Thus, he felt himself inferior to his
associates in education and social
background.
To build himself up with his
associates and to enhance his self
esteem, his subconscious mind, which
always seeks to provide a compensatory
mechanism, supplied him with a means for raising his ego.
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He was on "the inside" in the industry, and
accompanied his superior to conferences
where he met outstanding men and
listened to important private
conversations.
He reported just enough of
his "inside information" to cause his
associates to regard him with admiration
and envy.
This served to elevate his self esteem - and satisfy his desire for
recognition.
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When the employer became aware of the
cause of this personality trait, being a
kindly and understanding man, he pointed
out to the young man the opportunities in
business to which his abilities could lead
him.
He also described how his inferiority
feelings caused his unreliability in
confidential matters.
This self-knowledge,
together with a sincere practicing of the
techniques of faith and prayer, made him
a valuable asset to his company.
His real
powers were released.
I can perhaps illustrate the manner in
which many youngsters acquire an
inferiority complex through the use of a
personal reference.
As a small boy I was
painfully thin.
I had lots of energy, was on
a track team, was healthy and hard as
nails, but thin.
And that bothered me
because I didn't want to be thin. I wanted
to be fat.
I was called "skinny,"
but I didn't
want to be called "skinny." I wanted to be
called "fat."
I longed to be hard-boiled and
tough and fat.
I did everything to get fat.
I
drank cod-liver oil, consumed vast
numbers of milk shakes, ate thousands of
chocolate sundaes with whipped cream
and nuts, cakes and pies innumerable, but
they did not affect me in the slightest.
I
stayed thin and lay awake nights thinking
and agonizing about it.
I kept on trying to
get heavy until I was about thirty, when all
of a sudden did I get heavy?
I bulged at
the seams.
Then I became self-conscious
because I was so fat, and finally had to
take off forty pounds with equal agony to
get myself down to a respectable size.
In the second place (to conclude this
personal analysis which I give only
because it may help others by showing
how this malady works), I was a minister's
son and was constantly reminded of that
fact.
Everybody else could do everything,
but if I did even the slightest little thing—
"Ah, you are a preacher's son."
So, I didn't
want to be a preacher's son, for
preachers' sons are supposed to be nice
and namby-pamby.
I wanted to be known
as a hard-boiled fellow.
Perhaps that is
why preachers' sons get their reputation
for being a little difficult, because they
rebel against having to carry the banner of
the church all the time.
I vowed there was
one thing I would never do, and that was
to become a preacher.
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