NORMAN.V.PEALE POWER OF POS.THINKING.

This plan used by my friend is a very wise one.

 By filling his mind with affirmations of the presence, support, and help of God, he had actually changed his thought processes.

 He put an end to the dominance of his long-held sense of insecurity. 

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"Now," I said, "let's list the assets we have figured out:

 "1. A wonderful wife—married for thirty years. 

"2. Three devoted children who will stand by you. "

3. Friends who will help you and who hold you in esteem. "

"4. Integrity—nothing to be ashamed of. 

"5. Good physical health. 

"6. Live in the United States, the greatest country in the world. 

"7. Have religious faith."

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• Well, he got it, and he did start all over again. But he did so only when he changed his viewpoint, his mental attitude.
• No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. 
• To practice it simply affirm, "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day.
•  visualizing His presence. 
• Emerson declared a tremendous truth, "They conquer who believe they can."
•  And he added, "Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."
•  Practice confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities will soon have no power over you.
• To sum up—what can you do now to build up your self-confidence?
•  Following are ten simple, workable rules for overcoming inadequacy attitudes and learning to practice faith.
•  Thousands have used these rules, reporting successful results. Undertake this program and you, too, will build up confidence in your powers.
•  You, too, will have a new feeling of power.
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• 1. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. 
• Hold this picture tenaciously. 
• Never permit it to fade.
•  Your mind will seek to develop this picture.
•  Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image.
• That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures. 
• So always picture "success" no matter how badly things seem to be going at the moment.
• 2. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out. 
• 3. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. 
• Depreciate every so-called obstacle. 
• Minimize them.
• Difficulties must be studied and efficiently dealt with to be eliminated, but they must be seen for only what they are.
• They must not be inflated by fear thoughts.
• 4. Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as YOU can.
•  Remember also that most people, despite their confident
• appearance and demeanor, are often as scared as you are and as doubtful of themselves.
•  5. Ten times a day repeat these dynamic words, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31). 
• (Stop reading and repeat them NOW slowly and confidently.
• 6. Get a competent counselor to help you understand why you do what you do. 
• Learn the origin of your inferiority and self doubt feelings which often begin in childhood. 
• Self-knowledge leads to a cure.
•  7. Ten times each day practice the following affirmation, repeating it out loud if possible. 
• "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
• (Philippians 4:13). Repeat those words NOW. 
• That magic statement is the most powerful antidote on earth to inferior thoughts.
•  8. Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it 10 percent.
•  Do not become egotistical but develop a wholesome self-respect. 
• Believe in your own God-released powers.
• 9. Put yourself in God's hands.
•  To do that simply state, "I am in God's hands." 
• Then believe you are NOW receiving all the power you need. "Feel" it flowing into you. 
• Affirm that "the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21) in the form of adequate power to meet life's demands.
• 10. Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now RECEIVE power from him.
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