Develop-Positive-Thinking

"How To Develop Positive Thinking, Right and Wrong Thinking & Their Results..."

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Every one who observes his own mental actions and methods is aware of countless changes of thinking following one another in rapid succession in response to external suggestions or requirements.

The frequency of these occurrences will surprise all those who have not turned their attention in this direction.

They will also discover that, under all ordinary circumstances, these changes are made without the slightest appreciable effort.

All this is normal, occurring in the usual course of mental action.

It is also ideal. It is toward such natural and ideal action as this that all intentional efforts to avoid discordant thinking should be directed.

To make similar changes intentionally every time the discordant thoughts appear, thus dropping them out of the mind and giving the attention wholly to harmonious thoughts, is to comply with the rule in every particular and accomplish every desirable result.

The only unusual mental action involved in this course is that the impulse to the action is to come from within instead of from without. The change should be made purposely, promptly, because of one's own choice, and in response to recognized principle; but not in heedless compliance with the suggestions of external circumstances or conditions.

If apprehension of either effort or difficulty arises in the mind when proposing to abandon discordant thinking, it should be instantly excluded because it will inevitably lead to some form of the very kind of thinking which is to be avoided.

This course of training depends on choice, must be in response to choice, and should be accompanied by the least possible expenditure of will or effort.

"Develop Positive Thinking Right And Wrong Thinking and their results..."

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There is no more fitting counsel for the close of this book than is contained in the following words from The School of Life, by William R. Alger: --

"And now there is one more lesson for us to learn, the climax of all the rest; namely, to make a personal application to ourselves of everything which we know. Unless we master this lesson, and act on it, the other lessons are virtually useless, and thus robbed of their essential glory. The only living end or aim of everything we experience, of every truth we are taught, is the practical use we make of it for the enrichment of the soul, the attuning of the thoughts and passions, the exaltation of life. . . . When we do what we know, then first does it put on vital lustre and become divinely precious."