Develop-Positive-Thinking

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

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The mind must be active. The room which was once filled with erroneous and discordant thoughts, but which has been swept clean of them, must immediately be filled with desirable ones so that there may be no place for the return of the former objectionable occupants.

"We should have our principles ready for use on every occasion" is as true now as when Epictetus first declared it.

Good thoughts will then be ready to appear as soon as they are given the opportunity by the turning out of bad ones.

Of course it is at all times and in every way advantageous intentionally and consciously to bring good thoughts into the mind and keep them there; then evil ones will not have an opportunity to enter.

In the prosecution of this mental training employment of any kind is a decided advantage because it keeps the mind occupied with a better kind of thinking than might otherwise fill it. Herein lies one of the greatest benefits connected with labor.

The labor should not be such as results in great physical fatigue, nor should it require such special attention as to produce mental exhaustion.

It should be neither excessive nor insufficient, but adapted mentally and physically to the condition of the person who is employed in it.

If excessive, there is danger of mental reaction through fatigue; if insufficient, there is danger that the unoccupied mind may take up some objectionable topic. Mental activity and the character of that activity are the essentials; the labor is valuable only as an aid to control mental action.

"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."