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

The discordant thought often appears very suddenly in response to external suggestion, and sometimes that fact is made an excuse for allowing it to pursue its course.

The plea is, "It came before I knew it;" but this does not justify any one in allowing it to continue. One can think in one direction just as rapidly as in another, and, if he chooses to do so, he can stop the discordant thought as suddenly as it appeared -- even on the very instant.

The unexpected flash of anger can be cast out of the mind with the same instantaneousness that it started.

There is no difference in the rapidity of the different kinds of thinking. It takes no longer to think harmonious thoughts than discordant ones, and no longer to exclude the discordant though', than it did to admit it.

If one is instantaneous, so may the other be.

Though it takes a little time for the mind to send its orders along the nerve to the muscle, still, in itself alone thinking is very nearly if not quite instantaneous.

Of course, in all this there are those thoughts which immediately precede an act, and others which were antecedent and contributory to it.

The series may be a long one, running far back into the past. Before a man murders another, there must have been in his own mind thoughts of greed, envy, anger, hate, desire for revenge, or others of evil character.

According to some statements of modern science, these may have followed one another through generations of ancestors.

The first one of the series is more easily controlled than any of its successors, and destruction of the first prevents the birth of any of the others.