THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION/PART 11
LESSON XI. CONCENTRATE
ON COURAGE
Courage
is the backbone of man. The man with courage has persistence. He states what he
believes and puts it into execution. The courageous man has confidence. He
draws to himself all the moral qualities and mental forces which go to make up
a strong man. Whereas, the man without courage draws to himself all the
qualities of a weak man, vacillation, doubt, hesitancy, and unsteadiness of
purpose. You can therefore see the value of concentration on courage. It is a
most vital element of success.
The
lack of courage creates financial, as well as mental and moral difficulties.
When a new problem comes, instead of looking upon it as something to be
achieved, the man or woman without courage looks for reasons why it cannot be
done and failure is naturally the almost inevitable result. This is a subject
well worthy of your study. Look upon everything within your power as a
possibility instead of as merely a probability and you will accomplish a great
deal more, because by considering a thing as impossible, you immediately draw
to yourself all the elements that contribute to failure. Lack of courage
destroys your confidence in yourself. It destroys that forceful, resolute
attitude so important to success.
The
man without courage unconsciously draws to himself all that is contemptible,
weakening, demoralizing and destructive. He then blames his luck when he does not
secure the things he weakly desires. We must first have the courage to strongly
desire something. A desire to be fulfilled must be backed by the strength of
all our mental forces. Such a desire has enough commanding force to change all
unfavorable conditions. The man with courage commands, whether he is on the
battlefield or in business life.
What
is courage? It is the Will To Do. It takes no more energy to be courageous than
to be cowardly. It is a matter of the right training in the right way. Courage
concentrates the mental forces on the task at hand. It then directs them
thoughtfully, steadily, deliberately, while attracting all the forces of
success, toward the desired end. Cowardice on the other hand, dissipates both
our mental and moral forces, thereby inviting failure.
As
we are creatures of habits, we should avoid persons that lack courage. They are
easy to discover because of their habits of fear in attacking new problems. The
man with courage is never afraid.
Start
out today with the idea that there is no reason why you should not be
courageous. If any fear-thoughts come to you cast them off as you would the
deadly viper. Form the habit of never thinking of anything unfavorable to
yourself or anyone else. In dealing with difficulties, new or old, hold ever
the thought, "I am courageous." Whenever a doubt crosses the
threshold of your mind, banish it. Remember, you as master of your mind control
its every thought, and here is a good one to often affirm, "I have courage
because I desire it; because I need it; because I use it and because I refuse
to become such a weakling as cowardice produces."
There
is no justification for the loss of courage. The evils by which you will almost
certainly be overwhelmed without it are far greater than those which courage
will help you to meet and overcome. Right, then, must be the moralist who says
that the only thing to fear is fear.
Never
let another's opinion affect you; he cannot tell what you are able to do; he
does not know what you can do with your forces. The truth is you do not know
yourself until you put yourself to the test. Therefore, how can someone else
know? Never let anyone else put a valuation on you.
Almost
all wonderful achievements have been accomplished after it had been
"thoroughly" demonstrated that they were impossibilities. Once we
understand the law, all things are possible. If they were impossibilities we
could not conceive them.
Just
the moment you allow someone to influence you against what you think is right,
you lose that confidence in yourself that inspires courage and carries with it
all the forces which courage creates. Just the moment you begin to swerve in
your plan you begin to carry out another's thought and not your own. You become
the directed and not the director. You forsake the courage and resolution of
your own mind, and you therefore lack the very forces that you need to sustain
and carry out your work. Instead of being self-reliant you become timid and
this invites failure. When you permit yourself to be influenced from your plan
by another, you are unable to judge as you should, because you have allowed
another's influence to deprive you of your courage and determination without
absorbing any of his in return so you are in much the same predicament, as you
would be in if you turned over all your worldly possessions to another without
getting "value received."
Concentrate
on just the opposite of fear, want, poverty, sickness, etc. Never doubt your
own ability. You have plenty, if you will just use it. A great many men are
failures because they doubt their own capacity. Instead of building up strong
mental forces which would be of the greatest use to them their fear thoughts
tear them down. Fear paralyzes energy. It keeps us from attracting the forces
that go to make up success. Fear is the worst enemy we have.
There
are few people that really know that they can accomplish much. They desire the
full extent of their powers, but alas, it is only occasionally that you find a
man that is aware of the great possibilities within him. When you believe with
all your mind and heart and soul that you can do something, you thereby develop
the courage to steadily and confidently live up to that belief. You have now
gone a long way towards accomplishing it. The chances are that there will be
obstacles, big and little, in your way, but resolute courage will overcome them
and nothing else will. Strong courage eliminates the injurious and opposing
forces by summoning their masters, the yet stronger forces that will serve you.
Courage
is yours for the asking. All you have to do is to believe in it, claim it and
use it. To succeed in business believe that it will be successful, assert that
it is successful, and work like a beaver to make it so. Difficulties soon melt
away before the courageous. One man of courage can fire with his spirit a whole
army of men, whether it be military or industrial, because courage, like
cowardice, is contagious.
The
man of courage overcomes the trials and temptations of life; he commands
success; he renders sound judgment; he develops personal influence and a
forceful character and often becomes the mentor of the community which he
serves.
How
to Overcome Depression and Melancholia. Both of the former are harmful and make
you unhappy. These are states that can be quickly overcome through
concentrating more closely on the higher self, for when you do you cut off the
connection with the harmful force currents. You can also drive away moods by
simply choosing and fully concentrating on an agreeable subject. Through will
power and thought control we can accomplish anything we want to do. There is
wonderful inherent power within us all, and there is never any sufficient cause
for fear, except ignorance.
Every
evil is but the product of ignorance, and everyone that possesses the power to
think has the power to overcome ignorance and evil. The pain that we suffer
from doing evil are but the lessons of experience, and the object of the pain
is to make us realize our ignorance. When we become depressed It is evidence that
our thought faculties are combining improperly and thereby attracting the wrong
force-currents.
All
that it is necessary to do is to exercise the will and concentrate upon happy
subjects. I will only think of subjects worthy of my higher self and its powers.
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