THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION/PART 4
LESSON IV.
CONCENTRATION, THE SILENT FORCE THAT PRODUCES RESULTS IN ALL BUSINESS
I
want you first to realize how powerful thought is. A thought of fear has turned
a person's hair gray in a night. A prisoner condemned to die was told that if
he would consent to an experiment and lived through it he would be freed. He
consented. They wanted to see how much blood a person could lose and still
live. They arranged that blood would apparently drop from a cut made in his
leg. The cut made was very slight, from which practically no blood escaped. The
room was darkened, and the prisoner thought the dropping he heard was really
coming from his leg. The next morning he was dead through mental fear.
The
two above illustrations will give you a little idea of the power of thought. To
thoroughly realize the power of thought is worth a great deal to you.
Through
concentrated thought power you can make yourself whatever you please. By
thought you can greatly increase your efficiency and strength. You are
surrounded by all kinds of thoughts, some good, others bad, and you are sure to
absorb some of the latter if you do not build up a positive mental attitude.
If
you will study the needless moods of anxiety, worry, despondency,
discouragement and others that are the result of uncontrolled thoughts, you
will realize how important the control of your thoughts are. Your thoughts make
you what you are.
When
I walk along the street and study the different people's faces I can tell how
they spent their lives. It all shows in their faces, just like a mirror
reflects their physical countenances. In looking in those faces I cannot help
thinking how most of the people you see have wasted their lives.
The
understanding of the power of thought will awaken possibilities within you that
you never dreamed of. Never forget that your thoughts are making your environment,
your friends, and as your thoughts change these will also. Is this not a
practical lesson to learn? Good thoughts are constructive. Evil thoughts are
destructive. The desire to do right carries with it a great power. I want you
to thoroughly realize the importance of your thoughts, and how to make them
valuable, to understand that your thoughts come to you over invisible wires and
influence you.
If
your thoughts are of a high nature, you become connected with people of the
same mental caliber and you are able to help yourself. If your thoughts are
tricky, you will bring tricky people to deal with you, who will try to cheat
you.
If
your thoughts are right kind, you will inspire confidence in those with whom
you are dealing.
As
you gain the good will of others your confidence and strength will increase.
You will soon learn the wonderful value of your thoughts and how serene you can
become even when circumstances are the most trying.
Such
thoughts of Right and Good Will bring you into harmony with people that amount
to something in the world and that are able to give you help if you should need
it, as nearly everyone does at times.
You
can now see why it is so important to concentrate your thoughts in the proper
channels. It is very necessary that people should have confidence in you. When
two people meet they have not the time to look each other up. They accept each
other according to instinct which can usually be relied on.
You
meet a person and his attitude creates a suspicion in you. The chances are you
cannot tell why, but something tells you, "Have no dealings with him, for
if you do, you will be sorry." Thoughts produce actions. Therefore be
careful of your thoughts. Your life will be molded by the thoughts you have. A
spiritual power is always available to your thought, and when you are worthy
you can attract all the good things without a great effort on your part.
The
sun's rays shine down on our gardens, but we can plant trees that will
interfere with the sun light. There are invisible forces ready to help you if
you do not think and act to intercept these. These forces work silently.
"You reap what you sow."
You
have concentrated within powers that if developed will bring you happiness
greater than you can even imagine. Most people go rushing through life,
literally driving away the very things they seek. By concentration you can
revolutionize your life, accomplish infinitely more and without a great effort.
Look
within yourself and you will find the greatest machine ever made.
How
to Speak Wisely. In order to speak wisely you must secure at least a partial
concentration of the faculties and forces upon the subject at hand. Speech
interferes with the focusing powers of the mind, as it withdraws the attention
to the external and therefore is hardly to be compared with that deep silence
of the subconscious mind, where deep thoughts, and the silent forces of high
potency are evolved. It is necessary to be silent before you can speak wisely.
The person that is really alert and well poised and able to speak wisely under
trying circumstances, is the person that has practiced in the silence. Most
people do not know what the silence is and think it is easy to go into the
silence, but this is not so. In the real silence we become attached to that
interior law and the forces become silent, because they are in a state of high
potency, or beyond the vibratory sounds to which our external ears are attuned.
He who desires to become above the ordinary should open up for himself the
interior channels which lead to the absolute law of the omnipotent. You can
only do this by persistently and intelligently practicing thought
concentration. Hold the thought:
In silence I will allow my higher self to have complete control.
I will be true to my higher self. I will live true to my conception of what is right.
I realize that it is to my self interest to live up to my best. I demand wisdom
so that I may act wisely for myself and others.
In
the next chapter I will tell you of the mysterious law, which links all humanity
together, by the powers of co-operative thought, and chooses for us
companionship and friends.
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