The Power of Positive Thinking

by Norman Vincent Peale

“Attitudes are more important than facts.” That

But if, on the contrary, you mentally visualise and affirm and reaffirm your assets and keep your thoughts on them, emphasising them to the fullest extent, you will rise out of any difficulty regardless of what it may be. Your inner powers will reassert themselves and, with the help of God, lift you from defeat to victory.

can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

It is fear, resentment, the projection of parental faults upon people when they are children, inner conflicts and obsessions that throw off balance the finely equated nature, thus causing undue expenditure of natural force.

So to avoid tiredness and to have energy, feel your way into the essential rhythm of Almighty God and all His works.

The surest way not to become tired is to lose yourself in something in which you have a profound conviction.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Hate blocks his energy and he isn’t up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling.”

semblance of the same look was on his own face.

There is something in the beautiful essence of the universe that is expressed,

His principal trouble was in his depressed thought pattern.

Slow down, for whatever you really want will be there when you get there if you work towards it without stress, without

pressing.

“The Shield of faith, where with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.” (Ephesians vi.16.) Faith, belief, positive thinking, faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself, faith in life. This is the essence of the technique that teaches. “If thou canst believe,” it says, “all things are possible to him that believeth.” (Mark ix.23.) “If ye have faith...nothing shall be impossible unto you.” (Matthew xvii.21.) “According to your faith be it unto you.” (Matthew ix.29.) Believe—believe—so it drives home the truth that faith moves mountains.

People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness.

Results do not yield themselves to the person who refuses to give himself to the desired results.

“Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.”

Emerson said: “Beware of what you want for you will get it.”

With the creative force of belief you stimulate that particular gathering together of circumstances which brings your cherished wish to pass.

“A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetises his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.”

‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’

faith power works wonders.

“The rough is only mental. In other words,” he continued, “it is rough because you think it is. In your mind you have decided that here is an obstacle which will cause you difficulty. The power to overcome this obstacle is in your mind. If

‘The rough is only mental. I think victory—I get victory’.

can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me’.

fundamental doctrine of Emerson is that the human personality can be touched with Divine power and thus greatness can be released from it. William James pointed out that the greatest factor in any undertaking is one’s belief about it. Thoreau told us that the secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

that only that comes out of the mind which originally you put into the mind.

“We have discovered the psychosomatic cause of high blood pressure as some form of subtle, repressed fear—a fear of things that might happen, not of things that are,” says Dr. Rebecca Beard. “They are largely fears of things in the future. In that sense, therefore, they are imaginary, for they may never happen at all. In the case of diabetes, it is grief or disappointment which we found uses up more energy than any other emotion, thereby exhausting the insulin which is manufactured by the

pancreas cells until they are worn out.

the subconscious gives back only that which you real thought is. If

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mind. Nothing on earth is greater than the human mind in potential power.

When most people say they are being ‘realistic’ they delude themselves: they are simply being negative.

“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”

feet—“And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

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