The Power of Positive Thinking

by Norman Vincent Peale

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There is indeed a ‘prescription’ for heartache. One element in the prescription is physical activity. The sufferer must avoid the temptation to sit and brood. A sensible programme which substitutes physical activity for such fruitless brooding reduces the strain on the area of the mind where we reflect, philosophise, and suffer mental pain. Muscular activity utilises another part of the brain and therefore shifts the strain and gives relief.

Another profoundly curative element in the prescription for heartache is to gain a sound and satisfying philosophy of life and death and deathlessness. For my part, when I gained the unshakable belief that there is no death, that all life is indivisible, that the here and hereafter are one, that time and eternity are inseparable, that this is one unobstructed universe, then I found the most satisfying and convincing philosophy of my entire life.

Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now.

touch people with a strange uplifting force.

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a tremendous curative force.)

The incident indicates that if there is deep desire, intensity of longing, and a sincere reaching out after the Power, that it will be given.