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I have noticed that my own afflictions come upon me when I do not balance expression with relaxation.”
hectic. Space has been annihilated in the modern world, and apparently we are also attempting to annihilate the factor of time.
It is only rarely possible for an individual to walk in deep woods or sit by the sea or meditate on a mountain-top or on the deck of a vessel in the midst of the ocean. But when we do have such experiences, we can print on the mind the picture of the silent place and the feel of the moment and return to it in memory to live it over again just as truly as when we were actually in that scene. In fact, when you return to it in memory the mind tends to remove any unpleasant factors present in the actual situation. The memory visit is often an improvement over the actual for the mind tends to
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Though I am in Hawaii to give a series of lectures and to write this book, nevertheless the peace with which this place is filled envelops me.
Fill your mind with all peaceful experiences possible, then make planned and deliberate excursions to them in memory.
You can make the mind give you back anything you want, but remember the mind can give back only what it was first given.
It helps to sit here and go back to the days when I had an untroubled mind, when life was new and fresh. It does something for me. It gives me peace.”
Perhaps we all cannot have such murals on the dining-room walls, but you can put them around the wall of your mind: pictures of the most beautiful experiences of your life. Spend time among the thoughts which these pictures suggest.
However, there is a curious quirk within the human mind whereby sometimes an individual will not forgive himself.
We talked a bit, and it came out in the conversation that he was always worrying that something sinister was going to happen. For years he had anticipated some dire event, living in constant apprehension about ‘something happening’ to his wife or his children or his home.
Then let Thy peace flow into his mind, and into his soul, and into his body.”
“I passed a powerful energy-producing thought through my mind.”
If your mind is intensely interested, you can keep on at an activity indefinitely.
Contact with God establishes within us a flow of the same type of energy that re-creates the world and that renews spring-time every year.
To me it was a revelation of the fact that in our consciousness we can tap a reservoir of boundless power as a result of which it is not necessary to suffer depletion of energy.
He operates a well-regulated machine. He handles things with easy power and carries burdens without strain. He never wastes an ounce of energy, but every effort is applied with maximum force.”
It is not hard work that drains off energy, but emotional upheaval, and this man is entirely free from that.”
Increasingly people are realising that the maintenance of a sound spiritual life is important in enjoying energy and personality force.
The body is designed to produce all needed energy over an amazingly long period of time. If the individual takes reasonable care of his body from the standpoint of proper diet, exercise, sleep, no physical abuse, the body will produce and maintain astonishing energy and sustain itself in good health. If he gives similar attention to a well-balanced emotional life, energy will be conserved. But if he allows energy leaks cause...
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The natural state of the individual when body, mind, and spirit work harmoniously is that of a continuous r...
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Mrs. Edison, in answer to my request that she analyse her husband’s ability to rest in a manner so natural and complete, said: “He was nature’s man,” by which she meant that he was completely in harmony with nature and with God. In him there were no obsessions, no disorganisations, no conflicts, no mental quirks, no emotional instability. He worked until he needed to sleep, then he slept soundly and arose and returned to his work.
He drew his energy from emotional self-mastery, the ability to relax completely. His amazingly harmonious relationship with the universe caused nature to reveal to him its inscrutable secrets.
They have not necessarily been pious people, but invariably they have been extraordinarily well organised from an emotional and psychological point of view.
We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.
the best workmen in his plant are those who get into harmony with the rhythm of the machine on which they are working.
There is a rhythm of the stove, a rhythm of the typewriter, a rhythm of the office, a rhythm of a motor-car, a rhythm of your job. So to avoid tiredness and to have energy, feel your way into the essential rhythm of Almighty God and all His works.
To accomplish this, relax physically. Then conceive of your mind as likewise relaxing. Follow this mentally by visualising the soul as becoming quiescent, then pray as follows: “Dear God, You are the source of all energy. You are the source of the energy in the sun, in the atom, in all flesh, in the blood-stream, in the mind. I hereby draw energy from You as from an illimitable source.” Then practise believing that you receive energy. Keep in tune with the Infinite.
The surest way not to become tired is to lose yourself in something in which you have a profound conviction.
That’s the secret. He was on fire for something. He was pouring himself out, and you never lose energy and vitality in so doing. You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind.
Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon. Get out of yourself. Be somebody. Do something.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You don’t have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.
To live with constant energy it is important to get your emotional faults corrected. You will never have full energy until
The man’s mind was in such a complete state of retreating that a process of reasoning and enlightenment seemed quite impossible.
The facts suggested by this incident are that such healings do take place and that a gradual accumulation of psychological factors can cut off the flow of energy.
The quantity of vital force required to give the personality relief from either guilt or fear or a combination of each is so great that often only a fraction of energy remains for the discharge of the functions of living.
A not infrequent case of diminishing energy is staleness. The pressure, monotony, and unceasing continuity of responsibilities dull the freshness of mind which a person must have to approach his work successfully.
During such a condition of mind the expenditure of greater energy is required to do with difficulty what one formerly did with comparative ease.
There is a power that can help you.” Then slowly he asked: “Why not try prayer power?”
I believe in prayer, but perhaps I do not know how to pray. You speak of it as something practical that fits a business problem. I never thought of it that way but I’m willing to try prayer if you will show me how.”
‘Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished.’”
Prayer power is a manifestation of energy. Just as there exist scientific techniques for the release of atomic energy, so are there scientific procedures for the release of spiritual energy through the mechanism of prayer. Exciting demonstrations of this energising force are evident.
Prayer driven deeply into your subconscious can remake you. It releases and keeps power flowing freely.
genius. It is advisable to experiment with prayer power according to such methods as prove sound and effective.
the secret of prayer is to find the process that will most effectively open your mind humbly to
The formula is: (1) PRAYERISE, (2) PICTURISE, (3) ACTUALISE.
He filled his daily life full of prayer—that is, he lived by prayer. He did not often kneel to offer his prayers but would, for example, say to God as to a close associate: “What will I do about this, Lord?” or “Give me a fresh insight on this, Lord.” He prayerised his mind and so prayerised his activities.
The basic factor in physics is force. The basic factor in psychology is the realizable wish.
‘picturise’. He also advised her to hold a mental image of the restoration of the old-time companionship, to visualise the goodness in her husband, and to picture a restored harmony between the two of them.
Personally, I believe that prayer is a sending out of vibrations from one person to another and to God.
When you send out a prayer for another person, you employ the force inherent in a spiritual universe. You transport from yourself to the other person a sense of love, helpfulness, support—a sympathetic, powerful understanding—and in this process you awaken vibrations in the universe through which God brings to pass the good objectives prayed for. Experiment with this principle and you will know its amazing results.
