Practical Mental Influence
William W Atkinson
The Law of Vibration
Students of history find a continuous chain of reference to the mysterious influence of one human mind over that of others. In the earliest records, traditions and legends may be found reference to the general belief that it was possible for an individual to exert some weird uncanny power over the minds of other persons, which would influence the latter for good or evil. And more than this, the student will find an accompanying belief that certain individuals are possessed of some mental power which bends even "things" and circumstances to its might.
Way back in the dim past of man’s history on this planet, this belief existed, and it has steadily persisted in spite of the strenuous opposition of material science, even unto the present day. The years have not affected the belief, and in these dawning days of the Twentieth Century it has taken on a new strength and vitality, for its adherents have boldly stepped to the front, and confronting the doubting materialistic thinkers, have claimed the name of "Science" for this truth and have insisted that it be taken, once and for all, from the category of superstition, credulity and ignorant phantasm.
Were it not pitiable, it would be amusing to glance at the presumptuous, complacent, smug, self-satisfied position of the materialistic school of thinkers, who would brush aside as a foolish delusion that which man of the wisest men of a past ages have accepted and taught as the truth. The modern "know-it-alls" would sneer contemptuously at facts that are known to be of actual occurrence in the daily lives of thousands of intelligent people, and which the experience of humankind has demonstrated for many centuries, in all lands and all races.
The trouble lies in the dogmatic assumption of the materialistic school that what is known as "mind" is merely some peculiar action of the material brain, some writers even holding that the brain secretes thought, just as the liver secretes bile. They refuse to see that the operation of Mind is a manifestation of energy known as electricity, magnetism, light, heat, gravitation, cohesion, etc. Because mental energy does not register the vibrations of these lower forms of energy, they conclude that the higher mental energy does not exist. Having formulated a theory to suit their materialistic conceptions, they try to ignore all facts not consistent with their theory. If they find a fact that will not squeeze into their narrow theory well, "so much the worse for the fact," as a writer has said and they promptly ignore or dispute it.
As a matter of truth, the investigator is not compelled to resort to metaphysical explanations to account for the phenomena of Mental Influence. The very facts of physical science itself, if rightly interpreted, will give the clue to the mystery, and will point the steps of the honest investigator toward the path where he may find the solution of the perplexing riddle. Although we know that the real solution lies in the metaphysical realm, still even physical science will corroborate the facts of its metaphysical sister science, and instead of contradicting the latter will actually go far toward furnishing analogous facts and principles basis for a theory of metaphysical facts.
The student will see at once that so far as physical science is concerned, it must begin at the phenomenon of "Thought Transference" for in that phase of the subject may be found an elementary principle in evidence in many other forms of phenomena.
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Monday, 10 May 2010
Mindset Of Success
How To Program Your Mind To Achieve Lasting Success
By Michael Lee
Having a mindset of success is very important, especially if you have a goal or a list of goals you want to achieve in life. But what exactly is this mindset of success that people are talking about? Is it something that we're born with? Is it something that can be learned?
Honestly, others are naturally inclined towards success. I guess you could say that they were already born with a mindset of success. However, that doesn't mean that the rest of us have to content ourselves with being mediocre. We too can adopt this winning mindset. Read on to find out how!
Mindset Of Success # 1: Think Positive.
Achieving success involves a lot of positive thinking. Don't set yourself up for failure. As backward as it seems, a lot of people actually end up setting themselves up for mediocre performance. These people are too afraid to hope for the best because they just don't believe in themselves.
Don't be like the rest of these folks. Instead, think nothing but good thoughts. Do that and you're one step closer to success.
Mindset Of Success # 2: Give It Your All.
The success mindset requires you to give your best effort in everything. Why try at all if you're not willing to give your 100%?
Think this through very carefully. Whatever you do and in whatever industry you are in, you must give it your all. Success requires nothing less than this. If you think this is too intimidating, then perhaps you're not ready for success yet.
Take Jane, for example. She wants to win the singing contest; but she's too afraid and ends up singing too softly for the judges to hear clearly.
Mindset Of Success # 3: Think Long-Term.
If success is your goal, then you must be able to think long-term. You must be able to see the big picture. Given this, you also have to understand that some things are worth sacrificing.
For example, if your goal is to lose weight by the end of summer, then you ought to consider sticking to one thin slice of cake instead of your usual three.
Having the mindset of success is the first step to achieving all your goals and ambitions. Once you've got that down pat, the rest will inevitably follow. Just remember to keep your thoughts positive, to give it your 100% and to look for the bigger picture. Be consistent with all three and you'll soon find yourself ticking away at your goals checklist!
Want to experience success faster and easier than you can ever imagine? Then use the...
Advanced Cosmic Ordering Secrets - A phenomenal method of placing an "order" with the Universe for anything you want; then you just sit back and wait for the Universe to "deliver" it. Claimed by Noel Edmonds - host and creator of the worldwide TV franchise "Deal or No Deal" - as THE single secret behind his new-found fame and fortune.
By Michael Lee
Having a mindset of success is very important, especially if you have a goal or a list of goals you want to achieve in life. But what exactly is this mindset of success that people are talking about? Is it something that we're born with? Is it something that can be learned?
Honestly, others are naturally inclined towards success. I guess you could say that they were already born with a mindset of success. However, that doesn't mean that the rest of us have to content ourselves with being mediocre. We too can adopt this winning mindset. Read on to find out how!
Mindset Of Success # 1: Think Positive.
Achieving success involves a lot of positive thinking. Don't set yourself up for failure. As backward as it seems, a lot of people actually end up setting themselves up for mediocre performance. These people are too afraid to hope for the best because they just don't believe in themselves.
Don't be like the rest of these folks. Instead, think nothing but good thoughts. Do that and you're one step closer to success.
Mindset Of Success # 2: Give It Your All.
The success mindset requires you to give your best effort in everything. Why try at all if you're not willing to give your 100%?
Think this through very carefully. Whatever you do and in whatever industry you are in, you must give it your all. Success requires nothing less than this. If you think this is too intimidating, then perhaps you're not ready for success yet.
Take Jane, for example. She wants to win the singing contest; but she's too afraid and ends up singing too softly for the judges to hear clearly.
Mindset Of Success # 3: Think Long-Term.
If success is your goal, then you must be able to think long-term. You must be able to see the big picture. Given this, you also have to understand that some things are worth sacrificing.
For example, if your goal is to lose weight by the end of summer, then you ought to consider sticking to one thin slice of cake instead of your usual three.
Having the mindset of success is the first step to achieving all your goals and ambitions. Once you've got that down pat, the rest will inevitably follow. Just remember to keep your thoughts positive, to give it your 100% and to look for the bigger picture. Be consistent with all three and you'll soon find yourself ticking away at your goals checklist!
Want to experience success faster and easier than you can ever imagine? Then use the...
Advanced Cosmic Ordering Secrets - A phenomenal method of placing an "order" with the Universe for anything you want; then you just sit back and wait for the Universe to "deliver" it. Claimed by Noel Edmonds - host and creator of the worldwide TV franchise "Deal or No Deal" - as THE single secret behind his new-found fame and fortune.
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Art Of Money Getting
Self Help is a huge field.I have been studying wonderful teachings of Masters of this field for a long time.One of those masters was of course P.T. Burnam.In my mind,he was one of the best.His teachings and philosophy are as valid today as they were during his time.So I am starting with his own introduction to his book titled'The Art of Money Getting'.I hope you enjoy reading this : -
In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success open, so many vocations which are not crowded, that any person of either sex who is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable occupation that offers, may find lucrative employment.
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. But however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt many of my hearers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. The road to wealth is, as Dr. Franklin truly says, “as plain as the road to the mill.” It consists simply in expending less than we earn; that seems to be a very simple problem. Mr. Micawber, one of those happy creations of the genial Dickens, puts the case in a strong light when he says that to have annual income of twenty pounds per annum, and spend twenty pounds and sixpence, is to be the most miserable of men; whereas, to have an income of only twenty pounds, and spend but nineteen pounds and sixpence is to be the happiest of mortals. Many of my readers may say, “we understand this: this is economy, and we know economy is wealth; we know we can’t eat our cake and keep it also.” Yet I beg to say that perhaps more cases of failure arise from mistakes on this point than almost any other. The fact is, many people think they understand economy when they really do not.
True economy is misapprehended, and people go through life without properly comprehending what that principle is. One says, “I have an income of so much, and here is my neighbor who has the same; yet every year he gets something ahead and I fall short; why is it? I know all about economy.” He thinks he does, but he does not. There are men who think that economy consists in saving cheese-parings and candle-ends, in cutting off two pence from the laundress’ bill and doing all sorts of little, mean, dirty things.
Economy is not meanness. The misfortune is, also, that this class of persons let their economy apply in only one direction. They fancy they are so wonderfully economical in saving a half-penny where they ought to spend twopence, that they think they can afford to squander in other directions. A few years ago, before kerosene oil was discovered or thought of, one might stop overnight at almost any farmer’s house in the agricultural districts and get a very good supper, but after supper he might attempt to read in the sitting-room, and would find it impossible with the inefficient light of one candle. The hostess, seeing his dilemma, would say: “It is rather difficult to read here evenings; the proverb says ‘you must have a ship at sea in order to be able to burn two candles at once; we never have an extra candle except on extra occasions.” These extra occasions occur, perhaps, twice a year. In this way the good woman saves five, six, or ten dollars in that time: but the information which might be derived from having the extra light would, of course, far outweigh a ton of candles.
But the trouble does not end here. Feeling that she is so economical in tallow candies, she thinks she can afford to go frequently to the village and spend twenty or thirty dollars for ribbons and furbelows, many of which are not necessary. This false connote may frequently be seen in men of business, and in those instances it often runs to writing-paper. You find good businessmen who save all the old envelopes and scraps, and would not tear a new sheet of paper, if they could avoid it, for the world. This is all very well; they may in this way save five or ten dollars a year, but being so economical (only in note paper), they think they can afford to waste time; to have expensive parties, and to drive their carriages. This is an illustration of’ Dr. Franklin’s “saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung-hole;” “penny wise and pound foolish.” Punch in speaking of this “one idea” class of people says “they are like the man who bought a penny herring for his family’s dinner and then hired a coach and four to take it home.” I never knew a man to succeed by practising this kind of economy......to be continued .
In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success open, so many vocations which are not crowded, that any person of either sex who is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable occupation that offers, may find lucrative employment.
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. But however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt many of my hearers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. The road to wealth is, as Dr. Franklin truly says, “as plain as the road to the mill.” It consists simply in expending less than we earn; that seems to be a very simple problem. Mr. Micawber, one of those happy creations of the genial Dickens, puts the case in a strong light when he says that to have annual income of twenty pounds per annum, and spend twenty pounds and sixpence, is to be the most miserable of men; whereas, to have an income of only twenty pounds, and spend but nineteen pounds and sixpence is to be the happiest of mortals. Many of my readers may say, “we understand this: this is economy, and we know economy is wealth; we know we can’t eat our cake and keep it also.” Yet I beg to say that perhaps more cases of failure arise from mistakes on this point than almost any other. The fact is, many people think they understand economy when they really do not.
True economy is misapprehended, and people go through life without properly comprehending what that principle is. One says, “I have an income of so much, and here is my neighbor who has the same; yet every year he gets something ahead and I fall short; why is it? I know all about economy.” He thinks he does, but he does not. There are men who think that economy consists in saving cheese-parings and candle-ends, in cutting off two pence from the laundress’ bill and doing all sorts of little, mean, dirty things.
Economy is not meanness. The misfortune is, also, that this class of persons let their economy apply in only one direction. They fancy they are so wonderfully economical in saving a half-penny where they ought to spend twopence, that they think they can afford to squander in other directions. A few years ago, before kerosene oil was discovered or thought of, one might stop overnight at almost any farmer’s house in the agricultural districts and get a very good supper, but after supper he might attempt to read in the sitting-room, and would find it impossible with the inefficient light of one candle. The hostess, seeing his dilemma, would say: “It is rather difficult to read here evenings; the proverb says ‘you must have a ship at sea in order to be able to burn two candles at once; we never have an extra candle except on extra occasions.” These extra occasions occur, perhaps, twice a year. In this way the good woman saves five, six, or ten dollars in that time: but the information which might be derived from having the extra light would, of course, far outweigh a ton of candles.
But the trouble does not end here. Feeling that she is so economical in tallow candies, she thinks she can afford to go frequently to the village and spend twenty or thirty dollars for ribbons and furbelows, many of which are not necessary. This false connote may frequently be seen in men of business, and in those instances it often runs to writing-paper. You find good businessmen who save all the old envelopes and scraps, and would not tear a new sheet of paper, if they could avoid it, for the world. This is all very well; they may in this way save five or ten dollars a year, but being so economical (only in note paper), they think they can afford to waste time; to have expensive parties, and to drive their carriages. This is an illustration of’ Dr. Franklin’s “saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung-hole;” “penny wise and pound foolish.” Punch in speaking of this “one idea” class of people says “they are like the man who bought a penny herring for his family’s dinner and then hired a coach and four to take it home.” I never knew a man to succeed by practising this kind of economy......to be continued .
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