Part 57 (1/2)
Try this experied or think that you are a failure, that your work does not ao no further in that direction
Stop and face the other way, and _go_ the other way Every time you think you are a failure, it helps you to becoht is your life pattern and you can not get away froet away from your ideals, the standard which you hold for yourself, and if you acknowledge in your thought that you are a failure, that you can't do anything worth while, that luck is against you, that you don't have the same opportunity that other people have---your convictions will control the result
There are thousands of people who have lost everything they valued in the world, all the material results of their lives' endeavor, and yet, because they possess stout hearts, unconquerable spirits, a determination to push ahead which knows no retreat, they are just as far from real failure as before their loss; and with such wealth they can never be poor
A great many people fail to reach a success which matches their ability because they are victims of their moods, which repel people and repel business
We avoid looreeable ireat as, simply because there are so many days when they do not ”feel like it” or when they are discouraged or ”blue”
A man who is at the mercy of a capricious disposition can never be a leader, a power a men
It is perfectly possible for a well-trained mind to completely rout the worst case of the ”blues” in a few minutes; but the trouble withopen thein the sun of cheerfulness, hope, and optimism, we keep them closed and try to eject the darkness byhow to clear the mind of its enemies--enereat thing to learn to focus the ly, the true instead of the false, upon harmony instead of discord, life instead of death, health instead of disease This is not always easy, but it is possible to everybody It requires only skilful thinking, the forht habits
The best way to keep out darkness is to keep the life filled with light; to keep out discord, keep it filled with harmony; to shut out error, keep the liness, conteet rid of all that is sour and unwholesome, contehts can not occupy the mind at the same time
No matter whether you feel like it or not, just affirm that you _must_ feel like it, that you _will_ feel like it, that you _do_ feel like it, that you are normal and that you are in a position to do your best
Say it deliberately, affirorously and it will coet into trouble, or are discouraged and think you are a failure, just try the experiorously, persistently, that all that is real _ood, for God ood is not like its creator and therefore can not be real Persist in this affirestions and adverse conditions will melt away before it
The next ti on, just get by yourself--if possible after taking a good bath and dressing yourself beco-to Talk to yourself in the same dead-in-earnest way that you would talk to your own child or a dear friend as deep in thetortures from melancholy Drive out the black, hideous pictures which haunt your estions, all the rubbish that is troubling you Let go of everything that is unpleasant; all the ainst the enemies of your peace and happiness; summon all the force you can muster and drive the to be happy; that you are going to enjoy yourself
When you look at it squarely, it is very foolish--alo about this beautiful world, croith splendid opportunities, and things to delight and cheer us, with a sad, dejected face, as though life had been a disappointment instead of a priceless boon Just say to yourself, ”I aht up toto face the situation”
Do not let anybody or anything shake your faith that you can conquer all the enemies of your peace and happiness, and that you inherit an abundance of all that is good
We should early forreeable, unhealthy, death-dealing thoughts We should start out everywith a clean slate We should blot out froallery all discordant pictures and replace the ones
The next tied, completely played out and ”blue,” you will probably find, if you look for the reason, that your condition is largely due to exhausted vitality, either fro in soestion, or from vicious habits of some kind
The ”blues” are often caused by exhausted nerve cells, due to overstraining work, long-continued excitement, or over-stimulated nerves fro of exhausted nerve cells for nourishment, rest, or recreation Multitudes of people suffer from despondency and melancholy, as a result of a run-down condition physically, due to their irregular, vicious habits and a lack of refreshi+ng sleep
When you are feeling ”blue” or discouraged, get as coe of environment as possible Whatever you do, do not brood over your troubles or dwell upon the things which happen to annoy you at the tis possible Hold the hts toward others Make a strenuous effort to radiate joy and gladness to everybody about you Say the kindest, pleasantest things You will soon begin to feel a wonderful uplift; the shadohich darkened your ht up your whole being
Stoutly, constantly, everlastingly affir and possible Do not say, ”I shall be a success soht” Do not say that you are going to be happy in the future
Say to yourself, ”I was intended for happiness, made for it, and I am happy now”
If, however, you affirm, ”I am health; I am prosperity; I am this or that,” but do not believe it, you will not be helped by affirmation
_You must believe what you affirm and try to realise it_
assert your actual possession of the things you need; of the qualities you long to have Force your oal; hold it there steadily, persistently, for this is the ative
”I, ood fortune,” says Walt Whitman If we could only realize that the very attitude of assu to be or to attain, that we possess the good things we long for, not that we possess all the qualities of good, but that we are these qualities--with the constant affirood fortune; I a principle of the universe, because my real, divine self and my Father are one”--what a revolution would come to earth's toilers!