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THE BOOK
I'm Dr. Gary Brodsky, This book is The Art and Science of life using the
ACT AS IF method. By knowing how to Act As if you can say goodbye
to phobias, fears and problems. You’ll discover that things that plagued
you, bothered you, stymied you no long affect you, no longer prevent
you form getting out of life what you want. Now your life will be joy,
money, good relationships, great business and everything you ever
dreamed of. You can custom make your life. All you have to do is know
how to ACT AS IF. Follow these methods and you will have the world
any way you want, guaranteed. It is foolproof, it is fail proof. And now,
ACT AS IF.
I have developed a program for those who suffer from, and that’s many
of you, lack of love, lack of money, poor health, not having a feeling of
power, and personal expression, and most of all low self esteem. With
the ACT AS IF method I will illustrate a way for you to live your life
with joy, love, lots of money, total health, power and freedom.
With The ACT AS IF method you will make your life better than you
could have ever imagined. And I will explain in detail how to ACT AS
IF and make it all happen. And when I mean all, I mean all. I mean joy,
love, money, freedom, success in any endeavor you may have dreamed
of. Your dreams will come true. And I will show you how to ACT AS
IF step by step.
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To ACT AS IF you do not need to change your life by force of will.; To
ACT AS IF I will teach you that it is within ourselves to carve an
avenue through which life will flow. ACTING AS IF and believing so
opens the venues of thought, expands the conscious and subconscious
mind, and allows you to receive your indisputable reality. You’ll know
how you shall live, it clarifies your mind, removes all mental obstacles,
brings on the light; removes doubt and fear, and when this life force
presents itself you will recognize the presence of spirit. Every problem
is mental, and every solution can only be found in spiritual realization.
AS YOU SAY SO BE IT
Once you make firm statements about yourself-declare your truth and
understand that you are a divine being, complete, happy and filled with
all good things in life, you are beginning to ACT AS IF.
“I’m not someone who people like” you might say. If you are not happy
hearing yourself say this, then that is not your truth. Free yourself from
this condition, ACT AS IF everyone is your friend and see how true it
becomes. THIS IS NOW THE TRUTH, and this is science.
When people see you transform, and they will, they’ll think it
miraculous. It is only a miracle as everything else is in life.
When you ACT AS IF you have set a spiritual idea in motion in the
definitive concrete world. A narrow world of people who mostly can
only judge ideas subjectively. A world that increasingly embraces the
material and has been losing its accordance with the divine.
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will become nothing. If you find yourself carrying dead weight drop it,
whether it is business or romantic or personal. Find people who lift you
up and back you up
When you state negative; I am …, whatever you are feeling that day,
headache, toothache, bad breakup, you will experience negative. When
you state positive; I am feeling great, and I am expecting great things to
happen you will change your “reality” and allow for the positive to
prevail. You need to deny all the negative feelings that you have, you
need to say “all these negative feelings that I have about myself are
gone.”
Once you affirm the positive, make optimistic outlooks your state of
mind, positive results will envelope you. You can state ‘I am a charming
person and people like me.’ Or ‘I am a dolt and wish I was popular’
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you choose the truth about yourself. As I always say and I will say for
the rest of my life because it is so true, ACT AS IF and it will be done on
to as you believe.
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yourself off from new ideas. You have subconsciously eliminated
yourself from participation in life.
You may state all the great things you've done and all the value of your
present life. Yet in your heart and soul you feel as though you are a
failure. The truth has been looking right in your face and yet you have
closed your eyes. And why? GOALS, a word that frightens many.
Your life is subject to change the moment you make the decision that it
can change now. All you need do is put new and great ideas in your
mind, and you will arise to a new and great life. The important thing is
vision before decision.
There are no exceptions, no exemptions. This is true for every body out
there. There are no excuses; excuses are not going to help. If you want
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a better life you have to ACT AS IF you have to already happen and it
will. And here is how to ACT AS IF.
If you are not feeling well, which does occasionally happen, do not get
trapped into the world of illness and sickness. Understand that sickness
is an excuse for not having to deal with your life. And understand that
when you deal with your life, you will be dealing with a joyous,
prosperous love filled life.
AN EASY START
An easy one, just change your posture to a winning posture, force it if
you have to. Straighten up and bring your shoulders back and start
feeding your mind positive thoughts. Put good thoughts and the great
expectations that you already have into your mind and guess what,
positive things will start happening to you within an hour or two, maybe
less, and maybe it will happen immediately. Straightening up, say yes, I
am one with life, I am joy, freedom, peace, whatever you want and ACT
AS IF you already have it and you'll start to see doors opening. Here is
a great way to test yourself.
A SIMPLE TEST
This is a very powerful test, and it will show you what you are all about.
To test yourself, go out and buy something you want, just for yourself,
not for the family, not for the house, not for friends, just for yourself.
See if you do not get a feeling of either guilt or non entitlement or I
shouldn't have done that, yes you should do that and yes you deserve it.
Why would you be undeserving? It all comes down to self entitlement.
And a great way to get over that block is to go out a buy something for
yourself and catch yourself when you start to feel guilty or regret that
you did it. There are no regrets, you did something good for yourself,
and you deserve it. The important point is watch, because in 99% of
anybody who does this there is a residual feeling of guilt or oh I
shouldn't have or why did I buy this for myself, I didn’t really need it.
Oh yes you did. You did need it because it is setting you in motion for a
much better life.
You deserve the best, you deserve things for yourself, and do not
deserve the punishment of self inflicted guilt and suffering because you
did something nice for yourself. Unfortunately, the mind of most people
has drifted into this type of mentality. By catching it and negating it and
saying yes I do deserve it, next time I'm going to get myself something
better you are pulling yourself out of that negative spiral. And into a
positive way of living.
CHANGING YOURSELF
It is that simple. It's not as though you are tricking yourself, what you
are doing is reactivating and reprogramming you subconscious mind.
And when you program your subconscious your mind, good things have
to manifest because the subconscious mind is foolproof. That is how it
works. Your subconscious mind does not care what you program into it
but you will experience positive results if you put in good thoughts, great
ideas, great aspirations and most importantly, great beliefs. Your belief
and your ability to ACT AS IF you already have something will prove
itself a certainty in your life and quite quickly.
Your mind will receive it, your subconscious mind will program it and
your life will experience it. SO you always must take a bad situation and
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turn it around by not letting your mind accept the negative. Look for the
positive. If your house is burnt down, I'm using an extreme example
here. Complaining is not going to bring it back; kicking over garbage
cans in the street is not going to bring it back. But by believing, I'll find
a better house, and nothing is going to stop me because I believe I
already have one. You will have one.
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If you ACT AS IF you are rich, if you convince yourself watch how the
doors of opportunity begin to open, and they will. So long as you
believe you are, you will be. That is what this is all about. This is the
power of knowing how to ACT AS IF. Despite circumstances, you must
stay focused on the fact that you must ACT AS IF you already have
what you don't. In reality you do already have it. (Need example here)
By focusing on and staying on what I said, every opportunity in the
world will come your way. And one of the good things about it is once
you become rich, and you will, you won't even remember when you ever
struggled. That is the power of the subconscious mind. The positive
will always burry the negative, as long you stay focused on the positive,
the negative seems like oh yea that was ages ago, centuries ago, the
positive will erase the negative. They both cannot exist in the same
space. So you must ACT AS IF and I will keep saying this again,
because it is that important, that you already have good things, and you
will get good things.
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them know you respect something about them. Be it their opinion what
have you, it will teach you self respect.
ADD ENTHUSIASM
Now, add to that enthusiasm. Instead of how you are, or what's up-,
that’s how most people blandly communicate. Give people the gift of
letting them know what joy they bring to your life. When you see
somebody say HEY great to see you, you just made my day. Start the
enthusiasm going and it will build on its own momentum just because
you activated it. You're just hitting the button to turn it on. So when
you see anybody, anybody from the past, say “hey I haven't seen you in
years, you look fantastic”, send them the message that “you make me
feel great being around you” you be the one to bring the rare gift of
enthusiasm and joy to life. To their life, to your life and you’ll be a hero
because of it.
Do not get caught up in this crazy media hype going on now about,
victimizations, If you think there’s something wrong with you because
you cannot afford the most expensive cars, designer clothes, exotic
vacations does not make you a victim. Because your life doesn’t look
like the lifestyle of the rich and famous, isn’t as gorgeous as the
magazine spreads who try to convince you that you are totally stressed
out and in need of a makeover does not mean you are a victim. The
lifestyle sold to you through the media is designed to make you feel
inadequate. It is driven by the need of advertisers to sell you a
“solution” to all your “problems”.
Do you have social anxiety disorder? A mental illness that once upon a
timed was called shyness. Well now there’s a pill to cure shyness, and
for every new medication that can find FDA approval a new “disorder”
will be recognized. A little experiment was done a while back. They
took a few people out and they picked a victim and they said are you
feeling okay today? She said yea I'm feeling find. And they asked her
again something different, would you like a glass of water? Are you sure
you're okay? I'll take a glass of water, I'm not completely sure, maybe a
little off today. BY the time the fifth person asked her, if she was
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alright, she called an ambulance. That is how you get caught up in
letting the negatives take over your system. The positives are just as
easy and you don’t need 5 outside agitators to do it.
So long as someone else has the power to make you feel inadequate, you
give them the power to convince you that those problems can be solved
by separating you from your hard earned money. Remember, not
having the latest and the greatest or being the skinniest and the prettiest,
the strongest or the buffest does not make you a victim. You are only a
victim if you buy into the idea that you have no control of your own
destiny and that you need to be fixed.
ACT AS IF you are not a victim and you will not become a victim.
Once you start getting caught up in the media’s hype, again I'm going to
address the subconscious mind here, , you put the idea of being a victim
into your mind, your subconscious mind takes it in and it manifests in
your life and soon you will become a victim. You don’t want that, I
don’t want that. I don't want that for you. You cannot allow this media
hype, victimization mentality to enter in your subconscious mind. Here
are some easy solutions, change the channel, laugh it off the media
desperation to snag you, is another one, find or create your own culture
among friends who don’t buy into the culture of the media’s greedy self
serving messages. The important thing is to say to yourself I am not a
victim I am a winner and I always will be a winner. So it is my life and
it will be in your life.
They got ads coming out daily with more mental illnesses, why, simply
to sell medication for it and it will draw you in. What is good about this,
it can be done in the privacy in your own home and done all by yourself.
Just by knowing how to ACT AS IF. And there are more examples
coming right now on how to ACT AS IF to improve your life.
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and relaxation. I don’t want to be on medication. I want to feel wildly
enthusiastic with the joy and experience all that life has to offer.
And If I were to take medication in order to never feel the downside of
life I would also eliminate the means and perhaps the ability to feel pure
pleasure and the kind of joy that can only be appreciated when one can
feel the gamut of human emotions, whatever they are and know that I am
indeed alive.
Joy and the enthusiasm and the freedom to be who you want in life, does
not come in pills- that comes from you. And only from you. And
everybody, everybody, has the same amount of power to make it their
life happen. No body has more, nobody has less everybody has their
own. We are all born with the same amount of power and ability to
know how to ACT AS IF and make it happen in our life. True, you can't
ACT AS IF you're taller or shorter, and there are a lot of givens, but
what I’m talking about transcends the givens, because no matter what,
life is enjoyable. Life is great. Life is wonderful. Keep saying that to
yourself. You'll believe it, it will become true, and it will become your
life. and avoid all this negative reinforcement.
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Now I'm going to tell you where most of your problems comes from. I
have some clients who are billionaires, billionaires, and they are
miserable. Well, I should say they were miserable. I helped them
change that. Because I knew where their problems were coming from.
Now you might be wondering how could a guy or a woman who has
billions of dollars be unhappy. No mysteries, I will give you the answers
right now. They felt they were not entitled to what they had, and
therefore felt guilty and had to impose punishment upon themselves.
And this is the big core of why so many problems are manifesting in so
many people. It is that belief of non entitlement and that all that one has
gained is underserved. I don't need to do a 3 hour lecture here to say, yes
you do deserve it. No matter what you did in the past, cannot be
changed. But the way you think right now, you can change, right now.
When you start to say I am entitled to a great life, I am entitled to a great
romantic life, it will happen. I am entitled to a great financial life and
entitled to enjoy it then you will enjoy it. I am entitled to great health,
you will have it. You got to say these things over and over again with
the belief that you already have them. And especially that you are
entitled to have them.
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patterns in your life. By doing this you begin to change your life. I'm
talking about simple easy things here. Such as dressing differently, or
driving home a new way. Doing things in a way you haven’t done
before. This is an exercise to show you how flexible your mind really is
despite what you may believe, this will show you different.
SO change patterns in your life. If you put on your pants first, start by
putting on your shirt first. Any pattern, change it, it just shows you, and
shows your subconscious mind there's a new way to program your mind
and change and you can start it now. Start by changing the small
patterns in your life. Becoming enthusiastic about little changes and
soon you’ll make more and more changes and you’ll see your
enthusiasm grow.
. And that grows, and then big things comes, and the enthusiasm grows,
and then bigger things come, and there's no limit to where it is so you
can go on forever, but it gets bigger and better in all areas. The four
main areas that people suffer from are lack of love, lack of money, lack
of health, and lack of personal expression. Well those are ending right
now. By knowing, just by knowing, that the universe is unlimited and it
is science has proven that, that means you are unlimited.
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complaints, and the next day, you cut them down. You catch them and
you stop them, by the end of the week, you should have blank paper and
no need to take to book along with you. Complaints are a path to the
road to ruin.
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AND SO GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN
Just keep saying to yourself. I deserve great things in life and they will
happen. And I'll say again, you might not know how they happen but
the doors will open. An old saying, knock and a door will be open and it
will be open for whoever knocks that door opens. When I'm talking
about the door, I'm talking about the door in your subconscious mind
which is connected to the universe which is connected to the dynamic
unlimited power that can flow through you. SO if you get enthusiastic,
even about the smallest things in life, and don't get upset about the small
things in life, where are you going to go? You're going straight up to joy,
to freedom, to anything you want, doesn't matter what area, and doesn't
even matter if it's good or bad. It will happen to you, in direct proportion
to what you believe you deserve.
So you got to watch out for all the negative programming out there and
it's on every channel right now. They are doing all sorts of makeovers
on people and you know something. Those people aren’t happy if they
are made over because they are still them. You can't put paint over an
old house and think it’s a new house, it starts from within. It starts from
acting as if. It starts from knowing who you are and believing and
knowing where you'll be. And it will happen to you, every time. There
is no way around it; it is a foolproof system that works for absolutely
everybody.
FREE WILL
We are all living the life we choose. Whether you like it or not.
Whether you believe it or not. It is true. Every single thing that happens
to you, the good and the bad is dictated by your own subconscious
thoughts and desires and belief in what you are entitled to. Knowing
how to ACT AS IF, you can eliminate all unhappiness from your life.
You can live free from self imposed guilt and the punishments that come
along with that, that manifest themselves in poverty, in struggling, in bad
relationships, in illness and inability to express yourself. All these are
needless burdens that you have done onto yourself. It is time for you to
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now make a change to every aspect of your life. Using and knowing
how to ACT AS IF, is all you need for the set of ideas gives you absolute
control over all aspects of your existence. If can and does and will alter
any situation you be trapped in. And it will reward you equally with the
lifestyle you want, the lifestyle you always dreamed of, if you simply
know how to ACT AS IF. Knowing how to ACT AS IF, and acting as if
and believing you already have it and everything you have ever desired
and saying to yourself over and over again, I already have that. Done
see the problem, just visualize and ACT AS IF you have the solution.
And you will conquer any problem. And you will be able to recreate
yourself the lifestyle that up until now you may have thought was
impossible but very quickly you will see it is very possible and it will
come falling right on your lap. As I said, those doors will open.
As I said the power of words use greater, more positive more dynamic
words, the belief that you already have something and you will have it.
The belief and a very important one that you deserve to have all the good
things in life, no more self punishment, and anytime you see it coming,
catch yourself and stop it. Say no, this is not for me anymore, I will not
accept this, and I will only accept good things in my life. And don't say
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Oh, well if I get something good will something bad happen to me, no.
Accept the good things reject the bad things. There are no limits here to
how far you can go. There are absolutely no limits. The only ones you
have are the ones that are imposed upon yourself. When you feel
nonentitled, non-deserving, when you are carrying the past a very simple
metaphor to get rid of a lot of past negativity.
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Our life is shaped solely and only by our mind. We become what we
think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. We
choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them in life.
And all things start and end with decision, how to ACT AS IF is how to
make the right decisions.
Now this is a point of view of one man which is shared by many of his
perfection, a psychiatrist that has heard negative things over and over
again, you will believe them and start living them. SO if that be true and
it is, the same must be true of hearing good things over and over and
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over and over again. And you begin to live a good life. Understanding
how fragile the mind is until you are really centered in saying no I will
not accept that thought, or yes I will accept that thought because it is
beneficial to me, you can be destroyed by the opinions of other people.
That is something you must be on guard for 24/7. No vacations. SO
here and now I am going to tell you how to ACT AS IF in detail so that
you always stay on the positive on the powerful and on the strong path
of life. And never suffer again.
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is again, foolproof, just remember to start feeling good about yourself,
you've got to compliment yourself. Yea I did a good job, yea women
love me, or yea men love me depending on your gender. I can succeed
in this, I will succeed in this, even better, I am succeeding in this, it
already happened, and it begins to happen immediately.
JUDGE NOT
So now we are talking about all this compliments and praise and stuff
like that. I'll tell you something to avoid doing, and catch yourself doing
it and see if you ever benefited at all from doing this. Criticizing other
people. I'll tell you what criticizing does, all it does is get you frustrated
and gets the other person bringing up there defenses, trying to justify
their existence and create resentment towards you. That is not the spot
you want to be in. That is the spot you want to lose. Forget criticizism,
it doesn’t work. It doesn't ever work. You can't change anybody else.
You could direct by example but don't expect other people to change.
You want other people to change, well guess what there is a secret
method on how to do it. Change yourself, and other people will react to
you in the light you want them to. Now if you are looking for
medication to change yourself, there is only one medication I
recommend and that is laughter and joy.
GOOD MEDICINE
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The old saying and everybody who knows me knows I love old sayings,
laughter is the best medicine. And it really is, it fills your body with all
sorts of chemicals. You can heal yourself with laughter. So don’t
overlook that, I am being serious here. Laughter is the best medicine.
Laughter alone is a great medicine. If you laugh and feel guilty that you
laughed you are sort of breaking even. You have to laugh with the
freedom and joy that flows with it. Laughter was developed for a
reason. The reason is because is has so many medicinal effects,
mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually and no side effects.
You got to learn to laugh. Even if you start to fake laugh, watch, really
laughter will come and already you are on the right track with using the
ACT AS IF method and getting the life you want because when you
laugh you bring out the child within. You ever notice a little kid
playing, they are so happy they laugh their whole body laughs, their
whole body is exploding with joy. The adult grows out of it; you just
have to talk to yourself out of it. You feel like I can't go this far in joy,
there is no limit to how far you can go in joy and laughing.
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YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FREE
Having dreams, desires, and wants is not a sin. Never again think you
have to justify your wants. You don't. You cannot be justifying
defending or rationalizing which is all negative energy. You need to
make no excuses to anything, anybody, any higher or lower authority to
have great desires and great dreams. To do so is to turn your back on
your own higher energy. Thus, deny your very existence of your divine
right to live as you want. This is contrary to common teachings.
Gaining happiness is your birthright. Believe it because it is so.
I will give you a good example right here. Let's say you're going to
make a phone call. You are going to ask for a date, you are going to ask
for a date a job, you are going to ask for a date a loan, you are going to
ask for so many things you can ask for today. But I think you get the
point now. If you call up with the assumption I hope I get the job, odds
are good you might not get it. If you call with the idea I wish I could get
the job it might be a little better, but if you call up believing you already
have the job, the date, or whatever you are calling about, watch how the
reaction changes, you will get so much more by assuming you already
have what you want and you will have what you want. Here are some
things that you can do to create this powerful, positive energy so that all
good things come into your life.
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One, shower everyday. Make yourself look great. Treat yourself great,
means other people will treat you great, and means the universe will treat
you great. Why? Because you are showing respect for yourself. When
you respect yourself, you are using the ACT AS IF method. You are
creating and aura and power of self respect by treating yourself well.
You deserve to look good, you deserve to be proud and you never have
to explain yourself to anyone. It is your birthright.
Just keep saying, I used to do this I don’t do it anymore as you are doing
it. Keep saying, I used to do this because you are creating a new
program and your subconscious mind will act on it and all those bad
habits that you may not like will go away. Because you got to remember
there is something in your mind somehow, somewhere that you felt you
needed some self punishment so you take up some bad habits to
continuously do to yourself, the same mind that brought it to you will
simply bring it away but just acting as if you don’t have it anymore and
tricking yourself out of those addictions.
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you right now how to overcome your phobias. You can't fight them
because they are in there already, they are going to win but you can get
rid of them. By just saying to yourself and acting even if its just minutes
a day like you don’t have a phobia. Or say to yourself I'm coming out of
my phobia and acting as if a couple times a day like you don’t have it.
Because the positive energy will knock out the negative. You have to
visualize yourself of being free of your phobias. Instead of thinking to
yourself oh I'm afraid of this, think I love this, if you’re an agoraphobic
say I love being outside I love being with people until your mind
believes it. It may take a little time but it will break out and you'll be
free. And this applies to any phobia you may have. Go like I said
earlier to the opposite and just keep staying in the opposite despite what
the current circumstances are and you will be free.
RELATIONSHIPS
Now let's talk about relationships why some people get them why some
people don't. One of my clients said to me, she said I can't get a date.
Now right there, when she said I can't, she was right. Because if you say
I can or I can’t either way you will be right. So I simply told her instead
of saying I can't get a date say I can get a date, I have a date I just
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haven’t found it yet. In a very short time she had a date. It's how it
works. If you say you can your right, if you say you can't your wrong.
Now let's look at the divorce rate going on in America, the fights, the
domestic abuse, why is all this happening? One, sometimes we punish
ourselves by virtue of other people in our life. Because you find people
in bad relationships and I always find this to be true, they always have
the same repetitive bad relationship. The names change, the way the
people act towards them doesn't change. SO you have to change
yourself by not allowing yourself to be a victim. And that was explained
earlier, just do not have a victim mentality and people will not victimize
you. Unfortunately, it is human nature to go after weakness, but if you
are filled with joy, great expectations, if your life is great, people will
not victimize you.
You have to change yourself. You cannot change other people. Change
yourself and your next relationship will be a good one. And here's how
to keep it. This is how most relationships are destroyed. First think
about this, if you tie two birds together even though they have four
wings, they cannot fly. Now I tried this experiment myself, and it really
looked silly in the backyard watching two birds trying to get off the
ground. Okay I was just kidding there, but the statement is true. You
cannot tie two birds together and see them fly.
But what is they big destroyer of relationships, why do they fall apart?
Because people start getting into pettiness. Instead of seeing the person
as great as they were when they met them you start looking for petty
defects. It’s a trap and it leads to destruction on relationships. Now I can
go on and on about this. But catch yourself looking for pettiness,
nonsense, the little fights you had about nothing add up to divorce court,
lawyers, losing houses, losing self esteem. Very simple, don’t be petty.
And this is universally applicable. Don’t be petty about anything.
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effects, no prescription needed. Just by changing it in attitude in your
mind you can change all other aspects in your life. For good or bad,
remember it's impersonal but I would recommend going in the good
direction. Because I will say it again you deserve it.
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And we, being free souls under God, with free will given to us by Him,
created in the unlimited image of his power, should possess all the power
He does. And yet, we have ignored these abilities, we have cast them
aside and have abused this highest of power we all possess and yet
refuse to see. So great is this power and our freedom within it, so
absolute is this law of the universe, that we could be like gods ourselves
if we but lifted from our eyes that which blinds us. It is the misuse of this
power that has brought upon us all the conditions from which we suffer.
How can this be, you ask?
We are bound to lives of suffering and poverty, of fear and depression
because we are free to do so. It is not God's curse that afflicts us thusly;
it is the power which He has granted us that has brought to us this
suffering.
We chose to suffer.
Understand this and you will understand all. I repeat it is our misuse of
the free will granted us by God; it is our own misunderstanding of the
power we all possess that brings us ruin and devastation. And, it is only
the proper understanding and us of this power that can free us. The
power which binds is the same power which frees.
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teachers, doctors, psychiatrists, et cetera, have all agreed on one point
over the centuries, the fact that we all create our own realities.
What? Am I telling you that our suffering is our own fault? Isn't our
suffering imposed upon us by God? No. Absolutely not. God gave us
free will. God's greatest gift He gave us the power to make any decision
we wish, to be anything we want. If we fail or rise, it is our own doing.
It is because we are ignorant of our true nature, our true potential, our
absolute power that we suffer, and only because of this fact that we
suffer to any degree whatsoever. The power to master the universe is
always present. It is always within our grasp. It comes to us from
everywhere and everything, and yet we do not see it. We have been
taught to be weak by those who are weak. We have been taught to not
understand our true potential by those who did not understand their own.
But, if this is the case, then how can we now reach out and claim this
power which is our birthright? We must learn to see ourselves as the
center of our universe, but it is essential that we understand that our
universe is interconnected to every other person and thing. As always, I
shall explain.
We all recognize the above quote. We have all heard it a million times.
And yet, how many of us understand what it really means. Judge others
and ye will be judged by the standard by which you impose upon others.
This is common sense. And yet, many miss its actual meaning.
These words are a perfect illustration of the law of cause and effect, the
Essence and balance of the Universal Law that governs all the world's
religions. What ever you sow you will reap--no exceptions no
exemptions.
What this means is that our life experience will return to us in the exact
manifestation of our own desire, thoughts, and motives, whether they
were intended for ourselves or others. The thought of criticism and
condemnation will and must fall upon those who set it in motion.
What all this means is that we can not maintain two separate sets of rules
in our lives--one for other people, and one for ourselves. In other words,
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if you think someone who litters is a slob, then so are you a slob if you
litter. If it is wrong in your eyes for someone to rape, or cheat the
government, or flies kites on Mondays, then it is wrong for you to rape,
cheat the government, or fly kites on Mondays.
It is critical for our own well being that civil and criminal laws are
enforced, because in the present state of our world there would be no
protection from those who seek to destroy the common good. But,
personal judgments must be eliminated. The laws we set in society must
apply to everyone. Celebrities and politicians, police officers and sports
figures, everyone must be held as accountable as the man in the street.
Everyone agrees with this. But, many of us do not seem to realize that in
our daily affairs we often employ two sets of standards--one for
ourselves and one for everyone else. Guess which one is usually the
more understanding of the two? It has to be understood that we must
praise others and not condemn or criticize when they are only doing
things for which we would expect praise.
ENERGY IS LIFE
Science has proven to us that, on the subatomic level, all things are made
of energy. Everything--trees, rocks, water, mountains, et cetera,
everything in the universe, from the stars and planets down to our very
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selves is composed of raw energy. But, unlike everything else, unlike
inanimate objects and the animals, unlike the comets and stars and other
celestial bodies that make up the heavens above, we have an edge over
the rest of the universe.
We can control our energy.
Science has proven that energy and matter are one and the same.
Physics has proven that energy cannot be destroyed it. It can be
manipulated, it can be changed, but it can not be destroyed. Coal can be
burned to heat homes, to melt iron ore, to move locomotives. Wood can
be fashioned into homes. Vegetables and meat can be turned into the
energy that moves our muscles, or even into other human beings. No
matter is ever destroyed. No energy is ever lost.
It is only transformed.
As the laws of physics have also proven, there are two kinds of energy in
this universe--positive and negative. The main energy, the most
detectible of human energies is that generated by EMOTIONS.
Emotions are powerful attractors of both light and dark. Now, is this
important? Absolutely. It is beyond important, it is vital--the root and
cause of all your problems and all your blessings.
Everything that has come into your life, every minute of every day, has
come to you because of the energy based solely on your beliefs. And, it
will continue to come into your life, again no exemptions no exceptions,
in exactly the same way. When we emit emotions, they attract the
emotions of others. If we send out emotionally weak signals, we attract
predators. Worry sent out into the ether only brings back those who live
on worry.
As mathematician Tom Lehrer once said, "Life is like a sewer, what you
get out of it depends on what you put into it." He was making a joke, of
course, but only to make his point all the stronger. And that point is,
obviously, if you aren't getting out of your life what you want, if you
aren't attracting the kinds of people and good will and good fortune that
you want to attract, then maybe it's time you change your thought
process and your attitudes.
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Have you ever noticed yourself becoming stuck in the same place day
after day, week after week year after …? Let's pick one aspect of life that
can often become filled with negativity for people.
Have you always struggled with your bills? Has the paying of them
become not just hard to accomplish, but something that you actually
resent? Does the thought of paying bills make you angry, frustrated,
enraged, even?
What you have to understand here is that you are not actually mad at the
bills themselves. How can you be? They are merely inanimate pieces of
paper. They are harmless, lifeless, and powerless. What you are upset
about is not the bills, but the fact that you have to pay them. What you
are actually upset with is the fact that you have incurred these bills in the
first place. But, since you don't want to be angry at yourself, you instead
direct your wrath at the bills themselves. However, this is only
frustrating because deep down inside, your subconscious mind knows
that your energy is being wasted. You can hate and loath your bills for
the next million years and your situation is not going to change. You will
still always have to pay your bills.
What you need to do is redirect your thinking. If dealing with these
problems does not make you feel good the way you are doing it, then
you must be doing something wrong. If you hate any portion of your life,
and are feeling horrible emotions of dread when dealing with any types
of problems then there must be something wrong with the way you are
dealing with them.
This simply must be.
What your specific problems are, of course, I can not say. Neither can
your religious leader, your dentist, your best friend or your dog. No one
can tell you what you are actually feeling except yourself. As
Shakespeare wrote, "To thine own self, be true." If you are continuously
experiencing negative feelings when addressing your problems, you are
sending out negative emotions and negative energy. When you do this,
you attract like negativity and only cause your problems to repeat
themselves ad infinitum.
FLEXIBILITY
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You must remain flexible; you must wash your reactions to both the past
and the present. For these are the two trouble spots in your thinking. If
the thoughts are negatives of the past shall govern your decisions of new
ideas and new thoughts you'll find the old pattern of negativity
dominating your thoughts. No matter how great any past traditions or
wisdoms might have been there is a better one today. It is the worship of
the old, the past that have prevented the progress of millions from going
forward. To worship or believe in the past is negating the idea that the
one spirit, the eternal intelligence, is out of business.
The universe has two sides to everything, the law of Polarity, there is
dark and there is light, there is water and there is air. There is male there
is female and most important there is positive and there is negative. So
let’s say you find yourself in debt and business is bad or you find
yourself in a relationship that is falling apart, or you find you have health
problems. You cannot think Oh Woe Is Me. You must go to the
positive remember the universal law dictates like attracts like. You must
say unto yourself at this moment I am fine, I have money, I have
success, I have health. You must make yourself believe because “As you
believe, so are you”. Do this in the worst of times and you will become
successful at anything. Always ACT AS IF and it will be done unto you.
As you believe you shall receive. Always leave no room for worry.”
WHO BY WORRYING CAN ADD BUT ONE MOMENT TO THEIR
LIFE?”
FREE WILL
God gave everyone free will. It is Gods greatest gift to the human race.
What do we do with this magnificent gift? Unfortunately most of us
don’t do much; even thought the potential is unlimited in everyone. It is
so simple and stated so many times in so many books, and yes so
neglected. “As you believe it in your heart so shall you be.” In other
words ACT AS IF AND IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO YOU AS YOU
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BELIEVE. It is that simple if you can in the midst of everything going
wrong switch gears and go into the positive I am fine things are fine. I
have said it and it is so, you must say it and believe it and it will be so.
If you say I want or I wish it ruins the manifestation of what you desire.
Only when you believe it and know it, will it become what you desire. If
at this moment you are living in a cardboard box in the street and you
ACT AS IF and believe you are rich and successful it will become so.
CLUELESS
No one knows how they get or got what they have in life. Everyone has
a long list or so many things they want, and a much longer list of things
they don’t want. Unfortunately this is what has become people’s
everyday life. Dwelling on what you do not have. Most of us believe in
antiquated ideas, most of us believe in struggle, potluck. And if we go to
school, work hard, we will get a head if we are lucky. It is only by our
beliefs and attitude of self deserving and self entitlement that we will
ever get anywhere in life.
The words I should, I hope, and I wish at this moment remove them
from your vocabulary forever. They are loser words and will cause you
loss and confusion. You wishing, shoulding, and hoping for things you
already have. Words are power, watch the words you say to others and
to yourself, catch and stop all negative words you say unto others and
mostly what you say unto yourself. You will be surprised just how many
negative words you will catch yourself saying to yourself and others.
Negative words are the seeds of destruction of all lives endeavors.
GOD IS IMPERSONAL
God is energy. God is like any other form of energy. You can use the
energy of God to destroy or to build, it’s the same energy. The same
energy that is an impersonal God will and does always respond to your
commands. The programming that you feed into your conscious mind
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the goes to that which is called the subconscious mind that becomes
what your life is right now at any moment at any time. Most people’s
lives are not what they want because they feel that they lack entitlement
or have low self esteem. The answer is simple you must focus on the
positive. If you dwelleth upon smallest of good things in your life since
like attracts like all good things will emerge. Your energy has now
turned positive. If you’re down and out find one thing in your life that
is good and positive keep reaffirming it to yourself even the most minute
thing, since you are focused on the positive, positive changes can and
will begin to happen to you the instant you change the way you think.
TO BELIEVE
A doubting person will get no where in life. Why is this? The infinite
can only give us what we can take. In sense this is a mental act between
the conscious and the subconscious we can only receive what we believe
we already have. Believe we already have the answer as we ask for it.
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judge or impose upon yourself any form of self punishment be it guilt,
lack, poor health. Must always go into the positive because like attracts
like.
God is just a name given to the one spiritual power the one source.
From which all things flow. When your thoughts are constructive
spiritual power which is always responsive to your thought will bring to
you health joy and abundance. You must completely reject every
thought of lack by instantly remembering the availability and unlimitless
of the spiritual power of the infinite. It responds to your constructive
thoughts and beliefs as quickly as it will respond to your destructive
thoughts and beliefs because god is impersonal.
Everyone says that and now I will tell you why they say that. Because
when bad things happen your mind is focused on the negative and so the
negative comes. Because people have been told bad things come in
threes you have set yourself to a negative sequence of events based on
the belief. You’re just merely fulfilling a ridiculously overstated old
saying that bears no fruit unless you water it.
BELIEVING IS SEEING
No matter what you want no matter what you desire if you can visualize
it in your mind if you can believe and ACT AS IF you have it so shall ye
have it... So instead of seeing is believing you should now focus on
believing is seeing.
When we pray for things anything you desire we are to believe that we
have received it. Because when we pray we must believe that we
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already have it. The reason is we are always in tune with universal law
which creative it moves from a thought to thing. Unless there is first an
image it cannot move without an image there would be nothing for it to
move toward. Prayer must accept its own answer as an image in your
mind before the one intelligence will make it manifest. You can not reap
a harvest before you plant a seed. You must believe your prayers can be
answered. A prayer must be an undisputed place of agreement. Taking
your mental images and desires and wants to the one creative spirit and
impressing upon the spirit those beliefs with positive beliefs your
prayers will be answered.
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are we fearful of thing? Because we lack the feeling of safety. Anyone
who is depressed is depressed because they don’t have something they
want even if that something is just feeling good. We justify and
rationalize because we lack self esteem and approval including our own.
Blame is also placed on people or events that cause us to feel fear or bad
about ourselves. Who’s to blame? The harshest reality for anybody to
accept is that where ever you are in live right now. Whether you’re in a
mansion enjoying your life or a homeless shelter it’s because you and
only you have decided that is what you deserve. Even if you hate your
life condition somewhere in your subconscious mind you has decided
this is what you deserve or all you can have. Remember the one
intelligence or God is impersonal it will give you exactly what you
believe you deserve in life be it good or bad.
FEAR
Fear has always been the greatest enemy of the human race. It is
responsible for every war and every atrocity and every unpleasant
moment. That is written in the history books or in your own life. Fear is
nothing more than a mental attitude it is the opposite mental attitude to
faith thus fear is the result of lack of faith. Fear brings limitation in its
wake and is the destroyer of happiness and all things possible to those
who suffer from it. FEAR KNOCKED ON THE DOOR FAITH
ANSWED- NO ONE WAS THERE, that simple, that effective.
GIVENS
If your born handicapped, to short, to tall, to fat, to ugly. These are
givens this is stated clearly in the statement. To accept the things you
cannot change, and to change the things you can and the wisdom to
know the difference. Once you have the wisdom to know the difference
there is no limit to the joy you can have in your life. Think of how many
good looking and healthy rock stars that were so miserable they took
their own lives? How many wealthy successful people who seem to
have it all wind up in mental hospitals on drugs or committing suicide?
The is all due to a lack of self worth, self deserving and acceptance of all
the good things. So no matter who you are if you accept and believe in
the good and believe you deserve the good does it really matter if you
have one leg or two? Remember don’t think about what you can’t have
think about what you can have. Think about the great and joyous life you
can have when you focus on the positive things.
The fabric of the human mind can be so easily torn. For example is
someone says to you hey you don’t look so good today do you feel
alright? Most people will immediately start to follow that thought and
begin not feel so well. The solution is immediately as I have stated
before immediately upon receiving a negative no matter how you receive
it you must jump to a positive you must think I feel good I feel great you
must stay I feel great it will negate the negative. It is that simple.
POWER OF WORDS
With words you can make somebody angry you can make someone
happy you can create romance you can create argument. You take over
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a country just with words people are sent to prison. If you can do this to
other people with words what are you doing to yourself every second
when everyone thinks in words. Be careful how you speak to yourself
always speak to yourself with confidence with desire and with joy and
you’ll build a shield against negative words and thoughts that spring out
of negative words. THE WORD OF GOD IS GOD.
SELF CONDEMNATION
This represents an idea which may be all too common for us. One of
self condemnation "Oh this is going wrong and that's going wrong,
should have, would have, could have," all bear the seeds of self
condemnation and personal distrust. It is morbid, destructive, and is the
road to self destruction and mental and physical illness. Self
condemnation should not be indulged or entertained by anyone. To do
so is a big mistake. There is no question that all of us have done that
which is not for the best for us. From this view point all have fallen
short of our connection with the infinite and the divine. We did so
because we are ignorant of our true nature and because experience was
necessary to bring us to ourselves.
Do you desire to live in a world with friends with love, with health, with
joy, and self expression? There is but one way, and this way is as certain
as the sun will rise. WE MUST CONTROL ALL THOUGHT THAT
DENIES THE REAL: AFFIRM THE DIVINE PRESNCE WITHIN US.
Then as the midst shall disappear before the sun so shall the adversity
melt. Before the shining radiance of our exalted thought. There is no
limitation outside of our own ignorance. And since we could all
perceive of greater goods and greater experiences, far greater than we
have yet experienced, we all have the ability to transcend previous
experience and rise triumphant above them. But we shall never
triumphant over them as we persist in going through the same old mental
reactions.
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SO LET IT BE WRITTEN
This works it also allows you to demonstrate the power of the written
word. If you write down what you want your life to be as if it already
was in detail this will effect an almost immediate change in your life for
the better. God does not specialize. Many people have a great fear that
god or the infinite intelligence favors one person over another. That is
simply not true. God doesn’t specialize in people, people specialize in
God it is that simple.
FORGIVENESS
One of the good things about forgiveness that it is always available.
Think of how much emotional garbage you can drop how ridiculous
personal responsibility to negative attraction you can lose when you
forgive because the eternal mind of god hold naught against anyone.
Who are you to point a finger or scorn at your brothers or sisters? Any
one who feels self righteous enough to point fingers at their brothers and
sisters is living in a world of petty virtues and will surely live a life of
self delusion. The mind which condemns, does not understand the truth
of being and the heart that would slam the door to one has mistaken in
doing so destroys their own good. Because the inability to forgive
another person is the same inability to release your soul from the
burdens of your past. When you forgive others you are freeing yourself
and your subconscious mind to accept the good inline. Now to forgive
and not to forget is a big mistake because what is not forgotten like a tree
will spread branches and grow larger casting a shadow on all the great
things you may receive in life. What mind can conceive you can achieve
anything you can think of you can do. Never have any doubt in your
ability to demonstrate this truth conceive of your words as being the
thing you desire as an already accomplished fact. And take knowledge in
perfect confidence never becoming worried. The subconscious mind is
not conscious of time, knows neither time nor process it knows only
completion and the answer.
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WHAT IS GOD TO YOU
God is never poor. God is never sick. God is never happy. God is
never afraid. God is never confused. Perfect God equals perfect beings.
Therefore the spiritual person is never sick or unhappy or poor nor
afraid. Would it be logical would it make any sense that a perfect god
would create within a force to work against you. No a perfect god would
not do that only you can do that. In fact how you define God to yourself
is how you define yourself.
ABOUT LOVE
God shows his love for you thru the love of other people and through
your love for yourself. So you must love yourself to be loved, plain and
simple.
ABOUT MONEY
Money is god in action, why? Because money can go places you cannot
go and create of it, work for other people and by virtue of the infinite
creates more money. Like the universe money is always circulating and
since god has no limits on prosperity you should not limit yourself in
you financial potential. Since God is not stingy neither should you be.
What stops us is the thought that money must be fought for earned,
struggled for and sometimes cheated or stolen. When you realize money
like everything else in the universe is nothing but energy. Then money
is nothing but a positive energy. Not having money is a symptom of a
consciousness and a belief in lack, having money is a symptom as is
demonstration in the true belief in abundance.
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ABOUT HEALTH
It is again you belief in self punishment that affects you physically,
emotionally and spiritually it is a form of self punishment. Being over
weight is self rejection by accepting yourself you can over come this.
The body molds to the mind. If you look at mobsters, bikers or Wall
Street executives and cops they all have a similar look to them. The
reason is the mind went there first and body went there afterward. First
the thought then the physical manifestation of the thought. This is true in
all things, all things in life you want or don't want you will become just
as you are acting like, this shows you the unbelievable potential we all
have.
ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Why most relationships fail is because of the exchange of negative
beliefs being passed along to the person closest to you coming back to
you as negatives like criticism and petty arguments. Losing perspective
of yourself and fighting to get it back is the cause of why most
relationships go bad. From petty arguments grow the destructive
elements into monsters and destroy the relationships. The key to
keeping all your relationships good is to see only the good in the other
person and knowing that person is an individual with their own heart and
soul under god that you have no right to change. By not holding to tight
you will not crush the life out of your relationship. Most love doesn’t
die it just gets buried under the soot of petty small thinking. Once
you’re free you from thinking petty and small your potential in the
relationship will be unlimited. If you truly love another person you must
always believe in there freedom to be another person. When you go to a
house of worship when you have no belief or conviction is like going to
the bank when you have no money and trying to make a withdrawal it
just won’t happen. Belief must start from with in, and then where ever
you go you can transact it.
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True belief in the positive acting as if. And in believing in your heart
and your mind. Know that you are what you think all day long by your
own individual thinking you have created your own laws of belief by
repeating a certain train of thought you do establish definite opinions and
beliefs in the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind will accept
these beliefs and direct and control them to all the outer actions of you
life. Changing thoughts of lack and limitation into abundance is as
simple as acting as if you already have it and believing it’s so. The
process of changing water into wine. So, these teachings are dedicated
to that Truth which frees people from themselves and sets you on the
pathway of a new experience, which enables you to see through the mist
to the Eternal and Changeless Reality.
This book is dedicated to helping you be directed by Divine Intelligence.
The All-Knowing Mind knows what to do and how to do it. Do not
hinder, but let it operate in your affairs. It prospers and directs us and
controls our life. All of your affairs are managed by Love, and directed
by Wisdom, and they cannot fail to prosper and expand.
Oh, for some Word to comprehend the boundless idea! Would that some
Voice were sweet enough to sound the harmony of Life. But within, in
that vast realm of thought where the Soul meets God, the Spirit knows. I
will listen for that Voice and it will tell me of Life, of Love, and of
Unity.
We should be careful to distinguish wishful thinking and day
dreaming from really dynamic and creative action. When we treat we do
not wish, we KNOW. We do not dream, we STATE. YOU do not hope,
YOU ACCEPT. YOU do not pray, you ANNOUNCE. You do not
expect that something is going to happen; BELIEVE THAT IT HAS
ALREADY HAPPENED.
People are so tired of looking for things where they do not exist, that
they are going to more and more completely open their thought to the
realization that Spirit is an active Presence...Somehow there must come
to each individual an interior conviction that we are One with the
Universe, and that the Spirit flows through us at the level of our
recognition and embodiment of it.
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WHEN ACTING AS IF
WHEN ACTING AS IF, we turn entirely from the condition, because so
long as we look at a condition we cannot overcome it. That is why the
GREAT mystic said: "Behold my face forevermore." "Look unto me and
be ye saved, all the ends of the earth." That is, look up and not down.
One, alone, in consciousness with the Infinite, constitutes a complete
majority. Knowing this in your thought, work in perfect peace and calm.
ALWAYS EXPECT THE GOOD. Have enthusiasm, and, above all,
have a consciousness of love - a radiant feeling flowing through your
consciousness at all times. Treat yourself until you have an inner sense
of unity with all Good.
The fear of lack is nothing more than the belief that God does not, and
will not; supply us with whatever we need. The fear of death is the belief
that the promises of eternal life may not be true. The fear of loss of
health, loss of friends, and loss of property - all arise from the belief that
God is not all that we claim: Omniscience, Omnipotence, and
Omnipresence.
ABOUT VANITY
It is great to look good, and who does not want to? There is nothing
wrong with looking good, wearing the best clothes and having great
accessories. But when the insanity for vanity takes over then there is a
problem. When you are constantly getting plastic unnecessary surgery,
when you live at the gym all day, when you starve yourself, when no
matter what you see you don't like then there is a problem. The problem
is simple you are buying in to the endless media hype of what you
should look like, how you should age, and how to buy their products.
Know this if you are filled with positive energy on the inside it will
show on the outside. If you spend time working on the inner the outer
will show. Do not let the media be your God. BE NOT ANXIOUS FOR
YOUR BODY OR LOOKS FOR HOW MUCH MORE ARE YOU
THAN THAT.
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DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE CLASSIFIED
Once you state to yourself, I'm sick, I'm poor, nobody loves me and
believe me as I am sure you know, there are multitudes of places and
people that would be more than happy to give you a classification
whether it be attention deficit disorder, anxiety disorder, bad
relationships, or substance abuse, they will be more than happy to
classify and label you. Once you accept this label as being real you will
become it. So whenever the situation arises and any negative labels are
going to be affixed to you do the opposite and stay in the opposite. So,
as Buddha said if you could label something you can negate it.
ACTING AS IF…
MAKING DESCIONS
Success and failure are direct results of the use of your mind. Every
success motivated mind has been one that makes decisions. On the other
hand, every failure is the result of an indecisive mind. A dreamer acts
with clear decisions on their dream, brought forth something knew and
valuable. It takes as much hard mental work to fail as to succeed.
Failure is actually being successful at being negative. Worry always
brings indecision.
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SEEING TO THE END
When you are in a situation that seems hopeless, when you are in a state
of fear or worry here is what to do. See yourself out of the situation, see
it passed and done with. ACT AS IF the problem is solved, don’t worry
how it will be solved ACT AS IF it is and it will be.
A TICKET TO FREEDOM
Today more than ever people are held back from enjoying life, and why?
Needless lingering guilt feelings causing neurotic beliefs to manifest and
hold you back from the joys of life. Today more than ever people are
filled with all manors of anxieties, OCD, ADHD, and a host of other
new psychological diseases that are given names daily. Not a surprise
that so many people's subconscious minds are a real mess. Not a surprise
that so many people are on medication today, psychiatrists,
psychologists are having a field day with this.
Few of these doctors can really define the terms they are throwing
around and so many people still grasp for it like candy. The reality is
they banter these words around with little or no knowledge of their
meaning.
Freud and let's give thanks to him, made the first scientific investigation
of the psychological structure to prove people have a subconscious mind.
To know you have a subconscious mind and at the same time being
ignorant of how to control it is not advancing you a single step.
Since the discovery of the subconscious mind it has become the base of
all forms of mental therapy. It revealed that a person is more a mental
and emotional process and not just a body. Knowing the human being is
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more than just a body, requires a new understanding of the spirit in
people.
What you decide with the conscious mind, you will produce with the
subconscious mind. When you do not decide any issue in your life with
the conscious mind, your subconscious takes the left over material from
previous decisions and produces after its own kind.
Therefore, the person specializing in God, the one who believes God is
specializing in them is right. God is specializing in you through the law of
the universe. There is a divine intelligence that knows the right answer, and
when you accept this statement as being true, the answer to all problems
right then are created in mind, and will be sent through your intellect a
soon as you are ready to receive. FOR THIS IS THE LAW OF
CREATION.
CARRYING WEIGHT
When you are involved with someone in your life who does not ant will
not stand behind you and encourage you, DROP THEM be it wife husband,
lover or best friend. Because you are carrying dead weight. And it is hard
indeed to get anywhere constantly carrying dead weight.
ACT AS IFS
HEALTH
There is one infinite mind, one energy, one universal perfect functioning of
all ideas in mind. My health is an action of an infinite intelligence that
functions perfectly, functions in the order of infinite mind, all ideas work
perfectly, functioning normally, functioning in order, all ideas working
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perfectly, completely and divinely; so that there is neither over action nor
under action. There is only normal action. There is no principle of straining.
There is only the principle of ease. Therefore I am not under the law of
tension. I am under the law of ease, order, harmony, normalcy of all
functions. So my consciousness, which is the CAUSE and maintenance of
my body, is now circulating its ideas perfectly. It is now assimilating all
ideas perfectly. It is right here and now eliminating all ideas that have
finished their course. It is now working in divine order at this very
MOMENT. This is my health and I rejoice in it. My subconscious mind
accepts this. AND I ACT AS IF IT WERE AND SO IT BECOMES
WEALTH
We enter into this with joy, because we are always dealing with the principle
of eternal abundance. The universe is never poor. The universe is and will
always be abundant, always rich, and always productive. Therefore I, as part
of the eternal system, part of the eternal process, of and created by the
eternal system, a part of the eternal mechanism, I am the same abundance.
Any and all limiting subconscious patterns regarding money in my
subconscious mind that are limiting are now eliminated, neutralized and
gone. Every concept in my subconscious mind regarding money, income and
wealth now expands. I am free in the freedom of money. Money is God in
action. Money is God in circulation. Money is life itself, flowing in, and
flowing out. Money is good. Money is great. I appreciate it. I praise it. I
rejoice in it. Money is an idea in the mind of God, of ease and freedom. I am
the idea in the mind of God; therefore, these ideas now come together and
become one, are one. I AM money. I decree this in my own mind, I ACT AS
IF and it is so.
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Know that there is one infinite mind, one spirit, always in an eternal
emotional field through which ideas can communicate, one with another.
This is love this is relationships. Therefore, I decree that I AM this great
composite idea of the infinite mind moving in an arena of balanced
emotions, giving and receiving life, love, ideas, and success; all people
communicate with me; I communicate with all people. Therefore there can
be no closed doors. All channels of communication between myself and
another living soul--these channels are opened and the flow both ways. I
love to love with the love of God. This is balanced perfect communication.
Any and all subconscious obstacles are now and forever gone. I believe this
and so they are gone. It is definite in my consciousness now, and it operates
and shall forevermore be. I ACT IT, I BELIEVE IT. And so it is.
SELF
The need of the soul to express individuality-- which you are. All of us have
this need and are expressing it all the time. There is one individuality - the
eternal I AM that is God. This is the oneness with God. This is my
individuality right now. This individuality includes the totality of
intelligence, love, wisdom, beauty, and truth. It has within it everything
necessary for my full self-expression in all fields that I select, in all
avocations as well as vocations. Therefore I now declare that I have full self
expression. Any and all subconscious conditioning that would hinder or
obstruct my total self expression is now denied and neutralized. I AM able to
express my full and complete self. I accept this in my subconscious mind. So
be it.
GRADITUDE
The illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to the reader
the fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea of your
wants to the formless substance. This is true, and you will see that in order to
do so it becomes necessary to relate yourself to the formless intelligence in a
harmonious way.
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To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vital
importance that I shall give some space to its discussion here and give you
instructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to bring you into
perfect unity of mind with the supreme power, or God.
First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all
things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you everything
you desire. And third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and
profound gratitude.
Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in
poverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received done gift from God, they
cut the wires which connect them with him by failing to make
acknowledgment.
It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the
more wealth we shall receive, and it is easy also to understand that the soul
that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than the one which
never looks to him in thankful acknowledgment. The more gratefully we fix
our minds on the supreme when good things come to us, the more good
things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come. And the reason
simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer
touch with the source from which the blessings come.
If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into
closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well,
and you will see that it is true. The good things you have already have come
to you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead your
mind out along the ways by which things come, and it will keep you in close
harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive
thought.
Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from
falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited — and to do that
would be fatal to your hopes.
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There is a law of gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should
observe the law if you are to get the results you seek. The law of gratitude is
the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in
opposite directions.
“Draw nigh unto God, and he will draw nigh unto you.” That is a statement
of psychological truth. And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the
reaction in formless substance will be strong and continuous; the movement
of the things you want will be always toward you. Notice the grateful
attitude that Jesus took, how he always seems to be saying, “I thank thee,
Father, that thou hearest me.” You cannot exercise much power without
gratitude, for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power.
But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more
blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from
dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.
The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things
as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common,
the ordinary, the poor, the squalid, and the mean — and your mind takes the
form of these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images
to the formless. And the common, the poor, the squalid, and the mean will
come to you.
To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to
surround yourself with inferior things. On the other hand, to fix your
attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the
best. The creative power within us makes us into the image of that to which
we give our attention. We are of thinking substance, too, and thinking
substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to
become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive
the best.
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Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good
things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s
own mind produces faith, and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving
increases faith. The person who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long
retain a living faith, and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the
creative method, as we shall see in the following chapters.
It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good
thing that comes to you and to give thanks continuously. And because all
things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things
in your gratitude.
God has worked a long time and very patiently to bring us up to where we
are in industry and government, and he is going right on with his work.
There is not the least doubt that he will do away with plutocrats, trust
magnates, captains of industry, and politicians as soon as they can be spared,
but in the meantime, they are all very necessary. Remember that they are all
helping to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches will
come to you, and be grateful. This will bring you into harmonious relations
with the good in everything, and the good in everything will move toward
you.
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its
original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
A person can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon
formless substance, the infinite can cause the thing he thinks about to be
created.
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In order to do this, a person must pass from the struggling to the creative
mind. Otherwise you cannot be in harmony with formless intelligence,
which is always creative and never competitive in spirit.
A person may come into full harmony with God, the infinite, the formless
substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it
bestows upon them. Gratitude unifies the minds of individuals with the
intelligence of substance, so that a person’s thoughts are received by the
formless.
A person can remain upon the creative plane only by uniting himself with
the formless intelligence through a deep and continuous feeling of gratitude.
A person must form a clear and definite mental image of the things he
wishes to have, to do, or to become, and he must hold this mental image in
his thoughts, while being deeply grateful to the supreme that all his desires
are granted to him. The person who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure
hours in contemplating his vision, and in earnest thanksgiving that the reality
is being given to him.
In order to receive his own when it is ready to come to him, a person must
be in action in a way that causes him to more than fill his present place.
They must keep in mind the purpose to get rich, or healthy, find love or
personal empowerment through realization of his mental image. And he
must do, every day all that can be done that day taking care to do each act in
a successful manner. You must give to every person a use value in excess of
the value they receive, so that each transaction makes for more life, and we
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must hold the advancing thought so that the impression of increase will be
communicated to all with whom he comes into contact.
The men and women who practice the foregoing instructions will certainly
get wealthy, healthy love and personal power, and all they receive will be in
exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their
purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.
You if pick someone at random and say I love or hate this person over and
over again to yourself watch what happens, you will find you will start to
love or hate these people.
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