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LESSON V. HOW CONCENTRATED THOUGHT LINKS ALL HUMANITY TOGETHER

Books: The Power of Concentration

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I want you first to realize how powerful thought is. A thought of

fear has turned a person's hair gray in a night. A prisoner

condemned to die was told that if he would consent to an

experiment and lived through it he would be freed. He consented.

They wanted to see how much blood a person could lose and still

live. They arranged that blood would apparently drop from a cut

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in his leg. The cut made was very slight, from which

practically no blood escaped. The room was darkened, and the

prisoner thought the dropping he heard was really coming from his

leg. The next morning he was dead through mental fear.



The two above illustrations will give you a little idea of the

power of thought. To thoroughly realize the power of thought is

worth a great deal to you.



Through concentrated thought power you can make yourself whatever

you please. By thought you can greatly increase your efficiency

and strength. You are surrounded by all kinds of thoughts, some

good, others bad, and you are sure to absorb some of the latter

if you do not build up a positive mental attitude.



If you will study the needless moods of anxiety, worry,

despondency, discouragement and others that are the result of

uncontrolled thoughts, you will realize how important the control

of your thoughts are. Your thoughts make you what you are.



When I walk along the street and study the different people's

faces I can tell how they spent their lives. It all shows in

their faces, just like a mirror reflects their physical

countenances. In looking in those faces I cannot help thinking

how most of the people you see have wasted their lives.



The understanding of the power of thought will awaken

possibilities within you that you never dreamed of. Never forget

that your thoughts are making your environment, your friends, and

as your thoughts change these will also. Is this not a practical

lesson to learn? Good thoughts are constructive. Evil thoughts

are destructive. The desire to do right carries with it a great

power. I want you to thoroughly realize the importance of your

thoughts, and how to make them valuable, to understand that your

thoughts come to you over invisible wires and influence you.



If your thoughts are of a high nature, you become connected with

people of the same mental caliber and you are able to help

yourself. If your thoughts are tricky, you will bring tricky

people to deal with you, who will try to cheat you.



If your thoughts are right kind, you will inspire confidence in

those with whom you are dealing.



As you gain the good will of others your confidence and strength

will increase. You will soon learn the wonderful value of your

thoughts and how serene you can become even when circumstances

are the most trying.



Such thoughts of Right and Good Will bring you into harmony with

people that amount to something in the world and that are able to

give you help if you should need it, as nearly everyone does at

times.



You can now see why it is so important to concentrate your

thoughts in the proper channels. It is very necessary that people

should have confidence in you. When two people meet they have not

the time to look each other up. They accept each other according

to instinct which can usually be relied on.



You meet a person and his attitude creates a suspicion in you.

The chances are you cannot tell why, but something tells you,

"Have no dealings with him, for if you do, you will be sorry."

Thoughts produce actions. Therefore be careful of your thoughts.

Your life will be molded by the thoughts you have. A spiritual

power is always available to your thought, and when you are

worthy you can attract all the good things without a great effort

on your part.



The sun's rays shine down on our gardens, but we can plant trees

that will interfere with the sun light. There are invisible

forces ready to help you if you do not think and act to intercept

these. These forces work silently. "You reap what you sow."



You have concentrated within powers that if developed will bring

you happiness greater than you can even imagine. Most people go

rushing through life, literally driving away the very things they

seek. By concentration you can revolutionize your life,

accomplish infinitely more and without a great effort.



Look within yourself and you will find the greatest machine ever

made.



How to Speak Wisely. In order to speak wisely you must secure at

least a partial concentration of the faculties and forces upon

the subject at hand. Speech interferes with the focusing powers

of the mind, as it withdraws the attention to the external and

therefore is hardly to be compared with that deep silence of the

subconscious mind, where deep thoughts, and the silent forces of

high potency are evolved. It is necessary to be silent before you

can speak wisely. The person that is really alert and well poised

and able to speak wisely under trying circumstances, is the

person that has practiced in the silence. Most people do not know

what the silence is and think it is easy to go into the silence,

but this is not so. In the real silence we become attached to

that interior law and the forces become silent, because they are

in a state of high potency, or beyond the vibratory sounds to

which our external ears are attuned. He who desires to become

above the ordinary should open up for himself the interior

channels which lead to the absolute law of the omnipotent. You

can only do this by persistently and intelligently practicing

thought concentration. Hold the thought:



In-silence-I-will-allow-my-higher-self-to-have-complete-control.

I-will-be-true-to-my-higher-self.

I-will-live-true-to-my-conception-of-what-is-right.

I-realize-that-it-is-to-my-self-interest-to-live-up-to-my-best.

I-demand-wisdom-so that-I-may-act-wisely-for-myself-and-others.



In the next chapter I will tell you of the mysterious law, which

links all humanity together, by the powers of co-operative

thought, and chooses for us companionship and friends.



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