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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING (REVIEW)-Arya nandakumar 5003
THE POWER OF POSITIVE
THINKING
BY NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
Norman Vincent Peale, often called
the “minister-to-millions,” was senior minister at the historic Marble
Collegiate Church in New York City for 52 years. Dr. Peale and his wife, Ruth
Stafford Peale, founded Guideposts in 1945, an interfaith ministry dedicated to
helping people from all walks of life achieve their personal and spiritual
potential. Previously, in 1940, they founded Peale Center for Christian Living,
which is dedicated to continuing Dr. Peale’s legacy of positive thinking and
faith. In 1995, the two organizations merged and Peale Center is now the
Outreach Division of Guideposts. Dr. Peale wrote 46 books, including the
classic best-seller, The Power of Positive Thinking, which has demonstrated
that a change in a person’s attitude will change his or her life.
The concept of positive thinking has permeated our culture. It is a
philosophy of faith that does not ignore life’s problems, but rather explains a
practical approach to life’s full potential. It is a system of creative living
based on spiritual techniques, and its operation is demonstrated in the lives
of thousands of people.
” Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but
reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But
with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inadequacy interferes with the
attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and
achievement."
How we think we feel has a
definite effect on how we actually feel physically. If your mind tells you that
you are tired, the body mechanism, the nerves and the muscles accept the fact.
If your mind is intensely interested, you can keep on at an activity
indefinitely. Religion functions through our thoughts. In fact, it is a system
of thought discipline. By supplying attitudes of faith to the mind it can
increase energy. It helps you to accomplish prodigious activity by suggesting
that you have ample support and resources of power. To avoid tiredness and to
have energy, feel your way into the essential rhythm of Almighty God and all
His works. To accomplish this, relax physically. Then conceive of your mind as
likewise relaxing.
“Dear
God, You are the source of all energy. You are the source of the energy in the
sun, in the atom, in all flesh, in the bloodstream, in the mind. I hereby draw
energy from You as from an illimitable source.” Then practice believing that
you receive energy
There is no difficulty
you cannot overcome. An effective method for making your mind positive in character is to eliminate certain expressions of thought
and speech, which we may call the “little negatives.”
"A wise and philosophical man once said to me, when asked
how he overcame his difficulties, “How do I get through a trouble? Well, first
I try to go around it, and if I can’t go around it, I try to get under it, and
if I can’t get under it, I try to go over it, and if I can’t get over it, I
just plow right through it.” Then he added, “God and I plow right through it.”
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