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Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve.
It would be as valid to say: Anything the mind can believe, the mind can achieve,
but I wish to emphasize the power of the human mind.
No other living creature can take hold of its mind as we do, sense
and explore its powers, find ways to increase those powers
to an extent almost beyond imagination.
You are used to being human.
Take time now and then to realize the uniqueness of your human state.
Ask yourself: What do I want?
This is not a question to be answered lightly.
What do you want?
I give you a list to aid your thinking:
Improvement of your general health.
Improvement of some specific health or functional factor.
Cure of any bad habit.
Abolishment of fear.
The ability to find the right mate in marriage.
Weight reduction or gain.
The ability to break away from outworn customs or outmoded
ways of life.
The ability to get along better with other people.
The ability to sway others to your way of thinking.
Inner guidance in the selection of a business or profession.
When you know what you want, you are ready to go after it.
You need a definite chief aim.
Vague mind-conceptions are little better than mere wishes.
Decide where you are going.
Then, and only then do you begin to see the signposts
that point the way.
You are going to make money, and I trust you to see it as
only one form of wealth, but, as I have pointed out, a form of
wealth which helps us attain many others.
The chances are that you automatically accept money as a goal,
so let us take this goal as a prototype in illustrating auto-suggestion.
Now, this is the way to use auto-suggestion to help you
achieve the sum of money you want.
It is done in six steps which stimulate your subconscious mind.
One: Find a quiet spot where you can be alone and undisturbed.
Many find that as they lie in bed, just before going to
sleep, the mind becomes receptive.
Close your eyes and repeat aloud, listening to your own words, the sum
of money you intend to make-the time limit you have set
for its accumulation, and a description of the service or merchandise
you intend to give or to sell in return for that
money.
Two: Put the same words in writing.
You may do this first if you wish.
Write it out carefully and in detail.
Memorize it.
When you go into your quiet place to repeat your goal to yourself,
say it word for word as you have written it.
You may change it here and there until it is absolutely
specific.
Add a statement of this nature, in your own words:
I believe that I will have this money in my possession.
My belief is so strong that I now can see the money before
my eyes.
I am holding it in my hands.
I know it exists, and it is awaiting transfer to me in
return for my services rendered with full honesty and all possible
skill and diligence.
A plan exists which will transfer this sum [state
the sum] to me by [state the deadline date] and my receptive mind
will see that plan and cause me to follow it.
See yourself rendering the service or delivering the merchandise.
See yourself receiving your payment.
This is important!
Three: Place a written copy of your statement where you
will see it night and morning.
Read it upon rising.
Read it again just before retiring.
You may also carry it with you and read it several times a day, but to read it
first thing in the morning and last thing at night is particularly
important.
Again, as you read, see yourself going through the actions
which will bring you the money.
Feel the money in your hands.
Feel with feeling.
Merely reading the words or saying them to yourself will mean nothing unless
they carry the emotional charge of desire.
It is well known that the subconscious has less regard for reason than it does for
emotion.
Four: Put the Master Mind Principle to work.
It is not always possible to form a Master Mind group,
and you are better off without one than doing it the wrong
way.
You can, however, make good use of the principle by
conferring with the right people.
These are people who can help you and, if possible, people you can help.
Don't forget, if you want to see a banker about financing your business, you
are helping him run his business.
And don't forget, many a cold-bl00ded banker has been swayed by the confidence and
belief and enthusiasm he sees in a would-be borrower,
with good reason.
The more people you talk to, the more information you will
receive.
The more they know-the more you know.
Choose the right people, however.
Now and again you will meet, among them, one whose mind tunes in to yours.
Speaking with such a person is a mighty tonic for the subconscious
drives you have at your direction.
Five: When your plan appears, act upon it.
You will know it.
The subconscious is like a fertile garden spot in which any
seed will grow, be it the seed of a weed or the seed of your fortune.
Through auto-suggestion you work wonders in keeping
out the weed seeds.
When a seed of your fortune falls in the garden of your subconscious, however, it grows
in relation to the attention you give it.
Do not sit idly waiting for your plan to appear.
You may not precisely know, for example, where you are
going to set up your business, but until the right place draws
your attuned attention, you can be contacting sources of
supply, learning more about the business and filling your mind
with the process of your achievement in a hundred other ways.
Remember how publishers came to me when I needed them.
Six: Once you have a matured plan which covers every
detail, put that plan in writing.
Read it over night and morning.
Stick to it, but be ready to change it if circumstances point out
the advisability of a change.
Your mind will not constantly flutter from one alternative to another.
Your subconscious will sift the alternatives with a great power to
show you what you must do to attain your goal.
I could set down Faith as a seventh factor of auto-suggestion;
but faith is all-pervasive.
Faith is called the head chemist of the mind.
As faith blends with thought, it becomes the perfect ingredient
for true subconscious belief.
As faith becomes part of you, it rides along with every message you repeat to yourself.
It becomes part of your character, part of your personality.
Faith helps you emotionalize your thoughts, bring them beyond the power
of reason into another realm of mental being
where thoughts become their physical equivalent.
Every man can surpass himself.
We all have our role to play individually.
But we only play it well on condition of always trying to do better, of
overreaching ourselves.
It is this effort which constitutes our personal
participation in evolution, our duty.
If we have children, we will have collaborated in a
measure modestly, statistically, but unless we develop our personality
we will have left no trace in the true, human evolution.
An intelligent being carries within him the wherewithal
to surpass himself.
It is needful for him to know it, and it is essential for him to attempt to realize it.
The incomparable gift of brain, with its truly amazing powers of abstraction,
has rendered obsolete the slow and sometimes clumsy mechanisms
utilized by evolution so far.
Thanks to the brain alone, man, in the course of
three generations only, has conquered the realm of air, while it took
hundreds of thousands of years for animals to achieve the same result
through the process of evolution.
Thanks to the brain alone, the range of our sensory organs has
been increased a millionfold, far beyond the fondest dreams; we see the infinitely
small and we see the infinitely remote; we hear the inaudible;
we have dwarfed distance and kllled physical time.
We have enslaved the forces of the universe, even before we have
succeeded in understanding them thoroughly.
We have put to shame the tedious and time-consuming methods of
trial and error used by nature, because nature has finally succeeded
in producing its masterpiece in the shape of the human brain.
But the great laws of evolution are still active, even though adaptation has
lost its importance as far as we are concerned.
We are now responsible for the progress of evolution.
We are free to destroy ourselves if we misunderstand the meaning
and the purpose of our victories; and we are free to forge ahead, to
prolong evolution, to cooperate with God if we perceive the meaning
of it all, if we realize that it can only be achieved through a wholehearted
effort toward moral and spiritual development.
Peace of mind and power of mind.
Since what you achieve in life depends on what you first conceive,
and this depends first of all upon your deep, inner, subconsciously
founded belief-you see that your life depends upon
your power to believe.
No, your mere life-processes do not depend upon this
power.
The eternal has made it possible for the supreme achievement of evolution, man, to stay alive
even without knowing he is alive.
The beating of the heart, the pumping of the lungs, the processes of digestion and
other vital functions are taken care of by a part of the brain which
takes care of itself.
Beyond this, man creates an ever better species.
He aspires and climbs to the heights of his aspiration.
Seeing heights yet beyond, again he aspires, and achieves that
peak, beyond which lies another and another.
Significantly, philosophers always have recognized the power
of the quiet mind, the peaceful mind.
This is far from being a mind empty of aspiration.
It is, rather, a mind which can hold, judge, and evaluate the highest forms of aspiration.
Nor is a peaceful mind the exclusive property of a
person who does not move about in the world and busy himself with
the world's manifold affairs, for some of the most peaceful
minds are the busiest.
Remember, we speak of inner peace, like a quiet
center about which all else revolves, like a great rotating
dynamo doing useful work and filled with energy, yet referring
its rotation always to the unmoved pivot at its middle.
A mind at peace is a mind that is free to conceive greatly.
It bears no great conflicts within its subconscious
which may hamper the conscious mind and therefore conscious
action.
A mind at peace is a free mind.
Its power is limitless.
Form your great beliefs on the basis of inward peace and
they will be truly great-and they will be possible of achievement.
Not possible to everyone, perhaps, but possible to the
man who knows that peace of mind and power of mind are
the same.
Who told you it couldn't be done?
What great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to
use the word impossible?
Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve
This is the Supreme Secret, forever the foundation secret of
man's efforts to control his destiny.
Conceive a great step forward in your life, form a deep subconscious
belief, and the belief becomes the very foundation of
reality.
"Wishing won't make it so," for a mere wish does not
penetrate the depths of the mind; but a true belief
becomes part of your complete being.
Conscious and subconscious Your subconscious mind is your hidden boss.
Although your conscious mind controls your conscious
actions, the subconscious dictates the pattern of those
actions.
If, subconsciously, you are afraid to do something,
you may fill in with excuses and evasions which prevent
you from taking that action.
But your subconscious can be persuaded to change any of its standing orders and thus
completely change your life.
Your subconscious mind is the seat of deep belief which becomes your constant
guide.
The subconscious knows no limit to its power The proper use of the subconscious mind puts
us in touch with forces beyond the ordinary senses.
Thoughts can be transmitted to the subconscious mind of a
sleeping person, bypassing the guard of the conscious mind.
This is the secret of seeming miracles of healing.
Methods of sleep learning may eventually be so perfected as to open
great new horizons of mental power.
Knowing that what the human mind can believe, the
human mind can achieve, you can see that deep belief
opens great vistas of opportunity.
In order to get what you want, you must focus your belief on a Definite
Chief Aim.
Peace of mind and power of mind go hand in hand, and the mind at peace is the
mind most capable of great conceptions, great beliefs
and the enjoyment of those beliefs as solid realities.