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Lessen seven and eight of the power of concentration Lesson seven.
The concentrated mental demand. The mental demand is the potent
force in achievement. The attitude of the mind affects the
expression of the face, determines action, changes our physical condition,
(00:22):
and regulates our lives. I will not here attempt to
explain the silent force that achieves results. You want to
develop your mental power so you can affect the thing sought,
and that is what I want to teach you. There
is wonderful power and possibility in the concentrated mental demand. This,
(00:44):
like all other forces, is controlled by laws. It can,
like other forces, be wonderfully increased by consecutive, systematized effort.
The mental demand must be directed by every power of
the mind, and every possible element should be used to
make the demand materialize. You can so intently desire a
(01:08):
thing that you can exclude all distracting thoughts. When you
practice this singleness of concentration until you attain the end sought,
you have developed a will capable of accomplishing whatever you wish.
As long as you can only do the ordinary things,
you will be counted in the mass of mediocrity. But
(01:30):
just as quick as you surpass others by even comparatively
small measure, you are classed as one of life's successes.
So if you wish to emerge into prominence, you must
accomplish something more than the ordinary man or woman. It
is easy to do this if you will but concentrate
on what you desire and put forth your best effort.
(01:54):
It is not the runner with the longest legs or
the strongest muscles that wins the race, but the one
that can put forth the greatest desire force. You can
best understand this by thinking of an engine. The engine
starts up slowly, the engineer gradually extending the throttle to
the top notch. It is then keyed up to its
(02:17):
maximum speed. The same is true of two runners. They
start off together, and gradually they increase their desire to
go faster. The one that has the greatest intensity of
desire will win. He may out distance the other by
only a fraction of an inch, yet he gets the laurels.
(02:37):
The men that are looked upon as the world's successes
have not always been men of great physical power, nor
at the start did they seem very well adapted to
the conditions which encompass them. In the beginning. They were
not considered men of superior genius. But they won their
success by their resolution to achieve results in their undertakings.
(03:00):
By permitting no setback to dishearten them, no difficulties to
daunt them, nothing could turn them or influence them against
their determination, they never lost sight of their goal. In
all of us there is this silent force of wonderful power.
If developed, it can overcome conditions that would seem insurmountable.
(03:22):
It is constantly urging us on to greater achievement. The
more we become acquainted with it, the better strategists we become,
the more courage we develop, and the greater the desire
within us for self expression in activity along many lines.
No one will ever be a failure if he becomes
conscious of this silent force within that controls his destiny.
(03:47):
But without the consciousness of this inner force, you will
not have a clear vision, and external conditions will not
yield to the power of your mind. It is the
mental resolve that makes achievements possible. Once this has been formed,
it should never be allowed to cease to press its
claim until its object is attained. To make plans work out,
(04:11):
it will at times be necessary to use every power
of your mind. Patience, perseverance, and all the indomitable forces
within one will have to be mustered and used with
the greatest effectiveness. Perseverance is the first element of success.
In order to persevere, you must be ceaseless in your application.
(04:34):
It requires you to concentrate your thoughts upon your undertaking
and bring every energy to bear upon, keeping them focused
upon it until you have accomplished your aim. To quit
short of this is to weaken all future efforts. The
mental demand seems an unreal power because it is intangible,
(04:55):
but it is the mightiest power in the world. It
is a power that is free for you to to use.
No one can use it for you. The mental demand
is not a visionary one. It is a potent force
which you can use freely without cost. When you are
in doubt, it will counsel you. It will guide you
(05:15):
when you are uncertain, when you are in fear, it
will give you courage. It is the motive power which
supplies the energies necessary to the achievement of the purpose.
You have a large storehouse of possibilities. The mental demand
makes possibilities realities. It supplies everything necessary for the accomplishment.
(05:38):
It selects the tools and instructs how to use them.
It makes you understand the situation. Every time you make
a mental demand, you strengthen the brain centers by drawing
to you external forces. Few realize the power of a
mental demand. It is possible to make your demand so
(05:59):
strong that you can impart what you have to say
to another without speaking to him. Have you, ever, after
planning to discuss a certain matter with a friend, had
the experience of having him broached the subject before you
had a chance to speak of it. Have you ever,
in a letter, made a suggestion to a friend that
he carried out before your letter reached him. Have you
(06:23):
ever wanted to speak to a person who just then
walked in or telephoned. I have had many such responses
to thought, and you and your friends have doubtless experienced
them too. These two things are neither coincidences nor accidents,
but are the results of mental demand launched by strong concentration.
(06:45):
The person that never wants anything gets little To demand
resolutely is the first step toward getting what you want.
The power of the mental demand seems absolute, the supply illimitable.
The mental demand and projects itself and causes to materialize
the conditions and opportunities needed to accomplish the purpose. Do
(07:08):
not think I overestimate the value of the mental demand.
It brings the fuller life if used for only righteous purposes.
Once the mental demand is made, however, never let it falter.
If you do, the current that connects you with your
desire is broken. Take all the necessary time to build
(07:29):
a firm foundation so that there need not be even
an element of doubt to creep in. Just the moment
you entertain doubt, you lose some of the demand force,
and force, once lost is hard to regain. So whenever
you make a mental demand, hold steadfastly to it until
your need is supplied. I want to repeat again that
(07:52):
power of mental demand is not a visionary one. It
is concentrated power only and can be used by you.
It is not supernatural power, but requires a development of
the brain centers. The outcome is sure when it is
given with a strong, resolute determination. No person will advance
(08:13):
to any great extent unless he recognizes this force within him.
If you have not become aware of it, you have
not made very much of a success of your life.
It is this something that distinguishes that man from other men.
It is this subtle power that develops strong personality. If
(08:34):
you want a great deal, you must demand a great deal.
Once you make your demand, anticipate its fulfillment. It depends
upon us. We are rewarded according to our efforts. The
power of mental demand can bring us what we want.
We become what we determine to be. We control our destiny.
(08:56):
Get the right mental attitude. Then, in accordance with your
your ability, you can gain success. And every man of
average ability, the ordinary man that you see about you,
can be really successful, independent, free of worry, his own master,
if he can manage to do just two things. First,
(09:19):
remain forever dissatisfied with what he is doing and what
he has accomplished. Second, develop in his mind a belief
that the word impossible was not intended for him. Build
up in his mind the confidence that enables the mind
to use its power. Many, especially the older men, will ask,
(09:41):
how can I build up that self confidence in my brain?
How can I, after months and years of discouragement of
dull plotting, suddenly conceive and carry out a plan for
doing something that will make life worth while and change
the monotonous routine? How can a man get out of
a rut after he has been in it for years
(10:03):
and has settled down to the slow jog trot that
leads to the grave. The answer is the thing can
be done, and millions have done it. One of the
names most honored among the great men of France is
that of Letree, who wrote and compiled the Great French Dictionary,
a monument of learning. He is the man whose place
(10:25):
among the forty immortals of France was taken by the
Great Pasture when the latter was elected to the Academy.
Letree began the work that makes him famous when he
was more than sixty years old. Lesson eight. Concentration gives
mental poise. You will find that the man that concentrates
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is well poised, whereas the man that allows his mind
to wander is easily upset. When in this state, wisdom
does not pass from the subconscious storehouse into the consciousness.
There must be mental quiet before the two consciousnesses can
work in harmony. When you are able to concentrate, you
(11:09):
have peace of mind. If you are in the habit
of losing your poise, form the habit of reading literature
that has a quieting power. Just the second you feel
your poise slipping, say peace, and then hold this thought
in mind, and you will never lose your self control.
There cannot be perfect concentration until there is peace of mind.
(11:33):
So keep thinking peace, acting peace until you are at
peace with all the world. For when once you have
reached this state, there will be no trouble to concentrate
on anything you wish. When you have peace of mind,
you are not timid or anxious, or fearful or rigid,
and you will not allow any disturbing thought to influence you.
(11:58):
You cast aside all fears and think of yourself as
a spark of the divine being, as a manifestation of
the one universal principle that fills all space and time.
Think of yourself thus as a child of the infinite,
possessing infinite possibilities. Write on a piece of paper, I
(12:19):
have the power to do and to be whatever I
wish to do and be. Keep this mentally before you,
and you will find the thought will be of great
help to you. The mistake of concentrating on your business
while away. In order to be successful today, you must concentrate,
but don't become a slave to concentration, and carry your
(12:42):
business cares home. Just as sure as you do, you
will be burning the life forces at both ends, and
the fire will go out much sooner than was intended.
Many men become so absorbed in their business that when
they go to church they do not hear the preacher
because their minds are on their business. If they go
(13:02):
to the theater, they do not enjoy it because their
business is on their minds. When they go to bed,
they think about business instead of sleep, and wonder why
they don't sleep. This is the wrong kind of concentration
and is dangerous. It is involuntary. When you are unable
to get anything out of your mind, it becomes unwholesome,
(13:25):
as any thought held continuously causes weariness of the flesh.
It is a big mistake to let a thought rule
you instead of ruling it. He who does not rule
himself is not a success. If you cannot control your concentration,
your health will suffer. So never becomes so absorbed with
(13:45):
anything that you cannot lay it aside and take up another.
This is self control. Concentration is paying attention to a
chosen thought. Everything that passes before the eye makes an
impression on the subconscious mind. But unless you pay attention
to some certain thing, you will not remember what you saw.
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For instance, if you walk down a busy street without
seeing anything that attracted your particular attention, you could not
recall anything you saw. So you see only what attracts
your attention. If you work, you only see and remember
what you think about. When you concentrate on something, it
absorbs your whole thought self study valuable. Everyone has some
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habits that can be overcome by concentration. We will say,
for instance, you are in the habit of complaining or
finding fault with yourself or others, or imagining that you
do not possess the ability of others, or feeling that
you are not as good as some one else, or
that you cannot rely on yourself, or harboring any similar
(14:53):
thoughts or thoughts of weakness. These should be cast aside,
and instead thoughts of strength should be put in their place.
Just remember, every time you think of yourself as being
weak in some way, you are making yourself so by
thinking you are. Our mental conditions make us what we are.
Just watch yourself and see how much time you waste
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in worrying, fretting and complaining. The more of it you
do the worse off you are. Just the minute you
are aware of thinking a negative thought immediately changed to
a positive one. If you start to think of failure,
change to thinking of success. You have the germ of
success within you. Care for it the same as the
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setting hen broods over the eggs, and you can make
it a reality. You can make those that you come
in contact with feel as you do because you radiate
vibrations of the way you feel, and your vibrations are
felt by others. When you concentrate on a certain thing,
you turn all the rays of your vibrations on. This
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thought is the directing power of all life's vibrations. If
a person should enter a room with a lot of
people and feel as if he were a person of
no consequence, no one would know he was there unless
they saw him, and even if they did, they would
not remember seeing him because they were not attracted towards him.
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But let him enter the room feeling he was magnetic
and concentrating on this thought, others would feel his vibration.
So remember the way you feel, you can make others feel.
This is the law. Make yourself a concentrated dynamo from
which your thoughts vibrate to others. Then you are a
power in the world. Cultivate the art of feeling, For
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as I said before, you can only make others feel
what you feel. If you will study all of the
great characters of history, you will find that they were enthusiastic.
First they were enthusiastic themselves, and then they could arouse
others enthusiasm. It is latent in it one. It is
a wonderful force. When once aroused. All public men to
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be a success have to possess it. Cultivate it by concentration.
Set aside some hour of the day wherein to hold rapt,
converse with the soul, meditate with sincere desire, and contrite heart,
and you will be able to accomplish that which you
have meditated on. This is the keynote of success. Think, speak,
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and act just as you wish to be, and you
will be that which you wish to be. You are
just what you think you are, and not what you
may appear to be. You may fool others, but not yourself.
You may control your life and actions just as you
can control your hands. If you want to raise your hand,
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you must first think of raising it. If you want
to control your life. You must first control your thinking.
Easy to do, is it not? Yes, it is if
you will, but concentrate on what you think about, For
he only can that says he will. How can we
secure concentration to this question? The first and last answer
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must be by interest and strong motive. The stronger the motive,
the greater the concentration Eustace Miller, MD. The successful lives
are the concentrated lives. The utterly helpless multitude that sooner
or later have to be cared for by charity are
those that were never able to concentrate and who have
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become the victims of negative ideas. Train yourself so you
will be able to concentrate your thought and develop your
brain power and increase your mental energy. Or you can
be a slacker, a drifter, a quitter, or a sleeper.
It all depends on how you concentrate or centralize your thoughts.
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Your thinking then becomes a fixed power, and you do
not waste time thinking about something that would not be
good for you. You pick out the thoughts that will
be the means of bringing you what you desire, and
they become a material reality. Whatever we create in the
thought world will some day materialize. That is the law.
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Don't forget this. In the old days, men drifted without concentration.
But this is a day of efficiency, and therefore all
our efforts must be concentrated if we are to win
any success worth the name. Why people often do not
get what they concentrate on because they sit down in
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hopeless despair and expect it to come to them. But
if they will just reach out for it with their
biggest effort, they will find it is within their reach.
No one limits us but ourselves. We are what we
are today as the result of internal conditions. We can
control the external conditions. They are subject to our will.
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Through our concentration, we can attract what we want because
we become in rapport with the universal forces from which
we can get what we want. You have watched races,
no doubt, they all line up together. Each has his
mind set on getting to the goal before the others.
This is one kind of concentration. A man starts to
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think on a certain subject, he has all kinds of
thoughts come to him, but by concentration he shuts out
all these but the one he has chosen. Concentration is
just a case of willing to do a certain thing
and doing it. If you want to accomplish anything, first
put yourself in a concentrating, reposeful, receptive, acquiring frame of
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mind in tackling unfamiliar work, make haste, slowly and deliberately,
and then you will secure that interior activity, which is
never possible when you are in a hurry or under
a strain. When you think hard or try to hurry
results too quickly, you generally shut off the interior flow
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of thoughts and ideas. You have, often, no doubt, tried
hard to think of something but could not. But just
as soon as you stopped trying to think of it,
it came to you.
Lessen seven and eight of the power of concentration Lesson seven.
The concentrated mental demand. The mental demand is the potent
force in achievement. The attitude of the mind affects the
expression of the face, determines action, changes our physical condition,
(00:22):
and regulates our lives. I will not here attempt to
explain the silent force that achieves results. You want to
develop your mental power so you can affect the thing sought,
and that is what I want to teach you. There
is wonderful power and possibility in the concentrated mental demand. This,
(00:44):
like all other forces, is controlled by laws. It can,
like other forces, be wonderfully increased by consecutive, systematized effort.
The mental demand must be directed by every power of
the mind, and every possible element should be used to
make the demand materialize. You can so intently desire a
(01:08):
thing that you can exclude all distracting thoughts. When you
practice this singleness of concentration until you attain the end sought,
you have developed a will capable of accomplishing whatever you wish.
As long as you can only do the ordinary things,
you will be counted in the mass of mediocrity. But
(01:30):
just as quick as you surpass others by even comparatively
small measure, you are classed as one of life's successes.
So if you wish to emerge into prominence, you must
accomplish something more than the ordinary man or woman. It
is easy to do this if you will but concentrate
on what you desire and put forth your best effort.
(01:54):
It is not the runner with the longest legs or
the strongest muscles that wins the race, but the one
that can put forth the greatest desire force. You can
best understand this by thinking of an engine. The engine
starts up slowly, the engineer gradually extending the throttle to
the top notch. It is then keyed up to its
(02:17):
maximum speed. The same is true of two runners. They
start off together, and gradually they increase their desire to
go faster. The one that has the greatest intensity of
desire will win. He may out distance the other by
only a fraction of an inch, yet he gets the laurels.
(02:37):
The men that are looked upon as the world's successes
have not always been men of great physical power, nor
at the start did they seem very well adapted to
the conditions which encompass them. In the beginning. They were
not considered men of superior genius. But they won their
success by their resolution to achieve results in their undertakings.
(03:00):
By permitting no setback to dishearten them, no difficulties to
daunt them, nothing could turn them or influence them against
their determination, they never lost sight of their goal. In
all of us there is this silent force of wonderful power.
If developed, it can overcome conditions that would seem insurmountable.
(03:22):
It is constantly urging us on to greater achievement. The
more we become acquainted with it, the better strategists we become,
the more courage we develop, and the greater the desire
within us for self expression in activity along many lines.
No one will ever be a failure if he becomes
conscious of this silent force within that controls his destiny.
(03:47):
But without the consciousness of this inner force, you will
not have a clear vision, and external conditions will not
yield to the power of your mind. It is the
mental resolve that makes achievements possible. Once this has been formed,
it should never be allowed to cease to press its
claim until its object is attained. To make plans work out,
(04:11):
it will at times be necessary to use every power
of your mind. Patience, perseverance, and all the indomitable forces
within one will have to be mustered and used with
the greatest effectiveness. Perseverance is the first element of success.
In order to persevere, you must be ceaseless in your application.
(04:34):
It requires you to concentrate your thoughts upon your undertaking
and bring every energy to bear upon, keeping them focused
upon it until you have accomplished your aim. To quit
short of this is to weaken all future efforts. The
mental demand seems an unreal power because it is intangible,
(04:55):
but it is the mightiest power in the world. It
is a power that is free for you to to use.
No one can use it for you. The mental demand
is not a visionary one. It is a potent force
which you can use freely without cost. When you are
in doubt, it will counsel you. It will guide you
(05:15):
when you are uncertain, when you are in fear, it
will give you courage. It is the motive power which
supplies the energies necessary to the achievement of the purpose.
You have a large storehouse of possibilities. The mental demand
makes possibilities realities. It supplies everything necessary for the accomplishment.
(05:38):
It selects the tools and instructs how to use them.
It makes you understand the situation. Every time you make
a mental demand, you strengthen the brain centers by drawing
to you external forces. Few realize the power of a
mental demand. It is possible to make your demand so
(05:59):
strong that you can impart what you have to say
to another without speaking to him. Have you, ever, after
planning to discuss a certain matter with a friend, had
the experience of having him broached the subject before you
had a chance to speak of it. Have you ever,
in a letter, made a suggestion to a friend that
he carried out before your letter reached him. Have you
(06:23):
ever wanted to speak to a person who just then
walked in or telephoned. I have had many such responses
to thought, and you and your friends have doubtless experienced
them too. These two things are neither coincidences nor accidents,
but are the results of mental demand launched by strong concentration.
(06:45):
The person that never wants anything gets little To demand
resolutely is the first step toward getting what you want.
The power of the mental demand seems absolute, the supply illimitable.
The mental demand and projects itself and causes to materialize
the conditions and opportunities needed to accomplish the purpose. Do
(07:08):
not think I overestimate the value of the mental demand.
It brings the fuller life if used for only righteous purposes.
Once the mental demand is made, however, never let it falter.
If you do, the current that connects you with your
desire is broken. Take all the necessary time to build
(07:29):
a firm foundation so that there need not be even
an element of doubt to creep in. Just the moment
you entertain doubt, you lose some of the demand force,
and force, once lost is hard to regain. So whenever
you make a mental demand, hold steadfastly to it until
your need is supplied. I want to repeat again that
(07:52):
power of mental demand is not a visionary one. It
is concentrated power only and can be used by you.
It is not supernatural power, but requires a development of
the brain centers. The outcome is sure when it is
given with a strong, resolute determination. No person will advance
(08:13):
to any great extent unless he recognizes this force within him.
If you have not become aware of it, you have
not made very much of a success of your life.
It is this something that distinguishes that man from other men.
It is this subtle power that develops strong personality. If
(08:34):
you want a great deal, you must demand a great deal.
Once you make your demand, anticipate its fulfillment. It depends
upon us. We are rewarded according to our efforts. The
power of mental demand can bring us what we want.
We become what we determine to be. We control our destiny.
(08:56):
Get the right mental attitude. Then, in accordance with your
your ability, you can gain success. And every man of
average ability, the ordinary man that you see about you,
can be really successful, independent, free of worry, his own master,
if he can manage to do just two things. First,
(09:19):
remain forever dissatisfied with what he is doing and what
he has accomplished. Second, develop in his mind a belief
that the word impossible was not intended for him. Build
up in his mind the confidence that enables the mind
to use its power. Many, especially the older men, will ask,
(09:41):
how can I build up that self confidence in my brain?
How can I, after months and years of discouragement of
dull plotting, suddenly conceive and carry out a plan for
doing something that will make life worth while and change
the monotonous routine? How can a man get out of
a rut after he has been in it for years
(10:03):
and has settled down to the slow jog trot that
leads to the grave. The answer is the thing can
be done, and millions have done it. One of the
names most honored among the great men of France is
that of Letree, who wrote and compiled the Great French Dictionary,
a monument of learning. He is the man whose place
(10:25):
among the forty immortals of France was taken by the
Great Pasture when the latter was elected to the Academy.
Letree began the work that makes him famous when he
was more than sixty years old. Lesson eight. Concentration gives
mental poise. You will find that the man that concentrates
(10:48):
is well poised, whereas the man that allows his mind
to wander is easily upset. When in this state, wisdom
does not pass from the subconscious storehouse into the consciousness.
There must be mental quiet before the two consciousnesses can
work in harmony. When you are able to concentrate, you
(11:09):
have peace of mind. If you are in the habit
of losing your poise, form the habit of reading literature
that has a quieting power. Just the second you feel
your poise slipping, say peace, and then hold this thought
in mind, and you will never lose your self control.
There cannot be perfect concentration until there is peace of mind.
(11:33):
So keep thinking peace, acting peace until you are at
peace with all the world. For when once you have
reached this state, there will be no trouble to concentrate
on anything you wish. When you have peace of mind,
you are not timid or anxious, or fearful or rigid,
and you will not allow any disturbing thought to influence you.
(11:58):
You cast aside all fears and think of yourself as
a spark of the divine being, as a manifestation of
the one universal principle that fills all space and time.
Think of yourself thus as a child of the infinite,
possessing infinite possibilities. Write on a piece of paper, I
(12:19):
have the power to do and to be whatever I
wish to do and be. Keep this mentally before you,
and you will find the thought will be of great
help to you. The mistake of concentrating on your business
while away. In order to be successful today, you must concentrate,
but don't become a slave to concentration, and carry your
(12:42):
business cares home. Just as sure as you do, you
will be burning the life forces at both ends, and
the fire will go out much sooner than was intended.
Many men become so absorbed in their business that when
they go to church they do not hear the preacher
because their minds are on their business. If they go
(13:02):
to the theater, they do not enjoy it because their
business is on their minds. When they go to bed,
they think about business instead of sleep, and wonder why
they don't sleep. This is the wrong kind of concentration
and is dangerous. It is involuntary. When you are unable
to get anything out of your mind, it becomes unwholesome,
(13:25):
as any thought held continuously causes weariness of the flesh.
It is a big mistake to let a thought rule
you instead of ruling it. He who does not rule
himself is not a success. If you cannot control your concentration,
your health will suffer. So never becomes so absorbed with
(13:45):
anything that you cannot lay it aside and take up another.
This is self control. Concentration is paying attention to a
chosen thought. Everything that passes before the eye makes an
impression on the subconscious mind. But unless you pay attention
to some certain thing, you will not remember what you saw.
(14:06):
For instance, if you walk down a busy street without
seeing anything that attracted your particular attention, you could not
recall anything you saw. So you see only what attracts
your attention. If you work, you only see and remember
what you think about. When you concentrate on something, it
absorbs your whole thought self study valuable. Everyone has some
(14:31):
habits that can be overcome by concentration. We will say,
for instance, you are in the habit of complaining or
finding fault with yourself or others, or imagining that you
do not possess the ability of others, or feeling that
you are not as good as some one else, or
that you cannot rely on yourself, or harboring any similar
(14:53):
thoughts or thoughts of weakness. These should be cast aside,
and instead thoughts of strength should be put in their place.
Just remember, every time you think of yourself as being
weak in some way, you are making yourself so by
thinking you are. Our mental conditions make us what we are.
Just watch yourself and see how much time you waste
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in worrying, fretting and complaining. The more of it you
do the worse off you are. Just the minute you
are aware of thinking a negative thought immediately changed to
a positive one. If you start to think of failure,
change to thinking of success. You have the germ of
success within you. Care for it the same as the
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setting hen broods over the eggs, and you can make
it a reality. You can make those that you come
in contact with feel as you do because you radiate
vibrations of the way you feel, and your vibrations are
felt by others. When you concentrate on a certain thing,
you turn all the rays of your vibrations on. This
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thought is the directing power of all life's vibrations. If
a person should enter a room with a lot of
people and feel as if he were a person of
no consequence, no one would know he was there unless
they saw him, and even if they did, they would
not remember seeing him because they were not attracted towards him.
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But let him enter the room feeling he was magnetic
and concentrating on this thought, others would feel his vibration.
So remember the way you feel, you can make others feel.
This is the law. Make yourself a concentrated dynamo from
which your thoughts vibrate to others. Then you are a
power in the world. Cultivate the art of feeling, For
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as I said before, you can only make others feel
what you feel. If you will study all of the
great characters of history, you will find that they were enthusiastic.
First they were enthusiastic themselves, and then they could arouse
others enthusiasm. It is latent in it one. It is
a wonderful force. When once aroused. All public men to
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be a success have to possess it. Cultivate it by concentration.
Set aside some hour of the day wherein to hold rapt,
converse with the soul, meditate with sincere desire, and contrite heart,
and you will be able to accomplish that which you
have meditated on. This is the keynote of success. Think, speak,
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and act just as you wish to be, and you
will be that which you wish to be. You are
just what you think you are, and not what you
may appear to be. You may fool others, but not yourself.
You may control your life and actions just as you
can control your hands. If you want to raise your hand,
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you must first think of raising it. If you want
to control your life. You must first control your thinking.
Easy to do, is it not? Yes, it is if
you will, but concentrate on what you think about, For
he only can that says he will. How can we
secure concentration to this question? The first and last answer
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must be by interest and strong motive. The stronger the motive,
the greater the concentration Eustace Miller, MD. The successful lives
are the concentrated lives. The utterly helpless multitude that sooner
or later have to be cared for by charity are
those that were never able to concentrate and who have
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become the victims of negative ideas. Train yourself so you
will be able to concentrate your thought and develop your
brain power and increase your mental energy. Or you can
be a slacker, a drifter, a quitter, or a sleeper.
It all depends on how you concentrate or centralize your thoughts.
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Your thinking then becomes a fixed power, and you do
not waste time thinking about something that would not be
good for you. You pick out the thoughts that will
be the means of bringing you what you desire, and
they become a material reality. Whatever we create in the
thought world will some day materialize. That is the law.
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Don't forget this. In the old days, men drifted without concentration.
But this is a day of efficiency, and therefore all
our efforts must be concentrated if we are to win
any success worth the name. Why people often do not
get what they concentrate on because they sit down in
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hopeless despair and expect it to come to them. But
if they will just reach out for it with their
biggest effort, they will find it is within their reach.
No one limits us but ourselves. We are what we
are today as the result of internal conditions. We can
control the external conditions. They are subject to our will.
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Through our concentration, we can attract what we want because
we become in rapport with the universal forces from which
we can get what we want. You have watched races,
no doubt, they all line up together. Each has his
mind set on getting to the goal before the others.
This is one kind of concentration. A man starts to
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think on a certain subject, he has all kinds of
thoughts come to him, but by concentration he shuts out
all these but the one he has chosen. Concentration is
just a case of willing to do a certain thing
and doing it. If you want to accomplish anything, first
put yourself in a concentrating, reposeful, receptive, acquiring frame of
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mind in tackling unfamiliar work, make haste, slowly and deliberately,
and then you will secure that interior activity, which is
never possible when you are in a hurry or under
a strain. When you think hard or try to hurry
results too quickly, you generally shut off the interior flow
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of thoughts and ideas. You have, often, no doubt, tried
hard to think of something but could not. But just
as soon as you stopped trying to think of it,
it came to you.
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