“THINKING FOR SUCCESS”

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1930, Page 6

“THINKING FOR SUCCESS”

INTENSITY OF MENTAL PICTURES. VALUE OF TRUTH IN THINKING. “If I can so live as to be inwardly comfortable, then I am a success,” said Mr. A. M. Niblock, in beginning his lecture on “How to Think for Success” in New Plymouth last evening. The Rev. Clarence Eaton presided. If one could live in complete harmony with oneself, said the lecturer, one was a success. St. John had said, “May you prosper according as your soul prospers.” What one believed in the heart or, as the psychologists called it, in the subconscious mind, so one became. The first thing to obtain was temporal success. The greater part of humanity’s time was taken up in striving to supply physical needs. Once these were supplied one could turn to the spiritual needs. Everyone had in himself something of the Divine power. ■ There -was in everyone the super-con-scious mind, the real self. That part of. the mind was the seat of the imagination. When people day-dreamed they were using the super-conscious mind, but using it wrongly. People thought in mental pictures, and it was the intensity of of these pictures that counted. When one learned to make dear, intense pictures one had learned the art of concentration. •

All men desired freedom, it was only truth that could set men free. There was no definition of truth; Truth for one man was not truth for another. Whatever one held in one’s mind for a truth worked out in one’s life and came into objective reality.. Thoughts never died but were thrust back into the subconscious mind. There they formed complexcs—fear complexes, poverty complexes, inferiority complexes. They lay like weights, holding one back. If one held the . truth firmly, without strain, and kept to it, then it would take its place in the sub-conscious mind and work out in one’s life.

, Everyone- desired things; 'but one should desire the things that would make one inwardly comfortable. A man might be in a £2 10s. job and want a £5 job. If he held it as a truth that he had a £2 10s. mind he would never get the £5 job. All men who were successful in life had true vision. They saw what they wanted, and obtained it; On the other hand, what people feared would surely come upon them. People who went through the world with fear missed the mark.

Theiie was a law in psychology called the law of plateaus. One could reach a certain stage and then become no better —stay on the same level. If one hung on and held it as a truth that would overcome the difficulties, one would succeed. . What one held as a truth became a truth. Disease, weakness and suffering all came from thinking false truths. If one held it as a truth that one was perfect one became perfect. Let them conquer their weaknesses, said the lecturer, and shape their' thoughts for success.