THINK GOOD THOUGHTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 6

THINK GOOD THOUGHTS

PSYCHOLOGY CLUB LECTURE COURAGE ATTRACTS COURAGE. “Alan has evolved from a primitive savage to the highly organised individual he is to-day. Out of this evolution w r e have the growth in fields of science, art and literature,” said Air. Herbert Alp, addressing the Psychology Club, Wanganui, on “The Creative Power of Thought.” “The question naturally arises, what has enabled man to achieve these wondrous results, and the answer is power of thought. Alan is not as fleet as the deer, he has not the sharp eyesight of the. eagle, and yet. man has achieved supremacy of tho entire animal world. This triumph has been made possible through one faculty, the ability to reason. “Let us always remember that outward conditions are absolutely dependent upon the thought we entertain. Thought is the cause, environment the effect. To recondition our environment then, we must first of all change our mental attitude, for just as the cure of a disease depends upon the eradication of its cause, so does the success of a happy, harmon.ous environment rest with a maintenance of thoughts of harmony and happiness with us. In thinking of creative power, I want you to fully understand the expression self-conscious mind and sub-conscious mind, or subjective mind. The conscious mind controls the subconscious, and the sub-conscious controls tho body. Disease of the body results from lack of ease in the mind. A disturbed mind and a well body do not go together. Tf you want to be well, look to the mind, and weed out the thoughts of fear, hate and dark despondency. The water in the stream cannot bo sweet when the spring is polluted. “We shall never lose fear by fighting it for that of which we are conscious abideth with us. To look the thing we fear in the face will go far towards causing it to vanish. The very willingness to endure holds the unhappy state static. Detach yourself from an undesired situation and look at it impersonally. Already you have knocked the foundation out from under it. Now turn your mental back upon it and enter mentally a desired condition. “Things are made out of belief in them. Through an intelligent use of the creative mind T can bring about the things 1 desire. When you destroy all negative thoughts and think only positive thoughts, you will attract friends. To make friends be a friend. Instead of doubting the words and action of your fellowmen, believe in them, understand them. The secret of all power, all achievement, and all possession lies in our method of thinking. Thought is a vital potent influence which, if used constructively, will benefit mankind'.

“There are people all around us who arc continually giving out blessings and comfort, whose r..cre presence seems to change sorrow into joy, fear into courage, despair into hope, weakness into power. It 4s the one who has come into the realisation of his own true self who has this power with him and who radiates it wherever he goes. “Such is the person of power. He is constantly drawing power to himself from all sources, and by virtue of the law that like attract like, he, by his thoughts, is continually attracting to himself from all quarters the aid of all those thoughts of strength. Tn this way he is linking himself with this order of thought in the universe. His strong positive, and hence constructive thought, is continually working success for him along all lines, and continually bringing to him help from all directions. Fear and all thoughts of failure never suggest themselves to such a man, or if they do, they are immediately sent out of his mind. So he is not influenced by this order of thought from without. The one who is of the negative, fearing kind, not only has his energies and his physical agents weakened, or even paralysed, through the influence of this kind of thought that is born within him, but also connects himself with that order of thought in the world about him. In the degree that he does this docs he become a victim to the weak, fearing, negative minds all around him. Instead of growing in power, he increases in weakness. This again is simply the working of a natural law. “Thoughts of strength both build strength from within and attract it from without. Thoughts of weakness bring about weakness from within, and attract it from without. Courage begets strength; fear begets weakness; and so courage begets success; fear begets failure. It is the man or woman of faith, and hence of courage, who is the master of circumstances, and who i makes his or her power in tho world. It is the man or the woman who lacks faith and who, as a consequence, is weakened and crippled by fear and f<#< booings, who is the creature of all passing occurrences.

“Fear is everywhere, fear of want, fear of starvation, fear of public opinion, fear of private opinion, fear that what we own to-day may not be ours to-morrow, fear of sickness, fear of death. Fear has ,become with millions fixed habit. The thought is everywhere. It is thrown upon us from every direction. To live in continual dread, continual cringing, continual fear of anything—be it loss of love, loss of money, is to take the readiest moans to lose what wo fear we shall. “Wo are surrounded by suggestions of weakness and disease; they form one of the chief topics of conversation and symptoms are made so vivid to the imagination that it is little wonder that the soil is prepared for s ed. “If people would discuss God’s wonderful provisions for health, the reii’Owal of the body day by day by the power of tho life within, the perfection of body and sprit to which we are called as fully and freelv as they discuss disease, there would be a wonderful uplifting’ in the life of the con.munity. To believe in your desire, which for evrr point*, onwards and upwards. from gross to fine, from ignoble to noble, from poverty to opulence, from disease to health, this will lead you right. Tho simple belief in your own desire, firm, unquestioned and undoubted—this will lead your steps up out of tho wretched conditions that surround you, into an indoal condition of which you are constantly droam’’ng. “The difference between trusting our fear, and tilisting our desires, or put faith in our prayers is tho diff-'r nee between povertv and opulence, bo-■-nn-i sickness and As a man 'h’»koth in hi* heart, so is ho.’’