William James, the famous psychologist, said, "Our belief at
the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is
the one thing [now get that-is the one thing] that ensures the
successful outcome of your venture." When
you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your
mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to
you.
This does not mean that by believing you are necessarily
going to get everything you want or think you want. Perhaps
that would not be good for you. When you put your trust in
God, He guides your mind so that you do not want things
that are not good for you. But it does mean that when you
learn to believe, that which has seemingly been impossible
moves into the area of the possible. Every great thing becomes
for you a possibility.
A famous trapeze artist was instructing his students how
to perform on the high trapeze bar. Finally, having given full
explanations in this skill, he told them to demonstrate their
ability.
One student, looking up at the insecure perch upon which
he must perform, was suddenly filled with fear. He froze
completely. He had a terrifying vision of himself falling to
the ground. He couldn't move a muscle, so deep was his
fright. "I can't do it!" he gasped.
The instructor put his arm around the boy's shoulder and
said, "Son, you can do it, and I will tell you how." Then he
made one of the wisest remarks I have ever heard. He said,
"Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow."
Copy that sentence. Write it on a card and put it in, your
pocket. Better still, write it on your mind, you who really
want to do something with life. It's packed with power, that
sentence. "Throw your heart over the bar and your body will
follow."
Heart is the symbol of creative activity. Fire the heart
with where you want to go and what you want to be. Get it
so deeply fixed in your subconscious that you will not take
no for an answer, then your entire personality will follow
where your heart leads. "Throw your heart over the bar"
means to throw the spiritual essence of you over the bar and
your material self will follow in the victory groove thus pioneered
by your faith-inspired mind. Expect the best, not the
worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.
Whenever you have a bar, that is to say a barrier, in front
of you, stop, close your eyes, visualize everything that is
above the bar and nothing that is below it, then imaginatively
throw your heart over that bar and see yourself as being
given lifting power to rise above it. Believe that you are experiencing
this upthrust of force. You will be amazed at the
lifting force you will receive.You can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the
most tremendous things by faith power. And how do you
develop faith power? Saturate your mind with the great
words of the Bible. If you will spend one hour a day reading
the Bible and committing its great passages to memory, allowing
them to recondition your personality, the change in
you and in your experience will be little short of miraculous.
Read the New Testament. Select a dozen of the strong
statements about faith, and memorize each one. Say them
over and over, especially just before going to sleep. In time
they will modify your thought pattern. This process will
change you into a believer, into an expecter, and thus you
will become an achiever. You will have new power to get
what God and you decide you really want from life.
This is not some theory that I have thought up. It is taught
by the most reliable book known to man. Generation after
generation, no matter what develops in the way of knowledge
and science, the Bible is read by more people than any
other book. Humanity rightly has more confidence in it than
any other document ever written, and the Bible tells us that
faith power works wonders.
The most powerful force in human nature is the spiritualpower
technique taught in the Bible. Very astutely the Bible
emphasizes the method by which a person can make something
of himself. Belief, positive thinking, faith in God, faith
in other people, faith in yourself, faith in life. This is the essence
of the technique it teaches. ". . . If thou canst believe,"
it says, "all things are possible to him that believeth" (Mark
9:23). ". . . If ye have faith . . . nothing shall be impossible
unto you" (Matthew 17:20). ". . . According to your faith be
it unto you" (Matthew 9:29). Believe-believe-so it drives
home the truth that faith moves mountains.
A woman, compelled by adversity to go into sales work,
undertook to demonstrate vacuum cleaners from house to
house. She took a negative attitude toward herself and her
work. She "knew" she was going to fail. She feared to approach
a house even though she came for a requested demonstration.
She believed that she could not make the sale. As
a result, she failed in a high percentage of her interviews.
One day she called upon a woman who evidenced consideration
beyond the average. To this customer the saleswoman
poured out her tale of defeat and powerlessness. The
other woman listened patiently, then said quietly, "If you
expect failure, you will get failure, but if you expect to succeed,
I am sure you will succeed." And she added, "I will
give you a formula which I believe will restyle your thinking,
give you new confidence, and help you to accomplish
your goals. Repeat this formula before every call. Believe in
it and then marvel at what it will do for you. This is it. ' . . . If
God be for us, who can be against us?' (Romans 8:31). But
change it by personalizing it so that you say, 'If God be for
me, who can be against me?' God realizes that you want security
and support for your little children and yourself, and
by practicing the method I suggest you will be given power
to get what you want."
She learned to approach each house expecting to make a
sale, affirming and picturizing positive, not negative, results.
As the saleswoman employed this principle she acquired
new courage, new faith, and deeper confidence in her own
ability. Now she declares, "God helps me sell vacuum cleaners,"
and who can dispute it?
It is a well-defined and authentic principle that what the
mind profoundly expects it tends to receive. Perhaps this is
true because what you really expect is what you actually
want. Unless you really want something sufficiently to create
an atmosphere of positive factors by your dynamic desire, it
is likely to elude you. "If with all your heart"-that is the secret.
"If with all your heart," that is to say, if with the full.
complement of your personality, you reach out creatively
toward your heart's desire, your reach will not be in vain.
At least ten times every day affirm, "I expect the best and
with God's help will attain the best." In so doing your thoughts
will turn toward the best and become conditioned to its realization.
This practice will bring all of your powers to focus
upon the attainment of the best. It will bring the best to you
She learned to approach each house expecting to make a
sale, affirming and picturizing positive, not negative, results.
As the saleswoman employed this principle she acquired
new courage, new faith, and deeper confidence in her own
ability. Now she declares, "God helps me sell vacuum cleaners,"
and who can dispute it?
It is a well-defined and authentic principle that what the
mind profoundly expects it tends to receive. Perhaps this is
true because what you really expect is what you actually
want. Unless you really want something sufficiently to create
an atmosphere of positive factors by your dynamic desire, it
is likely to elude you. "If with all your heart"-that is the secret.
"If with all your heart," that is to say, if with the full.
complement of your personality, you reach out creatively
toward your heart's desire, your reach will not be in vain.
At least ten times every day affirm, "I expect the best and
with God's help will attain the best." In so doing your thoughts
will turn toward the best and become conditioned to its realization.
This practice will bring all of your powers to focus
upon the attainment of the best. It will bring the best to you.
the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is
the one thing [now get that-is the one thing] that ensures the
successful outcome of your venture." When
you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your
mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to
you.
This does not mean that by believing you are necessarily
going to get everything you want or think you want. Perhaps
that would not be good for you. When you put your trust in
God, He guides your mind so that you do not want things
that are not good for you. But it does mean that when you
learn to believe, that which has seemingly been impossible
moves into the area of the possible. Every great thing becomes
for you a possibility.
A famous trapeze artist was instructing his students how
to perform on the high trapeze bar. Finally, having given full
explanations in this skill, he told them to demonstrate their
ability.
One student, looking up at the insecure perch upon which
he must perform, was suddenly filled with fear. He froze
completely. He had a terrifying vision of himself falling to
the ground. He couldn't move a muscle, so deep was his
fright. "I can't do it!" he gasped.
The instructor put his arm around the boy's shoulder and
said, "Son, you can do it, and I will tell you how." Then he
made one of the wisest remarks I have ever heard. He said,
"Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow."
Copy that sentence. Write it on a card and put it in, your
pocket. Better still, write it on your mind, you who really
want to do something with life. It's packed with power, that
sentence. "Throw your heart over the bar and your body will
follow."
Heart is the symbol of creative activity. Fire the heart
with where you want to go and what you want to be. Get it
so deeply fixed in your subconscious that you will not take
no for an answer, then your entire personality will follow
where your heart leads. "Throw your heart over the bar"
means to throw the spiritual essence of you over the bar and
your material self will follow in the victory groove thus pioneered
by your faith-inspired mind. Expect the best, not the
worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.
Whenever you have a bar, that is to say a barrier, in front
of you, stop, close your eyes, visualize everything that is
above the bar and nothing that is below it, then imaginatively
throw your heart over that bar and see yourself as being
given lifting power to rise above it. Believe that you are experiencing
this upthrust of force. You will be amazed at the
lifting force you will receive.You can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the
most tremendous things by faith power. And how do you
develop faith power? Saturate your mind with the great
words of the Bible. If you will spend one hour a day reading
the Bible and committing its great passages to memory, allowing
them to recondition your personality, the change in
you and in your experience will be little short of miraculous.
Read the New Testament. Select a dozen of the strong
statements about faith, and memorize each one. Say them
over and over, especially just before going to sleep. In time
they will modify your thought pattern. This process will
change you into a believer, into an expecter, and thus you
will become an achiever. You will have new power to get
what God and you decide you really want from life.
This is not some theory that I have thought up. It is taught
by the most reliable book known to man. Generation after
generation, no matter what develops in the way of knowledge
and science, the Bible is read by more people than any
other book. Humanity rightly has more confidence in it than
any other document ever written, and the Bible tells us that
faith power works wonders.
The most powerful force in human nature is the spiritualpower
technique taught in the Bible. Very astutely the Bible
emphasizes the method by which a person can make something
of himself. Belief, positive thinking, faith in God, faith
in other people, faith in yourself, faith in life. This is the essence
of the technique it teaches. ". . . If thou canst believe,"
it says, "all things are possible to him that believeth" (Mark
9:23). ". . . If ye have faith . . . nothing shall be impossible
unto you" (Matthew 17:20). ". . . According to your faith be
it unto you" (Matthew 9:29). Believe-believe-so it drives
home the truth that faith moves mountains.
A woman, compelled by adversity to go into sales work,
undertook to demonstrate vacuum cleaners from house to
house. She took a negative attitude toward herself and her
work. She "knew" she was going to fail. She feared to approach
a house even though she came for a requested demonstration.
She believed that she could not make the sale. As
a result, she failed in a high percentage of her interviews.
One day she called upon a woman who evidenced consideration
beyond the average. To this customer the saleswoman
poured out her tale of defeat and powerlessness. The
other woman listened patiently, then said quietly, "If you
expect failure, you will get failure, but if you expect to succeed,
I am sure you will succeed." And she added, "I will
give you a formula which I believe will restyle your thinking,
give you new confidence, and help you to accomplish
your goals. Repeat this formula before every call. Believe in
it and then marvel at what it will do for you. This is it. ' . . . If
God be for us, who can be against us?' (Romans 8:31). But
change it by personalizing it so that you say, 'If God be for
me, who can be against me?' God realizes that you want security
and support for your little children and yourself, and
by practicing the method I suggest you will be given power
to get what you want."
She learned to approach each house expecting to make a
sale, affirming and picturizing positive, not negative, results.
As the saleswoman employed this principle she acquired
new courage, new faith, and deeper confidence in her own
ability. Now she declares, "God helps me sell vacuum cleaners,"
and who can dispute it?
It is a well-defined and authentic principle that what the
mind profoundly expects it tends to receive. Perhaps this is
true because what you really expect is what you actually
want. Unless you really want something sufficiently to create
an atmosphere of positive factors by your dynamic desire, it
is likely to elude you. "If with all your heart"-that is the secret.
"If with all your heart," that is to say, if with the full.
complement of your personality, you reach out creatively
toward your heart's desire, your reach will not be in vain.
At least ten times every day affirm, "I expect the best and
with God's help will attain the best." In so doing your thoughts
will turn toward the best and become conditioned to its realization.
This practice will bring all of your powers to focus
upon the attainment of the best. It will bring the best to you
She learned to approach each house expecting to make a
sale, affirming and picturizing positive, not negative, results.
As the saleswoman employed this principle she acquired
new courage, new faith, and deeper confidence in her own
ability. Now she declares, "God helps me sell vacuum cleaners,"
and who can dispute it?
It is a well-defined and authentic principle that what the
mind profoundly expects it tends to receive. Perhaps this is
true because what you really expect is what you actually
want. Unless you really want something sufficiently to create
an atmosphere of positive factors by your dynamic desire, it
is likely to elude you. "If with all your heart"-that is the secret.
"If with all your heart," that is to say, if with the full.
complement of your personality, you reach out creatively
toward your heart's desire, your reach will not be in vain.
At least ten times every day affirm, "I expect the best and
with God's help will attain the best." In so doing your thoughts
will turn toward the best and become conditioned to its realization.
This practice will bring all of your powers to focus
upon the attainment of the best. It will bring the best to you.
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