Self Help tells of the fundamental principle, the immutable law underlying every successful business relation or social condition.
Self Help tells of the law by which you may make yourself irresistible, by which you may sweep away every form of discord, disharmony and doubt.
Self Help tells the secret of the solution to every problem.
Self Help explains that there are only three things which all mankind requires for complete happiness and development. It tells what they are and how they may be had.
...ask GodŽ be the best you can be
In this you may learn to fashion the tools by which you may build for yourself any condition you desire. If you wish to change conditions, you must change yourself. Your whims, your wishes, your fancies, your ambitions may be thwarted at every step, but your inmost thoughts will find expression just as certainly as the plant springs from the seed.
Suppose, then, you desire to change conditions, how are you to bring this about? The reply is simple: by the Law of Growth.
Cause and effect are as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of material things.
Hold in mind the condition desired; affirm it as as already existing fact. This indicates the value of a powerful affirmation. By constant repetition it becomes a part of yourself. You are actually changing yourself; you are making yourself what you want to be.
Character is not a thing of chance, but it is the result of continued effort. If you are timid, vacillating, self conscious, or if you are over-anxious or harrassed by thoughts of fear or impending danger, remember that it is axiomatic that "two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time". Exactly the same thing is true in the mental and spiritual world; so that your remedy is plainly to substitute thoughts of courage, energy, force, power, self reliance and confidence, for those of fear, lack and limitation.
The easiest and most natural way to do this is to select an affirmation. The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.
Act is the blossom of thought, and conditions are the result of action, so that you constantly have in your possession the tools by which you will certainly and inevitably make or unmake yourself and joy or suffering will be the reward.
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1. There are only three things which can possibly be desired in the "world without" and each of them can be found in the "world within". The secret of finding them is simple to apply the proper mechanism of attachment to the omnipotent power to which you have access.
2. The three things which all mankind desires and which are necessary for its highest expression and complete development are health, wealth and love. You will admit that health is absolutely essential; no one can be happy if the physical body is in pain. All will not so readily admit that wealth is necessary, but you must admit that a sufficient supply at least is necessary, and what would be considered sufficient for one, would be considered absolute and painful lack for another; and as nature provides not only enough but abundantly, wastefully, lavishly, you realize that any lack or limitation is only the limitation which has been made by an artifical method of distribution.
3. You will probably admit that love is the third, or some will say the first essential necessary to the happiness of mankind; at any rate, those who possess all three, health, wealth, and love, find nothing else which can be added to your cup of happiness.
4. You have found that the universal substance is "all health", "all substance" and "all love" and that the mechanism of attachment whereby you can consciously connect with this infinite supply is in your method of thinking. To think correctly is therefore to enter into the "secret place of the most high".
5. What shall you think? If you know this you shall have found the proper mechanism of attachment which will relate you to "whatsoever things you desire". This mechanism may seem very simple when you read it, but, you will find that it is in reality Self Help is the foundation, the imperative condition, the absolute law of well-doing, which means, well-being.
6. To think correctly, accurately, you must know the "truth". The truth then is the underlying principle in every business or social relation. It is a condition preceding every right action. To know the truth, to be sure, to be confident, affords a satisfaction beside which no other is at all comparable; it is the only solid ground in a world of doubt, conflict and danger.
7. To know the truth is to be in harmony with the infinite and omnipotent power. To know the truth is, therefore, to connect yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep away every kind of discord, disharmony, doubt or error, because the "truth is almighty and will prevail".
8. The humblest intellect can readily foretell the result of any action when you know that it is based on truth, but the mightiest intellect, the most profound and penetrating mind loses its way hopelessly and can form no conception of the results which may ensue when their hopes are based on a premise which they know to be false.
9. Every action which is not in harmony with truth, whether through ignorance or design, will result in discord, and eventual loss in proportion to its extent and character.
10. How then are you to know the truth in order to attach this mechanism which will relate you to the infinite?
11. You can make no mistake about this if you realize that truth is the vital principle of the universal mind and is omnipresent. For instance, if you require health, a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is spiritual and that all spirit is one; that wherever a part is the whole must be, will bring about a condition of health, because every cell in your body must manifest the truth as you see it. If you see sickness it will manifest sickness; if you see perfection it must manifest perfection. The affirmation, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy", will bring about harmonious conditions. The reason for this is because the affirmation is in strict accordance with the truth, and when truth appears every form of error or discord must necessarily disappear.
12. You have found that the "I" is spiritual ; it must necesssarily then always be no less than perfect. The affirmation, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy" is therefore an exact scientific statement.
13. Thought is a spiritual activity and spirit is creative, therefore the result of holding this thought in mind, must necessarily bring about conditions in harmony with the thought.
14. If you require wealth, a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is one with the Universal Mind which is all substance, and is omnipotent, will assist you in bringing into operation the Law of Attraction, which will bring you into vibration with unity which makes for success and brings about conditions of energy, force, power and affluence in direct proportion to the character and purpose, plans and prayers of your affirmation.
15. Visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require. Visualization is a very different process from seeing; seeing is physical, and is therefore related to the objective world, the "world without", but visualization is a product of the imagination, and is therefore a product of the subjective mind, the "world within". It is therefore possesses vitality: it will grow. The thing visualized will manifest itself in form. The mechanism is perfect; it was created by the master architect who "doeth all things well", but unfortunately sometimes the operator is inexperienced or inefficient, but practice and determination will overcome this defect.
16. If you require love try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with it, until you become a magnet.
17. You who have learned to bring the greatest spiritual truths into touch with the so-called lessor things of life has discovered the secret of the solution of your problem. One is always quickened, made more thoughtful, by your nearness of approach to great ideas, great events, great natural objects, and great people.
18. It is sometimes an inspiration to receive documentation from someone who has actually put these principles to the test, someone who has demonstrated them in their own life time.
Respected letter from : Mr. Frederick Andrews U.S.A.
19. " I was only thirteen years old when the american specialist Doctor T.W. Marsee, since passed over, said to my mother: 'There is no possible chance, Mrs. Andrews. I lost my little boy the same way, after doing everything for him that it was possible to do. I have made a special study of these cases, and I know there is no possible chance for him to get well enough to live a prosperous longevity life'.
20. "She turned to him and said: Doctor Marsee, what would you do if he were your boy? and the Doctor answered, I would fight, fight, as long as there is a breath of life to fight for".
21. "That was the beginning of a long drawn-out battle, with many ups and downs, the Doctors all agreeing that there was no chance for a cure, though all the Doctors encouraged and cheered mother and me the best they could".
22. "But at last the victory came, and I have grown from a little, crooked, twisted cripple, going about on my hands and knees, to a strong, straight, well-formed healthy minded man".
23. "I built up an affirmation for myself, taking the qualities I most needed, and affirming for myself over and over again, 'I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy'. I kept up this affirmation, always the same, never varying, till I could wake up in the night and find myself repeating, 'I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy'. It was the last thing on my lips at night and the first thing in the morning".
24. "Not only did I affirm it for myself, but for others that I knew needed it. Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. You reap what you sow. If you send out thoughts of love and health, they return to you like bread cast upon the waters; but if you send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., you shall reap the results in your own life".
25. "It used to be said that the human is built completely anew every seven years, but now, scientists declare that you rebuild yourself entirely over again every eleven months; every cell in your body recreates within this time span, so you are really only eleven months old. If you build the defects back into your body year after year, you have no one to blame but yourself "
26. "You are the sum total of your own thoughts; so the question is, how are you going to entertain only the good thoughts and reject the evil ones? At first you can't keep the evil thoughts from coming, but you can keep from entertaining them. The only way to do this is to forget them; which means, get something for them. This is where the ready-made affirmation comes in".
27. "When a thought of anger, jealousy, fear or worry creeps in, just start your affirmation going. The only way to fight darkness is with light, the only way to fight cold is with heat; the only way to overcome evil is with good. For yourself , you never could find any help in self denials. Think and affirm the good, and the bad will vanish!"
Mr. Frederick AndrewS
Oddfellows Building , Indianapolis , Indiana USA
28. If there is anything you require, it will be well for you to make use of this affirmation; it cannot be improved upon. Use it just as it is; take it into silence with you, until it sinks into your subconscious, so that you can use it anywhere, in your car, on the subway, in the office, at home, this is the advantage of spiritual methods; they are always available. Spirit is omnipresent; ever ready; all that is required is a proper recognition of its omnipotence, and a willingness or desire to become the recipient of its beneficent effects.
29. If your predominant mental attitude is one of energy, force, power, courage, kindliness, and sympathy, you shall find that your environment will reflect conditions in correspondence with these thoughts; if it is weak, critical, envious and destructive, you shall find your environment reflecting conditions corresponding to these thoughts.
30. Thoughts are causes and conditions are the effects. Herein is the explanation of the origin of both good and evil. Thought is creative and will automatically correlate with its object. This is a Cosmological Law, the Law of Attraction, the Law of Cause and Effect; the recognition and application of this law will determine both beginning and end; or Alpha and Omega, it is the law by which in all ages and in all times the people were led to believe in the power of prayer.
" As thy faith is, so be it unto thee ", is simply another, a better way of stating it.
QUOTE : " In the end, thought rules the world. There are times when impulses and passions are more powerful, but they soon expend themselves; while mind, acting constantly, is ever ready to drive them back and work when their energy is exhausted."
GodScope Meditations # 9.
Your next exercise is to visualize a plant, take a flower, the one you most admire. Bring it from the unseen into the seen. Plant the tiny seed, water it, care for it, place it where it will get the direct rays of the morning sun. See the seed burst. It is now a living thing, something which is alive and beginning to search for the means of substance. See the roots penetrating the earth, watch them shoot out in all directions and remember that they are living cells dividing and subdividing, and that they will soon number millions, that each cell is intelligent, that it knows what it wants and knows how to get it. See the stem shoot forward and upward, watch it burst through the surface of the earth ; see it divide and form branches, see how perfect and symmetrical each branch is formed. See the leaves begin to form, and then the tiny stems, each one holding aloft a bud, and as you watch you see the bud, begin to unfold and your favorite flower comes into veiw; and now if you will concentrate intently, you will become conscious of a fragrance. It is the fragrance of the flower as the breeze gently sways the beautiful creation which you have visualized. When you are enabled to make your vision clear and complete, you will be enabled to enter into the spirit of a thing, it will become very real to you. You will be learning to concentrate and the process is the same, whether you are concentrating on health, a favorite flower, an ideal, a complicated business proposition or any other problem of life. Every success has been accomplished by persistent concentration upon the object in veiw.
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