THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING - THE POWER OF THOUGHT ENERGY (PART TWO)

INTRODUCTION:

Submitter's Note: Craig has been studying and researching the human
mind, the "last unexplored frontier" for the past decade and he is
currently "working" on the connection (overlap) between mind and
spirit, the relationship between psychology (science of the mind) and
the spiritual world, God. A fascinating subject!

This article (in point form) is based on an excellent motivational,
up-lifting and inspiring book 'THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING' by Claude
Bristol (written in the "thirties"). I am sharing the contents of this
work in the spirit of
encouraging and hopefully even inspiring those people, who really
want to achieve their fullest potentials to read this classic book,
BELIEVE...and surprise themselves what happens.

Thank you sincerely, Mr Bristol for sharing your practical insight,
words of wisdom and especially inspiration, which I'm passing on in
the form of this series of articles from my notes taken from your
book.
Powerful forces locked in your mind can turn desire into reality!
Learn to release them in this extraordinary book.
Just BELIEVE!
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Perhaps this works like an electrical vibration
that sets the law of attraction into operation.
The belief changes the tempo of the mind or thought frequency. Like a
huge magnet, it draws the subconscious forces into play, changing your
whole aura and affecting everything about you...and often people and
subjects at great distances. It then brings startling results -
results you never dreamed possible.
There are countless references to the principle in the Bible.

What is the Subconscious Mind?
The best results in life are obtained by close harmony between the
conscious and subconscious minds. The desire for success needs to be
present in the conscious mind.

It works even when you are relaxing or sleeping. You wake up with the
problem solved whilst sleeping. The judgement of the subconscious
mind, which represents inherited instincts and the accumulation of
experience is virtually infallible.

Just as the conscious mind is the source of thought, so the
subconscious is the source of power. It's a memory vault and gives a
person strength, courage and faith in themselves. It's a powerful
sending and receiving station. A link with the spiritual world - past,
present and future. In brief, the subconscious mind embodies the
feeling and wisdom of the past, the awareness and knowledge of the
present and the thought and vision of the future. It perceives by
intuition; thus warning us of approaching danger.

"The subconscious mind will not take the trouble to work for those who
do not believe in it." Make it serve you;
SEE yourself as already successful. Continue to believe in the power
and wisdom of the subconscious mind.

Then when you look back, you will see how the things you were called
upon to do all formed a logical line of events, the last of which was
your final arriving - the reward of your sincerest hopes and desires -
your own triumphant personal success.
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SUGGESTION IS POWER - through raising our EXPECTATIONS.

It's the act of believing that is the starting force or generating
power that leads to successful accomplishment.

The power of auto-suggestion. Once a belief becomes a deep conviction,
things begin to happen.
Man's mind becomes grooved to a certain pattern (like Germany and
Japan before WWII). The power of repeated suggestion
is even mentioned even in the Bible (Genesis 30: 36-43).

The indominatable human spirit.

William James, father of modern psychology in America, declared that
often our faith (belief) in advance of a doubtful undertaking is the
only thing that can assure its successful occasion.
"Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitudes
even than by mental capacities."

"As we think and believe, so we are."
King Soloman: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
- the Bible

The subconscious mind always brings to reality what it is led to believe.
Visualise - "hold the picture" in your head.

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
- the Bible

One just has to believe; this works through intensified thought or
mental picture making. "We influence events by very great desires."

Our thoughts determine our carriage (posture).

Shakespeare: "Assume a virtue, if you have it not."
Dr Emil Coue, French doctor declared that imagination was a much
stronger force than will-power. When in conflict, the imagination
always wins.

Charles Fourier, the French philosopher of more than a century and a
half ago once declared that "the future of the world would grow out of
the brain of man - shaped, controlled and directed by the desires and
passions by which men are moved".

There are comparatively few men with great desires - most people are
content to fill tiny niches in their lives.

Desire is the motivating force of life itself - the keener, the more
urgent the desire, the sooner its communication.
Two opposing thoughts (as a positive and a negative) cannot fill the
same space at the same time in the human mind.
The subconscious mind will respond to the vibrations of the thoughts
that are strongest in you.

Close the door on yesterday, as we live TODAY. Give your audience the
BEST that is in you (my writing aim). There is a theory that the
subconscious mind controls our age. It's the constant and determined
effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Repetition of thoughts - the "tip tapping" impresses it on your
subconscious mind and on the mind (sub) of others.
SNIOP = "don't be susceptible to the negative influences of other people."


To end off, a few thoughts to summarise...

Whatever we fix our thoughts upon or steadily focus our imagination
upon, that is what we attract.
Everything starts with THOUGHT - the source (rich) of ideas.
Then we need to ACT upon them.
Because "faith without action is dead."

Firmly believe in the power of believing, work hard with passion, be
patient and see "impossibilities become possibilities, the stair-case
to your wildest dreams".

Craig Lock ("Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder, Information
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path ahead of you is never as steep with the great spirit that lies within you."
- Craig Lock

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END OF PART TWO (PART THREE TO FOLLOW)