Change your thinking, change your life

Throughout history, great thinkers of various backgrounds have differed on many subjects but it is surprising to most how many agreed on one thing:

• The great Earl Nightingale — who lectured and wrote many an essay regarding success — recorded his classic “The Strangest Secret” in 1957 (when I first heard what became a great influence on my life ever since). The strangest secret was, “We become what we think about.”

• Benjamin Disraeli wrote,“Nurture your mind with great thought.”

• Philosopher William James said, “Belief creates the actual fact.”

• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly converts itself into a power.”

• Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius said, “Our life is what our thoughts make of it.”

• In the Christian bible, we read, “As a man thinketh, so is he.”

How do we learn to think constructively and not destructively? It’s not easy when we’re surrounded by race-mind, by newspapers and TV ads that are constantly spewing debauchery, when friends urge us into destructive areas in which they want company, when we are still living with limitations that were placed upon us as children.

Though you may not consciously recall, your subconscious mind has recorded and stored every thought and experience you’ve ever had. If you were told as a child that you couldn’t do a thing, and you believed it because it was said by a person in which you had respect, that belief has affected you your entire life.

You’ve no doubt heard of the “placebo effect.” A person who is told they have a serious problem, but that a particular substance is having a high percentage of healing success. A certain percent of people use the substance — maybe an inert sugar pill — and get well. The “nocebo effect” happens when a well-meaning (but short-sighted) doctor tells the person they have three months to live and to go home and get their things in order. This, too, is more likely to come true.

Your subconscious is like a computer. It will accept anything you install, assuming you consciously believe it. By the same token, you can delete and reinstall the proper beliefs. The subconscious is most receptive in a state of quiescence, or complete relaxation. Hypnosis is a pleasant state of relaxation where your subconscious accepts the positive changes that you and your programmer have decided to bring into your life.

Watch in two weeks for more on the thinking of long-lived peoples of the earth.

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