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Lesson IV -
Concentration, The Silent Force That Produces Results In All Business
By Theron
Q. Dumont
I want you first
to realize how powerful thought is. A thought of fear has turned a
person's hair gray in a night. A prisoner condemned to die was told
that if he would consent to an experiment and lived through it he would
be freed. He consented. They wanted to see how much blood a person
could lose and still live. They arranged that blood would apparently
drop from a cut made in his leg. The cut made was very slight, from
which practically no blood escaped. The room was darkened, and the
prisoner thought the dropping he heard was really coming from his leg.
The next morning he was dead through mental fear.
The two above illustrations will give you a little idea of the power of
thought. To thoroughly realize the power of thought is worth a great
deal to you.
Through concentrated thought power you can make yourself whatever you
please. By thought you can greatly increase your efficiency and
strength. You are surrounded by all kinds of thoughts, some good,
others bad, and you are sure to absorb some of the latter if you do not
build up a positive mental attitude.
If you will study the needless moods of anxiety, worry, despondency,
discouragement and others that are the result of uncontrolled thoughts,
you will realize how important the control of your thoughts are. Your
thoughts make you what you are.
When I walk along the street and study the different people's faces I
can tell how they spent their lives. It all shows in their faces, just
like a mirror reflects their physical countenances. In looking in those
faces I cannot help thinking how most of the people you see have wasted
their lives.
The understanding of the power of thought will awaken possibilities
within you that you never dreamed of. Never forget that your thoughts
are making your environment, your friends, and as your thoughts change
these will also. Is this not a practical lesson to learn? Good thoughts
are constructive. Evil thoughts are destructive. The desire to do right
carries with it a great power. I want you to thoroughly realize the
importance of your thoughts, and how to make them valuable, to
understand that your thoughts come to you over invisible wires and
influence you.
If your thoughts are of a high nature, you become connected with people
of the same mental caliber and you are able to help yourself. If your
thoughts are tricky, you will bring tricky people to deal with you, who
will try to cheat you.
If your thoughts are right kind, you will inspire confidence in those
with whom you are dealing.
As you gain the good will of others your confidence and strength will
increase. You will soon learn the wonderful value of your thoughts and
how serene you can become even when circumstances are the most trying.
Such thoughts of Right and Good Will bring you into harmony with people
that amount to something in the world and that are able to give you
help if you should need it, as nearly everyone does at times.
You can now see why it is so important to concentrate your thoughts in
the proper channels. It is very necessary that people should have
confidence in you. When two people meet they have not the time to look
each other up. They accept each other according to instinct which can
usually be relied on.
You meet a person and his attitude creates a suspicion in you. The
chances are you cannot tell why, but something tells you, "Have no
dealings with him, for if you do, you will be sorry." Thoughts produce
actions. Therefore be careful of your thoughts. Your life will be
molded by the thoughts you have. A spiritual power is always available
to your thought, and when you are worthy you can attract all the good
things without a great effort on your part.
The sun's rays shine down on our gardens, but we can plant trees that
will interfere with the sun light. There are invisible forces ready to
help you if you do not think and act to intercept these. These forces
work silently. "You reap what you sow."
You have concentrated within powers that if developed will bring you
happiness greater than you can even imagine. Most people go rushing
through life, literally driving away the very things they seek. By
concentration you can revolutionize your life, accomplish infinitely
more and without a great effort.
Look within yourself and you will find the greatest machine ever made.
How to Speak Wisely. In order to speak wisely you must secure at least
a partial concentration of the faculties and forces upon the subject at
hand. Speech interferes with the focusing powers of the mind, as it
withdraws the attention to the external and therefore is hardly to be
compared with that deep silence of the subconscious mind, where deep
thoughts, and the silent forces of high potency are evolved. It is
necessary to be silent before you can speak wisely. The person that is
really alert and well poised and able to speak wisely under trying
circumstances, is the person that has practiced in the silence. Most
people do not know what the silence is and think it is easy to go into
the silence, but this is not so. In the real silence we become attached
to that interior law and the forces become silent, because they are in
a state of high potency, or beyond the vibratory sounds to which our
external ears are attuned. He who desires to become above the ordinary
should open up for himself the interior channels which lead to the
absolute law of the omnipotent. You can only do this by persistently
and intelligently practicing thought concentration. Hold the thought:
In silence I
will allow my higher self to have complete control.
I will be true to my higher self.
I will live true to my conception of what is right.
I realize that it is to my self interest to live up to my best.
I demand wisdom so that I may act wisely for myself and others.
In the next chapter I will tell you of the mysterious law, which links
all humanity together, by the powers of co-operative, thought, and
chooses for us companionship and friends.
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