Your Mental Eraser - part 1

Articles In This Section:

· Your Mental Eraser - part 1

· Your Mental Eraser - part 2

· EXERCISES - part 1

· EXERCISES - part 2

· GROW RICH WHILE YOU SLEEP! - part 1

· GROW RICH WHILE YOU SLEEP! - part 2

· GROW RICH WHILE YOU SLEEP! - part 3

MANY EFFECTIVE MEANS of memory training have been offered to the public, but, to my knowledge, there is no course teaching one how to forget.

A philosopher once said: "It is the memories of the past and the fear of the future which make our present so difficult."

One of the reasons why it is so hard to maintain positive thoughts is our memories of past hardships and failures. If your road has been a tortuous one, you are likely to have a conflict of mental pictures if you now try to visualize success with smooth sailing. Your recalling unpleasant situations of the past may tend to neutralize the success pictures for your future.

You will now understand why it is so important to develop your faculties of forgetting, just as it is important to develop the ability to remember.

Let us return to a statement made earlier in this book: You Are What You Think You Are!

The impression you have of yourself represents an accumulation of mental pictures acquired throughout a lifetime. Since 95 per cent of all people incline toward the negative side, it is most likely that you have a negative impression of yourself, unless you are one of the fortunate 5 per cent. In other words, you think of yourself as being destined by Fate to live a hard life; and, as a rule, you do.

If you had a mental eraser and could wipe away all of the unpleasant, negative pictures, replacing them with positive ones, your future years would be successful and ideally happy. Perhaps I should say "your future years will be successful and happy," because I know you will lose no time in using your mental eraser, once you've got it.

In suggesting that you erase all negative mental pictures, there is one point I wish to make clear. The pictures of your past unpleasant experiences should be erased so far as they affect your present activities, but they should not be removed from your memories.

During my long life I have had some bitter experiences and have learned many things the hard way. But, I wouldn't part with those memories for anything. Now that I have learned how to master conditions and have gained a reasonable amount of success in life, I can more fully appreciate what I have by comparing my present with my past. Do you remember the rich man I told you about who wished he could once have been poor?