OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 4

Articles In This Section:

· Seat of Intelligence - part 1

· Seat of Intelligence - part 2

· The SUBCONSCIOUS MIND vs. the CREATIVE MIND

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 1

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 2

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 3

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 4

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 5

· HOW ABOUT HEALTH?

For about 15 years of my life I was a radio personality. In San Francisco I maintained a 30-minute daily broadcast for over ten years.

Ordinarily an audience would tire of hearing a half-hour talk seven days a week by the same man. This was not true in my case. "You seem to be getting better and better," letters by the score would declare.

I'm not trying to present myself as some sort of miracle man, because I am not. I did not do a thing you could not do. My secret, which enabled me to pull in up to 70 per cent of all the mail reaching the station, was that I made full use of my Creative Mind.

Script for a 30-minute program would require at least 14 pages of double-spaced typewriting. I used only a single page of the briefest kind of notes. In other words practically all of the talk was ad-libbed; a steady uninterrupted flow of words had to be forthcoming.

Every day, before going on the air, I would repeat to myself: 'This broadcast will be the best one I have ever given." And it would work just that way.

Immediately after greeting my listeners the thoughts would begin to flow and would continue until the clock said it was time to say good-bye.

My publishers comment on how few corrections have to be made in my manuscripts. Authors often have to rewrite entire portions—and sometimes all—of their books before printing. In my last book, / Will, not a single page was rewritten.

Am I bragging? No! Because I am no better than you are. I am merely making use of a force we all have. I am using the Creative Mind which is always standing by ready to guide me.

Before sitting down to the typewriter I talk to my Creative Mind. I usually say something, such as: "I am being guided in the thoughts which will make this book a helpful one to all who read it." And, just as though an inner voice were dictating to me, the thoughts flow and flow.

Please do not read these lines and say: "That sounds great. I'm going to try it sometime."

That word "going" is a bad word. It is indefinite. You can say you are going to do something, and if you do not do it for ten years you are still telling the truth. Instead of going to do something—do it!