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In writing this book I have drawn upon a vast amount of personal experience—and the experience of others.
Here is a favorite among all the true experiences that have been told to me. It concerns an experiment conducted with a laborer who could not read or write.
This man had worked with his muscles all his life. Now, in his early sixties, he began to age rapidly. But, through a tricky calculation, it was "proved" to him that the records were wrong and he actually was ten years younger than he thought.
Almost at once, this man looked younger, acted and felt younger. Where before he had complained he couldn't work the way he used to, now he did a full day's hard labor, every day, without excessive fatigue. There was nothing wrong with him. But he had thought in his Creative Mind that at sixty he had to complain and slow down—just the way all his friends did.
It has been noticed, too, that people who go blind when they are young often will look younger, thirty years later, than sighted people of the same age. It is said this happens because they remember their own faces as youthful faces. They don't look for wrinkles, they don't expect to see grey hair.
In the same way, many a man expects a mediocre performance of himself. He gets it!
Here are a few of the commonest ways in which people downgrade themselves:
"I'm just too shy to get along with others." Often this means that your Creative Mind keeps on telling you that you don't like
yourself. Therefore you don't like the way you act among other people, and would prefer to stay away from them.
But your Creative Mind can be persuaded to change its signals completely. Soon you are going to like yourself, like other people, and enjoy sharing their good times.
"My memory is so bad, it's always embarrassing me." Strangely enough, your essential memory cannot be bad—because your Creative Mind retains an impression of everything you have heard, seen, read, felt or tasted since the day of your birth—and perhaps even an impression of everything you have thought, as well.
So, when you "forget," you really mean you cannot bring into your Conscious Mind something stored away in your Creative Mind. The mind-line is blocked. Hours or days later you may smite your brow and exclaim, "That's it!" as the mind-line suddenly opens.
Millions of people waste the greater part of their minds by blocking-off their own memories. I will show you that an open mind-line not only improves your memory, but also strengthens and alerts other mental powers. It can be worth a great deal to be able to come up promptly with names, addresses, phone numbers, prices. Just remember—you have a perfectly good memory. We'll get together and wake it up!
"I can't concentrate." People who are scatter-brained sometimes fear they are
mentally defective. Except in rare cases, this is not so. More likely, your
Creative Mind has learned bad habits. You are going to see why thoughts have
such power ... how every action must begin with a thought. And you will see that
you, in your Creative Mind, decide how much power to give to a particular
thought. First you will instruct your Creative Mind to concentrate on the
concepts you want to be the most powerful. Then your Creative Mind will instruct
your Conscious Mind to keep those concepts always in view. You'll have no
further trouble in concentrating. And it will be effortless concentration that
eliminates a lot of worry and keeps your vital energies working together to
attain your goals.
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