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The Miracle of Right Thought

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The Divinity of Desire - Success and Happiness Are for You - Working for One Thing and Expecting Something Else - Expect Great Things of Yourself - Self-Encouragement by Self-Suggestion - The Crime of the "Blues" - Change the Thought, Change the Man - The Paralysis of Fear - One With the Divine - Getting in Tune - The Great Within - A New Way of Bringing Up Children - Training for Longevity - As a Man Thinketh - Mental Self-Thought Poisoning - Contents -

trammeled by ignorance and superstition, so deformed by worry, crippled by fear and anxiety, that their brains can not express a tenth of their maximum creative power. They never know what complete liberty means. Their minds are restricted by terrors, by hatreds, by unrestrained passions which make effective thinking impossible. But it is not so very difficult to remedy these things if we understand the law of habit formation. The whole thing is simply a question of unraveling the ball in the opposite direction from which it was wound.

Take, for instance, the hot-tempered habit. Self-control is not so very difficult if you just cut off the fuel which feeds the fire; but when the hot blood rushes through your brain you feed the conflagration with the suggestion of angry words and an angry physical attitude, and if you continually raise your voice, thresh your arms, throw things across the room, and proceed to break things up generally, you can work yourself up into a terrific rage in a very few moments.

If, on the other hand, you cut off the fuel which feeds the burning passion and apply the antidote — just as you would put out a fire with water — and, if only mechanically,

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