Power of Positive Thinking Book Summary

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING Table of Contents 1. Weakness.. 3 2. Why this keep plunk for?.. 3 3. Synopsis4 4. How did the book help me oer grow my help littleness? .. 9 WEAKNESS The weakness on which I was working was pessimism. Pessimism is a state of mind in which one anticipates cast out(p) outcomes or believes that the evil, hardships, dangers, displeasures in life outweigh or dominate the good, luxuries, securities or pleasures in life. It affects ones thinking process adversely.It leads to loneliness, doubts on ones own capabilities and constant anxiety. I wanted to overcome this weakness, to develop self-confidence and deport my self-esteem. This would fill my mind and level offtually life with more optimism and cheer. WHY THIS BOOK? SYNOPSIS In the offset chapter the author deals with the cause of thumbings of inferiority and hazard and moods to overcome them and fabricate self confidence. Believe in yourself The author says one should waste faith in his abil ities. To be successful and smart one moldiness have a humble and reasonable confidence in his moguls or capabilities.A sense of inferiority interferes in attainment of goals whereas self-confidence leads to self realization and thus further successful achievement. According to the author, the sources of inferiority confused atomic number 18 usually some emotional violence done to us in the past or the consequences of certain circumstances or something that we did to ourselves in the past. The author suggests that to build up feelings of self confidence in oneself the practice of suggesting confidence concepts to ones mind is very effective.A mind is obsessed by thoughts of insecurity and inadequacy because such ideas have dominated that persons thinking over a farsighted period of time. Hence, more positive pattern of ideas moldiness be given to the mind and that is accomplished by repetitive suggestion of confidence ideas. Thus, disciplining the mind is mandatory if one has t o re-educate it and make it a power producing plant. We build up the feeling of security or insecurity by the way we think. In our thoughts we forever and a day unsex attention upon sinister expectations of events that might happen, the result we constantly feel insecure.And we have a tendency to puddle by thought, the very condition we venerate. sort of one tail assembly create positive results by snappy thoughts of courage and confidence. Attitudes are more important than facts. Any fact facing us, however difficult, even apparently hopeless, is non as important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think astir(predicate) a fact whitethorn defeat you before you ever do anything about it. The author further suggests going about your wrinkle on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualized is true. Affirm it, visualize it, believe it, and it will embody itself.Feelings of confidence depend on the eccentric of thoughts that habitually occupy your mind. r ally defeat and you are jump to feel defeated. only if practice thinking confident thoughts and you will develop such a hearty sense of capacity that regardless of what difficulties arise you will be able to overcome them. Feelings of confidence actually induce strength. Emerson said They conquer who believe they scum bag and Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. Thus, practice confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities soon will have no power over you.In the first chapter, the author suggests following ways to overcome inferiority and to build up self-confidence figure yourself as succeeding. Whenever a negative thought comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to abolish it out. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Instead tear them down by ferocious them apart. Do not compare yourself to others. Get a competent counselor to help you understand wherefore you do what you do. Learn the origin of your inferiority and self- doubt feelings which often begin in childhood. Self- knowledge leads to a cure. Practice self-affirmations, for example, Yes, I can. Or I can do all things through belief in myself. Take an inventory of all the things you have going for you and begin to really appreciate your assets. Health, eyes, hearing, friends, family, son, house, shelter, food, income, transportation, intelligence and so forth In the second chapter, the author talks about having a peaceful mind. The essence of the secret lies in a change of mental attitude. For this, one mustiness learn to live on a divergent thought basis, however thought change requires effort.A life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence. A primary method for gaining peace is to practice modify the mind. Thus, practice emptying your mind of fears, hates, insecurities, regrets, and guilt trip feelings. After you have emptied your mind of all the old, unhappy thoughts straightaway start refil ling it with creative and salubrious thoughts. The mere fact that you are consciously trying to empty your mind tends to give you relief. Also emptying your mind is not enough. Your mind cannot remain in a vacuum for long.Fill it with creative end vigorous thoughts so that thoughts of fear, hates and worries do not enter. At intervals, practice thinking a selected series of peaceful thoughts or utter a series of peaceful words. They have a heal effect on your mind. some other way of developing serene and quiet attitudes is to watch your manner of speech. It is important to eliminate from conversations all negative ideas, for they tend to produce tension and annoyance inwardly. Peale also says to spend some quiet time for to each one one day relaxing, and not thinking about anything much.He says picture your mind as a pond and study if you can achieve the state of smoothness and no ripples. Fill your mind with all peaceful experiences possible, consequently make planned and d eliberate excursions to them in memory. He continues, saturate your thoughts with peaceful experiences, peaceful words, and ideas, and ultimately you will have a storehouse of peace-producing experiences to which you may turn for refreshment and renewal of your spirit. It will be a vast source of power. On fear and guilt he says, the quantity of vital force required to give the ersonality relief from either guilt or fear or a combination of each is so great that often only a fraction of energy remains for living. The result is that he tires quickly. Not being able to meet the full requirements of his responsibility, he retreats into an apathetic, dull, listless condition and is indeed even ready to give up and fall back sleepily in a state of enervation. You must eradicate fear and guilt before you will ever be able to sleep and feel your strength. On happiness, he says, you can be unhappy if you want to. It is the easiest thing in the world to accomplish.Go rough telling yourself that nothing is going well, that nothing is satisfactory, and you can be quite sure of being unhappy. But say to yourself, Things are going nicely. Life is good. I choose happiness, and you can be certain of having your choice. Peale says, The happiness habit is developed by simply practicing happy thinking. Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times each day. If an unhappiness thought should cross your mind, immediately stop, consciously eject it, and substitute a happiness thought. The way to happiness keep your heart apologise from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, and give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. bear witness this for a week and you will be surprised. Peale recommends we think about what we want to do if we could do anything. And to think about what we are good at. He says that if you talk to your subconscious, you can convince it to change its mind about things. But that it is naturally very reluctant to do this. So you must be firm and persistent.He says to remember that mighty oaks from little acorns grow. He says that as a clean engine delivers power, so too a clean mind (free from negative thoughts, guilt, hate, bitterness, fear, etc. ). He believed the secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind. Peale gave fewer job solving tips which could be summarized as Believe that for every problem there is a solution. guard calm. Tension blocks the flow of thought power. Your braincannot operate efficiently under stress. Go at your problem easy-like. Dont try to force an answer.Keep your mind relaxed so that the solution will open up and start out clear. set all the facts, impartially, impersonally, and judicially. List these facts on paper. This clarifies your thinking, bringing the various into rollly system. You see as well as think. Trust in the faculty of insight and intuition believe in your own ability to come up with a satisfactory solution. Dont get paralyzed by focusing on the idea that you must have the perfect or the best solution. Probably several solutions would somehow work out. Irritation, anger, hate, and resentment have such a powerful effect in producing ill-health.It is to fill the mind with attitudes of good will, forgiveness, faith, love, and the spirit of imperturbability. about suggestions include Deliberately, by an act of will, keep your hands from clenching. Hold your fingers out straight. Deliberately reduce your look bring it down to a whisper. Remember that it is hard to argue in a whisper. Slump in a chair, or even lie down if possible. It is very difficult to get mad fabrication down. Say aloud to yourself, Dont be a fool. This wont get me anywhere, so skip it Everything is okay. It is not that big a deal. Everything is all right.It is ok. Make a list of all the minor irritations. And find a reason for them not to irritate you anymore. Then cross them off. Do not leave any irritations uncrossed off. In this way you will weaken your anger to the point where you can control it. When a hurt-feeling situation arises, get it straightened out as quickly as possible. Dont brood over it for a minute longer than you can help. Do something about it. Do not allow yourself to sulk or indulge in self-pity. Immediately harbour the cure Unless you do so the situation can become distorted out of all proportion.So regularize some spiritual iodine on the hurt at once, by using a healing thought. Apply grievance drainage to your mind. He gives the example of pouring out your feelings to someone you trust, or to yourself on paper, until not a vestige of it remains within you. Then forget it. For those who believe in power of prayer he offers this technique Pray for the person who you feel caused the hurt. Over and over and over until you feel the malice fading away. He also talks about the impor tance of relaxing in order to be able to cope and deal with things better.To summarize his tips on relaxation Dont get the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. Dont strain so hard. Determine to like your work. Then it will become a pleasure not drudgery. Plan your workwork your plan. Dont try to do everything at once. Try to do one thing well. Get a correct mental attitude, remembering that ease or difficulty in your work depends upon on you think about it. Think its hard and you make it hard. Think its easy and it tends to become easy. Be efficient. Practice being relaxed. Take things in stride. Discipline yourself not to fix off until tomorrow what you can do today. Accumulation of undone jobs makes your work harder. Keep your work up to schedule. On how to have constant energy,Peale reveals the secret source of energy of every great person he has known attunement with the Infinite. The knowledge that what one is doing is supported outside oneself and is serving a divine end, provides a constantly renewable source of energy. Working only by oneself and for oneself leads to burnout. Peale asks the readers to try prayer power. According to him,prayer is diametrical to what you thought it was.It is a space to say whatever is on your mind, in whatever language you choose. Instead of asking for things, give thanks in advance for what you desire, leave it in Gods hands, and visualize the good outcome. The Peale expression is Prayerize, Picturize, and Actualize. Be surprised at its effectiveness. He asks us to expect the best and get it. portentous creatures that we are, we tend to expect the worst. But an expectation of the best has a way of organizing forces in your favor. You are less likely to keep anything in reserve. The subconscious, which regulates much of our actions, merely reflects your beliefs.Alter the belief about an outcome, and your actions will seem to be shaped in order to achieve it. Peales phrase is Doubt clos es the power flow. Faith opens it. New thoughts can remake us. Use only positive and hopeful language for a 24-hour period. Then go back to being possible the next day. Repeat this over a week and you find that what you considered realistic a week ago now seems pessimistic. In golfing terms, discover that the rough is only mental. Your new understanding of what is realistic moves up to a higher, permanently positive level. HOW DID THE BOOK HELP ME OVEROME MY WEAKNESS? THE END