There are thousands of ways of looking at and aspiring towards success. Too many involve a lot of hard work, struggle and sweat.  They are variations of the familiar adage “It takes 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration to succeed”.

In recent times we are hearing about more elegant and enjoyable ways of achieving our heart’s desires.  Some of this material has been available for years but was not part of mainstream awareness. It was too far removed from popular culture and thinking. 

Some of it was expressed in old fashioned language and so lost it’s potential to positively impact.  Some material just never had the benefit of modern marketing and the reach of the Internet to get the word out.

Over the next few posts I’ll include excerpts from materials that speak of the amazing power of the mind to create whatever we desire. 

With repetition and hearing it in many different ways, the message begins to sink in and is accepted by default.  New neuronal links are woven in the brain.  What once might have sounded ‘weird’ in time comes to sound very familiar.  And that is the time when we are more likely to appreciate the message and wisdom of what we have heard or read - regarding our innate power and ability to design and direct our own destiny.

The only comment I’ll add is that directing the mind towards a goal or outcome is not meant to be tortuous or hard work.  It’s not about fixating on a goal and then trying to force it into being via our attention to it.  On the contrary.  There are many ways of ‘holding a vision’ of what you want that allow the process to be easy and light hearted.

This includes imagining, pretending, visualising, playing make-believe for a few minutes at a time when the thought occurs to you.  Underpinning this is your attitude or state of mind. Ideally one that is hopeful, expectant, optimistic. Not one that is pushy, demanding, or in a state of neediness or desperation. The latter is a trap for unsuspecting new-comers to the subject.

Here’s the first extract in the series from a work written by Christian D. Larson, The Mind Philosophy – edited and paraphrased in parts.

To use the power of the mind, the first essential is to direct mental action toward a goal. This direction must not be occasional, but constant. Most minds, however, do not apply this law. They think about something one moment and then about something else the next moment. Their mind is mostly scattered and easily distracted.

We know, however, that individuals who are actually working themselves steadily toward a goal they have in view, invariably direct all the power of their thought upon that goal.

In their mind, not a single mental action is thrown away or wasted. They take the time to become clear about what they want and continue to refine that clarity.  They direct their focus and attention towards the goal they wish to accomplish on a daily basis. They don’t think of one thing today and something else the next day.

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Posted: June 16th, 2008 under power of mind, self help.
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