The Power of Your Emotions - If You Can Count to Four

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The Power of Your Emotions - 1
When I was a youngster, down in the hills of Tennessee, a
man visited our house one day and said he was going to put
in a saw mill down the creek on our farm, so he could saw
lumber for the people of the community who had surplus
timber. I remember how excited I was the day they moved
the saw mill in because it was pulled by a steam engine. This
marvelous piece of machinery was so designed that, when
the wood fire was burning at full capacity, it would turn the
water into steam. It would then channel this steam into a
cylinder, where it would move a piston, creating motive
power.
This power would not only pull the steam engine and the
saw mill along the road, but it would turn a large flywheel
on which was attached a belt. This led to a pulley on which
was a circular saw. Through the power created by this fire
they were able to saw large logs in to lumber. All of that was
a rather intriguing operation for a youngster 8 to 10 years
old.
I remember how amazed I was that steam, compressed into
a small chamber and directed where it would cause a small
piston to move up and down, could create enough power to
move this mighty steam engine. I remember they used just
"snake" logs from the hills with this steam engine, and I was
amazed at the power that it had in pulling these great logs.
One morning, I went down to the mill early, before the crew
arrived, and observed how cold this engine was and how
powerless it was. I got up in the driver's seat and pulled all
the levers, pushed all the brakes and clutches, turned
everything, and nothing happened because the source of
power was not present. The machine had not generated any
steam.
The steam in this great big engine compares with the
emotion in the human being. I learned a long time ago,
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before I understood the law of motion, that people around
me who seemed to be very successful were those who had
the capacity to feel strongly about life. They felt strongly
about their business, in fact, they felt strongly about
everything in which they were engaged. Thus, I have come
to believe, that in order for anyone to be successful, they
must develop the capacity to feel strongly about a great
human need, and the capacity to feel strongly that they have
the ability to take the answer to the need in quality and
quantity.
Every time we discuss any phase of success, relative to the
human family, we must revert back to the study and a brief
review of the conscious and the subconscious mind. Yes, the
study of the conscious and the subconscious mind always
enters into any consideration of personal success.
All thoughts originate in the conscious mind. The conscious
mind is personal and selective. It has the power of choice. It
is the male principle of the fourth dimension or the realm of
mental action and reaction. The subconscious is impersonal
and non- selective. It has unlimited power to take any order
from the conscious mind and to bring it into fulfillment.
When we consider the power of the emotions or the power
of feeling, we must become keenly aware of the intimate
functions of the conscious and subconscious. The
subconscious is impressed with every thought expressed by
the conscious mind. It is impressed to the degree that the
conscious expresses itself with feeling or a emotion, and
every impression made with feeling or emotion, in the
subconscious, must express itself outwardly in our
environment.
Consequently, we must be very careful indeed regarding the
types of thoughts, feelings and reactions we experience
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consciously. If we react with emotion or feeling to any
negative situation in life, that impression will be made on
the subconscious and then it must express itself in our lives.
That is the reason why we have so much frustration,
unhappiness, in harmonies and trouble in the world today.
The majority of the people in the world do not realize this
relationship between the conscious and the subconscious
mind and the importance of controlling their emotions.
Thus they have developed the habit of reacting to negative
situations constantly.
Making these impressions in the subconscious is like the
thorns and thistle seeds which come up in ones garden.
Every thought is a seed. As it falls into the subconscious
with a feeling, it germinates immediately and we must reap
the harvests in our experience.
The challenge is for each one of us to become aware of the
power of our emotions, and the fact that we can control
our emotions, that we can experience only the desirable
type of feelings, and that when we impresses the
subconscious with desirable feelings, we can have only
desirable experiences.
Previously, we discussed the importance of becoming aware
of the fact that we are thinking beings and we're thinking
constantly. All of our waking hours we are thinking
consciously and all of our sleeping hours we are thinking
subconsciously. The conscious mind is the father principle
and has the capacity to design the type of lives that we
would desire to experience.
It is through the conscious mind that we design what we
want to be and what we want to have. The subconscious
mind is the soil of life, or the female principle of the
universe, into which must fall the seed of life. The seed will

germinate and grow and become an outer experience for
each of us.
Thus we must become aware of the fact that we are
constantly sowing seeds in our waking moments, and we are
constantly causing the seeds to germinate in our sleeping
moments, and that everything we are at present time, every
experience we experience as a matter of habit from day to
day is the result of seeds we have sown with feeling
sometime in the past.
We are the designers of the type of lives and the type of
situations which we experience from day to day. There isn't
anything on the outside of us in the form of climate, politics,
friends or enemies, which causes us to be what we are
today. If we are not satisfied with what we are at this time, if
we are honest enough to admit that this basic principle is
true, we will be able to see that we are in a position to do
something about it.
All we have to do is define the type of situation we would
like to experience and then began immediately to plant that
kind of seed with feeling and emotion into our subconscious
mind and make these impressions which will, according to
the law as tangible as gravity, electricity or chemistry,
develop into an experience.
If we desire to experience these desirable things as a matter
of habit, we must entertain these thoughts until they
become well-established and then the law of habit will come
into play and, from that point on, we will experience them
without any conscious effort.
I am thinking of a few examples of the power of the
emotion. Did you ever wonder why some people can say a
group of words and they will not receive even $100 a week
for saying the lines, and a great actor or actress can say the

same lines receive many thousands of dollars per week? The
basic difference is in the depth of emotion, and in the
control of emotion involved in saying the lines.
Did you ever wonder why one minister can give a message
from the Bible and can hardly find a place to preach? They
may pay him from $50-$75 per week for his services when
he does preach, while another minister can give the same
message and he is in demand all over the world and his
income runs into the hundreds of dollars per week? This
difference is in the depth of conviction, the feeling, the
emotion, the expression, which all springs from an intensity
of emotion well controlled.
Did you ever wonder why some sales people can say the
same words, make the same approach, give the same
presentation, give the same close, word for word, as another
salesman and the prospect fails to react, while another
person can come along and give that same approach, that
same presentation, that same close and make many sales?
The difference is in the depth of emotion, feeling and
conviction.
Did you ever wonder why it was said of The Great Master, in
the New Testament, that he spoke with authority and not as
the Scribes? The Scribes were a group of people who were
like a stenographer who transcribes exactly what is dictated.
The Scribes did not do the thinking, but merely reported the
thinking of others, and hence, they had not developed the
capacity to express a depth of feeling in any of their
experiences.
The Master Teacher, on the other hand, had a message in
which he believed very strongly. With great conviction, he
expressed it casually, but with the authority and with a
feeling of knowingness. The multitudes followed him
because of his great quality.

It is a great challenge for each person to learn to feel
strongly about something. Unless one makes a decision and
says within himself, "This I believe, with all of my being" he
cannot express life effectively. Each person not only must
find something that is good, true and beautiful, but which
expresses itself with the depth of conviction. Each person
must take inventory of all of his present habit patterns and
gradually as they come up and try to express himself to
neutralize them if they are negative and replace them with a
positive track or habit pattern.
One day, all the negative patterns will be eliminated or
neutralized and all of his being will come from habit
patterns which are positive and manifested in terms of the
good, the true and the beautiful. Then, every thought, which
comes from one's being will come with sincerity and with a
depth of feeling. This great indescribable emotional power
will express itself effectively and one's life will become a
beautiful thing, a happy thing, a desirable thing.
So, realize that what we think consciously, with feeling, or
with the emotion, is impressed upon the very sensitive plate
of the subconscious and these thoughts must express
themselves. I challenge you to design good, true and
beautiful ideas, and express them with the emotion. They
will be impressed upon your subconscious mind and
immediately you will begin to realize good and true and
beautiful experiences.

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