There is only one power in the entire universe, but there are many applications and expressions of this one power. One of the most important expressions of this one power is what we ordinarily refer to as will power. Through the proper understanding of will power one can obtain the fulfillment of any desire whatsoever.
Let me hasten to say in the beginning of this chapter, however, that will power is not creative and will power is not the most important power known to man, but will power directs the power which is creative.
May I refer to the fact again and again that everyone is especially designed to serve in a particular channel of service, and they are especially designed to serve effectively in that particular channel. Even though this is true, 98 people out of every 100 are not aware of what their particular channel is. 98 people out of every 100 do not know exactly what they want to be or what they want to have.
But, those who have made the decision, and have become aware of what they want to be and what they want to have, will be very happy indeed to learn how to use the will power, and its relationship to the creative power, through the proper use of the conscious and subconscious mind.
Now let us define and try to illustrate will power. For example, let's consider building the top of a beautiful table. Several boards are necessary. These boards are finished, and arranged so that they fit beautifully together. Then our master craftsman puts the glue on these boards and sticks them together. But the glue, until it dries, does not have the power to hold the boards together. What does the craftsman do to the board, from the time he puts the fresh glue on, until the glue dries, and they stick together by themselves?
Using wood clamps, he clamps the boards together solidly told the board in place until the glue dries and the power of the glue takes over. You will notice that the clamps have a mechanical clamping effect of holding these boards steadily in place. But, only for a short period of time do the clamps serve this indispensable purpose. As soon as the power in the glue takes over, the clamps can be removed because they have served their purpose.
The will power is like the clamps which hold the boards together, and the law of cosmic habit force or the great power of habit in the subconscious is like the glue. When we decide what we want to be, we used our will power or our mental clamps, and we force ourselves to think in terms of what we want to be for a long period of time until we can build a new habit pattern in the subconscious, so the habit pattern will take over and automatically Cause us to think in the pattern which we have chosen.
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There is only one power in the entire universe, but there are
many applications and expressions of this one power. One
of the most important expressions of this one power is what
we ordinarily refer to as will power. Through the proper
understanding of will power one can obtain the fulfillment
of any desire whatsoever.
Let me hasten to say in the beginning of this chapter,
however, that will power is not creative and will power is
not the most important power known to man, but will
power directs the power which is creative.
May I refer to the fact again and again that everyone is
especially designed to serve in a particular channel of
service, and they are especially designed to serve effectively
in that particular channel. Even though this is true, 98
people out of every 100 are not aware of what their
particular channel is. 98 people out of every 100 do not
know exactly what they want to be or what they want to
have.
But, those who have made the decision, and have become
aware of what they want to be and what they want to have,
will be very happy indeed to learn how to use the will
power, and its relationship to the creative power, through
the proper use of the conscious and subconscious mind.
Now let us define and try to illustrate will power. For
example, let's consider building the top of a beautiful table.
Several boards are necessary. These boards are finished,
and arranged so that they fit beautifully together. Then our
master craftsman puts the glue on these boards and sticks
them together. But the glue, until it dries, does not have the
power to hold the boards together. What does the craftsman
do to the board, from the time he puts the fresh glue on,
until the glue dries, and they stick together by themselves?
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Using wood clamps, he clamps the boards together solidly
told the board in place until the glue dries and the power of
the glue takes over. You will notice that the clamps have a
mechanical clamping effect of holding these boards steadily
in place. But, only for a short period of time do the clamps
serve this indispensable purpose. As soon as the power in
the glue takes over, the clamps can be removed because
they have served their purpose.
The will power is like the clamps which hold the boards
together, and the law of cosmic habit force or the great
power of habit in the subconscious is like the glue. When we
decide what we want to be, we used our will power or our
mental clamps, and we force ourselves to think in terms of
what we want to be for a long period of time until we can
build a new habit pattern in the subconscious, so the habit
pattern will take over and automatically Cause us to think in
the pattern which we have chosen.
This is all very simple indeed. The majority of the people in
the world are not aware of this simplicity or just exactly how
they can intelligently direct the use of this tremendous
power so they can learn to be what they want to be and have
what they want to have.
Let us take a few very familiar examples of how this works.
A young man gets out of high school and he decides he
wants to be a doctor. He knows that in order to be a doctor
he must go to school for, say 7 to 10 years. At the present
time, having just graduated from high school, he is not a
doctor. He is just a high school graduate. As a high school
graduate, he has just completed certain basic requirements
in order to receive his diploma from high school, and from
the standpoint of thought processes, his mental processes
are not so arranged so that anyone can safely say he is a
doctor in any field.
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But, through his will power the can direct his attention, day
after day, month after month, year after year for a long
period of years, to the study of all of the facts and things
that pertain to his chosen field, until he build hundreds of
habit patterns in the subconscious relative to being a
doctor. Having controlled his attention through will power a
sufficient length of time, on each item, until it becomes
established and the glue takes over, throughout the
remainder of his life, he automatically responds from those
habit patterns of being a doctor instead of a high school
graduate.
So, through the use of his will power, controlling his
attention until these habit patterns are established, he
becomes what he decided to be. Now, every mental process,
which he experienced during his years of training to become
a doctor, were experiences based upon these basic rules.
You can readily see that all he had to do was to make a firm
and deep convicted decision that he wanted to become a
doctor, and then follow through in his training, by using his
mind and controlling his attention units, exposing himself
to all of this wonderful information and experience.
In so doing, he changed his being or his habit patterns, so
he could no longer say that he was just a high school
graduate, but that he was a PhD in his chosen field, able to
serve in a special capacity.
The same process, which makes it possible for a young
person to become a doctor in his chosen field, is the same
process that a housewife uses in making a cake. She decides
that she is going to make a certain type of cake and she uses
her will power and she directs her attention to the making
of that cake.
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Now, if she only makes one take, by having to control her
attention to consciously, by the use of will power, the cake
would probably be very good, but not the best cake possible.
But, if she will control her attention by the use of the will
power, and make a cake every few days, within a period of
weeks, she will build a pattern of efficiency and she no
longer will have to use the will power.
She will be able to take the clamps off and let the habit
pattern takeover and then she will be able to make a
wonderful cake on every occasion. I am sure all of us now
begin to realize that this simple law and simple process
makes it possible for us to change all of our old habits into
desirable habits so we can be anything we want to be and
have anything we want to have.
Frequently, people tell me they just can't change their old
habit patterns, and they can't entertain these new ideas and
make them part of themselves. They know it is possible for
others to be successful and other people to have the finer
things in life, but they just don't understand how they can
do these things themselves.
Let me emphasize this simple fact. Everyone has a will
power. Everyone has a conscious mind. Through the
conscious and subconscious mind, we are able to design,
according to our own specifications, the kind of life we
want to live and the type of things we want to have.
By designing these desires with our conscious mind and
implanting them into our subconscious mind, which has
access to unlimited resources of wisdom and knowledge, we
will have all of the necessary ingredients to make our
dreams come true. But, we must discipline ourselves and
not continue to let the old habit patterns dominate us.
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We all know that the most comfortable thing to do is to just
sit back and relax and let the old habit patterns dominate
our lives. We don't want to use any extra energy to think the
thoughts or to entertain new ideas, new plans or any new
activities. All we want to do is to let our thoughts run on the
old tracks which have been established for years.
However, it is our privilege to decide exactly what we want
to be an exactly what we want to have, and through the use
of our will power and self-discipline, we can direct our
attention toward these new things, and can neutralize all
the old patterns and make new patterns so we automatically
become want to be and want to have.
The average person could literally turn the world upside
down and they would become keenly aware of this simple
use of will power and self-discipline. Every great man, and
every great woman, in history, discovered the use of the will
power and self-discipline in order to become great in their
particular channels of service.
They had to learn to say, "No, thank you" to everything with
which they were confronted, from day to day, in the form of
suggestions, which did not contribute toward reaching their
definite major purpose.
I remember very distinctly how deeply impressed I was
when I studied the life of Henry Ford. Henry Ford had
many wonderful qualities, but one of the outstanding
qualities was the fact that he learned to discipline is taught
attention. He made up his mind that he was in the business
of manufacturing and merchandising inexpensive units of
transportation.
Hundreds of people approached him, trying to get him
interested in other things because they knew he had plenty
of money. But, Mr. Ford tells in his book under the title "my
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life and work" that he learned to distinguish between that
which was relevant and material, and that which was
irrelevant and immaterial and learned to listen only to that
which contributed to his objective. He learned to say, "No,
thank you."
The majority of the people in the world are limiting
themselves. They are suffering lacking limitation because
they are victimized, every day, by suggestions and
influences to which they should learn to say, "No, thank
you, I don't have time. I'm sorry but I'm not interested in
that because it does not contribute to my main channel of
service to humanity."
This matter of using the will power and self-discipline not
only applies to controlling our attention to help us to design
that which we want to be and that which we want to have,
but it also helps us to establish habit patterns, so we can
refuse to let any outside force interfere with our giving our
time and efforts and energies toward the reaching of our
dreams and objectives.
We all know that happiness is a state of mind. We all know
that a state of mind is developed because of the thoughts
which we permit ourselves to think.
It takes quite a little will power and self-discipline to read
the various publications and not be bothered by all of the
tragedies and negative situations which are described and
reported. I subscribe to a few select magazines and
newspapers which I can, in a minimum of time, scan
through the important developments in the news of the
world from a positive point of interpretation.
Consequently, through the use of will power and self-
discipline, I do not expose my subconscious from day to day
to dozens of negative situations which are none of my
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business. Hence my time and energy are not wasted on
something which does not contribute to the wonderful
channel of service in which I happen to be engaged.
I would highly recommend that you take inventory of how
much time you spend each day reading a newspaper. Find
that portion of the newspaper, which seems to engage most
of your attention and classify whether it is positive or
negative.
Also, your television programs, the magazines which you
read, and the people with whom you associate, could be
classified into categories of positive or negative. Every
category of contact with life should be classified and listed
in two columns, one positive and one negative.
Through the use of will power, you can develop a new habit
of giving attention only to that which is positive and not
allowing negative situations to occupy your attention. This
will be a little difficult, and it will take a little time to build
these new thought patterns, but through the wonderful
mechanism of habit and the instrument of the will power,
you can begin now to direct your attention along any
particular channel of thought which you desire.
You will have to clamp that attention unit hard at first,
because it wants to run on the old undesirable pattern, but,
after you have clamped it there, with the will power, for a
period of time, a new track has been built and you can take
the mental clamp off. Your thoughts will run automatically
on the desired track and you will begin to experience a state
of happiness and joy and livingness which you would have
never been able to experience before because you are now
free of all negativity. All of your thoughts, in the future, will
automatically go along the lines of the good, the true and
the beautiful.
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At any given split second of our lives, there is enough of the
sad and discouraging and the disappointing to them to
demand all of our attention. Also, at the same split second,
there is enough of the good and the true and the beautiful to
occupy all of our attention.
Inasmuch as our great Creator created us with the privilege
of choosing, at any given split second, that to which we
should give our attention, we have the choice and the
privilege and responsibility of directing our attention only
toward that which is good and true and beautiful. Of course,
once we learn to see the truth about any situation, we will
be able to see the good, the true and the beautiful in every
situation.
We have been told all of the great sacred writers of the ages,
to judge not by appearances. In other words, we are not to
judge a situation just from what we see with the natural eye,
but we are taught to judge according to the truth about it,
the inner truth, its premise and design and why it
happened.
I am very proud to be able to say that there is no situation in
my life, or in any other person's life, that if we knew the
whole inner truth, we would be able to rejoice and be
exceedingly glad. We would see that the inner design is
based upon a purpose and a noble objective as a part of an
integrating idea. It may be expressing itself, in many cases,
in a disintegrating fashion, but if we could see the whole, we
would see the integrating part as the center of attraction.
What appears to be tragedy or discouragement is merely a
rearrangement of the component parts of the integrating
center. If we are capable of interpreting this rearrangement,
the net result is always good, true and beautiful.
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One of the passages from the sacred writings says, "Blessed
are the pure in heart for they shall see God." God is good
and the heart is what we see with our inner mind. So,
blessed are the pure in the inner mind because they see
what they are instead of what is. The only thing we can see
with a pure inner mind is that which is pure and that which
is good and true and beautiful.
So let us open up our minds in the spirit of the humility of a
little child and let us grasp as much as possible of these
great inner truths of the universe. Let's realize that we have
a conscious mind which can reason either "A" type or "B"
type and that we have a subconscious mind which is our
connecting link with infinite intelligence.
Through the proper use of directing our attention in the
conscious mind, we can establish any new habit pattern we
desire. Through the proper use of will power and self-
discipline, we can neutralize or eliminate or annihilate any
old undesirable pattern and can replace it with any
desirable experience choose.
We can, through the proper use of our mental powers, set
the great universal law in motion, and we can become
anything we want to be and we can have anything we want
to have. We learned previously that we think only one
thought at a time, we are thinking constantly, we can
control that one thought, we are what we are right now
because of the sum total of our thoughts throughout the
past, and we can become anything we want to become by
being keenly aware of this one thought.
Through the will power, we direct it so it expresses itself in
regard to our dreams until it becomes a habit pattern, so we
automatically think in terms of our dreams fulfilled.
So, let's definitize what we want to be.
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• Do you want to be genuinely happy? Do you want to
understand the inner laws of harmony, peace, joy
and expression? You can be that kind of a person.
• Do you want to be a person of wisdom to know how
to apply the facts? You can be that kind of a person
by appropriating these suggestions.
• Do you want to be a person of poise, have a beautiful
soul filled with love, kindness, compassion, humility
and understanding? You can be that kind of a person.
• Do you want to have a consciousness of abundance
so that you have facilities for expressing life? You can
have all those wonderful things.
You not only can have a wonderful home, and a wonderful
automobile and all the things that go with that type of home
life, but you can have all of the things that your heart
desires, if you will learn these basic rules of the mental
processes.
When I say, you can be anything you want to be and you can
have anything you want to have, it is because we live in an
inexhaustible universe, where there is an inexhaustible
supply of every desirable state of beingness and every
desirable thing you can imagine.
Let me challenge you to make large plans, for they
have magic to stir men's blood.
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