Introduction To ‘The Power Of Positive Thinking’

allow them to dominate. You can permit obstacles to control your mind to the point where they are uppermost and thus become the dominating factors in your thought pattern. By learning how to cast them from the mind, by refusing to become mentally subservient to them, and by channeling spiritual power through your thoughts, you can rise above obstacles which ordinarily might defeat you. By methods I shall outline, obstacles are simply not permitted to destroy your happiness and well-being. You need be defeated only if you are willing to be. This book teaches you how to ‘will not to be.

The purpose of this book is a very direct and simple one. It makes no pretence to literary excellence nor does it seek to demonstrate any unusual scholarship on my part. This is simply a practical, direct-action, personal improvement manual. It is written with the sole objective of helping the reader achieve a happy, satisfying, and worthwhile life. I thoroughly and enthusiastically believe in certain demonstrated and effective principles which, when practised, produce a victorious life. My aim is to set them forth in this volume in a logical, simple, and understandable manner so that the reader, feeling a sense of need, may learn a practical method by which he can build for himself, with God's help, the kind of life he deeply desires.

If you read this book thoughtfully, carefully absorbing its teachings, and if you will sincerely and persistently practise the principles and formulas set forth herein, you can experience an amazing improvement within yourself. By using the techniques outlined herewith you can modify or change the circumstances in which you now live, assuming control over them rather than continuing to be directed by them. Your relations

Contents

* Introduction

* Believe in Yourself

* A Peaceful Mind Generates Power

* How to Have Constant Energy

* Try Prayer Power

* How to Create Your Own Happiness

* Stop Fuming and Fretting

* Expect the Best and Get It

* I Don't Believe in Defeat

* How to Break the Worry Habit

* Power to Solve Personal Problems

* How to Use Faith in Healing

* When Vitality Sags, Try This Health Formula

* Inflow of New Thoughts Can Remake You

* Relax for Easy Power

* How to Get People to Like You

* Preion for Heartache

* How to Draw upon That Higher Power

* Epilogue