An activated thought

An activated thought means a thought that when I think it, I have a feeling response.

If you're not having a feeling response to something, a feeling that feels good or a feeling that feels bad -- then that thought is not that powerful, and it is probably not a big player in your vibrational mix.

Translated from an Abraham-Hicks workshop in Monterey, CA on Tuesday, March 14th, 2000

Steve Harvey tells you WHAT really makes MEN tick?

Act Like a Lady--Think Like a Man

What really makes men tick?





Steve Harvey lets you inside the mind of a man in his new book. Read Chapter 4. http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090227_tows_steve-harvey-excerpt


5 Questions All Single Women Should Ask


What are your SHORT-TERM goals?
Steve says this is a question you need to ask on the first date. "That's important. You want to know what a guy's working on," he says. "You listen very intently. You use your investigative skills. You be smart."


What are your LONG-TERM goals?
Every man needs to have a plan, Steve says. "They have to be different from the short-term goals," he says. "If they're not different, you have a guy that's not really planning."

Once you're armed with this information, Steve says you can decide whether you want to attach yourself to his plan and take the relationship to the next level.

What are your views on relationships?
Family, friends, God…find out if these bonds are strong. Steve says a man's relationship with his mother is the most critical. "If it's nonexistent, that's a red flag. If that bond has been tainted or broken, please know he has no problem tainting or breaking yours," he says. "If you can't love your mother, please know he is incapable of loving you."

If you're spiritual—and he's not—Steve says you probably won't be able to change him. "Your cookie is not that good to make him go to church. He's had cookie before," he says. "He still ain't with the church."

What do you THINK about me?
Steve says women should listen carefully to how a man answers this question. It may reveal a lot about the impression you're making.

"He'll gladly tell you this. 'I think that you're great. I think you would make a great mother. I think you would be a terrific homemaker. I think you're very independent. I think you're very worthy,'" Steve says. "He's going to tell you all of this stuff."

What do you FEEL about me?
Once you have the answer to the fourth question, immediately ask the last one on Steve's list. In most cases, how a man feels about you will be very different from what he thinks of you.

"A man that has been thinking about you seriously has an answer for that question," Steve says.


"[He might say:] 'How do I feel about you? I feel like when I'm not with you, I ain't going to make it. I feel like you're the one for me. I feel like finally I've met somebody who I can share my hopes and dreams with.' …





You may even find these words: 'You know what? I'm in love with you.' Which is what you're all looking for."

How do your tell your story after your life changed?

There is no right or wrong way to tell your improved story.

It can be about your past, present, or future experiences.

The only criterion that is important is that you be conscious of your intent to tell a better-feeling, improved version of your story.

Telling many good-feeling
short stories throughout your day will change your point of attraction.
Just remember that the story you tell is the basis of your life. So tell
it the way you want it to be.


Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to
Attract Health, Wealth & Happiness"

Who's Universe is this?

Never mind what-is.

Connie (my mentor) used to command me after an aint it aweful whining session by saying:

Who's Universe is this?

Abraham Hicks says:

Imagine 'it' the way you want it to BE so that your vibration is a match to your desire.

When your vibration is a match to your desire, then...

all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.

Excuse Me: You need a definite Purpose with a definite Plan

p. 368 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

You have ABSOLUTE CONTROL over but one thing, and that is your THOUGHTS.

This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man's Divine nature. This Divine prerogative is the sole means by which you may control your own destiny.

• If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
• If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things.
• Your mind is your spiritual estate!
• Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled.
• You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.
  

Unfortunately, there is no legal protection against those who, either by design or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion. This form of destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties, because it may and often does destroy one's chances of acquiring material things which are protected by law.

Men with negative minds tried to convince Thomas A. Edison that he could not build a machine that would record and reproduce the human voice, "because" they said, "no one else had ever produced such a machine."

Edison did not believe them. He knew that the mind could produce ANYTHING THE MIND COULD CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, and that knowledge was the thing that lifted the great Edison above the common herd.

Men with negative minds told F. W. Woolworth, he would go "broke" trying to run a store on five and ten cent sales. He did not believe them. He knew that he could do anything, within reason, if he backed his plans with faith. Exercising his right to keep other men's negative suggestions out of his mind, he piled up a fortune of more than a hundred million dollars. p. 369

Men with negative minds told George Washington he could not hope to win against the vastly superior forces of the British, but he exercised his Divine right to BELIEVE, therefore this book was published under the protection of the Stars and Stripes, while the name of Lord Cornwallis has been all but forgotten.

Doubting Thomases scoffed scornfully when Henry Ford tried out his first crudely built automobile on the streets of Detroit. Some said the thing never would become practical.

Others said no one would pay money for such a contraption. FORD SAID, "I'LL BELT THE EARTH WITH DEPENDABLE MOTOR CARS," AND HE DID!

His decision to trust his own judgment has already piled up a fortune far greater than the next five generations of his descendents can squander. For the benefit of those seeking vast riches, let it be remembered that practically the sole difference between Henry Ford and a majority of the more than one hundred thousand men who work for him, is this--FORD HAS A MIND AND CONTROLS IT, THE OTHERS HAVE MINDS WHICH THEY DO NOT TRY TO CONTROL.

Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, and a demonstrastion of what he can accomplish. His record knocks the foundation from under that time-worn alibi, "I never had a chance."

p. 370 Ford never had a chance, either, but he CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY AND BACKED IT WITH PERSISTENCE UNTIL IT MADE HIM RICHER THAN CROESUS.

Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit.

• You either control your mind or it controls you.
• There is no half-way compromise.
• The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
• Study the record of any man who achieves noteworthy success, and you will observe that he has control over his own mind, moreover, that he exercises that control and directs it toward the attainment of definite objectives.
• Without this control, success is not possible.

Excuse Me--Your FEAR of Criticism will stop the FLOW in your life

p. 343 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

FEAR OF CRITICISM

Men and women have been burned at the stake for daring to express disbelief in the dominate thought. It is no wonder we have inherited a consciousness which makes us fear criticism.

The time was, and not so far in the past, when criticism carried severe punishments--it still does in some countries.

The fear of criticism:

• robs man of his initiative,


• destroys his power of imagination,


• limits his individuality,


• takes away his self-reliance, and


• does him damage in a hundred other ways.

Parents often do their children irreparable injury by criticising them. The mother of one of my boyhood chums used to punish him with a switch almost daily, always completing the job with the statement, "You'll land in the penitentiary before you are twenty."

He was sent to a Reformatory at the age of seventeen.

Criticism is the one form of service, of which everyone has too much. Everyone has a stock of it which is handed out, gratis, whether called for or not. One's nearest relatives often are the worst offenders. It should be recognized as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature), for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child, through unnecessary criticism.

Employers who understand human nature, get the best there is in men, not by criticism, but by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with their children. Criticism will plant FEAR or resentment in the human heart, but it will not build love or affection.

SYMPTOMS OF THE FEAR OF CRITICISM

This fear is almost as universal as the fear of poverty, and its effects are just as fatal to personal achievement, mainly because this fear destroys initiative, and discourages the use of imagination.

The major symptoms of the fear of criticism are:

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.
Generally expressed through nervousness, timidity in conversation and in meeting strangers, awkward movement of the hands and limbs, shifting of the eyes.

LACK OF POISE.
Expressed through lack of voice control, nervousness in the presence of others, poor posture of body, poor memory.

PERSONALITY.
Lacking in firmness of decision, personal charm, and ability to express opinions definitely. The habit of side-stepping issues instead of meeting them squarely. Agreeing with others without careful examination of their opinions.

INFERIORITY COMPLEX.
The habit of expressing self-approval by word of mouth and by actions, as a means of covering up a feeling of inferiority. Using "big words" to impress others, (often without knowing the real meaning of the words). Imitating others in dress, speech and manners. Boasting of imaginary achievements. This sometimes gives a surface appearance of a feeling of superiority.

EXTRAVAGANCE.
The habit of trying to "keep up with the Joneses," spending beyond one's income.

LACK OF INITIATIVE.
Failure to embrace opportunities for self-advancement, fear to express opinions, lack of confidence in one's own ideas, giving evasive answers to questions asked by superiors, hesitancy of manner and speech, deceit in both words and deeds.

LACK OF AMBITION.
Mental and physical laziness, lack of self-assertion, slowness in reaching decisions, easily influenced by others, the habit of criticising others behind their backs and flattering them to their faces, the habit of accepting defeat without protest, quitting an undertaking when opposed by others, suspicious of other people without cause, lacking in tactfulness of manner and speech, unwillingness to accept the blame for mistakes.

The fear of Poverty in America

THE FEAR OF POVERTY from Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

p. 331 There can be no compromise between POVERTY and RICHES!

The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions.

• If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty. (The word "riches" is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental and material estates).
• The starting point of the path that leads to riches is DESIRE. In chapter one, you received full instructions for the proper use of DESIRE. In this chapter, on FEAR, you have complete instructions for preparing your mind to make practical use of DESIRE.

Here, then, is the place to give yourself a challenge which will definitely determine how much of this philosophy you have absorbed. Here is the point at which you can turn prophet and foretell, accurately, what the future holds in store for you. If, after reading this chapter, you are willing to accept poverty, you may as well make up your mind to receive poverty. This is one decision you cannot avoid.

If you demand riches:

1. determine what form, and
2. how much will be required to satisfy you.
3. You know the road that leads to riches.
4. You have been given a road map which, if followed, will keep you on that road.
5. If you neglect to start your journey, or you stop before you arrive, no one will be to blame, but YOU. This responsibility is yours.

ALL EXCUSES ARE EQUAL

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility if you now fail or refuse to demand riches of Life, because the acceptance calls for but one thing--incidentally, the only thing you can control--and that is a STATE OF MIND.

p. 332

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! People create this state of mind, and it is sufficient to destroy one's chances of achievement in any undertaking . . . a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.

This fear of poverty:

• paralyzes the faculty of reason,
• destroys the faculty of imagination,
• kills off self-reliance,
• undermines enthusiasm,
• discourages initiative,
• leads to uncertainty of purpose,
• encourages procrastination,
• wipes out enthusiasm and
• makes self-control an impossibility.

The Fear of Poverty:

• takes the charm from one's personality,
• destroys the possibility of accurate thinking,
• diverts concentration of effort,
• it masters persistence,
• turns your will-power into nothingness,
• destroys ambition,
• beclouds your memory,
• invites failure in every conceivable form;
• it kills love and assassinates the finer emotions of the heart,
• discourages friendship and invites disaster in a hundred forms,
• leads to sleeplessness, misery and unhappiness

All this despite the obvious truth that we live in a world of over-abundance of everything the heart could desire, with nothing standing between us and our desires, excepting lack of a definite purpose.

The Fear of Poverty is, without doubt, the most destructive of the six basic fears.

p. 333 It has been placed at the head of the list, because it is the most difficult to master. Considerable courage is required to state the truth about the origin of this fear, and still greater courage to accept the truth after it has been stated. The fear of poverty grew out of man's inherited tendency to PREY UPON HIS FELLOW-MAN ECONOMICALLY. (Think of AIG today)

Nearly all animals lower than man are motivated by instinct, but their capacity to "think" is limited, therefore, they prey upon one another physically. Man, with his superior sense of intuition, with the capacity to think and to reason, does not eat his fellowman bodily, he gets more satisfaction out of "eating" him FINANCIALLY. Man is so avaricious that every conceivable law has been passed to safeguard him from his fellowman.

Of all the ages of the world, of which we know anything, the age in which we live seems to be one that is outstanding because of man's money-madness. A man is considered less than the dust of the earth, unless he can display a fat bank account; but if he has money--NEVER MIND HOW HE ACQUIRED IT--he is a "king" or a "big shot"; he is above the law, he rules in politics, he dominates in business, and the whole world about him bows in respect when he passes. (Bernie Maddoff)

Nothing brings man so much suffering and humility as POVERTY! Only those who have experienced poverty understand the full meaning of this.

It is no wonder that man fears poverty. Through a long line of inherited experiences man has learned, for sure, that some men cannot be trusted, where matters of money and earthly possessions are concerned. This is a rather stinging indictment, the worst part of it being that it is TRUE.

p. 334

The majority of marriages are motivated by the wealth possessed by one, or both of the contracting parties. It is no wonder, therefore, that the divorce courts are busy.

So eager is man to possess wealth that he will acquire it in whatever manner he can--through legal methods if possible--through other methods if necessary or expedient.

Self-analysis may disclose weaknesses which one does not like to acknowledge. This form of examination is essential to all who demand of Life more than mediocrity and poverty. Remember, as you check yourself point by point, that you are both the court and the jury, the prosecuting attorney and the attorney for the defense, and that you are the plaintiff and the defendant, also, that you are on trial.

• Face the facts squarely.
• Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.
• When the examination is over, you will know more about yourself.
• If you do not feel that you can be an impartial judge in this self-examination, call upon someone who knows you well to serve as judge while you cross-examine yourself.
• You are after the truth. Get it, no matter at what cost even, though it may temporarily embarrass you!

The majority of people, if asked what they fear most, would reply, "I fear nothing." The reply would be inaccurate, because few people realize that they are bound, handicapped, whipped spiritually and physically through some form of fear.

So subtle and deeply seated is the emotion of fear that one may go through life burdened with it, never recognizing its presence. Only a courageous analysis will disclose the presence of this universal enemy. When you begin such an analysis, search deeply into your character. Here is a list of the symptoms for which you should look:

p. 335
SYMPTOMS OF THE FEAR OF POVERTY

INDIFFERENCE.
Commonly expressed through lack of ambition; willingness to tolerate poverty; acceptance of whatever compensation life may offer without protest; mental and physical laziness; lack of initiative, imagination, enthusiasm and self-control

INDECISION.
The habit of permitting others to do one's thinking. Staying "on the fence."

DOUBT.
Generally expressed through alibis and excuses designed to cover up, explain away, or apologize for one's failures, sometimes expressed in the form of envy of those who are successful, or by criticising them.

WORRY.
Usually expressed by finding fault with others, a tendency to spend beyond one's income, neglect of personal appearance, scowling and frowning; intemperance in the use of alcoholic drink, sometimes through the use of narcotics; nervousness, lack of poise, self-consciousness and lack of self-reliance.

OVER-CAUTION.
The habit of looking for the negative side of every circumstance, thinking and talking of possible failure instead of concentrating upon the means of succeeding. Knowing all the roads to disaster, but never searching for the plans to avoid failure. Waiting for "the right time" to begin putting ideas and plans into action, until the waiting becomes a permanent habit. Remembering those who have failed, and forgetting those who have succeeded. Seeing the hole in the doughnut, but overlooking the doughnut.

p. 336

Pessimism, leading to indigestion, poor elimination, autointoxication, bad breath and a bad disposition.

PROCRASTINATION.
The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year. Spending enough time in creating alibis and excuses to have done the job. This symptom is closely related to over-caution, doubt and worry.

• Refusal to accept responsibility when it can be avoided.
• Willingness to compromise rather than put up a stiff fight.
• Compromising with difficulties instead of harnessing and using them as stepping stones to advancement.
• Bargaining with Life for a penny, instead of demanding prosperity, opulence, riches, contentment and happiness.
• Planning what to do IF AND WHEN OVERTAKEN BY FAILURE, INSTEAD OF BURNING ALL BRIDGES AND MAKING RETREAT IMPOSSIBLE.
• Weakness of, and often total lack of self-confidence, definiteness of purpose, self-control, initiative, enthusiasm, ambition, thrift and sound reasoning ability.
• EXPECTING POVERTY INSTEAD OF DEMANDING RICHES.
• Association with those who accept poverty instead of seeking the company of those who demand and receive riches.

p. 337

MONEY TALKS!

Some will ask, "why did you write a book about money? Why measure riches in dollars, alone?" Some will believe, and rightly so, that there are other forms of riches more desirable than money. Yes, there are riches which cannot be measured in terms of dollars, but there are millions of people who will say, "Give me all the money I need, and I will find everything else I want."

The major reason why I wrote this book on how to get money is the fact that the world has but lately passed through an experience that left millions of men and women paralyzed with the FEAR OF POVERTY.

What this sort of fear does to one was well described by Westbrook Pegler, in the New York World-Telegram, viz:

"Money is only clam shells or metal discs or scraps of paper, and there are treasures of the heart and soul which money cannot buy, but most people, being broke, are unable to keep this in mind and sustain their spirits. When a man is down and out and on the street, unable to get any job at all, something happens to his spirit which can be observed in the droop of his shoulders, the set of his hat, his walk and his gaze. He cannot escape a feeling of inferiority among people with regular employment, even though he knows they are definitely not his equals in character, intelligence or ability.

"These people--even his friends--feel, on the other hand, a sense of superiority and regard him, perhaps unconsciously, as a casualty. He may borrow for a time, but not enough to carry on in his accustomed way, and he cannot continue to borrow very long. But borrowing in itself, when a man is borrowing merely to live, is a depressing experience, and the money lacks the power of earned money to revive his spirits. Of course, none of this applies to bums or habitual ne’er-do-wells, but only to men of normal ambitions and self-respect.

Think and Grow Rich was published in 1937 at the end of the Great Depression.

Excuse Me: your Life is Waiting and if you allow the unholy TRIO to rule your thinking, then YOU are the problem

p. 326 Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Please read this post slowly, carefully, and ponder it for yourself sincerely... and feel free to repost it or send it to a friend.

FAITH vs FEAR

Previous chapters have described how to develop FAITH, through Auto-Suggestion, Desire and the Subconscious. The next chapter presents detailed instructions for the Mastery of FEAR.

Here will be. found a full description of the six fears which are the cause of all discouragement, timidity, procrastination, indifference, indecision, and the lack of ambition, self-reliance, initiative, self-control, and enthusiasm.

Search yourself carefully as you study these six enemies, as they may exist only in your subconscious mind, where their presence will be hard to detect.

Remember, too, as you analyze the "Six Ghosts of Fear," that they are nothing but ghosts because they exist only in one's mind.

Remember, also, that ghosts--creations of uncontrolled imagination--have caused most of the damage people have done to their own minds, therefore, ghosts can be as dangerous as if they lived and walked on the earth in physical bodies.

The Ghost of the Fear of Poverty, which seized the minds of millions of people in 1929, was so real that it caused the worst business depression this country has ever known. Moreover, this particular ghost still frightens some of us out of our wits.

BEFORE you can put any portion of this philosophy into successful use, your mind must be prepared to receive it. The preparation is not difficult. It begins with study, analysis, and understanding of three enemies which you shall have to clear out.

These are INDECISION, DOUBT, and FEAR!

The Sixth Sense will never function while these three negatives, or any of them remain in your mind.

The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

INDECISION is the seedling of FEAR!

Remember this, as you read. Indecision crystalizes into DOUBT, the two blend and become FEAR! The "blending" process often is slow. This is one reason why these three enemies are so dangerous. They germinate and grow without their presence being observed.

The remainder of this chapter describes an end which must be attained before the philosophy, as a whole, can be put into practical use.

It also analyzes a condition which has, but lately, reduced huge numbers of people to poverty, and it states a truth which must be understood by all who accumulate riches, whether measured in terms of money or a state of mind of far greater value than money.

p. 328 The purpose of this chapter is to turn the spotlight of attention upon the cause and the cure of the six basic fears.

Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.

As you read, analyze yourself carefully, and determine which, if any, of the six common fears have attached themselves to you.

Do not be deceived by the habits of these subtle enemies.

Sometimes they remain hidden in the subconscious mind, where they are difficult to locate, and still more difficult to eliminate.

THE SIX BASIC FEARS

There are six basic fears, with some combination of which every human suffers at one time or another. Most people are fortunate if they do not suffer from the entire six.

Named in the order of their most common appearance, they are:--

1. The fear of POVERTY at the bottom of most of one's worries


2. The fear of CRITICISM


3. The fear of ILL HEALTH


4. The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE


5. The fear of OLD AGE


6. The fear of DEATH

All other fears are of minor importance, they can be grouped under these six headings.

The prevalence of these fears, as a curse to the world, runs in cycles.

For almost six years, while the depression was on, we floundered in the cycle of FEAR OF POVERTY.

During the world-war, we were in the cycle of FEAR OF DEATH.

Just following the war, we were in the cycle of FEAR OF ILL HEALTH, as evidenced by the epidemic of disease which spread itself all over the world.

p. 329 Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

One's state of mind is subject to control and direction.

Physicians, as everyone knows, are less subject to attack by disease than ordinary laymen, for the reason that physicians DO NOT FEAR DISEASE. Physicians, without fear or hesitation, have been known to physically contact hundreds of people, daily, who were suffering from such contagious diseases as small-pox, without becoming infected. Their immunity against the disease consisted, largely, if not solely, in their absolute lack of FEAR.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought. Following this statement, comes another of still greater importance, namely:

MAN'S THOUGHT IMPULSES BEGIN IMMEDIATELY TO TRANSLATE THEMSELVES INTO THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT, WHETHER THOSE THOUGHTS ARE VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY.

Thought impulses which are picked up through the ether, by mere chance (thoughts which have been released by other minds) may determine one's financial, business, professional, or social destiny just as surely as do the thought impulses which one creates by intent and design.

p. 330 We are here laying the foundation for the presentation of a fact of great importance to the person who does not understand why some people appear to be "lucky" while others of equal or greater ability, training, experience, and brain capacity, seem destined to ride with misfortune.

This fact may be explained by the statement that every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind, and with this control, obviously, every person may open his mind to the tramp thought impulses which are being released by other brains, or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice.

Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is THOUGHT. This fact, coupled with the additional fact that everything which man creates, begins in the form of a thought, leads one very near to the principle by which FEAR may be mastered.

[ NOTE from Jane: You have read my suggestions when mastering FEAR to say outloud to the mental deliquents: WHO's Universe is this? ]

If it is true that ALL THOUGHT HAS A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE ITSELF IN ITS PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT (and this is true, beyond any reasonable room for doubt), it is equally true that thought impulses of FEAR and POVERTY cannot be translated into terms of COURAGE and FINANCIAL GAINS.

The people of America began to think of poverty, following the Wall Street crash of 1929. Slowly, but surely that mass thought was crystalized into its physical equivalent, which was known as a "depression." The Great Depression had to happen, it was in conformity with the laws of Nature.

[ note from jane,..and there were also Millionaires made during this time for those who used their COURAGE and CREATIVITY to overcome the unholy trio of: INDECISION, DOUBT, and FEAR!

Interestingly, I received this ABRAHAM quote this morning and it completes my post perfectly, they say:

Your government is the by-product of the vibration of the masses. A war is the by-product of the vibration of the masses.

In other words, this is not a war that your government has waged against your will. This is a war that has grown vibrationally from the vibration of the masses.

This was in response to a question at an Abraham Workshop in Tarrytown, NY on Saturday, May 8th, 2004 .... and we have seen the outcome of that THOUGHT process.

As we meet the FEAR of POVERTY once again, individually, you are the one who will either be the Master or the Victim to the unholy trio.

Think and Grow Rich, Lynn Grabhorn, Abraham-Hicks

MORE than eighty years ago, Napoleon Hill, working in conjunction with the late Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, and Dr. Elmer R. Gates, observed that every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

Through the medium of the ether, in a fashion similar to that employed by the radio broadcasting principle, every human brain is capable of picking up vibrations of thought which are being released by other brains.

In connection with the statement in the preceding paragraph, compare and consider the description of the Creative Imagination, as outlined in the Think & Grow Rich chapter on Imagination.

The Creative Imagination is the "receiving set" of the brain, which receives thoughts, released by the brains of others. It is the agency of communication between one's conscious, or reasoning mind, and the four sources from which one may receive thought stimuli.

When stimulated, or "stepped up" to a high rate of vibration, the mind becomes more receptive to the vibration of thought which reaches it through the ether from outside sources.

This "stepping up" process takes place through the positive emotions, or the negative emotions.

Through the emotions, the vibrations of thought may be increased.

Don't you think it is interesting that Napoleon Hill was talking about the same things that Abraham-Hicks and Lynn Grabhorn have made so popular today?? Maybe this was a chapter that you skipped wih you first read Think & Grow Rich.