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:--
- The fear of POVERTY at the bottom of most of one's worries
- The fear of CRITICISM
- The fear of ILL HEALTH
- The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE
- The fear of OLD AGE
- 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.
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