Positive thinking is both a philosophy and an expression of faith
The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex (Self Doubt) is to fill your mind with a tremendous amount of faith
You acquire faith by the use of prayer
The bigger your problem, the bigger your prayer should be
Pray deep prayers with plenty of strength and you will come up with powerful faith
The ability to make faith work for you is a skill and like any skill it must be practiced
You can cure self doubt by knowing that you are not alone in your fight and that God is on your side
Affirm yourself that “God is with me, helping me, and guiding me”
When you believe these affirmations, your confidence will grow
Suggest confident concepts to yourself instead of self doubt
The repetition of positive ideas throughout the day can help reeducate the mind so that negative thoughts don’t creep in
If you constantly thinking about unfortunate things that MIGHT happen, you instill that doubt in you and in most instances create that unfortunate event throughout the power of thought
But if you focus on believing in something good the exact same thing can happen but in your favor instead; you’ll feel confident and security and force out all thoughts of doubt and weakness
Attitudes are more important than facts
Anything we’re facing is not more important than our attitude towards it
When you feel defeated about something, take the Time to make a list of all the things that ARE going in your favor, and this will begin to change your mood towards a sense of positivity and gratitude
7 Suggestions to Build Self Confidence
1. Create a Mental picture of yourself as a success and hold onto it tenaciously
2. Don’t build obstacles in your imagination; problems should be seen for what they are an not by fearful thoughts
3. Don’t be awe struck by other people or try to copy them
4. Get a confident counselor to help you understand the origin of your self doubt; Self knowledge leads to a cure
5. Each day practice the following affirmation: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” “If God be for us Who can be against us”
6. Make what you think is a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it 10%; Don’t become egotistical, but become confident in your own abilities with the help of God
7. Put yourself in God’s Hands
If you lack so many things in your life, it is because you ar constantly thinking of that of lack
By emphasizing only what you lack, you are creating that lack in your life
To correct this, reverse the mental thinking by thinking of prosperity, achievement and success
Don’t hold on to the thoughts of failures and doubt
Look up and over your problems mentally, never from below
Visualize the solution to your problems and hold on to that picture
The greatest discovery in history is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their state of mind
As you think, so shall you be
When you think about it, A person who always has the mentality of “everything will always work out and be alright” usually always has a great and pleasant life
“The Lord gives us strength in my life and this we shall have confidence”
The basic reason a person fails to live a successful life is because his thinking is wrong
Reduce the amount of error within oneself and increase the amount of truth
Inner truth always guides you to the right path and therefore to the results you want
7 Practical Suggestions for Changing Your Mental Attitude from Negative to Positive
1. For the next 24 hours, speak positively about everything going on in your life…literally EVERYTHING
2. After 24 hours, continue this same practice for a whole weak, and you can return back to being “realistic” the next week
You’ll find that what you thought was “realistic” was actually pessimistic
3. Feed your mind just as you feed your body and read things of positivity
4. Learn and memorize the positive phrases you read
5. Make a list of your friends that are always positive and begin to cultivate those friendships even more
6. Try to avoid arguments. When a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive opinion
7. Pray often and always let your prayers take the form of thanksgiving
Prayer is simply sending out vibrations from your brain to others and God
The entire universe is made up of vibrations and we have the ability to emit them
Prayer power is a manifestation of energy
Always thing of God as being a part of you and your being, not just some great untouchable being
God and all fo his power is within you
When either failure or success Is pictured, there is a strong tendency for that picture to actualize and become reality
10 Suggestions for Achieving Effective Results from Your Prayers
1. Set aside a few minutes each day doing nothing but thinking about God; This will make you receptive to him and his capabilities
2. Pray out loud using simple natural words and tell God in your own language about whatever you want
3. Pray as you go about your day. Begin by closing your eyes, shutting out the world and concentrate briefly on GOd’s Presence
4. Don’t always ask for something when you pray but instead affirm that blessings are already being giving; Center your prayer around giving thanks
5. Pray with a belief that sincere prayers can reach out and surround your loved ones with GOd’s love an protection
6. Never use a negative thought in prayer, only positive thoughts get results
7. Always express willingness to accept God’s Will. Ask for what you want but be willing to take what God Gives you; It may be better than what you wanted
8. Practice the attitude of putting everything in God’s Hands
9. Pray for people you don’t like or people or who have mistreated you
10. Make a list of people for whom to prayer; the more you pray for others, the more the good results of prayer will come back to you
Tune Into the Infinite
The more you get absorbed in something bigger then yourself, the more energy you’ll have
Find something that you’re obsessed with and dive right into it head first and don’t stop
The energy within you will flow and be infinite
Suggestions for Increasing Your Energy and Vitality
1. How you think you feel physically has a definite affect on how you actually feel; Tell yourself frequently that you have powerful internal resources
2. God is a source of all energy
3. Try to stay in harmony with nature and in contact with divine energy
4. Get interested in something; people are often tired because they aren’t on fire for something outside their own small circle of interests
5. Rejuvenate yourself by taking yourself away from daily routines
A Peaceful Mind Generates Power
The secret to a mind full of peace is a person’s mental attitude
Practice emptying the mind; clear the mind of fears, hates insecurities and guilts
The mere attempt to empty the mind gives a sense of relief
Have at least 15min of absolute silence everyday (meditate)
Remember after you empty your mind to replace that emptiness with positive thoughts a the visualization of the life you wish to have
The way we speak also has an affect on how our mind is at peace
Start your day by verbally affirming peaceful thoughts
Exercises to Help With Peace of Mind
1. Everyday have at least 15min of silence and think as little as possible; allow the silence to open you up to harmony and beauty
2. Practice concentrating on a selective series of peaceful thoughts from time to time throughout the day
3. Practice the technique of repeating beautiful words out loud
4. The words of the Bible are therapeutic; drop them in your mind
Restoring Your Vitality
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind
When you change the pattern of your thoughts, you achieve a more peaceful state of mind, which helps with your overall health
Whenever a problem starts to anger you, let yourself go limp all over and release your turmoil
Emotions and feelings are quite as real as germs and can be a serious diseases
Let those negative emotions go and restore your good health
If you’re feeling down, do a scrupulous self analysis and determine what is the root of the problem
Most likely it is something you can control and turn around by releasing negative emotions and instilling positive ones
Fill the mind with attitudes of good will, forgiveness, faith and love
Suggestions to Help Restore Your Vitality
1. Remember that anger is an emotion and an emotion is always warm or hot and can be cooled with your decision; Use your will to keep your anger from getting hotter and hotter
2. When you’re feelings are hurt, figure out the solution as soon as possible; never dwell on it and stew on it; remember how love and forgiveness conquers all
Overcoming Fear and Worry
Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit
Fear is the most disintegrating enemy of the human personality
We worry not only with our minds, but with our hearts, brains and every part of ourselves (even organs and cells)
You can overcome your worries by 1st believing you can overcome them
Practice emptying the mind daily especially before you sleep
The last 5 min before you go to sleep are the most important because the mind is most susceptible to suggestion
Use creative imagination to empty your mind of all anxiety and fear and instill thinks that you want in your life
Master faith and you will most definitely overcome fear and worry
Those who believe don’t allow fear to enter their life because they have a sense of knowing that things will work in their favor; this is faith
Suggestions to Overcome Worry
1. Say to yourself “worry is a very bad mental habit; I can change any habit with God’s help”
2. I can come free of worry by practicing the stronger habit of faith
3. Practice faith by saying “I believe” as soon as you wake up every morning
4. Practice affirmations every morning such as “Today will be a glorious day” or “I can do whatever I set out to do today”
5. Shoot an injection of faith into all of your conversations; always talk up rather than down
6. You worry because your mind is saturated with gloom, defeat and unsaturation; Read scripture or passages that remind you how strong you are when you believe and have faith
7. Help others cure the worry habit; when you help others do it, you become stronger at it yourself
8. Everyday of your life conceive of yourself as living with God in you and having all of his powers inside of you
Create Your Own Happiness
When you wake up in the morning you have 2 choices, to be happy or unhappy
Happiness is literally a choice in your mind; Choose to be happy regardless of things around you
Think about how easy it is for a child to be happy; it’s always the little things
We should live our life with a child-like heart
Unhappiness is always increased when we saturate our minds with resentment, hate, fear and worry
If we ourselves create our unhappiness, how can we create happiness instead
It is a choice, sometimes not always an easy choice, but when you remember it is a choice to change the thoughts in your mind, you can find a way to be happy in some of your most unhappiest states
Base your day from basic principles of happy living that include love and well-being
Practice love with everything you do and you will generally be happier in life
Ideas to Create More Happiness in Your Life
1. Remember it is primarily your thoughts and attitudes that determine how happy you are
2 Make it a habit to happy; you always have a choice to be happy
3. Practice happy thinking; make a mental list of pleasant thoughts and pass them through your mind multiple times a day; if negativity comes in your head; become aware of it immediately and CHOOSE to think positively
4. Each day when you wake up start with a positive statement of gratitude of God and determination to be happy
How to Enjoy Easy Natural And Pleasing Relationships with Others
No-one wants to feel useless and everyone wants to feel appreciated
If you feel useless, think about people that are less fortunate than you and try to give back to those people
Popularity for its own sake is superficial; always look for ways to give back to those around you
Remember that no-one is liked by everyone; acknowledge and accept this fact
Being a comfortable type of person allows it easier for others to be around you; stiff people never mesh into a group
Having a sincere and genuine interest in other people, this will always open others up to beginning to like you
Practical Exercises to Become Someone You’d Like to Know
1. A person’s name is very important; Do your best to remember their name or they will not feel important
2. Be a comfortable person where others feel relaxed
3. Acquire that quality of relaxed easy-goigness so that irritations don’t bother you
4. Don’t be egotistical; don’t think that you know it all
5. Try to be an interesting person; people enjoy being with someone that is stimulating
6. Get those bothersome traits out of your personality
7. Attempt to heal the misunderstanding you’ve had with others
8. Practice liking people until it comes naturally to you
9. Never miss an opportunity to say congratulations upon someones achievement or express sympathy to their sorrow
10. Strengthen your spiritual life and offer that strengthening to others
The Little Negatives
Remove the little negatives from your life; this small things that you say regularly that you don’t notice like:
“What if this goes wrong”
“I don’t think I can do this”
“This never happens for me”
Get rid of these type o little negatives because you have no idea how they grow into overall negativity in your life
Take the idea that you can’t remove an obstacle and you won’t; but hold on to the idea that that obstacle will go away and you will eventually make it happen
“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of the venture”
Rule number 1 when there’s something you want : LEARN TO BELIEVE
All things are possible to those who believe
It is important to know where you want to go in life
You cannot succeed in life if you don’t know exactly what you want out of it
Define your dream and thought of a successful life, then believe you can achieve that life