Think Results NOW: You Are What You Think book 1 – #20: To Receive You Must Give

You Are What You Think book 1

Article #20

My life is an Excellent Adventure from using “You Are What You Think”

To Receive You Must Give

THERE IS A LAW that says, “What we are to the world, the world will be to us.”

According to the Law of Attraction, whatever we send forth comes back to us in like form. A boomerang returns to the thrower.

No one can escape the consequences of disregarding natural laws. One could disregard the law of gravity. However, if he stepped off the roof of a building he would fall down.

A NATURAL LAW is not a command, but as with the above example, there is an inevitable result !

Here is something you can prove to yourself: The amount of happiness you are experiencing at this moment is in direct relationship to the extent of happiness you are dispensing.

Please remember this: The effect of your conduct towards others, causing them happiness or misery, brings you happiness or misery in return.

THOSE WHO COMPLAIN that Life has little to offer are the ones who do the least giving. As with the Law of Attraction, what we give we will receive.

We are not speaking about giving money. There is much you could give other than money. You can give of yourself !

I often hear young people say, “Life doesn’t seem to have any meaning and I’m bored.”

IF YOU ARE one of these, ask yourself how much you are giving to Life.

The person who says he or she isn’t loved and is lonely isn’t giving love. The person who doesn’t have friends isn’t being a friend.

If you would like to see some dramatic changes in your life, give friendship and understanding to one who doesn’t understand you. (In fact, the results will be even more dramatic if it is someone you have actually disliked.)

IF YOU ARE bored, try offering your services to a person or group without thought of remuneration. Share your talents and abilities with someone.

There are volunteer groups which visit convalescent homes, for instance. Many of the elderly there have not had a visitor for years. You could read to them, or perhaps write letters for them. If nothing else, you could talk to them.

There is a lonely child somewhere who needs a friend. The example you could set and the advice you could give might change a life !

DON’T BE AFRAID or reluctant to give. Whatever you give will always be replaced. Did you ever hear of anyone who gave so much love that his supply ran out and he didn’t have any more to give ? The more love one gives the more he has to give !

You don’t always have to be paid in money for what you do. Believe it or not, the satisfaction you will gain by helping someone will be far greater than money.

Giving expands the giver. You become a bigger person when you give unselfishly. Your potential is raised because you are showing Life that you are not afraid. You have confidence because you know there is an unending supply, and that the more you give of yourself the more you will have of yourself to give !

YOUR ABILITIES and talents will grow only to the extent you use them. If you don’t use what you have, you can’t expect to develop more. In fact, they will atrophy from lack of use.

As you know, I have worked with convicts for many years, am familiar with conditions inside prisons. As bad as these conditions may be, I have actually seen people on the outside who are even more imprisoned.

They are in prisons they have made for themselves. They have built them with their own self-centeredness, and they are more miserable than the inmates in the prisons made of steel.

THERE ARE those who are so absorbed in their “little selves” that they are afraid to give. They are the ones who complain that Life has nothing to offer, yet withhold everything they have received from Life. “Why should I do anything for you, you don’t do anything for me ?”

Are you dissatisfied with the world you live in ? If so you will want to change it. Fine, but don’t try to change the whole world.

Start with the person who is “next” to you. If you try to change the world by helping your neighbor, you neighbor may be encouraged to help his neighbor by following your example. Thus, the whole world will be bettered.

ARE YOU into drugs or alcohol ? If you like to get a “high” try the above suggestions for a while instead. These are ways to get a permanent high, not a temporary one, and it is much more intense and beneficial !

Give of yourself to Life. Life will return to you much more than you give.