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Article #23

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

Words Can Create or Destroy

MOST OF US are not aware of the power of the spoken word. If we were, we would guard our words as carefully as we should guard our thoughts.

We are discovering that we can control our circumstances by controlling our thinking. We will also find that the words we speak have an immediate effect on our lives.

Some of you will remember the incident described in an earlier column when the convict said “Good morning” to the guard he hated. These two words changed his own life and the lives of many others.

WORDS HAVE a vibratory power. Whatever a person continually voices, he will begin to attract.

A good example is the belief in the aging process. Ever since we were children we have been told that we can expect certain things to happen, (or stop happening) when we reach a certain age.

Many an athlete has cut short his own career by constantly talking about his getting older. “I’ve slowed down a step.” “My legs get tired sooner,” etc.

FROM THE BEGINNING of their careers athletes’ minds have been conditioned to believe that 30 years of age will be the turning point. They constantly hear other members of the team who are that age or older complaining about slowing down, aching muscles, etc. By listening to talk along these lines they are attracting the very things they fear.

Some people literally talk and think themselves into physical deterioration and old age.

If the athlete isn’t aware of the workings of the mind he will allow those negative statements to reach his subconscious, where they will remain impatiently waiting to express themselves when he nears 30 himself.

I DON’T THINK it can be emphasized enough that life gives back to us what we expect to receive.

It is pitiful to observe people whose false beliefs in aging have prevented them from doing things they could be doing. Mind controls every function of your body. The subconscious accepts all suggestions given it by the conscious mind as a pattern to live by.

It makes little difference whether these suggestions are valid or not. Our belief in them makes them true to us whether or not they are true !

IF THE CONSCIOUS mind accepts as true that we will automatically slow down or become ill at a certain age, the subconscious mind won’t argue with it ! The body doesn’t have anything to say about its condition, it simply conforms to your beliefs about it.

If you have been in the habit of talking about approaching age with its expected infirmities, you should immediately start substituting positive statements about yourself, no matter how strong the evidence appears to be to the contrary.

Realize that everything is the result of thought initially. Perhaps you have not realized that the words you speak give power to your thoughts that make an indelible impression on your subconscious mind.

YOU MAY HAVE accepted as true the ideas of others that were detrimental to you. It has been said that if we don’t govern our own mind someone else will govern it for us.

Gain enough control over your mind until you only think and talk about the things you want to experience in life. Unless you want to experience the infirmities of old age, don’t think and talk about them !

Gerontologists agree that the mental and physical capacities of old people are underrated. Senility does not result from physical decline it is a psychological condition brought on by boredom and a feeling of uselessness.

WE OFTEN HEAR about the stresses the young must undergo in a changing world. Think of the stress the average older person faces: loss of status, their effect of imagining the body is deteriorating, anxiety at seeing friends ill and dying, emptiness and purposelessness of life, and mainly the loss of hope that conditions could ever improve.

If the person believes the process of chronological aging inevitably results in mental and physical deterioration he will think, “Each year I’ll get worse, I can’t win.” If he persists in that belief and attitude he will be proven correct, he can’t win.

Most of all of this isn’t necessary. Most of it can be prevented once we overcome the false beliefs about aging we have been subjected to since we were children.

HISTORY IS FULL of examples which prove the significant creative output does not come from the young. Authorities claim that over 64% of the great achievements of the world have been made by persons over 40.

A few examples: Jules Verne was writing his best stories at 70. George Bernard Shaw won a Nobel Prize when almost 70. Commodore Vanderbilt did most of his railroad building after 70. Voltaire did his best work between 60 and 84. Adenauer was Chancellor of West Germany from 73 to 87. Julia Ward Howe, author of “Battle Hymn of The Republic,” produced her best writing, “At Sunset,” at 91.

Only two things can hold you back, negative attitudes and failure to try.