How Correct Mental Attitude Naturally Attracts Positive Environment
It is a metaphysical truth that the outward life is a reflection of the thought life.
Our life is affected by our habit of thinking and attitude of mind. All our actions are unconsciously influenced by our thoughts, therefore attracting to us, an environment that corresponds to our thoughts.
We also send out an influence, silent and invisible, that affects other people. They are probably not aware of it, but they are either attracted or repelled by this silent influence.
If our thoughts and mental attitude are of the wrong type, not only are our actions affected thereby, but also we exert a silent influence that assists in driving the right type of friends, opportunity, success and every possible good away from us.
The reverse is equally true. By right thoughts and a correct mental attitude we naturally attract to us all the good of which our present life is capable.
There is a saying: "What a man thinks in his heart, so is he." It is equally true to say that "As a man is, so does he think, and, that as he thinks, so do his outer life and circumstances become."
Therefore, before you can change your environment it is necessary to change yourself. When you become inwardly changed and filled with new ambitions, ideals and hopes, you will rise above your surroundings and attract to yourself an environment that corresponds to your new state of mind.
Very often, the failures of people's lives, and its disharmonies and poverty, either comparative or real, are outward symbols of their weakness of character. They may have ability, but they may lack application or steadfastness, and thus they fail in all their undertakings. They will assure you that their circumstances are due to ill-fortune, but the actual cause of their failure is in their character, or, rather, lack of character.
If a man's poverty, or financial difficulties are due to weakness of character which manifest in his work and dealings with others, in the form of inefficiency, poor service and bad judgement, he himself must change before his circumstances can be permanently altered for the better.
The difficulty in dealing with unsuccessful people is in getting them to realize that they, themselves, are the cause of all their troubles.
Until they realize this, it is impossible to help them. But when they acknowledge that the fault is theirs, they can be shown that there is a remedy for their problems, and a way out of their difficulties, by means of self-improvement.
They need to search for hidden weaknesses, and build up those weak places in their character, such as lack of determination, persistence, patience, decision, which are the cause of their troubles, and they will find that their circumstances will gradually change for the better. Everything comes from within, then out. Therefore the change must always take place within.
Those who live in a consciousness of sufficiency, are not troubled about supply. Their circumstances reflect their type of mind and mental attitude. It does not follow that they will be rich, for many of them have no desire to possess wealth of any kind, but they have no worry about supply, for their needs are always met by sufficiency.
The hoarding of wealth is just as unnecessary as poverty. They are both based upon a fundamental error. This error is in thinking that all supply, being material, must necessarily have a material source: that it is limited in quantity, and therefore must be grabbed at and fought over.
The truth is, of course, that the source of supply is spiritual, and therefore without limit. Subsequently, those who realize the truth have no thoughts of poverty or lack, and cease to fear it.
We have to remember that the change in consciousness must take place first and become well-established, before its effects can be seen in the outer life.
Those who realize and really believe that there is abundance and plenty for them, put into operation a powerful law which will surely bring opportunity to them, sooner or later.
While in its essence, the source of supply is spiritual, it comes to us through material channels, and, in order to have a share in it, it is necessary to earn it. We have to give something in exchange for what we draw from life in the way of supply. We must give in order to receive, and what we give must be something that the world wants or needs.
The secret of supply is, then, to realize that there is unlimited abundance and to live in the consciousness of it, as completely as though no material channels existed, and, at the same time, to work as zealously and be as careful as though there were no such thing as spiritual supply.
At the same time we must give the world something that it wants, or otherwise serve in some useful capacity, exercising honesty, probity and justice in all our affairs. It is folly to expect abundance to drop ready-made in our lap; it must be earned by intelligent and faithful service.
Our life is affected by our habit of thinking and attitude of mind. All our actions are unconsciously influenced by our thoughts, therefore attracting to us, an environment that corresponds to our thoughts.
We also send out an influence, silent and invisible, that affects other people. They are probably not aware of it, but they are either attracted or repelled by this silent influence.
If our thoughts and mental attitude are of the wrong type, not only are our actions affected thereby, but also we exert a silent influence that assists in driving the right type of friends, opportunity, success and every possible good away from us.
The reverse is equally true. By right thoughts and a correct mental attitude we naturally attract to us all the good of which our present life is capable.
There is a saying: "What a man thinks in his heart, so is he." It is equally true to say that "As a man is, so does he think, and, that as he thinks, so do his outer life and circumstances become."
Therefore, before you can change your environment it is necessary to change yourself. When you become inwardly changed and filled with new ambitions, ideals and hopes, you will rise above your surroundings and attract to yourself an environment that corresponds to your new state of mind.
Very often, the failures of people's lives, and its disharmonies and poverty, either comparative or real, are outward symbols of their weakness of character. They may have ability, but they may lack application or steadfastness, and thus they fail in all their undertakings. They will assure you that their circumstances are due to ill-fortune, but the actual cause of their failure is in their character, or, rather, lack of character.
If a man's poverty, or financial difficulties are due to weakness of character which manifest in his work and dealings with others, in the form of inefficiency, poor service and bad judgement, he himself must change before his circumstances can be permanently altered for the better.
The difficulty in dealing with unsuccessful people is in getting them to realize that they, themselves, are the cause of all their troubles.
Until they realize this, it is impossible to help them. But when they acknowledge that the fault is theirs, they can be shown that there is a remedy for their problems, and a way out of their difficulties, by means of self-improvement.
They need to search for hidden weaknesses, and build up those weak places in their character, such as lack of determination, persistence, patience, decision, which are the cause of their troubles, and they will find that their circumstances will gradually change for the better. Everything comes from within, then out. Therefore the change must always take place within.
Those who live in a consciousness of sufficiency, are not troubled about supply. Their circumstances reflect their type of mind and mental attitude. It does not follow that they will be rich, for many of them have no desire to possess wealth of any kind, but they have no worry about supply, for their needs are always met by sufficiency.
The hoarding of wealth is just as unnecessary as poverty. They are both based upon a fundamental error. This error is in thinking that all supply, being material, must necessarily have a material source: that it is limited in quantity, and therefore must be grabbed at and fought over.
The truth is, of course, that the source of supply is spiritual, and therefore without limit. Subsequently, those who realize the truth have no thoughts of poverty or lack, and cease to fear it.
We have to remember that the change in consciousness must take place first and become well-established, before its effects can be seen in the outer life.
Those who realize and really believe that there is abundance and plenty for them, put into operation a powerful law which will surely bring opportunity to them, sooner or later.
While in its essence, the source of supply is spiritual, it comes to us through material channels, and, in order to have a share in it, it is necessary to earn it. We have to give something in exchange for what we draw from life in the way of supply. We must give in order to receive, and what we give must be something that the world wants or needs.
The secret of supply is, then, to realize that there is unlimited abundance and to live in the consciousness of it, as completely as though no material channels existed, and, at the same time, to work as zealously and be as careful as though there were no such thing as spiritual supply.
At the same time we must give the world something that it wants, or otherwise serve in some useful capacity, exercising honesty, probity and justice in all our affairs. It is folly to expect abundance to drop ready-made in our lap; it must be earned by intelligent and faithful service.
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