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Description
Thought Conditioners contains
40 Scripture Verses with accompanying meditations by Dr. Peale that can
change the quality of your life. The words of the Bible are
powerful Thought
Conditioners. They are capable of revolutionizing the entire
personality. The
best results
are gained by utilizing spare minutes to say these Scripture passages,
or Thought
Conditioners, over and over. In the audio book presentation
of Thought Conditioners Dr.
Peale and
his wife Ruth elaborate on the spiritual meaning of these 40
Scriptural Verses.
INTRODUCTION by Norman Vincent
Peale
How to Use Thought Conditioners
Since
happiness and effectiveness depend upon the kinds of thoughts we think,
it is
absolutely impossible to be happy if we think unhappiness-producing
thoughts.
One of the wisest men who ever lived was Marcus Aurelius, who said, "A
man's life is what his thoughts make of it."
If
you put into
your mind thoughts of fear, you will get thoughts of fear out of your
mind.
Fill your mind with resentment thoughts, and resentment attitudes will
emerge.
And in neither case, of course, can you find happiness-inducing
thoughts.
Whatever the condition of your mind, the Thought Conditioners I
am going
to suggest are so powerful that they will displace unhealthy thoughts.
In
my experience
through many years in working with people, I have discovered that the
most
vital, creative and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible.
Its words
are alive. The Bible itself states what its spiritual words will do.
"If
ye abide in Me and My words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will, and
it shall
be done unto you."
This
means,
simply, that if you fill your mind with spiritual words so that they
sink from
your conscious to your subconscious mind by a process of spiritual
osmosis, you
will so condition your personality with spiritual power of sensitivity
that
God's will can operate in you. Every great value of this life, the ones
that
really matter, shall then be yours. The words of the Bible are powerful
Thought
Conditioners. They are capable of revolutionizing the entire
personality.
Over
the years, I
had noticed that certain passages from the Scriptures had a particular
potent
effect on human beings. I began, therefore, to list the life-creating
words
from the Scriptures that had done me the most good. Many of these I had
recommended to others. Some of them had been called to my attention by
people
in whom there had occurred the most astonishing demonstration of new
life and
joy. When I applied them to myself, I found they did indeed possess
tremendous
effectiveness.
The
process I have
used both personally and in counseling, which has accomplished most
impressive
results, is simply that of committing these great passages to memory.
One puts
them in the mind as in a sort of spiritual medicine cabinet, each to be
drawn
out as needed for specific ills or maladies of the personality, or to
meet
life's situations as they develop.
As
suggested
above, the method is also to conceive of these thoughts as having
displacement
value, crowding out injurious thought patterns.
The
best results
are gained by utilizing spare minutes to say these Scripture passages,
or Thought
Conditioners, over and over. As you are riding on a bus or train,
or
washing the dishes, or waiting for an appointment, utilize fractional
moments
to dwell and meditate upon the meaning of these texts. As you do so,
there will
flash out from them new insights, new perceptions of truth. Gradually,
by a
deep therapy, they will drive into the mind until presently your life
will
become a living demonstration of God's power.
I
give these 40 Thought
Conditioners to you with the prayer that they may add to the
happiness and
usefulness of your life.
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