All entries in the ‘Actionables’ Category
Living Life
September 3rd, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Bob Proctor
Many people today live their entire lives on the basis of “seeing is believing.” That is to say, the only images they get emotionally involved with are the ones they can discern with their physical senses. But the individuals of real “vision,” down through the ages, have always known the overriding principle is, “what you see is what you get.”
God’s Plans
August 12th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Raymond Holliwell
From Working With The Law
God intended every individual to succeed. It is God’s purpose that we should become great. It is God’s will that we should not only use, but enjoy, every good in the universe. The Law of God denies man nothing.
We were born to be rich. The powers inherent in us are inexhaustible. Each normal person is endowed with a complete set of faculties which, if properly developed and scientifically applied, will insure success, ever-growing success.
We are made for progress. Everyone contains within themselves the capacity for endless development. Advancement into all things is the Law’s great purpose. By learning to work with the Law in promoting that aim, we may build ourselves into greater and greater success.
All the processes of Nature are successful. Nature knows no failures. She never plans anything but success. She aims at results in every form and manner. To succeed in the best and fullest sense of the term we must, with Nature as our model, copy her methods. In her principles and laws we shall discover all the secrets of success.
Infinite resources are at our disposal. There are no limits to our possibilities. We can develop a wonderful intelligence; thus, all life’s questions may be answered, all Nature’s secrets discovered, and all human problems solved. Nothing is impossible.
The House of 1000 Mirrors
August 7th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Japanese Folktale
Long ago in a small, far away village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the house, he thought to himself, “This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often.”
How To Increase Your Inner Peace
August 2nd, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Vernon Howard
From Psycho-Pictography
I want to give you a tested technique for gradually and surely increasing your inner peace. It works for you regardless of the noise and confusion that may surround your day.
You will detach yourself as a mental participant in these noisy events. You will observe them, be aware of them, but will not involve yourself mentally or emotionally. Perhaps you ask, “But can this really be done? It sounds impossible to separate myself from the constant clatter around me.” I assure you that it can be done by you.
You see, your True Self is detached from everything on the outside. It has awareness of exterior conditions but does not get emotionally upset by them. You have a True Self at this very moment. At the very instant of reading these lines you are capable of mental detachment from all exterior problems.
Be a calm beholder of life. Mentally detach yourself. Stand back and quietly observe everything that happens to you and around you. Do not resist it; merely observe. Do not try to change or improve or destroy it, merely be aware. See yourself as someone apart, which, in truth, you are.
You need not fear that this detachment loses your control of things. It does not harm your daily tasks. They will go on as before. It may surprise you to find them proceeding as before, even improved. Mental detachment is, in fact, a higher form of control.
This kind of detachment is not retreat from reality; it is a healthy perception of it.
The Unexpected
July 23rd, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Bob Proctor
Many people today live their entire lives on the basis of “seeing is believing.” That is to say, the only images they get emotionally involved with are the ones they can discern with their physical senses. But the individuals of real “vision,” down through the ages, have always known the overriding principle is, “what you see is what you get.”
The Beach-Ball Effect
July 18th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Debbie Ford
From Why Good People Do Bad Things: How To Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy
Every aspect of ourselves that we’ve denied, every thought and feeling that we’ve deemed unacceptable and wrong, eventually makes itself known in our lives. When we are busy building a business, creating a family, or taking care of those we love, when we are too busy to pay attention to our emotions, we have to hide our dark impulses and shame-filled qualities, which leaves us at risk for an external explosion. In a matter of minutes, when we least expect it, a rejected or unwanted aspect of ourselves can pop up and destroy our lives, our reputations, and all of our hard work. This is what I call the Beach-Ball Effect.
Think of the amount of energy it takes to hold an inflated beach ball underwater for an extended period of time. The moment you relax or take your attention away from keeping it submerged, the ball will bounce back up and splash water in your face. The Beach-Ball Effect is at work when you have suppressed something deep within your psyche, stored it in the recesses of your subconscious, and then, just when you think everything is going your way, something happens: You send a slanderous e-mail to the wrong colleague. You get lured into betraying someone you love for a night of meaningless passion. You get behind the wheel of a car after having three drinks and get arrested for drunk driving. You get caught dipping into your family’s trust fund. You fly off into a rage in front of your new lover. You make an inappropriate comment that costs you your job. You blow an important deadline right before your big review. You haul off and hit your child in a moment of frustration. In other words, the beach ball-your repressed urges and your unprocessed pain-pops up and hits you in the face, sabotaging your dreams, robbing you of your dignity, and leaving you drenched in shame.
How many more blatant acts of self-sabotage do we have to witness to understand the devastating effects of denying and suppressing our unprocessed emotional garbage?
Don Imus is a perfect example. Here is a man who worked hard to become one of the biggest radio and TV celebrities in the country over the course of thirty-five years. His entire career was based on communication. And in less than one minute the career he had spent years building was destroyed. The beach ball bounced up and hit him in the face.
Order of Visualization
July 15th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
From Your Invisible Power
by Genevieve Behrend
The exercise of the visualizing faculty keeps your mind in order, and attracts to you the things you need to make life more enjoyable in an orderly way.
If you train yourself in the practice of deliberately picturing your desire and carefully examining your picture, you will soon find that your thoughts and desires proceed in a more orderly procession than ever before.
Having reached a state of ordered mentality, you are no longer in a constant state of mental hurry. Hurry is Fear, and consequently destructive.
In other words, when your understanding grasps the power to visualize your heart’s desire and hold it with your will, it attracts to you all things requisite to the fulfillment of that picture by the harmonious vibrations of the law of attraction.
The 5 Pillars of Harmonic Wealth
July 14th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
by James Arthur Ray
To create Harmonic Wealth-a fulfilling life with riches in every category-let’s think of life in five key areas:
(1) financial;
(2) relational;
(3) mental, (including intellect and emotions);
(4) physical; and
(5) spiritual.
Visualize these as pillars. If you weaken any of them, you start falling apart, either all at once or by bits and pieces. And you can’t strengthen the structure by reinforcing the strong pillars; instead, you must attend to the weak ones-areas of neglect.
Your pillars will never be equally strong all of the time. This is what some people call “balance,” but it’s misleading. You can’t establish absolute strength for all five areas and then keep your life in that pose for an easy and unchanging life. (Thank God!) Life would be uneventful-and incredibly boring.
Think about this: In perfect balance, nothing happens-nothing!
Creating Harmonic Wealth starts with realizing that all five areas must have some attention all the time-not that all five areas demand all your attention all the time.
Please read this thought again and let it sink in.
How Can I Best Serve Humanity?
July 12th, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Bob Proctor
In my case by being a healer, a teacher, a friend, a lover and a father. I can serve by leading by example, by being genuine and authentic.
By being prepared to expose myself, to break down the persona, to peel back the layers and living the real truth of who I am.
By walking through this world with a quiet mind and open heart.
To live in the now, to face my perceived fears, to feel compassion, to see the divine in all of life.
Will Rogers’ Secret
July 2nd, 2009 | Author: Pure Thoughts Admin
Elmer Wheeler
From How to Sell Yourself to Others
A magic way to win more friendships that no one can resist; even hardened criminals can be won over this way.
“I never met a man I did not like,” said Will Rogers. Many people thought this was just another funny Rogers’ remark, but one time when I met him with Amon Carter, of Fort Worth, I asked him, “Surely you can’t like everybody?”
I knew he must meet bores, cheats, fourflushers just like the rest of us do. How can he possibly like even them?
Will was famous as a funnyman; but he was also a wise philosopher and he could be most serious when he wanted.
“Of course I don’t approve of all the things that people do,” he said, “but there is some goodness and some cussedness in all of us.”
He continued, “If you know a man well enough you can always find something good in him and you can always find something interesting about him. It is just a matter of what you are looking for!”
“But what about the narrow-minded people? What about gossips? The people who do petty, mean little things? Do you like them, too?” I persisted.
“I once read somewhere,” he said, “where someone asked Abe Lincoln that same question – why he refused to get mad at the people who abused him, ridiculed him and tried to discredit him.”
“Lincoln replied that people’s actions spring from their character and that many factors beyond their control went into making up their character – where they were born, the people they had associated with, and a lot of other things.”
“Therefore,’ said Lincoln, ‘you shouldn’t become angry with a person who blocks your path any more than you would with a tree which the wind blew across the road.’”
Will Rogers had no more reason for hating a person who happened to have been unfortunate enough to have acquired a habit of gossip than he did for hating a person who was foolish enough to neglect his teeth.
He didn’t like gossip. Few people do; and he didn’t like pettiness. He looked upon them as foolish behavior rather than evil behavior.
I am convinced that Will Rogers really did like every person he ever met.
There is an interesting thing about liking people, and that is they in turn like you. If you must start a rumor about somebody start it by saying, “I sure like that person.”
This gets back to them and they say, “Well, I always liked him, too.”
Another funny thing about gossip is that if they tell you things about others, you can just bet they will tell others things about you.
While there is always a temptation to listen to gossip, just remember while you are on the listening end this time with this gossiper, the next time you will be on the receiving end when the gossiper gets elsewhere.
Beware of the Gossip!
