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Stress and tension
getting you down? Want freedom from your fears and anxieties? You have
at your command all that is needed to balance your life and make it a
joyful, happy experience. But do you know how to use what you have?
This volume presents simple, easy-to-follow steps which will guide you
to the better life you desire and freedom from stress.
This
valuable material first appeared many years ago in the magazine, but
copies of
those earlier issues are no longer available. The dynamic quality
of his ideas
are of a timeless nature and need availability and permanency in a
publication
such as this.
Although
he was considered a profound thinker and a great religious philosopher,
Dr.
Holmes was at the same time a very practical man. He felt that abstract
theory
was a needed foundation, but unless and until it could be brought
down to
earth and applied to produce demonstrable results in one's experience,
it was
of little value.
The material
this volume contains emphasizes the necessity of facing the facts of
life, but
at the same time the need to resolve the problems of living through the
recognition and application of spiritual concepts.
The ideas
to be found in these pages are specific, they are concise and simple.
They are
applicable in the correcting and reconstructing of your life so that it
may
embody more health and happiness, more success and security.
INTRODUCTION
Most
people feel that life is a continual struggle and that they are always
on the
losing side. Everything and everybody is against them and the stresses
and
strains of just being alive are almost more than they can endure.
Such
feelings arise from efforts to control their environ-ment, conflicts
with
others, and an apparent inability to get along even with themselves.
There is a
tendency to think that these problems are peculiar to this era, but
actually
they have been with man since the dawn of consciousness and awareness
of the
world around him.
Our
tensions take many forms and involve such emotions as fear, guilt,
anxiety, and
hate. Accompanying them are their physically damaging effects which
result in
illnesses.
It has
been shown that unless we were kept alive and awake by a certain amount
of
stress we would just vegetate. The problem is to discover the level at
which we
best function and not let extreme reactions so envelop us that we
literally let
the matter of living get the better of us. Not only do we want to live,
but we
want to enjoy the best life has to offer.
We need
not so much to avoid the eternal problems of living but rather to
adequately
meet and control them by controlling and directing our internal
responses. It
is only as we gather our mental resources that we may guide and direct
ourselves, and in so doing bring to bear on the stress-producing
situations the
only force by which man has ever been able to achieve and progress—the
power of
his own thought.
We all
desire and need freedom from damaging pressures in whatever form
they may be
affecting us. We cannot escape from living but we can learn how to
live; what
living means, what is involved, and how to use the power of Life within
us.
Only then may we discover the path that leads from the limiting and
disastrous
bondage of stress to a new life that embodies health, happiness, and
success.
It is
hoped that the pages of this book will enable you to do for yourself
what no
one else can do for you—discover the freedom and the joy of living you
desire.
Willis Kinnear
PROLOGUE
The power
of life is in our own consciousness. We must turn there and re-create
our
environment after the image of harmony instead of discord. It is not
enough
just to believe that it can be done. We all know, in some degree, that
it can
be done. But it is not enough just to say these things are so; we must
prove
them. There must be a continuous betterment in our affairs, in
everything we
touch, if we are going to prove that we know what we are talking about.
We must
believe that God is. Our belief in God must be clearer than
our belief
in evil. Peace must destroy the illusion of fear, and faith must
overcome
doubt. All of our affairs are but thoughts cast upon the screen of
experience
as temporary events. In the silence of our own soul we walk back and
back,
turning away from the apparent condition until, finally, we emerge in
the
broader field where we are unified with the one Source of all things.
Every man
can do this, and the Almighty has already given us the power. We shall
never
know that it actually works until we do it, but once we have done it
there is
added to our lives and experiences a something which will so change us
that we
shall never again be the same; our whole reaction to life will
forever-more be
different. We shall have made one definite step in our spiritual
evolution.
— Ernest
Holmes
Chapters
1.
REDISCOVER YOURSELF
2. THE
POWER OF YOUR MIND
3. YOUR
INNER RESOURCES
4.
LEARN TO LIVE ABUNDANTLY
5. YOUR
MENTAL DIET
6.
FREEDOM FROM LIMITATION
7.
START TO REALLY LIVE
8. MAKE
YOUR LIFE WORTHWHILE
9. YOU
CREATE YOUR EXPERIENCE
10.
YOUR FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
11. THE
POWER OF MIND IN ACTION
12. THE
ROAD TO A BETTER LIFE
13.
DISCOVER FREEDOM AND SECURITY
14. THE
GREATEST OF ALL POSSIBILITIES
15. THE ART & SCIENCE OF CREATIVE THINKING
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