Power Of Positive Thinking by Noman V Peale
INTRODUCTION
What This Book Can Do for You
THIS BOOK is WRITTEN to suggest techniques and to give examples which demonstrate
that you do not need to be defeated by anything, that you can have peace of mind,
improved health, and a never-ceasing flow of energy. In short, that your life can
be full of joy and satisfaction. Of this I have no doubt at all for I have watched
countless persons learn and apply a system of simple procedures that has brought
about the foregoing benefits in their lives. These assertions, which may appear
extravagant, are based on bona-fide demonstrations in actual human experience.
Altogether too many people are defeated by the everyday problems of life. They go
struggling, perhaps even whining, through their days with a sense of dull resentment
at what they consider the "bad breaks" life has given them. In a sense there may be
such a thing as "the breaks" in this life, but there is also a spirit and method by
which we can control and even determine those breaks. It is a pity that people
should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human
existence, and it is also quite unnecessary.
In saying this I certainly do not ignore or minimize the hardships and tragedies
of the world, but neither do I allow them to dominate. You can permit obstacles to
control your mind to the point where they are upper-most and thus become the
dominating factors in your thought pattern. By learning how to cast them from the
mind, by refusing to become mentally subservient to them, and by channeling
spiritual power through your thoughts, you can rise above obstacles which ordinarily
might defeat you. By methods I shall outline, obstacles are simply not permitted to
destroy your happiness and well-being. You need be defeated only if you are willing
to be. This book teaches you how to "will" not to be.
The purpose of this book is a very direct and simple one. It makes no pretense to
literary excellence nor does it seek to demonstrate any unusual scholarship on my
part. This is simply a practical, direct-action, personal improvement manual. It
is written with the sole objective of helping the reader achieve a happy,
satisfying, and worthwhile life. I thoroughly and enthusiastically believe in
certain demonstrated and effective principles which, when practiced, produce a
victorious life. My aim is to set them forth in this volume in a logical, simple,
and understandable manner so that the reader, feeling a sense of need, may learn a
practical method by which he can build for himself, with God's help, the kind of
life he deeply desires.
If you read this book thoughtfully, carefully absorbing its teachings, and if you
