This essay is very long, over 7000 words or a little more than 12 pages of standard book type.

The essay is definitely not for someone with a short attention span and wants the history of the world told to them in 5 words or less.

The essay has much with all information relating to the power of thought. The Essay has topics including:

Power of Thought

Affirmations

Intuition

The Inner Mind and how it works to help us achieve our goals

The Nature of becoming a Good Guitar Player and the power of thought

The Nature of becoming rich and the power of thought

New Thought Movement

Mesmer and Animal Magnetism and how it affected the New Thought Movement.

Phineas P. Quimby who’s Principles on Mental Healing founded the New Thought Movement that advocates the power of thought

Do you have some control over your own life through your thinking and attitude? You most certainly do have a great deal of control over your own life through your thinking.

In the earliest history of human beings they were ruled by superstition. History shows that the earliest humans believed that mystical and magical forces controlled all that happens in the world. Religion that worshipped the mystical powers that controlled nature were humans first way to explain what happens in the world. As time went on Humans dreamed up more complex Gods to explain what happened in the world.

Most of the religions that were dreamed up by humans had many Gods. The Greeks had a God for everything, even a God for Sleep. The Romans were said to have had thousands of Gods. Everything that happened to the Romans was explained in terms of a God making it happen.

After the fall of the Roman Empire a thousand years or more went by before Humans finally learned there were natural laws that governed the Universe. The age of Reason, Science, and Enlightenment finally came to humans.

In the early history of humans the State Religion was mandatory. You believed in whatever God, or Gods the King or Ruler believed in or you were killed.

The United States was founded by men who were educated and advanced thinkers, they were educated and scientific thinkers, they were enlightened thinkers who used logic and reason and science. The Founders of the United States believed the fate of the nation was in the hands of the people using their intelligence to govern the new country.

The United States was the first Country that did not have a state religion to force people to believe in whatever God the Government decided was the one that ruled the Universe. Freedom of Religion was established in the United States. Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the association of ideas to come up with new knowledge was established as a way of life in the United States. The Founders of the United States believed that the fate of the nation was in the hands of people who would use intelligence to make the laws that governed the people. Using this philosophy the United States has prospered more than any nation that has ever existed.

Since freedom of religion existed in the United States, anyone could believe in one God, or they could believe in 50 million Gods if they wanted. But no one could force their way of thinking when it came to religion on the people. Government and Religion were to be completely separated.

Because freedom of religion existed in the United States a new way of viewing things came into being. The New Thought Movement came into being starting with Phineas P. Quimby who developed a system of healing Sickness that was based on mental healing. The Principles of Phinas Quimby taught that we create our own world using thought.

The New Thought Movement caught on and has in fact infiltrated much of Orthodox Christianity’s thinking. New Thought Principles are often taught by orthodox Preachers but they are not presented as New Thought ideas.

The great appeal of New Thought Philosophy was that a person had control of their own fate by using their own intelligence and thought to create the life for themselves that they wanted. New Thought to some degree is a religion. There are in fact a few small Churches that are considered New Thought religions. However, for the most part New Thought Philosophy has been embraced mostly by people who do not belong to a New Thought Church for essentially New Thought Philosophy does not teach a Religious Dogma and can therefore be embraced by anyone in any religion. The main message of New Thought Philosophy is that you have control of your own fate through your thinking. New Thought Philosophy puts the responsibility of one’s fate on the person themselves for New Thought Philosophy believes that we create our own world through our thinking.

Does thought have power? Millions of people most assuredly believe that thoughts do have power.

Can thought heal the body? Can thought affect events and other people in the world? Many people believe that thoughts do indeed have the power to heal the body and that thoughts can cause events to happen.

The New Thought Philosophy came into being from a man who had practice Animal Magnetism to heal the body. Phineas P. Quimby was for many years a Public Mesmerist who gave demonstrations of the "Magnetic State" as it was called in the 1800s. The Magnetic State was what is now called the Hypnotic State.

Is there such a thing as Animal Magnetism. In the 1800s Doctor Franz Mesmer said he discovered Animal Magnetism but he could never fully describe it scientifically. However Dr. Mesmer, a Physician, a Medical Doctor, a scientific thinker, used his Animal Magnetism to heal many people and even trained others to use Animal Magnetism to heal people.

The principals of Animal Magnetism lived on after the Death of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer. The Phenomena of Animal Magnetism had more than one school and eventually Animal Magnetism came to America with many public displays of the effects of Animal Magnetism. As in Europe under the direction of Dr. Mesmer, Animal Magnetism was used to heal people in the United States in the 1800s.

Is there a kind of magnetism that passes from one human to another human with the magnetism affecting other people? Many political leaders and entertainers are seen as magnetic personalities that affect other people and especially the way the Politician or Entertainer is perceive. Many CEOs of large corporations are seen as people with a powerful magnetic personality that affects people greatly. And people who believe that some Political Personalities, Entertainers and CEOs do indeed have powerful magnetic charismatic personalities to affect people and these people do not necessarily believe that thoughts have power. They just see that these powerful magnetic personalities greatly affect other people.

Leaders in general, the most effective leaders, are seen as having a magnetic personality. This is especially true for those who founded religions and who have taken power over nations and sometimes ruled them as Dictators. They are seen as having a powerful magnetic, charismatic personality that affects other people and causes other people to follow them.

A Mesmerist living in the United States in the 1800s was seen as a strong willed person who could greatly influence and to some degree control other people. From this man, Phineas P. Quimby, came the principles that are used by the New Thought Movement which indeed believes that thoughts have power.

I realized thoughts had power early in my life. No one taught me that, I just knew it was true.

Early in life I became interested in Hypnosis which came from the Practice of Animal Magnetism. I saw demonstrations of Hypnosis and I was amazed. I researched hypnosis extensively. Intuitively I felt that there was more to mental phenomena than met the eye.

As a youngster I was Magnetically attracted to read about the men in India who could practice mind control to the point of being able to slow their heart rate down and to control their respiratory system to the point that they could be buried alive in a coffin and live for months on the air in the Coffin. I think this made me realize the power of the mind over the body was greater than most people give credit to the phenomena.

I affected a major portion of my life using the power of thought so I know for certain that thought does have power.

Affirmations are very big now. Affirmations are the power of positive thinking. Affirmations are a kind of Mental Programming.

Phineas P. Quimby made the discovery of how powerful thoughts are. Quimby used the power of thought to heal people, thousands of people.

Phineas P. Quimby was truly an amazing man with insights that most people would never have on their own. Quimby could rightfully be called the "Father of psychosomatic medicine" for he discovered how the mind, thoughts and emotions, affect the body. A great many of his cures came from discovering what in a person’s mind was causing their sickness, revealing this to the patient and the patient was then cured. I have to believe that he worked with the patients on their emotions and thoughts that were causing their illness so they could understand and be cured. But as a sound byte Quimby said he merely revealed it to them. His method was effectively the same as is used by the Psychologist and psychiatrists today.

Psychology was in it’s infancy when Phineas P. Quimby was healing people with his method. Psychiatry was none existent at that time.

The healings of Phineas P. Quimby were mental healings. He understood the effect that mind and emotions have on the body and understood it well enough to heal people.

Quimby’s findings were not in reality simple. Quimby was supposed to enter a patient’s mind mentally, or psychically, using what might be considered the same as mental telepathy. To some people this would disqualify Quimby immediately. But this is supposed to be the way that Quimby saw what was in a person’s mind.

Phineas P. Quimby said that when he was in a patient’s mind he saw something that he nor anyone else had ever heard of. He said he saw an intelligent energy that extended to the entire universe and connected all things in the Universe. Quimby saw this intelligent energy as something that is in fact God and the Universe itself. And in the energy he saw perfection where there was no such thing as sickness. Quimby saw the person as being perfect in this universal energy and he saw the world was perfect in the universal energy.

Phineas P. Quimby saw sickness as being a product of people’s thinking, he saw them as only thinking they were sick and their thoughts manifested something to the person that appeared to be reality. Quimby believed that if a person saw their sickness as being a product of their thinking, if they knew their sickness was not real, then they would no longer be sick for sickness would have disappeared from their mind and therefore the sickness did not exist and the person had perfect health. Quimby also saw poverty and all the undesirable things in the world as being non existent for the real world of intelligent energy that held the entire universe together and made it work was perfect and this was the real world with a world of sickness, poverty and other undesirable things as being only products of our thinking. He believed if we knew this was true and quit using our thinking to create sickness, poverty and other things we did not want, then we would have the good world we wanted with perfect health and abundance for all. To my understanding this is basically what Christian Science teaches.

After Mary Baker Eddy Established Christian Science the other students that studied the Phineas P. Quimby Principles also started writing books on the Quimby Principles. The New Thought Movement was firmly established.

It is rightly said that if there had been no Phineas P. Quimby there would have been no Christian Science. And if Christian Science had not been established the principles of Phineas P. Quimby would have been lost for all time.

Mary Baker Eddy establishing Christian Science caused the other fellow students of Quimby to start writing on the Phineas P. Quimby Principles and many New Thought Religions came into being: Unity and Religious Science were New Thought Religions that were born after Christian Science was established. Ernest Holmes wrote the "Science of Mind" book which has been read by millions of people. The Term Mental Science came into being.

The Quimby principles basically teaches that we create the world we live in by our thoughts. The Principles teach that we can create a good world or a bad world according to our thoughts and beliefs.

I will now give you an example of how many people are using the Phineas P. Quimby Principles in the form of affirmations. This is effectively using thought to create what one wants in life.

When I was going through a school for Disc Jockeys, a Radio Announcers School, the teacher of the school, a very gifted DJ, was living on a low amount of money. Only the disc jockey’s who work at the very largest radio stations earn the big money and there are very few of these disc jockeys in the world.

The Disc Jockey Teacher wanted to have more money so he could have a good living for himself and his family. He had a new member of the Family, a baby daughter and he wanted to provide a good living for her. The new mouth to feed took the DJ away from his carefree life where he had enough money to live. The parent instinct was strong with Buddy, the Teacher’s Name, and so he was most assuredly wanting to find a way to make more money.

One day Buddy said to the class, "I have heard that if you want something and you get it very clear in your mind what you want, then you write out a statement that says you already have what you want, and you read this statement every day, and read it like you believe it is true, you will eventually achieve getting what you want. I have written out a statement that says I make so much money, the money I need to live in the style I want to live in, the money I need to live and support my family."

Not long after the school was over Buddy got a job as a DJ at a bigger and better Radio Station in another city. I talked to him a few years later and he was in the process of moving to another radio station where he would be the Morning DJ then go out and sell advertising. If you are an on the air DJ this opens doors in sales. And sales is a way to make money in Radio.

In getting the new job, on another radio station, Buddy fulfilled two desires at the same time. Buddy had the hope of making enough money to live well and he had the morning man DJ job. The Radio Station he had been working for put him on the night shift and he did not like this for he knew he had very few listeners at night. The morning Drive Time is the shift that has the most listeners in radio for everyone listens to the radio on their way to work.

When one makes affirmations, and they say them every day, and say them like they believe they are already true, something called "Strength of Desire" energizes the affirmations. If someone wants to be rich and they have an affirmation they say every day that says they are already rich, the strength of their desire to be rich greatly enters into the picture. If someone thinks, "How nice it would be to be rich. I will say an affirmation every day that says I’m already rich. Then I will be rich as time goes by." This is true only if someone has a super strong desire to be rich. There is very little power in an affirmation when someone has a very passing desire to be rich. Therefore the person is not likely to ever acquire wealth.

Ask anyone who started out with near nothing and became rich or just very affluent if it was easy and if it happened overnight. They will tell you that it was not easy to acquire money and that it did not happen over night. They will tell you they put much time and effort into acquiring money. And it was only through a concentrated effort and finding a way to acquire money that they did indeed acquire much money. They did not get rich or very affluent by magic. They were determined to acquire money and they found the way to acquire money. They acquired money through work. They did not wake up one morning and find a million dollars on their pillow.

If one is completely determine to achieve something, and they persist and never give up, they will eventually achieve their goals by concentrated thought and effort. Having confidence that their goals can be achieved, is a great aid. Confidence is in some ways faith for it is a belief that something can be done.

Our inner minds are automatically programmed to fulfill our strongest desires. Our inner minds know that we do not much want something if the desire is very weak. Therefore our inner minds says, "He doesn’t really want that so I’m not going to get it for him. I refuse to be programmed to get something he does not really want." This is how it works.

Can one become a great Guitar Player by writing an affirmation and saying it every day? If the person has a great passion for playing the Guitar this can be done. If someone has not a great passion but instead has a passing desire to learn to play the Guitar, a desire so weak that they would practice the Guitar maybe 30 minutes a day and that was it, a desire so weak that they wanted Magic to turn them into a Great Guitar player, then they could say an a affirmation every day for eternity and they would never become a great Guitar Player.

In music the Guitar Players that are good play the Guitar a lot. The Best Guitarist play many hours each day. They love to play the Guitar so much that no one has to tell them to practice. Instead a wife or girl friend or mother may beg them to stop playing the Guitar so much and give them some attention. However the person who has a great passion for the Guitar and Music will never be deterred, they will devote the biggest part of their life to becoming a good musician.

I saw and heard a famous girl singer interviewed on TV. She said that people often say, "I love your music. I wish I had the great gift for music that you have." The famous girl singer said I did not wake up one morning and find I could play music. I spent thousands of hours learning to play music and developing my skills. The girl might be what is considered a gifted musician and song writer but she still had to spend thousands of hours practicing at developing her skills to get to the point that people would perceive her as a gifted musician. So the person that thinks the great musician woke up one morning and picked up a Guitar for the first time and was able to play like a professional are wrong, if anyone should be so foolish as to think that has ever happened.

Jerry Reed who is considered a Gifted Musician has stated that in the beginning he practiced 16 hours a day. He did not wake up one morning, pickup a Guitar and say, "Wow, I can play the Guitar and I have never tried to play it before in my life. I didn’t know I could play the Guitar, but I can and I’m a great musician."

Can one make up and affirmation that says, "I’m a Great Musician. I can play the Guitar as well as Eric Clapton. I’m a genius on the Guitar" then practice playing the Guitar 30 minutes a day and actually become as good on the Guitar as Eric Clapton? Taking Guitar Lessons and practicing playing the Guitar 30 minutes a day might make you learn to play a little, but I’ll guarantee you that 30 minutes practice a day on the Guitar will never make you into an Eric Clapton on the Guitar. And you can say your affirmation till you are blue in the face and 30 minutes of practice on the Guitar each day still will not make you into an Eric Clapton on the Guitar.

If you have a great passion for playing the Guitar and say your affirmation, "I’m a great Guitar Player. I’m as good as Eric Clapton on the Guitar" then your inner mind will guide you to practice as much as possible. And your inner mind will automatically Guide you to discover what to do to become the Best Guitar player that you can be. But it will not happen overnight. It will happen over a fairly long period of time.

Eric Clapton did not start playing the Guitar and within one or two months find he was playing the Guitar the way he plays now. Eric Clapton spent much time devoting himself to becoming a Great Guitar Player. However, I’m sure that Eric Clapton did not consider what he did to learn the Guitar as work, instead he considered it fun and a great pleasure.

If you say an affirmation like "I’m a Great Guitar Player. I’m as good on the Guitar as Eric Clapton" this will give you confidence and confidence works miracles. If you can come to actually believe you are as good on the Guitar as Eric Clapton your progress in learning to play the Guitar will be phenomenal. This will be especially true if you have a real passion for playing the Guitar instead of just having a Passing Desire to Play the Guitar.

I will have to say that having a great passion for playing Guitar is necessary to becoming a great Guitar player. Saying the affirmation "I’m a Great Guitar Player. I’m as good a Guitar Player as Eric Clapton" will give you the confidence it takes to learn to play the Guitar, but it still takes having a Great Passion for playing the Guitar to turn you into a Great Guitar Player. For if, and only if, you have a great passion for the Guitar, will you do what is necessary to become a great Guitar Player.

Our inner mind is where our intelligence lies. Our Conscious mind is little more than a keyboard on a computer. Our conscious mind gives messages to the Inner Mind the way we give messages to the computer CPU and Memory, the program in the computer when we use the keyboard. Our inner mind responds most to our desires in conjunction with what it gets from our outer mind, or conscious mind. If someone says they want to be a Great Guitar Player but it’s just a passing desire that they can achieve with no effort, I can guarantee you the person will never become a Great Guitar Player. Life does not work that way.

In order for us to learn to play the Guitar we must practice. We must give our inner mind the data it takes for the inner mind to then enable us to play the Guitar. No matter how much natural talent a person might have in the area of music, this process still must take place. This means we must study and practice to learn to play music.

We must train our fingers to fret the Guitar. This is quite a skill. We must train the right hand to pick the Guitar, this too is quite a skill. We must learn to co-ordinate the fingers on our right and left hand so we can play music. This is an incredible skill and it takes time and much practice. Even Eric Clapton had to do this when he learned to play the Guitar. Eric Clapton did not pickup the Guitar the first time and play like Eric Clapton Plays now. He too had to go through the task of learning to play the Guitar. Eric Clapton had to send much data to his inner mind and the data was stored in Eric Clapton’s Memory banks to be used later.

Anyone who thinks they can learn to do something as complex as playing the Guitar without taking the time to practice and learn is in for a big disappointment.

Why are the best Guitar Players good? They play the Guitar a lot and they do this every day.

Chet Atkins Stated that he practiced the Guitar 8 hours a day, every day of his life. Chet did not learn to play the Guitar then quit practicing. Instead Chet continued all his life to practice 8 hours a day. That is one of the reason’s that Chet Atkins was so good on the Guitar.

Chet Atkins had great confidence in achieving what he wanted to achieve in life. In an interview on TV Chet said, "A person can do anything they set their mind to do, within reason of course." Chet believing that he could do anything he set his mind to do gave him confidence and confidence is in some ways faith. Chet believed in himself. But Chet was willing to do what it took to achieve what he wanted to achieve. He did not believe that he could say and affirmation and like Magic he could do whatever it was he wanted to achieve. However, Chet programmed his inner mind to believe that he could do anything he set his mind to do. This inner mind programming was responsible to a large degree for the Great Success that Chet Atkins had in life not only as a Guitar Player but also as a Manager who was the CEO of RCA records in Nashville. Chet’s confidence in himself and his ability to do anything he set his mind to do was in some ways an affirmation for it most assuredly programmed his inner mind to cause Chet to achieve great things in life.

Our inner mind is where our real intelligence lies. Our outer conscious mind is but an interface to the outside world, the way a Computer Keyboard and Computer Screen, and a Computer Printer is to a computer. As the intelligent processing done on a computer is not done by the Keyboard, the intelligent thinking done by humans for the most part is not done by the Conscious Mind even though we think it is done by the Conscious Mind. Even when we are talking on a subject, arguing on a subject, doing whatever on a subject, any subject, the inner mind is using all the information that we have ever learned, all the information that has ever been stored in our vast memory banks that the Human Brain, the Human Mind has. The inner mind is always reasoning and giving us information that we need for daily life and arguing, or playing the Guitar.

Most assuredly we must feed information to the Inner mind via our conscious mind. This is called education. The inner mind must be taught by the outer mind certain data for us to learn to walk and talk and pickup items from a table or where ever.

I saw an Educational show on TV that showed a baby, learning to pickup items from a table. The Baby or very young child, would reach their hand out and miss the item on the table, maybe their hand would go to the left of the item. But the Baby never gave up it reached out for the item again. This time it’s hand may have gone to the right side of the item. The Baby reaches for the item once more. This time the Baby’s hand goes directly to the item and he/she picks the item up. The Baby’s inner mind stored the data when the Baby reached to the left of the item, then to the right of the item. Then the Baby’s inner mind directed the Baby to reach out and get the item on the table.

Our inner mind constantly stores data, the data that comes to it via the conscious mind. This data is always available to achieve what we want to achieve in life. We go to school to learn to read and write, and all the things we learn in school. This is stored in our inner mind, in our memory banks and is always there for the inner mind to use whenever it is needed.

It is believed that the inner mind has one more source for gathering data, Intuition. Have you ever known something but did not know how you knew the information. Of course everyone has experienced this in life. Intuition reveals to us things we never knew we knew.

Humans are genetically programmed to have intuition. Intuition is part of the human survival system and it is an incredible source of knowledge that we could not other wise have. Science gives recognition to the fact that intuition does exist but science has not been able to discover how or why intuition works for intuition cannot be researched using the scientific method for intuition works spontaneously and cannot be controlled.

There are psychics who can at least somewhat control their intuition. Psychics have an incredible ability that is not possessed by many people in this world. However a gifted psychic told me that it is considered incredibly good for a psychic to be right 60 percent of the time.

Intuition is not guessing and happening to be right. Intuition is knowledge that the inner mind delivers to the conscious mind spontaneously when the knowledge is needed.

Musicians are known to be very intuitive. Art is an intuitive skill or ability. Art comes from the imagination and the imagination seems to engage the intuitive mind.

Musicians that have played for many years and have reached a high skill level in music often play music that surprises even the musicians themselves and they do not know how they played the music. Sometimes musicians will get glassy eyed and they are no longer conscious of their outer surroundings. They are completely at one with the music and this is when most musicians do their most artistic playing of music. However, no one picks up a Guitar for the first time and goes into an intuitive state and starts playing super artistic music. Intuitive playing is done by musicians who have studied and developed to a very high level of artistry. There is no affirmation that one can say that will enable them to pickup a Guitar for the first time and play like a virtuoso.

As no one picks up a Guitar the first time and plays like a Virtuoso, the person who goes from poverty to wealth or great abundance does not wake up some morning access his bank account on the internet and find that his bank account has a million dollars in it.

Getting rich by magic is what most people would like to happen. Who wants to work at becoming rich. This is one reason the Lotteries do so well. Everyone is trying to get rich by purchasing a chance on the Lottery.

Mathematicians calculated the odds for one winning the Lottery and they calculated the odds for one getting hit by lighting. The results of these calculations showed that a person is more likely to get hit by lighting than they are to win the Lottery.

Studies have been made on people who have won the Lottery, what happened to them after they won the Lottery. Within three years after winning the Lottery most Lottery winners are actually in worse financial condition than they were before they won the Lottery. People who come by money the fast and easy way simply do not know how to manage their money so they lose it very quickly. This is a proven fact.

Winning the Lottery happens to very few people. Tens of millions of people buy Lottery tickets and there is one winner. And the person who does win the Lottery does not know how to manage their money so they lose it within a relative short period of time. Their thinking actually takes them down instead of up.

The people who go from poverty or lower income to being wealthy or super affluent have a great appreciation for money and wealth. These people know how to manage money and they know how to keep their money. That is why they eventually become rich or very affluent. Their thinking is in control and in control in a good way, a way that keeps them wealthy or very affluent.

The richest people are the tightest people in the world. It is well known that richest people are the ones that never tip, or seldom tip. Rich people know that you cannot go around giving money away and stay rich, so they simply do not tip. Rich people value money, wealth, and they do whatever it takes to remain wealthy. Rich people are incredible money managers.

I worked for a man who greatly valued wealth. He saw being rich as the most important thing in the world. He near worshipped money. He would do most anything to get money. When it came to values, having money was at the top of the list for this man. I could tell you things he did to acquire money that would make you sick. That is how much he valued wealth. This is the kind of person who is most likely to get rich.

I most certainly do not say that one has to value money above all things to become rich but I’d say that to become rich one must put a super high value on having money, not spending money. And one must want money so much that they will do whatever it takes, within reason, to get rich.

The man I knew actually broke the law and almost ended up in prison for illegal business activities. He lucked out and was put on Probation for years and this made him believe that nothing was worth going to prison for. So he walked the straight and narrow after that, well pretty much the straight and narrow, he still broke the law in small ways where he figured the odds of getting caught were very small. He did love money and he was rich.

I have to believe that the person who goes from having very little money to becoming rich or very affluent must have a great love for possessing money. I have to believe that there is no affirmation anyone can say that will cause a person to become rich if that person does not have a great desire to be rich or least very affluent.

The person who becomes rich has a strong desire to be rich. They keep in mind their goals and they do everything possible to achieve their goal and they persist. They are willing to work and do whatever is necessary to become rich.

I know such a man. An old Black Rich Gentleman I met through a Black Friend I had at work. He wanted me to meet his rich uncle. So he invited me to have dinner with him and his rich uncle at his Rich Uncle’s house.

The old Black Gentleman who was retired, owned a $350,000.00 house and a Cadillac Car. He had many more rental houses that he had an income from. The Rich Uncle had started out poor, working minimum wage jobs in the early 50s when Black People could not get a good paying job. He never had a high pay job in his lifetime and yet he had a home he lives in that is worth $350,000.00 and he owns many homes that he rents out. How did he acquire this wealth? By concentrated effort for the wealth is what he wanted and had a strong desire to achieve. And he was willing to work and pay whatever price it took to acquire the wealth.

The Old Black Gentleman told me he was born on a farm. His Father could neither read or write. But his Father was in good financial shape for he had discovered the secret to abundance.

The Old Black Gentleman revealed to me that his Father told him, "Son, set out your stake and always move toward the stake you set out." This means "Set your goal and always work toward that goal" and that is what the Old Rich Gentleman had done and he had achieved his goal of being wealthy.

The Old Rich Black Gentleman told me that in the early 50s when he had to work for minimum wages his friends said, "I would not work for any man for those small wages." He said, "I wasn’t working for any man. I was working for me." He knew that it took work to acquire wealth and he was willing to work, willing to do whatever it took to acquire wealth and he would persist as long as it took to acquire the wealth he wanted.

The Old Rich Black Gentleman had a strong desire to be wealthy. His inner mind knew that is what he really wanted and so his inner mind went to work for him and guided him to do the things that eventually brought him the wealth he wanted. This is the way life works. A passing desire for wealth will get you nothing.

I have been involved with the New Thought movement much of my life. I came to know the principles of the New Thought way of achieving something without anyone teaching me the principles. I intuitively understood them and I used them to achieve something I wanted most in life. Later on I realized the reason that I had achieved my goal was that I wanted to achieve the goal with a great passion.

I used affirmations long before it was fashionable to use affirmations. The Old Rich Black Gentleman had not used Affirmations to achieve getting Rich. He instead did what his Father told him to do and always headed towards the stake he had set out. He constantly kept his Goal in mind and he always worked towards achieving that goal. And of course he did achieve his goal of becoming Rich.

The Old Rich Black Gentleman did not have the demeanor of a Rich Man. He had no college education. He was not that refined. But he most certainly enjoyed being wealthy. And if you were to meet him and talked to him, you could tell he was Rich without him ever telling you he was Rich. You would just know it was true from the general way he acted.

Today there are many people who believe in the New Thought Principles and believe they can use the principles to get rich, but they are not getting rich and they will never be rich. Why, because they have no strong desire to be rich. Their desire to be rich is a very passing desire and they are by no means willing to work to achieve getting rich and they will never be rich for that is the way life works.

One is smart to ask themselves what they really want in life and work towards this goal. This is so because one will only work to achieve something they really want with a passion. If you have no passion for anything, then you will just drift and take what life hands you. That is the way life works.

Having attended both Unity and Religious Science Churches I did not find wealthy people attending those religions. If all there was to it was to say affirmations they would have all been rich, but there was not one rich person in the congregations I attended. I did discover that the people in those Churches often achieved what they wanted to achieve, in certain areas of their life. Our minds, especially our inner minds, always guides us to achieve that which we want to achieve most in life be it large or small.

Thoughts do have power, but desire has even greater power. Mary Baker Eddy said, "Our desires are a prayer," and she was right. We will achieve our desires according to how strong our desires are.

If you have a desire then by all means say an affirmation that the desire has been fulfilled. According to the strength of the desire the fulfillment will come. Of course your strongest desires are the ones most likely to be fulfilled.

New Thought teaches that the life we have is the one we want the most and to some degree this is true. Our desires motivate us the most to achieve the things in life we want most. Our upbringing and, our conditioning, and our genetic programming and our desires all work together to make us what we are and what we achieve in life.

Sometimes we want things in life but are not willing to pay the price for achieving those things. I wanted to become a successful salesman. A successful outside salesman can make good money and have the nice things in life and I wanted those nice things. And since I had been successful at selling radio advertising for a small town radio station I thought I was one heck of a salesman. So I was going to make big bucks as a salesman. I studied sales and worked at being a good salesman but I found that I could not pay the price of making the cold calls to achieve sales. A psychological test I took to see if I had the psychological make up of a salesman showed that I could sell only if I had the right thing to sell. As an outside salesman selling for a small town radio station I was successful. I couldn’t even make it selling for a big city radio station. I disliked cold calls to the point that I simply could not continue in outside sales.

The Greeks said, "Know thy self." This is good advice. Know what you really want and go for it. But sometimes you have to change course for what you thought you wanted is not something you are willing to pay the price to get. And no amount of affirmations are going to change that.

Affirmations can and do work if you do them for the right thing. Thoughts do have power, if you are on the right highway going to where you really want to go, and driving a car that you love to drive.

Your success will come in the areas you have natural talent in and in areas where your natural talents are needed by the world. Don’t try to make a Volkswagen into a BMW. It simply cannot be done.

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