Another Day, Another...? You Name It

Dear Reader,

Thank you for visiting. Please do post a reply with a good story about what happenned to you today or to someone you know who is a forward thinking optimist.

I am hearing so many great stories from all of you who talk to me in person about what is happening for you. Your stories are inspiring to me and they are to others as well. Please share! One-up-manship for the greater good of all is not bragging. It's inspiring.

I have another fantastic passage to share with you today from Vic Johnson's book Day by Day with James Allen. With all the pessimism we are being bombarded with lately in the news about how our economy is suffering, this one is another that really is "worth thinking about" as Vic so aptly affirms as he sums up each entry in the very inspiring reading journal.

Conqer Doubt

"Thoughts of doubt and fear can never accomplish anything. They always lead to failure." - As a Man Thinketh

There is significant economic evidence that the Great Depression might have been avoided but for the "panic" that swept over the country (and the world) after the 1929 stock market crash. What should have been no more than a deep recession, altered our world forever because of the prevailing "thoughts of doubt and fear."

So great were the thoughts of fear that President Rooseveelt felt compelled to deliver a speech about it. By the way, FDR's speech with his now famous, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," was suggested to him by Napoleon Hill, author of the classic Think and Grow Rich.

If the thoughts of many can bring such great tragedy to our wolrd, is it any wonder that our personal thougths can do so much damage to our "individual world?" When we spend inordinate amounts of time fearing some thing or event in the future, many times that which we fear comes upon us. When it does, we wring our hands in despair and wonder why it had to happen to us, when in reality, we are responsible for our troubles.

Bob Proctor says that the process begins first with a thought of doubt, which causes an emotion of fear, which maninfests itself physically as anxiety. Anxiety robs us or our power, our energy and our purpose. Severe anxiety can even undermine our health. And it's all brought on by a thought of doubt.

I have found three things that help me conquer doubt. First, change your mind about the doubt, and keep it changed. If you have a doubt about whether you're going to have enough money to make it to the endd of the month, change your mind about it. Whenever the doubt creeps in, affirm to yourself that "I always find a way to have enough of what I need." I love what Emmet Fox says about this, "If you will change your mind concerning anything and absolutely keep it changed, that thing must and will change too. It is the keeping up of the change in thought that is difficult. It calls for vigilance and determination."

The second thing that overcomes fear and doubt is action. "Do the thing you fear and fear will disappear" is more than a nice rhying aphorism. It's some simple wisdom that always works!

And the third and most important thing to overcoming doubt and fear is Faith. Fear and Faith are directly opposite views of the future and the cannot co-exist. My Faith is in a Creator who has given me dominion over all things. Your Faith may be elsewhere, but know this: Faith and fear cannot be present at the same time.

And that's worth thinking about.

From Meditations for the Month by Vic Johnson
printed with the permission
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Change your thoughts, change your life
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Once again reader, it astounds me how relevant so much of what I read in Vic Johnson's journal is to so much of what is happenning in my life and in the lives of others I speak with. I am thankful for the opportunity to share his musings, in hopes that some of you who are reading will find what he has written to be as inspiring and helpful as I do.

Ardently,

Kathleen Betts