Right And Wrong Thinking And Their Results Large Print Edition

1. Preface 52. Introduction 83. Relation Of Thinking To Bodily Action 144. Intended Actions 255. Actions Not Intended 336. A General Proposition 457. As Seen By Others 478. Mutual Reactions Of Mind And Body 649. Influence Of External Incidents 7410. The Rule 8111. Discordant Thoughts 9412. How To Control Thinking 11513. Substitution 12214. Immediate Action 13015. Persistence 13416. Not Always Easy 14217. Effect Of The Physical Attitude 14718. All Ones Own Work 15219. Destruction Of Discordant Thoughts15720. Scylla And Charybdis 16521. Moral Discrimination 16922. A Little Analysis And Its Application 17523. Habit 18124. The Relation Of Thinking To Health 18625. Recapitulation Of Principles 20226. The Worry Habit 21227. Business Success 22328. Undivided Attention 23029. Importance Of Early Training 23630. Three Notable Examples 24531. The Penalty For Sin 24932. A Story And Its Lesson 25733. The Story Of A Contract 26734. The Story Of A Note 27235. A Discussion Of The Stories 27636. Sensitiveness 28837. Sympathy 29838. Suggestion 30639. Hypnotic Control 32140. Environment 32941. Each Is Responsible For Himself 34142. Thought Control Is The True Self-Control 35543. Man The Architect Of Himself 36244. Possibility Of Perfection 37245. The Teaching Of Jesus 386Notwithstanding the immense amount of attention which has been directed in a broad general way to mind and its action, and although the constructive and creative ability of mind through thinking has been so long and so universally acknowledged, yet we are just now beginning to recognize the close and direct personal relation which thinking bears to man. The limits of the power of mind have never been clearly perceived, but recognition of their extent continually enlarges as knowledge and understanding increase. The differences between ignorant and enlightened, between savage and civilized, between brute and man, are all due to mind and its action. All the multifarious customs and habits of mankind, whether simple or complex, though often attributed to other causes, are, from first to last, the direct results of thinking. The unwritten history of the evolution of clothing, from its rude beginnings in the far-distant and forgotten past through all the ages since man first inhabited the earth, though at first glance seemingly simple, yet, as a whole, is wonderfully complex and astonishing in its particulars. Its story is only the story of the application of mind to the solution of a single one of the vast multitude of problems connected with human requirements. It is true that our factories and palaces, our temples and our homes, are built of earthly material, but mind directed their fashioning into the vast multitude of forms, more or less beautiful, so lavishly displayed by architecture in city and country. The multitudinous products of constructive art which are scattered in lavish profusion over the whole earth are marvelous exhibitions of what mind has done; and these are being multiplied daily. Only in these more recent years has it been clearly perceived that mind action is first in the order of occurrence, and that it is the absolute ruler of man himself as well as of all these wonderful works which mind has created. Mind is the motor power and governs everything, everywhere; but man can control mind, and therefore, by that control, he may be the imperious dictator of his mind’s entire course, and, rising thence to the highest pinnacle of possibility, he may become the arbiter of destiny itself.