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ThePowerof PositiveThinkingCondensed EditionBy Norman Vincent Peale
About the author Norman Vincent Peale, often called the “minister-tomillions,” was senior minister at the historic Marble Collegiate Church in New York City for 52 years.Dr. Peale and his wife, Ruth Stafford Peale, foundedGuideposts in 1945, an interfaith ministry dedicated to helping people from all walks of life achieve their personal andspiritual potential. Previously, in 1940, they founded PealeCenter for Christian Living, which is dedicated to continuingDr. Peale’s legacy of positive thinking and faith. In 1995,the two organizations merged and Peale Center is now theOutreach Division of Guideposts.Dr. Peale wrote 46 books, including the classic best-seller,The Power of Positive Thinking, which has demonstrated thata change in a person’s attitude will change his or her life.Throughout his life, Dr. Peale emphasized the individual’sability to overcome life’s problems and seize its opportunities, through faith in God and belief in oneself. He provedthis in his own life. Although he was a minister of the Gospel,and believed in God, he didn’t always believe in himself.As he matured from a shy boy into manhood, his faithled him to the conviction that God had placed a portion ofHis power in all of us. He reasoned that if this was the case,then each of us was capable of doing great things, so hewholeheartedly embraced the Bible as an infallible guide forcreative living. This was Dr. Peale’s message: If you believethat the power of God within you is equal to any of life’sdifficulties, then a rewarding life will be yours.21. Believe In Yourself! 32. A Peaceful Mind Generates Power 93. How To Have Constant Energy 124. Try Prayer Power 165. How To Create Your Own Happiness 206. Expect The Best And Get It 247. I Don’t Believe In Defeat 288. How To Break The Worry Habit 329. Power To Solve Personal Problems 36Introduction10. When Vitality Sags,Try This Health Formula11. How To Get People To Like You12. Prescription For Heartache13. How To Draw Upon That Higher PowerThe Power of Positive Thinking Copyright 1987 & 2008 byPeale Center for Positive Thinking. All rights reserved.Unauthorized reproduction, in any manner, is prohibited.Printed in U.S.A. 018-4860 12201140444852
B1. Believe InIntroductionYourself!efore the manuscript of The Power of Positive Thinking was delivered to the publishers,” Dr. Norman Vincent Peale wrote, “Mrs. Peale and I sat in our living roomreviewing the years of preparation and writing of this book.There were many prayers for guidance during that period.Many times I felt the message of the book was given to meby inspiration, for, as I wrote, I always struggled to understand the needs of people.”Since its first printing in 1952, The Power of PositiveThinking has been translated into 40 languages and soldmore than 20 million copies.This condensation was prepared by Ric Cox, formerly atop editor at Reader’s Digest. It retains the techniques andexamples from the original text, which demonstrate thatyou can have peace of mind, improved health and a neverceasing flow of energy. In short, your life can be full of joyand satisfaction.The concept of positive thinking has permeated ourculture. It is a philosophy of faith that does not ignore life’sproblems, but rather explains a practical approach to life’sfull potential. It is a system of creative living based onspiritual techniques, and its operation is demonstrated in thelives of thousands of people. We offer this condensed edition because these are timeless truths that will work todayand tomorrow. The powerful principles contained here aregiven to us by the greatest Teacher who ever lived and stilllives. This book teaches a simple yet scientific system ofpractical techniques for successful living that works.Elizabeth Peale AllenChairman of the Board, Guidepostselieve in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Withouta humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inadequacy interfereswith the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidenceleads to self-realization and achievement. Because of theimportance of this mental attitude, this book will help youbelieve in yourself and release your inner powers.An appalling number of people are made miserable byan inferiority complex. But you need not suffer from thistrouble. You can develop faith in yourself.After a convention, a man approached me and asked,“May I talk with you about a matter of desperate importance to me?” We went backstage and sat down.“I’m in town to handle the most important businessdeal of my life,” he explained, “but I don’t believe I canput it over. I am discouraged and depressed. In fact,” helamented, “I’m just about sunk. Why is it that all my life Ihave been tormented by inferiority feelings? I listened toyour speech tonight about the power of positive thinking,and I want to ask how I can get some faith in myself.”“There are two steps,” I replied. “First, it is importantto discover why you have these feelings. That requiresanalysis and will take time, and may require treatment.But to pull you through this immediate problem I shallgive you a formula. As you walk down the street tonight,23B
repeat certain words I shall give you. Say them overseveral times before your important appointment. Dothis with an attitude of faith and you will receive abilityto deal with this problem.” Following is the affirmationI gave him: “I can do all things through Christ whichstrengtheneth me” (Philippians 4:13). “Now, follow thatprescription, and things will come out all right.”He pulled himself up, stood quietly for a moment, thensaid with considerable feeling, “Okay, Doctor. Okay.”I watched him square his shoulders and walk out. Heseemed a pathetic figure; yet the way he carried himself showed that faith was already at work in his mind.Subsequently he reported that this simple formula “didwonders” for him. He added, “It seems incredible that afew words from the Bible could do so much.”Of the various causes of inferiority feelings, not a fewstem from childhood. My own story is a perfect illustration. As a small boy I was painfully thin. I had lots ofenergy, was on a track team, was healthy and hard asnails, but thin. And that bothered me because I didn’twant to be thin. I longed to be hard-boiled and tough andfat. I did everything to get fat. I drank cod-liver oil, consumed vast numbers of milk shakes, chocolate sundaes,cakes and pies, but they did not affect me in the slightest.I stayed thin and lay awake nights thinking and agonizingabout it. I kept on trying to get heavy until I was about 30,when all of a sudden I bulged at the seams. Then I becameself-conscious because I was so fat, and finally had to takeoff 40 pounds with equal agony to get myself down torespectable size.In the second place, practically every member ofmy family was a public speaker, and that was the lastthing I wanted to be. They used to make me speak evenwhen it filled me with terror. I had to use every knowndevice to develop confidence in what powers the goodLord gave me.I found the solution in the simple techniques of faithtaught in the Bible. These principles are scientific and canheal any personality of inferiority feelings. Their use canrelease the powers which have been inhibited by a feelingof inadequacy.Such are some of the sources of the inferiority complex which erect power barriers in our personalities. It issome emotional violence done to us in childhood, or theconsequences of certain circumstances, or something wedid to ourselves.This malady arises out of the misty past in the dimrecesses of our personalities. Perhaps you had an olderbrother who was a brilliant student. He got A’s in school;you made only C’s, and you never heard the last of it. Soyou believed that you could never succeed in life as hecould. He got A’s and you got C’s, so you reasoned thatyou were consigned to getting C’s all your life. Apparently you never realized that some of those who failed toget high grades in school have been the greatest successesoutside of school. Just because somebody gets an A incollege doesn’t make him the greatest man in the UnitedStates, because maybe his A’s will stop when he gets hisdiploma, and the fellow who got C’s in school will go onlater to get the real A’s in life.The greatest secret for eliminating the inferioritycomplex, which is another term for profound self-doubt,is to fill your mind with faith. Develop tremendous faithin God and that will give you realistic faith in yourself.45
The acquiring of dynamic faith is accomplished by prayer,by reading the Bible and by practicing its faith techniques.Go to a competent spiritual adviser and let him teach youhow to have faith. The ability to possess and utilize faithmust be studied and practiced to gain perfection.To build up feelings of self-confidence, practice suggesting confidence concepts to your mind. It is possible,even in the midst of your daily work, to drive confidentthoughts into consciousness. Let me tell you about oneman who did so. While driving me to a lecture engagement, he said, “I used to be filled with insecurities. But Ihit upon a wonderful plan which knocked these feelingsout of my mind, and now I live with confidence.”This was the “wonderful plan.” He pointed to two clipsfastened on the instrument panel of the car and, reachinginto the glove compartment, took out a pack of cards. Heselected one and slipped it beneath the clip. It read, “If yehave faith nothing shall be impossible unto you” (Matthew 17:20). He removed that one, selected another andplaced it under the clip. This one read, “If God be for us,who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31).“I’m a traveling salesman,” he explained, “and I usedto drive around between calls thinking fear and defeatthoughts. That is one reason my sales were down. Butsince I have been using these cards and committing thewords to memory, the insecurities that used to haunt meare just about gone. Instead of thinking thoughts of defeatand ineffectiveness, I think thoughts of faith and courage.It is wonderful the way this method has changed me. Ithas helped in my business, too.”This man’s plan is a wise one. By filling his mind withaffirmations of God, he had put an end to his sense ofinsecurity. His potential powers were set free.Lack of self-confidence apparently is one of the greatproblems besetting people today. In a university a surveywas made of 600 students in psychology courses. Thestudents were asked to state their most difficult personalproblem. Seventy-five percent listed lack of confidence.It can safely be assumed that the same large proportion istrue of the population generally. Everywhere you encounter people who are inwardly afraid, who shrink from life,who suffer from a deep sense of inadequacy and insecurity, who doubt their own powers. Deep within themselvesthey mistrust their ability to meet responsibilities or tograsp opportunities.Always they are beset by the vague and sinister fearthat something is not going to be quite right. They do notbelieve that they have it in them to be what they want tobe, and so they try to make themselves content with something less than that of which they are capable. Thousandsupon thousands go crawling through life on their handsand knees, defeated and afraid. And in most cases suchfrustration of power is unnecessary.The blows of life, the accumulation of difficulties,the multiplication of problems tend to sap energy andleave you spent and discouraged. In such a condition thetrue status of your power is often obscured, and a personyields to a discouragement that is not justified by thefacts. It is vitally essential to reappraise your personalityassets.Dr. Karl Menninger, the famous psychiatrist, once said,“Attitudes are more important than facts.” That is worthrepeating until its truth grips you. Any fact facing us,even the most hopeless, is not as important as our attitude67
toward that fact. You may permit a fact to overwhelmyou mentally before you start to deal with it. On the otherhand, a confident thought pattern can modify or overcomethe fact.So if you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paperand make a list, not of the factors that are against you, butof those that are for you. If you or I think constantly of theforces that seem to be against us, they will assume a formidable strength they do not possess. But if you mentallyvisualize and affirm and reaffirm your assets, you will riseout of any difficulty. Your inner powers will reassert themselves and, with the help of God, lift you to victory.A sure cure for lack of confidence is the thought thatGod is actually with you and helping you. This is one ofthe simplest teachings in religion, namely, that AlmightyGod will see you through. No other idea is so powerfulin developing self-confidence as this simple belief whenpracticed. To practice it simply affirm, “God is with me.God is helping me. God is guiding me.” Spend severalminutes each day visualizing His presence. Then practicebelieving that affirmation. Go about your business on theassumption that what you have affirmed and visualized istrue. Affirm it, visualize it, believe it, and it will actualizeitself. The release of power which this procedure stimulateswill astonish you.82. A PeacefulMind GeneratesPowerAt breakfast in a hotel dining room, one man complained of a sleepless night. He had tossed andturned and was about as exhausted as when he retired.“Guess I’d better stop watching the news before going tobed,” he observed. “I tuned in last night and got an earfull of trouble.”Another man spoke up, “I had a grand night. Ofcourse, I used my go-to-sleep plan, which never failsto work.”I prodded him for his plan, which he explained asfollows: “When I was a boy, my father, a farmer, hadthe habit of gathering the family in the parlor at bedtime and he read to us out of the Bible. After prayers, Iwould go up to my room and sleep like a top. But whenI left home I got away from the Bible reading and prayerhabit. For years practically the only time I ever prayedwas when I got into a jam. But some months ago mywife and I, having difficult problems, decided we wouldtry it again. We found it a helpful practice, so now everynight before going to bed she and I together read theBible and pray. I don’t know what there is about it, but Ihave been sleeping better and things have improved. Infact, even on the road, as I am now, I still read the Bibleand pray. Last night I read the Twenty-third Psalm out9
loud. He turned to the other man and said, “I didn’t goto bed with an ear full of trouble. I went to sleep with amind full of peace.”Well, there are two cryptic phrases for you—“an earfull of trouble” and “a mind full of peace.” Which doyou choose?The essence of the secret lies in a change of mentalattitude. One must learn to live on a different thoughtbasis, and even though thought change requires effort,it is much easier than to continue living as you are. Thelife of strain is difficult. The life of inner peace, beingharmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. The chief struggle then in gaining mental peaceis the effort of revamping your thinking to the relaxedattitude of acceptance of God’s gift of peace.As a physician said, “Many of my patients have nothing wrong with them except their thoughts. So I have afavorite prescription I write for some. It is a verse fromthe Bible, Romans 12:2. I do not write out that verse formy patients. I make them look it up. The verse reads:‘Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.’ Tobe happier and healthier they need a renewing of theirminds, that is, a change in their thoughts. When they‘take’ this prescription, they actually achieve a mind fullof peace. That helps to produce health and well-being.”A primary method for gaining a mind full of peaceis to practice emptying the mind. At least twice a day,empty your mind of fears, hates, insecurities, regretsand guilt feelings. To prevent unhappy thoughts fromsneaking in again, immediately fill your mind with creative and healthy thoughts. At intervals during the daypractice thinking a carefully selected series of peace-ful thoughts. Let mental pictures of the most peacefulscenes you have ever witnessed pass across your mind,as, for example, the silvery light of the moon fallingupon rippling waters, or the sea washing gently uponsoft shores of sand. Such peaceful thought images willwork upon your mind as a healing medicine.Repeat audibly some peaceful words. Words haveprofound suggestive power, and there is healing in thevery saying of them. Use a word such as “serenity.”Picture serenity as you say it. Repeat it slowly and in themood of which the word is a symbol.It is also helpful to use lines from poetry or passagesfrom the Scriptures. A man of my acquaintance whoachieved a remarkable peace of mind has the habit ofwriting on cards unusual quotations expressing peacefulness. He carries one of the cards in his wallet at alltimes, referring to it frequently until each quotationis committed to memory. He says that each such ideadropped into the subconscious “lubricates” his mindwith peace. One of the quotations he used is from asixteenth-century mystic: “Let nothing disturb you. Letnothing frighten you. Everything passes away exceptGod. God alone is sufficient.”There are other practical ways by which you candevelop serenity and quiet attitudes. One way is throughyour conversation. In a group when the conversationtakes a trend that is upsetting, try injecting peacefulideas into the talk. To have peace of mind, fill yourpersonal and group conversations with positive, happy,optimistic, satisfying expressions.Another effective technique in developing a peaceful mind is the daily practice of silence. Insist upon not1011
less than a quarter of an hour of absolute quiet every 24hours. Go alone into the quietest place available to youand sit or lie down for 15 minutes and practice the art ofsilence. Do not write or read. Think as little as possible.Throw your mind into neutral. Conceive of your mindas the surface of a body of water and see how nearlyquiet you can make it, so that there is not a ripple. Whenyou have attained a quiescent state, listen for the deepersounds of harmony and beauty and of God that are to befound in the essence of silence.Saturate your thoughts with peaceful experiences,peaceful words and ideas, and ultimately you will have astorehouse of peace-producing experiences to which youmay turn for refreshment and renewal of your spirit. Itwill be a vast source of power.3. How ToHave ConstantEnergyHow we think we feel has a definite effect on howwe actually feel physically. If your mind tells youthat you are tired, the body mechanism, the nerves andthe muscles accept the fact. If your mind is intenselyinterested, you can keep on at an activity indefinitely.Religion functions through our thoughts. In fact, it is a12system of thought discipline. By supplying attitudes offaith to the mind it can increase energy. It helps you toaccomplish prodigious activity by suggesting that youhave ample support and resources of power.A friend in Connecticut, an energetic man, full ofvitality and vigor, says that he goes to church regularlyto “get his batteries recharged.” His concept is sound.God is the source of all energy in the universe—atomicenergy, electrical energy and spiritual energy.Contact with God establishes within us a flow of thesame type of energy that re-creates the world and thatrenews springtime every year. When we are in spiritualcontact with God, the divine energy flows through thepersonality, automatically renewing the original creativeact. The principles of Christianity, scientifically utilized,can develop a continuous flow of energy into the humanmind and body.Every great personality I have ever
Dr. Peale’s legacy of positive thinking and faith. In 1995, the two organizations merged and Peale Center is now the Outreach Division of Guideposts. Dr. Peale wrote 46 books, including the classic best-seller, The Power of Positive Thinking, which has demonstrated that a change in a person’s attitude will change his or her life.
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