December 1. 2009
imagine
Winter is coming, coming in with Christmas. Even here in the Deep South we can feel wisps of colder air bickering with the Gulf Stream. I love winter, just as I love all of the seasons, but I am not in much of a hurry for the winter solace; autumn is so vibrant and stirring this year, I love that it lingers. Tonight is cloudy here in south Louisiana and I cannot see the waxing Gibbous moon. The Full Cold Moon will be on December 2 and on December 31 there will be a Full Blue Moon – an extra full moon that occurs every 2 – 3 years, “once in a blue moon”. I have chosen the 7th as the day to put up my tree. I hope it will be cold and I will listen to old Christmas songs from Bing Crosby and once again, string lights and hang glass ornaments. My tree will be a fresh tree; I feel they are better for the environmentJ. I have potted narcissus bulbs for forcing and have not been to the mall!! Thusfar, that is my frame of reference with the upcoming season.
I am rereading a book, Discovering the Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale. I am going to painstakingly type a section for you to read and, hopefully, be inspired by. I say “painstakingly” because I do not really type – I only peck, but I really want to share this with you.
Hold your image. Hold the image of what you want to be physically, mentally, and spiritually, and what you want to be in business, in love, in life itself. Hold that picture or image tenaciously in your conscious mind until, by a process of intellectual osmosis, it sinks into the unconscious mind. And when it does, you will have it, because it will have had you – all of you.
Be specific. There is an amazing power in the strongly held and directed image to effect desirable change in yourself and in your life. To accomplish such change and improvement, the image must be specific and exact even as to detail and timing. The realizable wish, a strong factor in psychology, will respond as desired to the degree to which the desire is specified, then held without deviation and believed in completely. Have a goal, not a fuzzy goal, but one that is sharply defined. Hold it in consciousness until presently, the subconscious takes it over. As Dr. Smiley Blanton, the eminent psychiatrist, said, “God presides in the subconscious.”That is where the power of personality lies, and it has incredible strength to produce what the convinced person wills. Then pray about your imaged goal to be sure it is a right objective, for if it is not right, it is wrong, and nothing that is wrong ever turns out right.
Visualize your wish as happening. Know what you really want: Visualize it not as something you hope or vaguely wish to happen, but something you believe as now happening; now actually being, in essence. For spiritual help, read, “If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done by my Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 18: 19).
I hope this little passage inspires you.
Till next time,
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