positive imaging

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1 presents Selected Quotes from Positive Imaging by Norman Vincent Peale

Selected QuotesfromPositive Imaging by Norman Vincent Peale : 

Selected QuotesfromPositive Imaging by Norman Vincent Peale

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3 Quotes Every human being has an enormous problem-solving potential built into him/her. Problems are an essential and necessary ingredient of life. The basic tools of problem solving are available to anyone. Be very careful what you wish for, because you may get it.

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4 Quotes Inferiority Complex – Defined: “Timidity in the presence of life”. Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. Almighty God meant us to walk the earth as men and women made in His image, not to crawl through life on our hands and knees.

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5 Quotes The people who really do great things in this world, are those who drive past the first layer of fatigue. Milton: The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a hell of Heav’n. Turn your sense of inadequacy into a plus by letting it act as a spur, as a motivator. Something in you is yearning and straining to dominate and eliminate weakness. Let the “big you” brush aside the “little you”. Visualise the “big you” wielding a big broom and doing just that.

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6 Quotes Be realistic; accept some limitations as natural and inevitable. Nobody is “the best” at everything. But image yourself as the best at something.

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7 Quotes Five things to remember – money problems: Don’t panic: be calm, objective, logical & hopeful Get organised Be disciplined Think: look for new ideas, new possible sources of income Give all you can Visualise yourself as debt free

Self-Belief : 

8 Self-Belief I believe that I am always divinely guided. I believe that I will always take the right turn in the road I believe that God will make a way where there is no way

Never Trouble Trouble… : 

9 Never Trouble Trouble… “Better never trouble Trouble Until Trouble troubles you; For you only make your trouble Double-trouble if you do; And the trouble – like a bubble That you’re troubling about May be nothing but a cipher With its rim rubbed out”

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10 Quotes Start everyday with a prayer: Prayerize Visualise Actualise Carry out the first two steps with all the intensity – the third step will take care of itself.

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11 Quotes Worry acts as a kind of paralysis – slows you down, holds you back. We ourselves, choose the time of illness, the kind of illness, the course of illness and its gravity. We are moving toward a recognition that in illness of any kind, from the common cold to cancer, emotional stress plays a part.” Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker

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12 Quotes “Positive, beautiful thoughts trigger the release of beneficial hormones in the body and these in turn help the hold to health itself.” – Dr. Irving Oyle, on the theory that people could live to be 150 years old if they would just practice a combination of right thinking and prayer.

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13 Quotes If you keep really busy, you don’t have time to think about yourself or your health. Or your lack of health. It is in the nature of airplanes to stay up in the air. This is the way God put us together too. To be healthy, energetic, creative, dynamic people at every age, full of vitality and health.

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14 Quotes We have a responsibility, too, not to abuse our bodies with alcohol or drugs or nicotine or other harmful substances, or too much food. Nor should we abuse ourselves with over-tension. Holding a strong mental image of yourself as a healthy person definitely reduces your susceptibility to illness.

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15 Quotes What you can image (imagine yourself to be), you truly can be.

Keeping the Flame (Marriage) alive : 

16 Keeping the Flame (Marriage) alive Try to have a mature concept of what love really is Work on communications constantly Learn how to differ gratification: comfort v/s.luxury spend conservatively, save, don’t over-spend Take responsibility Learn to compromise Practice the art of appreciation Strive always to increase the spiritual dimension of your life together

To experience Happiness : 

17 To experience Happiness Resist the temptation to be judgmental Learn to be compassionate Image the whole problem in terms of reconciliation Pray for the person who has offended you End your prayer with the Lord’s prayer Forgive our debts and help us to forgive our debtors The Amazing Power of Forgiveness!

Enhance your Faith! : 

18 Enhance your Faith! Exposure: Seek God Explanation : Understand His Guidance Experiment : With what He has Commanded and see it happening Experience : the benefits or life-changing events Expression: Deepening your convictions Expansion : Let God fill your whole being, your consciousness and directs your whole life.

Imaging and Prayer : 

19 Imaging and Prayer Imaging is close to prayer and prayer itself is probably the surest and most direct way to strengthen your faith. If you meet someone who is attractive and appealing, and you want to know that person better, what do you do? You talk to him or her, don’t you? You try to communicate. You offer yourself in what you hope will be an ever-increasing exchange of ideas and affection and intimacy. Well, that is exactly what prayer is – an exchange between you and the great Father that created all life.

Imaging and Prayer : 

20 Imaging and Prayer If you doubt the truth, you are opening the door to negative imaging. If you say to yourself, “Well, I am not all that sure there is God, or even if there is, I don’t feel any certainty that I can communicate with Him.” then you are letting doubt triumph over faith, and this uncertainty will run like jangling discord through all the major areas of your life. If you let doubt become dominant, you probably won’t even try to pray, and when you don’t pray you are cutting yourself from a tremendous source of peace and power.

Imaging and Prayer : 

21 Imaging and Prayer The soul contains the event that shall befall it. Imaging does affect future events.

Formula for Imaging : 

22 Formula for Imaging Set a Goal Establish a Purpose Prayer Activity Thoughtful Planning Innovative Thinking Enthusiasm Organised Hard work Always holding the image of success firmly in mind

Formula for Imaging : 

23 Formula for Imaging A goal, a purpose, lots of prayer, planning, thinking, enthusiasm, organisation and always intense, continuous imaging. Life is full, and always will be if you so image it and forever keep God in it.

Annoyance : 

24 Annoyance Patience through prayer and a quite attitude is the best way.

Self-Doubt : 

25 Self-Doubt A hammer shatters glass but forges steel. – Russian proverb. Trust YOURSELF! Have confidence in your abilities. “I have never known a man to die from overwork, but I have known many to die of doubt.” – Dr. Charles Mayo Doubt is the enemy of faith.

Faith / Trust : 

Faith / Trust People who have developed real faith have a strong hold on an actual life-force. Faith channels into you the mysterious power that recreates and reproduces health, vitality, and energy. But doubt can block this flow of power. 26

Self-Doubt : 

Self-Doubt If you are a doubter, you cannot really answer the basic questions of life: Why am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What am I doing here? And, naturally, if you are a skeptic, your unconscious mind gets a little confused and discouraged. “If this person doesn’t know what he is doing here,” it says to itself, “why should I bother to help him move in this direction or that? It makes no difference anyway, so I don’t think I’ll bother.” “Oh, Lord, give me a higher opinion of myself” 27

Self-Doubt : 

Self-Doubt You are greater than you think! Get rid of self-doubt! Replace it with faith – faith in God, faith in yourself, faith in the future. And nothing shall be impossible for you!” You have a strong tendency to exaggerate the size of difficulties facing you. 28

Eight ways to a Better Self-Image : 

Eight ways to a Better Self-Image See yourself always as a Child of God Stand in front of the mirror and take a good look at yourself: your appearance reflects and affects your image of yourself. Improve it! Decide to treble your capacity for imaging: Great engineering marvels and the wonders of the world all started with mental imaging. Practice what you do well, and then learn from your successes Condition your unconscious mind with spiritual power principles Sensitise yourself to the beauty and variety and excitement of living Control your emotions: Image yourself as a person always in command of yourself. Stay close to God always! 29

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Notes: Most quotes are original. Only a few changes have been made to contextualise it. Objective is to appreciate the learnings and share it amongst others. 30

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31 Sarfaraz Lakhani sarfaraz.calibrecreators@gmail.com Mumbai, India