Asserting the Life-Force
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I have spoken to you of the advantage of
getting rid of Fear. Now I wish to put LIFE into you. Many of you have been
going along as if you were dead - no ambition - no energy - no vitality - no
interest - no life. This will never do. You are stagnating. Wake up and display
a few signs of life! This is not the place in which you can stalk around like a
living corpse - this is the place for wide-awake, active, live people, and a
good general awakening is what is needed; although it would take nothing less
than a blast from Gabriel’s trumpet to awaken some of the people who are
stalking around thinking that they are alive, but who are really dead to all
that makes life worthwhile.
We must let Life flow through us, and allow it
to express itself naturally. Do not let the little worries of life, or the big
ones either, depress you and cause you to lose your vitality. Assert the Life
Force within you, and manifest it in every thought, act and deed, and before
long you will be exhilarated and fairly bubbling over with vitality and energy.
Put a little life into your work - into your
pleasures - into yourself. Stop doing things in a half-headed way, and begin to
take an interest in what you are doing, saying and thinking. It is astonishing
how much interest we may find in the ordinary things of life if we will only
wake up. There are interesting things all around us - interesting events
occurring every moment - but we will not be aware of them unless we assert our
life force and begin to actually live instead of merely existing.
No man or woman ever amounted to anything
unless he or she put life into the tasks of everyday life - the acts - the
thoughts. What the world needs is live men and women. Just look into the eyes
of the people whom you meet, and see how few of them are really alive.
The most of them lack that expression of conscious life which distinguishes the
man who lives from the one who simply exists.
I want you to acquire this sense of conscious
life so that you may manifest it in your life and show what Mental Science has
done for you. I want you to get to work today and begin to make yourselves over
according to the latest pattern. You can do this if you will only take the
proper interest in the task.
AFFIRMATION AND EXERCISE
Fix in your mind the thought that the “I”
within you is very much alive and that you are manifesting life fully, mentally
and physically. And keep this though there, aiding yourself with constant
repetitions of the watchword. Don’t let the thought escape you, but keep
pushing it back into the mind. Keep it before the mental vision as much as
possible. Repeat the watchword when you awaken in the morning - say it when you
retire at night. And say it at meal times, and whenever else you can during
the day - at least once an hour. Form the mental picture of yourself as filled
with Life and Energy. Live up to it as far as possible. When you start in to
perform a task say “I AM Alive” and mix up as much life as possible in the
task. If you find yourself feeling depressed, say “I AM Alive,” and then take a
few deep breaths, and with each inhalation let the mind hold the thought that
you are breathing in Strength and Life, and as you exhale, hold the thought
that you are breathing out all the old, dead, negative conditions and are glad
to get rid of them. Then finish up with an earnest, vigorous affirmation: “I AM
Alive,” and mean it when you say it too.
And let your thoughts take form in action.
Don’t rest content with merely saying that you are alive, but prove it with
your acts. Take an interest in doing things, and don’t go around “mooning” or
daydreaming. Get down to business, and LIVE.
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