How To Be Wealthy - Poverty, a Mental Disease

The notion that sickness, suffering and poverty are in any way necessarily related to a religious life, is one of the falsest teachings ever given out in the name of religion. God is the author of Health, Happiness, Wealth and Wisdom, and sickness, misery, poverty, ignorance, are incidents of our undeveloped condition or results of our own neglect, and also false creations of our minds.

No life under the blighting influence of poverty can prove the "abundant life," the symmetrical and beneficent life, which every rational man desires.

The Worry Fiend and his Allies must be routed if you are to secure that peace and inward calm so essential to efficient thinking and working. Psychology today in trumpet tones declares that no one can enjoy health who is a victim of worry, anger, jealousy or fear.

Along with these, we should put irresolution, timidity, depression, lack of confidence in one's self -- all of them Negative Emotions, utterly unfitting us for the conflict of life!
In place of centering our thought upon the Worry, Fears, Doubts and Irresolution, which constitute man's mental poison, the proper method is to forget that these have controlled us, and put all our mental effort into the cultivation of their antidotes: Peace, Trust, Faith, Resolution, Courage.

 The expulsive power of a new and contrary idea or affection is recognized by all psychologists, and from the standpoint of mental science we should not allow the mind to dwell upon undesirable qualities or things. Think health, not sickness; success, not failure; courage, not fear; faith, not doubt; the increasing good coming into your life, not the evil.

We must assiduously cultivate Faith in ourselves. No man ever becomes truly successful who is deeply impressed with his own weakness or inferiority. It is the confident, hopeful men who carry with them the thought-vibration: "I can and I will," who win in life's battle.

Lack of confidence in yourself, however, is most disastrous in its effects upon yourself, as is a frost which kills all the budding plans, purposes and hopes which are so essential to success. Get rid then, I beg of you, of all false notions as to the limitations of your own powers -- for while it is quite true you have only developed these powers to a very limited extent, and there seems to be a very great difference between your life and the "lives of great men ; remember there is absolutely no limit to the extent to which your powers may be unfolded.

You are vitally connected with the Storehouse of Divine Wisdom, Power and Strength and can draw at will and to any extent for "in God we live and have our being."
Potentially, therefore, you have more ability, undeveloped and unused, in your nature than all men of all the ages have ever exhibited.




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Ochia, Providence