If you have a keen desire to free yourself from any destructive habit, you are fifty-one percent healed already: When you have a greater desire to give up the bad habit than to continue it, you will not experience too much difficulty in gaining complete freedom. Whatever thought you anchor the mind upon, the latter … Read more
You can build the idea of freedom and peace of mind into your mentality so that it reaches your subconscious depths. The latter, being all-powerful, will free you from all desire for alcohol. Then, you will have the new understanding of how your mind works, and you can truly back up your statement and prove … Read more
If you are an alcoholic or drug addict, admit it Do not dodge the issue. Many people remain alcoholics because they refuse to admit it. Your case is an instability, an inner fear. You are refusing to face life, and so you try to escape your … Read more
He listened to the explanation of how his mind worked. He faced his problem, looked at it, and gave up his dual role. He … Read more
This is a case history of a married man with four children supporting and secretly living with another woman during his business trips. He was ill, nervous, irritable, and cantankerous, and he could not sleep without drugs. The doctor’s medicine failed to bring down his high blood pressure of over two hundred. He had pains … Read more
A young man asked Socrates how he could get wisdom. Socrates replied, “Come with me.” He took the lad to a river, pushed the boy’s head under the water, held it there until the boy was gasping for air, then relaxed and released his head. When the boy regained his composure, he asked him, “What … Read more
Mr. Block said that he had been making an annual income of $20,000, but for the past three months all doors seemed to about to sign on the dotted line, and then at the eleventh hour the door closed. He added that perhaps a jinx was following him. In discussing the matter with Mr. Block, … Read more
Realizing that his conscious mind was simply a camera, he used no effort. There was no mental struggle. He quietly adjusted his thoughts and focused his attention on the scene before him until he gradually became identified with the picture. He became absorbed in the mental atmosphere, repeating the … Read more
This man acquired a practice of relaxing his body and getting into a relaxed, drowsy, meditative state. Then he filled his mind with the picture of the desired end, knowing his subconscious mind could bring it about the easiest way. He imagined his daughter congratulating him on his freedom, and saying to him, “Daddy, it’s … Read more
Mr. Jones said to me, “An uncontrollable urge to drink seizes me, and I remain drunk for two weeks at a time. I can’t give up this terrible habit.” Time and time again these experiences had occurred to this unfortunate man. He had grown into the habit of drinking to excess. Although he had started … Read more