The power of magnetic thinking

The human mind may be likened to a garden which can be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. Whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are planted in it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will sprout and will continue to grow and reproduce.

Author’s Note: In 1902 English philosopher James Allen wrote a powerful essay titled “As A Man Thinketh.” Over one hundred years later, though difficult to comprehend because of its dated composition style, As A Man Thinketh is still considered to be one of the most powerful essays ever written on the subject of self help and personal development. Robert Allen’s insight is profound in that it guides the way for us to consciously mold our character and shape our destiny. This revised, updated and condensed series titled “The Power Of Magnetic Thinking - How To Take Control Of Your Life And Your Destiny” is a modern derivative of Allen’s 1902 public domain essay.

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits he requires, so may we tend the garden of our mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, pure and productive thoughts. By pursuing this process, we sooner or later discover that we are the mastergardener of our soul, the director of our life. We also reveal, within ourselves, the laws of thought, and understand, with ever increasing accuracy, how the thought-forces and mind elements operate in the shaping of our character, circumstances, and destiny.

Thought and character are one. As character can only manifest itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his or her inner state.

We are where we are by the law of our being. The thoughts that we have built into our character have brought us to our current destination, and in the arrangement of our life there is no element of chance. This is the result of an unwavering law and is just as true of those who feel "out of harmony" with their surroundings as of those who are contented with them.

We are assaulted by circumstances so long as we believe we are creatures of outside conditions. When we realize that we are a creative power, and that we can command the hidden soil and seeds of our being out of which circumstances grow, we become rightful masters of ourselves.

Anyone who has practiced self-control and selfpurifi cation for any length of time knows that our circumstances grow out of thoughts. They have noticed that the alteration to their circumstances has been in exact proportion with their altered mental condition. So true is this that when we earnestly apply ourselves to remedy the defects in our character, we make swift and marked progress and pass rapidly through a succession of transformational changes.

Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into our mind, and to take root there, sooner or later blossoms into its own act, bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.

We do not attract that which we want, but that which we are. Our whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but our inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean. The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves; it is our very self. Our wishes and prayers are only gratifi ed and answered when they harmonize with our thoughts and actions.

In the light of this truth, what, then, is the meaning of "fighting against circumstances?" It means that we are continually revolting against an effect without, while all the time nourishing and preserving its cause within. That cause may take the form of a conscious vice or an unconscious weakness; but whatever it is, it stubbornly retards the efforts of its possessor, and calls aloud for remedy. (Part 3 next week.)

Ernie Mitchell, Moose Lake Hill, Orr, MN, © All Rights Reserved 2010.

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