THE RELATIONSHIP OF MEN AND WOMEN
ONE DAY A SALESMAN CAME TO SEE ME AND DESCRIBED HIS DIFFICULTIES IN WORKING WITH THE SALES MANAGER OF HIS ORGANIZATION. HE HAD BEEN WITH THE COMPANY TEN YEARS AND HAD RECEIVED NO PROMOTION OR RECOGNITION OF ANY KIND. HE SHOWED ME HIS SALES FIGURES, WHICH WERE GREATER PROPORTIONATELY THAN THE OTHER MEN IN THE TERRITORY. HE PROPORTIONATELY THAN THE OTHER MEN IN THE TERRITORY. HE SAID THAT THE SALES MANAGER DID NOT LIKE HIM, THAT HE WAS UNJUSTLY TREATED, AND THAT AT CONFERENCE THE MANAGER WAS RUDE TO HIM, AND AT TIMES RIDICULED HIS SUGGESTIONS.
I EXPLAINED THAT UNDOUDEDLY THE CAUSE WAS TO A GREAT DEGREE WITHIN HIMSELF, AND THAT HIS CONCEPT AND BELIEF ABOUT HIS SUPERIOR BORE WITNESS TO THE REATION OF THIS MAN. THE MEASURE WE METE, SHALL BE MEASURED TO US AGAIN. HIS MENTAL MEASURE AND CAN-TANKEROUS. HE WAS FILLED WITH BITTERNESS AND HOSTILITY TOWARD THE EXECUTIVE. ON HIS WAY TO WORK HE CONDUCTED A VIGOROUS CONVERSATION, WITH HIMSELF FILLED WITH CRITICISM, MENTAL ARGUMENTS, RECRIMINATION AND DENUNCIATIONS OF HIS SALES MANAGER.
WHAT HE GAVE OUT MENTALLY, HE WAS INEVITABLY BOUND TO GET BACK. THIS SALEMAN REALIZED THAT HIS INNER SPEECH WAS HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE BECAUSE THE INTENSITY AND FORCE OF HIS SILENT THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS, AND PERSONALLY CONDUCTED MENTAL CONDEMNATION AND VILIFICATION OF THE SALES MANAGER. ENTERED INTO HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. THIS BROUGHT ABOUT THE NEGATIVE RESPONSE FROM HIS BOSS AS WELL AS CREATING MANY OTHER PERSONAL, PHYSICAL, AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS.
HE BEGAN TO PRAY FREQUENTLY AS FOLLOWS, "I AM THE ONLY THINKER IN MY UNIVERSE. I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT I THINK ABOUT MY BOSS. MY SALES MANAGER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAY I THINK ABOUT HIM. I REFUSE TO GIVE POWER TO ANY PERSON, PLACE, OR THING TO ANNOY ME OR DISTURB ME. I WISH HEALTH, SUCCES, PEACE OF MIND, AND HAPPINESS FOR MY BOSS. I SINCERELY WISH HIM WELL, AND I KNOW HE IS DIVINELY GUIDED IN ALL HIS WAYS".
HE REPEATED THIS PRAYER OUT LOUD SLOWLY, QUIETLY AND FEELINGLY, KNOWING THAT HIS MIND IS LIKE A GARDEN, AND THAT WHATEVER HE PLANTS IN THE GARDEN WILL COME FORTH LIKE SEEDS AFTER THEIR KIND. I ALSO TAUGHT HIM TO PRACTICE MENTAL IMAGERY PRIOR TO SLEEP IN THIS WAY. HE IMAGINED THAT HIS SALES MANAGER WAS CONGRATULATING HIM ON HIS FINE WORK, ON HIS ZEAL AND ENTHUSIASM, AND ON HIS WONDERFUL RESPONSE FROM CUSTOMERS. HE FELT THE REALITY OF ALL THIS, FELT HIS HANDSHAKE, HEARD THE TONE OF HIS VOICE, AND SAW HIM SMILE. HE MADE A REAL MENTAL MOVIE, DRAMATIZING IT TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY. NIGHT AFTER NIGHT HE CONDUCTED THIS MENTAL MOVIE, KNOWING THAT HIS SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WAS THE RECEPTIVE PLATE ON WHICH HIS CONSCIOUS IMAGERY WOULD BE IMPRESSED.
GRADUALLY BY A PROCESS OF WHAT MAY BE TERMED MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL OSMOSIS, IMPRESSION WAS MADE ON HIS SUBCONSIOUS MIND, AND THE EXPRESSION AUTOMATICALLY CAME FORTH. THE SALES MANAGER SUBSEQUENTLY CALLED HIM UP TO SAN FRANCISCO, CONGRATULATED HIM, AND GAVE HIM A NEW ASSIGMENT AS DIVISION SALES MANAGER OVER ONE HUNDRED MEN WITH A BIG INCREASE IN SALARY. HE CHANGED HIS CONCEPT AND ESTIMATE OF HIS BOSS, AND TH LATTER RESPONDED ACCORDINGLY.
BECOMING EMOTIONALLY MATURE
WHAT THE OTHER PERSON SAYS OR DOES CANNOT REALLY ANNOY OR IRRITATE YOU EXCEPT YOU PERMIT HIM TO DISTURB YOU. THE ONLY WAY HE CAN ANNOY YOU IS THROUGH YOUR OWN THOUGHT. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU GET ANGRY, YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH FOUR STAGES IN YOUR MIND. YOU BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT WHAT HE SAID. YOU DECIDE TO GET ANGRY AND GENERATE AN EMOTION OF RAGE. THEN, YOU DECIDE TO ACT. PERHAPS, YOU TALK BACK AND REACT IN KIND. YOU SEE THAT THE THOUGHT, EMOTIONS, REACTION, AND ACTION ALL TAKES PLACE IN YOUR MIND.
WHEN YOU BECOME EMOTIONALLY MATURE, YOU DO NOT RESPOND NEGATIVELY TO THE CRITICISM AND RESENTMENT OF OTHERS. TO DO SO WOULD MEAN THAT YOU HAD DESCENDED TO THAT STATE OF LOW MENTAL VIBRATION AND BECOME ONE WITH THE NEGATIVE ATMOSPHERE OF THE OTHER. IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH YOUR AIM IN LIFE, AND DO NOT PERMIT ANY PERSON, PLACE, OR THING TO DEFLECT YOU FROM YOUR INNER SENSE OF PEACE, TRANSQUILITY, AND RADIANT HEALTH.
THE MEANING OF LOVE
SIGMUND FREUD, THE AUSTRIAN FOUNDED OF PSYCHONALYSIS, SAID THAT UNLESS THE PERSONALITY HAS LOVE, IT SICKENS AND DIES. LOVE INCLUDES UNDERSTANDING, GOOD WILL, AND RESPECT FOR THE DIVINITY IN THE OTHER PERSON. THE MORE LOVE AND GOOD WILL YOU EMANATE AND EXUDE, THE MORE COMES BACK TO YOU. IF YOU PUNCTURE THE OTHER FELLOWS EGO AND WOUND HIS ESTIMATE OF HIMSELF, YOU CANNOT GAIN HIS GOOD WILL. RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY MAN WANTS TO BE LOVED AND APPRECIATED, AND MADE TO FEEL IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD, AND THAT, LIKE YOURSELF, HE FEELS THE DIGNITY OF BEING AN EXPRESSION OF THE ONE LIFE-PRINCIPLE ANIMATING ALL MEN. AS YOU DO THIS CONSCIOUSLY AND KNOWINGLY, YOU BUILD THE OTHER PERSON UP, AND HE RETURNS YOUR LOVE AND GOOD WILL.
I HATE WOMEN, BUT I LIKE MEN
A PRIVATE SECRETARY WAS VERY BITTER TOWARD SOME OF THE GIRLS IN HER OFFICE BECAUSE THEY WERE GOSSIPPING ABOUT HER, AND AS SHE SAID, SPREADING VICIOUS LIES ABOUT HER. SHE ADMITTED THAT SHE DID NOT LIKE WOMEN. SHE SAID, "I HATE WOMEN, BUT I LIKE MEN". I DISCOVERED ALSO THAT SHE SPOKE TO THE GIRLS WHO WERE UNDER HER IN THE OFFICE IN A VERY HAUGHTY, IMPERIOUS, AND IRRITABLE TONE OF VOICE. SHE POINTED OUT THAT THEY TOOK A DELIGHT IN MAKING THINGS DIFFICULT FOR HER. THERE WAS A CERTAIN POMPOSITY IN HER WAY OF SPEAKING, AND I COULD SEE WHERE HER TONE OF VOICE WOULD AFFECT SOME PEOPLE UNPLEASANTLY.
IF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE OFFICE OR FACTORY ANNOY YOU, ISN'T IT A POSSIBILITY THAT THE VIBRATION, ANNOYANCE, AND TURMOIL MAY BE DUE TO SOME SUBCONSCIOUS PATTERN OR MENTAL PROJECTION FROM YOU? WE KNOW THAT A DOG WILL REACT FEROCIOUSLY IF YOU HATE OR FEAR DOGS. ANIMALS PICK UP YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS VIBRATIONS AND REACT ACCORDINGLY. MANY UNDISCIPLINED HUMAN BEINGS ARE JUST AS SENSITIVE AS DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER ANIMALS.
I SUGGESTED A PROCESS OF PRAYER TO THIS PRIVTE SECRETARY WHO HATRED WOMEN, EXPLAINING TO HER THAT WHEN SHE BEGAN TO IDENTIFY HERSELF WITH SPIRITUAL VALUES AND COMMENCED TO AFFIRM THE TRUTHS OF LIFE, HER VOICE, MANNERISMS, AND HATRED OF WOMEN WOULD COMPLETELY DISAPPEAR. SHE WAS SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT THE EMOION OF HATRED SHOWS UP IN A PERON'S SPEECH, ACTIONS, IN HIS WRITINGS, AND IN ALL PHASES OF HIS LIFE. SHE CEASED REACTING IN THE TYPICAL, RESENTFUL, AND ANGRY WAY. SHE ESTABLISHED A PATTEN OF PRAYER, WHICH SHE PRACTICED REGULARLY, SYSTEMATICALLY, AND CONSCIENTIOUSLY IN THE OFFICE.
THE PRAYER WAS FOLLOWS, " I THINK, SPEAK, AND ACT LOVINGLY, QUIETLY, AND PEACEFULLY. I NOW RADIATE LOVE, PEACE, TOLERANCE, AND KINDLINESS TO ALL THE GIRLS WHO CRITICIZED ME AND GOSSIPED ABOUT ME. I ANCHOR MY THOUGHTS ON PEACE, HARMONY, AND GOOD WILL TO ALL.
WHENEVER I AM ABOUT TO REACT NEGATIVELY, I SAY FIRMLY TO MYSELF, "I AM GOING TO THINK, SPEAK, AND ACT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF HARMONY, HEALTH AND PEACE WITHIN MYSELF". CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE LEADS, RULES AND GUIDES ME IN ALL MY WAYS. THE PRACTIVE OF THIS PRAYER TRANSFORMED HER LIFE, AND SHE FOUND THAT ALL CRITISM AND ANNOYANCE CEASED.
THEY GIRLS BECAME CO-WORKERS AND FRIENDS ALONG LIFE'S JOURNEY. SHE DISCOVERED THAT THERE IS NO ONE TO CHANGE BUT MYSELF.
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