THE UNIVERSE WORKS FAST WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN

 

                                                    

                                                              HAVE FUN !

 

                              IN 2014 MY HUSBAND AND I SPENT NINE MONTHS HUNTING FOR A NEW APARTMENT. WE LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY, WHICH IS A COMPETITIVE MARKET THAT CAN MAKE RENTING OR BUYING REAL ESTATE CHALLENGING. IN ADDITION, OUR SEARCH HAPPENED TO COINCIDE WITH ONE OF THE BEST SELLER'S MARKETS IN RECENT HISTORY. CONSEQUENTLY, EACH NEW VIEWING WOULD LEAVE US MORE AND MORE DEPRESSED. OUR REACTION TO EVERYTHING WAS, "UGH, ANOTHER OVERPRICED, CRAPTASTIC LISTING!".

                          WE QUICKLY LOST SIGHT OF THE JOY THAT COMES WITH BUYING YOUR FIRST HOME. INSTEAD WE STARTED TO FEEL TERRIBLE BECAUSE WE WERE GETTING PRICED OUT OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO LIVE IN. THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE WAS BRINGING US DOWN. IN TIME WE STARTED TO GET SICK, FIGHT, AND LOSE FAITH IN OUR DREAM HOME.

                    THEN ONE NIGHT, AFTER SPENDING THREE HOURS IN BROOKLYN TOURING OVERPRICED APARTMENTS ALL IN NEED OF GUT RENOVATIONS, WE BOTH UNRAVELED. MY HUSBAND WAS ANGRY AND RECITING HIS MANTRA, "THIS IS UN-FUN. THIS IS UN-FUN".  I WAS GETTING FRUSTRATED BECAUSE WE'D SPEND SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO EXIST. THEN, IN THE MIDST OF A MINI MELTDOWN. I SAID THE MAGIC WORDS TO MY HUSBAND. "THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY. LET'S PRAY FOR A CREATIVE SOLUTION". HE NODDED YES, AND WE PRAYED. I SAID, "THANK YOU, UNIVERSE, FOR OPENING US UP TO CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES. WE SURRENDER OUR PLANS TO YOU. SHOW US WHAT YOU'VE GOT". WITHIN SECONDS WE BOTH FELT LIGHTER. A SMILE CAME OVER ME AS I SETTLED INTO THE FEELING OF SURRENDER. AND MY HUNBAND WAS NOW SMILING TOO. HE WAS THRILLED THAT WE'D FINALLY RELEASED OUR NEED TO CONTROL. IN OUR SURRENDER WE'D REALIGNED WITH THE TRUE SOURCE OF POWER- THE UNIVERSE.

                 IN THAT SURRENDER, AN INSPIRED IDEA CAME FORTH. I SAID TO MY HUSBAND. "HONEY, YOU KNOW HOW WE ALWAYS DREAMED OF LIVING IN THE COUNTRY? WHY DON'T WE REVERSE OUR SEARCH AND CHECK OUT SOME HOUSES UPSTATE?". HE LOOKED AT ME WITH EXCITEMENT AND SAID, "THA SOUNDS FUN". WE WERE BACK IN ACTION! FORTY-FIVE MINUTES LATER, MY HUSBAND HAD FOUND FOUR LISTINGS IN THE COUNTRY. WITHIN 24 HOURS WE'D CONNECTED WITH A REAL ESTATE AGENT AND SET UP A TOUR OF ALL FOUR HOUSES, INCLUDING A REALLY AWESOME ONE ON A MOUNTAIN. THAT SUNDAY WE HEADED NORTH.

                          UNIVERSAL LESSON : THE UNIVERSE WORKS

                                      FAST WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN

                    THE FIRST HOUSE WE VISITED WAS THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE. AS WE APPOACHED IT, MY HUSBAND SAID, "THIS IS THE ONE. I CAN FEEL IT". WE PULLED INTO A MAGICAL DRIVEWAY, HUNDREDS OF YARDS LONG, THAT WOUND ITS WAY UP A STEEP PATH CUT THROUGH THE WOODS. THE DRIVE EMPTIED INTO A CHARMING WORLD OF ENGLISH GARDENS AND STONE WALLS. HERE AND THERE, MARBLE OBJECTS AND UNUSUAL PLANTINGS JOYFULLY PLAYED WITH THE BEAUTY OF THE NATURAL LANDSCAPING. SURROUNDINGS THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE WERE TREES DISPLAYING EVERY COLOR OF FOLIAGE. AND THE CENTERPIECE OF THE LIVING ROOM WAS A VIEW THAT STRETCHED FOR MILES. SEEING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME WAS AT ONCE EXCITING AND CALMING. THE MOMENT WE WALKED INTO THE HOUSE, I FELT A RUSH OF LOVING ENERGY MOVE THROUGH MY BODY. I SAID TO MY HUSBAND AND THE AGENT, "THIS IS MAKES NO SENSE, BUT I FEEL AT HOME". WE WENT ON TO LOOK AT A FEW MORE HOUSES, BUT NONE OF THEM SEEMED TO MAKE US FEEL US GOOD AS THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE DID.

               OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, WE VISITED THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE SEVERAL MORE TIME TO GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPERTY. ON OUR FOURTH VISIT, WE INVITED OUR PARENTS ALONG TO GET THEIR OPINIONS. THE DAY BEFORE OUR PARENTS ALONG TO GET THEIR OPINIONS. THE DAY BEFORE OUR PARENTS VISIT, I WAS THE PHONE WITH MY DEAR FRIEND COLETTE BARON-REID, WHO HAPPENS TO BE A POWERFUL PSYCHIC MEDIUM. I WAS TELLING COLETTE ALL ABOUT THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE. I SHARED MY EXCITEMENT AND MY UNCERTAINLY. SHE SAID, "HAVE YOU ASKED FOR A SIGN?" I REPLIED, "A SIGN, WHAT'S THAT?", SHE WENT ON TO EXPLAIN THAT WHENVER SHE MOVES INTO A NEW HOME, SHE ASKS FOR A SIGN. HER SIGN IS A DRAGONFLY. SHE SAID THAT WHEN SHE FOUND HER LAST HOME, SHE KNEW IT WAS HERS WHEN SHE FOUND HER LAST HOME, SHE  KNEW IT WAS HERS WHEN SHE SAW A BOOK IN THE HOUSE WITH A DRAGONFLY ON THE COVER.

                I LOVED THE IDEA OF ASKING FOR A SIGN. I SAID TO COLETTE, "I REALLY DIG THE DRAGONFLY. BUT MY SIGN WILL BE AN OWL". I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I CHOSE THE OWL. MAYBE THE OWL CHOSE ME?

 

                 SO WE SET OFF TO VISIT THE HOUSE WITH OUR PARENTS. THE MOMENT WE ARRIVED, I NOTICED A GIFT CARD ON THE KITCHEN TABLE WITH A DRAGONFLY ON IT! I TOOK THAT AS A PRELIMINARY SIGN. THOUGH I'D FOUND COLETTE'S DRAGONFLY, I WAS STILL COMMITTED TO FINDING MY OWL. I SCOURED THE HOUSE SEARCHING FOR THE OWL. I WAS LOOKING FOR THE OWL EVERYWHERE - ON BOOKS, IN THE TREES, EVEN ON DISHWARE. BY THE TIME WE WERE READY TO LEAVE THE HOUSE,I STILL HADN'T FOUND MY OWL. I TEXTED COLETTE AND SAID, "I DIDN'T FIND MY OWL, BUT I FOUND YOUR DRAGONFLY"! SHE REPLIED, "GREAT! WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE DRAGONFLY SO THAT'S ENOUGH:.

                COLOETTE'S REPLY CALMED ME DOWN, AND WE GO IN THE CAR TO HEAD HOME. BEFORE WE GOT ON THE HIGHWAY, MY HUSBAND AND I STOPPED IN TOWN FOR A COFFEE. WHEN WE WERE WALKING BACK TO OUR CAR, I TURNED TO THE LEFT AND GLANCED AT THE BUMPER OF A CAR NEXT TO OURS. ON THE BUMBPER WAS  STICKER OF A MASSIVE FLYING OWL. I SCREAMED, " I FOUND OUR OWL!". IT WAS BIG SIGN THAT THE UNIVERSE HAD OUR BACK.

              A FEW WEEKS LATER, WE MADE AN OFFER ON THE HOUSE, AND IT WAS ACCEPTED INSTANTLY. AS EXCITED AS WE WERE, WE WERE ALSO NERVOUS. BECAUSE THIS WAS WE WERE, WE WERE ALSO VERY BOTH WARY OF GETTING TOO EXCITED BEFORE THE PAPERWORK WAS SIGNED.

              IN THE PROCESS OF NEGOTIATING THE FINAL TERMS ON THE CONTRACT, WE TRAVELED LONDON BECAUSE I HAD SEVERAL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS. WHILE I WAS IN LONDON. MY FEAR BEGAN CREEPING UP ON ME.

             RATHER THAN LEFT FEAR AND UNCERTAINLY GET THE BEST OF ME, I CHOSE TO PRAY ABOUT IT. I HAD AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH THE UNIVERSE. I SAID, "THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME ONCE AGAIN THAT I AM ON THE RIGHT PATH. UNIVERSE, I THINK I NEED MORE OWLS...."

              WHEN YOU'RE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE HIGHEST GOOD, THE UNIVERSE WORKS FAST. WITHIN AN HOUR OF SAYING THIS FITI STREET ART OWLS, OWL PILLOWS IN STORE WINDOWS, OWLS ON CLOTHIG. OWLS ALL OVER LONDON!

              LATER THAT NIGHT I HAD SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT AT A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH CALLED THE SAINT JAMES CATHEDRAL. THE LOVELY SOUNDMAN AT THE CHURCH ALWAYS GIVES THE SPEAKERS A POSTCARD ADORNED WITH ONE OF HIS PAINTINGS. IN THE PAST HE'S GIVEN ME A PAINTING OF A BEAR. THIS NIGHT HE WHOWED UP WITH TWO PAINTINGS. HE SAID, "I KNEW YOUR HUSBAND WAS COMING, SO I BROUGHT YOU BOTH A PIECE OF MY ART". HE HANDED THE FIRST PAINTING, A BEAR, TO MY HUSBAND. THEN HE SAID, " I 'M NOT SURE WHY, BUT I HAD A FEELING THIS ONE WAS FOR YOU.. THEN HE HANDED ME A PAINTING OF AN OWL! IN THIS MOMENT I SIGHED WITH RELIEF KNOWING THAT THE UNIVERSE TRULY HAD BY BACK. I THANKED HIM FOR THE GIFT AND THANKED THE UNIVERSE FOR THE SIGN.

                      TWO WEEKS LATER, MY HUSBAND AND I CLOSED ON OUR MOUNTAIN                            HOUSE.

                      THE MOMENT WE WERE WILLING TO SHIFT OUR INTERNAL PROJECTIONS, WE SHIFTED OUR PERCEPTIONS. WHEN WE TURNED TO PRAYER AND INNER GUIDANCE, WE WERE LED TO CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES.

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CALIBRATE YOUR ENERGY BY MEDITATING

                                                    

                                                               MEDITATION

                 I MEDITATE DAILY TO ENHANCE MY CONNECTION TO THE UNIVERSE AND FINE-TUNE MY ENERGY. IN MEDITATION, WE ACTIVATE SYNCHRONISTIC SUPPORT AND CONNECTION TO THE UNIVERSE. MEDITATION STRIPS AWAY DOUBT, LIMITATION, AND FEAR TO RECONNECT US WITH THE FLOW OF LOVE. WHILE SITTING IN THE DEEP STILLNESS OF MEDITATION, I NOTICE MY ENERGY SHIFT AS IT REORGANIZES WITH THE ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE. CALIBRATING YOUR ENERGY IN THIS WAY LIKE A MUSICIAN TURNING AN INSTRUMENT. ONCE WE'RE TUNED-IN AND CONNECTED, WE BECOME AWARE OF THE SYNCHRONICITY AND SUPPORT THAT ARE AROUND US.

               ONCE, BEFORE I GAVE A TALK IN TORONTO, I SAT IN A 15-MINUTE MEDITATION TO PREPARE. IN THIS STILLNESS I FELT MY LIMBS TINGLE AND MY ENERGY SHIFT. THEN I STARTED TO RECEIVE A VISION OF MYSELF ON THE STAGE IN FRONT OF THE LARGE AUDIENCE. I SAW MY SMALL PHYSICAL FRAME WITH MASSIVE ANGEL WINGS EXTENDING FROM MY SHOULDERS. THESE WINGS WERE NEARLY 50 FEET IN LENGTH, AND THEY DOMINATED THE ENTIRE STAGE. THE IMAGE BROUGHT ME TO TEARS. SHORTLY AFTER MY MEDITATION, I STEPTED INTO THE STAGE, AND MY WINGS CAME WITH ME. THE WAY I FELT ONSTAGE WAS THE SAME FEELING I CONNECTED TO IN MY MEDITATION. I HAD A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE WITH THIS AUDIENCE. I SHOWED UP WITH MY PRESENCE AND HELPED AWAKEN THEM TO THEIR OWN. AFTERWARD, DURING THE CHAPTER SIGNING, A WOMAN CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, "GABBY, YOUR TALK WAS INCREDIBLY MOVING. I FELT AS THOUGH YOU HAD ANGEL WINGS SPREADING ACROSS THE STAGE". I SMILED AND SAID, "I DID". 

                   THE IMAGES WE RECEIVE IN MEDITATION CAN GUIDE US TO REMEMBER THE MAGNIFICENCE OF OUR TRUE SELVES. USE YOUR MEDITATION PRACTICE TO TUNE IN TO YOUR PRESENCE AND BRING FORTH YOUR GREATEST SOURCE OF POWER. YOU CAN ALSO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO MEDITATION AT GABBYBERNSTEIN.COM/UNIVERSE.

                  FOR SEVERAL YEARS I'VE BEEN A STUDENT A TEACHER OF KUNDALINI MEDITATION. KUNDALINI MEDITATIONS ARE VERY POWERFUL IN THAT THEY LOCK YOU INTO THE ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE FAST. THERE IS A SIMPLE AND YET PROFOUND MEDITATION CALLED KIRTAN KRIYA THAT HAS THE CAPACITY TO REDIRECT YOUR FOCUS OFF FEAR AND DOUBT SO THAT YOU CAN FEEL DEEPLY CONNECTED TO LOVE.

               KIRTAN MEANS "SONG" IN SANSKRIT, AND KRIYA IS A SPECIFIC SET OF MOVEMENTS. A KRIYAS SET IS DESIGNED TO BRING THE BODY, MIND, AND EMOTIONS INTO BALANCE TO ELEVATE YOUR PRESENCE AND ENABLE HEALING.

             KIRTAN KRIYA COMBINES A MANTRA AND HAND GESTURES (MUDRAS) TO UPLIFE YOU AND DEEPLY CONNECT YOU TO THE DIVINE ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE. WHILE PRACTICING KIRTAN KRIYA, YOU'LL CHANT THE MANTRA SAT NAM, WHICH MEANS TRUTH IDENTIFIED, OR TRUTH IS YOUR NAME.

                THE MUDRAS, OR FINGER POSITIONS, ARE IMPORTANT IN THIS KRIYA .

               HERE'S HOW YOU PRACTICE THE KIRTAN KRIYA:

              SIT COMFORTABLY IN A CHAIR OR CROSS-LEGGED ON THE FLOOR.

             ROLL YOUR SHOULDERS BACK AND STRAIGHTEN YOUR NECK. GET YOUR BODY INTO A STRAIGHT ALLIGNMENT TO BECOME A VESSEL TO RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE UNIVERSE.

              REPEAT THE MANTRA SAA TAA NAA MAA AS YOU TAP YOUR THUMB ON YOUR POINTER, MIDDLE, RING, AND LITTLE FINGERS. WHILE YOU CHANT THE MANTRA, IMAGINE THE SOUND FLOWING IN THROUGH THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD AND OUT THE MIDDLE OF YOUR FOREHEAD (YOUR THIRD EYE POINT)

                FOR TWO MINUTES, SING IN YOUR NORMAL VOICE.

                FOR THE NEXT TWO MINUTES, SING IN A WHISPER.

 

                 FOR THE NEXT FOUR MINUTES, SAY THE SAOUND SILENTLY TO YOURSELF.

                THEN REVERSE THE ORDER, WHISPERING FOR TWO MINUTES, AND THEN OUR LOUD FOR TWO MINUTES, FOR A TOTAL OF 12 MINUTES.

                 TO END THE MEDITATION, INHALE VERY DEEPLY, STRETCH YOUR HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD, AND THEN BRING THEM DOWN SLOWLY, SWEEPING OUT TO THE SIDE.

            PRACTICE THIS KRIYA FOR 12 MINUTES (OR LESS) . I RECOMMEND THAT YOU CHANT ALONG TO THE MUSIC FOUND AT GABBYBERNSTEIN.COM/UNIVERSE.

             PRACTICING KIRTAN KRIYA FOR 12 MINUTES A DAY HAS BEEN SHOWN TO REDUCE STRESS LEVELS AND INCREASE ACTIVITY IN AREAS OF THE BRAIN THAT SUPPORT MEMORY. USE THIS MEDITATION PRACTICE TO SLOW DOWN AND TUNE IN.

           

                                            SET EMPOWERING INTENTIONS

               THE INTENTION TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE IS ENOUGH TO REALIGN YOU TO LOVE. SETTING AN INTENTION CAN BE AS BASIC AS STATING TO YOURSELF (SILENTLY OR OUT LOUD) THAT YOU'RE READY TO RECONNECT TO YOUR PRESENCE. THIS STATEMENT SENDS A MESSAGE TO THE UNIVERSE THAT YOU'RE WILLING TO RELEASE FEAR AND ALIGN YOUR THOUGHTS AND ENERGY WITH LOVE. WHENEVER YOU NOTICE YOURSELF OUT OF ALIGNMENT, SET THE INTENTION TO COME BACK HOME. YOUR INTENTIONS ARE FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE.

                 THINK ABOUT THE INTENTIONS YOU ST THROUGHOUT YOUR DAY. ARE YOU INTENDING TO GET THINGS DONE QUICKLY? TO ACHIEVE AND ACCOMPLISH? TO AVOID NEGATIVE OUTCOME? TO JUST GET THROUGH THE DAY? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF INSTEAD YOU INTENDED TO FEEL GOOD?

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YOUR VIBES SPEAK LOUDER THAN YOUR WORDS

 

                                                 

                                                        YOUR VIBES IS ALL

                           A COURSE IN MIRACLES SAYS, "THERE ARE NO "IDLE" THOUGHTS. ALL THINKING PRODUCES FORM AT SOME LEVEL". WHEN YOU THINK POSITIVE AND LOVING THOUGHTS AND USE EMPOWERING WORDS, YOU FEEL GOOD. BUT WHEN YOU FOCUS YOUR THOUGHTS AND WORDS ON LACK, JUDGMENT, AND SEPERATION, YOU FEEL TERRIBLE. YOUR THOUGHTS AND WORDS CAN AFFECT YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM, YOUR ENERGY, AND REALLY, YOUR ENTIRE LIFE EXPERIENCE.

                     BEGIN TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO HOW YOUR THOUGHTS AND WORDS AFFECT YOUR ENERGY. WHEN YOU VIBRATE A HIGH- VIBE, LOVING ENERGY, YOU WILL RECEIVE HIGH-VIBE, LOVING ENERGY REFLECTED BACK TO YOU. CONVERSELY WHEN YOU PUT OUT LOW-ENERGY, YOU'LL RECEIVE LOW-LEVEL ENERGY AND EXPERIENCES IN RETURN. THEREFORE, YOUR POWER LIES IN YOUR ABILITY TO CHANGE YOUR ENERGY AT ANY TIME TO INCREASE THE LIKEHOOD OF BEING THE RECIPIENT OF HIGH-VIBE, LOVING ENERGY.

                      YOGI BHAJAN, THE YOGA MASTER WHO BROUGHT THE KUNDALINI TEACHINGS TO THE WEST SAID, "IF YOUR PRESENCE DOESN'T WORK, NEITHER WILL YOUR WORD". BEING IN ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR PRESENCE MEANS THAT YOU ALLOW THE ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE TO MOVE THROUGH YOU NATURALLY. IT MEANS THAT YOU'VE SET ASIDE ALL LIMITING BELIEFS AND SMALLNESS AND REALIGNED WITH THE THOUGHTS, WORDS, AND FEELINGS OF LOVE. SIMPLY PUT, YOUR ENERGY IS A FREE-FLOWING EXPRESSION OF LOVE.

                    THE PROMISE OF ALIGNING WITH YOUR ENERGY PRESENCE IS THAT YOU'LL BE MORE CONNECTED. THIS CONNECTION CREATES DEEPER RELATIONSHIPS, SYNCHRONISTIC SUPPORT FROM THE UNIVERSE, EASY ACCESS TO YOUR SOURCE OF INSPIRATION, AND SENSE OF SAFETY IN THE MIDST OF UNCERTAINTY.

                  THROUGHOUT MY SPEAKING CAREER, I'VE HAD MANY MAGICAL EXPERIENCES OF FEELING IN FULL ALIGNMENT WITH THE PRESENCE OF MY POWER. ONE TALK IN PARTICULAR TAUGHT ME THE MIRACLE OF BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF MY AUTHENTIC POWER. I WAS GIVING A LECTURE IN HAMBURG, AND MOST PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE SPOKE ONLY GERMAN. EIGHTY PERCENT OF THEM WERE WEARING HEADPHONES SO THEY COULD HEAR THE TRABSLATOR RECITE MY TALK IN GERMAN. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I'D HAD AN EXPERIENCE WITH A TRASLATOR. BEFORE WALKING INOT THE STAGE, I PRAYED AND MEDITATED AND I ASKED THE UNIVERSE FOR GUIDANCE ON HOW TO BE OF SERVICE TO THIS GROUP. THEN I SURRENDERED ON HOW TO BE OF SERVICE TO THIS GROUP. THEN I SURRENDED MY TALK TO THE CARE OF MY INNER GUIDE. THE MOMENT I HIT THE STAGE, I HEARD MY INNER GUIDE SAY, "DON'T RELY ON YOUR WORDS. RELY ON YOUR PRESENCE". THIS INSTUITION MOVED ME DEEPLY. I BEGAN BY SPEAKING VERY SLOWLY. I ALLOWED MYSELF TO BE MOVED BY THE STORIES I WAS TELLING. AND I TRUSTED THAT AS LONG AS I WAS MOVED BY MESSAGE, THE AUDIENCE WOULD BE MOVED TOO.

                 HALFWAY THOUGH MAY TALK I LOOKED AT THE AUDIENCE WITH THEIR HEADPHONES AND I SAID, " I HAVE A REQUEST, I'D LOVE FOR YOU TO TAKE OFF YOUR HEADPHONES AND EXPERIENCE MY TALK THROUGH MY ENERGY RATHER THAN MY WORDS". THEY ALL WERE WILLING TO PLAY ALONG, AND THEY TOOK THEM OFF. AT THAT MOMENT I BEGAN TO FEEL AS THOUGH I WAS IN AN ENERGETIC DANCE WITH THE AUDIENCE, COMMUNICATING THROUGH A VIBRATION, I NOTICED PEOPLE CRYING AND REACHING INTO THEIR BAGS FOR TISSUES. EVEN WITHOUT THE TRANSLATION OF THE WORDS THEY WERE ABLE TO FEEL THE VIBRATION OF MY INTENTIONS. I COMPLETED MY TALK, AND NOT ONE AUDIENCE MEMBER HAD PUT THEIR HEADPHONES BACK ON.

                 THE NEXT MORNING I FEW TO LONDON FOR ANOTHER SCHEDULED TALK. I WAS THE CLOSING SPEAKER AT THE END OF A FULL WEEKEND EVENT. THE AUDIENCE HAD SEEN DOZENS OF SPEAKERS FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. BY THE TIME I HIT THE STAGE. THEY WERE EXHAUSED. TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, I ARRIVED LATE TO A GREEN ROOM PACKED WITH PEOPLE. I STUCK AROUND TO CHAT AND BECAME DISTRACTED BY ALL THE OTHER SPEAKERS. AND SUDDENLY I WAS SHUFFLED INTO THE STAGE TO GIVE THE CLOSING TALK TO A TIRED GROUP THAT WAS READY TO HEAD HOME. BECAUSE I HADN'T PROPERLY PREPARED MY ENERGY, COUPLED WITH THE LOW ENERGY OF THE AUDIENCE, I WOUND UP GIVING A DISSAPPOINTING PRESENTATION. IT WASN'T THAT I DIDN'T HIT MY POINTS OR FOLLOW MY OUTLINE - I DID. THE ISSUE WAS THAT I HADN'T TUNED IN TO THE ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE TO TEACH WITH MY PRESENCE. REMEMBER WHAT YOGI BHAJAN SAID, "IF YOUR PRESENCE DOESN'T WORK, NEITHER WILL YOUR WORD".

                   THAT DAY I MADE A COMMITMENT TO MYSELF AND TO MY LECTURE AUDIENCES THAT I WOULD NEVER STEP ON A STAGE WITHOUT MY CONNECTION TO MY PRESENCE.

                    UNIVERSAL LESSON : WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE SOMEONE'S TRUE PRESENCE, YOU'RE REMINDER OF YOUR OWN.

              TO ENSURE I SHOW UP FOR ALL AREAS OF MY LIFE WITH MY PRESENCE, I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PRACTICE OF RELEASING FEAR AND ALINGNING WITH LOVE. HERE'S HOW IT WORKS.

                                                   GET OUT OF THE WAY.

                  THE GREATEST BLOCK TO OUR PRESENCE OF LOVE IS THE PRESENCE OF FEAR. WHEN OUR FEARFUL THOUGHTS TAKE OVER, WE GER CAUGHT UP ON THE LITTLENESS AND CUT OFF OUR CONNECTION TO OUR POWER. I OFTEN GET CAUGHT UP ON THOUGHT AND LET MY MIND WANDER INTO THE LITTLENESS OF FEAR. I SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF BIG-TIME, I'LL OBSESS OVER A FIGHT SCHEDULE THAT'S MONTHS AWAY, OR I'LL INTO A FEARFULL STORY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT COULD GO WRONG WITH AN E-MAIL BROADCAST.

                  SO WHAT DO I DO WHEN I'M CAUGHT UP IN MY CRAZY? I RECOGNIZE THE CHAOTIC THOUGHTS AS MY RESISTANCE TO LOVE. I WITNESS THE THOUGHTS AND REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE BLOCKING ME FROM MY TRUE CONNCETION TO THE UNIVERSE. THEN I GET OUT OF THE WAY.

                             

                THROUGH PRAYER, I ALLOW THE LOVING ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE TO GUIDE MY THOUGHTS FROM LITTLENESS AND DOUT BACK TO LOVE.

                I USE THIS PRAYER, " I STEP BACK AND LET THE UNIVERSE LEAD THE WAY".

               THIS PRAYER IMMEDIATELY RELEASE ME FROM MEANINGLESS AND WANDERING AND BRINGS ME BACK TO THE PRESENCE OF MY POWER . I WAY THIS PRAYER ALL THOUGHOUT THE DAY TO KEEP ME IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH THE LOVE OF THE UNIVERSE. USE THIS PRAYER WHENEVER FEAR HAS YOU IN  HEADLOCK.

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THE CONVERSATION OF HILL AND CARNEGIE (IMAGINATION)

 

                                   CONVERSATION OF HILL AND CARNEGIE 

                                                             IMAGINATION

                         HILL : WILL YOU NAME THE PRINCIPLES WHICH ARE MOST COMMONLY USED BY THOSE WHO APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF IMAGINATION?

                       CARNEGIE : WELL, THAT DEPENDS SOMEWHAT ON THE NATURE OF THE APPLICATION THAT IS TO BE MADE OF IMAGINATION, AND THE PERSON MAKING IT, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PRINCIPLES WHICH ARE MORE OFTNE ALLIED WITH IMAGINATION.

                    (1) DEFITENESS OF PURPOSE, BASED ON AN OBSESSIONAL DESIRE GROWING OUT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE NINE BASIC MOTIVES. (SEE LIST OF THE NINE BASIC MOTIVES IN CHAPTER TWO) THE MOTIVE WHICH MORE COMMONLY SERVES TO STIMULATE THE IMAGINATION IS THAT OF DESIRE FOR FINANCIAL GAIN. THE PROFIT MOTIVE HAS BEEN WITHOUT A DOUBT THE GREATEST INSPIRATION TO THE MEN WHO HAVE DEVELOPED INDUSTRIAL AMERICA.

                    (2) THE MASTER MIND PRINCIPLE, THROUGH WHICH MEN GO INTO A HUDDLE AND FRANKLY EXCHANGE THOUGHTS WITH THE OBJECT OF SOLVING BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL PROBLEMS, IS ALSO A GREAT STIMULATION OF THE IMAGINATION. IT WAS THIS PRINCIPLE, MORE THAN ALL OTHERS, THROUGH WHICH THE TEEL INDUSTRY, OF WHICH I WAS THE FOUNDER, BECAME PROSPEROUS. THE SO-CALLED "ROUND TABLE" IS A GREAT INSTITUTION. WHEN MEN SIT DOWN AND BEGAN TO POOL THEIR IDEAS, IN A SPIRIT OF HARMONY AND ONENESS OF PURPOSE, THEY SOON FIND A SOLUTION TO MOST OF THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT THEM, NO MATTER WHAT BUSINESS THEY MAY BE ENAGGED IN, OR WHAT MAY BE THE NATURE OF THEIR PROBLEMS.

                   (3) GOING THE EXTRA MILE COMES IN PROMINENTLY FOR ITS SHARE OF CREDIT AS A STIMULANT TO THE IMAGINATION. WHEN A MAN MAKES IT A HABIT TO DO MORE THAN HE IS PAID FOR, HE GENERALLY BEGINS TO DRAW UPON HIS IMAGINATION FOR NEW SOURCES THROUGH WHICH TO RENDER THIS SORT OF  SERVICE. THIS FACT ALONE WOULD BE SUFFICIENT COMPENSATION FOR GOING THE EXTRA MILE, EVEN IF THERE WERE NOT STILL GREATER BENEFITS AVAILABLE.

                   (4) APPLIED FAITH IS A DEFINITE SOURCE OF STIMULATION OF THE IMAGINATION. MOREOVER, IT IS AN ESSENTIAL IN CONNECTION WITH THE STIMULATION AND APPLICATION OF CREATIVE IMAGINATION. MEN WITH OR NO FAITH WILL NEVER RECEIVE THE BENEFITS OF CREATIVE IMAGINATION.

                  (5) ORGANIZED INDIVIDUAL ENDEAVOR DEPENDS DIRECTLY UPON THE APPLICATION OF IMAGINATION FOR ITS EFFECTIVENES, AS ALL FORMS OF DEFINITE PLANNING ARE CALLED ON THROUGH IMAGINATION.

                   THERE ARE MANY OTHER SOURCES OF STIMULATION OF THE IMAGINATION, BUT THESE FIVE ARE ON THE "MUST" LIST.

                  FEAR SOMETIMES STIMULATES THE IMAGINATION, WHILE OF COURSE T OTHER TIMES IT PARALYZES THE IMAGINATION. WHEN A MAN IS IN GREAT DANGER HIS IMAGINATION OFTEN PERFORMS SEEMINGLY SUPERHUMAN FEATS, ESPECIALLY WHERE SELF-PRESERVATION IS THE MOTIVE.

                 FAILURE AND TEMPORARY DEFEAT SOMETIMES HAVE THE EFFECT OF STIRRING ONE'S IMAGINATION, ALTHOUGH MORE OFTEN THEY HAVE THE OPPOSITE EFFECT.

                  THE QUESTION METHOD WHICH MASTER MASTER SALESMAN OFTEN RESORT TO, HAS THE EFFECT OF AROUSING THE IMAGINATION AND PUTTING IT TO WORK, AND THE REACTION FOR THIS IS OBVIOUS. BY ASKING QUESTIONS THE SALEMAN FORCES HIS PERSPECTIVE BUYER TO THINK. MOREOVER, HE CHOOSES THE LINE OF THOUGHT TO BE ENGAGED IN, BY THE ADROITNESS OF HIS QUESTIONS.

 

                    CURIOSITY OFTEN STIMULATES IMAGINATION TO A HIGH PITCH, CURIOSITY, GROWING OUT OF DEATH AND THE UNCERTAINLY OF LIFE, AND THE UNKNOWN AND PERHAPS UNKNOWABLE FACTS OF IMMORTALITY, HAS BEEN THE CHIEF SOURCE OF INSPIRATION OUT OF WHICH ALL THE RELIGIOUS HAVE GROWN.

                 SELF-EXPRESSION, THROUGH SPEAKING AND WRITING, IT A NEVERENDING SOURCE OF STIMULATION OF IMAGINATION, AS ARE MANY OTHER FORMS OF ACTION. THE VERY MOMENT A MAN BEGINS TO ORGANIZE HIS THOUGHS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPRESSION, WHETHER THROUGH WORDS OR DEEDS, HE STARTS HIS IMAGINATION OT WORK. FOR THIS REASON CHILDREN SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO GIVE FREE EXPRESSION TO THEIR THOUGHTS, AS THIS DEVELOP IMAGINATION EARLY IN LIFE.

               HUNGER IS A UNIVERSAL SOURCE OF INSPIRATION OF IMAGINATION. WHEN A MAN NEES FOOD HIS IMAGINATION GOES TO WORK AUTOMATICALLY, WITHOUT ANY FORMS OF URGE. IN THE LOWER ORDER OF LIFE, INSTINCT GOES TO WORK IN THE FACE OF HUNGER, AND I HAVE KNOWN OF INGENIOUS APPLICATIONS OF INSTINCT UNDER SUCH AN URGE.

 

              THUS WE SEE THAT WHEREVER WE TOUCH LIFE, WHETHER IN MAN OR THE LOWER ORDERS OF ORGANIC LIFE, IMAGINATION AND INSTINCT MAY BE FOUND AS ESSENTIAL PARTS OF THE INDIVIDUALS WORKING QUIPMENT.

                CONCENTRATION OF ATTENTION ON A DEFINITE PROBLEM OR OBJECT TENDS TO PUT THE IMAGINATION TO WORK IMMEDIATELY. WITNESS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE ASTOUNDING ACHIEVEMENTS OF DR. ELMER R GATES, WHO CREATED HUNDREDS OF USEFUL UNVENTIONS BY "SITTING FOR IDEAS". THE SAME PRINCIPLE WAS USED BY THOMAS A. EDISON AND DR. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. BY FIXING THEIR MIND ON DEFINITE OBJECTIVE, THROUGH DEFITENESS OF PURPOSE, THEY PUT CREATIVE IMAGINATION TO WORK WITH FAR-REACHING RESULTS.

                SCIENTISTS,  AND SOMETIMES LAYMEN, PUT THEIR IMAGINATION TO WORK BY SETTING UP HYPOTHESES OF FACTS OR IDEAS WHICH, FOR THE TIME BEING, THEY ASSUME TO EXIST, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENT WOURL HARDLY BE PRACTICAL IF HYPOTHETICAL CASES WERE NOT UTILIZED, AS OFTEN THE FACTS FOR WHICH THEY ARE SEARCHING ARE ENTIRELY UNKNOWN.

                 LAWYERS AND TRIAL JUDGE OFTEN RESORT TO THE USE OF HYPOTHESIS IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH FACTS THAT CANNOT BE UNCOVERED THROUGH ANY OTHER SOURCE. THE CHEMISTS AND THE PHYSICISTS RESORT TO TEH SAME METHOD WHEN SEARCHING FOR UNKNOWN FACTS. AND SO DOES THE DOCTOR, WHEN OTHER MEANS OF DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE FAIL HIM. DETECTIVES OFTEN WORK ENTIRELY THROUGH THE AID OF HYPOTHESIS IN THE SOLUTION OF CRIME.

                    HILL : WHY IS IT THAT SO FEW PEOPLE APPEAR TO HAVE A WELL DEVELOPED IMAGINATION? IS THE CAPACITY FOR KEEN IMAGINATION A MATTER OF HEREDITY, MR. CARNEGIE?

                 CARNEGIE : NO, THE FACULTY OF IMAGINATION, LIKE ALL OTHER FACULTIES OF THE MIND, CAN BE DEVELOPTED THROUGH USE. THE REASON SO MANY PEOPLE SEEM NOT TO HAVE A KEEN IMAGINATION IS OBVIOUS. MOST PEOPLE ALLOW THE FACULTY OF IMAGINATION IS OBVIOUS, MOST PEOPLE ALLOW THE FACULTY OF IMAGINATION OT ATTROPHY, THROUGH NEGLECT.

                  HILL : IN AS MUCH AS EVERYONE MUST USE SALESMANSHIP, IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WILL YOU ILLUSTRATE IMAGINATION CAN BE USED IN SELLING?

                CARNEGIE : I CAN GIVE YOU AN ENDLESS NUMBER OF EXAMPLES OF THIS SORT. TAKE THE CASE OF A LIFE INSURANCE WHOM I KNOW, FOR INSTANCE. HE BEGAN SELLING INSURANCE AFTER AN ACCIDENT WHICH INCAPACITATED HIM FOR ANY SORT OF HEAVY MANUAL LABOR, AND WITHIN A YEAR HE BECAME THE HIGH MAN FOR THE ENTIRE INITED STATES, IN THE AGENCY FORCE OF HIS COMPANY.

                  I WILL GIVE YOU ONE ILLUSTRATION THAT WILL TELL THE STORY OF HIS SUCCESS, BUT, BEFORE I DO SO I THINK I SHOULD TELL YOU THAT THIS MAN BECAME A MASTER AT APPLYING THE MASTER MIND PRINCIPLE. HE ALSO BECAME EQUALLY PROFICIENT IN APPLYING MANY OF THE OTHER PRINCIPLES OF ACHIEVEMENT, AMONG THEM CREATIVE VISION.

               ONE DAY HE WALKED INTO THE OFFICE OF A VERY DISTINGUISHED AND WEALTHY LAWYER AND CAME OUT, WITHIN HALF AN HOUR, WITH AN APPLICATION FOR A MILLION-DOLLAR POLICY ON THE LAWYER'S LIFE, ALTHOUGH THE LAWYER WAS KNOWN TO HAVE REFUSED TO PURCHASE INSURANCE FROM A HALF DOZEN OR  MORE OF THE ABLEST INSURANCE MEN IN THE CITY IN WHICH HE LIVED.

              

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THE MEN AND WOMEN

 

                               

                                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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HOW TO RAISE YOUR SALARY (MR. HILL AND CANEGIE )

                                     

                                             TIPS TO RAISE YOUR SALARY

                             (CONVERSATION OF HILL AND THE CARNEGIE )

                     HILL : WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHOSE LACK OF EDUCATION FORCES HIM TO ACCEPT ONLY SUCH OPPORTUNITIES AS ARE AVAILABLE TO COMMON LABORERS WHO WORK WITH THEIR HANDS? WOULD YOU SAY THAT THIS MAN HA EQUAL OPPORTUNITY WITH THOSE WHO HAVE EDUCATED THEMSELVES ?

                   CARNEGIE : I'M VERY GLAD YOU ASKED THAT QUESTION, BECAUSE I WISH TO SET YOU RIGHT ON A COMMON MISTAKE THAT PEOPLE MAKE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS QUESTION OF EDUCATION.

                   FIRST, LET ME EXPLAIN THAT THE WORD, "EDUCATE" MEANS SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FRON THAT WHICH MANY BELIEVE IT TO MEAN. AN EDUCATED MAN IS ONE WHO HAS TAKEN POSSESSION OF HIS OWN MIND AND HAS SO DEVELPED IT, THROUGH ORGANIZED THOUGHT, THAT IT AIDS HIM EFFICIENTLY IN THE SOLUTION OF HIS DAILLY PROBLEMS IN THE BUSINESS OF LIVING.

                   SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT EDUCATION CONSISTS OF THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT IN A TRUER SENSE IT MEANS THAT ONE HAS LEARNED HOW TO USE KNOWLEDGE.

                  I KNOW MANY MEN WHO ARE WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF KNOWLEDGE. BUT MAKE SUCH POOR USE OF IT THAT THEY CANNOT EARN A LIVING.

                  ANOTHER MISTAKE THAT MANY PEOPLE MAKE IT THAT OF BELIEVING THAT SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION ARE SYNONYMOUS TERMS. SCHOOLING MAY ENABLE A MAN TO ACQUIRE MUCH KNOWLEDGE AND ASSEMBLE MANY USEFUL FACTS, BUT SCHOOLING ALONE DOES NOT NECESSARILY MAKE A MAN EDUCATED. EDUCATION IS SELF-ACQUIRED, AND IT COMES THROUGH DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE MIND, AND IN NO OTHER WAY.

              TAKE THOMAS A EDISON, FOR EXAMPLE. HIS ENTIRE SCHOOLING WAS A LITTLE MORE THAN THREE MONTHS, AND IT WAS NOT THE MOST EFFICIENT OF SCHOOLING AT THAT.  HIS REAL "SCHOOLING" CAME FROM THE GREAT SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE, FROM WHICH HE LEARNED HOW TAKE POSSESSION OF HIS OWN MIND AND TO USE IT. THROUGH THIS USE HE BECAME ONE OF THE BEST EDUCATED MEN OF OUR TIMES.

                 SUCH TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AS HE NEEDED IN THE BUSINESS OF INVENTING HE ACQUIRED FROM OTHER MEN, THROUGH APPLICATION OF THE MASTER MIND PRINCIPLE. IN THIS WORK HE REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE OF CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, ADN A GREAT VARIETY OF OTHER SCIENTIFIC SUNJECTS, NONE OF WHICH HE PERSONALLY UNDERSTANDS. BUT SINCE HE IS EDUCATED, HE KNOWS HOW AND WHERE TO PROCURE KNOWLEDGE ON THESE AND ALL OTHER SUBJECTS WHICH IS ESSENTIAL IN HIS WORK.

                SO, DISABUSE YOUR MIND OF THE BELIEF THAT KNOWLEDGE, OF ITSELF, IS EDUCATED! THE MAN WHO KNOWS WHERE AND HOW TO PROCURE THE KNOWLEDGE HE NEEDS, WHEN HE NEEDS IT, MUCH MORE A MAN OF EDUCATION THAT THE MAN WHO HAS THE KNOWLEDGE BUT DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

                  NOW, THER IS ANOTHER ANGLE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OLD, TIME WORN ALIBI THROUGH WHICH MEN EXPLAIN AWAY THEIR FAILURE BY CLAIMING THEY HAVE HAD NO OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE EDUCATION. IT IS THE FACT THAT SCHOOLING IS FREE IN THIS COUNTRY, AND IT IS SO ABUNDANTLY PROVIDED THAT ANY MAN CAN GO TO SCHOOL AT NIGHT IF HE REALLY WISHES TO DO SO. WE ALSO HAVE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS THROUGH WHICH MEN MAY ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE ON ALMOST ANY SUBJECT, AND FOR A VERY SMALL PRICE.

                I HAVE BUT LITTLE PATIENCE WITH THOSE WHO CLAIM THAT THEY HAVE NOT SUCCEEDED BECAUSE THEY LACKED SCHOOLING, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT ANY MAN WHO REALLY WANTS SCHOOLING CAN ACQUIRE IT. THE FALLACY OF THIS "NO SCHOOLING" ALIBI, IN MOST INSTANCE, IS THAT IT IS USED AS AN APOLOGY FOR PLAIN LAZINESS OR LACK OF AMBITION.

                   I HAD BUT LITTLE SCHOOLING, AND I BEGAN MY CAREER ON EXACTLY THE SAME BASIS THAT ANY "RICH UNCLE" TO HELP ME ALONG, AND NO ONE TO INSPIRE ME TO PROMOTE MYSELF INTO A MORE FAVORABLE ECONOMIC STATUS IN LIFE. THE IDEA OS DOING SO WAS ENTIRELY MY OWN. MOREOVER, I FOUND THE TASK TO BE COMPARATIVELY EASY. IT CONSISTED, MAINLY, OF MY TAKING POSSESSION OF MY OWN MIND USING IT WITH DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE.

                  I DID NOT LIKE POVERTY, THEREFORE I REFUSED TO REMAIN UNDER IT. MY OWN MENTAL ATTITUDE ON THIS SUBJECT WAS THE DETERMINING FACTOR THAT HELPED ME TO FORCE POVERTY TO GIVE PLACE TO RICHES. I CAN TRUTHFULLY TELL YOU THAT OF ALL THE THOUSANDS OF WORKING MEN WHO HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED BY ME, I DO NOT KNOW OF ONE PERSON WHO COULD NOT HAVE QUALED, IT NOT EXCELLED, ME IF HE HAD WANTED TO DO SO.

                     HILL : YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE SUJECT OF EDUCATION IS BOTH INTERESTING AND REVEALING, MR. CARNEGIE, AND YOU MAY REST ASSURED I WILL INCLUDE IT IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF ACHIEVEMENT, BECAUSE I FEEL SURE THERE ARE MANY OTHERS WHO HAVE THE WRONG CONCEPTION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN "SCHOOLING" AND "EDUCATION". IF I UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY, YOU BELIEVE THAT BETTER PART OF ONE'S EDUCATIOAL COMES YOU CORRECTLY, YOU BELIEVE THE BETTER PART OF ONE'S EDUCATION'. IF I UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY, YOU BELIEVE THE BETTER PART ONE'S EDUCATION COMES FROM DOING AND NOT MERELY FROM THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE. 

                  CARNEGIE : THAT IS EXACTLY CORRECT! I HAVE MEN WORKING FOR MEN WHO HAVE COLLEGE DEGREES, BUT MANY OF THEM FIND THEIR COLLEGE TRAINING ONLY INCIDENTAL TO THEIR SUCCESS. THOSE WHO COMBINE COLLEGE TRAINING WITH PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE SOON BECOME EDUCATED IN A PRACTICAL SENSE, PROVIDED THEY DO NOT TOO HEAVILY UPON THEIR ACADEMIC DEGREES AS A MEANS OF MINIMIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE.

                  RIGHT HERE IS AN APPROPRIAT PLACE TO TELL YOU THAT COLLEGE GRADUATES WHOM I HAVE EMPLOYED, WHO DEVELLOP THE HABIT OF RENDERING MORE SERVICE THAN THEY ARE PAID FOR, USUALLY ADVANCE THEMSELVES TO MORE RESPONSIBLE AND BETTER-PAIYING POSITIONS VERY QUICKLY, WHILE THOSE WHO NEGLECT OR REFUSE TO ADOPT THIS PRINCIPLE MAKE NO MORE PROGRESS THAN THE AVERAGE MAN WITHOUT COLLEGE TRAINING.

                    HILL :  DO YOU MEAN THAT COLLEGE TRAININGIS WORTH RELATIVELY LESS THAN THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN ONE IS PAID FOR?

                  CARNEGIE : YES, YOU MIGHT PUT IT THAY WAY, BUT I HAVE OBSERVED THAT MEN WITH COLLEGE TRAINING WHO FOLLOW THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN THEY ARE PAID FOR, COMBINING THEIR COLLEGE TRAINING WITH THE ADVANTAGES THEY GAIN FROM THIS HABIT, GET AHEAD MUCH MORE RAPIDLY THAN MEN WHO DO MORE THAN THEY ARE PAID FOR BUT HAVE NO COLLEGE TRAINING. FROM THIS I HAVE REACHED THE CONCLUSTION THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THOUGHT DISCIPLINE THAT A MAN G3ETS FROM COLLEGE TRAINING WHICH MEN WITHOUT THIS TRAINING DO NOT GENERALLY POSSESS.

                  HILL : ARE A MAJORIY OF THE MEMBERS OF YOUR MASTE RMIND GROUP MEN WITH COLLEGE TRAINING MR. CARNEGIE?

                  CARNEGIE : ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THEM ARE WITHOUT COLLEGE TRAINING, AND I MIGHT ADD THAT THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN OF GREATEST SERVICE TOP ME, WEIGHING EVERYTHING THEY HAVE ALL DONE, DID NOT FINISH THAT HIS VALUNTARY HABIT OF RENDERING MORE SERVICE  THAN HE WAS PAID FOR WAS THE QUALITY WHICH MADE HIM OF GREATEST VALUE TO ME.

                  I SAY THIS BECAUSE HIS EXAMPLE SEEMED TO SET THE PACE FOR OTHER MEMBERS OF MY MASTER MIND GROUP. MOREOVER, HIS ATTITUDE ON THIS SUBJECT SPREAD TO THE RANK AND FILE OF OUR WORKERS, MANY OF WHOM CAUGHT HIS SPIRIT, PRACTICED IT, AND THEREBY PROMOTED THEMSELVES INTO BETTER-PAYING AND MORE RESPONSIBLE POSITIONS WITH THE COMPANY.

                  HILL : HAVE YOU ANY DEFINITE METHOD BY WHICH YOU ENDEAVOR TO INFORM ALL YOUR MEN OF THE ADVANTAGES THEY MAY GAIN BY RENDERING MORE SERVICE THAN THEY ARE PAID FOR?

                CARNEGIE : WE HAVE NO DIRECT METHOD OF DOING THIS, ALTHOUGH THE NEWS HAS BEEN PASSED ALONG, BY THE "GRAPE-VINE" ROUTE, THAT THE MEN WHO PROMOTE THEMSELVES TO BETTER POSITIONS FOLLOW THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN THEY ARE PAID FOR. I HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT WE SHOULD HAVE GONE MUCH FURTHER BY SOME FORM OF MORE DIRECT APPROACH BY WHICH OUR MEN WOULD HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THE BENEFITS OF RENDERING THIS SORT OF SERVICE, AND WE WOULD HAVE DONE SO HAD WE NOT FEARED OUR EFFORTS WOULD HAVE BEEN MISCONSTRUED AS AN ATTEMPT ON OUR PART TO GET MORE WORK FROM OUR MEN WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT.

                     YOU SEE, MORE WORKING MEN ARE SKEPTICAL ANS SUSPICIOUS OF ALL EFFORTS ON THE PAR OF AN EMPLOYER TO INFLUENCE THEM TO IMPROVE THEMSELVES. PERHAPS SOME SMARTER MAN THAN I WILL FIND A WAY THROUGH WHICH EMPOYERS MAY GAIN THE CONFIDENCE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES AND CONVINE THEM OF THE BENEFITS, TO EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE ALIKE, OF THE HABIT OF RENDERING MORE SERVICE THAN THE WAGE SCALE CALLS FOR.

                   OF COURSE THE RULE MUST WORK BOTH WAYS, AND IT WILL WHERE AN EMPLOYEE UNDERSTANDS THIS PRINCIPLE AND APPLIES IT DELIBERATELY. THE MATTER IS IN THE HANDS OF THE EMPLOYEE ENTIRELY. THIS IS SOMETHING HE CAN DO ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE, WITHOUT CONSULTING THE EMPLOYER. THE WISER EMPLOYEES DISCOVER AND APPLY THIS PRINCIPLE VALUNTAIRY!

                    THERE IS NOT A MAN IN MY MASTER MIND GROUP WHO DID NOT VOLUNTARILY PROMOTE HIMSELF TO THAT POSITION THROUGH THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN WAS EXPECTED OF HIM. I TELL YOU FRANKLY THAT THE MEN WHO FOLLOWS THIS HABIT VOLUNTARILY SOON MAKES HIMSELF INDISPENSABLE AND THEREBY SETS HIS OWN WAGES AD CHOOSES HIS OWN JOB. THERE IS NOTHING AN EMPLOYER CAN DO BUT COOPERATE WITH A MAN WHO HAS THE SOUND JUDGMENT TO DO MORE THAN HE IS PAID FOR.

                      HILL : BUT, AREN'T THERE SOME EMPLOYERS WHO SELFISHLY REFUSE TO RECONNIZE AND REWARD AN EMPLOYEE FOR THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN HE IS PAID FOR? 

                    CARNEGIE : UNDOUBTEDTLY THERE ARE SOME EMPLOYERS WHO ARE SHORTSIGHTED ENOUGH TO WITHHOLD REWARD FROM A MAN OF THIS TYPE, BUT YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT THE MAN WHO HABITUALLY DOES MORE THAN HE IS PAID FOR IS SO RATE, THAT THERE IS KEEN COMPETITION AMONG EMPLOYERS FOR HIS SERVICES.

 

                   IF A MAN HAS THE SOUND JUDGEMENT TO UNDERSTAND THE ADVANTAGES OF DOING MORE THAN HE IS PAID FOR, HE GENERALLY HAS SENSE ENOUGH, ALSO, TO KNOW THAT ALL EMPLOYERS ARE SEEKING THIS SORT OF HELP, AND EVEN THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW THIS WILL, SOONER OR LATTER, COME TO THE ATTENTION OF AN EMPLOYERS WHO IS LOOKING FOR THE SORT OF SERVICE, EVEN THOUGH THEY DO NOT DELIBERATELY ENDEAVOR TO PROMOTE THEMSELVES.

                    EVERY MAN GRAVITATES TO WHERE HE BELOGS IN LIFE, AS SURELY AS WATER SEEKS AND FINDS ITS LEVE!

                 CHARLIE SCHWAB, FOR EXAMPLE, DID NOT SEEK ME OUT (AS FAR AS I KNOW) AND SAY, " SEE HERE, I AM DOING MORE THAN I AM PAID FOR ". I MADE THE DISCOVERY IN MY OWN BECAUSE I WAS SEARCHING FOR THAT SORT OF MENTAL ATTITUDE.

                 NO EMPLOYER CAN SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCT AN INDUSTRY OF THE SIZE, OF OURS WITHOUT THE AID OF A LARGE NUMBER OF MEN WHO PUT HERE, SOUL AND ALL THE ABILITY THEY HAVE INTO THEIR JOBS. THEREFORE, I KEEP A CLOSE LOOKOUT AT ALL TIMES FOR THIS TYPE OF MAN, AND WHEN I FIND  ONE I SINGLE HIM OUT FOR CLOSE OBSERVATION, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLLOWS THE HABIT CONSISTENTLY. THE TRUTH IS THAT ALL SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYERS DO THE SAME THING. THAT IS ONE REASON WHY THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL.

                WHETHER A MAN OCCUPIES THE POSITION OF EMPLOYER TO EMPLOYEE, THE SPACE HE OCCUPIES IN THE WORLD IS MEASURED PRECISELY BY THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF THE SERVICE HE RENDERS, PLUS THE MENTAL ATTITUDE IN WHICH HE RELATIVES HIMSELF TO OTHER PEOPLE.

                 EMERSON SAID, " DO THE THING AND YOU SHALL HAVE THE POWER". HE NEVER EXPRESSED A MORE TRUTHFUL THOUGHT THAN THIS. MOREOVER, IT APPLIES TO EVERY CALLING, AND TO EVERY  HUMAN RELATIONSHIP. MEN WHO GAIN AND HOLD POWER DO SO BY MAKING THEMSELVES USEFUL TO OTHERS. ALL THIS TALK ABOUT MEN HOLDING FAT JOBS THROUGH. "PULL" IS NONSENSE. A MAN MAY PROCRE A GOOD JOB THROUGH PULL, BUT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT WHEN I TELL YOU THAT IF HE REMAINS IN THE JOB HE WILL DO SO THOUGH "PUSH", AND THE MORE OF IT PUTS INTO THE JOB, THE HIGHER HE WILL RISE.

                     I HAVE KNOWN OF A FEW YOUNG MEN WHO WERE PLACED IN POSITIONS BEYOND THEIR EARNED MERITS AND ABILITY, THROUGH THE INFLENCE OF RELATIVES OR OTHERS, BUT SELDOM HAVE I KNOWN OF ONE OF THEM MAKING THE FULLEST USE OF THIS UNEARNED ADVANTAGE, ADN SUCH EXCEPTIONS AS I HAVE KNOWN WERE DUE TO THEIR HAVING ACQUIRED THE HABIT OF PUTTING INOT THEIR JOBS MORE THAN THEY TRIED TO TAKE OUT.

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