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Psycho-Pictography Vernon Howard. For a lesson in happy living taught by the ancient Polynesians: see page 73 [Mental Picture 32]. How to experience a remarkable difference in the way you feel: see page [Mental Picture 75]. If you ever doubt that you are capable of reaching greater heights: see page 96 [Mental Picture 42]. To learn how to banish loneliness and depression: see page [Mental Picture 56]. If you want to be a clever detective in solving the mystery of life: see page 28 [Mental Picture 12].
Why you should detach yourself mentally from mankind's folly: see page [Mental Picture 52]. Why you should look within yourself for everything you need: see page [Mental Picture 64]. To understand the process by which a person returns to his or her True Self: see page 2 [Mental Picture 1]. How to use the principles of this book for maximum benefit: see page 43 [Mental Picture 19]. For freeing yourself from nervousness and tension: see page [Mental Picture 71].
How awareness of your inner powers puts them to work for you: see page [Mental Picture 58]. How to live without making painful choices: see page [Mental Picture 85]. If you want aid in dissolving unwanted habits: see page 47 [Mental Picture 21]. To understand the enormously important principle of nonresistance: see page [Mental Picture 81]. For magic moccasins that guide you in your human relations: see page 69 [Mental Picture 30].
If you ever feel that all is lost: see page 50 [Mental Picture 22]. For a profound principle that frees you of negativity: see page 21 [Mental Picture 9]. To discover how the power of attention helps you: see page [Mental Picture 51]. Why you should use an apparent difficulty for self-advance ment: see page [Mental Picture 92]. To discover a method for changing your life: see page [Mental Picture 73]. For an example of how you can make pleasing progress: see page [Mental Picture 49].
If you want to elevate yourself above the world of strife: see page [Mental Picture 82]. How cheerfulness can empower you: see page 18 [Mental Picture 7]. For a valuable fact about your True Self: see page 71 [Mental Picture 31]. To discover the difference between thought and awareness: see page [Mental Picture 59].
When you want to conquer feelings of helplessness: see page 42 [Mental Picture 18]. To find out how to make your daily actions successful: see page 88 [Mental Picture 39]. If you are confused and uncertain: see page 7 [Mental Picture 3]. To discover how changed viewpoints can uplift your life: see page [Mental Picture 54].
Why you must explore your natural resources: see page 95 [Mental Picture 41]. To see how a people prevents themselves from living happily: see page [Mental Picture 91].
To free yourself from a painful past: see page 54 [Mental Picture 24]. To discover how to turn the knowledge from this book into per sonal profit: see page [Mental Picture 69]. Why self-examination is self-enriching: see page 22 [Mental Picture 10].
If you want a safe and successful future: see page [Mental Picture 66]. For important information about developing your understand ing: see page [Mental Picture 44]. Why you should see new ideas as your best friends: see page [Mental Picture 90]. For a mental technique to aid in overcoming difficulties: see page 77 [Mental Picture 33]. How to become aware of the bright new life that can be yours: see page 20 [Mental Picture 8].
If you want to know how and why you attract the conditions in your life: see page 51 [Mental Picture 23]. To discover how self-unity provides self-power: see page 79 [Mental Picture 34]. If you doubt that you presently possess all the riches you need: see page [Mental Picture 77]. When you want to free yourself from negative emotions: see page [Mental Picture 48]. To learn why you should put first things first: see page [Mental Picture 80].
How a businessman found personal peace: see page 15 [Mental Picture 6]. If you are ever puzzled as to your true identity: see page [Mental Picture 46]. Why you should suspect that there is a vastly superior way to live: see page [Mental Picture 86]. If you want to profit from every experience: see page [Mental Picture 55]. When you want to climb to success the correct way: see page 89 [Mental Picture 40].
If you cannot understand why you don't enjoy yourself: see page [Mental Picture 72]. How alertness serves your best interests: see page 38 [Mental Picture 16]. For a helpful example of personal progress: see page [Mental Picture 76].
Why you should see your mind as the source of supply for all your needs: see page [Mental Picture 63]. For a valuable viewpoint to use when dealing with troublesome people: see page 65 [Mental Picture 28]. If you want to know why so many people miss the riches of life: see page [Mental Picture 61]. To get to the point of your life: see page [Mental Picture 74]. If you want to prevent other people from hurting you: see page 67 [Mental Picture 29].
To learn how millions of people needlessly destroy their daily peace of mind: see page [Mental Picture 67]. To discover how a higher level of thinking cures a personal cri sis: see page 36 [Mental Picture 14]. For an encouraging Mental Picture about your progress: see page [Mental Picture 87].
Should You Help Others? W h o Is Living Your Life? D o e s it really exist? It is a reality. It exists within you at this very moment. You may not be aware of it as yet, but still it is there. Your part is to listen when it speaks. As he was hustled away inside the wagon, he heard the ringing of the village bell. The sound became fainter and fainter as the wagon carried him away. But that bell's special tone made a permanent impression upon his mind.
Years later, as he grew up, the memory of that bell stirred a rest less urge within. It made him weary of the gypsy life. He longed to return to his rightful home. So he broke away from the gypsy camp and began his search. He wandered from country to coun try, village to village, listening intensely for the special ring of that single bell. He heard many peals as he journeyed along, but he always detected a false ring, and so refused to be lured away.
He turned in its direction. The farther he walked the more swiftly he stepped. Something within him knew that he was hearing his village bell at last. And he followed it all the way home. Likewise, the ring of truth is inside every person. And this is not something merely mystical or philosophical. It is a practical fact.
If a person learns to listen, if he refuses to be lured away by false sounds, he will find his way home. The ring of truth will always be recognized by the person who listens. And everyone has the capacity to listen and to follow. You, the reader, have just received your first Mental Picture from this book.
There will be many more. But first we want to discover what we mean by Psycho-Pictography, the dynamic sci ence of Mental Pictures. It had to be met by philosophers, psy chologists, scientists, and teachers of religion. That challenge is: By what method can the human mind be reached with the Truth that sets it free? Offhand, this would seem to be no problem at all.
We might answer, "Why, just tell people about the bright new life they can have. They will respond eagerly enough! Even a brief glance at the headlines reveals that people have lost the abil ity to respond to self-enrichment. The human mind, far from wel coming advancement, resists it fiercely. The ego-centered self, fearing defeat at the hands of Truth, fights back with every weapon it can frantically grasp.
The mind, when faced with the very power that gives light and liberty, has invented a multitude of evasions, resistances, rationalizations, and counterfeits. Faced with this challenge, the great teachers of history devel oped ways and means to carry the Truth beyond these mental. They have discovered methods for giving people their first magnificent glimpse that leads to the True Self. Of all these techniques, only one was widely used at all.
And it was superbly successful. It worked. People took command of their own lives. Inner strength replaced weakness and fear. Problems unraveled. An entirely new self-identity appeared. Anger and anxiety turned to calm. Physical ailments vanished. Each new day, which formerly threatened another terror, now presented another conquest. Lives took on fresh meaning and permanent purpose. Regardless of the human problem, no matter how disastrous or how long it had lasted, a healing took place.
The technique proved all-powerful. What was it? The Mental Picture. A Mental Picture is a scene played upon the screen of the mind. By means of a story or anecdote, the mind is helped to see a certain truth.
For instance, we have just read the adventure of the Swiss shepherd. That story conveyed a picture to us. It impressed the intellect with a profound principle. The value of Psycho-Pictography, or Mental Pictures, is enor mous. We shall see how and why as we go along. For one thing, the thinking process itself is largely a projection of mental scenes.
That is why constructive visualizations are essential to our health and happiness. In this book you will be presented with many stories and illustrations that create positive Mental Pictures. These illustra tions are the means by which the truth reaches and enlightens the mind. We can call these illustrations by various namessto ries, examples, case-histories, analogies, anecdotes, even jokes.
But the purpose is single: to give the mind a constructive course of action to follow. They guide the individual into doing what is nec essary in order to emerge with a new life.
Say, for instance, that you have a difficult decision to make. As hard as you try, you cannot make up your mind. Then, you read an anecdote about someone in a similar situation. You dis cover how he handled it. Perhaps he gave up fighting his problem and simply relaxed from it. That action loosened his mental pow ers, enabling him to think in a new way.
And the answer came to him. This person's success formed a Mental Picture in your mind. And now you have a clear and practical course to follow. We may not immediately understand a particular idea that can help us, but we can understand a Mental Picture that illus trates it. So the Picture becomes a sturdy bridge. It helps us to cross over from the known to the unknown. It connects one level of understanding to a higher level.
We ascend from a literal understanding to a psychological insight. The use of stories to convey a principle has another interest ing advantage. Because they are pleasant to read, because we enjoy them, they permit passage of the truth with minimum of resistance. Stories are like friends who bring us unexpected gifts. An absorbed Mental Picture goes to work at once. It trans forms our thinking. Like a powerful current beneath the surface of the sea, it supplies energy and wisdom, even when we are not consciously aware of it.
Quietly it works, giving us whatever we need for a conquest. This enormous secret was known and used by all the great teachers of history. The New Testament presented Mental Pictures by means of parables. Zen Buddhism did likewise with its anecdotes and analogies. Ancient wise men, like Socrates and Plato, taught with stories and legends. Moderns, like Emerson and Thoreau, made full use of illustrations in their lectures and writings. Because Mental Pictures speak a language that every one understands.
All of us are capable of forming mental images and of drawing meaning from them: Dr. Raynor C. Johnson explains:. All this is of thrilling significance.
It means that anyone can start exactly where he or she is regardless of present knowl edge or understandingand go on to higher levels of fortune. A Mental Picture, once implanted, works ceaselessly and effort lessly. You have heard the ancient saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. We can modernize it by saying that a Mental Picture is worth a thousand hours of effort! Let's review our discoveries about Psycho-Pictography: 1.
The Mental Picture becomes a permanent power that channels all our natural energiesemotions, desires, physical forces, and so oninto a similarly successful action. You may ask, "How soon can I expect practical results from using Mental Pictures? The very moment a person reads a basic principle for loftier living he or she experiences some kind of reaction to it.
This reaction may be somewhat vague at first, but by sticking with it, a clearer recognition grows. Like looking 1. A typical remark of a person who is gaining more selfunderstanding is, "I'm not sure what is happening as yet, but it's definite and interesting. At first it may be in small ways, for instance, you are less upset by an unkind remark from someone. Or maybe you see that it is not selfish to live your life as you see fit; it is selfish only to insist that others live as you see fit.
Life flows from the inner to the outer. Good changes you make in the inner self will reflect favorably in your outer activi ties. You can actually observe these exterior improvements as they take place.
Your business activities take on a fresh look; your rela tions with other people become smootheras we shall see in later chapters. All this happens because your inner unity creates total power. A person with self-unity is like a river which was once divided by several islands but which finally flows together again beyond them.
Suppose it is seven o'clock and you want to catch a certain tele vision program coming on at eight. You can tune your set to the correct channel now. Then, all you need do is wait for it to come to you. You can relax in the knowledge that you are correctly tuned in, that the program must eventually be yours to experi ence. You need have no care nor responsibility for its arrival. Finally, of its own accord, and at the right time, your desire appears.
They arrive all by themselves, easily and naturally. This is a study group of men and women who wish to find them selves. Groups were formed throughout the nation. Many of the 2. The answers to these questions, and the results in prac tical life, are of value to you. At this point I want to discuss with you the problem of con fusion.
As you go through these pages, do not be afraid to be confused. Confusion is an honest emotion. A person has broken well into the open when he or she can say, "I don't know," without being afraid of saying it. To realize that you don't know this or that, is the beginning of new wisdom.
For instance, it is not wrong to be puzzled about what you want from life, any more than it is wrong not to know what kind of food you want for din ner. It is never wrong to be either physically or psychologically hungry. What is wrong is to accept a piece of fruit without deter mining whether it is real or artificial. Do not shy away from a new idea that appears beyond your understanding. No principle is beyond human understanding. It cannot be.
The Truth, however veiled it may be at the present, already dwells within every man and woman. You need not understand the mechanical workings of an airplane in order to be carried aloft. Neither need you wholly grasp the pleasant changes that will take place within you. Let them happen. Relax with your study of Psycho-Pictography. Do not strain at understanding anything. Read with a sense of curiosity and exploration.
See everything as good news. Enjoy the adventure. A story was written about a coastal village that was attacked time and again by great sea monsters.
The villagers heard of a magician who could dissolve all kinds of evil simply by looking at it with his all-powerful gaze. Called to the village, he took a stand on a high cliff overlooking the sea. The next time the mon sters appeared, he looked steadfastly at themand they van ished forever. If you will not be afraid of your own confusion, if you will continue to look until you see, all your negativities will vanish forever.
Asked Martha B. I always get more confused just before I actually see a truth for the first time. Why is this? Only it was subcon scious. You merely became more aware of your confusion; you brought it to the surface. You realized for the first time that you really didn't understand as much as you thought.
This self-hon esty led to genuine understandingand relief. Also, it is not because happiness is unattainable. Furthermore, it is not because someone or some thing stands in the way.
The reason why people fail to attain their rightful content ment is for a reason they rarely suspect. I would like you to read the next few paragraphs with spe cial care. If you will grasp them, even just a bit, you will make more progress in seconds than perhaps you have made in years.
People fail to attain personal liberation because they are unaware that such a state actually exists. People never go after something unless they at least suspect that it is real, that it is there. They must therefore become con sciously awareeven if dimly at firstthat an entirely new world exists for them.
This new world has been proclaimed throughout the ages to unthinking mankind. It appears when a man or woman becomes receptive to esoteric knowledge, secret knowledge. It is secret only because millions of unhappy people will not receive and do not understand it. But you, the reader, can dare to be different. Then you will be different from the millions of unhappy people.
You will know the truth that sets you free. You may be sure that we are not talking about anything remote or impractical. We are looking into a far superior way of life that you can find and enjoy today. The most tormenting and most carefully concealed fear is that there is-no alternative road to the one which you now painfully endure.
There is an alternativeand an utterly peace ful onebut you must express a rebellious sort of courage in order to find it. You must deliberately abandon your so-called securities and start down a new road, as unfamiliar as it may be.
By using the Four Golden Keys provided later , you will final ly find what you seek. A new life of abundant cheer is found in one way, and one way only.
All others lead to endless anxiety. It is found through an awareness of its existence. This is the entire secret. We must catch a glimpse of this fresh life for ourselves. We can start by remembering that it exists within, not without. We already possess this higher state. But we must become aware of our rich possession. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3.
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