The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity. Catherine Ponder
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Radiate and You Will Attract
Emerson might have been describing this law of giving and receiving or radiation and attraction when he wrote, “Great hearts send forth steadily the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.” And who are the “great hearts”? Those people who dare to think and radiate great thoughts and expectancies of success and prosperity instead of failure, trouble and limitation. There’s nothing great, unusual, or praiseworthy about failure, trouble and limitation. Anyone can experience those things by following the line of least resistance and by entertaining the usual failure thoughts that one constantly hears every day. How often one hears the complaint, “Everything happens to me. I just can’t win for losing. This is a tough world. The other fellow gets the breaks.” This beginning usually leads into a conversation filled with unpleasant experiences of the day, criticism of jobs, co-workers, families, the governments, world leaders, war, crime, disease and hard times, hard times, hard times. Each of us constantly uses the law of radiation and attraction whether we are aware of it or not. But if you wish to enjoy more prosperity and success in life, you have to consciously, boldly and deliberately take hold of your thoughts and feelings and redirect them toward prosperity and success. It is up to you to dare to choose and radiate outward through your thinking what you really wish to experience in life, rather than to get bogged down in unpleasant or failure experiences of the moment. These conditions can change as quickly as you can change your thinking about them.
A friend in the public relations business recently used the law of radiation and attraction with successful results. For some time he had desired a certain out-of-state account and had made every reasonable effort to obtain it. Finally, he decided that he would definitely entertain and mentally radiate the desire for that account strongly, deliberately and boldly; feeling that surely in due time he would receive that account or a bigger one. He quietly sat down and thought about that account as though he were already handling it. He went over that account in his mind and thought of all the ways he would attempt to serve that client’s best interests if he were handling their public relations. He thought about the account and the people involved for a long time and in great detail. He also declared over and over for a time: I am not discouraged. I am persistent. I go forward. I am determined to achieve success in God’s own wonderful way for me. When a sense of peace came over him, he dismissed the matter from his mind.
A few weeks later he attended a convention in which a number of his clients were involved. While swimming with several of them in a motel pool, he casually met the man whom he had been trying for months to meet who had charge of that out-of-state account. Right there in the pool they negotiated! When he joyously related his experience to me he declared, “It was doubtless that prosperity law of radiation and attraction that brought the happy results.”
I have observed in talking with hundreds of people who have gone from failure to success that it is what we really think deep within ourselves most of the time, rather than the “big front” we may put up to others, that unconsciously attracts like results to us. There is an age-old maxim that says, “We are where we are because we are what we are, and we are what we are because of our habitual thinking.”
Many people work hard to attract greater good in superficial ways without first habitually radiating its mental equivalent, and then they are sorely disappointed when their great efforts result in failure and disappointment. Once when I was talking with a lady who felt she would like to be married, I suggested that she invoke the law of radiation and attraction. After explaining that she must radiate before she could attract, I suggested that she prayerfully radiate these ideas over and over: Divine Love expressing through me now draws to me all that is needed to make me happy and my life complete.
A little later I began receiving reports from mutual friends that she was working hard on the attracting angle, but was radiating nothing more than telephone calls and obvious invitations to all the men of her acquaintance. Later she returned and reported that the suggested prayer method had not worked. Gently I reminded her that she had not radiated the “prayer method” suggested, but had radiated the “scare method,” which had not been suggested. The method had worked in reverse, because she had reversed the process.
A middle-aged widow more recently dared to try the radiation and attraction method for the same purpose. While floating in a swimming pool she silently affirmed over and over: Divine Love expressing through me now draws to me all that is needed to make me happy and my life complete. Presently she heard a man’s voice calling to her from the side of the pool, inquiring about the water which she assured him was wonderful. Soon he was in the water and a little later he was in her life as her husband.
Mental Preparation Comes First
What a thrill it is to realize that all things can be accomplished within the mind first; that your mind is your divine power for good! The reason all things can be accomplished mentally first is that the mind is the connecting link between the formed and unformed world.
It’s up to you in this wonderful age to claim your spiritual dominion of great good over everything, and to dare to subdue, change or reform your world as you wish! Of course, you have been given all of this power to produce good and only good. Man’s difficulties come when he uses this power in reverse. But what a sense of freedom it gives you to realize that whatever you center your attention upon steadily, constantly and deliberately in your thoughts, feelings and expectancies, forms the experiences of your life. When you realize this, life becomes easier, simpler and more richly satisfying. You then no longer feel that you have to argue, beg, reason, plead, or appeal to anyone for your desired good. Instead, you quietly go to work in your thinking to mentally choose, mentally accept and mentally radiate what you wish to experience in life. It gives you a victorious feeling even before the rich results begin to pour in.
Be Deliberate About Wealth
You’ve got to radiate deliberately in order to attract the good you desire; otherwise, you get into a limited trend of thought and produce limited results. What you do radiate or deliberately entertain mentally, you constantly attract. It may not appear that this law works in this exact way when you look at people who seem to be succeeding who apparently do not deserve it, but in due season their health, wealth and happiness crumble if it is not supported by a firm foundation of right thought and feeling. It is just a matter of the mills of the gods grinding slowly. Instead of fretting about whether the law of radiation and attraction is working rightly in the lives of others, proceed quietly to prove the laws of prosperous thinking for yourself.
A stockbroker whose business associates were watching the market reports and declaring how slow things were, slipped into a private office and quietly relaxed. As he did so, he began to radiate this thought: Everything and everybody prospers me now. Suddenly, the telephone began to ring and ring. Within a short time he had received more business by telephone than he had received through any channel in several days. A watch repairman’s business was slow. As he boarded an early morning bus, he, too, remembered the prosperity law of radiation and attraction and began to silently declare: Everything and everybody prospers me now. For the next few days he had many new customers come into his store to have watches and jewelry repaired. Soon he had received enough repair work to keep him busy for many weeks.
You Are Magnetic
Each of us is a magnet! And as a magnet, you do not have to force success and prosperity to yourself. Instead, you can develop that exalted, expectant, prosperous state of mind that is a magnet for all good things of the universe to hasten to you, rather than entertaining the tense, critical, anxious, depressed, unforgiving, possessive state of mind that is a magnet for all kinds of trouble and failure.
Since you can have the tangible and intangible equivalent of whatever you dare to choose, mentally entertain and radiate, stop thinking of things as apart from or outside yourself. Stop thinking that people, things, circumstances and conditions have power to hurt or harm you. Start realizing that nothing can stand between you and that good that you dare to choose mentally and radiate outward through your thoughts, feelings, words and