OR THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN THE THOUGHT WORLD
by William Walker Atkinson
Chapter
IX
ASSERTING THE LIFE-FORCE
I have spoken to you of the advantage of getting rid of Fear.
Now I wish to put LIFE into you.
Many of you have been going along as if you were dead - no ambition -
no energy - no vitality - no interest - no life. This will never do. You
are stagnating.
Wake up and display a few signs of life! This is not the place in which
you can stalk around like a living corpse - this is the place for wide-awake,
active, live people, and a good general awakening is what is
needed; although it would take nothing less than a blast from Gabriel's
trumpet to awaken some of the people who are stalking around thinking
that they are alive, but who are really dead to all that makes life worthwhile.
We must let Life flow through us, and allow it to express itself naturally.
Do not let the little worries of life, or the big ones either, depress
you and cause you to lose your vitality.
Assert the Life Force within you, and manifest it in every thought, act
and deed, and before long you will be exhilarated and fairly bubbling
over with vitality and energy.
Put a little life into your work - into your pleasures - into yourself.
Stop doing things in a half-headed way, and begin to take an interest
in what you are doing, saying and thinking.
It is astonishing how much interest we may find in the ordinary things
of life if we will only wake up. There are interesting things all around
us - interesting events occurring every moment - but we will not be aware
of them unless we assert our life force and begin to actually live instead
of merely existing.
No man or woman ever amounted to anything unless he or she put life into
the tasks of everyday life - the acts - the thoughts.
What the world needs is live men and women. Just look into the eyes of
the people whom you meet, and see how few of them are really alive. The
most of them lack that expression of conscious life which distinguishes
the man who lives from the one who simply exists.
I want you to acquire this sense of conscious life so that you may manifest
it in your life and show what Mental Science has done for you.
I want you to get to work today and begin to make yourselves over according
to the latest pattern. You can do this if you will only take the proper
interest in the task.
AFFIRMATION AND EXERCISE
Fix in your mind the thought that the "I" within you is very
much alive and that you are manifesting life fully, mentally and physically.
And keep this though there, aiding yourself with constant repetitions
of the watchword.
Don't let the thought escape you, but keep pushing it back into the mind.
Keep it before the mental vision as much as possible. Repeat the watchword
when you awaken in the morning - say it when you retire at night. And
say it at meal times, and whenever else you can during the day - at least
once an hour.
Form the mental picture of yourself as filled with Life and Energy. Live
up to it as far as possible.
When you start in to perform a task say "I AM Alive" and mix
up as much life as possible in the task.
If you find yourself feeling depressed, say "I AM Alive," and
then take a few deep breaths, and with each inhalation let the mind hold
the thought that you are breathing in Strength and Life, and as you exhale,
hold the thought that you are breathing out all the old, dead, negative
conditions and are glad to get rid of them.
Then finish up with an earnest, vigorous affirmation: "I AM Alive,"
and mean it when you say it too.
And let your thoughts take form in action. Don't rest content with merely
saying that you are alive, but prove it with your acts. Take an interest
in doing things, and don't go around "mooning" or day-dreaming.
Get down to business, and LIVE.
