Since I am occasionally asked for metaphysical book recommendations I will post it here and pin it for a while so I don't have to keep repeating it. Everyone has their favorites and books that have changed their lives. Here are a few of mine.
Any books by Neville Goddard, Ernest Holmes, James Allen, Christian Larson, Wallace Wattles, Napoleon Hill, Abraham Hicks, Venice Bloodworth, William Walker Atkinson, Genevieve Behrend, Thomas Troward, Robert Collier, Eugene Del Mar, Joseph Murphy, Uriel Buchanan, Charles Haanel, Emmet Fox, Florence Scovel Shinn, Henry Harrison Brown, Henry Thomas Hamblin, Orison Swett Marden, Prentice Mulford, Walter Lanyon, Ralph Waldo Trine, U.S. Andersen.
These are the books that revealed to me what I had to know in order to finally know the truth of what I now know to be "what is governing my life". Or as many think of it as the law of attraction, manifesting or metaphysics. I read hundreds of books but these are the ones I come back to the most and they keep revealing more to me each time.
Had I not read these books I may have never fully realized what the highest truth about life is, we are governed by our OWN beliefs.
You can download many of these authors for free in PDF format.
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If you don't believe your desire is already fulfilled.. or that you already are the person you desire to be... how in the world would you expect it to happen?
You may think you have different methods.. but this is what it boils down to.
That's what affirmations are for.. that's why we say them.
Our words.. silent or spoken.. have the power to manifest the life we desire.
Every true metaphysical book I have read is telling us about our words / thoughts.
And what amazes me, is every now and then someone will come along and say.. words don't have power. It is rare.. but I have had a few people come right out and say that. I don't have discussions with them. It's not my job to get anyone to understand the power of words. But I will continue to share it.. for the simple reason it changed my life for the better.. and I know it has for others. That and it has enabled me to stay focused on my favorite teaching this world has ever offered me.
If you stay focused on one subject.. such as metaphysics, for years.. you are bound to make discoveries that those who only give it an occasional pondering every now and then.. will probably ever make.
And those discoveries are awesome, amazing and life changing.
Life Is Good.
We make our own lives and create our own atmosphere. The spoken word, which is the thought expressed, is the creative power. If we really desire to live the true life, we must guard our words carefully and send them to create right conditions. It is both foolish and harmful to give expression to depressive thoughts, just as it is to refer to disease or fear because these unfortunate expressions create like conditions. - Kathleen M. H. Besly
There's a lot of good in my life.
But that is not why I say I feel good.
I would say it regardless.
Those words are applying a principle to me. A creative principle.
I found the secret (words) and I apply it.
If someone is not ready to hear the truth.. just hearing it, it will not likely register.. to the point that they will do anything with it.
I recall years before I discovered metaphysics I would say something and my wife would say.. don't speak that. I knew on some level I shouldn't... but I didn't have a clue the magnitude our words have in our lives at that time. Just hearing someone say.. don't speak that.. isn't enough information to know that all our words have power.. I didn't know about affirmations back then. I didn't know about being positive or negative.. and how much these affect our lives. I didn't know about beliefs.
It took a book that revealed more than just.. don't speak that to make me want to look into it deeper.
That book didn't show up in my life by happenstance. I know now that I was ready for just such a book.
I also believe this is why everyone won't feel the same way about these teachings. They aren't ready for them. At least not to the degree that others are. I also believe that not everyone needs them like I did and other do.
For those who are ready.. when you persist in applying the principles.. your life is guaranteed to get better. It happened to me.. and I've seen it happen to countless others.
Life Is Awesome!
When we realize that man is like God (and he could not be otherwise, being made out of God), we will realize that his word also has power. If there is but One Mind then it follows that our word, our thought is the activity of that One Mind in our consciousness; the power that holds the planets in their place is the same power that flows through man. We must place the Word where it belongs, whether it is the word of God in the Universe or the word of man in the individual; it is always first, before all else, in the beginning. The real sequence is this: Cause, Spirit, Intelligence, God; the Word, the activity of Intelligence; the effect, or the visible thing, whether it is a planet or a peanut. All are made out of the same thing. What we need to do is to learn how to use the word so that all will come to see that they are creative centers within themselves. - Ernest Holmes
The other great obstacle to health and success is hate. There can be no health or success in life for the one who hates. He who hates emits a force which rebounds back upon himself. Hate injures the one who hates far more than the one hated. Hate poisons the blood of the one who hates and tears down his nervous system. Hate is negative and destructive, love is positive and upbuilding. Hate affects adversely all the vital processes. It destroys health, wrecks happiness and turns the life into an inferno of trouble.
Have you ever noticed the lives of those who indulge in hate? They are a continual round of trouble. Before they finish one brawl they find themselves engaged in another. They are at loggerheads with nearly everybody, and misfortunes seem to dog their footsteps. Misfortunes and troubles are attracted to them as a direct result of their hate. Through indulging in negative thoughts and emotions, negative conditions are produced and attracted.
That is why people who hate are not always in trouble through other people's hatred, but they attract to themselves troubles and disasters which seem to have no connection with hate, but which are in reality a direct result of that condition of mind. Therefore, dear reader, if you have hatred, malice or resentment in your mind or life, pluck it out and cast it away, because you can never be successful, never be happy until you have done so.
The best way to cast out hate is to hold your mind continually in the attitude of good will to all men. If hate is to you a real difficulty, if you blaze with resentment whenever you think of a certain person who has deeply wronged you, if there wells up within you a fierce desire to get even with the object of your hatred, or at least to wish him harm, remember this, that you can never make any progress in mind and thought control you can never be successful and happy until you have forgiven your enemy. - Henry Thomas Hamblin
The tomato seed contains everything within itself to be a tomato plant, as does any other seed.
The thought (which is a seed) contains everything within itself to be whatever that thought is.
Nature, if you are observant, reveals things to us.
A human being is the greatest magnet in 'the Universe, and from the brain radiates a force which you can send where you please, as soon as you really understand you have such a force at your command. By generating this thought force in love, and realizing that in every other man is this same power, this same love principle, you establish a magnetic chain between you, thus giving him what you have for him and receiving in like manner. You have within yourself, then, magnetism sufficient to draw to yourself all that you need from out the Universe . . all that you desire, and all that you demand, but there must be no unbelief; simply have perfect faith that your requirements will be fulfilled. Truth is infinite and can never be exhausted. What a glorious realization it is that we are coming into the Consciousness of our oneness not only with each other but with Universal Truth. - Grace M. Brown
One of the things which greatly hinders us from demonstrating a greater degree of prosperity we may call race thought or race consciousness. This is the result of all that the race has thought or believed. We are immersed in it, and those who are receptive to it are controlled by it. All thought seeks expression along the lines of least resistance. When we become negative or fearful we attract that kind of thought and condition.
We must be sure of ourselves; we must be positive; we must not be aggressive, but absolutely sure and poised within. Negative people are always picking up negative conditions; they get into trouble easily: Persons who are positive draw positive things; they are always successful. Few people realize that the law of thought is the great reality; that thoughts produce things. When we come to understand this power of thought, we will carefully watch our thinking to see that no thought enters that we should not want made into a thing.
We can guard our minds by knowing that no negative thought can enter; we can daily practice by saying that no race thought of limitation can enter the mind; that Spirit forms itself around us and protects us from all fear and from all limitation. Let us clothe ourselves in the great realization that all power is ours and that nothing else can enter; let us fill the atmosphere of our homes, and places of business with streams of positive thought. Other people will feel this and will like to be near us and enter into the things that we enter into. In this way we shall be continually drawing only the best. - Ernest Holmes
Sometimes people say something that sticks with me for quite a while. A few years ago someone said, on social media, when football season had come to an end, I'm going to be depressed until football season starts again.
18 years ago.. I MIGHT have agreed with them.
But then I learned the power of words.
Some people, who may not know the power of our words, might say that they were just expressing their love for football.
Yeah.. it's way more than that.
People do get depressed. And probably a lot more people than most of us realize do so because of things they say.. just like this.
Our subconscious doesn't take a joke.. it takes us at our word.
Don't say anything you would not want as your experince.
If metaphysics is going to teach you anything... this is a very big one.
Metaphysics is more than just manifesting things. And this is just one example.
Life Is Good.
Does anyone know everything they were thinking yesterday.. or the last few days or weeks?
Most likely not even close.
But what we should know is that it was all positive... thinking from the wish fulfilled.
Our thoughts are just thoughts. They are being programmed into our subconscious mind. We meet our thoughts in the future.
You say.. if this or that happens.. I will feel this way about it. It had better be a good feeling.. because when this or that happens.. you'll feel what you said you'll feel.
Most people don't know this. I know I didn't.. not until I learned that is exactly what happens.
So don't tell yourself you'll feel negative.. no matter what the situation is. If you do.. you have no one else to turn to for feeling the way you feel. It does no good to blame conditions or situations... it was you who made the choice to feel your feelings.
Don't underestimate or undervalue this knowledge. It's life changing for the better. It explains how a large portion of our lives are what they are.
Some people.. many who have a lot going for them.. are unhappy or even miserable. It's because they don't possess this knowledge. If they did they would know they can control their feelings 100% of the time.
It's easy. Understand the knowledge (the directions) and apply them.
Then enjoy your new life.
Life Is Good.
I've been programming myself to always feel good... pretty much from the day I discovered metaphysics.
It worked.
Repeating affirmations is possibly the best way to program our subconscious mind.
Advertisers know this.. and it is wise to know that advertisers know this.
When anything is repeated enough.. and in many cases repeated by several different sources.. many people tend to believe it... without ever realizing the only reason it is true is because enough people believe it.
To me, this is good knowledge to have. It prevents others from programming us... and allows us to program ourselves for a much better life.
This world has a lot of spider webs.. webs of lies and deceit... a lot of people get caught up in those webs... while others know how to avoid them. For years I got caught up in many of them.. until I realized what was happening.. and how it was happening.
The veil has been lifted.
Life Is Good.
Each and every person is surrounded by a thought atmosphere, extending some distance from him, in which is reproduced the general character of his mental states, and which atmosphere may be, and is, felt by others with whom he comes in contact. The degree of strength of the thought atmosphere depends upon the degree of strength of the mental states. The degree of receptivity of others to this thought atmosphere depends upon the particular temperamental receptivity of the other persons.
This thought atmosphere is composed of subtle vibrations of the ether, just as real and actual as the vibrations which are known to us as electricity, magnetism, heat and light. - Edward Walker/William Walker Atkinson
Your destiny depends entirely upon your own mental conduct. It is the thoughts that you allow yourself to dwell upon all day long that make your mentality what it is, and your circumstances are made by your mentality.
You may think that you know this already, but if you do not act upon it, it is certain that you do not really know it. As a matter of fact, most people would be amazed to discover how much negative thinking they do indulge in, in the course of a day. Thought is so swift, and habit is so strong that, unless you are very careful, you will constantly transgress. Even your conversation may be much more negative than you suspect.
In other words, you cannot involve your thought in any subject without bringing the natural consequences upon yourself. You can call this involving yourself in the karma of that situation, if you like, but whatever you choose to call it, the fact will remain. To interfere mentally in any situation involves you in the consequences just as much as would a physical interference. Of course, where it is your duty to concern yourself in any matter, you must do so . . constructively and spiritually . . and then the consequences to you can only be good. - Emmet Fox
There is but one basic power in the world, that of thought. Taking it in its broadest definition, it includes that which is conscious and unconscious (subconscious and super-conscious), intellectual, emotional, and intuitional; embracing physical form, which is its outward show or activity, mental consciousness, and spiritual realization.
Thought is the one instrument of the Soul and mind of man. In his power of choice, in his ability to think what and as he pleases, man has at his command, and subject to his direction and control, the one universal power. In the realization of his Oneness with the Infinite he knows that he possesses this power and can wield it. - Eugene Del Mar