Middle Tennessee hypnotist, philosopher and motivator M.C. Radford encourages everyone to think positively and live life with a healthy, optimistic attitude. Here, he shares more points from his book Higher Thoughts for Everyday Living, suggesting that readers meditate on one each day—and be amazed at the positive changes that transpire in their lives.

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1 If you can build a strong desire in a patient to be healed, he will be healed. When you have a strong desire and persist in that desire, you are automatically connecting to the universal power which is in you.

2 Seeing precedes being. Thought and ideas are always predecessors of physical fact. How can we see when we rejoice in our blindness?

3 How can you ever become enlightened when your senses have erected such a prison around you? By a prison I mean the limitations you have imposed upon yourself. The people who say, “I can’t do this,” “I don’t deserve that,” “it just won’t work,” “I am too old now,” and “I fail every time,” etc., will definitely fail every time!

4 You are the creation of the mental images, ideas and thoughts that have found a home in your mind.

5 The fact that you can think, imagine, conceive and visualize is the miracle of the invisible world (the real world). Your imagination is linked to God. Your imagination can go anywhere in the universe.

6 You must understand that whatever image you hold in your mind will make its way into your world and become a physical fact. Imagination can condition your future any way you choose. It can make you the master of your life, or it can make you a servant.

7 You must recognize intuition as a direct line to God. Intuition, or sixth sense, is God-sense. It will solve problems you never dreamed could possibly be solved. When intuition comes, make it welcome and it will come more often. Intuition can be cultivated and developed. Some will say the answer came to me from out of the blue. It was the answer from the Creator.

8 Intuition usually comes in silence. That is why great minds seek solitude; it is here that your large problems are solved. But always remember, your success is determined by the intensity of your desire.

9 Wealth means good health, happiness and all the money you can spend.

10 Tomorrow will be your thoughts of today. To really and truly know your future, you must understand your thoughts.

11 Thoughts of good, love and kindness are food for good health, happiness and success.

12 All discoveries are the results of desire plus concentration. Desire plus concentration will bring you the secrets of the universe. All accomplishments come from desire and concentration. The stronger the desire and concentration, the faster you will arrive at your goal.

13 You are a dynamo which, in itself, is nothing. Your mind must work and power the dynamo.

14 As food is absorbed, it becomes your muscles, tissues and bones. In the same way, as your mind absorbs the object of your attention, it becomes a part of your life.

15 By keeping any thought continually in your mind, it will become a reality in your life. Your strength will be determined by your mental attitude.

16 If you wish to eliminate fear, then keep your attention on your goal. If you wish to eliminate poverty, then keep your attention on wealth. If you wish to eliminate disease, then keep your attention on good health.

17 From the time we were born, the majority of us have been given many negative suggestions. Not knowing how to block them, we have unconsciously accepted them. Pick up a paper any day, and you can read dozens of items that sow the seeds of fear, anxiety, worry and doom. If you accept them, they can cause you to lose the will for life. You can learn to reject all these negative suggestions and replace them with positive ideas in your mind, brain, body and circumstances in your everyday life.

18 Check the negative suggestions that people made to you. If you look back, you can easily recall how parents, friends, relatives, teachers and associates used these negative suggestions on you. Study the things said to you and you will see that much of it was in the form of propaganda. The purpose of a lot of it was to control you or to instill fear in you.

19 The suggestion process goes on each and every day and everywhere. The majority of these suggestions were for the purpose of controlling you—to get you to think and act to the benefit or the welfare of someone else.

20 An old Indian told his son that there are two wolves inside of you. One is mean and the other one is good, and they are always fighting. “Which one will win?” asked the son. “The one you feed,” replied the father.

21 What if you have created all the conditions and circumstances in your life?

22 What if you could create an attitude that would cause you to be happy?

23 What if you could create an attitude that would cause you to be successful?

24 What if you could create an attitude that would cause others to respect you?

25 What if you could realize that you can have anything in this world you want if you will help enough other people get what they want?

26 What if you could realize all problems are valuable to make you stronger and wiser?

27 What if you could discover a way to choose the correct path in every situation?

28 What if you could realize that when you cause another person to feel important, they are in your debt?

29 What if you could realize that when people are rude to you, they are giving you an opportunity to be better?

30 What if you could realize that when a prospect doesn’t buy your product or idea, it is because you haven’t told them enough about it?

31 What if you could create the atmosphere of love and understanding everywhere you go?