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 may transpire in their lives.
1 A man went to the doctor and was told he would get much sicker. He went to another doctor and was told he would get better fast—which he did. Doctors have killed many people by telling them they only have so much time to live. Witch doctors do it all the time, and many of them are loose in many cities all over America.
2 There are two kinds of people, the deciders and the undeciders. The undeciders live in fear, because they are afraid of making a mistake. A guided missile hits a target by making a lot of mistakes, then correcting them. It keeps making decisions until it reaches its target. Now that is a decision maker.
3 You make the right decision by making any decision. That allows you to correct your mistakes. And you can learn from each mistake.
4 If you are in business, treat all your customers like royalty and you will always have all the business you can handle.
5 Many people are always trying to discover themselves. This is impossible because you must create yourself.
6 There is a mental attitude and a mental cause behind all accidents, fires, wars and calamities. Man is cause; he is also effect.
7 What is your concept of God? Do you know that the answer you give to that question determines your whole future? You will experience the results of the nature of your belief about God.
8 It makes no difference what you call God. You may call him Jehovah, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, reality, infinite intelligence, the healing presence, the over soul, the divine mind, the architect of the universe, the supreme being, the life principle, the living spirit or the creative power. The point is, your belief or conviction about God governs and gives direction to your whole life.
9 Universal mind power is the greatest power in the world. Whatever you desire, this power can fulfill that desire for you. The power is your mind, which is one with the universal mind.
10 Prayer is contacting, communicating and aligning your thoughts with the universal intelligence that responds to the nature of your thoughts and beliefs.
11 In World War II, English “Colonel Whittlesey” had his whole regiment memorize and, on a regular basis, repeat the ninety-first Psalm, called the “psalm of protection.” Through five years of war, the regiment never lost one man.
12 Everyone has faith: Do you have faith in failure or success? Keep your attention on what you want and you will start to have faith and belief in it.
13 Your imagination will bring you everything you desire. Everyone who has accomplished good or great things first did it in their imagination.
14 Would you believe that diabetes can be caused by anxiety? You must learn to relax, not with pills, but with the control of your mind.
15 When you worry, you are throwing mental bricks at whatever you are worrying about. You are attracting what you don’t want.
16 Dr. Hans Selye, at the University of Montreal’s Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, demonstrated the destructive effect of worry, fear, and anxiety on the general defense system of the body.
17 If you continue the worry habit, you may attract what you are worrying about. When you worry, you are praying for what you don’t want.
18 Be thankful for everything you have, and more will be added to you. Complain about your lack and attract more lack.
19 Being thankful will open the way to prosperity. A thankful attitude improves every department of your life.
20 Discontent and unsatisfactory conditions are the front-runner of deep-seated and destructive disease. Medical treatment may relieve the symptoms but does not cure the disease. The disease will find its way into even worse symptoms in another part of your body.
21 The universe is governed by laws. The more you learn the laws and how to use them, the better your life can become. That is what Jesus taught—the laws. If ministers would only learn that the answer to prayer is subject to law.
22 When we learn the creative principle and understand our unity with the universal principle, we shall appear to be favored because we shall have found the source of wisdom and power.
23 The answer to prayer is the operation of a natural law. So you can pray with feeling for good weather or a storm, and you can bring about either.
24 When building a bridge, the engineer visualizes the finished product. The mental image must precede the finished product. The engineer knows he can do it. That is true prayer.
25 Imagination, visualization and concentration are all spiritual activities. This is because spirit is the creative principle of the universe.
26 All super salespeople appeal to the emotions, not the intellect, of the prospect. This is also true for evangelists, politicians, trial lawyers, demagogues, etc. They all know that when the emotions are aroused, intellect goes out the window.
27 Every cell in your body has intelligence. You have an immune system, and in your immune system you have many cells. Every cell has a job to do to keep your body healthy; and they will do a good job if we don’t interfere by introducing negative thinking, such as dwelling on sickness instead of good health.
28 Example: Germs are only little people trying to get along. You should not fight germs. As Jesus said, “Resist not evil.” If you keep your immune system built up, germs will never harm you. You do this by having a happy, positive attitude.
29 No one consciously wants to be sick. No one consciously wants to be in poverty, unloved or unsuccessful. Yet if you have any of these circumstances in your life, just as surely as the sun rises, you have ordered them for yourself.
30 A truck is driving down the road of life. The driver experiences life as he drives on. A passenger is sitting in the back of the truck, hanging his legs over the tailgate; he only sees where he has been. Which one are you?
