Make your daily assertions, "I am love, health, wisdom, cheerfulness,
power for good, prosperity, success, usefulness, opulence."
Never fail to assert these things at least twice a day; twenty times is
better. But if you do not attain to all immediately, if your life does
not at once exemplify your words, let it not discourage you.
The saying of the words is the watering of the seeds.
After a time they will begin to sprout, after a longer time to cover
the barren earth with grain, after a still longer time to yield a
harvest.
If you have been accustomed to feeling prejudices and dislikes easily,
you will not all at once find it easy to illustrate your assertion, "I
am love." If you have indulged yourself in thoughts of disease, the
old aches and pains will intrude even while you say "I am health!"
If you have groveled in fear and a belief that you were born to poverty
and failure, courage and success and opulence will be of slow growth.
Yet they will grow and materialize, as surely as you insist and persist.
Declare they are yours, right in the face of the worst disasters.
There is nothing so confuses and flustrates misfortune as to stare it
down with hopeful unflinching eyes.
If you waken some morning in the depths of despondency and gloom, do
not say to yourself:
"I may as well give up this effort to adopt the New Thought--I have
made a failure of it evidently----." Instead sit down quietly, and
assert calmly that you are cheerfulness, hope, courage, faith and
success.
Realize that your despondency is only temporary; an old habit, which is
reasserting itself, but over which you will gradually gain the
ascendency. Then go forth into the world and busy yourself in some
useful occupation, and before you know it is on the way, hope will
creep into your heart, and the gray cloud will lift from your mind.
Physical pains will loosen their hold, and conditions of poverty will
change to prosperity.
Your mind is your own to educate and direct.
You can do it by the aid of the Spirit, but you must be satisfied to
work slowly.
Be patient and persistent.