Joy Philosophy - Elizabeth Towne - Bog

Quit looking at things and being afraid. Look to your ideals and desires, and remember your source and infinite supply. Keep dwelling mentally on your infinite supply; keep using that supply according to your ideals. Fears will drop away from you and power and wisdom, Love, God, will flow into you and through you. Never admit a fear. Bid it get behind you. Never admit a "can't.' Pull yourself together and declare "I can-I WILL." Fear makes you feel paralyzed. Ignore it. Rise up and ACT, and you will see how little power the fear really had. Fear is but a paltry stage-trick hypnotist. You cannot be hypnotized if you refuse to look at fear. ACT and fear flees into the bottomless pit whence it came-into nothingness. Keep on acting as if you felt no fear. In due time the feeling of fear, the hypnotized sense, will disappear for good. You will smile, and your solar center will expand and let in more God-feeling, more power and wisdom, than you have ever had before. Sometimes you may be too badly paralyzed to act as if you had no fear. Well, then, just breathe. You are never too paralyzed to go outdoors, or to an open window, and breathe. Right breathing will dissipate fear. By using the chest and abdominal muscles properly you can shake the kinks out of that paralyzed solar plexus and let in power. An influx of power from the Infinite will enable you to turn your back on fear and act as you desire to act. When you are anxious and afraid your breath comes in short, shallow gasps and you can literally feel fear clutching your- "heart," you call it. You feel fear clutch your solar plexus. Now, take a slow, full breath, clear down to the bottom of your lungs, and clear out as far as the walls of your chest will go; hold the breath as long as you can without straining; and then see how very slowly you can exhale. Keep your lips firmly closed all the time, but do not press the teeth together; and see you stand straight, chest out, hips back, head up, with crown high and chin in. Ah, now-after even one such breath you feel decidedly less paralyzed. Your solar plexus is not in quite so hard a knot, and there is a brighter look in your face. A good beginning. Now take another such breath, and yet another. Take a dozen of them. Now, you will find yourself decidedly less paralyzed. You can go out and ACT now, as if you never had a fear. Of course, your teeth may chatter a bit, and you may feel a trifle weak in the knees, but the hypnotic spell is broken, power is pouring into you from the Infinite, and you can ACT. Go right along and do it. Keep on breathing deeply and telling yourself that you can and you WILL. And you will succeed. And next time it will be much easier to do. After practice enough it will grow so easy that you will forget you ever had that paralyzed, hypnotized feeling, of being afraid to do what you desire to do. You will have taught your solar plexus to stay open and let in power, instead of collapsing just at the critical moment when you needed extra power.