What You Think About, You Become . . .

A great philosopher once said, "The ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them." The philosopher Herbert Spencer added, "It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretched or happy, rich or poor." Scripture says simply, "For as [a person] thinketh in his heart, so is he."

Our fears, attitudes, and beliefs, all imbedded deep in our subconscious minds, tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies. When you allow the condition to control your life, you reinforce recurring problems.

Until you become motivated to control your life, nothing or no one will be able to help. Many people have actually made their condition worse because of their attitudes—the way they have used their thoughts and feelings. Yet others have become better because of they way they managed their belief systems. They came to know they would get better.

How you think is totally up to you, and it is so important to the outcome of your good health and life. You have complete control over whether you will think positive or negative. It is a choice that we all have, one we all must make.

But be warned: A choice will be made, either actively or by default. In other words, if you fail to make a choice at all, you have already chosen the negative. It behooves each of us, then, to begin to take measures toward creating a positive belief system, a system that—guaranteed—will never fail you.