YOUR INVISIBLE POWER by By Genevieve Behrend (e book reader free .txt) 📕

weak and tired she could hardly stand. The judge asked the court attendant
what she was charged with. "Stealing a bottle of milk, Your Honor," repeated the officer. "She took it from the
doorstep of a downtown cottage before daybreak this morning." "Why did you do that?" Judge Goldenberg asked
her. "I was hungry," the old woman said. "I didn't have a cent in the world and no way to get anything to eat
except to steal it. I didn't think anybody would mind if I took a bottle of milk." "What's your name?" asked the
judge. "Weinberg," said the old woman, "Elizabeth Weinberg." Judge Goldenberg asked her a few questions
about herself. Then he said:
"Well, you're not very wealthy now, but you're no longer poor. I've been searching for you for months. I've got
$500 belonging to you from the estate of a relative. I am the executor of the estate."
Judge Goldenberg paid the woman's fine out of his own pocket, and then escorted her into his office, where he
turned her legacy over to her and sent a policeman out to find her a lodging place.
I learned later that this little woman had been desiring and mentally picturing $500, while all the time ignorant of
how it could possibly come to her. But she kept her vision and strengthened it with her faith.
In a recent issue of Good Housekeeping there was an article by Addington Bruce entitled "Stiffening Your
Mental Backbone." It is very instructive, and would benefit anyone to read it. He says, in part: "Form the habit of
devoting a few moments every day to thinking about your work in a large, broad imaginative way, as a vital
necessity to yourself and a useful service to society."
Huntington, the great railway magnate, before he started building his road from coast to coast, said that he took
hundreds of trips all along the line before there was a rail laid. It is said that he would sit for hours with a map of
the United States before him and mentally travel from coast to coast just as we do now over his fulfilled mental
picture. It would be possible to call your attention to hundreds of similar cases.
The best method of picturing to yourself that which you may desire is both simple and enjoyable, if you once
understand the principle back of it well enough to believe it. First and above everything else, be sure of what it is
you really want. Then specialize your desire along these lines.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR MAKING YOUR MENTAL PICTURE
Chapter 6
Perhaps you want to feel that you've lived to some purpose. You want to be content and happy, and you feel that
with good health and with successful business you could enjoy this state of mind. After you have decided once
and for all that this is what you want, you proceed to picture yourself healthy, and your business just as great a
success as you can naturally conceive it growing into.
The best time for making your definite picture is just before breakfast and before retiring at night. As it is
necessary to give yourself plenty of time, it may be necessary to rise earlier than is your usual habit. Go into a
room where you will not be disturbed, meditate for a few moments upon the practical working of the law of
visualizing, and ask yourself, "How did the things about me first come into existence? How may I find it helpful
to get more quickly in touch with the invisible supply?"
Someone felt that comfort would be better expressed and experienced by sitting on a chair than on the floor. The
very beginning of the meditation, the chair, was the desire to be at ease. With this came the picture of some sort
of a chair. The same principle applies to the hat and the clothes that you wear. Go carefully into this thought of
the principle back of the thing. Establish it as a personal experience; make it a fact to your consciousness.
If you are thorough in this, you will find yourself in the deep consciousness beneath the surface of your own
thought-power. Then open a window, take about ten deep breaths, and during the time draw a large imaginary
circle of light around you. As you inhale (keeping yourself in the center of this circle of light) see great rays of
light coming from the circle and entering your body at all points, centralizing itself at your solar plexus.
Hold the breath a few moments at this central light of your body (the solar plexus) then slowly exhale. As you do
this mentally, see imaginary rays, or sprays, of light going up through the body and down and out through the
feet. Mentally spray your entire body with this imaginary light. When you have finished the breathing exercise,
sit in a comfortable upright chair and mentally know there is but one life, one substance, and this life substance
of the universe is finding pleasure in self-recognition in you. Repeat some affirmation of this kind, until you feel
the truth and reality of the words that you are affirming. Then begin your picture.
Whether your desire is for a state of consciousness or a possession, large or small, begin at the beginning. If you
want a house, begin by seeing yourself in the kind of house you desire. Go all through it, taking careful note of
the rooms, where the windows are situated, and such other details as help you to feel the reality of your concept.
You might change some of the furniture and look into some of the mirrors just to see how healthy, wealthy and
happy you look. Go over your picture again and again until you feel the reality of it, then write it all down just as
you have seen it, with the feeling that, "The best there is, is mine. There is no limit to me, because my mind is a
center of divine operation" and your picture is as certain to come true, in your physical world, as the sun is to
shine.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
Chapter 7
In Using Your Thought Power for the Production of New Conditions,
1. Be sure to know what conditions you wish to produce. Then weigh carefully to what further results the
accomplishment of your desire will lead.
2. By letting your thought dwell upon a mental picture, you are concentrating the creative spirit to this center,
where all its forces are equally balanced.
3. Visualizing brings your objective mind into a state of equilibrium which enables you to consciously direct the
flow of spirit to a definitely recognized purpose and to carefully guide your thought from including a flow in the
opposite direction.
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4. You must always bear in mind that you are dealing with a wonderful potential energy -which is not yet
differentiated into any particular mould, and that by the action of your mind you can differentiate it into any
specific mould that you will. Your picture assists you to keep your mind fixed on the fact that the inflow of this
creative energy is taking place. Also by your mental picture you are determining the direction you wish the
sensitive creative power to take, and by doing this the externalization of your picture is a certainty.
5. Remember when you are visualizing properly that there is no strenuous effort on your thoughts to hold your
thought-forms in place. Strenuous effort defeats your purpose, and suggests the consciousness of an adverse
force to be fought against, and this creates conditions adverse to your picture.
6. By holding your picture in a cheerful frame of mind, you shut out all thoughts that would disperse the spiritual
nucleus of your picture. Because the law is creative in its action, your pictured desire is certain of
accomplishment.
7. The seventh and great thing to remember in visualizing is that you are making a mental picture for the purpose
of determining the quality you are giving to the previously undifferentiated substance and energy rather than to
arrange the specific circumstances for its manifestation. That is the work of creative power itself. It will build its
own forms of expression quite naturally, if you will allow it, and save you a great deal of needless anxiety. What
you really want is expansion in a certain direction, whether of health, wealth, or what not, and so long as you get
it (as you surely will, if you confidently hold to your picture) what does it matter whether it reaches you by some
channel which you thought you could count upon, or through some other of whose existence you had no idea.
You are concentrating energy of a particular kind for a particular purpose. Bear this in mind and let specific
details take care of themselves, and never mention your intention to anyone.
Remember always, that Nature from her clearly visible surface to her most arcane depths is one vast storehouse
of light and good entirely devoted to your individual use. Your conscious Oneness with the great Whole is the
secret of success and when once you have fathomed this you can enjoy your possession of the whole or a part of
it at will, because by your recognition you have made it, and can increasingly make it yours.
Never forget that every physical thing, whether for you or against you, was a sustained thought before it was a
thing.
Thought as thought is neither good nor bad, it is creative action and always takes physical form.
Therefore, the thoughts you dwell upon become the things you possess or do not possess.
WHY I TOOK UP THE STUDY OF MENTAL SCIENCE
Chapter 8
I have frequently been questioned about my reasons for taking up the study of Mental Science, and as to the
results of my search, not only in knowledge of principles, but also in the application of that knowledge to the
development of my own life and experience.
Such inquiries are justifiable, because one who essays the role of a messenger and teacher of psychological
truths can only be effective and convincing as he or she has tested them in the laboratory of mental experience.
This is particularly true in my case, as the only personal pupil of Thomas Troward, the greatest Master of Mental
Science of the present day, whose teaching is based upon the relation borne by the Individual Mind toward the
Universal Creative Mind which is the Giver of Life, and the manner in which that relation may be invoked to
secure expansion and fuller expression in the individual life.
The initial impulse toward the study of Mental Science was an overwhelming sense of loneliness. In every life
there must come some such experiences of spiritual isolations as, at that period, pervaded my life.
Notwithstanding the fact that each day found me in the midst of friends, surrounded by mirth and gayety, there
was a persistent feeling that I was alone in the world. I had been a widow for about three years, wandering from
country to country, seeking for peace of mind.
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The circumstances and surroundings of my life were such that my friends looked upon me as an unusually
fortunate young woman. Although they recognized that I had sustained a great loss when my husband died, they
knew that he had left me well provided for, free to go anywhere at pleasure, and having many friends. Yet, if my
friends could have penetrated my inmost emotions, they would have found a deep sense of emptiness and
isolation. This feeling inspired a spirit of unrest that drove me on and on in fruitless search upon the outside for
that which I later learned could only be obtained from within.
I studied Christian Science, but it gave me no solace, though fully realizing the great work the Scientists were
doing, and even having