Yes this is a gardening site, but as so much has been said about the Secret and the Law Of Attraction, I thought an article on the subject, would make a welcome change. I found this article in a local garden shop and thought I would share it with you all.

“The majority of the principles advanced in this theory, have been in the nature of Positive injunctions—that is, you have been urged to do certain things, rather than to not do the opposite, or contrary.

But here we come to a place in which the advice must be given along the negative lines —we must urge you not to do a certain thing. We allude to that great poison of the mind and Will known as Fear. We do not allude to physical fear—important though physical courage may be, and as regrettable as physical cowardice may be considered, still it is not a part of the purpose of this theory, to preach against the latter and advise a cultivation of the former quality—you will find much of that elsewhere.

Our purpose here is to combat that subtle, insidious enemy of true Self-Expression which appears in the shape and guise of mental fear, forebodings which may be considered as Negative Thought just as the other principles mentioned in the works, may be considered as Positive Thought. Fear thoughts is that condition of the mind in which everything is seen through blue glasses—in which everything seems to bring a sense of the futility of endeavour—the “I Can’t” principle of mentality, as contrasted with the “I Can and I Will” mental attitude.

It is the noxious weed in the mental garden, which tends to kill the valuable plants to be found therein. It is the fly in the ointment—the spider in the cup of the Wine of Life. So far as we know the first person to use the word “Fear-Thought”—which has now passed into common use—was Horace Fletcher, the well-known writer, who coined it to supplant the use of the word “Worry” in a certain sense.

He had pointed out that Anger and Worry were the two great hindrances, to a well balanced, advanced and progressive mentality, but many misunderstood him and urged that to abolish Worry meant to cease taking any consideration of the morrow—a lack of common prudence and forethought. And so Fletcher coined the word “Fear-Thought” to express a phase of his idea of “Forethought without Worry,” and he entitled his second book on the subject, “Happiness, as found in Forethought minus Fear-Thought,” a very happy expression of a very happy idea. Fletcher also was the first to advance the idea that Fear was not a thing-in-itself, but merely an expression of Fear-Thought—a manifestation of the state of mind known as Fear-Thought.

He and others who have written on the subject, have taught that Fear might be abolished by the practice of abolishing Fear-Thought from the mind—by driving it out of the mental chamber—and the best teachers have taught that the best way to drive out Fear (or any other undesirable mental state) was by cultivating the thought of the opposite quality of mind by compelling the mind to dwell upon the mental picture of the desirable quality, and by the appropriate auto-suggestions.

The illustration has often been stated, that the way to drive darkness from a room is not to shovel it out, but to throw open the shutters and let the sunlight stream in, and that is the best way to neutralize Fear-Thoughts.

The mental process has aptly been spoken of as “vibrations,” a figure that has a full warrant in modern science. Then, by raising the vibration to the Positive pitch, the negative vibrations may be counteracted. By cultivating the qualities recommended in the other lessons of this book. Fear- Thought may be neutralized.

The poison of Fear-Thought is insidious and subtle, but it slowly creeps through the veins, until it paralyzes all useful efforts and action, until the heart and brain are affected and find it difficult to throw it off. Fear-Thought is at the bottom of the majority of failures and “going down” in life. As long as you keep your nerve and confidence in yourself, you are able to rise to your feet after each stumble, and face the enemy resolutely—but let you feel the effects of Fear Thought to such an extent that you cannot throw it off and you will fail to rise and will perish miserable. “There is nothing to fear except Fear,” has well been said.

We have all read elsewhere, about the Law of Attraction, which operates in the direction of attracting to us, that which we Desire. But there is a reverse side to this—it is a poor rule that will not work both ways. Fear will set into motion the Law of Attraction just as well as Desire. Just as Desire draws to one the things he pictures in his mind as the Desired Thing, so will Fear draw to him the thing pictured in his mind as the Thing Feared.

“The thing that I feared hath befallen me.” And the reason is very simple, and the apparent contradiction vanishes when we examine the matter. What is the pattern upon which the Law of Attraction builds under the force of Desire? The Mental Image, of course.

And so it is, in the case of Fear—you carry about the Mental Image, or haunting picture of the Feared Thing, and the Law of Attraction brings it to you, just as it brings the Desired Thing. Did you ever stop to think that Fear was the negative pole of Desire? The same laws work in both cases. So avoid Fear-Thought as you would the poisonous draught, that you know would cause your blood to become black and thick, and your breathing laboured and difficult. It is a vile thing, and you should not rest content, until you have expelled it from your mental system.

You can get rid of it, by Desire and Will, coupled with the holding of the Mental Image of Fearlessness. Drive it up by cultivating its opposite. Change your polarity. Raise your mental vibrations.

Someone has said, “There is no Devil but Fear”— then send that Devil back to the place where he properly belongs, for if you entertain him hospitably, he will make your heaven a hell, in order that he may feel at home. Use the mental Big Stick on him”.

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