The Power of Thought:" As a Man Thinketh, So Is He"

The power of positive thinking has been coming back strong recently, not only in the self-help markets but the power of thought is becoming more main stream, as well. While many people might now be more familiar with “The Secret” or even the earlier works like Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich,” but the truth

 is that this philosophy goes much further back, and even Napoleon Hill’s classic work came later to a powerful essay written by James Allen entitled “As A Man Thinketh.”

THE GENERAL GIST OF WRITING

This essay was about the many ways that thought directly affects the life that each of us lives. This includes looking at the basic concept of karma, what is now known as the Law of Attraction, as well as strongly supporting the philosophy of responsibility assumption which is the idea that individual people actually have an enormous amount of influence over how their lives end up, if not absolute control. This is the idea that negative and poor thinking leads to a negative life while positive and focused thoughts lead to a good life full of abundance.
The phrase the title of the essay is

 named after “As a Man Thinketh” is inspired from a verse of scripture out of the King James Bible: “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

THOUGHTS ARE SEEDS

All these similar philosophies come to the same general truth: that thoughts are like seeds with your mind being the fertile ground. If you take care of a field, tend the soil, watch over it, and sow corn or wheat then you will have a great crop of corn or wheat.On the other hand if you never plow the field, never fertilize it, never protect the soil from erosion then the field will become poor. Throw thistles and hemlock, and that’s what will grow, leading to a poisonous field that’ worse than nothing because nothing at least doesn’t hurt you.Your mind is the field and your thoughts are the seeds which is why the power of thought is so important in determining who you are and what type of a life you end up living. If you work to keep improving your mind every day, it will become more and more capable of producing top notch crops. This creates the ability for higher thoughts and more complete plans – and better thoughts and plans lead to successful action.
However if you are always negative thinking, you’re cutting yourself down. Less confidence means you’re not going to impress others as much, you may not get that big job opening or that impressive internship. You have less belief in what you can do and therefore you end up being able to do less.

GOOD THOUGHTS ARE GOOD THINGS
There’s a consistent truth that the richest people thoroughly believe they are the best at what they do, and are always capable of doing even more. Happy people who get “lucky” all the time continue to believe it will happen while opportunities seem to come to people expecting opportunities to open.The idea of “thoughts become reality” makes sense as your thinking shows up in your emotions, your attitudes, and your beliefs. All of these things combine to make you the capable, or incapable, person that you are. This helps define your potential as well as your limits.

No one succeeds who does not believe in themselves. It just doesn’t happen – and all that starts with the thoughts in your head. Fix that and everything else is affected down the line.