Recently just finished a quick read: As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.
I’ve heard about this book time and time again. It’s a classic. I had to see what I was missing out on.
The message is simple and it’s a short 1-hour read.
“As you think, you shall become.”
That is the underlying message of the book. James Allen was the first to discover this fact.
The theme of all of Allen’s works is that each one of us has the power to form our own character and to create our own happiness. The conditions of our lives are closely related to our inner state. Allen encourages his readers to think positive thoughts, which will inevitably lead them to take positive actions.
This is what “the Secret” and the “Law of Attraction” is based on. By focusing on the positive, you attract more positive in your life. By focusing on the negative, you attract the negative. But, this book is a lot deeper than that.
James Allen goes into how disease and health are related to your thoughts. In fact, everything from WHO YOU ARE is made up by your thoughts.
Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a person as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body and lays it open to the entrance of disease; while impure thoughts, even if not physically indulged, will soon shatter the nervous system.
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