To the ordinary "man in the street" a thought is an "airy nothing"—a mere flash in consciousness—it comes, goes, and ceases. To the student of mind, however, thought is known as a force greater than any other – a force that controls all other forces. An American writer speaking of the Universal Mind says:
"It thinks, and the sun takes form; it wills, and worlds are broken. It loves, and souls are born."
Thus it will be seen that thought is the origin of the visible universe. Everything we see around us is the result of thought. We may go further, and say that all the invisible forces, which keep the wonderful machinery of the universe working perfectly and smoothly, are but the intellectual energies of the one Universal Mind.
As it is in the macrocosm, so it is in the microcosm. The greatest mind of man is in essence the same as the universal mind of the universe. The difference is not of kind but of degree.
In our world, our circumstances, our life, our bodies, we stand above all, or rather we have the power within us, which, properly directed, can make us supreme. This power is "concern". The idea is so subtle, so elusive, that the majority of humans have found it impossible to master, but the greatest philosophers, sages and leaders in the history of the world know otherwise.
Whatever they achieved, they achieved through the power of thought. And this was possible because they had learned the art of thought control.
"What a man has done a man can do" has never been more true than it is today, as the science of the mind is now spreading abroad, and it is possible for ordinary people to control their thoughts. Learning the method is possible, now known as a scientific possibility.
In his seminal book, "New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment; The Practical Application of the Electrotonic Theory in the Interpretation and Treatment of Disease," Dr. Abrams describes how he discovered thought energy and measured it using a device called the Biodynamometer. measured
With one subject in a room with closed doors, and another subject in another room, forty or more feet away, it was found that one subject could influence the other by precise thought exercises. Anger and emotion created an energy that created an impact eighty feet away.
Dr. Abrams also found that there are three great energy centers in the human body, on the right and left sides of the brain, which he called the right and left psychomotor areas. and finger tips. When the mind is actively engaged in thinking, there is an increased release of energy from the psychomotor areas and also from the fingertips.
It was also found that normal people emitted energy from only one psychomotor area, but a great thinker emitted energy from both. The amount of energy thus emitted can be estimated from the fact that the poet Edward Markham emitted energy from his left psychomotor area alone, equivalent to sixty ohms of resistance.
As energy is released from a large magnet with a lifting capacity of 400 lbs. The square inch being only thirty-two ohms, we can give some idea of the immense power of thought which man possesses.
Fingertips also suggest the flow of energy. Clapping hands has been recognized as a healing practice throughout the ages, now scientifically proven to be simply the power or energy of thought.
So you will see that "thought," far from being "nothing air" or a mere flash in consciousness, is an amazing and powerful force, the most amazing and powerful force we know of.
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