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How to Have Constant Energy
How we think we feel has a definite effect on how we actually feel physically. If your mind tells you that you are tired, the body mechanism, the nerves and the muscles accept the fact. If your mind is intensely interested, you can keep on at an activity indefinitely. Religion functions through our thoughts. In fact, it is a system of thought discipline. By supplying attitudes of faith to the mind it can increase energy.
It helps you to accomplish prodigious activity by suggesting that you have ample support and resources of power.
A friend in Connecticut, an energetic man, full of vitality and vigor, says that he goes to church regularly to “get his batteries recharged.” His concept is sound. God is the source of all energy in the universe—atomic energy, electrical energy and spiritual energy.
Contact with God establishes within us a flow of the same type of energy that re-creates the world and that renews springtime every year. When we are in spiritual contact with God, the divine energy flows through the personality, automatically renewing the original creative act. The principles of Christianity, scientifically utilized, can develop a continuous flow of energy into the human mind and body.
Every great personality I have ever known who has demonstrated the capacity for prodigious work has been a person in tune with the Infinite. Every such person seems in harmony with nature. They have not necessarily been pious, but invariably they have been extraordinarily well organized emotionally and psychologically. It is fear, resentment, the projection of parental faults upon people when they are children, inner conflicts and obsessions that throw off balance the finely tuned nature, thus causing undue expenditure of natural force.
I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. All through its pages, the Bible talks about vitality and force and life. The supreme overall word of the Bible is life, and life means vitality—to be filled with energy. This does not rule out pain or suffering or difficulty, but the clear implication is that if a person practices the creative and re-creative principles of Christianity he can live with power and energy.
The practice of Christian principles will bring a person into the proper tempo of living. Our energies are destroyed because of the abnormal pace at which we go. The conservation of energy depends upon getting your personality speed synchronized with the rate of God’s movement. God is in you. If you are going at one rate and God at another, you are tearing yourself apart. When we become attuned to God’s rhythm we can develop a normal tempo within ourselves and energy flows freely.
To get into the time synchronization of Almighty God, go out some warm day and lie down on the earth. Get your ear close down to the ground and listen. You will hear the sound of the wind in the trees and the murmur of insects, and you will discover that there is in all these sounds a well-regulated tempo. You cannot get that tempo by listening to traffic in the city streets, for it is lost in the confusion of sound. You can get it in church where you hear the word of God and the great hymns. Truth vibrates to God’s tempo in a church.
To avoid tiredness and to have energy, feel your way into the essential rhythm of Almighty God and all His works. To accomplish this, relax physically. Then conceive of your mind as likewise relaxing. Follow this mentally by visualizing the soul as becoming quiescent, then pray as follows: “Dear God, You are the source of all energy. You are the source of the energy in the sun, in the atom, in all flesh, in the bloodstream, in the mind. I hereby draw energy from You as from an illimitable source.” Then practice
believing that you receive energy. Keep in tune with the Infinite.
To live with constant energy it is also important to get your emotional faults corrected. You will never have full energy until you do. Knute Rockne, one of the greatest football coaches this country ever produced, said that a football player cannot have sufficient energy unless his emotions are under spiritual control. In fact, he went so far as to say that he would not have a man on his team who did not have a genuinely friendly feeling for every fellow player. “I have to get the most energy out of a man,” he said, “and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn’t up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling.”
People who lack energy are disorganized by their deep, fundamental emotional and psychological conflicts, such as guilt and fear. But healing is ever possible.
The surest way not to become tired is to lose yourself in something in which you have a profound conviction. A famous statesman who made seven speeches in one day was still boundless in energy. “Why are you not tired after making seven speeches?” I asked. “Because,” he said, “I believe absolutely in everything I said in those speeches. I am enthusiastic about my convictions.” That’s the secret. He was on fire for something. He was pouring himself out, and you never lose energy and vitality in so doing. You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired doing nothing. You don’t have to be tired. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon. Get out of yourself. Be somebody. Do something. Don’t sit around moaning about things, reading the papers and saying, “Why don’t they do something?” The man who is out doing something isn’t tired. If you’re not getting into good causes, no wonder you’re tired. You’re disintegrating. You’re dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
How we think we feel has a definite effect on how we actually feel physically. If your mind tells you that you are tired, the body mechanism, the nerves and the muscles accept the fact. If your mind is intensely interested, you can keep on at an activity indefinitely. Religion functions through our thoughts. In fact, it is a system of thought discipline. By supplying attitudes of faith to the mind it can increase energy.
It helps you to accomplish prodigious activity by suggesting that you have ample support and resources of power.
A friend in Connecticut, an energetic man, full of vitality and vigor, says that he goes to church regularly to “get his batteries recharged.” His concept is sound. God is the source of all energy in the universe—atomic energy, electrical energy and spiritual energy.
Contact with God establishes within us a flow of the same type of energy that re-creates the world and that renews springtime every year. When we are in spiritual contact with God, the divine energy flows through the personality, automatically renewing the original creative act. The principles of Christianity, scientifically utilized, can develop a continuous flow of energy into the human mind and body.
Every great personality I have ever known who has demonstrated the capacity for prodigious work has been a person in tune with the Infinite. Every such person seems in harmony with nature. They have not necessarily been pious, but invariably they have been extraordinarily well organized emotionally and psychologically. It is fear, resentment, the projection of parental faults upon people when they are children, inner conflicts and obsessions that throw off balance the finely tuned nature, thus causing undue expenditure of natural force.
I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. All through its pages, the Bible talks about vitality and force and life. The supreme overall word of the Bible is life, and life means vitality—to be filled with energy. This does not rule out pain or suffering or difficulty, but the clear implication is that if a person practices the creative and re-creative principles of Christianity he can live with power and energy.
The practice of Christian principles will bring a person into the proper tempo of living. Our energies are destroyed because of the abnormal pace at which we go. The conservation of energy depends upon getting your personality speed synchronized with the rate of God’s movement. God is in you. If you are going at one rate and God at another, you are tearing yourself apart. When we become attuned to God’s rhythm we can develop a normal tempo within ourselves and energy flows freely.
To get into the time synchronization of Almighty God, go out some warm day and lie down on the earth. Get your ear close down to the ground and listen. You will hear the sound of the wind in the trees and the murmur of insects, and you will discover that there is in all these sounds a well-regulated tempo. You cannot get that tempo by listening to traffic in the city streets, for it is lost in the confusion of sound. You can get it in church where you hear the word of God and the great hymns. Truth vibrates to God’s tempo in a church.
To avoid tiredness and to have energy, feel your way into the essential rhythm of Almighty God and all His works. To accomplish this, relax physically. Then conceive of your mind as likewise relaxing. Follow this mentally by visualizing the soul as becoming quiescent, then pray as follows: “Dear God, You are the source of all energy. You are the source of the energy in the sun, in the atom, in all flesh, in the bloodstream, in the mind. I hereby draw energy from You as from an illimitable source.” Then practice
believing that you receive energy. Keep in tune with the Infinite.
To live with constant energy it is also important to get your emotional faults corrected. You will never have full energy until you do. Knute Rockne, one of the greatest football coaches this country ever produced, said that a football player cannot have sufficient energy unless his emotions are under spiritual control. In fact, he went so far as to say that he would not have a man on his team who did not have a genuinely friendly feeling for every fellow player. “I have to get the most energy out of a man,” he said, “and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn’t up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling.”
People who lack energy are disorganized by their deep, fundamental emotional and psychological conflicts, such as guilt and fear. But healing is ever possible.
The surest way not to become tired is to lose yourself in something in which you have a profound conviction. A famous statesman who made seven speeches in one day was still boundless in energy. “Why are you not tired after making seven speeches?” I asked. “Because,” he said, “I believe absolutely in everything I said in those speeches. I am enthusiastic about my convictions.” That’s the secret. He was on fire for something. He was pouring himself out, and you never lose energy and vitality in so doing. You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired doing nothing. You don’t have to be tired. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon. Get out of yourself. Be somebody. Do something. Don’t sit around moaning about things, reading the papers and saying, “Why don’t they do something?” The man who is out doing something isn’t tired. If you’re not getting into good causes, no wonder you’re tired. You’re disintegrating. You’re dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
