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Henry Harrison Brown

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Henry H. Brown's

Concentration: The Road to Success

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Introductory - What is Success? - The "Why" of the Book - Concentration a Natural Process - Paying Attention - Some Channels of Waste - "I Am Life" - How Shall I Concentrate - The Will - Habits - "In the Silence" - Compensation of Concentration - With Eyes See Not - The Ideal - Prayer - Desire versus Wish - Mental Poise - Methods of Concentration - Directions for Practice - How To Do It - Some Practical Suggestions - Self-Study and the Law of Life - Special Desires versus Principles - My One Rule:-Agreement - Love - Opinions and Methods of Others - A Parting Word -


in the fear of things and of conditions, creates anxiety, worry and defeat. Concentration in Faith in the All Good, upon things and conditions, causes cheer, clearness of vision and success.

How you shall consider any circumstance, is for you to decide and as you decide, that circumstance is to you.

But having made your decision, stick to it. Concentrate upon the thought which you have decided as the right one to hold in relation to that circumstance. Through this concentration you will make your decision a fact in the objective life, because by your decision you have already made it a fact in the Cause-Life.

I wish to emphasize this fact because it is most important. You need not see or hear, need not feel or recognize, anything you do not desire to sense. You can make any circumstance bear to your objective life, whatever relation you desire, by deciding in your mind what that relation shall be, and by then concentrating upon that decision. Why do I affirm this? Because I am doing it every day, and because I know others who are doing it. What one person does, all can and may do. This fact was impressed upon me years ago by the experiments in Suggestion. As soon as you become convinced that the position I take in my little book, "Not Hypnotism but Suggestion," is correct, and it is the position of all expert practitioners of the Art, you will understand, that by thinking a coin is hot, when held in the hand, the thought will produce a blister. By thinking a drop of water is a drop of Croton oil, a blister is formed; by thinking a door knob is the pole

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