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They have no drawing power. They are non-attractive; produce mental conditions that are a lack of what is called "personal magnetism," but which is only a lack of those character-radiations that create success.
Study yourself and see how much you concentrate upon such thoughts. Realize how much they influence your life; how much time you waste in thinking them over and over; how much you diffuse power in this worry, fear, fret and complaint. This is riding the hobby horse of childhood, ride all day and you are not an inch further on your way. This method of using thought is but mental gum-chewing; disgusting to the observer and destructive of all healthful mental digestion.
Where you learn that you have been holding a thought of these kinds, immediately change to its opposite. Study the tables on pages 36 and 37 in "Self-Healing," and concentrate upon the opposite thought.
If you have held thoughts of failure, of want, change them at once to thoughts of possession. Never think want! Never wish for anything, for you, as Spirit, possess all in potentiality, as the egg possesses all the songs the bird shall sing. Turn your attention to this germ within, and claim possession, and in concentration give it an opportunity for expression. Concentration is mental incubation. Brood over the desire as a present reality, as the mother bird broods over the egg. She knows by instinct that the chick is there and by brooding she brings it into expression. In the faith of reason and instinct which you possess, brood over that which you know is, and which you, by Affirmation, have called forth, until you see it with eye and touch it with hand. Take what Lowell says of this bird-condition as your own, and sing:
His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings
And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings.
He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest,
- In the nice ear of Nature, which song is the best?
For this reason whenever you are inclined to say "I
