by Napoleon Hill
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1. You can have more perfect health. A positive mental attitude affects your health. It attracts good health to you. A negative mental attitude attracts ill health.
2. Thinking good thoughts, positive and cheerful thoughts, will improve the way you feel. What affects your mind also affects your body.
3. A positive mental attitude toward the ones you love may be the means of saving their lives. Remember the father who saved the life of his infant son by going into action with a positive mental attitude.
4. Learn to practice PMA instead of giving in to NMA as the engineer's wife did. Her NMA allowed death to claim her.
5. Develop within you a positive mental attitude so powerful that it seeps down from your conscious into your subconscious mind. If you do, you will find that in times of need and emergency, it will automatically flash back to your conscious mind. Even in the greatest emergency of life: death.
6. Make a study of the Bible and other inspirational books. They will both inspire and teach you how to motivate yourself to
positive desirable action and thus help you achieve the goals you desire.
7. Learn to use the 17 success principles and to apply them to your life. Have you memorized them?
8. All the wealth in the world cannot, by itself, buy good health. But you can achieve good health by striving for it and observing simple rules of hygiene and good health habits. Remember, John D. Rockefeller had to retire at the age of 57 because of ill health, but through a positive mental attitude and wholesome living, he reached the ripe old age of 97.
9. PMA recognizes the importance of education in physical, mental, and social hygiene, and that ignorance of these subjects can mean sin, sickness, and death. Keep abreast of current developments affecting your mental, moral, and physical health.
10. Never abandon hope ? for there is a potential cure for every ailment. Develop PMA and take the guesswork out of your health by seeking aid at the right time.
11. PMA repels accidents and tragedies by keeping the person with PMA alert to dangers at all times. Should tragedy strike, however, PMA can guide you in meeting reverses calmly and deliberately.
12. A sound mind and sound body are attainable if you will put PMA to work for you. Remember ? you can enjoy good health and live longer with PMA.
I FEEL HEALTHY!
I FEEL HAPPY! I FEEL TERRIFIC!
CHAPTER 18 Can You Attract Happiness?
Can you attract happiness?
Abraham Lincoln once made the remark, "It has been my observation that people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference I The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Persons who want to be happy will adopt a positive mental attitude and be influenced by the PMA side of their talisman. Thus happiness will be attracted to them. And those who turn on NMA make a business of being unhappy. They don't attract ? they repel happiness.
"I want to be happy... " A popular song starts off with words that contain a great deal of truth: "I want to be happy, but I won't be happy, 'til I make you happy, too!"
One of the surest ways to find happiness for yourself is to devote your energies toward making someone else happy. Happiness is an elusive, transitory thing. And if you set out to search for it, you will find it evasive. But if you try to bring happiness to someone else, then it comes to you.
Writer Claire Jones, wife of a professor in the religion department at Oklahoma City University, tells of a happiness they experienced during their early married life. "We lived in a small town the first two years we were married," she recalls, "and our neighbors were a very old couple, the wife nearly blind and
confined to a wheelchair. The old man, not very well himself, kept house and cared for her.
"My husband and I were decorating our Christmas tree a few days before Christmas, when we decided on impulse to fix a tree for the old people. We bought a small one, decorated it with tinsel and lights, wrapped a few small gifts, and took it over the night before Christmas.
"The old lady cried as she gazed dimly at the sparkling lights. Her husband said over and over, 'But it's been years since we had a tree.' They mentioned that tree nearly every time we visited them during the next year.
"The next Christmas they were both gone from the little house. It was a small thing we had done for them. But we were happy that we'd done it."
