Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

Throughout Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude you will see many self-motivators which you can I use for your own self-suggestion. And if by now you don't know how to use self-suggestion, you will be you complete this book.

When death's door is about to open. There are over 450,000 children born out of wedlock in the United States each year, and over a million and a half teenagers enter penal institutions for car thefts and other crimes. These personal tragedies could in many instances be avoided if: (a) the parents learned how to employ suggestion properly, and (b) if their sons and daughters

were taught how effectively to use spiritual self-suggestion. Through the proper use of suggestion, these young people could be motivated to develop inviolable moral standards through their own conscious autosuggestion. And they would know how to neutralize or repel the undesirable suggestions of their associates in an intelligent manner.

Of course, every individual responds to (unconscious) autosuggestion throughout his life more often than he does to conscious autosuggestion. In such instances he responds to habit and the inner urge of the subconscious. When a man with PMA is faced with a serious personal problem, self-motivators flash from the subconscious to the conscious to aid him. This is especially true in times of emergency ? especially when death's door is about to be opened. Such was the case with Ralph Weppner of Too-woomba, Queensland, Australia, one of our PMA Science of Success course students.

It was 1:30 in the morning. In a small hospital bedroom two nursing sisters were keeping vigil beside Ralph's body. At 4:30 the afternoon before an emergency call had been made to his family to rush to the hospital. When they arrived at his bedside, Ralph was in a state of coma as the result of a severe heart attack. The family was now out in the corridor, each one worrying or praying in his own special way.

In the dimly lit bedroom two nursing sisters worked anxiously ? one on each wrist ? trying to feel a pulse beat. Because Ralph had not come out of the coma during this entire six hour period and the doctor had done all that he felt he could, the doctor had left the room. He had gone to visit one of his other hospital patients who was also in a critical condition.

Ralph couldn't move, talk, or feel anything. Yet he could hear the voices of the sisters. He could think quite clearly during portions of this period. He heard one sister excitedly state: "He's not breathing! Can you pick up a beat?"

The answer was, "No."

Again and again he heard the question and answer: "Can you now pick up a beat?" "No."

"I'm all right," he thought, "but I must tell them. Somehow I must tell them."

At the same time he was amused at the sisters for being fooled like that. He kept thinking, "I'm quite all right. I'm not going to die. But how ? how ? can I tell them?"

And then he remembered the self-motivator he had learned: You can do it if you believe you can!

He tried to open his eyes, but it seemed the more he tried, the more he failed. His eyelids wouldn't respond to the command of his will. He tried to move his arm, his leg, his head ? but he couldn't feel any reaction at all. In fact, he didn't feel a thing. Again and again he tried to open his eyes, until at last he heard the words: "I saw one eyelid flicker ? he's still there."

"I felt no fear," Ralph says, "and still thought how amusing it was. Periodically one sister called to me, 'Are you there, Mr. Weppner? Are you there?' To which I would try to respond by moving my eyelid to tell them that I was all right ? I was still there."

This went on for a considerable time until through constant effort Ralph was at last able to open one, then both, eyes. It was then

that his doctor returned. With wonderful skill and persistence the doctor and nurses brought him back to life.

Hidden persuaders. But it was the autosuggestion: You can do it if you believe you can ? that he had memorized from the PMA Science of Success course ? that helped to rescue him when he was at death's door.

Now the books we read and the thoughts we think affect our subconscious minds. But there are also unseen forces that likewise have powerful effects even though they are subliminal ? below the realm of consciousness.