by Napoleon Hill
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How PMA aids you. PMA will help you develop mental and physical health and a longer life. And NMA will just as surely undermine mental and physical health and shorten your life. It all depends upon which side of the talisman you turn up. Positive Mental Attitude properly employed has saved the lives of many persons because someone close to them had a strong Positive Mental Attitude. The following incident proves the point.
The baby was only two days old when the doctor said, "The child won't live."
"The child will live!" responded the father. The father had a Positive Mental Attitude ? he had faith ? he believed in the miracle of prayer. He prayed. He also believed in action. And he got into action! He placed the child under the care of a pediatrician who also had a Positive Mental Attitude ? a doctor who knew from experience that for every physical weakness Nature provides a compensating factor. The child did live!
I CANT GO ON! DEATH SEPARATES PAIR ? FOR INSTANT
The above headline appeared in the Chicago Daily News. The article mentioned that a building engineer ? a sixty-two-year-old man ? came home and went to bed with chest pains and shortness of breath. His wife, who was ten years younger, became alarmed and began hopefully to rub her husband's arms to increase circulation. But he died.
"I can't stand to go on any more," the widow told her mother, who was beside her.
And then the widow died. She died that very same day!
The baby that lived and the widow who died demonstrate the powerful forces of positive and negative mental attitudes. Knowing that accentuating the positive will attract good things to you and accepting the negative will bring the bad, isn't it common sense to develop positive thoughts and attitudes?
If you have not already done so, now is the time to develop a PMA philosophy. Prepare for any possible emergency. Always have something to live for. And remember, when you have something to live for, the subconscious mind forces upon your conscious mind strong motivating factors to keep you alive in times of emergency. We need look no further than Rafael Correa to prove our point.
An eventful night. He was only twenty years of age. His family was not wealthy, yet it was particularly well esteemed. Therefore, six doctors and a young intern had struggled all night in that small operating room at San Juan, Puerto Rico, trying to save Rafael's life. Now, after twelve hours of unceasing watchfulness and attention, they were tired. And they were sleepy. Try as they
would, they were finally unable to hear his heart beat. They couldn't find his pulse.
The head surgeon took a knife and cut the blood vessels in Rafael's wrist. The fluid was yellow. The surgeon hadn't used an anesthetic ? for the boy's body was so weak that pain didn't seem possible. The doctors thought he could not hear what they were saying. And they spoke as if he were dead. One said, "Not even a miracle can save him now!"
The chief surgeon took off his surgical coat and prepared to leave the room. The young intern asked, "May I have the body?" "Yes," was the response. The doctors left the room.
It has been written: So we do not lose heart... Because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
They could see the physical body, but Rafael was a mind with a body. What was happening to the mind of Rafael Correa which was not visible?
In that twilight state between life and death, Rafael was not able consciously to move his body. But because of the positive mental attitude he had developed in his subconscious mind by reading inspirational books, his mind was communicating with a Higher Power. He felt that God was with him.
He began to speak to God as a friend ? like a man talking with another. "You know me ? You are inside me ? You are my blood ? You are my life ? You are my everything. There is but one mind ? one principle ? one substance in the universe, and I am one with all else.
"If I die, I don't lose anything. I just change form. But I am only twenty years old. Dear God, I'm not afraid to die ? but I'm willing to live! If You choose to give me life, some day, somehow, I'll be able and willing through Your mercy to lead a better life and to help others."
As the intern approached Rafael, he looked at Rafael's face and observed the twitching of his eyelids and a teardrop falling from the corner of his left eye. "Doctor, doctor, come quickly! I think he's alive!" he called excitedly.
It took more than a year for him to regain his strength, But Rafael Correa did live!
