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Translated into fifteen languages with more than 7 million copies sold, The Power of Positive Thinking is unparalleled in its extraordinary capacity for restoring the faltering faith of millions. In this insightful program, Dr. Peale offers the essence of his profound method for mastering the problems of everyday living. You will learn:
- How to eliminate that most devastating handicap — self doubt
- How to free yourself from worry, stress and resentment
- How to climb above problems to visualize solutions and then attain them
- Simple prayerful exercises that you can do everyday, throughout the day, to reinforce your new-found habit of happiness
Eliminating all the negative thoughts that prevent you from achieving happiness and success, The Power of Positive Thinking is an inspiring program that will help you make a positive change in your life.
The Power of Positive Thinking: A Practical Guide to Mastering The problems Of Everyday Living
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Although I am a Self-Realizationist now (originally an Episcopalian), you are going to have a “troubled existence” as either a “born again Christian” or “Fundamentalist Christian”. As the notorious Rush Limbaugh stated, “You can always feel safe when your new neighbors are Christian Republicans.” But it is very hard for them. Because of the intellectual elite which know a lot about nothing that matters. Why did an all-forgiving Jesus state that He would return and place all sinners in hell forever? How can God, if He is all-powerful, allow such horrible suffering? His Holiness the Dalai Lama has stated that the “Huge Bang” may be the act of a Creator (in Buddhism, there is no creator). He goes on to state that if this is right, then there indeed may be spiritual laws! (Buddhism only believes in cause and effect). So throw out all the intellectualism. It gets vey tiresome. Christianity can only be reached on faith. And if you find yourself arguing about church doctrine, then you are following into their trap (a World of Words). This is one book that will help. ESPECIALLY when your faith starts to fade. Of course, it is no replacement for the Bible. But it is structually sound for all Christians (if you don’t get sucked in by, well, people like I used to be!). In Christianity, you won’t get by with reason. Only faith. And this is very hard. Not to get lost in words. I believe that you will have to become a “positive thinker” in order to dispell all the curve balls that Satan will pitch at you. It’s also an added protection. Let’s just not mix this book with the Bible. As a Christian, one is to believe that God and Jesus are synonomous. That non-believers and sinners will go to hell forever. SO BELIEVE IT! Buy this book because it is a really excellent defense for all Christians not to become sinners. Yes. Reading the Psalms may be the best solution. But this book will help so many Christians. My excellent friend Sharon is a superb Christian. And she practices the Bible! She’s a Baptist and a very excellent one. She likes Jesus the Lord. THESE ARE NOT AFFIRMATIONS (AS IN “NEW AGE”) in this book. It’s Christian Psychological Thearapy. I read it when I was 10 and once again when I was 40. Don’t pass Peale up. Buy “The Power of Positive Thinking”!
Rating: 5 / 5
I have an intense hatred of this book. I myself am not necessarily all that much of a “positive” person, although I am not overbearingly negative; and I have always found, with Bertrand Russell, that “the idiots of the world are always so sure of themselves while the intelligent ones are so filled with doubts.” Peale does not take into account genetics, clinical depression, or any of the other obstacles to being a ‘positive’ person. And oh, do they get annoying.
Rating: 1 / 5
No, no, no, no. Don’t buy this book, it really doesn’t work. Nothing changes, nothing gets better using this stuff. Not a thing. You start to reckon, hey maybe this stuff will work, but guess what? IT DOES NOT. It’s a waste of time like everything else I’ve ever tried to improve myself, just a trip down the dark tunnel of parasuicidal depression, it always is, it never gets better. Even this book doesn’t help. Never could and never would. Might as well read Kurt Cobain’s diary for natural mood enhancement. Why bother? I sure won’t anymore.
Rating: 1 / 5
I can’t believe there is really a book with this title. I heard the expression before, but I thought it was just slang psychology. I just looked it up now and I’m stunned. The title alone is enough for me to avoid this book. I’ve seen this kind of thought wreck havoc on people, helping them lose touch with their emotions and often getting into unsatisfying relationships -and they don’t know they aren’t satisfied. I quit trying this positive thinking stuff at 13, cause it wasn’t doing anything for me. I started a quasi-meditation on my own -with no help or prompting from others. Looking back, I realize what I was really doing was examining my experience of life -my perspectual vantage point that is indigenous to me. This has and continues to lead me to painful experiences, but that’s the business of change. I always believed that I was doing myself a favor with this, in spite of what others had to say. I couldn’t prove it until 9/11, when people’s positive thinking failed them (you can’t call that devastation a “lemon” and even if you could you sure can’t make “lemonade” out of it) I already had means of coping with the rage and dread. I suppose this guy would say “sometimes life just hands you a terrible apple, but you can’t assume it will always be that way.” I don’t know, maybe that kind of thought would help our government quit what they do in the name of national security.
What I find even more telling about this is that Dr. Peale was a preacher. Really, he has been quite unfaithful to the Bible or any kind of religion. I can’t imagine the Book of Job ending with “Got to reckon positive no matter what.” I’m not saying go around bent with angst and hostility for its own sake. I’m saying don’t be fake to how you feel. To imagine MLK Jr. concluding his “I Have a Dream” with “And remember reckon positive!” Religion is not meant for self-esteem and getting by in the work force of the modern world. The Bible has numerous tales with raw, powerful emotional struggles, and not one of them ends with anything remotely close to the title of Peale’s book. But I suppose I’ve place enough negativity out there for plenty of people.
Rating: 1 / 5
I don’t want to write another book here, so I’ll just say this worthwhile inspirational book didn’t help me enough to change my life many years ago. Neither did any of the others and I’ve read most of them. On the first page, Dr. Daniel A. Poling writes “… Faith in yourself…” It goes overboard, I reckon, on spiritual mystical faith and not enough practice on faith in oneself. I’ll coin a new word; it’s more inspirational than actualational. I made my own discoveries and broke through, some fifteen years after I read this book, and some thirty years after I was too paralyzed from dread and grief to even go. But it’s still a day by day process of healing and discovery.
Rating: 3 / 5