THE UNIVERSAL LAW CALLED: 'USE IT OR LOSE IT'

'USE IT OR LOSE IT' means that if you don't continue to practice or use an ability, you might lose the ability. For example, if a person doesn't exercise his or her physical body, he or she will likely lose strength, endurance, and stamina. Similarly, if a person doesn't practice a new skill, such as driving a car or speaking a foreign language, he or she may forget or lose that skill. The same is true for the ability to learn and remember new information, do well with problem-solving, etc. Practicing, that is "using" these abilities helps improve them. Not using them often leads to less ability.

SUMMARY CHECKLIST OF THE USES OF RATIONAL THOUGHT (By Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.)

1. It is the job of rational, conscious thought to examine and analyze incoming messages, to accept those that are true and reject those that are untrue.

2.  It is the job of the conscious rational mind to form logical and correct conclusions.

3.  It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve, and concentrate on these rather than on what you do not want.

4.  It is the job of your conscious mind to pay strict attention to the task at hand, to what your are doing and what is going on around you, so that these incoming sensory messages can keep your automatic mechanism currently advised of the environment and allow it to respond spontaneously.

LAW OF HABIT

Thought is the force underlying all acts; repeated actions formulate habits; a system of habits constitutes a character; and, one’s character largely determines one’s destiny.

And what is meant by this? Simply this: Every conscious act is preceded by a thought. Your dominating thoughts determine your dominating actions. Repeated acts crystallize themselves into a habit. The aggregate of your habits is your character.

Whatever, then, you would want to be your character you must look well to the character of every thought you entertain. If there is an act that is not in your best interest to do or a habit that you would not wish to acquire, you must guard against thinking about such.

In other words, guard your mind from negative thoughts; and, whenever one gets into it, displace it with positive thinking. Don’t let a negative thought give birth to some negative act. It is a simple psychological law that any type of thought, if entertained for a sufficient length of time, will, by and by, reach the motor tracks of the brain, and finally burst forth into action. And, repeated actions build strongly resistant habits.

LAW OF BELIEF

The universal law of belief states that we do not believe what we see, we rather see what we have already decided to believe.

LAW OF SUBSTITUTION

Brian Tracy, in his book Maximum Achievement, explains the Law of Substitution this way:

“It states that your conscious mind can hold only one thought at a time, and that you can substitute one thought for another. The ‘crowding out’ principle allows you to deliberately replace a negative thought with a positive thought.”

It is virtually impossible to eradicate a thought from your mind unless you fill the space with something else. 

The more you try not to think about something, the more you think about it.

And, according to Sigmund Freud, when a thought is deliberately forgotten it just recedes into the subconscious mind where it can cause havoc without the person ever knowing the cause.

So, rather than trying to forget negative thoughts it is better to replace them with positive thoughts. 

LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

Things that you think, say, and do will be causes that have effects on something or somebody even if on nothing or no one but your own mind and your own body.

LAW OF ATTRACTION

For me, the law of attraction works in this way:

You tend to attract or are attracted to that which you think about.