You Are What You Think You Are!
Author: Mahadevan Sairam

Imagine yourself walking up to a full-length mirror, pausing—then audibly saying to the person in front of you: “I’d like to introduce you to me.” That is virtually what is going to happen here. I am going to introduce you to yourself.

How long have you lived with yourself? You lived with you all of your life, of course. Do you know yourself? You might have thought so; you’ll have a different opinion by the time you finish reading this.

Within that wonderful body of yours you have the answer to every problem that has been disturbing you. Do you want riches? You have the key to untold wealth, but you have not used it. Do you want more friends? – More personal power? Right now – locked within the depths of your super CREATIVE MIND is the secret that will make you a magnet, drawing people to you.

Do you want better health? You have within a direct contact with the source of all life.

Do you want happiness? It can be found in one place only – and that is within. As you progress with reading this material, you will discover a new sense of happiness you never experienced before.

Have you ever described yourself as being “this way” or “that way”; -- such as: “I am artistic,” or “I am not musical?” Or, “I am lucky,” or “I am not lucky?” Do you know why you are “this way” or “that way?” Whether you can accept it now or not, you will learn that the reason why you are “this way” or “that way?” is because you, yourself, decided to be that way. You do not believe it? That’s all right. You will before you have completed reading this material.

In each chapter there will be a dominant thought, around which everything in that chapter is built. By fixing the dominant thought in your mind – you would have no difficulty in remembering all the important points given in the lesson.
The dominant thought in this chapter, which is so important that I want to dwell upon it at length, is:

YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE!
You might be taking issue with this statement at the moment. If you have been a failure, you might be saying: “I didn’t fail because I thought of myself as a failure.” But wait! You’ll see.

One time, while Ben Sweetland, the great radio psychologist was traveling on a train between Chicago and New York. He was sitting opposite to a man in the dining car who appeared ill at ease. That man timidly told him that he had never been in a dining car before and did not know how to order. So, he asked Ben to assist him. Ben was happy to do so. Then that man told him why he was taking the trip.

He had been a letter carrier for many years. His work had not been easy; -- lugging a heavy mail bag day in and day out, in weather ranging from sweltering heat in the summer to the icy blasts of winter. On his route was a mail-order house which received large bundles of letters each and every day, most of them containing orders with money.

“Why can’t I be in business and have a mailman bring important letters to me, instead of me carrying them to others?” he asked himself. The answer came as he realized, that up to that moment, he had never seen himself as anything but a letter carrier. He began to see himself as a businessman. He prepared by studying a bit each evening, and later embarked into a business of his own. It had grown to a point where he was taking a trip to New York to purchase merchandise.

That man had been a letter carrier because he had thought of himself as a letter carrier. As soon as he changed the mental image of himself – that new image began to manifest itself in his daily life. YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE!

In the Midwest, an accident took the life of the husband of a very timid woman, leaving her and the young daughters without visible means of support. This unhappy widow found that by drudging at least fourteen hours daily, doing housework for others, as well as looking after her own family, she could eke out an existence.

Whenever she heard the stories of the success of other women, she became more and more discontented with her own lot and gradually sank to lower depths of despondency. After carrying on without a husband for about two years, she was ready to give up.

She had become reconciled to the thought of putting the children into an institution and taking a job as a domestic helper where she would have regular hours---and regular periods for rest and relaxation.

One day this sad woman happened to pick up a card bearing the thought: “You can do ANYTHING if you THINK you can.” Oh yes?” she said to herself as she visualized her own plight.

Then, after a few moments of sane reflection, she asked herself this challenging question: “Why can’t I do the things I would like to do?” Almost as though an inner voice had whispered to her – she got the answer. It came to her clearly that the reason why she was in her predicament was, because she had never seen herself as anything else.

Without realizing it, she began tapping the omnipotent power, contained within all of us, and in less than three years she was living in Southern California, owned a business, and was able to take care of her children.

Now then, this woman had been a timid household drudge, because she had thought of herself as such, -- but the moment she began seeing herself as a successful woman, her life began to change – to coincide with her new mental image. YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE!







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M. Sairam M.Sc, is a writer, entrepreneur, teacher, computer consultant and coach who worked both in India and the USA on various assignments. He has Masters Degree in Natural Products Chemistry from India and Certificate in Nutritional Counseling from Trinity College of Natural Health. He is passionate about Self Improvement and Entrepreneurship. He has written and taught on many subjects including but not limited to Self Improvement, Wellness, and Sales back in India and on computer technology in the USA. He is currently involved in several projects, one in particular is to teach people to create a better future for themselves with health and wealth by promoting products and services from his website http://www.living-healthy-made-easy.com.

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