Ego
Your body, whether living or dead, is a collection of millions of little energies that can never die. These energies are separate and individual; at times they act in some degree of harmony. The human body is a drifting mechanism of life, capable but not accustomed to control the forces within, except as habit, will, cultivation or special excitement (through emotion) may marshal these forced to the accomplishment of some important end
If you sit down and think for a while, you will be surprised to know how much of your life has been mere drift.
Man consists of two forces, one tangible, in the form of his physical body, with its myriad individual cells numbering billions, each of which is endowed with intelligence and energy, and the other intangible, in the form of an ego – the organized dictator of the body which may control man's thoughts and deeds.
Science teaches us the tangible portion of a man weighing one hundred and sixty pounds is composed of about 17 chemical elements, all of which are known:
97 pounds of oxygen
38 pounds of carbon
15 pounds of hydrogen
4 pounds of nitrogen
4.5 pounds of calcium
6 ounces of chlorine.. blah blah
These tangible parts of man are worth 80 cents commercially. Add a well developed and properly organized and controlled ego, and they may be worth any price the owner sets upon them. The ego is a power which can't be purchased at any price, but it can be developed and shaped to fit any desired pattern. The development takes place through organized habits which are made permanent by the law of Cosmic habit force, which carries out the thought patterns one develops through controlled thought.
One of the major differences between men who make valuable contributions to mankind and those who merely take up space in the world, is mainly a difference in egos, because the ego is the driving force behind all forms of human action.
Every highly successful person possesses a well developed and highly disciplined ego and self control that is necessary to transmute its power to any desired purpose. Auto-suggestion (or self-hypnosis) is a medium by which one may attune his ego to any desired rate of vibration and charge it with the attainment of any desired purpose. When this self suggestion attains the status faith the ego becomes limitless in its power.
The ego is kept alive and active, and it is given power by constant feeding. It must be fed
- Definiteness of Purpose
- Personal Initiative
- Continuous action, through well-organized plans
- Supported by Enthusiasm
- Controlled attention, directed to a definite end
- Controlled and directed through self-discipline
- And supported by accurate thought
One must deliberately develop and control ego. Beyond that one has no more to do with what happens than does a farmer after planting the seeds. The Law of Cosmic habit force causes every living thing to perpetuate itself after its kind and it translates the picture which a man paints of his ego into its physical equivalent.
How does one develop and control the ego?
1. One must ally himself with one or more people who will co-ordinate their minds with his in a spirit of perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose, and that alliance must be continuous and active.
2. Having placed himself under the influence of the proper associates, one must adopt some definite plan by which to attain the object of the alliance and proceed to put that plan into action.
3. One must remove himself from a range of influence of every person and every circumstance which has even a slight tendency to cause him to feel inferior or incapable of attaining the object of his purpose. Positive egos do not grow in negative environments.
4. One must close the door tightly against every thought of any past experience or circumstance which tends to make him feel inferior or unhappy. Vital egos throve on the hopes and desires of the yet unattained objectives.
5. One must surround himself with every possible physical means of impressing his mind with the nature and the purpose of the ego he is developing. The person should surround himself with pictures, quotes, inspirational videos. The person should surround himself with every possible means of conveying to his ego the exact picture of himself which he expects to express, because that picture is the pattern which the law of the Cosmic Habit force will pick up; the picture which it translates into its physical equivalent.
6. The properly developed ego is at all times under the control of the individual. One's motto in the development of the ego should be – "Not too much, not too little, of anything.
7. The ego is constantly undergoing changes, for better or for worse, because of the nature of one's thought habits. The two factors which force these changes upon one are Time and the law of Cosmic Habit Force.
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