How Positive Thinking Works Part 2.

Creative thought vs. Competitive thought.

Creative thought is defined as taking a certain thought (such as getting rich or finding that one special love), thinking about it in a determined fashion, and then holding that thought strongly enough to impress that thought onto the thinking stuff. This will cause the thinking stuff to create the circumstances for you to achieve whatever it is that you desire.

Competitive thought is defined as trying to force your thoughts and desires to work by competing against others for what you desire.

According to the theory outlined in The Science Of Getting Rich, using creative thought allows a person to come into direct mental contact with the thinking stuff, thereby causing the thinking stuff to move into action and create the circumstances necessary to cause that persons thoughts to become reality. Competitive thought stems from greed and envy, and causes the persons thoughts to be impressed onto the thinking stuff in a negative manner, producing negative results for that person.

According to Mr. Wattle, in order to receive the most benefit from impressing your thoughts on the thinking stuff, you need to have a firm image of the thing that you desire in your thoughts and continue to think about this thing in a creative manner. The more firmly you believe that this image is yours and is on its way to you, the more committed that thinking stuff will be in making the image yours.

Thinking in a negative manner, such as giving a lot of thought to poverty and lamenting on personal problems, will cause the thinking stuff to attract these negative thought to you – basically a person that thinks about poverty on a regular basis will remain in poverty, or someone who dwells on illness and disease will attract more illness and disease into his life. Competitive thought increases the negative emotions and thoughts that are impressed upon the thinking stuff.

This adds a fourth element to the basic concepts of The Science Of Getting Rich:

1 - There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and in its original state exists in all areas of the universe.

2 - A thought in this thinking stuff will produce the thing imagined in that thought.

3 - A person can form things in his thoughts, impress that thought upon the thinking stuff, and cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

4 – A person must pass from competitive thought to creative thought. This is the only way to be in harmony with the thinking stuff, which is always creative in spirit and never competitive.

Part 3 will concentrate on making yourself ready to receive what you want.

Craig