The Ghosts of Fear
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Fear stops more people than anything else. That's a bad way to live.
You don't overcome these ghosts of fear, you're probably about as far as you're ever going to go. You know, I began by pointing out that Napoleon Hill said through all his analysis, all the research that he did over many, many years, he found there was 30 major causes of failure and there were 13 principles for accumulating a fortune. You could say 13 principles of success if you want.
But at the end of the 13 principles, he wrote The Six Ghosts of Fear. A lot of people consider that studying that was really the key to being able to execute the 13 principles. Because if you don't handle it, you probably will not enjoy success.
You see, fear stops more people than anything else. I want you to think of the number of people that are in a job they don't like, they don't enjoy, they're not doing well. They feel they're underpaid and overworked, but yet they're afraid to quit.
I clearly remember many, many years ago, before I ever started to study any of this. I got out of the Navy and I took a course in welding, and I was working for a man who was not a nice person. I had to go from one end of the city to the other to get there.
And it was in the winter, and it was heavy, it was snow, it was cold. He treated me terribly. I hated working there, but all the way there I was afraid I was going to get fired.
Isn't it silly? We're doing things we don't like, and we don't stop doing them. Why? We're afraid we won't get anything else. That's a bad way to live.
Napoleon Hill wrote about it, and he made it very clear. If you don't overcome these ghosts of fear, you're probably about as far as you're ever going to go. When you do overcome these ghosts of fear, it's open highway.
It's clear sailing. Now, that doesn't necessarily eliminate the fear, but you start to understand what's causing the fear. And so as you start to experience the fear like that, you can correct it.
You can eliminate it. And you eliminate it in your mind because that's where it is in the first place. And you eliminate it through understanding.
Someone said that education is expensive, and I suppose there's good reason for looking at it that way. Many students are leaving school with great debts. There's all kinds of seminars and programs today.
They're considered to be, some of them, fairly expensive. The better ones are. I know ours are.
But the people that come to them multiply their income. They change their life. You see, what's really expensive is ignorance.
And the only way to overcome ignorance is through study. There isn't any other way to do it. Now, I want to run through a series of slides here and as you look at these slides, you're going to start to understand something that I think has the power to change your life and certainly has the power to help you understand what Hill was talking about when he talked about the six ghosts of fear.
Now, let's go back to the beginning. Why are we studying these 13 principles in the first place? We're studying it because we want to get something we haven't got. So I want you to think, what do you really want? Because you're the director of your life.
That's really what you are. You're deciding which comes in what order. And you can have anything you want.
What you have to do is learn to control the flow of the thought energy that flows very freely to and through. You improving everything in your life and you can. But if you're focused on things that's causing fear, I guarantee it's going to take you down a road you do not want to go down.
Now, what I'm going to attempt to do here is show you what happens to a person who does not study and understand this. But as you start to understand what Napoleon Hill was explaining, how indecision, doubt, fear that is behind the ghosts of fear, and they are ghosts, it's all in our own mind. Understanding put them in the right slot.
So I want you to really think you want to control the flow. This beautiful power, this creative, unadulterated power is flowing into our consciousness. We can make anything out of what we want.
We have a choice. Remember I mentioned everything operates by law. And I did mention one of the laws was the law of polarity.
The law of polarity decrees that everything has an opposite. There's no inside without an upside. You couldn't have an up without a down or a hot without a cold.
Now, why would a person choose the negative? They choose it because they're programmed to choose it. They were raised with those ideas. They live in ignorance of the truth of who they really are and what they are.
I'm a spiritual being and I want to be aware of that. I want to have that knowledge very clearly sitting in the front of my mind. Now, if I live in ignorance, I'm going to show you what will happen.
This power is flowing into our conscious mind and we start thinking of what we want, but we don't see the resources to get it. So we instantly start to doubt. We make wrong decisions.
We make no decision. What does Napoleon Hill say was indecision and doubt and fear? But you see, doubt, worry, indecision, they're all intellectual exercises. They're very destructive.
It's on the wrong track from an intellectual perspective. But if that's what we choose, and we choose to build a negative idea, I'm not going to be able to reach my goal because and we're looking outside at our results and we don't see the money, we don't see the resources of how to get there, then we're going to start to experience something else that we don't want. Because when we turn the negative picture over to our subjective mind, it'll accept anything.
Doesn't reason that turns into fear. You see, fear is an emotion that's caused by impressing negative energy upon the emotional mind. It has no ability to change.
I said it has no inductive reasoning capacity. It doesn't have a choice. It can't reject.
It can only accept, and it's immoral. It'll just accept anything as real. You remember I said it couldn't differentiate what you imagined and what is real.
So here's a person doubting their own ability because they haven't got the physical resources that they can see. They don't understand there's a world that they cannot see, but they haven't gone there yet. Well, that fear was caused by impressing a negative idea upon the subject of mind.
Whatever's impressed must be expressed on a physical level, and it manifests as anxiety. Not a good thing. Not a good thing.
A lot of people experiencing anxiety. There's nothing creative done when an individual is in that vibration. Now, anxiety is not something that you freely express.
People that have these feelings of anxiety, they hide it. It's suppressed. Now, when you start to suppress that kind of energy, you suppress that.
You're causing your body a lot of problems, because you're causing your mind a lot of problems. You're making wrong choices. You're utilizing the power of your mind against yourself.
Remember in Imagination, I said, most people imagine what they don't want. They worry. They doubt causes the fear, the anxiety suppression.
Well, the suppression then turns into depression. Every now and then you'll see a show, a talk show, possibly on television, and somebody will be dealing with depression. And it's like nobody's ever figured out what causes depression.
They're into Valium. They're into all kinds of different medications, some kind of drug that is supposed to solve the problem. Drugs do not solve this problem.
It may relieve the pain, but it does not solve the problem. When a person is depressed, it's caused by negative energy being suppressed. Now, everything keeps growing.
Remember, it's create or disintegrate. This individual is moving in the wrong direction. Why? Well, because they thought of their goal, and then they start to doubt and worry because they can't see the resources or how to get there.
Now, if you're saying, well, that makes sense, if they can't see how to get there. Go study the decision section of this particular series. Take a real close look at the decision section.
Everyone that was successful made decisions very fast, changed them very slow. If and when they changed them at all, they had no knowledge of how they were going to get there. Hillary did not know how he would get to the top of the mountain.
Edison didn't know how he would build the Incandescent light. The Wright brothers didn't know how to get the plane off the ground. Ford didn't know how to build the V eight engine.
They didn't know how to do these things. They just knew they would do it. This individual is taking the first indication that they can't do it, and they've been totally involved in it, and it's causing them the problem.
The depression turns into disease. These people actually start getting sick. They go to the doctor.
The doctor said, well, what's going on? I don't know. You're still doing the same thing. Oh, no, I quit.
What are you doing now? I went into sales commission. Yeah, I'm on commission. How are you doing? Well, not very well.
There's your problem. Now he's legitimate. He can quit and go back to his job.
You see, he's looking for it. He's looking for an out. You know, I learned a long time ago, in every project, there's escape hatches, and if you don't weld them closed.
First bump in the road, you're going to hit those escape hatches. Here a person's getting sick, but they're doing it to themselves. It's got nothing to do with their work.
It's got nothing to do with another person. They may be blaming something outside that's not going to solve their problem. The disease then turns into disintegration.
That's why St. Clair Lewis said, we don't die, we kill ourselves. We just do it so slow, we don't understand what's doing.
Now, is there an answer to this? There certainly is, and it's in the 13 principles. You study these 13 principles, and I'm going to show you where you're going to go. You're going to start to understand that faith based on understanding is the key to freedom.
The faith is such a beautiful concept. Here's a person here who said, Control the flow. Energy is flowing into the consciousness.
What do they do? Well, rather than don't worry, they have done their homework. They're studying the principles. They're studying the laws of their being.
They're studying this energy that flows to and through them. They start to relate to the energy. They start to see they are spiritual beings.
They have these higher faculties. They've got these creative abilities. They're capable of doing great work.
How did they get that understanding? There's only one way. Just one way. You've always seen that one way.
The one way is right there in front of you. You've got to study. You've got to study.
Now, for a person in my position, school did not make studying an enjoyable thing to do. I never enjoyed studying. Possibly why I left so early without any formal education, without any understanding to go and offer anyone for a job.
So I always had dumb jobs, and that continued until I was 26. And it was because they said, you can have anything you want if you just study this. And then he got me to decide what I wanted.
I wanted to have some money. I wanted $25,000. That was my first goal.
You know what I know now, I didn't even have to believe it, but I had to write it on a card. I had to put the card in my pocket and I've been carrying one ever since. For 57 years I've been doing this.
When I write on the card, when I touch that card, I trigger the picture in my mind. See, as I touch the card, the sensory factor touch is affected. A light message goes screaming through the central nervous system, strikes a group of cells in my brain.
Those cells increase the amplitude of vibration in the picture that's in the flashes on the screen of the mind. Well, by doing that, I started to think of the 25,000. Now, that was an enormous amount of money.
I didn't even know anyone with 25,000. If I'd have taken all the people that I chummed around with, we couldn't have fucked up 25,000 if we had pooled our money. No one had any money, but I had that goal.
He said, you don't have to believe it, just keep repeating it. Anything you keep repeating, you're going to start believing. So I operated now with a different understanding.
And the understanding was developing. It was expanding because I had been studying and that caused me to have faith. I started to see in my mind myself with the good that I desired.
And I was getting emotionally involved in it. And because I impressed that I didn't get anxiety, I got well being. You see, when you're involved in the positive side of life, the situation hadn't really changed.
I was going on the same goal. There was no indication I was ever going to reach it on the physical level. But it was all up here, and that's where it really starts.
You don't have to see it on the physical plane, how it's going to happen. Things just begin to happen like that. Things change, but they change here first.
See, the well being isn't suppressed, it's expressed. You see a snapping or walk and the way they act, the way they talk, just the way they carry themselves. There's a feeling of confidence and assurance that you pick up from them and the expression accelerates.
You see, we're into a positive energy. It's directed. It's intelligently directed, which is another subject that we're going to be in study organized education, organized information.
Intelligently directed. What are you saying? He said the accumulation of great wealth calls for power. Power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed, specialized knowledge.
But he also said that knowledge doesn't have to be in the possession of the person who accumulates the fortune. So you don't even have to do it all yourself. Now, when you start to understand this, you start to see how things do speed up.
There is well being, it's being expressed, and you are accelerating it. Why? Because you're at ease. There's a calmness, a calm confidence about you.
You're operating with understanding. The six ghosts of fear haven't got a grip on you. You've got a grip on them.
You're saying, Get out of here. You're not welcome. Think.
And because you're at ease, you move into a very creative vibration. You're a creative being. You'll often hear people say, and I used to believe I'm not very creative.
The truth is, everyone's creative. It's just that some people express their creativity more than others. But we are all very, very creative.
In fact, that's all we are. So you have to ask yourself, what do I want? It's all there. You have a choice.
You can take the negative side, or you can take the positive side. Now, as you flip back and forth and you look at this, you're going doubt, worry, fear, anxiety, suppression, depression, disease, disintegration. I don't think so.
I think I like it over here. Understanding, faith. You see well being, expression, acceleration, at ease, creation.
There's no comparison in the two ways. And we have a choice. Now, do you know that a high percentage of all the people you know, a high percentage of the population do not operate with this understanding? We do not teach this in school.
This whole universe operates by law. Everything happens by law. Tide goes out, the tide comes in.
Winter, never follows winter. Think about this. Your life is being governed by exact laws.
And as you understand it, and then mix these 13 principles into your behavior, your way of life, create a paradigm around them, you're going to have an absolutely magnificent future. I'm not talking about something I've read about. I'm talking about something I'm doing.
And you can as well. You've got a choice. It's your choice.
I would suggest you make it wisely. What do you really want? Take over and you become the director. You dictate where you're going to go, what you're going to do, and you make up your mind.
You are not going to let those ghosts of fear mess around with you. There's not going to be any indecision and worry and fear and doubt that's going out of here. Why? Because I understand what they do to me and I don't like it.
I've been there, I've experienced it. I don't want it. Go on the other side.
Go with the study, the understanding. They'll give you everything you want. Remember I said, if you do exactly what I tell you, you can give anything you want? That's what they told me.
I believe it and I got it. I earn a lot of money, have a lot of fun. I live in a healthy body, I've got wonderful friends, I came from nowhere, from just the darkest part of life, and it changed.
Not only has it changed for me, I've helped millions of people change their life. And I want you to be the next one. I want you to really study this.
I want you to really understand this. Understand it in depth and know that you can have whatever you want. Lock yourself into an hour a day.
Listen to the same lesson over and over and over again. You can go through them all to satisfy your curiosity, but then go back to the first one and just play it so often you can almost say it word for word what I'm saying. That's how I got it.
And it worked. And that's how you can get it. Don't let fear get you.