Why Your Thoughts Create Your World
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In this chapter, Dumont stresses the idea that our thoughts are incredibly powerful. He relates the story of a man actually dying from a thought experiment. Although I do believe thoughts are incredibly powerful, I doubt this story is actually true. It sounds like an urban legend to me. His ideas on how your thoughts attract people and situations to you ring true, and are very much in line with the law of attraction. Negative thoughts, in the form of anxiety, worry, despondency and discouragement are the result of the undisciplined mind. His final thought on the importance of speaking wisely was interesting, and something that I did not expect. His basic point seems to be that you need silence to concentrate, and to get in touch with your higher self (what he called the interior law, or the absolute law of the omnipotent). Speaking without thinking prevents us from doing this, and is thus to be avoided. Interesting idea. At any rate, here is my summary.
In Chapter 4 of “The Power of Concentration”, Dumont stresses that thought in and of itself is incredibly powerful. He offers two examples of this. One is the situation where a sudden shock or fright can turn a person’s hair grey. The other is a story in which a condemned man is offered a deal. He is told a test is to be performed on him to see how much blood a man can lose before he dies. A cut is to be made on his leg, and he is to be left alone all night in his cell. If he survives to the next morning, he will be given his freedom. Having nothing to lose, the condemned man agrees to this. What he doesn’t know, however, is that the real experiment is to test how this thought will affect him. When the cut is made on his leg, the amount of blood that is lost is so small that he couldn’t possibly expire from it. However, the room he is kept in is dark, and he can hear the dripping of water, which he thinks is his own blood. He believes he is bleeding to death, although in reality he is fine. What happens? The thought is so powerful, the man dies.
Thoughts create your friends and your environment. Positive thoughts attract positive people and events. Negative thoughts do the opposite. Most people rush through life, unaware that they are constantly driving away the people and situations that would make them happy. All it takes is to look within yourself, and you will discover the greatest machine ever made.
You must learn to speak wisely. Speech interferes with the focusing powers of the mind. You need deep silence to reflect. Real silence becomes attached to the interior law, the absolute power of the omnipotent.
Dumont ends this chapter with the following thought that you should hang on to:
In silence I will allow my higher self to have complete control
I will be true to my higher self
I will live true to my conception of what is right
I realize that it is to my self interest to live up to my best
I demand wisdom so that I may act wisely for myself and others
