Fear, a negative emotion, is at the very top on the list of causes of failure. Fear is the enemy of success because of the way it operates on the human mind, gradually or even rapidly nibbling away at its power. The emotion of fear starts its growth mentally like a weed in a well laid out garden. This weed, mental in nature, smothers good and constructive thinking. In many instances, it produces that which we fear the most. For instance, the fear of failure produces failure, similarly for the fears of poverty and ill health.
The deadliness of fear is its unnoticed damage. Where fear creeps in mentally, it takes control of the mind and begins to impair and blunt the imagination. Creative thinking becomes impossible; new ideas cannot be born and existing ones cannot be improved upon. The result is mental retrogression and declining self confidence, resulting in ultimate failure.
The philosophy of Success through Mind Power, which has taken the author over thirty years to develop, is intended to assist anyone desiring to succeed in any endeavour, to fight fear head on. This fight is crucial because people who induce fear in us either by chance or design very often surround us.
Friends, relatives and even spouses might mean well for us when they counsel against taking life-changing decisions that could transform our lives for the better. Nothing neutralises decision-making resolve more than negative talks resulting from negative thinking. Most successful or great people actually had to damn comments from spouses, relatives or friends in the moment of great decisions. This is not to imply that counselling from these sources are all negative, because there exceptions, of course.
The fear of poverty deserves special mention, considering the subject of this article. According to Napoleon Hill, a speaker, motivator of repute and author of many books on the attributes of success, he had maintained that "the fear of poverty drives away riches" and that "the road that leads to riches is the opposite road to spiritual poverty". Riches in this context could be material, spiritual or even mental. To acquire any of the categories listed, you must first banish fear and thought of poverty, otherwise you would attract the physical equivalent of your thinking.
No man would admit that he deliberately desired or feared poverty. Yet most people harbour thoughts or fear of failure in an indirect sense. By thinking negatively about opportunities that present themselves daily, many people attract failure and poverty. The fear of an unwanted outcome crossing your mind is enough to trigger failure.
It is estimated that up to 75 per cent of all people who visit doctors today in the advanced societies are suffering from imaginary illnesses or hypochondria. This manifests itself in various forms: headaches, body pains, insomnia and other body disorders. The fear of ill health can therefore present these physical symptoms even where there is not the slightest cause.
Autor: Michael Obi
Fear of whatever nature, whether failure, poverty or ill health can be mastered and eliminated completely from your mental world. Sometimes when these fears are deeply entrenched, it requires a lot of hard work to uproot them. However the Success through Mind Power philosophy has developed simple and time-tested techniques for overcoming any form of fear. The author has taught the tenets of the philosophy over the years at the National War College, Abuja, Nigeria. His book of the same name is available at the website http://www.mindpowersuccess.com
Author: Michael Obi
Added: May 9, 2009
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