El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-13
Concentration of Thought
VIII Bring to Any One the Things
He Most Desires-Hate De-
strOys Creative Powers.
Ella Wheeler WHIcOx.


4 WAY off in a little country
"A town a mechanics wife with a
\ craving mind and a hungry heart
is wondering what she can do to bet
ter herself mentally. Living among
people who care only to work and
save, 1 have no pleasure, and confess
that I am very discontinued with my
lot" she writes. can you tell me
what to do to get what I want?'
Her case Is typical OF thousands OF
growing souls all over this great,
ambitious, restless land The money
ambition has hold of our men, the
ambition for mental advancement has
possession of our women. To this
woman, and to all like her it is seem
ingly useless to say, Learn the law
of mental concentration" unless that
law is explained When it is ex-
planned, il sounds much like the old
orthodox promise Of happiness IN
heaven" to the restless disconnected
mind.
Yet in that law lies all the hope Of
lettering such conditions. have
known a brilliant, strOng-Willed, am
bilious woman to beat her life out
against the walls Of such an environ
ment with useless rebellion and IN
focused longing.
Concentration Would Have Won.
Nothing came which she desired
horizon of the unattainable.
Had this woman used in cOncen-
trated hope and fixed purpose the
same amount of energy she exhausted
in rebellion and discomfort all sne de-
sired would have come to her IN time
Thought is one form of energy
That is a scientific fact, and must
be remembered.
If we waste our energy in discon-
tent and rebellion against fate. We
Z 70 rre IN Chanlnu new
conditions.
Instead of despising and hating what
we have there is great wisdom IN
seeking for something to love, some
thing to be glad about in our en-
vironment and to steadily turn our
thoughts toward the time when what
we want shall come to US.
Once we find the central thought
of love, it viii become like the 1irst
star of evening, or the first dim ray
of light at dawn, and will prove he
harbinger Of a glorious effulSence Il
We continue to gaze
Make Conditions More Pleasing.
To love something is the first step
toward success and happiness
Let the disconnected woman say as
she goes about her daily tasks, 7 am
creating q beautiful home, DeauIllu VI
life for my loved ones and Tor my
self. All that I desire shall come 70
me. It is here already, only my eyes
are not clear enough to see. Love,
peace happiness. beauty, rest, refine
ment all are mine"
However meager, or repulsive even,
NAV be her outlook. if she will in
sist upon these assertions and these
thoughts. and continue to picture 10
herself the surroundings that she de-
sires a change will come
Two years ago a business man was
in the depths of despair and nothing
but trouble and discOrd enveloped him
He was given the key to better con-
ditions by a friend who wrote out Ior
him a list of words to say and medl-
tate upon.
Instead of thinking Of things as he
found them. he thought of them as ne
desired them. Employment, success,
Drosperity. harmony, growth, happl-
ness opuIence were the words given
him for his rosary. At first In .te-
risiOu. then in amusement, then IN
curiosity. he began TO repeat the words
Suddenly he found q great calmne5s
resulting from their repetition Inen-
with renewed interest, heconunued'
and new strength seemed to be given
him. Hone followed. and the amnltlons
he had thought dead awOke to LIE
Prosperity came next. ana aIIIuehes
stands near today
The disconnected woman shoulu seek
for cheerful. helpful literature while
she waits for her life to blossom INTO
haDpiness-C Copyright. 1913. by the
New York Evening Journal PUBLISH
ing company