Monday, January 16, 2012

Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

Increasingly the fields of psychology and religion are being seen as intimately related. Unfortunately it is still true, as Dr. Seabury complains, that

"we find the churches and those who represent them lacking knowledge and application of psychology, and the average practicing psychologist antagonistic to man's need for religion." HOW JESUS HEALS OUR MINDS TODAY-1941

David Seabury on how to overcome neurotic anxiety
.” Every time you are in a situation that tempts you to worry substitute positive, wholesome images instead, and in time the very situation that acted as a trigger on your anxiety will become a conditioned stimulus for calm, collected, creative thought.”


I have been excited a good many years now over what seems to me a most amazing fact. The discovery of how to control matter, to make physical life easier, came to mankind slowly. Insight into how a like transformation may take place in a man’s handling of his own life has come in one generation. Most people are not yet aware of it. Few realize what has been happening, for millions are toiling greedily and fighting bitterly everywhere. They know that science and mechanics have made over the face of the earth. They do not know that psychology and its sister sciences are making a like change for man’s handling of his own nature.Build Your Own Future 1938
Give yourself, if you wish to get others. -- David Seabury

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