VIBRATION

Words appear to possess a power and vibration of their own, a power that differs according to their quality or character. Thus positive words have the ability to awaken in us feelings and powers akin to themselves. We can easily prove this for ourselves.

If, when discouraged or depressed, we repeat to ourselves the words: courage, strength, hope, faith, victory, overcoming, joy, happiness, etc., we find that there is something within us that responds to the power and vibration of the words uttered, so that we are raised above our weakness and depression to such an extent that we are able once again to face up the difficulties and problems of life. This may prove to be a turning point or crisis in our life. If we allow ourselves to become depressed and discouraged we go down and down, life becoming more and more trying and difficult as we travel downwards. If, however, we overcome our depression and discouragement, we are able to rise to higher achievement and to a stable, satisfying success.

It is hardly necessary to add that if instead of making use of positive words, we make use of such expressions as : 'I am fed up', or 'Everything is against me', or 'Everything I do ends in failure', or 'Everyone has good luck except I', or 'What is the use of trying, it is always the same result: disappointment, failure, injustice, bad treatment from others', and so on, then the results are disastrous. There is something within man that responds to these words and expressions, that clouds his sky, destroys his hope, undermines his effort, takes away his initiative, and puts him on the human scrap-heap, where he joins the derelicts, or to change the metaphor the flotsam and jetsam of life that drift hither and thither just wherever the tide an current takes them.

But, if anyone wishes to test the truth of what has been said, let him, when discouraged and depressed, repeat to himself, for a time, such negative and weakening words as the following: weakness, failure, defeat, misery, despair, etc. If he does so, and I most certainly recommend him not to, he will find his misery, wretchedness and inability to master his life's problems greatly increased, so that there seems to be no way of escape for him. Henry Thomas Hamblin. DIVINE ADJUSTMENT