THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

BY:CHANDRA SEKHAR………… B824

About The Book

• The Power of Positive Thinking

• Publishers: Ballantine Books

• Pages:242

• year:1952

• ISBN number- 0449911470

• Reissue edition (August 1, 1996)

• Seventeen chapters

Author’s Details

• Name of the author: Norman Vincent Peale

• Occupation – professional speaker, minister

• May 31, 1898 - December 24, 1993

Other Books of Author

• Positive Thinking Every Day

• Six Attitudes For Winners

• You Can If You Think You Can

• The Power Of Positive Thinking

• The Positive Way To Change Your Life

• Courage And Confidence

Chapters

• Believe in Yourself

• Try Prayer Power

• How to Have Constant Energy

• How to Create your Own Happiness

Chapters

• Power to Solve Personal Problems

• How to use Faith in Healing

• When Vitality Sags, Try This

• Inflow of new Thoughts can Remake You

Chapters

• Relax for Easy Power

• How to get People to Like You

• Prescription For Heartache

• How to Draw Upon That Higher Power

Trust Yourself

• “You cannot be successful or happy without confidence in your

own powers & abilities.”

• Develop self-confidence

• Develop creative faith

• If you succeed it will be fine otherwise there will be another

day

• when you wake up in the morning you have two choices –to be

happy -to be unhappy

The life of strain is difficult

• The secret to a mind full of peace lies in your mental

attitude

• Be transformed by the renewing of your mind

• Silence is the element in which great things fashioned

themselves together

• Thinking a carefully selected series of peaceful

thoughts

Create Your Own Happiness

• Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy?– YOU DO

• Many of us manufacturing our own unhappiness

• Unhappiness is the most common state

of mind

Learn the magic of believing

• Think positively yourself about everything

• Things will be very different for you if you

believe in yourself

• Things will become better when you expect best

• Expecting the best means that you put your

whole heart into what you want to accomplish

Have Faith In Yourself

• Hate and resentment, fear and guilt are closely related to mental and physical health

• Believe in I can do. Have faith in yourself

Highlights of the Book• Believe in yourself, Have faith in your abilities

• You have to create your own happiness

• The way to happiness:

– Keep your heart free from hate

– Keep your mind free from worry

– Live simple

– Expect little, Give Much