Our thoughts affect not only our immune system and emotion, but also our environment. Numerous scientific studies under controlled conditions conducted by such researchers as Dr. William Tiller of Stanford University, British biologist Rupert Sheldrake and Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto have proven this beyond doubt.

Some quantum physicists have also come up with the startling theory that our thoughts create our physical reality, and not the other way around.

One of the most influential and all-time favorite books in this field is Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s “The Power of Positive Thinking,” published in 1952, when I was still in elementary school. The book sold 5 million copies and was translated into 15 languages, despite the criticisms hurled against it by prominent psychologist Albert Ellis.

The book prescribes practical techniques on how to create and maintain positive thoughts, achieve our goals and maintain our health. Peale enumerates numerous testimonies on the effects of positive thinking on almost every aspect of our life.

But the book is colored by Peale’s faith—he was a Christian pastor.

At the time the book came out, there was not enough scientific research that showed the connection between mind, body and spirit, or the connection between our thoughts, the nervous system and our immune system. Peale anticipated such scientific findings.

Many names

It is no secret that what we think strongly about, or what we vividly imagine, eventually becomes a physical reality. This phenomenon has been called by many names—two of them being the Law of Affirmation and the Law of Attraction.

These two secret laws of nature cover all aspects of human life. If we can only train our children and everybody else to be more positive in their thinking, perhaps we can make this country more progressive.

Our tendency to quickly criticize and condemn the acts of government officials and our neighbors have contributed, in no small measure, to retarding progress as a nation.

There are many documented examples of people who used the power of their minds to get what they want in life, or to heal themselves without drugs, because the mind has no limits aside from those it accepts.

I remember, for example, the case of a lowly government employee who was receiving a minimum-wage salary. He wanted to own an expensive Canon camera with zoom lens, but the price was far above what he could afford with his meager earnings.

Nevertheless, his desire for that camera was so strong that, everyday after office hours, he would rush to a nearby shop just to ogle at the camera. He would stare at the object while imagining that he already owned it.

After weeks of going to the shop, he received an unexpected call from a cousin who had just arrived from Saudi Arabia. The cousin told him he bought him a camera but was not sure if he would like it. The camera, a Canon Rolleiflex with zoom lens, was exactly what he had been dreaming about. Was this merely a coincidence?

Another interesting case was that of a well-known and attractive movie actress who wanted to own a white Nissan California. She was separated from her husband, who was also a movie actor.

Every day she would imagine that she already had that particular car and would ask her maid to open the gates of her house to let her car in.

And then, out of nowhere, she got a call from her estranged husband, telling her he had brought her a car because their children were growing up. She never mentioned to him her desire for a new car, nor its model.

When she asked what car he bought for her, he replied: “I bought you a Nissan California, color white. I hope you and the children will like it.” Another coincidence?

I can multiply such examples of the power of positive thought, visualization and strong desire to get what we want in life a hundred times. The results are certainly undeniable.

Dr. Peale was right—positive thinking has the power to materialize our desires.

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