"One day I found myself on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It was not surprising. I was drowning in work, working for newspapers, writing several books at the same time, and still, my income became more and more insecure all the time. As a result, my physical well-being suffered as well. And if that wasn't enough I also experienced a crisis in my personal life. In a word: I thought my life was a total failure. I just wanted to be alone, like a wounded animal that needs to heal. In this state of mind I rented a little house at the edge of town. Here I wanted to spend the next period of my life.

Immediately when I moved in, the house shook me up. The former tenant must have been a weird guy: He had placed scripts everywhere, like "Look Up, Not Down", "Keep Your Spirits High", "Cleanse Your Thoughts Daily".... The most original one was a large hand-painted aphorism in the hallway: "Leave Your Worries Outside".

Well, unfortunately, I was unable to do that. I had a suitcase full of newspaper articles, stories and novels. The mere looking at them brought me down. There were so many projects I was carrying around with me in my head. And how was I going to make a living with my instable income? These were the worries going through my head all day, and at night I took them to bed with me.

Now all of a sudden all these aphorisms jumped at me from every corner: "Have sunshine in your heart, even if your body aches". It reminded me of Coue: "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better." At least I had some kind of humor left. I therefore decided, at the beginning just for the sake of humor and then ever more seriously, to try these affirmations, especially the big one encouraging me to leave my worries outside.

I tried it. And, surprise, it worked. At the beginning it was difficult and staggering, but after all with a little effort a person can cultivate any habit, and I now cultivated this one: I encouraged myself every day to be optimistic and to leave my worries outside. Meaning: I went to bed in order to sleep and not in order to ponder over my daily problems. When I went for a walk I did so in order to relax and not in order to brood over things that happened in the past. This way I learned more and more to control my thoughts and emotions and to gradually focus on a new beginning in my life.

From then on, everything started to move in the right direction, slowly at the beginning and more and more fast as time went by. My thoughts started getting more positive every day, as I learned to leave my worries outside. I asked myself many times: "What is outside, and what is inside?" Inside for me there was first of all peace, the center, the core of my being, still influenced by my five senses. Then it became the heart and the thoughts coming from the heart, and finally it became the soul, the metaphysical and the divine within me, my vocation. I began to contemplate ever more deeply at my task in this life and on this planet.

It then occurred to me that until now I had focused too much on myself, and I began studying decentralization. I suddenly realized: "We have to build a new tomorrow from our thoughts instead of making others responsible for the present. Otherwise we are fighting things that we ourselves created. We should daily build good causes with the power of our thought for us as well as for others."

That's how I started to consider and love my environment and surroundings. I had no more time for worries, as ever more new possibilities and relations emerged. My loneliness turned into a dynamic oasis of calm and meditation on me, my fellowmen and the path of mankind. At this point I learned something new:

The suffering in this world is caused by to the fact that we are too preoccupied with ourselves, our troubles and our desires. Happiness stems from the good thought forms which are formed instinctively with the help of our emotional bodies. Emotional body - what does this mean? What does it mean for me? At some point scientists found out that the humans consist of more than only the visible form of organs, millions of cells, molecules, atoms, etc. That is when I started studying my body, beginning with the physical, visible form.

At this point I found out that this physical structure called body in effect is not a solid mass, but a vehicle hold together by the soul with magnetic force, and changing with every thought, emotion, and action, and either vibrating at a higher or lower frequency according to the nature of these thoughts, emotions, and actions.

I then began to study the emotional level surrounding the emotional body, where the emotional thoughts are reflected. Everything we feel is reflected back to us. From there I continued by studying the mental body also surrounding the visible form, collecting other thought forms and reflecting our own thought forms. From this moment of awakening I started watching my own thoughts and cleansing them daily. That is when I opened up to the higher planes, also called 'God', 'Divine Presence', 'Divine Essence' or whatever name you feel is right for you to define this Higher Force."

The Beginning

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Emile Coue was a pharmacist and psychotherapist born in 1857 in Nancy/France. He was one of the first pioneers in the field of "positive thinking" and research on how our thoughts influence our body and soul. For more info about Emile Coue, please visit The Coue Association Circle at http://www.multimania.com/cerclecoue/emilCUK.htm

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Anita Asman is a spiritual teacher and healer walking the path of spirituality and ascension since early childhood. To learn more about Anita's work, please visit her websites The Aumara Light & Healing Circle - A Place For Healing And Inspiration at www.aumara.com and eSpiritCenter at www.espirit-center.com a spiritual community offering chat, forums, spiritual columns & encyclopedias, and one of the most extensive article libraries on spiritual subjects available on the Web.

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