#2 The Twelve Riches Of Life : Your-Two-Selves

This is the 2nd part of “The Twelve Riches Of Life” by Dr Napoleon Hill :

Dr. napoleon Hill revealed to us that you are already in possession of some of the riches – riches of which you may not be conscious. He said that you must firstly recognize that you are a plural personality, although you may regard yourself as a single personality. You and every person consist of at least two distinct personalities, and many of you possesses more.

There is that self which you can recognize when you look into a mirror. That is your physical self. But it is only the house in which your other selves live. In that house there are at least two individuals who are eternally in conflict with each other. One is negative sort of person who thinks and moves and lives in an atmosphere of doubt and fear and poverty and ill health. This negative self expects failure and is seldom disappointed. It dwells on sorry circumstances of life which you want to reject but seem forced to accept – poverty, greed, superstition, fear, doubt, worry, and physical sickness.

Your “other self” is a positive sort of person who thinks in dynamic, affirmative terms of wealth, sound health, love and friendship, personal achievement, creative vision, service to others, and who guides you unerringly to the attainment of these blessings.

It is this self alone which is capable of recognizing and appropriating the Twelve Riches. It is the only self which is capable of receiving the Master-Key to Riches. You have many other priceless assets of which you may not be aware, hidden riches you have neither recognized nor used. Among these is what we might call “vibration centre”, a sort of radio broadcasting and receiving set of exquisite sensitivity, attuned to your fellowmen and the universe around you. This powerful unit projects your thoughts and feelings and receives unending swarms of messages of great importance to your success in living. It is a tireless two-way communication system of infinite capacity.

Your radio station operates automatically and continuously, when you are asleep and when you are awake. And it is under the control at all times of one or the other of your two major personalities – the negative personality or the positive personality.

When your negative personality is in control, your sensitive receivers register only the negative messages of countless negative personalities. Quite naturally, this leads to “what’s the use ?” and “I haven’t got a chance” thinking; perhaps deadly, to faith in yourself and the use of your energies to achieve what you desire. Negative messages received when your negative personality is in control of your receiving station, if accepted and used as a guide, invariably lead to circumstances of life that are the very opposite of what you would choose.

But when your positive personality is in control, it directs to your “action centre” only those stimulating, high energy, optimistic, “I can do it” messages which you can translate into physical equivalents of prosperity, sound health, love, hope, faith, peace of mind and happiness – values of life for which you and all other normal persons are searching. …….to be continue in Rule #1 - The Twelve Riches Of Life : A Positive Mental Attitude……