Chapter 28 - You And Your Subconscious Mind As Partners In Action…In Relation To Security

Apparently the majority of people wish that they could have been born with a "guarantee tag" attached to them. The guarantee would read something like this:

"The Creator of this person guarantees that during his lifetime he shall have security, above all else. He shall have security against fear, want, danger and uncertainty. This guarantee assures the individual that he will live a smooth, uniform life."

Security can be guaranteed

I say that apparently most people wish for such a guarantee because of the attitude toward security that has been expressed by so many of our students during the initial analysis period of our classes and home study courses. I have always agreed with their assertions that the ideal life for THEM included security as a major factor. And this should be so for you. I am going to set up a "guarantee" for security in relation to your life, but there isn't going to be anything wishful about it. There will be certain "conditions" related to this "guarantee," but none of them will be related to passiveness.

It was the concept of passiveness that many of our students originally had that had kept security from being a major factor in their lives. It was based upon an interpretation of security that defined it simply as a protective shield. I have often felt that many persons would like to live in some kind of a "fortress," impregnable on all sides against "everything." But that idea and the idea that passiveness is the key to security are not logical. They are most illogical when you consider that a human being is born with the capacity to act progressively, aggressively and with freedom. Passive security, or life behind some kind of a protective shield, would isolate a person from even normal life and restrict his actions so that even self-expression and recognition would be eliminated. For these reasons, the Creator wouldn't give anybody the kind of a guarantee that some people wish for. But He does provide the means for everybody to write his or her own guarantee for security, and that includes you!

Security within and around you

Let us consider the modern-day interpretation of security, in which the influence of today's mode of living is most significant. If you could step back in time and talk to one of our ancient forbears, he would say: "A person is secure if he has a safe place to sleep tonight, a piece of meat for tomorrow's meal and a weapon to protect him from his enemies!" For many of your ancestors, the struggle for security was directly related to self-preservation. It is still related to self-preservation. But in this day and age, security is what makes survival worthwhile. Even in comparatively recent times, two or three generations ago, security was related almost entirely to the control of physical, mechanical and material things. The objective was to provide stronger defensive and protective security. Then, progress among people brought about an awareness of another phase of security that lifted it even above the "certainty of life" interpretation. This new interpretation established security as a dynamic, progressive element which makes life an optimistic adventure. It conceives of security being a force within an individual, as well as around him. It relates security not only to a person's state of being, but also to what he does under the guidance of self-influence.

Because of the progressive, positive elements in our society, the stage has been well set for security around you. You can identify the results of this action as among the blessings of this age in which you live. It has established that element of protective security that you need, provided you identify yourself with the action involved.

Take advantage of positive environment

Among these elements are: easily available life insurance programs; retirement programs; a forceful national economy that is aimed at the best welfare of everyone; fire, police and health programs; research programs aimed at longer, happier life; and democracy itself, with its concept of the high status of each individual. Cooperative sections like these provide for security against fear, want, danger and uncertainty in your environment. They put protective security around you, if you are a part of the action in each case. Desiring, as you do, to live a positive life, I know that you WILL take advantage of all the blessings that this type of security offers, by participation, by support and through faith.

Security around you is good. It is protective and comforting. But more important is the fact that the security provided cooperatively by society relieves you of much of the stress and strain of life that would have been your lot had you lived in an earlier generation. This environmental security relieves the need for concentrating on mere survival and permits you to concentrate on living a full life, with inner security.

Fight negative forces from within

Inner security is the power to combat negative influences that affect the way you feel, the way you think, the way you react. Inner security is aggressive security as compared to protective security. Inner security is entirely self-induced. It should be apparent to you, therefore, that this calls for action and not retirement in a "darkened cave," hidden from something negative but most unhappy about your weakness. Inner security gives you strength to step forward and combat negative outside influences. Inner security gives you such an advantage over negative influences that you will always come out the victor. Accept this second type of security as part of your plan of life, and you will have at your command both a "defense" and an "offense."

You have inner security and the ability to aggressively beat negative influences to the punch when you are able to do these things: demonstrate your basic faith, know "what to do and when," work on goals that positively budget your life, make life a series of planned achievements, keep the warm fire of happiness burning by your actions, put the influences of heredity and environment in proper perspective, display yourself as a healthy, wholesome person, concentrate on the answers to problems and demonstrate true love. Inner security is the ability to go into self-influenced action in this manner.

Inner security conies from inner strength

Yes, if you have acquired a clear understanding of the last eleven chapters, in the section related to "You and Your Subconscious Mind as Partners in Action . . . ," then you are building inner security, the inner strength and stability that WILL guarantee the serenity in life that you so greatly desire. As you go forward in your self-influenced life, and when you have acted in accordance with the preceding chapters, you will never have the inclination to "hide" from any negative condition you may have to face.

There isn't much more to be said about security, except this: raise your eyes to the heavens, or bow your head, and in your own way, give thanks for the security that is around you, and for the security that is within you. The person who, from his or her heart, can give thanks, knows what security is!

In Sum

Inner security can only come from you.

It stems from the knowledge that you have the power to combat negative influences.

Your weapon is a course of positive, self-influenced action.

Result Getting Projects

This project has a very simple and direct objective. It is to be sure that you can and do give thanks for security in your life, in the manner suggested at the end of the chapter. If you have prepared yourself, and you recognize the security that is around you, and if you can feel the fullness of security within you, then do give thanks in a moment of reverence and in such a manner as to impress your subconscious. The warmth of this subconsciously recorded message will come back time and again to cheer you. This is a positive subconscious influence that should be given great status.

If you feel that you cannot yet give thanks, stay with your program of self-influenced control of your life, particularly under the guidance of those last eleven chapters, until you feel that you want to give thanks for the security you feel. And then do sol

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