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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

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