John Peterson
01-02-2009, 11:44 AM
Hey Friends,
Some of the most powerful sentences and paragraphs to be found in the entire realm of Physical Culture Classics are contained in Lesson One of the Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension Course. So powerful in fact that my friend Noel Johnson used a highlight pen to reinforce their meaning as he embarked on rebuilding his diseased, broken and unhealthy body at age 70 to become a virile, youthful man once again when he wrote his first book at age 80 which was titled : "A DUD AT 70, A STUD AT 80", Noel then followed-up a decade later at age 90 with his second book titled "The LIVING PROOF".
So What were those sentences and paragraphs that spoke to Noel and hundreds of thousands of other men that took their message to heart? Here are just a few:
"To overcome your past injurious habits and develop better ones, you must bring your entire ATTENTION to the matter, you must think intently of the motives and outcome involved and thus occupy your mind with better things, turning away from past habits toward freedom. REMEMBER, ALL EVIL HABITS CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE MAN WHO REALLY DESIRES TO CONQUER THEM."
"Therefore, your desire for Health, Strength, Increased Personal Power and Physical Magnetism must from now on, be greater than your desire to continue in the old way."
"Hold in the mind's eye AT ALL TIMES the ideal of Physical Perfection. Think of yourself as possessing a perfect body. Realize each time you are exercising you are arriving at still greater perfection."
These are just some of the thoughts conveyed in Atlas's Lesson One and which I re-phrase and try to convey in each of my books. The point is that each of us can and will become our own self fulfilling prophecy. The preeminent key is to control our own thoughts through positive thought reinforcement and and positive imagery. It may (and in some cases certainly does) mean that we will have to sever relationships with negative and unwholesome people that can only serve to drag us down. BUT if we want to live the best lives possible this is absolutely necessary to do and in doing so it opens the door to new and better possibilities.
Bottom Line: Control what goes in to your "Mind's Eye" it is literally your key to living the best possible future.
---John Peterson
Some of the most powerful sentences and paragraphs to be found in the entire realm of Physical Culture Classics are contained in Lesson One of the Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension Course. So powerful in fact that my friend Noel Johnson used a highlight pen to reinforce their meaning as he embarked on rebuilding his diseased, broken and unhealthy body at age 70 to become a virile, youthful man once again when he wrote his first book at age 80 which was titled : "A DUD AT 70, A STUD AT 80", Noel then followed-up a decade later at age 90 with his second book titled "The LIVING PROOF".
So What were those sentences and paragraphs that spoke to Noel and hundreds of thousands of other men that took their message to heart? Here are just a few:
"To overcome your past injurious habits and develop better ones, you must bring your entire ATTENTION to the matter, you must think intently of the motives and outcome involved and thus occupy your mind with better things, turning away from past habits toward freedom. REMEMBER, ALL EVIL HABITS CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE MAN WHO REALLY DESIRES TO CONQUER THEM."
"Therefore, your desire for Health, Strength, Increased Personal Power and Physical Magnetism must from now on, be greater than your desire to continue in the old way."
"Hold in the mind's eye AT ALL TIMES the ideal of Physical Perfection. Think of yourself as possessing a perfect body. Realize each time you are exercising you are arriving at still greater perfection."
These are just some of the thoughts conveyed in Atlas's Lesson One and which I re-phrase and try to convey in each of my books. The point is that each of us can and will become our own self fulfilling prophecy. The preeminent key is to control our own thoughts through positive thought reinforcement and and positive imagery. It may (and in some cases certainly does) mean that we will have to sever relationships with negative and unwholesome people that can only serve to drag us down. BUT if we want to live the best lives possible this is absolutely necessary to do and in doing so it opens the door to new and better possibilities.
Bottom Line: Control what goes in to your "Mind's Eye" it is literally your key to living the best possible future.
---John Peterson