HOW TO THINK POSITIVELY
Lesson 8
There are many different ways by which our minds are impressed with so-called "positive" ideas, ideals and beliefs, and all of them are wrong. A person may be hypnotized into believing he is Napoleon or acting like a Christian, but neither is true though they believe it themselves.
Little overt direction is necessary, but if it is required it should be only that kind that awakens your loved one to subtle dormant principles of life through which he can see his own way to move and have his being.
With infants, the motivation and direction needed is mostly simple discipline - for example, as regards the protocol of eating and cleanliness. You may have to patiently remind a child a thousand times to brush his teeth before bed until this duty lovingly discharged penetrates into his awareness of that need. You can avoid all this bother by frightening or upsetting him so badly that he will mechanically assume his "duty" forever in the name of "self-reliance"-but is it?
