Cosmic Habitforce
The Law Which Fixes All Habits
by Napoleon Hill
The purpose of the philosophy of individual achievement presented in this PMA Science of Success course is to enable you to develop and establish habits that lead to peace of mind, health and financial security, all of which are necessary for happiness. This lesson will explain the law by which you acquire habits, and how you can adapt yourself to this law with greater benefit.
It will show you how you can set up the pattern of any habit you desire by applying the principles of this philosophy. And it will explain how cosmic habitforce takes over a habit you form and causes you to act upon this habit automatically.
Cosmic habitforce pertains to the entire universe, and is the law by which the equilibrium of the universe is maintained through established patterns, or habits. It is the law which forces every living creature, and every particle of matter, to come under the dominating influence of its environment, including the physical habits and thought habits of mankind.
Some Habits Fixed by Cosmic Habitforce
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork sang David, the inspired psalmist. And indeed the heavens are one of the most obvious and most awesome testimonies to the presence and power of this law of cosmic habitforce.
The stars and planets operate with clocklike precision. They never collide, never get off their appointed course, but roll on eternally, as the result of a preconceived plan. Infinite Intelligence is behind that plan. If anyone doubts the existence of Infinite Intelligence, that person need only study the stars and planets, and the precision with which they are related to one another, to become convinced of Its existence.
Another outstanding marvel of creation is the human mind, which is capable of projecting itself into the heavens and predicting astronomical occurrences to the moment, many years in advance of the actual event.
Back of this there must be order. Nature and the universe are organized and ordered. This order, or reliability, of nature simplifies life. It is not necessary to understand all of the laws and order of the universe to make them effective in our lives. They operate whether or not they are known or understood.
But where there is order, there is predictable action and reaction. This is what we term cosmic habitforce. You can find the fundamental principles by which you can relate yourself favorably to the forces of the universe in these lessons. The same law which holds our earth in its orbit and related it to all other planets in their orbits, both in time and space, relates human beings to one another in exact conformity with the nature of their own thoughts.
Time, space, energy, matter and intelligence are
nature’s building blocks with which she creates all things.
Another striking illustration of cosmic habitforce is found in the seasons of the year. We know without doubt that we are going to have spring, summer, fall and winter in that order. They do not always occur in the same intensity, but they do come and go, year in and year out because the law of cosmic habitforce is arranging and controlling them.
The same force which maintains precise balance between the actions and reactions of matter, and time and space relationships of the elements of creation, also builds men’s thought habits with varying degrees of permanency.
Negative thought habits attract to their creator physical manifestations corresponding to their nature as perfectly and as inevitably as nature germinates the acorn and develops it into an oak tree. Through the operation of this very same law, positive thoughts reach out into the vast ocean of potential power surrounding us and attract the physical counterparts of their nature.
All of us are ruled by habits. They are accepted by us because of repeated thoughts and experiences. Therefore, we can control our earthly destiny to the extent that we control our thoughts. As we have seen, our thought habits, our mental attitude, are the one and only thing over which each individual has the right of complete control.
You create patterns of thought by repeating certain ideas, or behavior, and the law of cosmic habitforce takes over those patterns and makes them or less permanent (depending upon the intensity with which they are repeated or practiced) unless or until you consciously rearrange them.
Man is the only living creature equipped with the power of choice through which he may establish his own thought and behavior patterns, or habits, or break them and rearrange them at will.
But while the Creator has given man the privilege of controlling his thoughts, He has also subjected man to the law of cosmic habitforce through which his though habits must invariably clothe themselves in their physical likeness and equivalent. Cosmic habitforce does not dictate what thoughts a man must express, but it takes over whatever he does thing and do, and sees to it that man’s thoughts and actions go on to fulfill the measure of their creation.
If a man’s dominating thoughts are of poverty, the law translates these thoughts into physical terms of misery and want. But if a man’s dominating thoughts are of happiness and contentment, peace of mind and material wealth, the law transforms them into their physical counterpart. Man builds the pattern through his dominating thoughts, while the law of cosmic habitforce casts the mold according to the patterns man develops.
Often a person is awed by what appears to be coincidental combinations of favorable circumstances as he carries out his plans, but these strange and unexplained things happen in a perfectly natural way. Cosmic habitforce imparts a peculiar quality to your thought habits which gives you power to surmount all difficulties, remove all obstacles, overcome all resistances. Just what this power is, is a secret as profound as the secret which causes a seed of wheat to germinate, grow and reproduce itself, handing back to the farmer a hundredfold measure for his intelligent effort. You do not need to know how it works to follow the simple rules given to you for utilizing it in your affairs of life.
First you get a habit; then it gets you.
A violin is an excellent example of the power of habit. The wood in a violin takes on something of the quality of the tones which it produces. That is why an old instrument which has been played by a real artist is more valuable than a brand new one, for the wood in it has been impressed with beautiful tones and will give a sympathetic response to those same tones when they are recreated, thus lending a more desirable quality to the music played.
It is significant that while cosmic habitforce permits no variation in the operation of the material universe, its influence on the thought habits of man can be determined by man himself, through his voluntary choice of thoughts. Cosmic habitforce will not choose his thoughts for man, but it will give them permanent fixation through habit.
Here, then, is the focal point at which you may take possession of your own mind by the simple process of focusing your mind upon those thoughts which you wish to become fixed thought habits. Here, too, is the explanation of the remarkable results made possible through definiteness of purpose. For it is clear that any fixed purpose becomes a definite part of one’s thought habits and, as such, is carried out to its logical climax through the fixation of those habits.
Source: PMA Science of Success by Napoleon Hill Pages: 489,490, 491, 492, 512 and 513.
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