The power in your idea is controlled by keeping the idea to
yourself until it has built up enough momentum to carry itself into
manifestation. Don’t let the steam off. The longer you can keep it to yourself,
the stronger it gets. Do not expose your immature ideas to be smothered…”
– Jack and Cornelia Addington The Perfect Power Within You
From even before the time that
Jesus told the healed leper, “See thou tell no man;” wisdom teachings advised
holding ideas close until they attained completion. If you have ever been
enthusiastic or even excited about a new idea or project and shared the idea
with a friend then you know the crushing disappointment of disbelief or apathy.
Your friend’s disinterest or even “realistic” objections stirred within you
feelings of rejection resulting in the miscarriage of what might have been a
world changing idea.
Especially while changing from
timid or self-consciously fearful attitudes to develop new confidence, we must
hold that change close because others have a vested interest in keeping us as
they know us. Hints of change to our greater freedom threaten their security. This
does not mean that they don’t love us but that they have grown comfortable with
things as they see them.
We are more likely to destroy our
own momentum when we speak about our ideas to others. The Addingtons’ quote
speaks further about an idea having steam behind it similar to the pressure
that builds in a steam engine. Every time we speak about our plans, we spend our
own energy for achievement and run the risk of discovering enough flaws that we
abandon our plans entirely. There is no such thing as a perfect plan and nearly
every good idea can prosper if we believe in it, see it as accomplished now and
then see it through to completion. Our silence about this process is like the
silence we have when we plan and spring a surprise party.
Keeping still, keeping our
prosperity secret gives us freedom to make our own decisions and follow our own
inner wisdom without feeling as if we must defend our dreams, our hopes, or our
expectations. When we achieve others believe until then they are skeptical.
After all, most of us have tried and failed several times before we finally do
succeed. In fact, our seeming failures were successful discoveries of ways not
to proceed.
We live our lives as if we are
adventurers seek a path through a jungle of unknowns to find a fabled treasure.
Keeping our purpose to ourselves keeps the treasure secret and though we follow
occasional dead end routes, our certainty held close brings us at last to the
prize: a life of freedom and lavish abundance, which we now may openly share.
In the silence of my meditations,
I nurture my dreams, my desires. Keeping them secret now in the same way that
the soil secrets the germinating seed. In that secrecy, power glows and grows
from concept to completed content. As it does so, my gratitude and my poise
grow along with it until power, concept secret growth, and my gratitude appear
mature and ripe for all to see and enjoy and so it is.
John
John Lusk
“First
you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a
definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will
give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is
the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes
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