The 7 Day Mental Diet

Looking through some of my papers I found an article written by Emmet Fox in 1940. The title is called "The 7 Day Mental Diet." The article is from his book, "Power Through Constructive Thinking." In this article Emmet Fox (he was one of the outstanding spiritual teachers of this century), suggests that a mental diet is more important any other diet. He says, "The most important of all factors in your life is the mental diet on which you live. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. It is the thoughts you allow yourself to think, the subjects that you allow your mind to dwell upon, which makes you and your surroundings what they are."

Emmet Fox believes that our thoughts and feelings determines every condition of our life. That the way to change your life is to change your thoughts. What we focus on is what we attract. If our thoughts are always negative we will attract more negative into our life. Emmet Fox calls this the, "Great Cosmic Law."

Along with your thoughts your emotions or moods must, also, be positive. You cannot be happy; you can not be healthy; you cannot be prosperous, if you have a bad disposition.

So how does the "7 Day Mental Diet" work? Below is the steps:

1. Devote one week solely to the task of building a new habit of thought, and during that week let everything else in life be unimportant as compared with that.

2. For 7 days you must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought. A negative thought is any thought that is not positive and constructive in character, whether it concerns you or someone else.

3. You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

4. Do not start it lightly, Think about it for a day or two before you begin.

5. You can start it any day at any hour, once you start you must go right through for the seven days.

6. If you break the diet, stop the diet for a couple of days and start over again.

7. You will have negative thoughts and that is okay as long as you don't dwell on them.

8. Other people will talk about negative things and that is okay too as long as you don't dwell on them. Let those thoughts go and replace them with a positive thoughts.

9. Do not tell anyone else that you are on this diet, or that you intend to go on it.

10. And finally, remember that nothing said or done by anyone else can possibly throw you off the diet. Only your own reaction to the other person's conduct can do that.

Emmet Fox admits that it won't be easy, but he believes that if you do this it will be the most powerful diet you have ever done.

Jana Ruth
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