How to Have Courage, Calmness and Confidence

1. Cultivate Courage as an Innate Quality of the Soul

Every day is a fresh opportunity on the part of the human ego to gather more and more exploits of heroism.

Courage is inherent. Success, health, and wisdom are natural attributes of the soul. Many people suffer due to a lack of concentration, perseverance, and courage, which paralyzes their innate faculty for success. To claim your birthright of perfection and prosperity, rid yourself of the delusion of limitations.

Overcoming challenges. Meet every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror. Consider every task that needs attention as a duty—an inherent urge of life toward progression. Embrace beneficial changes with courage, accepting that life is an endless procession of gains and losses, joys and sorrows.

Developing inner strength. Take heart at the thought of hard work, like a true warrior plunging into battle or an alpinist facing a sheer cliff. Set out resolutely to conquer flesh-consciousness through deep, daily efforts in meditation. Remember that you have all the courage, strength, and intelligence necessary to overcome any seeming difficulty at any given moment.

2. Harness the Power of Calmness in Daily Life

Calmness is more dynamic and more powerful than peace. Calmness gives the devotee power to overcome all the obstacles in his life.

The source of power. Every individual has a soul that is eternally calm and undisturbed. By worldly desires, we become identified with the weakness of the body, always fearing limitations. Direct your attention away from bodily limitations and meditate until delusion vanishes, finding yourself as the everlasting soul living in the fortress of omnipresence.

Cultivating inner peace. Remain ever calm within and be even-minded. When working, be calmly active. Your strength will come from within, independent of outer incentives. Play your tragic or comic parts in life with an inner smile, remembering that your real nature is eternal bliss.

Practical applications:

• Before bed, affirm: "I am the Prince of Peace sitting on the throne of Poise."
• Keep your mind unruffled through sudden material gains or losses.
• Maintain calmness in speech and mind, attaining peace and happiness.
• Live a godly life, helping everyone who crosses your path through your mere presence.

3. Build Unshakeable Confidence as a Child of the Infinite

Cultivate the consciousness that the Divine Spirit is your own Father and is the owner of the whole universe, along with all of its abundance.

Divine inheritance. As a child of God, you have the absolute right to possess anything, even as He does. Never beg or pray for anything, but hold the thought that you have everything already. You are the child of the Emperor of the Universe.

Overcoming limitations. If you have an inferiority complex, remember that success, health, and wisdom are your rightful heritage. Your difficulty is due to weakness, which can be overcome by determination, courage, common sense, and faith in God and yourself. Change your mental attitude at once if you're convinced you're a failure.

Building self-confidence:

• Make a continuous effort to be better, focusing all your concentration on ceaseless efforts to succeed.
• Remember that your past difficulties came to strengthen your determination, not to crush you.
• Use your unlimited divine powers to succeed, knowing that God wants you to conquer life's difficult tests.
• Disregard praise and blame, focusing instead on self-improvement and truth.

4. Overcome Worry, Fear, and Nervousness Through Mental Discipline

Fear is a mental poison, unless it is used as an antidote — a stimulus to spur a person on to calm caution.

Managing worry. Worries often result from attempting too many things too quickly. Do not "bolt" your mental duties, but thoroughly process them with attention and good judgment. Go on worry fasts, refusing to worry during specific hours of the day, gradually extending the duration.

Conquering fear. Fear intensifies and magnifies physical pain and mental agonies. Instead of throttling your creative mental powers with fear, use it as a goad to find practical solutions. Kill fear by refusing to be afraid, knowing you're safe behind the battlements of God's eternal safety.

Overcoming nervousness:

• Practice relaxation techniques, such as cold showers or splashing your face with cold water.
• Maintain a good diet and keep company with calm people.
• Learn to control energy through meditation and energization exercises.
• Develop intuition through calmness, concentration, and holding onto the after-effects of meditation.

5. Uproot Negative Emotions for Spiritual Growth

Anger is not an antidote for anger. A strong wrath may bring suppression of a weaker wrath, but it will never kill it.

Managing anger. When angry, say nothing. Think of anger as a disease and break it up by mental warm baths of thinking of those with whom you could never be angry. Start your machinery of calmness, moving the cogwheel of peace, love, and forgiveness.

Overcoming other negative emotions:

• Sadness: Banish it with joy; destroy sickening thoughts of failure with success consciousness.
• Inferiority/Superiority complex: Develop self-confidence by conquering weaknesses and founding it on actual achievements.
• Mental stagnation: Drink in the fresh air of others' vital thoughts and views, feasting on creative thinking within yourself and others.

Cultivating positivity. Be silent and calm every night for at least ten minutes before retiring and again in the morning. This will produce an unbreakable inner habit of happiness, enabling you to meet all trying situations with joyful confidence, calmness, and courage.

6. Practice Scientific Healing Affirmations for Inner Strength

Words that are saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like vibration bombs, which can explode the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.

Power of affirmations. Man's word is Spirit in man. Every word that leaves your mouth ought to be potent with genuine soul vibration. Sincere words or affirmations repeated understandingly, feelingly, and willingly are sure to move the omnipresent Cosmic Vibratory Force to render aid in your difficulty.

Effective practice:

• Repeat affirmations with a loud intonation, fading into a whisper, then into mental chanting.
• Practice with attention, devotion, and deep conviction.
• Move from conscious to subconscious to superconscious chanting.
• Focus on physiological centers: heart for feeling, medulla for energy, point between eyebrows for will.

Sample affirmations:

• For success: "I am brave, I am strong. Perfume of success thoughts blows in me, blows in me."
• For healing: "Thy cosmic current flows in me, flows in me, through my medulla, flows in me, flows in me."
• For spiritual growth: "O Holy Vibration, Thou art I, Thou art I, My soul is Thine, Thy spirit is mine."

7. Deepen Your Meditation to Attune to Your Highest Self

Teach me not to drug myself with the opiate of restlessness. Each day I will meditate more deeply than yesterday. Each tomorrow I will meditate more deeply than today.

Importance of meditation. Meditation helps you stop the storm of breath, mental restlessness, and sensory disturbances raging in the lake of your mind. It allows you to behold the undistorted reflection of your soul, glistening with the light of divine presence.

Technique: Hong-Sau

1. Sit erect with spine straight and deeply relax.
2. Close eyes or fix gaze at the point between eyebrows.
3. Mentally watch your breath without controlling it.
4. As breath enters, mentally chant "Hong"; as it exits, chant "Sau."
5. Practice for at least 10 minutes, gradually increasing duration.

Benefits of practice:

• Lengthens lifespan by resting the heart
• Liberates vast amounts of Life Current or energy
• Helps rise above body-consciousness
• Develops intuition and calmness
• Connects you with the Great Spirit present as your soul

8. Embrace Your All-Powerful Divine Nature

Being endowed with free choice, I am in reality the son of God. I have been dreaming that I am a mortal man. I am now awake.

Your true nature. You are made in the all-powerful image of the Divine Lion of the Universe. Most of us, however, have been born and brought up in the sheepfold of mortal weakness, bleating with fear, lack, and death, instead of roaring with immortality and power.

Awakening to divinity:

• Spend time in daily meditation, longer and deeper, to become Christlike.
• Remember that you are eternally God's child, with your real home in God's kingdom.
• Realize that you are not this body, but the Infinite Spirit within.
• Find ever-new joy in God-contact through deep meditation.

Living your divine nature:

• Don't be a slave to things or possessions; simplify your needs.
• Spend your time in search of lasting happiness or bliss.
• Focus on lifting yourself from ignorance to understanding and enlightenment.
• Rid your thoughts and emotions of anger, jealousy, pride, revenge, fear, sense of lack, and sickness.
• Remember that you are the owner of the cosmos when you realize your oneness with the Father.

Last updated: November 19, 2024