“Neurologist J.A. Hadfield has made an extensive study of the extraordinary powers — physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual — that come to the aid of ordinary men and women in times of crisis.
‘How wonderful is the way in which, with quite ordinary folk, power leaps to our aid in any time of emergency,’ he says. ‘We lead timid lives, shrinking from difficult tasks til perhaps we are forced into them or ourselves determine them, and immediately we seem to unlock the unseen forces. The crisis situation acts as a stimulus that releases additional power to help you accomplish your goal.
When we have to face danger, then courage comes; when trial puts a long-continued strain upon us, we find ourselves possessed by the power to endure; or when disaster ultimately brings the fall which we so long dreaded, we feel underneath us the strength of the everlasting arms.
Common experience teaches that when great demands are made upon us if only we fearlessly accept the challenge and confidently expend our strength, every danger or difficulty brings its own strength — ‘As thy days so shall thy strength be.’
The secret lies in the attitude of ‘fearlessly accepting the challenge,’ and ‘confidently expending our strength.’
This means manifesting an aggressive, goal-directed attitude, rather than a defensive, evasive, negative one: ‘No matter what happens, I can handle it, or I can see it through,’ rather than, I hope nothing happens.
If your intention, or your attitude goal, is to go forward, if it is to make the most of the crisis situation, and win out in spite of it, then the excitement of the occasion will reinforce this tendency — it will give you more courage, more strength to go forward.”
Psycho-Cybernetics – Is the New Way To Put More Living In Your Life, Maxwell Malt, M.D., F.I.C.S., pgs. 215 – 217.
