How to Deal with Difficulties

Neville On Fire

SHOW NOTES
Summary of material covered so far in this podcast series.

Neville’s article Fundamentals (show notes Ep. 1) suggests defining an aim, and then observing yourself (reactions, thoughts and emotions) in relation to it.

Difficulty in many forms.
a. The first difficulty is being unable to focus.
b. The second problem is the incessant internal chatter or “monkey mind”.
c. The third difficulty is the experience of seemingly more and more extreme ups and downs.
d. The final form of difficulty that I want to discuss today is the detrimental effects of institutions.

Difficulty: Focus.
Solution 1: Your well-considered and worthwhile aim; do not drift.
Solution 2: Notice what information sources and forms of entertainment you rely upon.
Solution 3: The practical approach to staying on track consists in creating beneficial habits.

Difficulty: Incessant internal chatter.
Solution 4. Neville converts what we thought was a mental nuisance into a great internal tool.

Difficulty: Ups and downs
Solution 5: Understand how the subconscious works. Neville’s treatment is ingenious.
Solution 6: Observing. That’s already a qualitative shift in your mental economy.
Solution 7. Remove from the negative thing your consent. Turn your attention to your aim.

Difficulty: Detrimental effects of institutions.
Solution 8: Identify the “institutions”; contemplate their effects. Compose counter-affirmations.

KEY QUOTE
“But, you are told, you were first in your own sight a grasshopper and because of this you were to the giants a
grasshopper. In other words, you can only be to others what you are first to yourself.” (Neville, At Your Command, Chapter 3)

RESOURCES
Repeat

by Neville; text and audio by Barry Peterson:
Prayer, The Art of Believing

At Your Command

Essential
mp3 download - Neville Mental Diets

Mentioned
Napoleon Hill, Interview with the Devil. Consummate warning against drifting.
Maurice Nicoll