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The Seven Day Mental Diet: How to Change Your Life in a Week
Emmet Fox
In this pamphlet, Emmet Fox’s challenge to the reader is to immediately deflect every single negative thought that enters one’s consciousness, for seven days continuously. After several attempts, I actually managed to achieve this feat; if you would like to read about my experiences, here is the link. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-comp...The review below pertains to the text itself, not the results I experienced.It’s important to remember that this slim tome was published prior to the second world war. So I for one found it fascinating that so much of what the author says, and so many examples he draws on from his time, can be very easily transposed to the situations in which we might find ourselves today. He does make >one< assertion which has become rather obsolete, but on the whole, this publication shows how consistent human nature tends to remain, even though we live in an age of incomparably greater technical advancement.A key selling point is the idea that, “If you change your mind, your conditions must change, too … This does not simply mean that you will be able to face your present difficulties in a better spirit; it means that the difficulties will go.” Depending on your position regarding New Thought, you will find this angle either exciting or tedious. One way or another, any reasonable person could surely appreciate how beneficial it must be to develop a habit of choosing never to harbour unresourceful thoughts. And this is a great path of encouragement to such a habit. The text is dynamically written, and motivation does leap out at the reader from its pages. It’s clear to see why Mr Fox was so successful in his day; he really knows how to evoke a sense of burning ambition. In my opinion, this little publication is definitely worth a read -- and even better, worth a try.
