Julia Seton - The Ultimate Guide to Success: Concentration/The Science of Success

THE
ULTIMATE
GUIDE TO
SUCCESS

THE
ULTIMATE
GUIDE TO
SUCCESS

Concentration

The Science of Success

Julia Seton, M.D.

Published 2020 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

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ISBN: 978-1-7225-0334-5

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

T he Science of Success was published in 1914. Concentration, the other book in this volume, was published first in 1909 and by demand reissued many times. These books were precursors of the self-help books such as those written by Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale and Napoleon Hill in the decades that followed. They have been selected for updating because their message is still meaningful to current day readers.

Dr. Julia Seton (18621950) was one of the most outstanding women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She was one of the very few women physicians of her time, and one of the first women to be accepted into the American Medical Association. She devoted her life to helping people cope not only with their health problems, but also with the way they lived their lives.

Early in her career she recognized the close relationship between ones physical well-being and ones attitude toward life. She was a pioneer in what today is called the holistic approach to healthy living. She was a leader in what was then known as the New Thought movement and gave lectures, wrote articles and books and formed a foundation to promulgate this concept.

The goal of the New Thought movement was to make people better and more efficient in whatever relation of life they may find themselves whether it be in their careers or their personal lives. The New Thought movement taught its followers to depend upon their own inner powers. It taught them to fulfill the place they were given (whatever that place may be) to the utmost of their powers and without fear, knowing that they have nothing to be afraid of and that within them are untapped levels of energy upon which they may call. In other words: New Thought reinforces the old common-sense doctrine of self-reliance, and belief in the integrity of the universe and of ones own soul.

Dr. Seton was a prolific writer. Her essays, articles and poems were widely published. In addition to the two books published in this volume, she wrote Destiny, A New Thought Novel, Fundamental Principles of the New Civilization, The Key toHealth, Wealth and Love.

CONCENTRATION: THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

CONTENTS

Chapter 1
THE DESIRE FOR SUCCESS

Chapter 2
THE NEED FOR CONCENTRATION

Chapter 3
BREATHING AND CONCENTRATION

Chapter 4
DIRECTIONS FOR BREATHING DURING CONCENTRATION

Chapter 5
BREATHING EXERCISES

Chapter 6
DIRECTIONS FOR CONCENTRATING

Chapter 7
DIRECTIONS FOR GOING INTO THE SILENCE

Chapter 8
THE TRUE SILENCE

Chapter 1

THE DESIRE FOR SUCCESS

W henever the question is asked: What is the world seeking? What the world wants most to secure? the answer will most likely be that the whole world is seeking happiness. No matter how diverse or obscure the backgrounds of the respondents may seem, they all lead toward this one point, and everything in life combines to make for this one emotion.

In order to be happy, people must determine on what terms success is defined. When we find out from an individual what that person calls success, we have mastered the secret of the thing which will make that person happy.

We may ask a hundred different people what they mean by success, and we will get a hundred different answers. Webster defines success as, favorable results; prosperity, and this is the definition which is generally accepted. Success, when rightly interpreted, means simply the power to do what we want to do. No matter what anyone else wants to do, or what that person might accomplish, that would not be our success. No one can really secure success except from ones own plane of comprehension. There are those who look upon money and the power to amass it, as the only true success; they might have anything else the world can give, and yet they would feel unsuccessful and cast down. Another may want love, and he or she might win honor, fame, money, yet missing love, the one thing truly wanted that person would be poor, unhappy, and unsuccessful. Success is a purely personal possession, and does not admit of a universal interpretation.

Granted that success really means getting what we want, and failure is the lack of power to do this, the next question which presents itself is, Why does not all of us, in every walk of life, get just what we want, when we want it and for as long as we want it? Why are we not all successful according to our plane of desire? This is the vital point, and the vital answer to it is, we are successful or unsuccessful through our own unaided law.

Success can be arranged for in every life, just as simply as can any other attribute of human existence.

It is an acknowledged fact that we have and express in ourselves just as much or as little as we have power to recognize and think possible of attainment. Success comes to us because we compel it. It does not wait around and then rush in without an accompanying effort on our own part. We achieve because we believe we can achieve, and we plan toward that end.

The physical world of competition is where some people look for what they call success and happiness, and on this plane many seem to be peculiarly subject to bad luck. They are always working, striving, and never attaining. They are always out of a job. If they go into business, they make a failure of it. If they take up any kind of occupation, they get sick and lose it. They are always poor. They live in lack, and every cell of their bodies evidences lack. The whole world is full of individuals who are always complaining of their bad luck. They are never successful. This is the worldwide expression of unfortunate people. They never get anything they want, and they have always lived as strangers to happiness. It has never occurred to them that the whole thing is due to their own errors of position. They do not know that if they would look the whole world fearlessly in the face and ask for what they want and make no compromise, they would get it.