The Universal Law of Cosmic Habit-force

HABIT IS A CABLE; WE WEAVE A THREAD OF IT EVERY DAY, AND AT LAST WE CANNOT BREAK IT. 

-Horace Mann

Cosmic Habit-force is the greatest of all natural laws. It is Nature's comptroller through which all other natural laws are coordinated, organized, and operated through orderliness and system. It is the particular application of energy with which Nature maintains the relationship between the atoms of matter, the stars and the planets in their ceaseless motion, the seasons of the year, night and day, sickness and health, life and death. 

We see the stars and the planets move with such precision that the astronomers can predetermine their exact location and their relationship to one another scores of years hence. We see the seasons of the year come and go with clock like regularity. We know that an oak tree grows from an acorn, and a pine tree grows from the seed of its ancestor; that an acorn never makes a mistake and produces a pine tree, nor does a pine seed produce an oak tree. We know that nothing is ever produced that does not have its antecedents in something similar which preceded it. 

Cosmic Habit-force is also the medium through which all habits and all human relationships are maintained in varying degrees of permanence. And it is the medium through which thought is translated into its physical equivalent in response to the desires and the purposes of individuals. 

MEN OCCASIONALLY STUMBLE OVER THE TRUTH, BUT MOST OF THEM PICK THEMSELVES UP AND HURRY OFF AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. 

-Winston Churchill 

Cosmic Habit-force is the medium by which every living thing is forced to take on and become a part of the environmental influences in which it lives and moves. Thus it is clearly evident that success attracts more success, and failure attracts more failure-a truth that has long been known, but few have understood the reason for this strange phenomenon.

It is known that a person who has seemed a failure may become a most outstanding success by close association with those who think and act in terms of success, but not everyone knows the reason this is true is that the law of Cosmic Habit-force transmits the "success consciousness" from the mind of the successful person to the mind of the unsuccessful one when they are closely associated in daily life.

Whenever any two minds make contact a third mind is created, patterned after the stronger of the two. Most successful people recognize this truth and frankly admit that their success began with their close association with someone whose positive mental attitude they either consciously or unconsciously appropriated. 

Cosmic Habit-force is silent, unseen, and unperceived through any of the five physical senses. That is why it has riot been more widely recognized, for most people do not attempt to understand the intangible forces of Nature, nor are they interested in abstract principles. However, these intangibles and abstractions represent the real powers of the universe. They are the basis of everything that is tangible and concrete.

The term habit force is self-explanatory. It is a force that works through established habits. Every living thing below the intelligence of man lives, reproduces itself£ and fulfills its earthly mission in direct response to the power of Cosmic Habit force through what we call instinct.

One may think in terms of self-imposed limitations of fear, doubt, envy, greed, and poverty, and Cosmic Habit force will translate these thoughts into their material equivalent. Or one may think in terms of wealth and plenty, and this same law will translate these thoughts into their physical counterpart.

one may control their destiny to an astounding degree-simply by exercising the privilege of shaping one's own thoughts. Once these thoughts have been shaped into definite patterns they are taken over by the law of Cosmic Habit force and are made into permanent habits, and they remain as such unless and until they have been supplanted by different and stronger thought patterns.

Cosmic Habit force does not suggest what you should desire, or whether your thought habits will be positive or negative, but it acts upon all your thought habits by crystallizing them into varying degrees of permanency and translating them into their physical equivalent, through inspired motivation to action.

YOU ARE TODAY WHERE YOUR THOUGHTS HAVE BROUGHT YOU; YOU WILL BE TOMORROW WHERE YOUR THOUGHTS TAKE YOU. 

-James Allen 

It not only fixes the thought habits of individuals but it also fixes the thought habits of groups and masses of people, according to the pattern established by the preponderance of their individual dominating thoughts. 

Poverty is the direct result of a "poverty consciousness," which results from thinking in terms of poverty, fearing poverty, and talking of poverty. But if you desire wealth, give orders to your subconscious mind to produce wealth, thus developing a "prosperity consciousness;' and see how quickly your economic condition will improve. First comes the "consciousness" of that which you desire. Then follows the physical or mental manifestation of your desires. The consciousness is your responsibility. It is something you must create by your daily thoughts, or by meditation if you prefer. In this manner one may ally them self with no less a power than that of the Creator of all things. 

The acceptance of poverty, or the acceptance of ill health, is an open confession of the lack of faith." We do a lot of proclaiming of faith, but our actions belie our words. Faith is a state of mind that may become permanent only by actions. Belief alone is not sufficient.

We are where we are and what we are because of our fixed habits. And we may be where we wish to be and what we wish to be only by the development and the maintenance of our voluntary habits.

MAN BECOMES A SLAVE TO HIS CONSTANTLY REPEATED ACTS. WHAT HE AT FIRST CHOOSES, AT LAST COMPELS.

 -Orison Swett Marden