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The New Thought
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The New Thought Movement is a spiritual movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It challenged "old" ways of thinking and introduced "new" thinking - a different way of looking at ourselves and our surroundings, placing an emphasis in our un-used or rather ill-use of our mindpower.I would like to thank newthought.org for allowing me to use their definition which I find to be one that conveys the greatest clarity and the most comprehensive that I have found throughout my extensive research.
(For simplification purposes I will at times use NT as short for New Thought).
"New Thought, as defined in the dictionary, is a modern spiritual philosophy stressing the power of right thinking* in a person's life, the idea that our thoughts and attitudes affect our experience and that God (or whatever other name a person might have for a Higher Power) is within the individual."
"NT is a logical and scientifically based understanding and method of changing our experience by changing our thinking."
"NT is simple and easy to learn. It has a tradition that reaches back over one hundred years and is founded on principles that embrace many of the world religious and spiritual practices spanning thousands of years."
"NT recognizes that human beings function on many levels: that the individual is a mental, spiritual, emotional and physical being. In realizing our fullness, our wholeness and maximizing our potential we are, in essence, finding fulfillment."
"NT teaches people tools which put us on the path to fulfillment. The natural extension of this fulfillment is that as an individual's life is better, their family's life is better, their community's life is better and this extends out across the planet."
newthought.org
*Right thinking is understood as thinking that is aligned with your purpose as a whole human being. Also see how we function as an integrated human being through our perceptions, thoughts, feelings, intentions and actions.
NT is a God-centered, health, wealth and happiness-producing practice designed to transform your daily living by changing your unconscious assumptions and consciously held beliefs, attitudes, and expectations.
Striving to bring the unconscious to the realm of consciousness through self-observation as Elizabeth Towne's The Nautilus Magazine proclaimed:
Self-help through self-knowledge and replacing "old thoughts" with "new thoughts."
Source: http://www.1-spirit.net/pages/New_Thought/welcome.htm
Related Topics
Read how The New Thought Movement influenced the Law of Attraction. Great article by Stephen Winters.
What does this movement have to do with your self motivation? Find out here.
The Towne's involvement in this history changing movement.
Did you know that The Nautilus Magazine was the premier New Thought and LOA publication of its time? Sample a 1912 issue here!
Return from NT to Elizabeth Towne.
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