书名：The Power of Positive Thinking 积极思考就是力量
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1070L
作者：Norman Vincent Peale
出版社名称：Pocket Books
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9781476762753
商品尺寸：10.5 x2 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：318

The Power of Positive Thinking《积极思考就是力量》是一本时代畅销经典，充满激情灵感之佳作，全球销量超过500万册，翻译成41种文字出版，曾经改变超过1500万人的命运。
该书由美国作家皮尔所著，揭示了人类理性的内在力量，是一部深具影响的成功自助教程，带领、指引并教导我们如何将消极的负面思想转化为积极思想，达到内心的平安，获得真正的成就感的书籍。

“This book is written with the sole objective of helping the reader achieve a happy, satisfying, and worthwhile life.” — Norman Vincent Peale
The precursor toThe Secret, The Power of Positive Thinking has helped millions of men and women to achieve fulfillment in their lives. In this phenomenal bestseller, Dr. Peale demonstrates the power of faith in action. With the practical techniques outlined in this book, you can energize your life—and give yourself the initiative needed to carry out your ambitions and hopes. You’ll learn how to:
·Expect the best and get it
·Believe in yourself and in everything you do
·Develop the power to reach your goals
·Break the worry habit and achieve a relaxed life
·Improve your personal and professional relationships
·Assume control over your circumstances
·Be kind to yourself

The Power of Positive Thinking《积极思考就是力量》揭示了人类理性的内在力量：积极思想创造人心未曾想到的美好奇迹，负面思想则常常吸引失败临到。书中有：十项可实际操作的规则，以树立和维护你的自信心；五项技巧助你获得物质和情感方面的成功；三项已证实有助于维持高能量水平的策略；十个消除焦虑的方案。这是一部深具影响的成功自助教程，带领、指引并教导我们如何将消极的负面思想转化为积极思想，达到内心的平安，获得真正的成就感。这更是一本鼓舞心弦的书，其中所传递的信息超越时间，所传达的心灵呼声跨越地域。来分享皮尔博士积极思想的哲学和技巧吧，愿你的人生道路因此更丰富、更幸运、更满足。

Faith in yourself makes good things happen to you. This classic guide to self-esteem and success will help you learn how to: break the worry habit; get other people to like you; avoid “the jitters” in your daily work; believe in yourself and everything you do; develop the power to reach your goals, and so much more.
The Power of Positive Thinking is unparalleled in its extraordinary capacity for restoring the faltering faith of millions. In this insightful program, Dr. Peale offers the essence of his profound method for mastering the problems of everyday living. You will learn: How to eliminate that most devastating handicap—self-doubt; How to free yourself from worry, stress and resentment; How to climb above problems to visualize solutions and then attain them;Simple prayerful exercises that you can do every day, through-out the day, to reinforce your new-found habit of happiness. 
Eliminating all the negative thoughts that prevent you from achieving happiness and success,The Power of Positive Thinking is an inspiring program that will help you create a positive change in your life.

Preface
Introduction
  1.  Believe in Yourself 
  2.  A Peaceful Mind Generates Power 
  3.  How to Have Constant Energy 
  4.  Try Prayer Power 
  5.  How to Create Your Own Happiness
  6.  Stop Fuming and Fretting 
  7.  Expect the Best and Get It 
  8.  I Don’t Believe in Defeat 
  9.  How to Break the Worry Habit 
  10.  Power to Solve Personal Problems
  11.  How to Use Faith in Healing 
  12.  When Vitality Sags, Try This Health Formula
  13.  Inflow of New Thoughts Can Remake You 
  14.  Relax for Easy Power
  15.  How to Get People to Like You
  16.  Prescription for Heartache 
  17.  How to Draw upon That Higher Power Epilogue

诺曼·文森特·皮尔（Norman Vincent Peale），博士、牧师、教育家、作家。曾主持纽约市马伯大教堂达52年之久，著有《人生光明面》等40多本畅销书，他非常受欢迎的杂志《标杆》也流传了超过450万个人，他传奇的人生被拍成电影“One Man’s Way”。皮尔博士逝世于1993年的圣诞节，享年95岁。
Norman Vincent Peale, one of the most influential clergymen of his time, is the author of forty-six books, including the international bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking. Dr. Peale’s legacy continues today through the Peale Center for Christian Living, the Outreach Division of Guideposts, www.dailyguide posts.com/positivethinking. 

Chapter 1   Believe in Yourself
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with sound self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement. Because of the importance of this mental attitude, this book will help you believe in yourself and release your inner powers. 
It is appalling to realize the number of pathetic people who are hampered and made miserable by the malady popularly called the inferiority complex. But you need not suffer from this trouble. When proper steps are taken, it can be overcome. You can develop creative faith in yourself—faith that is justified. 
After speaking to a convention of businessmen in a city auditorium, I was on the stage greeting people when a man approached me and with a peculiar intensity of manner asked,“May I talk with you about a matter of desperate importance to me?” 
I asked him to remain until the others had gone, then we went backstage and sat down. 
“I’m in this town to handle the most important business deal of my life,” he explained.“If I succeed, it means everything to me. If I fail, I’m done for.” 
I suggested that he relax a little, that nothing was quite that final. If he succeeded, that was fine. If he didn’t, well, tomorrow was another day. 
“I have a terrible disbelief in myself,” he said dejectedly.“I have no confidence. I just don’t believe I can put it over. I am very discouraged and depressed. In fact,” he lamented,“I’m just about sunk. Here I am, forty years old. Why is it that all my life I have been tormented by inferiority feelings, by lack of confidence, by self-doubt? I listened to your speech tonight in which you talked about the power of positive thinking, and I want to ask how I can get some faith in myself.” 
“There are two steps to take,” I replied.“First, it is important to discover why you have these feelings of no power. That requires analysis and will take time. We must approach the maladies of our emotional life as a physician probes to find something wrong physically. This cannot be done immediately, certainly not in our brief interview tonight, and it may require treatment to reach a permanent solution. But to pull you through this immediate problem I shall give you a formula which will work if you use it. 
“As you walk down the street tonight I suggest that you repeat certain words which I shall give you. Say them over several times after you get into bed. When you awaken tomorrow, repeat them three times before arising. On the way to your important appointment say them three additional times. Do this with an attitude of faith and you will receive sufficient strength and ability to deal with this problem. Later, if you wish, we can go into an analysis of your basic problem, but whatever we come up with following that study, the formula which I am now going to give you can be a large factor in the eventual cure.” 
Following is the affirmation which I gave him—”I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” (Philippians 4:13) He was unfamiliar with these words so I wrote them on a card and had him read them over three times aloud. 
“Now, follow that prescription, and I am sure things will come out all right.” 
He pulled himself up, stood quietly for a moment, then said with considerable feeling,“O.K., Doctor. O.K.” 
I watched him square his shoulders and walk out into the night. He seemed a pathetic figure, and yet the way he carried himself as he disappeared showed that faith was already at work in his mind. 
Subsequently he reported that this simple formula“did wonders” for him and added,“It seems incredible that a few words from the Bible could do so much for a person.” 
This man later had a study made of the reasons for his inferiority attitudes. They were cleared away by scientific counseling and by the application of religious faith. He was taught how to have faith; was given certain specific instructions to follow (these are given later in this chapter). Gradually he attained a strong, steady, reasonable confidence. He never ceases to express amazement at the way in which things now flow toward rather than away from him. His personality has taken on a positive, not negative, character so that he no longer repels success, but, on the contrary, draws it to him. He now has an authentic confidence in his own powers.