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Now, an ignorant person does not understand that they can operate with their intellectual factors. They can choose the picture and get emotionally involved, and they can see the results come out in their life. They don't understand that they're letting their results control their thinking.
So they set a goal, but then they look for the signals that it's going to happen, where they start to look at the empty bank account. The wealth—it's no good. It's not there. We don't know if we're going to have enough money to keep going. And what we do at that point, we forget our goal and we start to worry. And then we doubt ourselves, and it's a negative experience. It's a psychic disease. That worry instantly and automatically turns into an emotional state called fear.
Now, keep in mind, you're working with the central nervous system. It is the most incredible electrical system in the universe. This can happen in less than a millisecond, and there's a thousand of them in a second. That energy that we call fear, that negative energy must be expressed through the only medium it can be expressed through, and that's this thing that you live in, your physical body. And it expresses itself in a negative vibration that's more commonly known as anxiety. I had someone talk to me here just about an hour ago about anxiety. That's the cause of anxiety. Worry isn't the cause. Fear is not the cause. Ignorance is the cause. Not knowing.
Most of us are afraid to admit our ignorance. We're all ignorant. I admit my ignorance freely when it comes to doing some plumbing yesterday morning at about a quarter to 5 or something like that. I admit I'm ignorant when it comes to tuning up a car. I'm absolutely useless. Fact, I'm ignorant in most areas. I just know how to do what I'm doing. I don't even want to learn how to do anything else. You do this well enough, you can hire somebody to do everything else. You know, develop your strengths, manage your weaknesses.
How do we eliminate ignorance? It's very basic and very simple. We study. We study and we develop understanding, and the understanding tells us—quit letting your outside world—don't let your outside world—don't let previous or present results control your thinking. Visualize what you want. Get emotionally involved with it. The understanding leads to faith, and the faith manifests on the physical plane as health or well-being. You can literally transform the state of health that your body's in. I've seen people that close to death's door change it. I've watched people who are in terrible states literally change their lives. I keep telling people how much I've changed. And I know that some of you, if you're just here for the first time, you never knew me before, you'd say, "Well, he's saying that's good coffee for the seminar." Try you go talk to my mother. I got to the point where she was the only one that had even any hope that I'd ever wake up. You see, I kept thinking, "Well, gee, I'm such a mess up. You know, I've done everything wrong up till now. I'm 26. I'm broke. I'm not happy. Everything was wrong." He said, "Bob, that's all in the past. Your present or past results have absolutely nothing to do with what's going to happen from this point forward." Now, that was the point that Ray Stanford drilled into my head. He said every moment is a new moment. We shouldn't condemn ourselves. And he said, "What you were yesterday you paid for. What you are today you decide upon."