Charles F. Haanel’s “A Book About You”: Summary & Quotes!

“Color is, therefore, one of the manifestations of vibration and all vibration manifests in corresponding color, the color being merely an indication of the occult chemical activity. [...] Nature’s scale of vibration is very wide in its extent. It commences with sound, then merges into thermal heat waves, and these vibrations climb the vibratory scale as the temperature increases and merge into the vibrations of the radiant heat waves in the infrared which reach up to the visible red of the light spectrum.”

You might not immediately think of color when it comes to your feelings and behaviors, but recent science shows it does have an impact.

Mental Health America writes, “Bright, warm colors (reds, oranges, yellows) stimulate energy and happiness while cool, subdued colors (blues, greens, purples) are soothing and calming.”

“When a substance is heated, it gives out part of its heat to a medium that surrounds it. This heat-energy is propagated as undulations in the medium, and proceeds outward with the enormous velocity of 186,000 miles per second. If the temperature of the hot substance be not very great, these undulations do not effect the eye, but are invisible, forming rays of dark heat; but as the temperature rises, we begin to see a few red rays, and we say that the body is 'red hot.' As the temperature still continues to rise, the body passes to a yellow and then to a white heat, until it ultimately glows with a splendour like that of the Sun. This splendour of the Sun is but an indication of the nature of the process that is taking place, for light, heat, and energy are but the process of releasing solar energy.”

Cold showers have become a huge craze over the last decade. In fact I recently tried a cryo chamber and it was crazy! There’s no denying it… temperature has a HUGE impact on the human mind. Many therapists have even recommended cold therapy (or saunas) in order to help treat depression and anxiety.

Plus Wim Hof said this: “Cold showers are the gateway to flow and energy and peace. I'm not exaggerating. It's the entry point from which you will learn the power of the mind over the body.”

“The vibratory activities of the planetary universe are governed by a law of periodicity. Everything that lives has periods of birth, growth, and fruitage. These periods are governed by the Septimal Law. The Law of Sevens governs the days of the week, the phases of the moon, the harmonies of light, heat, electricity, magnetism, and atomic structure. It governs the life of individuals and of nations, and it dominates the activities of the commercial world. Life is growth, and growth is change. Each seven year period takes us into a new cycle.”

There’s a lot of truth to Haanel’s concept of ‘periodicity’ — by which he means that everything lives and dies, increases and decreases, goes up and down. For example, your body replaces about 330 billion cells every single day. Within 7-10 years, you’re literally a new person… pretty wild. And it’s a reminder to not get stuck in old habits and old routines. Yesterday’s mistakes are a bad excuse for today’s.

“Emotions may be expressed through mental, verbal, or physical action, and they usually find expression in one of these three ways and are therefore released and this energy dissipated in a few hours; but when by reason of honour, pride, anger, hatred, or bitterness, these emotions are buried from consciousness, they become mental abscesses in the subconscious realm and cause bitter suffering.”

We’ve all known someone who is chronically grouchy.

Maybe it was a friend or a parent or a grandparent. Nothing seemed to ever make them happy — they would complain about bad traffic, bad weather… and if there was nothing to complain about, they would find something to complain about.

Our emotions impact our outcomes. And it’s important to manage them if we want to live a happy, successful life.

“The male is the positive or electrical charge and the female is the negative or magnetic charge. The male represents current, force, energy; the female capacity, resistance, and power. When another person enters your magnetic field, what is it that passes from one to the other? What causes the thrill and tingle over the entire sympathetic nervous system? It is the cells rearranging themselves so as to carry the charge of energy, life, and vitality that is passing from one to the other, and which you are receiving by the process of induction. You are being magnetized and in this process you are assuming the qualities and characteristics of the person whom you are contacting.”

This idea of ‘magnetism’ is at the heart of the philosophy of many personal development gurus — even Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale. They all talked about how our thoughts attract things — whether we like it or not.

This is why it’s so important to be intentional with our thoughts and with our actions. Everything in our lives is a result of what we’ve attracted, or not attracted. The more responsibility we take, the more power we have.

“You imagine many things that are not so, but if you continue to imagine these things, they eventually come to pass; why is this? It is because the imagination is the process of imaging these things in or on your mind, and this process is nature’s method of creation.”

Look around you. Maybe you see a table. Your phone. Your coffee cup. You television. Everything made by humans that you see first started as an idea in someone’s head. In fact, none of it could have existed if it hadn’t started there.

The ideas in your head could just as easily come into reality. But you have to exercise your imagination… and then take relentless action.

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