Books with author Genevieve Behrend

Your Invisible Power, and How to Live Life and Love it, (2 Books) BOOK ONE: Your Invisible Power, THESE pages have been written for the purpose of furnishing you a key to the attainment of your desires, and to explain that Fear should be entirely banished from your consciousness in order for you to obtain possession of the things you want. This presupposes, of course, that your desire for possession is based upon your aspiration for greater happiness. For example, you feel that the possession of more money, lands, or friends will make you happier, and your desire for possession of these things arises from a conviction that their possession will bring you freedom and contentment. In your effort to possess, you will discover that the thing you most need is to consistently “Be” your best self. BOOK TWO: How to Live Life and Love it, The purpose of this series of personal-pointer Lessons, which are herein compiled into one volume, is to indicate in a clear, concise way "the natural principles governing the relation between the creative action of all thought-power and material things," i.e., circumstances and conditions. If these few simple principles are carefully studied, and mastered to your satisfaction, and then put into practical, hourly application, the student will find very soon that it is possible for man to make conscious contact with the Almighty, Ever-Present, Never-Failing God; and this just naturally means individual FREEDOM, freedom from every form of limitation and bondage of any nature. (Read Mark 9:23.) Then try to believe that the Spirit of Life, which is your life also, knows "How to Live Life and Love It." All the joy Life has to give is yours right now! Let us start on the highway to unqualified success now. God is our guide. Your loving companion, Genevieve Behrend

The Small but Hugely Powerful Book that has Helped Millions of People. Your Invisible Power is one of the earliest and most inspirational books of 'New Thought.' It is small in size but huge in stature as well as in the impact it has had on millions of people. It teaches you, in simple terms, how to effectively use the power of visualization for your own betterment. Reading this easy to read book may be one of the most enlightening experiences you may ever have.

Mina Parker, tireless mom and author of 365 Excuse Me...(inspired by the late Lynn Grabhorn), introduces the new Hampton Roads Collection of motivational classics. These affordable digital shorts will help the harried and the hurried to breathe deep, reassess, and re-purpose their day in the time it takes to drink a large latte.This book, more than a hundred years old and based on the earliest teachings of the New Thought movement, brings us face to face with the some of the most authentic and open-hearted explorations of the power of thought to change our lives. In our most enlightened moments, we can feel it vibrating through us: we are made of the fabric of the universe, the all encompassing and supremely creative life force.

This book is for the purpose of furnishing you a key to the attainment of your desires using law of attraction, and to explain that Fear should be entirely banished from your consciousness in order for you to obtain possession of the things you want. Visualizing is the great secret of success. The conscious use of this great power attracts to you multiplied resources, intensifies your wisdom, and enables you to make use of advantages which you formerly failed to recognize. The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is. In its original state it is the undifferentiated formless substance of life. Your thought-picture makes the model, so to say, into which this formless substance takes shape. If you plant an ACORN, you get an OAK. If you sow a GRAIN OF CORN, you reap a stalk and MANY kernels of corn. What are you going to plant in your mind?

Your Invisible Power is a guide to the proper use of visualization and other processes of the mind for the achievement of life’s goals. This book is a prosperity manual, intended to show the reader how to properly create and manifest all that is wanted. Within these writings are time-tested principles of applying mental science and the law of attraction which have been used as success guidelines by millions of top achievers from around the world. From the Author: “THESE pages have been written for the purpose of furnishing you a key to the attainment of your desires, and to explain that Fear should be entirely banished from your consciousness in order for you to obtain possession of the things you desire. It is also desired, in this volume, to suggest the possibilities in store for all who make persistent effort to understand the Law of Visualization and make practical application of this knowledge on whatever plane he or she may be. The word “effort,” as here employed, is not intended to convey the idea of strain. All study and meditation should be without strain or tension. It has been my endeavor to show that by starting at the beginning of the creative action or the mental picture, certain corresponding results are sure to follow.” -Genevieve Behrend

2010 Reprint of Revised 1951 edition. Your Invisible Power remains Behrend's most powerful and popular work. This book can teach you how to use the power of visualization and other processes taught by Thomas Troward to transform your life. Your Invisible Power is a powerful, yet simple and easy guide. Behrend says, "We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers. It brings other possibilities to our observation. When we pause to think for a moment, we realize that for a cosmos to exist at all, it must be the outcome of a cosmic mind." It remains the most popular of all her books and has been, since its first edition, one of the world's best sellers on Mental Science. It has exhausted scores of editions.

Geneviève Behrend (1881 in Paris – 1960 in United States) was a French-born author and teacher of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by Thomas Troward. There is little known about her early life except that one of her parents was Scottish.[1] After her husband died she traveled extensively. She studied Christian Science and met its founder Mary Baker Eddy, but ultimately left that faith. She met Abdul Baha, whose father had founded Bahaiism, and Abdul told her that she would “travel the world over seeking the truth, and when [she] had found it, would speak it out”. She later wrote in her book Your Invisible Power that she found a book of Thomas Troward's lectures. Inspired by this, she wanted to study with Troward, but lacked the money to travel to Cornwall, England where he lived, as she was then living in New York.[2] So every night and morning she visualized counting out twenty $1,000 bills, buying her ticket to London, travelling on the ship, and being accepted as Troward’s pupil. She also constantly affirmed to herself, “My mind is a center of Divine operations”. Then, to quote her in Your Invisible Power, "While these reflections were going on in my mind, there seemed to come up from within me the thought: 'I am all the substance there is.' Then, from another channel in my brain the answer seemed to come, 'Of course, that's it; everything must have its beginning in mind. The 'I', the Idea, must be the only one and primary substance there is, and this means money as well as everything else.' My mind accepted this idea, and immediately all the tension of mind and body was relaxed". In about six weeks, she received the money. From 1912 until 1914 she studied with Thomas Troward; Behrend was the only personal student he had throughout his life. After her studies with Troward she founded a New Thought school called The School of the Builders in approximately 1915 in New York City, running it herself until 1925. She then founded another New Thought school in Los Angeles, after which she traveled throughout North America lecturing on mental science and New Thought for 35 years, as well as giving radio broadcasts. She is quoted as an expert in the best-selling self-help book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.

THESE pages have been written for the purpose of furnishing you a key to the attainment of your desires, and to explain that Fear should be entirely banished from your consciousness in order for you to obtain possession of the things you want. This presupposes, of course, that your desire for possession is based upon your aspiration for greater happiness. For example, you feel that the possession of more money, lands, or friends will make you happier, and your desire for possession of these things arises from a conviction that their possession will bring you freedom and contentment. In your effort to possess, you will discover that the thing you most need is to consistently “Be” your best self.

We all possess tremendous powers. Most of them go unrecognized and unrealized for many years, or even a lifetime. Manifesting our desires through visualization is one of the greatest of these powers. It brings other possibilities to our awareness. When we pause for a moment and think, we realize that everything in life begins as a thought. Look around you and you will see that nothing ever happened without first being conceived in a thinking mind. Every material thing in this world is projected thoughts, goals achieved, visions manifested and dreams realized. This book was written to help you unlock the way to the attainment of your dreams. When your understanding grasps the power to visualize your heart's desire and hold it with your will, it attracts to you all things required to the fulfillment of that picture, by the harmonious vibrations of the law of attraction. Be enthusiastic about your dreams and have faith. Keep your mental picture close to your mind. Trust in the unfailing laws of this universe. Cultivate patience, knowing that it takes years, for the roots to produce the tree that will produce the fruits.

This classic of literature starts with a very simple premise: You are powerful. Everyone of us is an instrument of the universe and has the same access to power, energy and opportunity as everyone else. It is the full understanding of this power and how it works with and through you as an individual that controls the level of satisfaction, achievement and joy that you'll find in your life. Behrend masterfully explains how to work with this natural power in order to build the life that you dare dream of. The book gives specific guidelines for how to control and use your mind for profitable results and greater harmony.

The magic of principle over precedent, the power of creative visualization. These pages have been written with purpose and hope that their suggestions may furnish you a key to open up the way to the attainment of your desires, and to explain that Fear should be entirely banished from your effort to obtain possession of the things you desire. This presupposes, of course, that your desire for possession is based upon your aspiration for greater liberty. For example, you feel that the possession of more money, lands or friends will make you happier, and your desire for possession of these things arises from a conviction that their possession will bring you liberty and happiness. In your effort to possess you will discover that the thing you most and ultimately need is to "Be," always (not spasmodically) your best self -that self which understands that the mistakes of those you love are simply misunderstandings. Your feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will, of themselves bring you contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No person, place or thing can give you happiness. They may give you cause for happiness and a feeling of contentment, but the joy of Living comes from within. Therefore, it is here recommended, rather than otherwise, that you should make the effort to obtain the things which you feel will bring you joy, provided, as previously stated, that your desires are in accord with the joy of Living. It is also desired, in this volume, to suggest the possibilities in store for all who make persistent effort to understand the Law of Visualization and make practical application of this knowledge on whatever plane he or she may be. The word "effort," as here employed, is not intended to convey the idea of strain. All study and meditation should be without strain or tension. It has been my endeavor to show that by starting at the beginning of the creative action or the mental picture, certain corresponding results are sure to follow. "While the laws of the Universe cannot be altered, they can be made to work under specific conditions, thereby producing results for individual advancement which cannot be obtained under the spontaneous working of the law provided by Nature." CONTENTS: Foreword Order of Visualization How to Attract to Yourself the Things You Desire Relation Between Mental and Physical Form Operation of Your Mental Picture Expressions from Beginners Suggestions for Making Your Mental Picture Things to Remember Why I Took Up the Study of Mental Science How I Attracted to Myself Twenty Thousand Dollars How I Became the Only Personal Pupil of the Greatest Mental Scientist of the Present Day How to Bring the Power in Your Word Into Action How to Increase Your Faith The Reward of Increased Faith How to Make Nature Respond to You Faith With Works--What It Has Accomplished Suggestions As to How to Pray or Ask, Believing You Have Already Received Things to Remember