When you read a book, you do a thought transplant.  When you read about positive things, you transplant a Positive Operating System into your mind.  Authors make a living transplanting their thoughts.  The operation is nearly painless, and it only costs a few dollars.  A thought transplant is so inexpensive you don’t even need to file a claim on your health insurance policy.  What a great deal!

One of the best things about books is the selection.  There are thousands of good books to choose from.  Major bookstores contain over one-hundred thousand volumes dealing with every subject imaginable.  No matter what problem you have, there is a book dealing with it.  Hundreds of them are available on positive thinking.

You don’t need to travel on a pilgrimage to Tibet to meet a guru.  It’s a lot cheaper and easier to buy his book.  You can read everything he has to say in a bookstore in your hometown.

If you want good things to expand into your life, select a good book and start reading.  A positive book won’t transform your life while it sits on the bookshelf.  It may look nice and be good for your image, but it won’t do you any good until it gets into your mind.  Grab a good book and start transplanting positive thoughts into your mind.  Then watch them expand into your life.

You need to use good books to feed your mind at least three positive meals a day.  One of the meals should include scripture so you can learn more about how to max out on God’s love.  The other two meals should consist of inspirational stories and other positive subjects.

Eric Weihenmayer wrote a book called, Touch the Top of the World.  Eric is blind and has climbed Mount Everest.  I couldn’t put the book down when I read the account of him climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.  His picture in full climbing gear was on the front cover of Time Magazine after he climbed Mount Everest.  All of my professional career I have worked with people who are blind, and never in a thousand years would I have thought a blind person could stand on the summit of Mount Everest or ascend the sheer walls of El Capitan.  There is enough inspiration in his book to make you reevaluate every limitation you have in your mind.

If you are not feeding your mind three positive meals a day, you will die of mental and spiritual malnutrition.  Every time you read a positive book, your life gets better.  Reading is one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways of putting good things into your mind.  How do you install a Positive Operating System?  You simply read positive stories and positive books, and it won’t be long before you have a Positive Operating System up and running.

Excerpt from :

Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind

David J Abbott M.D.