Grip on Grit

 

      

         

In 1865 the French novelist Jules Verne published a book on classical geography, De la Terre à la Lune “From the Earth to the Moon.” Verne described how the Baltimore Gun Cluba post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts proposed to launch three of her members including the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival and a French poet in a bullet shaped contraption into deep space with the aim of a moon landing. The Gun Club saw the Moon as a bull’s eye and their contraption as a bullet with which to hit the bull’s eye.

Scientists in the West, inspired by Verne’s novel, began researching and developing the science on Moon landing. These events amongst other things led to space research program and stirred up Apollo 11 crew members who made history on July 20th, 1969. Among them was Neil Armstrong who on approaching the Moon surface said, “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

However, prior to the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, a leading scientist, considered by many experts in the field to be the Father of the space program, Dr. von Braun, was asked, “What would it take to make a rocket to reach the Moon?” With an unfeigned facial expression, Braun dropped down his voice and replied, “The will to do it.”

With that, Braun underscore the great truthif Verne can see it and if you can form a mental image of it in your mind, with definite action and an unflinching grit, then, it’ is possible.

To maintain an unflinching mental image, such as an ideal of the person you desire, in your mind without fluctuating, takes lots of grits. Grit is that binding force that harmonizes you and every particle of energy necessary for the physical manifestation of your mental image in the world of material things.

As previously explained, your brain is composed of at least 100 billion neurons and tens of billions of glial cells. These cells oscillate and send off electrical waves as soon as you form a mental image in your mind. The amplitude of the waves generated by those cells increases over time as you maintain unwavering concentration on that image. Since these electric waves are generated within, they sets an equivalent vibration without, setting off electromagnetic resonance such that your whole being oscillates to the frequency of those cells.

Since the free energy around us fill all space, and contains electromagnetic waves vibrating at different frequencies. This free energy around us interacts with matter with respect to their unique vibrating frequencies.

Moreover, since the law of attraction necessitates that like energy attract and unlike energy repel; your whole being vibrating at the frequency of your cells will interact with like energy in resonance to the same energy-frequency in the free forces around us. And when you are vibrating in harmony with the energy that fills all things, then the physical manifestation of your mental image will be realize. Although, it may take a longer time for it to materialize, but since you’ve mustered sufficient grip on grit, it is absolutely inevitable.

Like the American poet and author, Ella W. Wilcox, would say: “Your straitened situation perhaps is inevitable for the present, but it is not inevitable for the future.” In her poem on “Solitude,” Wilcox even went a step further in saying, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of it own.”

In other words, the universe would bring your mental desires whether for good or ill to pass only when you are in harmony or resonance with the universelaugh, and the universe invariably laughs with you…for the universe must borrow its’ glee from none other than you. But all that is necessary is for you to hold a positive mental image of a desired state, and get a grip on grit. Then all the free energy forces around us will converge to bring your desired state to realization.

    Napoleon Hill devoted an entire chapter in his magnificent book, “Think and Grow Rich,” to the subject of “grit” which he referred to as “persistence.” To be precise, in chapter nine, Hill was emphatic in defining the subject matter: “Persistence [grit] is an essential factor in procedure of transmuting DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the POWER OF WILL.” He went a step further in saying, “There may be no heroic connotation to the word “persistence,” but the quality is to the character of a man, what carbon is to steel.”

To an astonishing degree, Angela Duckworth professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, dedicated at least one hundred and fifty-two pages of her two hundred pages book, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” to the subject of “grit.” As a matter of fact, in the concluding parts of chapter thirteen of her book, she said something about grit that resonated with the ideas in this section, “To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight.”

Grit is the integration of faith, conviction and persistence, necessary to transmute mental image into its physical equivalent.

There is no better statement I could think of that clearly illustrates a grip on grit other than the parables told by Jesus of Nazareth: “…which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? And he from within shall answer and say, trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto you, though he will not rise and give him, because he is friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

Another similar example is the parable of the unjust judge: “…There was in a city a judge, which feared not the LORD, neither regarded man: and there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, though I fear not the LORD, nor regard man; yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.”

If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Surely, you would have to agree with the author, Napoleon Hill, Angela Duckworth and Jesus of Nazareth that the realization of your desired mental image is indeed predicated on how forceful your grip on grit is.

Now, it is expedient for you to read this section over and over again until the idea herein latches onto your consciousness. Nonetheless, it is a veritable truth that no amounts of time expend on reading or memorizing the idea on this section will bring to the realization your desired mental image. It is only the understanding and the right application of the idea that suffices. In its application lies a spring-board to the materialization of your mental desire.

Remember, what you can’t see, you can’t possess. And without a firm grip on grit the materialization of your mental image may not be realize. William Shakespeare understood the tremendous effect of having a grip on grit as the cause of man’s failure or success in bringing to realization the image in his mind, when he wrote: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.”