Napoleon Hill was stepping from the dentist’s chair when his doctor remarked that in thirty years of practice he had never seen another patient who could undergo such extensive work for such a long period, yet remain totally unaware of the time or the pain. To Hill this was not surprising at all. He had merely applied his success techniques to focusing his mind, and he was able to shut out the pain.

But the dentist’s comment started him thinking, and he resolved to write a book that would share with his readers his method for converting physical pain into a pleasant interlude entirely free from pain. In the beginning he planned only to write a book that would help people condition their minds for dentistry or surgery. But as he wrote he began to envision a greater purpose—a purpose that would give the reader the full benefit of more than forty years of research into the causes of success and failure, happiness and misery.

In his previous bestsellers Hill had shown how to make your job, profession, or business pay off in profitable terms; with You Can Work Your Own Miracles his intention was to help people make the other aspects of their lives pay off in terms of their own choice. In this book Hill turns the psychological principles behind his success techniques to the task of mastering fear, sorrow, and despair, and he shows how poverty, failure, and even pain can be transmuted into inspirational forces of great benefit.

He explains how these methods will not only help you overcome what you do not want, but will also prepare you to acquire what you do want. For those who have personal problems they have not resolved, or unpleasant circumstances they must master, these techniques can bring peace of mind, self-understanding, and harmony in all relationships.