Description
A practical and encouraging guide to personal power, constructive thought, and spiritual self-mastery, How to Live Life and Love It presents Genevieve Behrend’s clear and accessible approach to living with confidence, purpose, and joy.
Drawing on the principles of New Thought and mental science, Behrend teaches that thought, imagination, faith, and disciplined attention can shape experience and open the way to a fuller life. Rather than treating happiness as something accidental, she presents it as a habit of mind and spirit—something cultivated through right thinking, self-command, gratitude, and trust in the creative power within.
Warm, direct, and practical, How to Live Life and Love It offers timeless lessons on overcoming fear, developing inner strength, using the imagination constructively, and meeting daily life with courage and expectation. For readers interested in prosperity, positive thinking, self-development, and New Thought philosophy, this classic work remains a useful and inspiring guide.
About the Author
Genevieve Behrend (1881–1960) was an American New Thought teacher, writer, and lecturer best known as the only personal student of Thomas Troward, whose teachings strongly influenced the modern self-help and positive-thinking movements. Behrend devoted her career to making the principles of mental science practical and accessible to ordinary readers.
Her works include Your Invisible Power, Attaining Your Desires, and How to Live Life and Love It. Through her books and lectures, Behrend taught the disciplined use of thought, imagination, faith, and purpose as tools for personal growth, prosperity, and spiritual realization.
Genevieve Behrend (1881-1960) was a prominent American teacher and writer in the New Thought movement, best known as the only personal student of Thomas Troward, one of the foundational figures in modern metaphysical philosophy. Through her lectures and writings, Behrend played a key role in transmitting Troward's teachings on mental science, the subconscious mind, and the creative power of thought to a wider audience.Her works, including Your Invisible Power and How to Live Life and Love It, are considered important texts in the development of early twentieth-century self-help and prosperity philosophy. Behrend's teachings emphasize visualization, belief, and the disciplined use of thought as tools for achieving success, health, and personal fulfillment. Her influence can be traced forward into later movements associated with the law of attraction and positive thinking.Today, Behrend's writings remain widely read by students of New Thought, metaphysical philosophy, and personal development, valued for their clarity, practical application, and connection to the foundational ideas of the movement.