The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (GP Self-Help Collection Book 4)

by Joseph Murphy

Charge your subconscious with the task of evolving an answer to any problem, prior to sleep, and it will answer

you.

Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your conscious cortex to your subconscious brain structures and is brought into your world as a reality.

You build a new body every eleven months. Change your body by changing your thoughts and keeping them changed.

Not all prayers are answered. Everyone knows that.

What if you find your prayers are not answered as you would like? What then? You must understand the principal reasons for such a failure. These are: lack of confidence and too much effort. Many people block answers to their prayers by failing to fully comprehend the workings of their subconscious mind. When you know how your mind functions, you gain a measure of confidence.

You must remember that whenever your subconscious mind accepts an idea, it immediately begins to execute it. It uses all its mighty resources to that end. It mobilizes all the mental and spiritual laws of your deeper mind. This law is true for good ideas, but it holds true for bad ideas as well. Consequently, if you use your subconscious mind negatively, it brings trouble, failure, and confusion. When you use it constructively, it brings guidance, freedom, and peace

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From this it is obvious that the only thing you have to do in order to overcome failure is to get your subconscious to accept your idea or request. Feel its reality now and the law of your mind will do the rest. Turn over your request with faith and confidence, and your subconscious will take over and answer for you.

Any time you try to force your subconscious mind to do something for you—you will fail. The results you want will become more distant instead of closer. Your subconscious mind does not respond to mental coercion. It responds to your faith or conscious mind acceptance.

Your failure to get results may also be a consequence of mentally making sum statements as: • Things are getting worse. • I will never get an answer. • I see no way out. • It is hopele...

Imagine that you got into a taxi and gave the driver a half dozen different directions. He would become hopelessly

confused. He might refuse to take you anywhere. Even if he tried to follow your instructions, chances are he would not be able to. Where you would end up is anybody’s guess. It is the same when working with the enormous powers of your subconscious mind. You must have a clear-cut idea in your mind. You must arrive at the definite decision that there is a way out, a solution to the vexing problem in sickness. Only the infinite intelligence within your subconscious knows the answer. When you come to that clear-cut conclusion in your conscious mind, your mind is then made up, and according to your belief is it done unto you.

Do not let yourself get bogged down in thinking about details and means. Know what the end result will be. Get the feel of the happy solution to your problem, whether it is health, finances, or personal relationships. Remember how you felt after you recovered from a serious illness.

Working harder does not lead to better results. Use no willpower. Instead, visualize the end and the state of freedom it produces. You will find your intellect trying to get in the way, trying to find ways to solve the problem and impose those ways on your subconscious.

Successful prayer requires three basic steps: 1. Acknowledge or admit the problem. 2. Turn the problem over to the subconscious mind, which alone knows the most effective solution or way out. 3. Rest with a sense of deep conviction that it is done. Doubts and hesitations only weaken your prayer. Do not say to yourself, “I wish I could be healed” or “I hope this works.”

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When your desires and imagination are in conflict, your imagination invariably gains the day.

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Suppose you were asked to walk along a narrow plank that was resting on the floor. You would do it easily, without question. But now suppose the same plank were twenty feet up, stretching between two walls. Would you walk it? Could you? Probably not. Your desire to walk the length of the plank would come into conflict with your imagination. You would imagine yourself toppling off the plank and falling a long way to the ground. You might very much want to walk across the plank, but your fear of falling would keep you from being able to do it. The more effort you put into

conquering your imagination or suppressing it, the greater strength is given to the dominant idea of falling. The thought, “I will use my willpower to overcome my failure,” reinforces the thought of failure. Mental effort often leads to self-defeat, creating the opposite of what is desired. To focus on the need to exert willpower is to emphasize the condition of powerlessness. It is like deciding that you will do all you can not to think of a green hippopotamus. The decision makes the idea of a green hippo dominate the mind, and the subconscious always responds more to the dominant idea. Your subconscious will accept the stronger of two contradictory propositions. Maybe you find yourself thinking; • I want a healing; why can’t I get it?

• I try so hard, why don’t I get results? • I must force myself to pray harder. • I must use all the willpower I have. You must realize where your error lies. You are trying too hard! Never try to compel the subconscious mind to accept your idea by exercising willpower. Such attempts are doomed to failure. All too often, you end up getting the opposite of what you prayed for. The effortless way is better. Have you ever had something like this happen to you? You have to take an examination of some kind. You have put in a lot of time studying and reviewing the ma...

subject has suddenly deserted you. You can’t recall a single relevant thought. You grit your teeth and summon all the powers of your will, but the harder you try, the farther the knowledge seem to flee. Frustrated, you leave the examination room. The mental pressure eases. Suddenly the answers you were hunting for so desperately a few minutes ago flow tantalizingly back into your mind. You told yourself you knew the material, and sure enough, you did ...but not when you needed to. The mistake you made was to try to force yourself to reme...

If your attention is focused on the obstacles to obtaining what you desire, it is no longer concentrating on the means to obtain your desire.

When there is no longer any quarrel between the different parts of your mind, your prayer will be answered.

You avoid all conflict between your desires and imagination by entering into a drowsy, sleepy state that brings all effort to a minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to impregnate your subconscious—is just prior to sleep.

The reason for this is that the highest degree of out-cropping of the subconscious occurs just before going to sleep and just after we awaken. In this state the negative thoughts and imagery that tend to neutralize your desire and so prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind no longer present themselves. When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realization of your desire. A great many people solve all their dilemmas and problems by the play of their controlled, directed, and disciplined imagination. They know that whatever they imagine and feel as true will and must come to pass.

She knew that the image in her mind had to agree with her heart’s desire.

During the day, when fear thoughts came into her mind, Shara would run her mental videotape of the meeting with her lawyer, complete with words and gestures. She imagined his smile, his mannerisms, the sound of his voice, the specific words he used. She did this so often, so faithfully, that her fears were counteracted before she even knew they had tried to come into her mind.

When your mind is relaxed and you accept an idea, your subconscious goes to work to execute the idea.

Think and plan independently of traditional methods. Know that there is always an answer and a solution to every problem.

Imagination is your most powerful faculty. Imagine what is lovely and of good report. You are what you imagine yourself to be.

You avoid conflict between your conscious and subconscious in the sleepy state. Imagine the fulfillment of your desire over and over again prior to sleep. Sleep in peace and wake in joy.

Your subconscious mind is like a bank, a sort of universal financial institution. It magnifies whatever you deposit or impress upon it whether it is the idea of wealth or of poverty. Choose wealth.

I can hear you saying, “Oh, I did that, and nothing happened.” You did not get results because you indulged in fear thoughts perhaps ten minutes later and neutralized the good you had affirmed. When you place a seed in the ground, you do not dig it up again later in the day. You let it take root and grow.

To entertain envious thoughts is devastating, because it places you in a negative position.

If you are worried and critical about someone who you

claim is making money dishonestly, stop worrying about him. If your suspicions are correct, you know that such a person is using the law of mind negatively. In time, the law of mind will take care of him.

Repeat the word “Wealth” to yourself slowly and quietly for about five minutes prior to sleep and your subconscious will bring wealth to pass in your experience.

The feeling of wealth produces wealth. Keep this in mind at all times.

Your conscious and subconscious mind must agree. Your subconscious accepts what you feel to be true. The dominant idea is always accepted by your subconscious mind. The dominant idea should be wealth, not poverty.

Envy and jealousy are stumbling blocks to the flow of wealth. Rejoice in the prosperity of others.

When your blood is circulating freely in your body, you are healthy. When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy.

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“I am broke. But that’s all right. I do not like money. It is the root of all evil.” These statements represent the thinking of a confused, neurotic mind.

There is no virtue in poverty. It is an illness like any other mental illness.

This is an example of the law of action and reaction. The action is your thought, and the reaction is the response of your subconscious mind.

“Anybody who makes a lot of money has to be some kind of crook.”

The person who talks—and thinks—this way is usually suffering from a financial illness. Maybe he is bitter and envious of former friends who have been more successful and now have greater resources. If so, this person is creating his own difficulties. Entertaining negative thoughts about those friends and condemning their wealth causes prosperity and wealth to flee. Would you stay with someone who condemns you? Of course not; and neither will wealth. This person is chasing away the thing he is praying for. He is praying in two ways. On the one hand he is saying, “I wish wealth to flow to me now.” But in the next breath, he is saying, “That fellow’s wealth is a dirty, evil thing.” This contradiction is a signpost on the road to poverty and misery. Always make it a special point to rejoice in the wealth of another person.

In large stores the management hires guards and store detectives to keep people from stealing. Every day they catch number of people trying to get something for nothing.