Beyond the Power of Your Subconscious Mind (17 page)

Easy does it

A home owner once remonstrated with a furnace repairman for charging two hundred dollars for fixing the boiler by simply supplying a bolt. The mechanic said, “I charge five cents for the missing bolt and one hundred ninety-nine dollars and ninety-five cents for knowing what was wrong.”

Similarly, your subconscious mind is the master mechanic, the all-wise one, who knows ways and means of healing any organ of your body, as well as your affairs. Decree health, and your subconscious will establish it, but relaxation is the key. “Easy does it.” Do not be concerned with details and means, but know the end result. Get the
feel
of the happy solution to your problem whether it is health, finances, relationships, or employment. Remember how you felt after you had recovered from a severe state of illness. Bear in mind that your feeling is the touchstone of all subconscious demonstration. Your new idea must be felt subjectively in a finished state, not the future, but as coming about now.

Infer no opponent, use imagination
and not will power

In using your subconscious mind you infer no opponent, you use no will power. You imagine the end and the freedom state. You will find your intellect trying to get in the way, but persist in maintaining a simple, childlike, miracle-making faith. Picture yourself without the ailment or problem. Imagine the emotional accompaniment of the freedom state you crave. Cut out all red tape from the process. The simple way is the best.

The law of reversed effort and why you get
the opposite of what you ask for

Coué, the famous psychologist from France, defined the law of reversed effort as follows: “When your desires and imagination are in conflict, your imagination invariably gains the day.”

If, for example, you were asked to walk a plank on the floor, you would do so without question. Now suppose the same plank were placed twenty feet up in the air between two walls, would you walk it? Your desire to walk it would be counteracted by your imagination or fear of falling. Your dominant idea which would be the picture of falling would conquer. Your desire, will, or effort to walk on the plank would be reversed, and the dominant idea of failure would be reinforced.

Mental effort is invariably self-defeated, eventuating always in the opposite of what is desired. The suggestions of powerlessness to overcome the condition dominate the mind; your subconscious is always controlled by the dominant idea. Your subconscious will accept the strongest of two contradictory propositions. The effortless way is the better.

If you say, “I want a healing, but I can’t get it,” “I try so hard,” “I force myself to do my affirmations,” “I use all the will power I have,” you must realize that your error lies in your effort. Never try to compel the subconscious mind to accept your idea by exercising will power. Such attempts are doomed to failure, and you get the opposite of what you ask for.

The following is a rather common experience. Students, when taking examinations and reading through their papers, find that all their knowledge has suddenly deserted them. Their minds become appalling blanks, and they are unable to recall one relevant thought. The more they grit their teeth and summon the powers of the will, the further the answers seem to flee. But, when they have left the examination room and the mental pressure relaxes, the answers they were seeking flow tantalizingly back into their minds. Trying to force themselves to remember was the cause of their failure. This is an example of the law of reversed effort whereby you get the opposite of what you asked for.

The conflict of desire and imagination
must be reconciled

To use mental force is to presuppose that there is opposition. When your mind is concentrated on the means to overcome a problem, it is no longer concerned with the obstacle. When there is no longer any quarrel in either part of your mind, your request will be answered. The two agreeing may also be represented as you and your desire, your thought and feeling, your idea and emotion, your desire and imagination.

You avoid all conflict between your desires and imagination by entering into a drowsy, sleepy state which brings all effort to a minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent when in a sleepy state. The best time to impregnate your subconscious is prior to sleep. The reason for this is that the highest degree of outcropping of the subconscious occurs prior to sleep and just after we awaken. In this state the negative thoughts and imagery which 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, knowing that whatever they imagine and feel as true
will
and
must
come to pass.

Ideas worth recalling

1. Mental coercion or too much effort shows anxiety and fear which block your answer. Easy does it.

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

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

4. The feeling of health produces health, the feeling of wealth produces wealth. How do you feel?

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

6. 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.

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How to Use the Power of
Your
Subconscious for Wealth

If you are having financial difficulties, if you are trying to make ends meet, it means you have not convinced your subconscious mind that you will always have plenty and some to spare. You know men and women who work a few hours a week and make fabulous sums of money. They do not strive or slave hard. The effortless way of life is the best. Do the thing you love to do, and do it for the joy and thrill of it.

Wealth is of the mind

Wealth is simply a subconscious conviction on the part of the individual. You will not become a millionaire by saying, “I am a millionaire, I am a millionaire.” You will grow into wealth consciousness by building into your mentality the idea of wealth and abundance.

Your invisible means of support

The trouble with most people is that they have no invisible means of support. When business falls away, the stock market drops, or they lose their investments, they seem helpless. The reason for such insecurity is that they do not know how to tap the subconscious mind. They are unacquainted with the inexhaustible storehouse within.

A person with a poverty type mind finds himself in poverty-stricken conditions. Another person with a mind filled with ideas of wealth is surrounded with everything he needs. You can have wealth, everything you need, and plenty to spare. Your words have power to cleanse your mind of wrong ideas and to instill right ideas in their place.

The ideal method for building a wealth consciousness

Perhaps you are saying as you read this chapter, “I need wealth and success.” This is what you do: Repeat for about five minutes to yourself three or four times a day, “Wealth—Success.” These words have tremendous power. They represent the inner power of the subconscious mind. Anchor your mind on this substantial power within you; then conditions and circumstances corresponding to their nature and quality will be manifested in your life. You are not saying, “I am wealthy,” you are dwelling on real powers within you. There is no conflict in the mind when you say, “Wealth.” Furthermore, the feeling of wealth will well up within you as you dwell on the idea of wealth.

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

Remember the three steps in doing affirmations (Chapter 8):

1. Read the affirmation to yourself.

2. Visually experience a past or future event or an imaginary one that supports your affirmation.

3. Inject positive and pleasurable feeling (emotion) into your visualization.

If one is simply saying, “I am wealthy,” without doing steps 2 and 3, their process is incomplete. As we have written, the purpose of language (i.e., step 1) is to create or access an image which supports the words. It has been proven scientifically that it is not the words that record in our subconscious, but the visual images and the feelings associated with those images.

Think of step 3 as the “juice”—the power—that really fires up your image. You could have a beautiful car with a well tuned engine, but with no fuel the car wouldn’t go anywhere. The emotional surge you inject into your visual imagery is the “fuel” needed to make this 3-step process effective.

True source of wealth

Your subconscious
(
supraconscious
)
mind is never short of ideas. There are within it an infinite number of ideas ready to flow into your conscious mind and appear as cash in your pocketbook in countless ways. This process will continue to go on in your mind regardless of whether the stock market goes up or down, or whether the dollar drops in value. Your wealth is never truly dependent on bonds, stocks, or money in the bank; these are really only symbols—necessary and useful, of course, but only symbols.

The point I wish to emphasize is that if you convince your subconscious mind that wealth is yours, and that it is always circulating in your life, you will always and inevitably have it, regardless of the form it takes.

A common stumbling block to wealth

There is one emotion which is the cause of the lack of wealth in the lives of many. Most people learn this the hard way. It is envy. For example, if you see a competitor depositing large sums of money in the bank, and you have only a meager amount of deposit, does it make you envious? The way to overcome this emotion is to say to yourself, “Isn’t it wonderful! I rejoice in that man’s prosperity. I wish for him greater and greater wealth.”

To entertain envious thoughts is devastating because it places you in a very negative position; therefore, wealth flows
from
you instead of
to
you. If you are ever annoyed or irritated by the prosperity or great wealth of another, claim immediately that you truly wish for him greater wealth in every possible way. This will neutralize the negative thoughts in your mind and cause an ever greater measure of wealth to flow to you by the law of your own subconscious mind.

Sleep and grow rich

As you go to sleep at night, practice the following technique. Repeat the word, “Wealth,” quietly, easily, and feelingly. Do this over and over again, just like a lullaby. Lull yourself to sleep with the one word, “Wealth.” You should be amazed at the result. Wealth should flow to you in avalanches of abundance. This is another example of the magic power of your subconscious mind.

Serve yourself with the powers of your mind

1. Decide to be wealthy the easy way, with the infallible aid of your subconscious mind.

2. Wealth is a subconscious conviction. Build into your mentality the idea of wealth.

3. The trouble with most people is that they have no invisible means of support.

4. 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.

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

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

7. You can overcome any mental conflict regarding wealth by affirming frequently, “By day and by night I am being prospered in all of my interests.”

8.
Stop writing blank checks, such as, “There is not enough to go around,” or “There is a shortage,” etc. Such statements magnify and multiply your loss.

9. Deposit thoughts of prosperity, wealth, and success in your subconscious mind, and the latter will give you compound interest.

10. What you consciously affirm, you must not mentally deny a few moments later. This will neutralize the good you have affirmed.

11. Your true source of wealth consists of the ideas in your mind. You can have an idea worth millions of dollars. Your subconscious will give you the idea you seek.

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

Rich versus wealthy

Simply a comment to emphasize the importance of keeping balance in our lives in the pursuit of becoming wealthy. We have all heard the stories of the person who leaves home at 6:00 a.m., before the kids are up and arrives home well after they are in bed. The stress of the “pursuit of wealth” is often accompanied by an unhealthy lifestyle resulting in poor nutrition, little or no exercise, too much drinking and an early trip to Le Cemetery!

It requires money to be wealthy. It requires no money to be “rich.” Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and others can be our models of great richness, with no monetary measurements.

Balance is the key in the pursuit of becoming wealthy. Balanced people budget an equal amount of time to pursue their family, health, social, spiritual, and personal goals.

Michael Josephson, founder of The Josephson Institute of Ethics writes:

Acquisition of things is very similar to the taking of drugs: with drugs, the body adjusts very quickly, and you have to keep taking more to get the same effect. The same with sex. The first couple of times is amazing, then it becomes mundane. If you were to list the five happiest people you know, there would be no correlation to income. People who are genuinely happy are not happy because of what they have; they’re happy because of their concept of who they are.