When we understand the goal that is being chosen, we instruct our minds to work towards the goal. To work towards a highly competitive mind, we need that power to work on it. The power comes from our subconscious. This article is a consolidation of the book, “The Power of Subconscious Mind” by Joseph Murphy.
In his book, it is mentioned quite beautifully about the power that is sleeping inside us. When we tap into that power with the right tools, the human mind can do impossible things. It is all about mind and its inner strength. How can we tap into that kind of power that our mind has? How does it work? Let’s have a quick read about the book along with my thoughts about it.
Chapters:
- There is a treasure house within you
- The subconscious mind is the seat of your emotions
- The miracle-working power of your subconscious
- The practical techniques that could bring humans to mental healing
- How to use the power of your subconscious for wealth
- The lack of knowledge of the interrelationship of the conscious and subconscious mind brings marital problems
There is a treasure house within you
We all know there are 2 states of our mind. One is subjective and the other one is objective. We can call the objective side as the conscious mind and subjective as the subconscious mind.
Our subconscious mind is responsible for all the backend actions that happen in our bodies. All the automated tasks, impulses, inner body working are maintained by our subconscious mind. Our decision making, present thinking and all monitored by our conscious/objective mind. It is the face of a while mind.
Consider the time before you sleep or you work, when you are in the alpha stage of your mind, try instructing to do good or bad things. At that time, whatever the instruction you give to your mind it will be stamped inside your conscious and subconsciousness. To know more about the stages of the brain between objective and subjective, I suggest you read one of my articles, The Power of 20 Minutes — Goldilocks Duration.
Tapping into the power of subconscious needs practice and that power can be attained mostly by following simple steps. We will be discussing them in this article.
The subconscious mind is the seat of your emotions
Now the author explained in this book about emotions, how effective the subconscious mind can be when it comes to our emotional gain or loses.
The subconscious mind is like a baby. It takes what we feed into it. If we feed good thoughts it will start to execute good outcomes, if we feed it with bad ones, it executes depression, sadness, and loneliness. I can simply say, it amplifies the thoughts that are sent by an objective mind. Generating negative things in our conscious mind leads to frustration, depression and uncontrolled behavior that is caused by the subconscious mind.
The main advantage of the conscious mind is the reasoning, Conscious mind learns from education, experience, and observation whereas the Subconscious mind learns from five senses in our body hence they are called objective and subjective respectively. Our subconscious performs its highest functions when we are asleep meaning when our conscious mind is stopped working, i.e in the Theta stage.
The miracle-working power of your subconscious
The author mentioned the miracle power of the subconscious mind. It is the powerhouse that has infinite power to tap into. This is responsible for all of our actions. Our subconscious mind is the one that started heartbeat and it continues till the end. This part of the brain never sleeps until our death. Our senses are always active. This is responsible for digestion, assimilation, and excretion. Every change in our body is maintained by the subconscious mind.
It is the source of infinite power that needs to be contained with the thoughts and our values. It keeps us in check with all the forces. All the solutions, consequences, desires, goals and our thinking are passed into subconscious when we are asleep that is where all the elements we thought of coming to our dream. Sometimes, scientists get answers to their problems while they are dreaming. It comes as cognitive thinking. We experience the solution that is delivered to us by someone in our dreams. But, that someone is our subjective mind which never stops thinking and it will always be in your service.
It has also the power to digest poison as water when the power of the subconscious is tapped. You will be restored to complete health when you entrust it. It will help your body to neutralize it.
The practical techniques that could bring humans to mental healing
Imagine how miracles happen in life. Think of something you truly want and desire it deeply. Something like you pray for the things that need to happen to improve your life. When you pray for the infinite power, your subconscious has the power to respond to your prayers. It sends help to your conscious mind.
Consider, when you want something so badly and pray for it from your mind deeply, it will be granted to you. When you ask for good things to happen, it will happen. It is not like somebody come and grants you your wish, it is like, you will get that confidence to face the situation and get the power to get out of bad times. This happens based on all the combinations that happen around you.
If you think of your Job interview, when you attend it, if you want that job so badly, you will get the power to do well in it. When you are confident enough to crack the interview — In the end, you will crack it. I can say God lies in us i.e subconscious mind. This mind is driven by values and how we train it when we get the chance.
Visualization Technique:
When I was a child, my elders were asking me the question about the fastest thing in this universe, What can travel faster than light? How? After I grew up, I understood that question is the metaphor of telling the power of our subconscious mind. The answer to the question is our mind. How? Think of a place or Sun in your mind by closing your eyes. Within no time, in your mind, a picture of Sun comes in and tells your conscious mind that it has reached its destination. But, light takes 9 minutes to reach Sun from here.
One more instance is, when you let your mind to pain the nature through its imagination, you create the world probably that you are talking to animals and the world that is living in harmony and peach with all the living creatures. Like we see in movies. All the sci-fi and fantasy movies we created are just the projection of our subconscious mind that helped us to create all the creative works.
The sleeping technique:
When you are so tired from work when you close your eyes — feel that you are flying in the clear sky with wings — makes your mind to feel re-energized or even 20mins power nap will get back to the version of you where you feel like your energy is restored. When you are back up, all your negative thoughts will get wiped.
There are chances of being more positive when you wake up from sleeping than in normal time. Sleeping is like emptying your stack by popping out all the negative things in your life. When you are awake for a long time, that stack fills up and drips out of the stack. That stack dripping leads to build negative things in your mind and less motivated to work. Hence, the sleeping technique helps you to empty the tank of negative things and fill the tank of energy.
The thank-you technique:
It is required to thank good things that are happening in your life. I cultivated this simple habit to make myself feel better every day. I thank each one of them I meet in my day and greet them with a smile. When I ate food outside, I leave tips to the waiter guy & I smile at him by saying, “Thank you, buddy” at the end with his name. I don’t know what they might feel but I feel good about myself for thanking him. This keeps me grateful for life with gratitude.
How to use the power of your subconscious for wealth
This is very important made by the author in this book. Last year when I failed in my startup and gone bankrupt, I lost all the faith and hopes about starting new again and I was completely scared to tap into that risk again, still, I am. My helplessness kept growing in me all the time unless I took the stand to guide my mind as nothing happened. The point here is, when we get disappointed by something or when we face failure in life, we tend to give up and we think ourselves that we are not fit for that position. To grow toward that position, it needs a miracle.
Keep this in mind, the miracle is in you and you just have to know it well so that when you tap into your subconscious, you guide your mind to be like that. As long as you guide your mind that it is wealthy and it lost nothing, you keep on growing. When you provide the intent to your mind about you are growth, it always works for your growth. If you feel aidless or disappointed, your subconscious only amplifies those thoughts and respond to those feelings to be more sad or remorse.
If you want to be wealthy, keep reminding your mind that you are rich enough to do anything. This will grow those wealthy instincts in you.
I like money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciously. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it with joy, and it returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very good. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only, and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind.
Repeat the above words at least twice a day and when you wake up and before going to sleep. This will build endurance in your mind. It will always keep you healthy. It makes your subconscious mind to respond to you with the ideas that work.
The lack of knowledge of the interrelationship of the conscious and subconscious mind brings marital problems
When it comes to relationships, acceptance matters. Acceptance from both sides is the primal factor for any relationship to hold strong for a long time.
The author suggests that the best time to prevent divorce is before marriage that is the reason most people try dates before marriage and getting to understand each other. As I have observed in relationships, people don’t show their true face until they feel enough with the same person. The love between tends to decrease as time goes on. Is it possible to love the same way eternally? I was haunted by this question for a long time. Being myself I tried to find out the answer to it but failed to experience it but I observed people around me fall in love and as time goes on their love deteriorated.
This can be prevented when we feed our subconscious mind with the fact about the person and our acceptance toward them. Sometimes we cam witness no matter how bad the person is, his/her partner still loves her/him unconditionally. This happens when we feed our subconscious mind with the love we thought to provide to the person we love.
By tapping into the subconscious mind we can make people stay with us forever or to stay away from us. This holds for every relationship. Why we love our parents that much or why they love us without any expectations? This is because we are bonded by blood and we consider ourselves as one no matter what. That is the power of family and love. It always makes us strong. Someone somewhere will always be there as your family to love you.
According to the author, this technique will help you attract the ideal husband:
- Sit down at night in your armchair, close your eyes, let go, relax the body, become very quiet, passive, and receptive.
- Talk to your subconscious mind and say to it, “I am now attracting a man into my experience who is honest, sincere, loyal, faithful, peaceful, happy, and prosperous. These qualities, which I admire, are sinking into my subconscious mind now. As I dwell upon these characteristics, they become a part of me and are embodied subconsciously”.
- I know there is an irresistible law of attraction and that I attract to be a man according to my subconscious belief. I attract that which I feel to be true in my subconscious mind.
- I know I can contribute to his peace and happiness. He loves my ideas, and I love his ideas. He does not want to make me over; neither do I want to make him over. There is mutual love, freedom, and respect.
To attract the ideal wife, affirm as follows:
- I now attract the right woman who is in complete accord with me. This is a spiritual union because it is divine love functioning through the personality of someone with whom I blend perfectly.
- I know I can give this woman love, light, peace, and joy. I feel and believe I can make this woman’s life full, complete, and beautiful.
- I now decree that she possesses the following qualities and attributes: She is spiritual, loyal, faithful, and true. She is harmonious, peaceful, and happy. We are irresistibly attracted to each other. Only that which belongs to love, truth, and beauty can enter my experience. I accept my ideal companion now.
There are the 15 Highlights I wanted to share to summarize the book:
- The objective and subjective mind, the conscious and subconscious mind, the waking and sleeping mind, the surface self and the deep self, the voluntary mind and the involuntary mind, the male and the female, and many other terms.
- Your subconscious mind takes the orders you give it based upon what your conscious mind believes and accepts as true.
- If you think good, good will follow; if you think evil, evil will follow. This is the way your mind works.
- It is an interesting and subtle truth that the law of the subconscious mind works for good and bad ideas alike.
- We do not have two minds, the conscious and subconscious mind are merely two spheres of activity within one mind.
- Your subconscious seeks to preserve your life and restore you to health at all costs.
- If you inadvertently took some poison, your subconscious powers would proceed to neutralize it. If you completely entrusted yourself to its wonder-working power, you would be entirely restored to health.
- It is a source of power and wisdom which places you in touch with omnipotence or the power that moves the world, guides the planets in their course, and causes the sun to shine.
- There is always a direct response from the Infinite Intelligence of your subconscious mind to your conscious thinking.
- Any picture, which you have in your mind, is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
- Wealth is simply a subconscious conviction on the part of the individual.
- The feeling of wealth produces wealth; keep this in mind at all times.
- The point here 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.
- Ignorance of the functions and powers of the mind is the cause of all marital trouble. Using the law of mind correctly, friction between husband and wife can be solved.
- As you think quietly and with interest in the qualities and attributes, which you admire in the companion you seek, you will build the mental equivalent into your mentality.
Try this:
- Assume a comfortable posture, relax your body, and be still. Get into a sleepy state, and in that sleepy state, say quietly, over and over again like a lullaby, “I am completely free from this habit; harmony and peace of mind reign supreme.” Repeat the above slowly, quietly, and lovingly for five or ten minute’s night and morning. Each time you repeat the words, the emotional value becomes greater. When the urge comes to repeat the negative habit, repeat the above formula out loud by yourself. By this means you induce the subconscious to accept the idea, and healing follows.
- 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.
- Worried you will not wake up on time? Suggest to your subconscious mind before sleep the exact time you wish to arise, and it will awaken you. It needs no clock
- Forgive yourself and everyone else before you go to sleep, this will help you heal more rapidly.
- Sleep for at least 8 hours. It is essential for peace of mind and health of the body.
- Pray in the right way to attract the right mate for you.
Conclusion:
So we finally made it to the end. This is how we guide and tap the power of our subconscious mind. I have taken a few words from the book directly and also I read all these books to summarize myself using the Headway app. First I read the real eBook and later I use summary apps to make myself comfortable before writing articles like these.
Our mind has 2 cores to process on. One is conscious and another is subconscious. It is a multi-threaded operation. All of our automated tasks are sent to the subconscious mind to process like an Async task that runs on the background. According to the researchers, we are not using even 10% of the processing power. Rest 90% of the power lies in the subconscious mind where it is waiting to be tapped.
To tap such kind of power, we need to have good hardware as well. Better hardware means a good and healthy body. Health comes from the heart. When we sleep regularly at least 8 hours, exercise daily, eat good and work well are all the attributes that keep our body strong. As long as our body is good, we can handle any amount of power that is provided by our subconscious mind.
These words are from my experience. Productivity depends on our mental health and our mental health depends on our physical health. When we are good physically and mentally, nothing is impossible. 3 important factors of mind are Consistency, Focus, and Patience.
Reach the level of infinite power to break the bonds of the universe that we live in. We can literally uncover impossible things when subconscious meets conscious, subjective mind meets objective mind. Potential is, just keeps you out of your seats always.
