The self-help book, The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind is written by an Irish author Joseph Murphy. The book was originally published in 1963 and is an International Best Seller.
Below are the main points of the book.
Change your thoughts, and you change your destiny.
Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect.
You are like a captain navigating a ship. He or she must give the right orders, or the ship is wrecked. In the same way, you must give the right orders (thoughts and images) to your subconscious mind, which controls and governs all your experiences.
Never use such expressions as “I can’t afford it” or “I can’t do this. ” Your subconscious mind takes you at your word. It sees to it that you do not have the money or the ability to do what you want to do. Affirm, “I can do all things through the power of my subconscious mind.
The law of life is the law of belief. A belief is a thought in your mind. Do not believe in things that will harm or hurt you. Believe in the power of your subconscious to heal, inspire, strengthen, and prosper you. According to your belief is it done unto you.
The treasure house is within you. Look within for the answer to your heart’s desire.
The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.
Your subconscious has the answer to all problems. if you suggest to your subconscious prior to sleep, “I want to get up at 5A.M., ” it will awaken you ar that exact time.
Your subconscious mind is the builder of your body and can heal you, Lull yourself to sleep every night with the idea of perfect health, and your subconscious, being your faithfal servant, will obey you.
In themselves, the suggestions of others have no power over you. Whatever power they have, they gain because you give it to them through your own thoughts. You have to give your mental consent.
You have to entertain and accept the thought. At that point it becomes your own thought, and your subconscious works to bring it into experience. Choose love! Choose health!
Think good, and good follows. Think evil, and evil follows.
You are what you think all day long.
Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, “I can’t afford it, ” your subconscious works to make it true. Select a better thought. The decree, “I’ll buy it. I accept it in my mind.”
You have the power to choose. Choose health and happiness.
You can choose to be friendly, or you can choose to be unfriendly. Choose to be cooperative, joyous, friendly, lovable, and the whole world will respond. This is the best way to develop a wonderful personality.
Your conscious mind is the “watchman at the gate.” Its chief function is to protect your subconscious mind from false impressions.
Choose to believe that something good can happen and is happening now. Your greatest power is your capacity to choose. Choose happiness and abundance.
The suggestions and statements of others have no power to hurt you. The only power is the movement of your own thought. You can choose to reject the thoughts or statements of others and affirm the good. You have the power to choose how you will react.
Watch what you say. You have to account for every idle word. Never say, “I wil fail; I will lose my job; I can’t pay the rent”.
Your subconscious cannot tale a joke. It brings all these things to pass.
Your mind is not evil. No force of nature is evil. It depends how you use the powers of nature. Use your mind to bless, heal, and inspire all people everywhere.
Never say, “I can’t.” Overcome that fear by substituting the following: “I can do all things through the power of my own subconscious mind.”
Begin to think from the standpoint of the eternal truths and principles of life and not from the standpoint of fear, ignorance, and superstition. Do not let others do your thinking for you. Choose your own thoughts and make your own decisions.
You are the captain of your soul (subconscious mind) and the master of your fate. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! Choose happiness!
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.
Your subconscious mind controls all the vital processes of your body and knows the answer to all problems.
Prior to sleep, turn over a specific request to your subconscious mind and prove its miracle-working power to yourself.
Whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as conditions, experiences, and events. Therefore, you should carefully watch all ideas and thoughts entertained in your conscious mind.
The law of action and reaction is universal. Your thought is action, and the reaction is the automatic response of your subconscious mind to your thought. Warch your thoughts.
All frustration is due to unfulfilled desires. If you dwell on Obstacles, delays, and difficulties, your subconscious mind (responds accordingly, and you are blocking your own good.
The Life Principle will flow through you rhythmically and harmoniously if you consciously affirm: “I believe that the subconscious power that gave me this desire is now fulfilling it through me.
“This dissolves all conflicts. You can interfere with the normal rhythm of your heart, lungs, and other organs by worry, anxiety, and fear. Feed your subconscious with thoughts of harmony, health, and peace, and all the functions of your body will become normal again.
Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and your subconscious will faithfully reproduce your habitual thinking. Imagine the happy ending or solution to your problem, feel the thrill of accomplishment, and what you imagine and feel will be accepted by your subconscious mind, which will bring it to pass.
Remind yourself frequently that the healing power is in your subconscious mind.
Know that faith is like a seed planted in the ground; it grows after its kind. Plant the idea (seed) in your mind, water and fertilize it with expectancy, and it will become manifest.
The idea you have for a book, new invention, or play is real in your mind. This is why you can believe you have it now. Believe in the reality of your idea, plan, or invention, and as you do, it will become manifest.
In praying for another, know that your silent inner knowing of wholeness, beauty, and perfection can change the negative patterns of the other’s subconscious mind and bring about wonderful results.
The miraculous healings you hear about at various shrines are due to imagination and blind faith that act on the subconscious mind, releasing the healing power.
All disease originates in the mind. Nothing appears on the body unless there is a mental pattern corresponding to it.
The symptoms of almost any disease can be induced in you by hypnotic suggestion. This shows you the power of your thought.
There is only one process of healing and that is faith. There is only one healing power; namely, your subconscious mind.
Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind, and that will suffice.
Find out what it is that heals you. Realize that correct directions given to your subconscious mind will heal your mind and body.
Develop a definite plan for turning over your requests or desires to your subconscious mind.
Imagine the end desired and feel its reality. Follow it through, and you will get definite results.
Decide what belief is. Know that belief is a thought in your mind and that what you think you create.
It is foolish to believe in sickness or in anything that will hurt or harm you. Believe in perfect health, prosperity, peace, wealth, and divine guidance.
Great and noble thoughts upon which you habitually dwell become great acts.
Apply the power of prayer therapy in your life. Choose a certain plan, idea, or mental picture. Unite mentally and emotionally with that idea. As you remain faithful to your mental attitude, your prayer will be answered.
Always remember, if you really want the power to heal, you can have it through faich, which means a knowledge of the working of your conscious and subconscious mind. Faith comes with understanding.
Blind faith means that a person may get results in healing without any scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved.
Learn to pray for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your mind. Your thoughts of health, vitality, and perfection operating through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and made manifest in the mind of your loved one.
SERVE YOURSELF WITH SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
Be a mental engineer and use tried and proven techniques in building a grander and greater life.
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality, and you will experience the joy of the answered prayer.
Desire to accomplish things the easy way-with the sure aid of mental science.
You can build radiant health, success, and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.
Experiment scientifically until you personally prove that there is always a direct response from the infinite intelligence of your subconscious mind to your conscious thinking.
Feel the joy and restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishment of your desire. Any mental picture you have in your mind is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
A mental picture is worth a thousand words. Your subconscious will bring to pass any picture held in the mind backed by faith.
Avoid all effort or mental coercion in prayer. Get into a sleepy, drowsy state and lull yourself to sleep feeling and knowing that your prayer is answered.
Remember that the thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe.
To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this attitude of mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the contrary, you will receive an answer to your prayer.
Generate waves of harmony, health, and peace by thinking of the love and the glory of God.
What you decree and feel as true will come to pass. Decree harmony, health, peace, and abundance.
Your subconscious is the builder of your body and is on the job twenty-four hours a day. You interfere with its life-giving pattern by negative thinking.
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.
Know that you can remake yourself by giving a new blueprint to your subconscious mind.
The tendency of your subconscious is always lifeward. Your job is with your conscious mind. Feed your subconscious mind with premises that are true. Your subconscious is always reproducing according to your habitual mental patterns.
You build a new body every eleven months. Change your body by changing your thoughts and keeping them changed.
It is normal to be healthy. It is abnormal to be ill. There is within the innate principle of harmony.
Thoughts of jealousy, fear, worry, and anxiety tear down and destroy your nerves and glands, bringing about mental and physical diseases of all kinds.
What you affirm consciously and feel as true will be made manifest in your mind, body, and affairs. Affirm the good and enter into the joy of living.
Mental coercion or too much effort shows anxiety and fear that block your answer. Easy does it.
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.
Do not be overly concerned with the beating of your heart, with the breathing of your lungs, or the function of any organ of your body. Lean heavily upon your subconscious and proclaim frequently that Divine right action is taking place.
The feeling of health produces health, the feeling of wealth produces wealth. How do you feel?
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.
