posted January 05, 2011 12:53 PM            

by Dr. Joseph Murphy

Because of the time it was written one may perceive this work as not politically correct at times.

Excerpts:

Chpt. 1. The Treasure House within You

Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a goldmine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.

Many are sound asleep because they do not know about this gold mine of infinite intelligence and boundless love within themselves. Whatever you want, you can draw forth. A magnetized piece of steel will lift about twelve times its own weight, and if you demagnetize this same piece of steal, it will not even lift a feather. Similarly, there are two types of men. There is the magnetized man who is full of confidence and faith. He knows that he is born to win and to succeed. Then, there is the type of man who is demagnetized. He is full of fears and doubts. Opportunities come, and he says, “I might fail; I might lose my money; people will laugh at me.” This type of man will not get very far in life, because, if he is afraid to go forward, he will simply stay where he is. Become a magnetized man and discover the master secret of the ages.

What, in your opinion, is the master secret of the ages? The answer is extraordinarily simple. This secret is the marvelous, miracle-working power found in your own subconscious mind, the last place that most people would seek it.

You can bring into your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and more joy by learning to contact and release the hidden power of your subconscious mind.

You need not acquire this power; you already possess it. But, you want to learn how to use it; you want to understand it so that you can apply it in all departments of your life.

As you follow the simple techniques and processes set forth in this book, you can gain the necessary knowledge and understanding. You can be inspired by a new light, and you can generate a new force enabling you to realize your hopes and make all your dreams come true. Decide now to make your life grander, greater, richer, and nobler than ever before.

Within your subconscious depths lie infinite wisdom, infinite power, and infinite supply of all that is necessary, which is waiting for development and expression. Begin now to recognize these potentialities of your deeper mind, and they will take form in the world without.

The infinite intelligence within your sub. Mind can reveal to you everything you need to know at every moment of time and point of space provided you are open-minded and receptive. You can receive new thoughts and ideas enabling you to bring forth new inventions, make new discoveries, or write books and plays. Moreover, the infinite intelligence in your sub. can impart to you wonderful kinds of knowledge of an original nature. It can reveal to you and open the way for perfect expression and true place in your life.

Through the wisdom of your SM (subconscious mind) you can attract the ideal companion, as well as the right business associate or partner. It can find the right buyer for your home, and provide you with all the money you need, and the financial freedom to be, to do, and to go as your heart desires.

It is your right to discover this inner world of thought, feeling, and power, of light, love, and beauty. Though invisible, its forces are mighty. Within your SM you will find the solution for every problem, and the cause for every effect.

You can practice its powers with a certainty of results in exact proportion to your knowledge of its principles and to your application of them for definite specific purposes and goals you wish to achieve.

Being a former chemist, I would like to point out that if you combine hydrogen and oxygen in the proportions of two atoms of the former to the latter, water will be the result. You are very familiar with the fact that one atom of oxygen and one atom of carbon will produce carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas. But, if you add another atom of oxygen, you will get carbon dioxide, a harmless gas, and so on throughout the vast realm of chemical compounds.

You must not think that the principles of chemistry, physics, and mathematics differ from the principles of your SM. Your prayer is answered because your SM is principle, and by principle I mean the way a thing works. For example, the principle of electricity is that it works from a higher to a lower potential. You do not change the principle of electricity when you use it, but by co-operating with nature, you can bring forth marvelous inventions and discoveries which bless humanity in countless ways.

Your SM is principle and works according to the law of belief. You must know what belief is, why it works, and how it works. The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself. The belief of your mind is the thought of your mind-that is simple-just that and nothing else.

All your experiences, events, conditions, and acts are the reactions of your SM to your thoughts. Remember, it is not the thing believed in, but the belief in your own mind which brings about the results. Cease believing in the false beliefs, opinions, superstitions, and fears of mankind. Begin to believe in the eternal verities and truths of life which never change, then, you will move onward, upward, and Godward.

Brief Summary of Ideas Worth Remembering

~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 SM. 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 6 A.M.,” it will awaken you at the exact time.

~Your SM 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 faithful servant, will obey you.

~Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect.

~I you want to write a book, write a wonderful play, give a better talk to your audience, convey the idea lovingly and feelingly to your SM, and it will respond accordingly.

~You are like a captain navigating a ship. He must give the right orders, and likewise, you must give the right orders (thoughts and images) to your SM which controls and governs all your experiences.

~Never use the terms “I can’t afford it” and “I can’t do this.” Your SM takes you at your word and 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 SM.”

~The law of life is the law of belief. A belief is a thought in your mind. Do not believe in things to 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.

~Change your thoughts, and you change your destiny.

Chpt. 2. How Your Own Mind Works

There are two levels of your mind-the conscious or rational, and the subconscious or irrational level. You think with your conscious mind, and whatever you habitually think sinks down into your subconscious mind, which creates according to the nature of your thoughts. Your SM is the seat of your emotions and is the creative mind.

The main point to remember is once the SM accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. It is an interesting and subtle truth that the law of the SM works for good and bad ideas alike.

As soon as your subconscious, accepts any idea, it proceeds to put it into effect immediately. It works by association of ideas and uses every bit of knowledge that you have gathered in your lifetime to bring about its purpose. It draws on the infinite power, energy, and wisdom within you. It lines up all the laws of nature to get its way. Sometimes it seems to bring out an immediate solution to your difficulties, but at other times it may take days, weeks, or longer….Its ways are past finding out.

Your conscious mind is the reasoning mind. It is that phase of mind which chooses. For example, you choose your books, your home, and your partner in life. You make all your decisions with your conscious mind. On the other hand, without any conscious choice on your part, your heart is kept functioning automatically, and the process of digestion, circulation, and breathing are carried on by your SM through processes independent of your conscious control. Your SM is like the soil which accepts any kind of seed, good or bad. Your thoughts are active and might be likened unto seeds. Negative, destructive thoughts continue to work negatively in your SM, and in due time will come forth into outer experience which corresponds with them.

Remember, your SM does not engage in proving whether your thoughts are good or bad, true or false, but it responds according to the nature of your thoughts or suggestions. For example, if you consciously assume something as true, even though it may be false, your SM will accept it as true and proceed to bring about results which must necessarily follow, because you consciously assumed it to be true.

Your SM is oftentimes referred to as your subjective mind. Your subjective mind takes cognizance of its environment by means independent of the five senses. Your subjective mind perceives intuition. It is the seat of your emotion and the storehouse of memory. Your subjective mind performs its highest functions when your objective senses are in abeyance. In a word, it is that intelligence which makes it manifest when the objective mind is suspended or in a sleepy, drowsy state.

Your subjective mind sees without the use of the natural organs of vision. It has the capacity for clairvoyance and clairaudience. Your subjective mind can leave your body, travel to distant lands, and bring back information oftentimes of the most exact and truthful character. Through your subjective mind you can read the thoughts of others, read the contents of sealed envelopes and closed safes. Your subjective mind has the ability to apprehend the thoughts of others without the use of the ordinary objective means of communication. It is of the greatest importance that we understand the interaction of the objective and subjective mind in order to learn the true art of prayer.

Illustrations of Autosuggestion

Autosuggestion means suggesting something definite and specific to oneself. Autosuggestion may be used to banish various fears and other negative conditions. A young singer was invited to give an audition. She had been looking forward to the interview, but on three previous occasions she had failed miserably due to fear of failure. This young lady had a very good voice, but she had been saying to herself, “When the time comes for me to sing, maybe they won’t like me. I will try, but I’m full of fear and anxiety.”

Her SM accepted these negative autosuggestions as a request and proceeded to manifest them and bring them into her experience. The cause was an involuntary autosuggestions, i.e., silent fear thoughts emotionalized and subjectified.

She overcame it by the following technique: Three times a day she isolated herself in a room. She sat down comfortably in an armchair, relaxed her body, and closed her eyes. She stilled her mind and body as best she could. Physical inertia favors mental passivity and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion. She counteracted the fear suggestion by saying to herself, “I sing beautifully. I am poised, serene, confident, and calm.” She repeated this statement slowly, quietly, and with feeling from five to ten times at each sitting. She had three such “sittings” every day and one immediately prior to sleep. At the end of a week she was completely poised and confident. When the invitation to audition came, she gave a remarkable, wonderful audition.

How She Restored Her Memory

A woman, aged seventy-five, was in the habit of saying to herself, “I am losing my memory.” She reversed the procedure and practiced induced autosuggestion several times a day as follows: “My memory from today on is improving in every department. I shall always remember whatever I need to know are every moment of time and point of space. The impressions received will be clearer and more definite. I shall retain them automatically and with ease. Whatever I wish to recall will immediately present itself in the correct form in my mind. I am improving rapidly every day, and very soon my memory will be better than it has ever been before,” At the end of three weeks, her memory was back to normal, and she was delighted.

Review of Highlights

~Think good, and good follows. Think evil, and evil follows. You are what you think all day long.

~Your SM does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, “I can’t afford it,
“ it may be true, but do not say it. Select a better thought, 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 SM 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 will fail; I will lose my job; I can’t pay the rent.” Your subconscious cannot take 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.”

~You are the captain of your soul (SM) and the master of your fate. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health! Choose happiness!

posted January 08, 2011 05:28 PM            

Your SM never sleeps. Never rests. It is always on the job. You can discover the miracle-working power of your subconscious by plainly stating to your subconscious prior to sleep that you wish a certain specific thing accomplished. You will be delighted to discover that forces within you will be released, leading to the desired result. Here, then, 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.

A personal healing will ever be the most convincing evidence of the healing power of the SM. Over forty years ago I resolved a malignancy of the skin through prayer. Medical therapy had failed to check the growth, and it was getting progressively worse.

A clergyman, with a deep psychological knowledge, explained to me the inner meaning of the 139th Psalm wherein it says, In thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
He explained that the term book meant my SM which fashioned and molded all my organs from an invisible cell. He also pointed out that inasmuch as my SM made my body, it could also re-create it and heal it according to the perfect pattern within it.

This clergyman showed me his watch and said, “This had a maker, and the watchmaker had to have the idea first in mind before the watch became an objective reality, and if the watch was out of order, the watchmaker could fix it.”
My friend reminded me that the subconscious intelligence which created my body was like a watchmaker, and it also knew exactly how to heal, restore, and direct all the vital functions and processes of my body, but that I had to give it the perfect idea of health. This would act as a cause, and the effect would be a healing.

I prayed in a very simple way as follows: “My body and all its organs were created by the infinite intelligence in my SM. It knows how to heal me. Its wisdom fashioned all my organs, tissues, muscles, and bones. This infinite healing presence within me is now transforming every atom of my being making me whole and perfect now. I give thanks for the healing I know is taking place now. Wonderful are the works of the creative intelligence within me.”

I prayed aloud for about five minutes two or three times a day repeating the above simple prayer. In about three months my skin was whole and perfect.

As you can see, all I did was give life-giving patterns of wholeness, beauty, and perfection to my SM, thereby obliterating the negative images and patterns of thought lodged in my SM which were the cause of all my trouble. Nothing appears on your body except when the mental equivalent is first in your mind, and as you change your mind by drenching it with incessant affirmatives, you change your body. This is the basis of all healing….Marvelous are thy works; and that my soul [SM] knoweth right well. Psalms 139:14.

Often times your conscious mind interferes with the normal rhythm of the heart, lungs, and functioning of the stomach and intestines by worry, fear, and depression. These patters of thought interfere with the harmonious functioning of your SM. When mentally disturbed, the best procedure is to let go, relax, and still the wheels of your thought processes. Speak to your SM, telling it to take over in peace, harmony and divine order. You will find that all the functions of your body will become normal again. Be sure to speak to your SM with authority and conviction, and it will conform to your command.

Your subconscious seeks to preserve your life and restore you to health at all costs. It causes you to love your children which also illustrates an instinctive desire to preserve all life. Let us suppose you accidentally ate some bad food. Your SM would cause you to regurgitate it. If you advertently 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.

How to get the subconscious to work for you

The first thing to realize is that your SM is always working. It is active night and day, whether you act upon it or not. Your subconscious is the builder of your body, but you cannot consciously perceive or hear that inner silent process. Your business is with your conscious mind and not with your SM. Just keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and make sure the thoughts you habitually think are based on whatsoever things are lovely, true, just, and of good report. Begin now to take care of your conscious mind, knowing in your heart and soul that your SM is always expressing, reproducing, and manifesting according to your habitual thinking.

Remember, just as water takes the shape of the pipe it flows through, the life principle in you flows through you according to the nature of your thoughts. Claim that the healing presence in your subconscious is flowing through you as harmony, health, peace, joy, and abundance. Think of it as a living intelligence, a lovely companion on the way. Firmly believe it is continually flowing through you vivifying, inspiring, and prospering you. It will respond exactly this way. It is done unto you as you believe.

Ideas Worth Remembering

~Your SM 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 SM and prove its miracle-working power to yourself.

~Whatever you impress on your SM 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 SM to your thought. Watch your thoughts!

~All frustration is due to unfulfilled desires. If you dwell on obstacles, delays, and difficulties, your SM 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 which 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 SM and bring it to pass.

Chpt. 4. Mental Healings in Ancient Times

~Remind yourself frequently that the healing power is in your own SM.

~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 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 others’ SM and bring about wonderful results.

~The miraculous healings you hear about at various shrines are due to imagination and blind faith which act on the SM, 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 SM.

~Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your SM responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind, and that will suffice.

Chpt. 5. Mental Healings in Modern Times

~Find out what it is that heals you. Realize that correct directions given to your SM will heal your mind and body.

~Develop a definite plan for turning over your requests or desires to your SM.

~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 what you think you create.

~It is foolish to believe in sickness as something to hurt or to 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. Mentally and emotionally unite with that idea, and 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 faith, which means a knowledge of the working(s) 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.

posted January 16, 2011 07:46 PM            

An engineer has a technique and a process for building a bridge or an engine. Like the engineer, your also has a technique for governing, controlling, and directing your life. You must realize that methods and techniques are primary.

In building the Golden Gate Bridge, the chief engineer understood mathematical principles, stresses and strains. Secondly, he had a picture of the ideal bridge across the bay. The third step was his application of tried and proven methods by which the principles were implemented until the bridge took form and we drive on it. There also are techniques and methods by which your prayers are answered. If your prayer is answered, there is a way in which it is answered, and this is a scientific way. Nothing happens by chance. This is a world of law and order.

Your prayers must not remain up in the air like a balloon. They must go somewhere and accomplish something in your life. When we come to analyze prayer we discover there ate many different approaches and methods.

Prayer is the formulation of an idea concerning something we wish to accomplish. Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. That is really a prayer, life’s hunger and thirst for peace, harmony, health, joy, and all the other blessings of life.

The passing-over technique for impregnating the subconscious

This consists essentially in inducing the SM to take over your request as handed it by the conscious mind. This passing-over is best accomplished in the reverie-like state. Know that in your deeper mind is Infinite Intelligence and Infinite Power. Just calmly think over what you want; see it coming into fuller fruition from this moment forward. Be like the little girl who had a very bad cough and a sore throat. She declared firmly and repeatedly, “It is passing away now. It is passing away nor.” It passed away in about an hour. Use this technique with complete simplicity and naïveté.

Your subconscious will accept your blueprint

If you were building a new home for yourself and family, you know that you would be intensely interested in regard to the blueprint for your home; you would see to it that the builders conformed to the blueprint. You would watch the material and select only the best wood, steel, in fact, the best of everything. What about your mental home and your mental blueprint for happiness and abundance? All your experiences and everything that enters into your life depend upon the nature of the mental building blocks which you use in the construction of your mental home.

If your blueprint is full of mental patterns of fear, worry, anxiety, or lack, and if you are despondent, doubtful, and cynical, then the texture of the mental material you are weaving into your mind will come forth as more toil, care, tension, anxiety, and limitation of all kinds.

Get a new blueprint; build silently by realizing peace, harmony, joy, and good will in the present moment. By dwelling upon these things and claiming them, your subconscious will accept your blueprint and bring all these things to pass. By their fruits ye shall know them.

The science and art of true prayer

The term “science” means knowledge which is coordinated, arranged, and systematized. Let us think of the science and art of true prayer as it deals with the fundamental principles of life and the techniques and processes by which they can be demonstrated in your life, as well as in the life of every human being when he applies them faithfully. The art is your technique or process, and the science behind it is the definite response of creative mind to your mental picture or thought.

There is always a direct response from the Infinite Intelligence of your SM to your conscious thinking. If you ask for bread, you will not receive a stone. You must ask believing, if you are to receive. Your mind moves from the thought to the thing. Unless there is first an image in the mind, it cannot move, for there would be nothing for it to move toward. Your prayer, which is your mental act, must be accepted as an image in your mind before the power from your subconscious will play upon it and make it productive. You must reach a point of acceptance in your mid, an unqualified and undisputed state of agreement. This contemplation should be accompanied by a feeling of joy and restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishment of your desire. The sound basis for the art and science of true prayer is your knowledge and complete confidence that the movement of your conscious mind will gain a definite response from your SM which is one with boundless wisdom and infinite power. By following this procedure, your prayers will be answered.

*There are at least seven methods/techniques of prayer the author discusses. I’ll post a little of some of them.

The Visualization Technique

The easiest and most obvious way to formulate an idea is to visualize it, to see it in your mind’s eye as vividly as if it were alive. You can see with the naked eye only what already exists in the external world; in a similar way, that which you can visualize in your mind’s eye already exists in the invisible realms of your mind. Any picture which you have in your mind is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. What you form in your imagination is as real as any part of your body. The idea and the thought are real and will one day appear in your objective world if you are faithful to your image.

Mental Movie Method

A number of years ago I was in the Middle West lecturing in several states, and I desired to have permanent location in the general area in which I could serve those who desired help. I traveled far, but the desire did not leave my mind. One evening, while in a hotel in Spokane, Washington, I relaxed completely on the couch, immobilized my attention, and in a quiet, passive manner imagined that I was talking to a large audience, saying in effect, “I am glad to be here; I have prayed for the ideal opportunity.” I saw in my mind’s eye the imaginary audience, and I felt the reality of it all. I played the role of the actor, dramatized this mental movie, and felt satisfied that this picture was being conveyed to my SM, which would bring it to pass in its own way. The next morning, on awakening, I felt a great sense of peace and satisfaction, and in a few days’ time I received a telegram asking me to take over an organization in the Midwest, which I did, and I enjoyed it immensely for several days.

The Baudoin Technique

Charles Baudoin was a professor at the Rousseau Institute in France. He was a brilliant psychotherapist and a research director of the New Nancy School of Healing, who in 1910 taught that the best way to impress the SM was to enter into a drowsy, sleepy state, or a state akin to sleep in which all effort was reduced to a minimum. The in a quiet, passive, receptive way, by reflection, he would convey the idea to the subconscious. The following is his formula: “A very simple way of securing this (impregnation of the SM) is to condense the idea which is to be the object of suggestion, to sum it up in a brief phrase which can be readily graven on the memory, and to repeat it over and over again as a lullaby.”

The Sleeping Technique

The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent when in a sleepy state. The reason for this is that the highest degree of outcropping of the subconscious occurs prior to sleep and just after we awaken.

The Thank You Technique

In the Bible, Paul recommends that we make known our requests with praise and thanksgiving. Some extraordinary results follow this simple method of prayer. The thankful heart is always close to the creative forces of the universe, causing countless blessings to flow toward it by the law of reciprocal relationship, based on a common law of action and reaction.

The Affirmative Method

The effectiveness of an affirmation is determined largely by your understanding of truth and the meaning back of the words, ”In praying use not vain repetition.” “Therefore, the power of your affirmation lies in the intelligent application of definite and specific positives. For example a boy adds three and three and puts down seven on the blackboard. The teacher affirms with mathematical certainty that three and three are six; therefore, the boy changes his figures accordingly. The teacher’s statement did not make three and three equal six because the latter was already a mathematical truth. The mathematical truth caused the boy to rearrange the figures on the blackboard. It is abnormal to be sick; it is normal to be healthy. Health is the truth of your being. When you affirm health, harmony, and peace for yourself or another, and when you realize these are universal principles of your being, you will rearrange the negative patterns of your SM based on your faith and understanding of that which you affirm.

The Argumentative Method

This method is just what the word implies. In brief, the argumentative method consists of spiritual reasoning where you convince the patient and yourself that his sickness is due to his false belief, groundless fears, and negative patterns lodged in his SM. You reason it out clearly in your mind and convince your patient that the disease or ailment is due only to a distorted, twisted pattern of thought which has taken form in his body.

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 SM to your conscious thinking.

~Feel the joy and restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishments of your desire. Any mental picture which you have in 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 and 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 electronic 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.

posted January 29, 2011 02:51 PM            

Over 90 percent of your mental life is subconscious, so men and women who fail to make use of this marvelous power live within very narrow limits.

Your SM is in touch with infinite life and boundless wisdom, and its impulses and ideas are always lifeward. The great aspirations, inspirations, and visions for a grander and nobler life spring from the subconscious. Your profoundest convictions are those you cannot argue about rationally because they do not come from your conscious mind; they come from your SM. Your subconscious speaks to you in intuitions, impulses, hunches, intimations, urges, and ideas, and it is always telling you to rise, transcend, grow, advance, adventure, and move forward to greater heights. The urge to love, to save the lives of others comes from the depth of your subconscious.

Great artists, musicians, poets, speakers, and writers tune in with their subconscious powers and become animated and inspired. For example, Robert Louis Stevenson, before he went to sleep, used to charge his subconscious with the task of evolving stories for him while he slept. He was accustomed to ask his subconscious to give him a good, marketable thriller when his bank account was low. Stevenson said the intelligence of his deeper mind gave him the story piece by piece, like a serial. This shows how your subconscious will speak lofty and wise sayings through you which your conscious mind knows nothing about.

Pointers to Review

~Your subconscious is the builder of your body and is on the job 24 hours a day. You interfere with its life-giving patterns 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 brain to you solar plexes-your abnormal brain-and is brought into your world as a reality.

~Know that you can remake yourself by giving a new blueprint to your SM.

~The tendency of your subconscious is always lifeward. Your job is with your conscious mind. Feed your SM with premises which 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.

posted February 06, 2011 11:08 AM            

The principle reasons for failure are: lack of confidence and too much effort. Many people block answers to their prayers by failing to fully comprehend the workings of their SM. When you know how your mind functions, you gain a measure of confidence. You must remember whenever your SM accepts an idea, it immediately begins to execute it. It uses all its mighty resources to that end and mobilizes all the mental and spiritual laws of your deeper mind. This law is true for good or bad ideas. Consequently, if you use it negatively, it brings trouble, failure, and confusion. When you use it constructively, it brings guidance, freedom, and peace of mind.

The right answer is inevitable when your thoughts are positive, constructive, and loving. From this it is perfectly 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 by feeling 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.

You will always fail to get results by trying to use mental coercion-your SM does not respond to coercion, it responds to your faith or conscious mind acceptance.

Your failure to get results may also arise from such statements as: “Things are getting worse.” “I will never get an answer.” “I see no way out.” “It is hopeless.” “I don’t know what to do.” “I’m all mixed up.” When you use such statements, you get no response or co-operation from your SM. Like a soldier marking time, you neither go forward nor backward; in other words, you don’t get anywhere.

If you get into a taxi and give a half dozen different directions to the driver in five minutes, he would become hopelessly confused and probably would refuse to take you anywhere. It is the same when working with your SM. There must be 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.

Ideas Worth Recalling

~Mental coercion or too much effort shows anxiety and fear which 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 functions of any part of your anatomy. Lean heavily on 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.

posted February 19, 2011 11:52 AM            

If you are having financial difficulties, if you are trying to make ends meet, it means you have not convinced your SM 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. Do not believe the story that the only way you can become wealthy is by the sweat of your brow and hard labor. It is not so; the effortless way of life is the best. Do the thing you love to do, and do it for the joy and the thrill of it.

Wealth is simply a subconscious conviction of 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 a wealth consciousness by building into your mentality the idea of wealth and abundance.

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 security is that they do not know how to tap the SM. They are unacquainted with the inexhaustible storehouse within.

A man with a poverty-type mind finds himself in poverty-stricken conditions. Another man with a mind filled with ideas of wealth is surrounded with everything he needs. It was never intended that a man should lead a life of indigence. 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 SM. 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 SM 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.

Why your affirmations for wealth fail

I have talked to many people during the past thirty-five years whose usual complaint is, “I have said for weeks and months, ‘I am wealthy, I am prosperous; and nothing has happened.”
I discovered that when they said, “I am prosperous, I am wealthy,” they felt within that they were lying to themselves.
One man told me, “I have affirmed that I am prosperous until I am tired. Things are now worse. I knew when I made the statement that it was obviously not true.” His statements were rejected by the conscious mind, and the very opposite of what he outwardly affirmed and claimed was made manifest.

Your affirmation succeeds best when it is specific and when it does not produce a mental conflict or argument; hence the statements made by this man made matters worse because they suggested his lack. Your subconscious accepts what you really feel to be true, not just the idle words or statements. The dominant idea or belief is always accepted by the SM.

How to avoid mental conflict

The following is the ideal way to overcome this conflict for those who have this difficulty. Make this practical statement frequently, particularly prior to sleep: “By day and by night I am being prospered in all of my interests.” This affirmation will not arouse any argument because it does not contradict your subconscious mind’s impression of financial lack.

You sign blank checks when you make such statements as, “There is not enough to go around.” “There is a shortage.” “I will lose the house because of the mortgage,” etc. If you are full of fear about the future, you are also writing a blank check and attracting negative conditions to you. Your SM takes your fear and negative statement as your request and proceeds in its own way to bring obstacles, delays, lack, and limitations into your life.

True source of wealth

Your SM 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 pound sterling or 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 SM 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.

There are people who claim that they are always trying to make ends meet. They seem to have a great struggle to meet their obligations. Have you listened to their conversations? In many instances their conversation runs along this vain: They are constantly condemning those who have succeeded in life and who have raised their heads above the crowd. Perhaps they are saying, “Oh, that fellow has a racket; he is ruthless; he is a crook.” This is why they lack; they are condemning the thing they desire and want. The reason they speak critically of their more prosperous associates is because they are envious and covetous of the others’ prosperity. The quickest way to cause wealth to take wings and fly away is to criticize and condemn others who have more wealth than you.

A common stumbling block to wealth

There is one common 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 to 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 even greater measure of wealth to flow to you by the law of your own SM.

If you are worried and critical about someone whom you claim is making money dishonestly, cease worrying about him. You know such a person is using the law of mind negatively; the law of mind takes care of him. Be careful not to criticize him for the reasons previously indicated. Remember: The block or obstacle to wealth is in your own mind. You can now destroy that mental block. This you may do by getting on mental good terms with everyone.

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 SM.

Serve yourself with the powers of your mind

~Decide to be wealthy the easy way, with the infallible aid of your SM.

~Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.

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

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

~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 accents what your really feel to be true. The dominant idea is always accepted by your SM. The dominant idea should be wealth, not poverty.

~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.”

~Increase your sales by repeating this statement over and over again, “My sales are improving every day; I am advancing, progressing, and getting wealthier every day,”

~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.

~Deposit thoughts of prosperity, wealth, and success in your SM, and the latter will give you compound interest.

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

~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.

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

~The block to wealth is in your own mind. Destroy that block now by getting on good mental terms with everyone.

posted February 27, 2011 11:55 AM            

It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abundant life and be happy, radiant, and free. You should, therefore, have all the money you need to lead a full, happy, and prosperous life.

You are here to grow, expand, and unfold spiritually, mentally, and materially. You have the inalienable right to fully develop and express yourself along all lines. You should surround yourself with beauty and luxury.

Why be satisfied with just enough to go around when you can enjoy the riches of your SM? In this chapter you can learn to make friends with money, and you should always have a surplus. Your desire to be rich is a desire for a fuller, happier, more wonderful life. It is a cosmic urge. It is not only good, but very good.

How to walk the royal road to riches

Knowledge of the powers of your SM is the means to the royal road to riches of all kinds-spiritual, mental, or financial. The student of the laws of mind believes and knows definitely that regardless of economic situations, stock market fluctuation, depression, strikes, war, or other conditions or circumstances, he will always be amply supplied, regardless of what form money takes. The reason for this is that he has conveyed the idea of wealth to his SM, and it keeps him supplied wherever he may be. He has convinced himself in his mind that money is forever flowing freely in his life and that there is always a wonderful surplus. Should there be a financial collapse of government tomorrow and all the man’s present holdings become valueless, as the German marks did after the First World War, he would still attract wealth and be cared for, regardless of the form the new currency took.

Why you do not have more money

As you read this chapter, you are probably saying, “I am worthy of a higher salary than I am receiving.” I believe most people are inadequately compensated. One of the causes many people do not have more money is that they are silently or openly condemning it. They refer to money as “filthy lucre” or “the love of money is the root of all evil.” Another reason they do not prosper is that they have a sneaky subconscious feeling there is some virtue in poverty. This subconscious patter may be due to early childhood training, superstition, or it could be based ion a false interpretation of scriptures.

Money and a balanced life

One time a man said to me, “I am broke. I do not like money. It is the root of all evil.” These statements represent a confused neurotic mind. Love of money to the exclusion of everything else will cause you to become lopsided and unbalanced. You are here to use your power or authority wisely. Some men crave power, others crave money. If you set your heart on money exclusively and say, “Money is all I want; I am going to give all my attention to amassing money; nothing else matters,” you can get money and attain a fortune, but you have forgotten that you are here to lead a balanced life. You must also satisfy the hunger for peace of mind, harmony, love, joy, and perfect health.

By making money your sole aim, you simply made a wrong choice. You thought that was all you wanted, but you found after all your efforts that it was all you wanted, but you found after all your efforts that it was not only the money you needed. You also desired true expression of your hidden talents, true place in life, beauty, and the joy of contributing to the welfare and success of others. By learning the laws of your SM, you could have a million dollars or many millions, if you wanted them, and still have peace of mind, harmony, perfect health, and perfect expression.

Poverty is a mental disease

There is no value in poverty; it is a disease like any other mental disease. If you were physically ill, you would think there was something wrong with you. You would seek help and do something about the condition at once. Likewise, if you do not have money constantly circulating in your life, there is something radically wrong with you. The urge of the life principle in you is toward growth, expansion, and the life more abundant. You are not here to live a hovel, dress in rags, and go hungry. You should be happy, prosperous, and successful.

Getting the right attitude toward money

Here is a simple technique you may use to multiply money in your experience. Use the following statements several times a day, “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 the riches of my mind.”

Step up this way to riches

~Be bold enough to claim that it is your right to be rich and your deeper mind will honor your claim.

~You don’t want just enough to go around. You want all the money you need to do all the things you want to do and when you want to do them. Get acquainted with the riches of your SM.

~When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy. Look at money like a tide and you will always have plenty of it. The ebb and flow of the tide is constant. When the tide is out you are absolutely sure that it will return.

~Knowing the laws of your SM, you will always be supplied regardless of what form money takes.

~One reason many people simply make ends meet and never have enough money is that they condemn money. What you condemn takes wings and flies away.

~Do not make a god of money. It is only a symbol. Remember that the real riches are in your mind. You are here to lead a balanced life-this includes acquiring all the money you need.

~There is no virtue in poverty. It is a disease of the mind, and you should heal yourself of this mental conflict or malady at once.

~You are not here to live in a hovel, to dress in rags, or to go hungry. You are here to lead the life more abundant.

~Never use the terms, “filthy lucre” or “I despise money.” You lose what you criticize. There is nothing good or bad, but thinking of it in either light makes it so.

~Repeat frequently, “I like money. I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciously. I release it with joy, and it returns a thousandfold.

~Money is not evil any more so than copper, lead, tin, or iron which you may find in the ground. All evil is due to ignorance and misuse of the mind’s powers.

~To picture the end result in your mind causes your subconscious to respond and fulfill your mental picture.

posted April 10, 2011 04:32 PM            

Success means successful living. A long period of peace, joy, and happiness on this plane may be termed success. The eternal experience of these qualities is the everlasting life spoken of by Jesus. The real things of life, such as peace, harmony, integrity, security, and happiness are intangible. They come from the Deep Self of man. Meditating on these qualities builds these treasures of heaven in our subconscious.

The Three Steps to Success

The first step to success is to find out the thing you love to do, then do it. Success is in loving your work. Although, it a man is a psychiatrist, it is not adequate for him to get a diploma and place it on the wall; he must keep up with the times, attend conventions, and continue studying the mind and its workings. The successful psychiatrist visits clinics and reads the latest scientific articles. In other words, he is informed in the most advanced methods of alleviating human suffering. The successful psychiatrist or doctor must have the interest of his patients at heart.

Someone may say, “How can I put the first step into operation? I do not know what I should do.” In such a case, pray for guidance as follows: “The infinite intelligence of my SM reveals to me my true place in life.”
Repeat this prayer quietly, positively, and lovingly to your deeper mind. As you persist with faith and confidence, the answer will come to you as a feeling, a hunch, or a tendency in a certain direction. It will come to you clearly and in peace, and as an inner silent awareness.

The second step to success is to specialize in some particular branch of work and know more about it than anyone else. For example, if a young man chooses chemistry as hi profession, he should concentrate on one of the many branches in this field. He should give all of his time and attention to his chosen specialty. He should become sufficiently enthusiastic to try to know all there is available about his field; if possible, he should know more than anyone else. The young man should become ardently interested in his work and should desire to serve the world.

He that is greatest among you, let him become your servant.

There is a great contrast in this attitude of mind in comparison to that of the man who only wants to make a living or just “get by.” “Getting by” is not true success. Man’s motive must be greater, nobler, and more altruistic. He must serve others, thereby casting his bread upon the waters.

The third is the most important one. You must be sure that the thing you want to do does not redound to your success only. Your desire must not be selfish; it must benefit humanity. The path of a complete circuit must be formed. I other words, your idea must go forth with the purpose of blessing or serving the world. It will then come back to you pressed down, shaken together, and running over. If it is to benefit yourself exclusively, the circle or complete circuit is not formed, and you may experience a short circuit in your life which may consist of limitation or sickness.

The Measure of True Success

Some people may say, “But, Mr. James made a fortune in selling fraudulent oil stock.” A man may seem to succeed for a while, but the money he obtained by fraud usually takes wings and flies away. When we rob from another, we rob from ourselves, because we are in a mood of lack and limitation which may manifest itself in our body, home life, and affairs. What we think and feel, we create. We create what we believe. Even though a man may have accumulated a fortune fraudulently, he is not successful. There is no success without peace of mind. What good is man’s accumulated wealth if he cannot sleep nights, is sick, or has a guilt complex?

A successful person loves his work and expresses himself fully. The man of success is the man who possesses great psychological and spiritual understanding. Many of the great industrialists today depend upon the correct use of their subconscious minds for their success.

There was an article published some years ago about Flagler, an oil magnet. He admitted that the secret of his success was his ability to see a project in its completion. For instance, in his case, he closed his eyes, imagined a big oil industry, saw trains running on tracks, heard whistles blowing, and saw smoke. Having seen and felt the fulfillment of his prayer, his SM brought about its realization. If you imagine an objective clearly, you will be provided with the necessities, in ways you know not of, through the wonder-working power of your SM.

In considering the three steps to success you must never forget the underlying power of the creative forces of your SM. Thus is the energy in back of all steps in any plan of success. Your thought is creative. Thought fused with feeling becomes a subjective faith or belief, and according to your belief be it done unto you. Matthew 9:29.

A knowledge of a mighty force in you which is capable of bringing to pass all your desires gives you confidence and a sense of peace. Whatever your field of action may be,, you should learn the laws of your SM. When you know how to apply the powers of your mind, and when you are expressing yourself fully and giving of your talents to others, you are on the sure path to true success. If you are about God’s business, or any part of it, God, by His very nature, is for you, so who can be against you? With this understanding there is no power in heaven or on earth to withhold success from you.

Profitable Pointers

~Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous, and doing what you love to do, you are successful.

~Find out what you love to do, then do it. If you don’t know your true expression, ask for guidance, and the lead will come.

~Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than anyone else.

~A successful man is not selfish. His main desire in life is to serve humanity.

~There is no true success without peace of mind.

~A successful man possesses great psychological and spiritual understanding.

~If you imagine an objective clearly, you will be provided with the necessities through the wonder-working power of your SM.

~Your thought fused with feeling becomes a subjective belief, and according to your belief be it done unto you.

~The power of sustained imagination draws forth the miracle-working powers of your SM.

~If you are seeking promotion in your work, imagine your employer, supervisor, or loved one congratulating you on your promotion. Make the picture vivid and real. Hear the voice, see the gestures, and feel the reality of it all. Continue to do this frequently, and through frequent occupancy of your mind, you will experience the joy of the answered prayer.

~Your SM is a storehouse of memory. For a perfect memory, affirm frequently: “The infinite intelligence of my SM reveals to me everything I need to know at all times, everywhere.”

~If you wish, to sell a home or property of any kind, affirm slowly, quietly, and feelingly as follows: “Infinite intelligence attracts to me the buyer of this house or property, who wants it, and who prospers in it.” Sustain this awareness, and the deeper currents of your SM will bring it to pass.

~The idea of success contains all the elements of success. Repeat the word, “Success,” to yourself frequently with faith and conviction, and you will be under a subconscious compulsion to succeed.

I will conclude with chapter 11, as I hope interested parties will purchase the book. I plunked down $10.00, ordering through Mr. Paperback. It may be cheaper elsewhere, i.e. Amazon.com. The rest of the chapters as follows:

Chpt. 12. Scientists Use the Subconscious Mind

Chpt. 13. Your Subconscious and the Wonders of sleep

Chpt. 14. Your Subconscious Mind and Marital Problems

Chpt. 15. Your Subconscious Mind and Your Happiness

Chpt. 16. Your Subconscious Mind and Harmonious Relations

Chpt. 17. How to Use Your Subconscious Mind for Forgiveness

Chpt. 18. How Your Subconscious Removes Mental Blocks

Chpt 19. How to Use Your Subconscious Mind to Remove Fear

Chpt. 20. How to Stay young in Spirit Forever