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How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

A 52-week Guide
by Joseph Murphy 2017 366 pages
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Key Takeaways

1. Harness the Subconscious Mind for Limitless Potential

You have the incredible potential to be, do, and receive whatever you desire, imagine, and truly believe.

Unlocking Inner Power. The subconscious mind holds immense power, capable of transforming thoughts into reality. Most people fail to tap into this potential, settling for less than they are capable of achieving. The key is to recognize and harness this inner divinity to create a better reality.

Desire, Imagination, and Belief. The formula for success lies in desire, imagination, and belief. By clearly imagining a better reality and believing in it deeply, you can change your state of being and create a new reality. This involves actively planting thoughts into your subconscious mind.

Master of Your Destiny. This book serves as a guide to becoming the master of your own destiny. By learning to harness the power of your mind and the infinite resources around you, you can achieve whatever you desire, imagine, and truly believe. This transformation requires consistent effort and a deep understanding of how the conscious and subconscious minds interact.

2. Affirmations: Seeds for a New Reality

An affirmation is an assertion that something exists or is true.

Planting Positive Thoughts. Affirmations are positive statements that you consciously plant in the soil of your subconscious mind. These seeds of thought will eventually manifest in your body and environment. It is essential to project positive images onto the movie screen of your mind, faithfully believing that these images are your reality.

Reaping a Glorious Harvest. By sowing thoughts of peace, happiness, right action, goodwill, and prosperity, you can reap a glorious harvest in your life. This involves thinking quietly and with interest on these qualities and accepting them fully in your conscious reasoning mind, from where they are passed along to your subconscious mind.

Cooperating with Infinite Power. When your mind thinks correctly, when you understand the truth, and when the thoughts deposited in your subconscious mind are constructive, harmonious, and peaceful, the magic working power of your subconscious will respond and bring about harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, and the best of everything. This is consciously cooperating with the infinite power and omnipotent law within and around you, which governs all things.

3. Techniques to Imprint the Subconscious Mind

The more clearly and distinctly you are able to imagine yourself being, doing, or receiving what you desire, the more certainly your desire will be fulfilled.

Beyond Affirmations. While affirmations are effective, other techniques can further enhance the process of imprinting the subconscious mind. These methods include visualization, mental movies, and specific techniques like the Baudoin and "Thank You" methods.

Visualization and Mental Imagery. Visualization involves creating vivid mental images of your desired reality. The mental movie method takes this further by creating a detailed scene in your mind, acting as though your desire has already been fulfilled. This helps to solidify the impression on your subconscious.

Specific Techniques. The Baudoin Technique involves condensing your desire into a brief phrase and repeating it in a drowsy state. The "Thank You" Technique focuses on expressing gratitude for your desire as if it has already manifested. These techniques, combined with affirmations, can powerfully influence your subconscious mind.

4. Belief: The Foundation of Subconscious Power

The law of life is the law of belief, and belief could be summed up as a thought in your mind.

The Power of Belief. The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means that believing in the way your mind works is to believe in belief itself. Just as the intangible force of love can attract a soulmate, so too can the intangible power of belief bring health, wealth, wisdom, and a fulfilling life.

Reactions to Thoughts. All your experiences, events, conditions, and acts are the reactions of your subconscious mind to your thoughts. It is not the thing you believed in but the belief in your own mind that brings about the result.

Building Belief. Belief can be acquired through experience, reason, faith, and affirmations. Repeated affirmations and suggestions can impress a belief upon the subconscious mind. The effectiveness of an affirmation is determined largely by your understanding of the truth and the meaning behind the words.

5. Weekly Affirmations for Life Transformation

These 52 weekly affirmations empower you to improve every aspect of your life, including your health, wealth, relationships, marriage, and career.

A Year of Transformation. The book provides 52 weekly affirmations designed to improve various aspects of your life. These affirmations cover areas such as health, wealth, relationships, marriage, and career. Each affirmation is accompanied by commentary that places it in the context of real life.

Optimizing Affirmation Power. To optimize the power of these affirmations, it is recommended to post a copy where you will notice it, relax and quiet your mind before reciting, recite aloud if possible, think carefully about its meaning, focus on the positive, and use your imagination.

Consistency and Conviction. Spend an entire week on each affirmation, repeating it several times daily. Rest in a sense of deep conviction that it is done. Avoid negative phrases and weakening words like "I wish" or "I hope." State the affirmation as a decree from your conscious mind.

6. The Conscious Mind: Gatekeeper of Your Subconscious

My conscious mind is the watchman at the gate, protecting my mind from false impressions.

Protecting Your Mind. The conscious mind acts as a gatekeeper, protecting your subconscious from negative and destructive thoughts. It rejects thoughts that do not comply with the universal principles of health, love, wisdom, and abundance.

Controlling Your Thoughts. You have total control over how you think about events in your life. No person or event can make you feel angry, discouraged, envious, bitter, or inadequate. Your conscious mind can protect you by rejecting such thoughts.

Choosing Positive Thoughts. By consciously choosing to entertain thoughts of peace, joy, health, love, abundance, and goodwill towards all, you can create a positive and fulfilling life. This involves actively rejecting negative suggestions and maintaining a positive mental attitude.

7. Intuition and Divine Guidance: Inner Compass

The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind reveals to me my true place in life and I follow its lead which comes clearly into my conscious, reasoning mind.

Tapping into Infinite Intelligence. Your subconscious mind serves as a gateway to infinite intelligence, providing guidance and direction in your life. This involves trusting your intuition and following the lead that comes clearly into your conscious, reasoning mind.

Identifying Your Purpose. Use affirmations to pass the challenge of identifying your life's purpose along to your subconscious mind. It will identify your interests, knowledge, skills, talents, and passions and deliver opportunities that you are perfectly suited for and interested in.

Trusting Your Intuition. When facing important decisions, engage your subconscious and trust your intuition. Your conscious, rational mind may be able to reason what is best, but your intuition is likely to lead you to a decision that complies with the divine order.

8. Dreams: Messages from Your Subconscious

Through the wisdom of your subconscious mind you can attract the ideal companion, as well as the right business associate or partner.

Understanding Dream Language. Dreams are dramatizations of your subconscious and often warn you of impending danger. Some dreams are precognitive and can accurately probe the future. All dreams of a negative nature are subject to change and none is fatalistic.

Seeking Answers in Dreams. Prior to sleep, ask your subconscious mind a specific question and trust that the answer will be revealed in a dream. Your subconscious mind knows all things and can provide guidance and solutions to your problems.

Interpreting Dream Symbols. The symbols appearing in the individual subconscious are personal and apply to each individual only. Your disciplined imaginative faculty can unclothe the dream of its form and see the hidden idea behind the symbol.

9. Overcoming Negativity: A Path to Self-Mastery

This fear is nothing more than thought and self-deception. I am the master of my thoughts.

Confronting Irrational Fears. Irrational fears are often the result of false beliefs and exaggerated perceptions. To overcome these fears, imagine yourself in the presence of the thing or engaged in the activity you fear, and affirm that you are confident and at ease.

Controlling Your Thoughts. Recognize that negative thoughts can only take root in your mind if you emotionalize them and accept them mentally. Refuse to entertain suggestions of fear and work and relax in the deep, still ocean of peace at the center of your being.

Breaking Bad Habits. To break a bad habit, fill your mind with peace, poise, balance, and equilibrium. Affirm that you are completely free from the habit and that harmony and peace of mind reign supreme. Forgive yourself and embrace inner peace, freedom, and joy.

10. Love: The Ultimate Healing Power

Divine love fills my soul. Divine right action is mine. Divine harmony governs my life.

Unconditional Love. Give your love freely to others for the joy and thrill of knowing that they will be joyous and free. True love has no strings attached and expects nothing in return. Rejoice in the happiness that your love gives you and others.

Forgiving Others. Fully and freely forgive those who have hurt you, releasing them mentally and spiritually. Wish for them health, happiness, peace, and all the blessings in life. Whenever you think of the person or persons who hurt you, say, "I have released you, and all the blessings of life are yours. I am free and you are free."

Wishing Others Well. Wish for every person who walks the earth what you wish for yourself: peace, love, joy, abundance, and God’s blessings. Rejoice and be glad in the progression, advancement, and prosperity of all people.

11. The Power of Belief: Making the Impossible Possible

To affirm is to state that it is so, and as you maintain this attitude of mind as being true, regardless of all evidence to the contrary, whatever you affirm will come to be.

Believing in the Impossible. With belief, all things are possible. 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.

The Word Made Flesh. Thoughts take form according to the universal law of action and reaction. Thought is incipient action. The reaction is the response your subconscious mind which corresponds with the nature of your thought.

Invoking Good. Whoever reads this book and applies the principles of the subconscious mind herein will be able to invoke good for herself and for others. Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and goodwill and wonders will happen in your life.

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How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind receives mixed reviews, with an average rating of 3.96 out of 5. Positive reviews praise its self-healing approach and inspirational content, highlighting the book's emphasis on positive thinking and affirmations. Some readers find it life-changing and relatable. However, critics argue that the content is repetitive, overly simplistic, and sometimes conflicts with certain religious beliefs. Some readers also question the practicality of the book's claims, viewing them as unrealistic or outdated.

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About the Author

Joseph Murphy was an Irish-born author and Divine Science minister. Initially training as a Roman Catholic priest, he left the Jesuits after experiencing healing prayer. Murphy moved to the United States, becoming a pharmacist and later a minister in various New Thought movements. He was ordained in Religious Science and Divine Science, eventually leading a large congregation in Los Angeles. Murphy earned a PhD in psychology and began writing, producing numerous books on the power of the subconscious mind. He was married twice, with his second wife also being a Divine Science minister. Murphy's work primarily focused on harnessing the subconscious mind for personal growth and success.

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