The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

1. Unlock Your Inner Treasure House: The Subconscious Holds Infinite Riches

Infinite Riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you.

Limitless potential. The subconscious mind is a gold mine of infinite intelligence and boundless love, holding the key to a glorious, joyous, and abundant life. Many people remain unaware of this inner resource, living far below their potential. By learning to access and utilize this power, you can draw forth whatever you need.

Magnetized vs. Demagnetized. The difference between success and failure lies in your mental state. A "magnetized" person is full of confidence and faith, believing they are born to win. A "demagnetized" person is plagued by fears and doubts, missing opportunities due to their hesitation. To achieve your dreams, cultivate a confident, positive mindset.

Master secret. The master secret of the ages is the marvelous, miracle-working power found in your own subconscious mind. This power is already within you, waiting to be unleashed. By understanding and applying the techniques outlined in this book, you can tap into this hidden potential and transform your life.

2. The Duality of Mind: Conscious Thinking Shapes Subconscious Reality

You have only one mind, but your mind possesses two distinctive characteristics.

Two spheres of activity. The mind operates on two levels: the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious mind is the rational, thinking part that makes decisions. The subconscious mind is the emotional, creative part that executes those decisions. Understanding this duality is key to harnessing your mental power.

Gardener analogy. The conscious mind is like a gardener, planting seeds (thoughts) in the subconscious mind (the soil). As you sow, so shall you reap. Plant thoughts of peace, happiness, right action, good will, and prosperity to cultivate a glorious harvest in your life.

Inner world creates outer world. The world within, your thoughts, feelings, and imagery, creates your world without. It is the only creative power. To change external conditions, you must change the cause, which is the way you are using your conscious mind.

3. Subconscious Power: A Wellspring of Miracles and Healing

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.

Enormous potential. The subconscious mind is a source of immense power, wisdom, and healing. It controls vital bodily functions, inspires creativity, and reveals hidden knowledge. By consciously directing this power, you can achieve remarkable results.

Miracle-working power. 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. Forces within you will be released, leading to the desired result.

Book of Life. Your subconscious mind is your book of life, recording every thought, belief, and opinion. What you write on the inside, you will experience on the outside. Your thoughts become your experiences, shaping your circumstances, conditions, and events.

4. Ancient Wisdom: Harnessing the Subconscious Through Belief

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Universal belief. Throughout history, people have instinctively believed in a healing power that can restore the body's functions. This power can be invoked under certain conditions, leading to the alleviation of suffering.

Faith is key. The success of any technique depends on the confident conviction that the thought, the idea, the picture is already a fact in mind. Faith, as mentioned in the Bible, is a way of thinking, an attitude of mind, an inner certitude, knowing that the idea you fully accept in your conscious mind will be embodied in your subconscious mind and made manifest.

Shrines and rituals. Cures have taken place at various shrines throughout the world, regardless of religious affiliation. These healings are due to the imagination and blind faith of the sick person, which act on the subconscious mind, releasing the healing power.

5. Modern Applications: Prayer Therapy and the Subconscious

Prayer therapy is the combined function of the conscious & subconscious mind scientifically directed.

Changed mental attitude. The healing power resides in the subconscious mind of each person, and a changed mental attitude on the part of the sick person releases this healing power. No mental or religious science practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist or medical doctor ever healed a patient.

One universal principle. There is only one universal healing principle operating through everything. This life principle operates through the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms as instinct and the law of growth. Man is consciously aware of this life principle, and he can consciously direct it to bless himself in countless ways.

Prayer therapy. Prayer therapy is the synchronized, harmonious, and intelligent function of the conscious and subconscious levels of mind specifically directed for a definite purpose. In scientific prayer or prayer therapy, you must know what you are doing and why you are doing it. You trust the law of healing.

6. Practical Techniques: Visualization, Affirmations, and the Power of Suggestion

In building the Golden Gate Bridge, the chief engineer understood mathematical principles, stresses and strains.

Techniques are primary. Like an engineer with a blueprint, your mind also has a technique for governing, controlling, and directing your life. Methods and techniques are primary.

Visualization. The easiest way to formulate an idea is to visualize it, to see it in your mind's eye as vividly as if it were alive. 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 mental image.

Affirmations. The effectiveness of an affirmation is determined largely by your understanding of the truth and the meaning back of the words. The power of your affirmation lies in the intelligent application of definite and specific positives.

7. Lifeward Tendency: The Subconscious Always Strives for Health and Harmony

Over ninety 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.

Constructive force. Your subconscious processes are always lifeward and constructive. It is the builder of your body and maintains all its vital functions. It is always trying to help and preserve you from harm.

Body as a mirror. Every thought entertained by your conscious mind and accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus, the brain of the subconscious mind, to be made into your flesh, and to be brought forth into your world as a reality.

Interference with harmony. Every thought or action, which is not harmonious, whether through ignorance or design, will result in discord and limitation of all kinds. You can keep from entertaining negative thoughts and imagery.

8. Achieving Desired Results: Faith, Relaxation, and Disciplined Imagination

The right answer is inevitable when your thoughts are positive, constructive and loving.

Positive thoughts. The right answer is inevitable when your thoughts are positive, constructive, and loving. 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.

Easy does it. Decree health, and your subconscious will establish it, but relaxation is the key. Do not be concerned with details and means, but know the end result. Get the feel of the happy solution to your problem whether it is health, finances or employment.

Disciplined imagination. A wonderful way to get a response from your subconscious mind is through disciplined or scientific imagination. Your subconscious mind is the builder of the body and controls all its vital functions.

9. Wealth Consciousness: Impress Your Subconscious with Abundance

Wealth is simply a subconscious conviction on the part of the individual.

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

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

Ideal method. Repeat for about five minutes to yourself three or four times a day, “Wealth - Success.” These words have tremendous power. They represent the inner power of the subconscious mind. Anchor your mind on this substantial power within you; then conditions and circumstances corresponding to their nature and quality will be manifested in your life.

10. Your Right to Be Rich: Money as a Symbol of Exchange and Freedom

It is your right to be rich.

Abundant life. 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.

Money as a symbol. Money is a symbol of exchange. It means to you not only freedom from want, but beauty, luxury, abundance and refinement. It is merely a symbol of the economic health of the nation.

Royal road to riches. Knowledge of the powers of your subconscious mind 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 and circumstances, he will always be amply supplied, regardless of what form money takes.

11. Success Through Partnership: Aligning Conscious Goals with Subconscious Power

Success means successful living.

Successful living. 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.

Three steps to success. The first step to success is to find out the thing you love to do, then do it. The second step to success is to specialize in some particular branch of work and know more about it than anyone else. The third step is the most important one. You must be sure that the thing you want to do does not redound to your success only.

Creative forces. In considering the three steps to success you must never forget the underlying power of the creative forces of your subconscious mind. This 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 it is done unto you.

12. The Wonders of Sleep: Recharging and Receiving Guidance

You spend about eight out of every twenty-four hours, or one third of your entire life, in sleep.

Divine law. You spend about eight out of every twenty-four hours, or one third of your entire life, in sleep. This is an inexorable law of life. This also applies to the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Sleep is a divine law and many answers to our problems come to us when we are sound asleep upon the bed.

Prayer as sleep. Your conscious mind gets involved with vexations, strife and contentions of the day and it is very necessary to withdraw periodically from sense evidence and the objective world, and commune silently with the inner wisdom of your subconscious mind.

Sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep can cause you to become irritable, moody and depressed. You are spiritually recharged during sleep, and adequate sleep is essential to produce joy and vitality in life.

Last updated: March 1, 2025