The power of your subconscious is enormous. It inspires you, it guidesyou and it reveals to you names, facts and scenes from the storehouse ofmemory. Your subconscious started your heartbeat, controls the circulation of your blood, regulates your digestion, assimilation and elimination.When you eat a piece of bread, your subconscious mind transmutes it intotissue, muscle, bone and blood. This process is beyond the ken of the wisest man who walks the earth. Your subconscious mind controls all vitalprocesses and functions of your body and knows the answer to all problems.Your subconscious mind never sleeps, and never rests. It is always on thejob. You can discover the miracle-working power of your subconscious byplainly stating to your subconscious prior to sleep that you wish a certainspecific thing accomplished. You will be delighted to discover that forceswithin you will be “released,” leading to the desired result. Here, then, is asource of power and wisdom which places you in touch with omnipotence,or the power that moves the world, guides the planets in their course andcauses the sun to shine.Your subconscious mind is the source of your ideals, aspirations and altruistic urges. It was through the subconscious mind that Shakespeare perceived great truths hidden from the average man of his day. Undoubtedly,it was the response of his subconscious mind that caused the Greek sculptor, Phidias, to portray beauty, order, symmetry and proportion in marbleand bronze. It enabled the Italian artist, Raphael, to paint Madonnas, andLudwig van Beethoven to compose symphonies.In 1955 I lectured at the Yoga Forest University, Rishikesh, India, andthere I chatted with a visiting surgeon from Bombay. He told me about DrJames Esdaille, a Scotch surgeon, who worked in Bengal before ether orother modern methods of anesthesia were discovered. Between 1843 and1846, Dr Esdaille performed about four hundred major operations on theeye, ear and throat. All operations were conducted under mental anesthesia only. This Indian doctor at Rishikesh informed me that the postoperative mortality rate of patients operated on by Dr Esdaille was extremelylow, probably two or three percent. Patients felt no pain and there wereno deaths during the operations.Dr Esdaille suggested to the subconscious minds of all his patients, whowere in a hypnotic state, that no infection or septic condition would develop. You must remember that this was before Louis Pasteur, Joseph Listerand others who pointed out the bacterial origin of disease and causes ofinfection due to unsterilized and virulent organisms. This Indian surgeon said that the reason for the low mortality rate and thegeneral absence of infection, which was reduced to a minimum, was undoubtedly due to the suggestions of Dr Esdaille to the subconscious mindsof his patients. They responded according to the nature of his suggestion.It is simply wonderful, when you conceive how a surgeon, over one hundred and twenty years ago, discovered the miraculous wonder-workingpowers of the subconscious mind. Doesn’t it cause you to be seized with asort of mystic awe when you stop and think of the transcendental powersof your subconscious mind? Consider its extrasensory perceptions, suchas its capacity for clairvoyance and clairaudience, its independence oftime and space, its capacity to render you free from all pain and suffering,and its capacity to get the answer to all problems, be they what they may.All these and many more reveal to you that there is a power and an intelligence within you that far transcends your intellect, causing you to marvel at the wonders of it all. All these experiences cause you to rejoice andbelieve in the miracle-working powers of your own subconscious mind.
Whatever thoughts, beliefs, opinions, theories or dogmas you write, engrave, or impress on your subconscious mind, you shall experience themas the objective manifestation of circumstances, conditions and events.What you write on the inside, you will experience on the outside. Youhave two sides to your life, objective and subjective, visible and invisible,thought and its manifestation.Your thought is received by your brain, which is the organ of your conscious reasoning mind. When your conscious or objective mind acceptsthe thought completely, it is sent to the solar plexus, called the brain ofyour mind, where it becomes flesh and is made manifest in your experience.As previously outlined, your subconscious cannot argue. It acts only fromwhat you write on it. It accepts your verdict of the conclusions of yourconscious mind as final. This is why you are always writing on the book oflife, because your thoughts become your experiences. The American essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Man is what he thinks all day long.
William James, the father of American psychology, said that the power tomove the world is in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind isone with infinite intelligence and boundless wisdom. It is fed by hiddensprings, and is called the law of life. Whatever you impress upon yoursubconscious mind, the latter will move heaven and earth to bring it topass. You must, therefore, impress it with right ideas and constructivethoughts. The reason there is so much chaos and misery in the world is becausepeople do not understand the interaction of their conscious and subconscious minds. When these two principles work in accord, in concord, inpeace and synchronously together, you will have health, happiness, peaceand joy. There is no sickness or discord when the conscious and subconscious work together harmoniously and peacefully.The tomb of Hermes was opened with great expectancy and a sense ofwonder because people believed that the greatest secret of the ages wascontained therein. The secret was as within, so without; as above, so below.In other words, whatever is impressed in your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space. This same truth was proclaimed byMoses, Isaiah, Jesus, Buddha, Zoroaster, Laotze and all the illuminedseers of the ages. Whatever you feel as true subjectively is expressed asconditions, experiences and events. Motion and emotion must balance. Asin heaven (your own mind), so on earth (in your body and environment).This is the great law of life.You will find throughout all nature the law of action and reaction, of restand motion. These two must balance, then there will be harmony andequilibrium. You are here to let the life principle flow through you rhythmically and harmoniously. The intake and the outgo must be equal. Theimpression and the expression must be equal. All your frustration is dueto unfulfilled desire.If you think negatively, destructively and viciously, these thoughts generate destructive emotions, which must be expressed and find an outlet.These emotions, being of a negative nature, are frequently expressed asulcers, heart trouble, tension and anxieties.What is your idea or feeling about yourself now? Every part of your beingexpresses that idea. Your vitality, body, financial status, friends and socialstatus represent a perfect reflection of the idea you have of yourself. Thisis the real meaning of what is impressed in your subconscious mind, andwhich is expressed in all phases of your life.We injure ourselves by the negative ideas which we entertain. How oftenhave you wounded yourself by getting angry, fearful, jealous or vengeful?These are the poisons that enter your subconscious mind. You were notborn with these negative attitudes. Feed your subconscious mind life-giving thoughts and you will wipe out all the negative patterns lodged therein. As you continue to do this, all the past will be wiped out and remembered no more.
A personal healing will ever be the most convincing evidence of the healing power of the subconscious mind. Over forty years ago I resolved amalignancy of the skin through prayer. Medical therapy had failed to checkthe growth, and it was getting progressively worse.A clergyman, with a deep psychological knowledge, explained to me theinner meaning of the 139th Psalm wherein it says, In thy book all mymembers were written which in continuance were fashioned, when as yetthere was none of them. He explained that the term “book” meant mysubconscious mind, which fashioned and molded all my organs from aninvisible cell. He also pointed out that inasmuch as my subconscious mindmade my body, it could also recreate it and heal it according to the perfect pattern within it.This clergyman showed me his watch and said, “This had a maker, andthe 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 knewexactly 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. Thiswould act as cause, and the effect would be a healing.I prayed in a very simple was as follows:”My body and all its organs werecreated by the infinite intelligence in my subconscious mind. It knows howto heal me, its wisdom fashioned all my organs, tissues, muscles andbones. This infinite healing presence within me is now transforming everyatom of my being making me whole and perfect now. I give thanks for thehealing 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 repeatingthe above simple prayer. In about three months my skin was whole andperfect.As you can see, all I did was give life-giving patterns of wholeness, beauty and perfection to my subconscious mind, thereby obliterating the negative images and patterns of thought lodged in my subconscious mind,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 changeyour mind by drenching it with incessant affirmatives, you change yourbody. This is the basis of all healing…Marvelous are thy works; and thatmy soul (subconscious mind) knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14.
While you are awake or sound asleep upon your bed, the ceaseless, tire less action of your subconscious mind controls all the vital organs of yourbody without the help of your conscious mind. For example, while you areasleep your heart continues to beat rhythmically, your lungs do not rest,and the process of inhalation and exhalation, whereby your blood absorbsfresh air, goes on just the same as when you are awake. Your subconscious controls your digestive processes and glandular secretions, as wellas all the other mysterious operations of your body. The hair on your facecontinues to grow whether you are asleep or awake. Scientists tell us thatthe skin secretes much more perspiration during sleep than during thewaking hours. Your eyes, ears and other senses are active during sleep.For instance, many of our great scientists have received answers to perplexing problems while they were asleep. They saw the answers in adream.Oftentimes your conscious mind interferes with the normal rhythm of theheart, lungs and functioning of the stomach and intestines by worry, anxiety, fear and depression. These patterns of thought interfere with the harmonious functioning of your subconscious mind. When mentally disturbed,the best procedure is to let go, relax and still the wheels of your thoughtprocesses. Speak to your subconscious mind, telling it to take over inpeace, harmony and divine order. You will find that all the functions ofyour body will become normal again. Be sure to speak to your subconscious mind with authority and conviction and it will conform to your command.Your subconscious seeks to preserve your life and restore you to health atall costs. It causes you to love your children, which also illustrates an instinctive desire to preserve all life. Let us suppose you accidentally atesome bad food. Your subconscious mind would cause you to regurgitate it.If you inadvertently took some poison, your subconscious powers wouldproceed to neutralize it. If you completely entrusted yourself to its wonder-working power, you would be entirely restored to health.
The first thing to realize is that your subconscious mind 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 orhear that inner silent process. Your business is with your conscious mindand not your subconscious mind. Just keep your conscious mind busy withthe expectation of the best and make sure the thoughts you habituallythink are based on whatsoever things are lovely, true, just and of goodreport. Begin now to take care of your conscious mind, knowing in yourhear and soul that your subconscious mind is always expressing, reproducing and manifesting according to your habitual thinking.Remember, just as water takes the shape of the pipe it flows through, thelife principle in you flows through you according to the nature of your thoughts. Claim that the healing presence in your subconscious is flowingthrough you as harmony, health, peace, joy and abundance. Think of it asa living intelligence, a lovely companion on the way. Firmly believe it iscontinually flowing through you vivifying, inspiring and prospering you. Itwill respond exactly this way. It is done unto you, as you believe.
There is the well known, duly authenticated case of Madame Bire ofFrance, recorded in the archives of the medical department of Lourdes,France. She was blind; the optic nerves were atrophied and useless. Shevisited Lourdes and had what she termed a miraculous healing. RuthCranston, a Protestant young lady who investigated and wrote about healings at Lourdes in McCall’s magazine, November, 1955, writes aboutMadame Bire as follows: “At Lourdes she regained her sight incredibly,with the optic nerves still lifeless and useless, as several doctors couldtestify after repeated examinations. A month later, upon re-examination,it was found that the seeing mechanism had been restored to normal. Butat first, so far as medical examination could tell, she was seeing with’dead eyes.’” I have visited Lourdes several times where I, too, witnessed some healings, and of course, as we shall explain in the next chapter, there is nodoubt that healings take place at many shrines throughout the world,Christian and non-Christian.Madame Bire, to whom we just referred, was not healed by the waters ofthe shrine, but by her own subconscious mind, which responded to herbelief. The healing principle within her subconscious mind responded tothe nature of her thought. Belief is a thought in the subconscious mind. Itmeans to accept something as true. The thought accepted executes itselfautomatically. Undoubtedly, Madame Bire went to the shrine with expectancy and great faith, knowing in her heart she would receive a healing. Her subconscious mind, which created the eye, can certainly bring adead nerve back to life. What the creative principle created, it can recreate. According to your belief is it done unto you.
A Protestant minister I knew in Johannesburg, South Africa, told me themethod he used to convey the idea of perfect health to his subconsciousmind. He had cancer of the lung. His technique, as given to me in his ownhandwriting, is exactly as follows: “Several times a day I would make certain that I was completely relaxed mentally and physically. I relaxed mybody by speaking to it as follows, ‘my heart and lungs are relaxed, myhead is relaxed, my whole being is completely relaxed.’ After about fiveminutes I would be in a sleepy drowsy state, and then I affirmed the fol lowing truth, ‘The perfection of God is now being expressed through me.The idea of perfect health is now filling my subconscious mind. The imageGod has of me is a perfect image, and my subconscious mind recreatesmy body in perfect accordance with the perfect image held in the mind ofGod.’” This minister had a remarkable healing. This is a simple, easy wayof conveying the idea of perfect health to your subconscious mind.Another wonderful way to convey the idea of health to your subconsciousmind is through disciplined or scientific imagination. I told a man who wassuffering from functional paralysis to make a vivid picture of himself walking around in his office, touching the desk, answering the telephone anddoing all the things he ordinarily would do if he were healed. I explainedto him that this idea and mental picture of perfect health would be accepted by his subconscious mind. He lived the role and actually felt himself back in the office. He knew thathe was giving his subconscious mind something definite to work upon. Hissubconscious mind was the film upon which the picture was impressed.One day, after several weeks of frequent conditioning of the mind withthis mental picture, the telephone rang by prearrangement and kept ringing while his wife and nurse were out. The telephone was about twelvefeet away, but nevertheless he managed to answer it. He was healed atthat hour. The healing power of his subconscious mind responded to hismental imagery and a healing followed.This man had a mental block which prevented impulses from the brainreaching his legs; therefore, he said he could not walk. When he shiftedhis attention to the healing power within him, the power flowed throughhis focused attention, enabling him to walk. Whatsoever ye shall ask inprayer, believing, ye shall receive. Matthew 21:22.
1. Your subconscious mind controls all the vital processes of your body
and knows the answer to all problems.
2. Prior to sleep, turn over a specific request to your subconscious mind
and prove its miracle-working power to yourself.
3. 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.
4. 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. Watch your thoughts! 5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best and
your subconscious will faithfully reproduce your habitual thinking.
9. 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 and bring it to pass.