How This Book Can Work Miracles In Your Life

I have seen miracles happen to men and women in all walks of life all
over the world. Miracles will happen to you too, when you begin using the
magic power of your subconscious mind. This book is designed to teach
you that your habitual thinking and imagery mold, fashion and create
your destiny; for as a man thinketh in his subconscious mind, so is he.

Do You Know The Answers

Why is one man sad and another man happy? Why is one man joyous and
prosperous and another man poor and miserable? Why is one man fearful
and anxious and another full of faith and confidence? Why does one man
have a beautiful, luxurious home while another man lives out a meager
existence in a slum? Why is one man a great success and another an abject failure? Why is one speaker outstanding and another immensely popular and another mediocre and unpopular? Why is one man a genius in his
work or profession while the other man toils and moils all his life without
doing or accomplishing anything worthwhile? Why is one man healed of a
so-called incurable disease and another isn’t? Why is it so many good,
kind, religious people suffer the tortures of the damned in their mind and
body? Why is it many immoral and irreligious people succeed and prosper
and enjoy radiant health? Why is one woman happily married and her sister very unhappy and frustrated? Is there an answer to these questions in
the workings of your conscious and subconscious minds? There most certainly is.

Reason For Writing This Book

It is for the express purpose of answering and clarifying the above questions and many others of a similar nature that motivated me to write this
book. I have endeavored to explain the great fundamental truths of your
mind in the simplest language possible. I believe that it is perfectly possible to explain the basic, foundational and fundamental laws of life and of
your mind in ordinary everyday language. You will find that the language
of this book is that used in your daily papers, current periodicals, in your
business offices, in your home and in your daily workshop. I urge you to
study this book and apply the techniques outlined therein; and as you do,
I feel absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working
power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy and failure,
and guide you to your truer place, solve your difficulties, sever you from
emotional and physical bondage, and place you on the royal road to freedom, happiness, and peace of mind. This miracle-working power of your
subconscious mind can heal you of your sickness; make you vital and
strong again. In learning how to use your inner powers, you will open the
prison door of fear and enter into a life described by Paul as the glorious
liberty of the sons of God.

Releasing The Miracle-Working Power

A personal healing will ever be the most convincing evidence of our subconscious powers. Over forty-two years ago I resolved a malignancy – in
medical terminology it was called a sarcoma – by using the healing power
of my subconscious mind, which created me and still maintains and governs all my vital functions. The technique I applied is elaborated on in this
book, and I feel sure that it will help others to trust the same Infinite
Healing Presence lodged in the subconscious depths of all men. Through
the kindly offices of my doctor friend, I suddenly realized that it was natural to assume that the Creative Intelligence, which made all my organs,
fashioned my body, and started my heart, could heal its own handiwork.
The ancient proverb says, “The doctor dresses the wound and God heals
it.”

Wonders Happen When You Pray Effectively

Scientific prayer is the harmonious interaction of the conscious and subconscious levels of mind scientifically directed for a specific purpose. This
book will teach you the scientific way to tap the realm of infinite power
within you enabling you to get what you really want in life. You desire a
happier, fuller and richer life. Begin to use this miracle-working power and
smooth your way in daily affairs, solve business problems and bring harmony in family relationships. Be sure that you read this book several
times. The many chapters will show you how this wonderful power works,
and how you can draw out of the hidden inspiration and wisdom that is
within you. Learn the simple techniques of impressing the subconscious
mind. Follow the new scientific way in tapping the infinite storehouse.
Read this book carefully, earnestly and lovingly. Prove to yourself the
amazing way it can help you. It could be and I believe it will be the turning point of your life.

Everybody Prays

Do you know how to pray effectively? How long is it since you prayed as
part of your everyday activities? In an emergency, in time of danger or
trouble, in illness and when death lurks, prayers pour forth – your own
and friends. Just read your daily newspaper. It is reported that prayers
are being offered up all over the nation for a child stricken with a socalled incurable ailment, for peace among nations, for a group of miners
trapped in a flooded mine. Later it is reported that when rescued, the
miners said that they prayed while waiting for rescue; an airplane pilot
says that he prayed as he made a successful emergency landing. Certainly, prayer is an ever-present help in time of trouble, but you do not have
to wait for trouble to make prayer an integral and constructive part of
your life. The dramatic answers to prayer make headlines and are the
subject of testimonies to the effectiveness of prayer. What of the many
humble prayers of children, the simple thanksgiving of grace at the table
daily., the faithful devotions wherein the individual seeks only communion
with God? My work with people has made it necessary for me to study the
various approaches to prayer. I have experienced the power of prayer in
my own life, and I have talked and worked with many people who also
have enjoyed the help of prayer. The problem usually is how to tell others
how to pray. People who are in trouble have difficulty in thinking and acting reasonably. They need an easy formula to follow, an obviously workable pattern that is simple and specific. Often they must be led to approach the emergency.

Unique Feature Of This Book

The unique feature of this book is its down-to-earth practicality here you
are presented with simple, usable techniques and formulas, which you
can easily apply in your workaday world. I have taught these simple processes to men and women all over the world; and recently over a thousand men and women of all religious affiliations attended a special class in
Los Angeles where I presented the highlights of what is offered in the
pages of this book. Many came from distances of two hundred miles for
each lesson. The special features of this book will appeal to you because
they show you why oftentimes you get the opposite of what you prayed
for and reveal to you the reasons why. People have asked me in all parts
of the world and thousands of times, “Why is it I have prayed and prayed
and got no answer?”
In this book you will find the reasons for this common complaint. The
many ways of impressing the subconscious mind and getting the right answers make this an extraordinarily valuable book and an ever-present
help in time of trouble.

What Do You Believe?

It is not the thing believed in that brings an answer to man’s prayer; the
answer to prayer results when the individual’s subconscious mind responds to the mental picture or thought in his mind. This law of belief is
operating in all religions of the world and is the reason why they are psychologically true. The Buddhist, the Christian, the Muslim and the Hebrew
all may get answers to their prayers, not because of the particular creed,
religion, affiliation, ritual, ceremony, formula, liturgy, incantation, sacrifices or offerings, but solely because of belief or mental acceptance and
receptivity about that for which they pray. The law of life is the law of belief, and belief could be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind. As
a man thinks, feels and believes, so is the condition of his mind, body and
circumstances. A technique, a methodology based on an understanding of
what you are doing and why you are doing it will help you to bring about
a subconscious embodiment of all the good things of life. Essentially, answered prayer is the realization of your heart’s desire.

Desire Is Prayer

Everyone desires health, happiness, security, peace of mind, true expression, but many fail to achieve clearly defined results. A university professor admitted to me recently, “I know that if I changed my mental pattern
and redirected my emotional life, my ulcers would not recur, but I do not
have any technique, process or modus operandi! My mind wanders back
and forth on my many problems and I feel frustrated, defeated and unhappy.” This professor had a desire for perfect health; he needed a knowledge of the way his mind worked, which would enable him to fulfill his desire. By practicing the healing methods outlined in this book, he became
whole and perfect.

There Is One Mind Common To All Individual Men
(Emerson)

The miracle-working powers of your subconscious mind existed before you
and I were born, before any church or world existed. The great eternal
truths and principles of life antedate all religions. It is with these thoughts
in mind that I urge you in the following chapters to lay hold of this wonderful, magical, transforming power, which will bind up mental and physical wounds, proclaim liberty to the fear-ridden mind, and liberate you
completely from the limitations of poverty, failure, misery, lack and frustration. All you have to do is unite mentally and emotionally with the good
you wish to embody, and the creative powers of your subconscious will respond accordingly. Begin now, today, let wonders happen in your life!
Keep on keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

Chapter I
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 gold mine
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 steel, 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
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.
The Master Secret Of The Ages
What, in your opinion, is the master secret of the ages? The secret of
atomic energy? Thermonuclear energy? The neutron bomb? Interplanetary travel? No, not any of these. Then, what is this master secret? Where
can one find it, and how can it be contacted and brought into action? 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.
The Marvelous Power Of Your Subconscious Mind
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 lies 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 deep er mind and they will take form in the world without.
The Infinite Intelligence within your subconscious 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 subconscious 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 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 subconscious mind you will find the solution for every problem and
the cause for every effect. You can draw out the hidden powers; you come
into actual possession of the power and wisdom necessary to move forward in abundance, security, joy and dominion.
I have seen the power of the subconscious lift people up out of crippled
states, making them whole, vital and strong once more, free to go out
into the world to experience happiness, health and joyous expression.
There is a miraculous healing power in your subconscious that can heal
the troubled mind and the broken heart. It can open the prison door of
the mind and liberate you. It can free you from all kinds of material and
physical bondage.

Necessity Of A Working Basis

Substantial progress in any field of endeavor is impossible in the absence
of a working basis, which is universal in its application. You can become
skilled in the operation of your subconscious mind. 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 one
of 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 subconscious mind. Let us consider a generally accepted principle: “Water seeks its own level.” This is a
universal principle, which is applicable to water everywhere.
Consider another principle: “Matter expands when heated.” This is true
everywhere, at any time, and under all circumstances. You can heat a
piece of steel and it will expand regardless whether the steel is found in
China, England or India. It is a universal truth that matter expands when
healed. It is also a universal truth that whatever you impress on your
subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience and event.
Your prayer is answered because your subconscious mind 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 cooperating
with nature, you can bring forth marvelous inventions and discoveries
which bless humanity in countless ways.
Your subconscious mind is principle and works according to the law of belief. You must know what belief is, why it works and how it works. Your
Bible says in a simple, clear and beautiful way: Whosoever shall say unto
this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall
not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Mark 11:23.
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
subconscious mind to your thoughts. Remember, it is not the thing believed in, but the belief in your own mind, which brings about the result.
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.
Whoever reads this book and applies the principles of the subconscious
mind herein set forth, will be able to pray scientifically and effectively for
himself and for others. Your prayer is answered according to the universal
law of action and reaction. Thought is incipient action. The reaction is the
response from your subconscious mind, which corresponds with the nature of your thought. Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony,
health, peace and good will and wonders will happen in your life.

The Duality Of Mind

You have only one mind, but your mind possesses two distinctive characteristics. The line of demarcation between the two is well known to all
thinking men and women today. The two functions of your mind are essentially unlike. Each is endowed with separate and distinct attributes and
powers. The nomenclature generally used to distinguish the two functions
of your mind is as follows: The objective and subjective mind, the conscious and subconscious mind, the waking and sleeping mind, the surface
self and the deep self, the voluntary mind and the involuntary mind, the
male and the female and many other terms. You will find the terms “conscious” and “subconscious” used to represent the dual nature of your
mind throughout this book.

The Conscious & Subconscious Minds

An excellent way to get acquainted with the two functions of your mind is
to look upon your own mind as a garden. You are a gardener, and you are
planting seeds (thoughts) in your subconscious mind all day long, based
on your habitual thinking. As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall
you reap in your body and environment.
Begin now to sow thoughts of peace, happiness, right action, good will
and prosperity. Think quietly and with interest on these qualities and accept them fully in your conscious reasoning mind. Continue to plant these
wonderful seeds (thoughts) in the garden of your mind and you will reap
a glorious harvest. Your subconscious mind may be likened to soil, which
will grow all kinds of seeds, good or bad. Do men gather grapes or thorns,
figs or thistles? Every thought is, therefore, a cause, and every condition
is an effect. For this reason, it is essential that you take charge of your
thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.
When your mind thinks correctly, when you understand the truth, 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. When you begin to control your thought processes, you can apply the powers of your subconscious to any problem or
difficulty. In other words, you will actually be consciously cooperating with
the infinite power and omnipotent law, which governs all things.
Look around you wherever you live and you will notice that the vast majority of mankind lives in the world without and the more enlightened men
are intensely interested in the world within. Remember, it is the world
within, namely your thoughts, feelings and imagery that makes your
world without. It is, therefore, the only creative power and everything
that you find in your world of expression has been created by you in the
inner world of your mind, consciously or unconsciously.

A knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and subconscious minds
will enable you to transform your whole life. In order to change external
conditions, you must change the cause. Most men try to change conditions and circumstances by working with conditions and circumstances. To
remove discord, confusion, lack and limitation, you must remove the
cause and the cause is the way you are using your conscious mind. In
other words, the way you are thinking and picturing in your mind.
You are living in a fathomless sea of infinite riches. Your subconscious is
every sensitive to your thoughts. Your thoughts form the mold or matrix
through which the Infinite Intelligence, wisdom, vital forces and energies
of your subconscious flow. The practical application of the laws of your
mind as illustrated in each chapter in this book will cause you to experience abundance for poverty, wisdom for superstition and ignorance, peace
for pain, joy for sadness, light for darkness, harmony for discord, faith
and confidence for fear, success for failure and freedom from the law of
averages. Certainly, there can be no more wonderful blessing than these
from a mental, emotional and material standpoint.
Most of the great scientists, artists, poets, singers, writers and inventors
have a deep understanding of the workings of the conscious and subconscious minds.
One time Caruso, the great operatic tenor, was struck with stage fright.
He said his throat was paralyzed due to spasms caused by intense fear,
which constricted the muscles in his throat.
Perspiration poured copiously down his face. He was ashamed because in
a few minutes he had to go out on the stage, yet he was shaking with
fear and trepidation. He said, “They will laugh at me. I can’t sing.” Then
he shouted in the presence of those behind the stage, “The Little Me
wants to strangle the Big Me within.”
He said to the Little Me, “Get out of here, the Big Me wants to sing
through me.”
By the Big Me, he meant the limitless power and wisdom of his subconscious mind. He began to shout, “Get out, get out, the Big Me is going to
sing!”
His subconscious mind responded, releasing the vital forces within him.
When the call came, he walked out on the stage and sang gloriously and
majestically, enthralling the audience.
It is obvious to you now that Caruso must have understood the two levels
of mind – the conscious or rational, and the subconscious or irrational level. Your subconscious mind is reactive and responds to the nature of your thoughts. When your conscious mind (the Little Me) is full of fear, worry
and anxiety, the negative emotions engendered in your subconscious
mind (the Big Me) are released and flood the conscious mind with a sense
of panic, foreboding and despair. When this happens, you can, like Caruso, speak affirmatively and with a deep sense of authority to the irrational
emotions generated in your deeper mind as follows: “Be still, be quiet, I
am in control, you must obey me, you are subject to my command, you
cannot intrude where you do not belong.”
It is fascinating and intensely interesting to observe how you can speak
authoritatively and with conviction to the irrational movement of your
deeper self, bringing silence, harmony and peace to your mind. The subconscious is subject to the conscious mind, and that is why it is called
subconscious or subjective.

Outstanding Differences & Modes Of Operation

You will perceive the main differences by the following illustration: Theconscious mind is like the navigator or captain at the bridge of a ship. Hedirects the ship and signals orders to men in the engine room, who in turncontrol all the boilers, instruments, gauges etc. The men in the engineroom do not know where they are going; they follow orders. They wouldgo on the rocks if the man in the bridge issued faulty or wrong instructions based on his findings with the compass, sextant or other instruments. The men in the engine room obey him because he is in charge andissues orders, which are automatically obeyed. Members of the crew donot talk back to the captain, they simply carry out orders.The captain is the master of his ship and his decrees are carried out. Likewise, your conscious mind is the captain and the master of your ship,which represents your body, environment and all your affairs. Your subconscious mind takes the orders you give it based upon what your conscious mind believes and accepts as true.When you repeatedly say to people, “I can’t afford it,” then your subconscious mind takes you at your word and sees to it that you will not be in aposition to purchase what you want. As long as you persist in saying, “Ican’t afford that car, that trip to Europe, that home, that fur coat or ermine warp,” you can rest assured that your subconscious mind will followyour orders and you will go through life experiencing the lack of all thesethings.Last Christmas Eve a beautiful young university student looked at an attractive and rather expensive traveling bag in a store window. She wasgoing home to Buffalo, New York, for the holidays. She was about to say,“I can’t afford that bag,” when she recalled something she had heard atone of my lectures, which was, “Never finish a negative statement, reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life.” She said, “That bag is mine. It is for sale. I accept it mentally and mysubconscious sees to it that I received it.”At eight o’clock Christmas Eve her fiance presented her with a bag exactlythe same as the one she had looked at and mentally identified herselfwith at ten o’clock the same morning. She had filled her mind with thethought of expectancy and released the whole thing to her deeper mindwhich has the “know-how” of accomplishment.This young girl, a student at the University of Southern California, said tome, “I didn’t have the money to buy that bag, but now I know where tofind money and all the things I need, and that is in the treasure house ofeternity within me.”Another simply illustration is this: When you say, “I do not like mushrooms,” and the occasion subsequently comes that you are served mushrooms in sauces or salads, you will get indigestion because your subconscious mind says to you, “The boss (your conscious mind) does not likemushrooms.” This is an amusing example of the outstanding differencesand modes of operation of your conscious and subconscious minds.A woman may say, “I wake up at three o’clock, if I drink coffee at night.”Whenever she drinks coffee at night, her subconscious mind nudges her,as if to say, “The boss wants you to stay awake tonight.”Your subconscious mind works twenty-four hours a day and makes provisions for your benefit, pouring all the fruit of your habitual thinking intoyour lap.

How Her Subconscious Responded

A woman wrote me a few months ago as follows: “I am seventy-five yearsold, a widow with a grown family. I was living alone and on a pension. Iheard your lectures on the powers of the subconscious mind wherein yousaid that ideas could be conveyed to the subconscious mind by repetition,faith and expectancy.“I began to repeat frequently with feeling, ‘I am wanted. I am happilymarried to a kind, loving and spiritual minded man. I am secure!’“I kept on doing this many times a day for about two weeks, and one dayat the corner drugstore, I was introduced to a retired pharmacist. I foundhim to be kind, understanding and very religious. He was a perfect answer to my prayer. Within a week he proposed to me and now we are onour honeymoon in Europe. I know that the intelligence within my subconscious mind brought both of us together in divine order.” This woman discovered that the treasure house was within her. Her prayerwas felt as true in her heart and her affirmation sank down by osmosisinto her subconscious mind, which is the creative medium. The momentshe succeeded in bringing about a subjective embodiment, her subconscious mind brought about the answer through the law of attraction. Herdeeper mind, full of wisdom and intelligence, brought both of them together in divine order.Be sure that you think on whatsoever things are true, whatsoever thingsare honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; ifthere be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.Phil. 4:8.

Brief Summary Of Ideas Worth Remembering

1. The treasure house is within you. Look within for the answer to your
heart’s desire.
2. The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can
do the same.
3. 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 that exact time.
4. Your subconscious mind is the builder of your body and can heal you.
Lull yourself to sleep every night with the idea of perfect health, and your
subconscious, being your faithful servant, will obey you.
5. Every thought is a cause and every condition is an effect.
6. If you want to write a book, write a wonderful play, give a better talk to
your audience, then convey the idea lovingly and feelingly to your subconscious mind, and it will respond accordingly.
7. 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 subconscious mind, which controls and governs all your experiences.
8. Never use the terms, “I can’t afford it” or “I can’t do this.” Your subconscious mind 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 subconscious mind.”
9. 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.
10. Change your thoughts and you change your destiny.

Chapter II
How Your Own Mind Works

You have a mind, and you should learn how to use it. There are two levels
of your mind – the conscious or rational level, 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 subconscious mind is the
seat of your emotions and is the creative mind. If you think good, good
will follow, if you think evil, evil will follow. This is the way your mind
works.
The main point to remember is once the subconscious mind accepts an
idea, it begins to execute it. It is an interesting and subtle truth that the
law of the subconscious mind works for good and bad ideas alike. This
law, when applied in a negative way, is the cause of failure, frustration
and unhappiness. However, when your habitual thinking is harmonious
and constructive, you experience perfect health, success and prosperity.
Peace of mind and a healthy body are inevitable when you begin to think
and feel in the right way. Whatever you claim mentally and feel as true,
your subconscious mind will accept and bring forth into your experience.
The only thing necessary for you to do is to get your conscious mind to
accept your idea, and the law of your own subconscious mind will bring
forth the health, peace or position you desire. You give the command or
decree, and your subconscious will faithfully reproduce the idea impressed
upon it. The law of your mind is this: You will get a reaction or response
from your subconscious mind according to the nature of the thought or
idea you hold in your conscious mind.
Psychologists and psychiatrists point out that when thoughts are conveyed to your subconscious mind, impressions are made in the brain cells.
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
about an immediate solution to your difficulties, but at other times it may
take days, weeks, or longer…Its ways are past finding out.

Conscious & Subconscious Terms Differentiated

You must remember that these are not two minds. They are merely two
spheres of activity within one mind. 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 subconscious mind through processes independent of your conscious control.
Your subconscious mind accepts what is impressed upon it or what you
consciously believe. It does not reason things out like your conscious
mind, and it does not argue with you controversially. Your subconscious
mind 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 subconscious mind and
in due time will come forth into outer experience, which corresponds with
them.
Remember, your subconscious mind 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
subconscious mind will accept it as true and proceed to bring about results, which must necessarily follow, because you consciously assumed it
to be true.

Experiments By Psychologists

Innumerable experiments by psychologists and others on persons in the
hypnotic state have shown that the subconscious mind is incapable of
making selections and comparisons, which are necessary for a reasoning
process. They have shown repeatedly that your subconscious mind will
accept any suggestions, however false. Having once accepted any suggestion, it responds according to the nature of the suggestion given.
To illustrate the amenability of your subconscious mind to suggestion, if a
practiced hypnotist suggests to one of his subjects that he is Napoleon
Bonaparte, or even a cat or a dog, he will act out the part with inimitable
accuracy. His personality becomes changed for the time being. He believes himself to be whatever the operator tells him he is.
A skilled hypnotist may suggest to one of his students in the hypnotic
state that his back itches, to another that his nose is bleeding, to another
that he is a marble statue, to another that he is freezing and the temperature is below zero. Each one will follow out the line of his particular suggestion, totally oblivious to all his surroundings, which do not pertain to
his idea.
These simple illustrations portray clearly the difference between your conscious reasoning mind and your subconscious mind, which is impersonal,
non-selective and accepts as true whatever your conscious mind believes
to be true. Hence, the importance of selecting thoughts, ideas and
premises which bless, heal, inspire and fill your soul with joy.

The Terms Objective & Subjective Mind Clarified

Your conscious mind is sometimes referred to as your objective mind because it deals with outward objects. The objective mind takes cognizance
of the objective world. Its media of observation are your five physical
senses. Your objective mind is your guide and director in your contact
with your environment. You gain knowledge through your five senses.
Your objective mind learns thought observation, experience and education. As previously pointed out, the greatest function of the objective
mind is that of reasoning.
Suppose you are one of the thousands of tourists who come to Los Angeles annually. You would come to the conclusion that it is a beautiful city
based upon your observation of the parks, pretty gardens, majestic buildings and lovely homes. This is the working of your objective mind.
Your subconscious mind 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 by 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 itself 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 of 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 subj mind in order to learn
the true art of prayer.

The Subconscious Cannot Reason Like Your Conscious Mind

Your subconscious mind cannot argue controversially. Hence, if you give it
wrong suggestions, it will accept them as true and will proceed to bring
them to pass as conditions, experiences and events. All things that have
happened to you are based on thoughts impressed on your subconscious
mind through belief. If you have conveyed erroneous thoughts to your
subconscious mind, the sure method of overcoming them is by the repetition of constructive, harmonious thoughts frequently repeated, which your
subconscious mind accepts, thus forming new and healthy habits of
thought and life, for your subconscious mind is the seat of habit.
The habitual thinking of your conscious mind establishes deep grooves in your subconscious mind. This is very favorable for you if your habitual
thoughts are harmonious, peaceful and constructive.
If you have indulged in fear, worry and other destructive forms of thinking, the remedy is to recognize the omnipotence of your subconscious
mind and decree freedom, happiness and perfect health. Your subconscious mind, being creative and one with your divine source, will proceed
to create the freedom and happiness, which you have earnestly decreed.

The Tremendous Power Of Suggestion

You must realize by now that your conscious mind is the “watchman atthe gate,” and its chief function is to protect your subconscious mind fromfalse impressions. You are now aware of one of the basic laws of mind:Your subconscious mind is amenable to suggestion. As you know, yoursubconscious mind does not make comparisons or contrasts, neither doesit reason and think things out for itself. This latter function belongs toyour conscious mind. It simply reacts to the impressions given to it byyour conscious mind. It does not show a preference for one course of action over another.The following is a classic example of the tremendous power of suggestion.Suppose you approach a timid looking passenger on board ship and say tohim something like this: “You look very ill. How pale you are! I feel certainyou are going to be seasick. Let me help you to your cabin.” The passenger turns pale. Your suggestion of seasickness associates itself with hisown fears and forebodings. He accepts your aid down to the berth, andthere your negative suggestion, which was accepted by him, is realized.

Different Reactions To The Same Suggestion

It is true that different people will react in different ways to the same suggestion because of their subconscious conditioning or belief. For example,if you go to a sailor on the ship and say to him sympathetically, “My dearfellow, you’re looking very ill. Aren’t you feeling sick? You look to me as ifyou are going to be seasick.”According to his temperament he either laughs at your “joke,” or expresses mild irritation. Your suggestion fell on deaf ears in this instance because your suggestion of seasickness was associated in his mind with hisown immunity from it. Therefore, it called up not fear or worry, but selfconfidence.The dictionary says that a suggestion is the act or instance of puttingsomething into one’s mind, the mental process by which the thought oridea suggested is entertained, accepted, or put into effect. You must remember that a suggestion cannot impose something on the subconsciousmind against the will of the conscious mind. In other words, your conscious mind has the power to reject the suggestion given. In the case of the sailor, he had not fear of seasickness. He had convinced himself of hisimmunity and the negative suggestion had absolutely no power to evokefear.The suggestion of seasickness to the other passenger called forth his indwelling fear of seasickness. Each of us has his own inner fears, beliefsand opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself except it is accepted mentally byyou. This causes your subconscious powers to flow in a limited and restricted way according to the nature of the suggestion.

How He Lost His Arm

Every two or three years I give a series of lectures at the London TruthForum in Caxton Hall. This is a forum I founded a number of years ago.Dr Evelyn Fleet, the director, told me about an article which appeared inthe English newspapers dealing with the power of suggestion. This is thesuggestion a man gave to his subconscious mind over a period of abouttwo years. “I would give my right arm to see my daughter cured.” It appeared that his daughter had a crippling form of arthritis, together with aso-called incurable form of skin disease. Medical treatment had failed toalleviate the condition, and the father had an intense longing for hisdaughter’s healing, and expressed his desire in the words just quoted.Dr Evelyn Fleet said that the newspaper article pointed out that one daythe family was out riding when their car collided with another. The father’sright arm was torn off at the shoulder and immediately the daughter’sarthritis and skin condition vanished.You must make certain to give your subconscious only suggestions whichheal, bless, elevate and inspire you in all ways. Remember that your subconscious mind cannot take a joke. It takes you at your word.

How Autosuggestion Banishes Fear

Illustrations of autosuggestion: Autosuggestion means suggesting something definite and specific to oneself. Hebert Parkyn, in his excellent manual of autosuggestion, records the following incident. It has its amusingside, so that one remembers it. “A New York visitor in Chicago looks at hiswatch, which is set an hour ahead of Chicago time, and tells a Chicagofriend that it is twelve o’clock. The Chicago friend, not considering the difference in time between Chicago and New York, tells the New Yorker thathe is hungry and that he must go to lunch.”Autosuggestion may be used to banish various fears and other negativeconditions. A young singer was invited to give an audition. She had beenlooking forward to the interview, but on three previous occasions she hadfailed miserably due to fear of failure. This young lady had a very goodvoice, 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 subconscious mind accepted these negative autosuggestions as a request and proceeded to manifest them and bring them into her experience. The cause was an involuntary autosuggestion, i.e. silent fearthoughts 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, relaxedher body and closed her eyes. She stilled her mind and body as best shecould. Physical inertia favors mental passivity and renders the mind morereceptive to suggestion. She counteracted the fear suggestion by sayingto herself, “I sing beautifully, I am poised, serene, confident and calm.”She repeated this statement slowly, quietly and with feeling from five toten times at each sitting. She had three such “sittings” every day and oneimmediately prior to sleep. At the end of a week she was completelypoised and confident. When the invitation to audition came, she gave aremarkable, wonderful audition.

How She Restored Her Memory

A woman, aged seventy-five, was in the habit of saying to herself, “I amlosing my memory.” She reversed the procedure and practiced inducedautosuggestion several times a day as follows: “My memory from todayon is improving in every department. I shall always remember whatever Ineed to know at 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 immediatelypresent 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 beenbefore.” At the end of three weeks, her memory was back to normal andshe was delighted.

How He Overcame A Nasty Temper

Many men who complained of irritability and bad temper proved to bevery susceptible to autosuggestion and obtained marvelous results by using the following statements three or four times a day – morning, noonand night prior to sleep for about a month. “Henceforth, I shall grow moregood humored. Joy, happiness and cheerfulness are now becoming mynormal states of mind. Every day I am becoming more and more lovableand understanding. I am now becoming the center of cheer and good willto all those about me, infecting them with good humor. This happy, joyousand cheerful mood is now becoming my normal, natural state of mind. Iam grateful.”

The Constructive & Destructive Power of Suggestion

Some illustrations and comments on heterosuggestion: Heterosuggestionmeans suggestions from another person. In all ages the power of suggestion has played a part in the life and though of man in every period oftime and in each country of the earth. In many parts of the world it is thecontrolling power in religion.Suggestion may be used to discipline and control ourselves, but it canalso be used to take control and command over others who do not knowthe laws of mind. In its constructive form it is wonderful and magnificent.In its negative aspects it is one of the most destructive of all the responsepatterns of the mind, resulting in patterns of misery, failure, suffering,sickness and disaster

Have You Accepted Any of These?

From infancy on, the majority of us have been given many negative suggestions. Not knowing how to thwart them, we unconsciously acceptedthem. Here are some of the negative suggestions: “You can’t,” “You’ll never amount to anything,” “You mustn’t,” “You’ll fail,” “You haven’t got achance,” “You’re all wrong,” “It’s no use,” “It’s not what you know, butwho you know,” “the world is going to the dogs,” “What’s the use, nobodycares,” “It’s no use trying so hard,” “You’re too old now,” “Things are getting worse and worse,” “Life is an endless grind,” “Love is for the birds,”“You just can’t win,” “Pretty soon you’ll be bankrupt,” “Watch out, you’llget the virus,” “You can’t trust a soul,” etc.Unless, as an adult, you use use constructive autosuggestion, which is reconditioning therapy, the impressions made on you in the past can causebehavior patterns that cause failure in your personal and social life. Autosuggestion is a means releasing you from the mass of negative verbalconditioning that might otherwise distort your life pattern, making the development of good habits difficult.

You Can Counteract Negative Suggestions

Pick up the paper any day and you can read dozens of items that couldsow the seeds of futility, fear, worry and impending doom. If accepted byyou, these thoughts of fear could cause you to lose the will for life. Knowing that you can reject all these negative suggestions by giving your subconscious mind constructive autosuggestions, you counteract all these destructive ideas.Check regularly on the negative autosuggestions that people make toyou. You do not have to be influenced by destructive heterosuggestion. Allof us have suffered from it in our childhood and in our teens. If you lookback, you can easily recall how parents, friends, relatives, teachers andassociates contributed in a campaign of negative suggestions. Study thethings said to you and you will discover much of it was in the form of propaganda. The purpose of much of what was said was to control you or in still fear into you.This heterosuggestion process goes on in every home, office, factory andclub. You will find that many of these suggestions are for the purpose ofmaking you think, feel and act as others want you to and in ways that areto their advantage.

How Suggestion Killed A Man

Here is an illustration of heterosuggestion: A relative of mine went to acrystal ball gazer in India who told him that he had a bad heart and predicted that he would die at the next new moon. He began to tell all members of his family about this prediction, and he arranged his will.This powerful suggestion entered into his subconscious mind because heaccepted it completely. My relative also told me that this crystal gazer wasbelieved to have some strange occult powers and she could do harm orgood to a person. He died as predicted not knowing that he was the causeof his own death. I supposed many of us have heard similar stupid, ridiculous, superstitious stories.Let us look at what happened in the light of our knowledge of the way thesubconscious mind works. Whatever the conscious, reasoning mind ofman believes; the subconscious mind will accept and act upon. My relative was happy, healthy, vigorous and robust when he went to see the fortuneteller. She gave him a very negative suggestion, which he accepted.He became terrified and constantly dwelt upon the fact that he was goingto die at the next new moon. He proceeded to tell everyone about it, andhe prepared for the end. The activity took place in his own mind and hisown thought was the cause. He brought about his own so-called death, orrather destruction of the physical body, by his fear and expectation of theend.The woman who predicted his death had no more power than the stonesand sticks in the field. Her suggestion had no power to create or bringabout the end she suggested. If he had known the laws of his mind, hewould have completely rejected the negative suggestion and refused togive her words any attention, knowing in his heart that he was governedand controlled by his own thought and feeling. Like tin arrows aimed at abattleship, her prophecy could have been completely neutralized and dissipated without hurting him.The suggestions of others in themselves have absolutely no power whatever over you except the power that you give them through your ownthoughts. You have to give your mental consent; you have to entertainthe thought. Then, it becomes your thought, and you do the thinking. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love!Choose health! Choose abundance!

The Power Of An Assumed Major Premise

Your mind works like a syllogism. This means that whatever majorpremise your conscious mind assumes to be true determines the conclusion your subconscious mind comes to in regard to any particular questionor problem in your mind. If your premise is true, the conclusion must betrue as in the following example:Every virtue is laudable;Kindness is a virtue;Therefore, kindness is laudable.Another example is as follows:All formed things change and pass away;The Pyramids of Egypt are formed things;Therefore, some day the Pyramids will pass away.The first statement is referred to as the major premise, and the right conclusion must necessarily follow the right premise.A college professor, who attended some of my science of mind lectures inMay, 1962, at Town Hall, New York, said to me, “Everything in my life istopsy-turvy, and I have lost health, wealth and friends. Everything I touchturns out wrong.”I explained to him that he should establish a major premise in his thinking, that the Infinite Intelligence of his subconscious mind was guiding,directing and prospering him spiritually, mentally and materially. Then, hissubconscious mind would automatically direct him wisely in his investments, decisions, and also heal his body and restore his mind to peaceand tranquility.This professor formulated an overall picture of the way he wanted his lifeto be, and this was his major premise: “Infinite Intelligence leads andguides me in all my ways. Perfect health is mine, and the Law of Harmonyoperates in my mind and body. Beauty, love, peace and abundance aremine. The principle of right action and divine order govern my entire life. Iknow my major premise is based on the eternal truths of life, and I know,feel and believe that my subconscious mind responds according to the nature of my conscious mind thinking.”He wrote me as follows: “I repeated the above statements slowly, quietlyand lovingly several times a day knowing that they were sinking deepdown into my subconscious mind, and that results must follow. I amdeeply grateful for the interview you gave me and I would like to add thatall departments of my life are changing for the better. It works!”

The Subconscious Does Not Argue Controversially

Your subconscious mind is all-wise and knows the answers to all questions. It does not argue with you or talk back to you. It does not say, “Youmust not impress me with that.” For example, when you say, “I can’t dothis,” “I am too old now,” “I can’t meet this obligation,” “I was born on thewrong side of the tracks,” “I don’t know the right politician,” you are impregnating your subconscious with these negative thoughts and it responds accordingly. You are actually blocking your own good, therebybringing lack, limitation and frustration into your life.When you set up obstacles, impediments and delays in your consciousmind, you are denying the wisdom and intelligence resident in your subconscious mind. You are actually saying in effect that your subconsciousmind cannot solve your problem. This leads to mental and emotional congestion, followed by sickness and neurotic tendencies. To realize your desire and overcome your frustration, affirm boldly several times a day:“The Infinite Intelligence, which gave me this desire leads, guides and reveals to me the perfect plan for the unfolding of my desire. I know thedeeper wisdom of my subconscious is now responding and what I feel andclaim within is expressed in the without. There is a balance, equilibriumand equanimity.”If you say, “There is no way out; I am lost; there is no way out of thisdilemma; I am stymied and blocked,” you will get no answer or responsefrom your subconscious mind. If you want the subconscious to work foryou, give it the right request, and attain its cooperation. It is alwaysworking for you. It is controlling your heartbeat this minute and also yourbreathing. It heals a cut on your finger and its tendency is lifeward, forever seeking to take care of you and preserve you. Your subconscious has amind of its own, but it accepts your patterns of thought and imagery.When you are seeking an answer to a problem, your subconscious will respond, but it expects you to come to a decision and to a true judgment inyour conscious mind. You must acknowledge the answer is in your subconscious mind. However, if you say, “I don’t think there is any way out; Iam all mixed up and confused; why don’t I get an answer?” you are neutralizing your prayer. Like the soldier marking time, you do not get anywhere.Still the wheels of your mind, relax, let go, and quietly affirm: “My subconscious knows the answer. It is responding to me now. I give thanksbecause I know the infinite intelligence of my subconscious knows allthings and is revealing the perfect answer to me now. My real convictionis now setting free the majesty and glory of my subconscious mind. I rejoice that it is so.”

Review Of Highlights

1. Think good, and good follows. Think evil, and evil follows. You are what
you think all day long.
2. Your subconscious mind 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.”
3. 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.
4. Your conscious mind is the “watchman at the gate.” Its chief function is
to protect your subconscious mind from false impressions. Choose to believe that something good can happen and is happening now. Your greatest power is your capacity to choose. Choose happiness and abundance.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Never say, “I can’t.” Overcome that fear by substituting the following:
“I can do all things through the power of my subconscious mind.”
9. Begin to think from the standpoint of the eternal truths and principles
of life and not from the standpoint of fear, ignorance and superstition. Do
not let others do your thinking for you. Choose your own thoughts and
make your own decisions.
10. You are the captain of your soul (subconscious mind) and the master
of your fate. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life!
Choose love! Choose health! Choose happiness!
11. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your
subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action and all the blessings of life.

Chapter IIIThe Miracle-Working Power of Your Subconscious

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.

Your Subconscious Is Your Book Of Life

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.

What Is Impressed In The Subconscious Is Expressed

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.

The Subconscious Heals A Malignancy Of The Skin

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.

How The Subconscious Controls All Functions Of The Body

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.

How To Get The Subconscious To Work For You

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.

Healing Principle Of The Subconscious Restores Atrophied OpticNerves

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.

How To Convey The Idea Of Perfect Health To Your SubconsciousMind

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.

Ideas Worth Remembering

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.

Chapter IV
Mental Healings In Ancient Times

Down through the ages men of all nations have somehow instinctively believed that somewhere there resided a healing power, which would restore
to normal the functions and sensations of man’s body. They believed that
this strange power could be invoked under certain conditions and that the
alleviation of human suffering would follow. The history of all nations
presents testimony in support of this belief.
In the early history of the world the power of secretly influencing men for
good or evil, including the healing of the sick, was said to be possessed
by the priests and holy men of all nations. Healing of the sick was supposed to be a power derived directly by them from God and the procedures and processes of healing varied throughout the world. The healing
processes took the form of supplications to God attended by various ceremonies such as the laying on of hands, incantations, the application of
amulets, talismans, rings, relics and images.
For example, in the religions of antiquity, priests in the ancient temples
gave drugs to the patient and practiced hypnotic suggestions prior to the
patient’s sleep, telling him that the gods would visit him in his sleep and
heal him. Many healings followed. Obviously, all this was the work of potent suggestions to the subconscious mind.
After the performance of certain mysterious rites, the devotees of Hecate
would see the goddess during sleep, provided that before going to sleep
they had prayed to her according to weird and fantastic instructions. They
were told to mix lizards with resin, frankincense and myrrh and pound all
this together in the open air under the crescent moon. Healings were reported in many cases following this grotesque procedure.
It is obvious that these strange procedures, as mentioned in the illustrations given, favored suggestion and acceptance by the subconscious mind
of these people by making a powerful appeal to their imagination. Actually, in all these healings, the subconscious mind of the subject was the
healer.
In all ages, unofficial healers have obtained remarkable results in cases
where authorized medical skill has failed. This gives cause for thought.
How do these healers in all parts of the world effect their cures? The answer to all these healings is due to the blind belief of the sick person,
which released the healing power resident in his subconscious mind. Many
of the remedies and methods employed were rather strange and fantastic,
which fared the imagination of the patients, causing an aroused emotional
state. This state of mind facilitated the suggestion of health, and was ac cepted both by the conscious and subconscious mind of the sick. This will
be elaborated on further in the next chapter.

Biblical Accounts Of The Use Of The Subconscious Powers

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive them,
and ye shall have them. Mark 11:24.
Note the difference in tenses. The inspired writers tells us to believe and
accept as true the fact that our desire has already been accomplished and
fulfilled, that it is already completed, and that is realization will follow as a
thing in the future.
The success of this technique depends on the confident conviction that
the thought, the idea, the picture is already a fact in mind. In order for
anything to have substance in the realm of mind, it must be thought of as
actually existing there.
Here in a few cryptic words is a concise and specific direction for making
use of the creative power of thought by impressing upon the subconscious
the particular thing which you desire. Your thought, idea, plan or purpose
is as real on its own plane as your hand or your heart. In following the
Biblical technique, you completely eliminate from your mind all consideration of conditions, circumstances or anything which might imply adverse
contingencies. You are planting a seed (concept) in the mind, which, if
you leave it undisturbed, will infallibly germinate into external fruition.
The prime condition, which Jesus insisted upon, was faith. Over and over
again you read in the Bible, According to your faith is it done unto you. If
you plant certain types of seeds in the ground, you have faith they will
grow after their kind. This is the way of seeds, and trusting the laws of
growth and agriculture, you know that the seeds will come forth after
their kind. 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. Faith is, in a sense, accepting as true what your reason and
senses deny, i.e. a shutting out of the little, rational, analytical, conscious
mind and embracing an attitude of complete reliance on the inner power
of your subconscious mind.
A classical instance of Bible technique is recorded in Matthew 9:28-30.
And when he was come into the house, the blind man came to him; and
Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said
unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, according to
your faith be it unto you. And their eyes opened; and Jesus straightly
charged them, saying, see that no man know it.
In the words according to your faith be it unto you, you can see that Je sus was actually appealing to the cooperation of the subconscious mind of
the blind men. Their faith was their great expectancy, their inner feeling,
their inner conviction that something miraculous would happen, and that
their prayer would be answered, and it was. This is the time-honored
technique of healing, utilized alike by all healing groups throughout the
world regardless of religious affiliation.
In the words, see that no man know it, Jesus enjoins the newly healed
patients not to discuss their healing because they might be subjected to
the skeptical and derogatory criticisms of the unbelieving. This might tend
to undo the benefits they had received at the hand of Jesus by depositing
thoughts of fear, doubt and anxiety in the subconscious mind.
…for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and
they came out. Luke 4:36.
When the sick came to Jesus to be healed, they were healed by their faith
together with his faith and understanding of the healing power of the subconscious mind. Whatever he decreed, he felt inwardly to be true. He and
the people needing help were in the one universal, subjective mind, and
his silent inner knowing and conviction of the healing power changed the
negative, destructive patterns in the patients’ subconscious. The resultant
healings were the automatic response to the internal mental change. His
command was his appeal to the subconscious mind of the patients plus
his awareness, feeling and absolute trust in the response of the subconscious mind to the words, which he spoke with authority.

Miracles At Various Shrines Throughout The World

It is an established fact that cures have taken place at various shrines
throughout the world, such as in Japan, India, Europe and America. I
have visited several of the famous shrines in Japan. At the world famous
shrine called Diabutsu is a gigantic divinity of bronze where Buddha is
seated with folded hands, and the head is inclined in an attitude of profound contemplative ecstasy. It is 42 feet in height and is called the great
Buddha. Here I saw young and old making offerings at its feet. Money,
fruit, rice and oranges were offered. Candles were lit, incense was
burned, and prayers of petition recited.
The guide explained the chant of a young girl as she murmured a prayer,
bowed low, and placed two oranges as an offering. She also lit a candle.
He said she had lost her voice, and it was restored at the shrine. She was
thanking Buddha for restoring her voice. She had the simple faith that
Buddha would give her back her singing voice if she followed a certain ritual, fasted, and made certain offerings. All this helped to kindle faith and
expectancy, resulting in a conditioning of her mind to the point of belief.
Her subconscious mind responded to her belief. To illustrate further the power of imagination and blind belief, I will relate
the case of a relative of mine who had tuberculosis. His lungs were badly
diseased. His son decided to heal his father. He came home to Perth,
Western Australia, where his father lived, and said to him that he had met
a monk who had returned from one of the healing shrines in Europe. This
monk sold him a piece of the true cross. He said he gave the monk the
equivalent of $500 for it.
This young man had actually picked up a splinter of wood from the sidewalk, went to the jeweler’s, and had it set in a ring so that it looked real.
He told his father that many were healed just by touching the ring or the
cross. He inflamed and fired his father’s imagination to the point that the
old gentleman snatched the ring from him, placed it over his chest,
prayed silently, and went to sleep. In the morning he was healed. All the
clinic’s tests proved negative.
You know, of course, it was not the splinter of wood from the sidewalk
that healed him. It was his imagination aroused to an intense degree,
plus the confident expectancy of a perfect healing. Imagination was joined
to faith or subjective feeling, and the union of the two brought about a
healing. The father never learned of the trick that had been played upon
him. If he had, he probably would have had a relapse. He remained completely cured and passed away fifteen years later at the age of 89.

One Universal Healing Principle

it is a well known fact that all of the various schools of healing effect cures
of the most wonderful character. The most obvious conclusion, which
strikes your mind, is that there must be some underlying principle, which
is common to them all, namely, the subconscious mind, and the one
process of healing is faith.
It will now be in order to recall to your mind once more the following fundamental truths:
First, that you possess mental functions which have been distinguished by
designating one the conscious mind and the other the subconscious mind.
Second, your subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of
suggestion. Furthermore, your subconscious mind has complete control of
the functions, conditions and sensations of your body.
I venture to believe that all the readers of this book are familiar with the
fact that symptoms of almost any disease can be induced in hypnotic subjects by suggestion. For example, a subject in the hypnotic state can develop a high temperature, flushed face, or chills according to the nature of
the suggestion given. By experiment, you can also suggest to the person
that he is paralyzed and cannot walk: it will be so. By illustration, you can hold a cup of cold water under the nose of the hypnotic subject and tell
him, “This is full of pepper, smell it!” He will proceed to sneeze. What do
you think caused him to sneeze, the water or the suggestion?
If a man says he is allergic to Timothy grass, you can place a synthetic
flower or an empty glass in front of nose, when he is in a hypnotic state,
and tell him it is Timothy grass. He will portray the usual allergic symptoms. This indicates that the cause of the disease is in the mind. The
healing of the disease can also take place mentally.
You realize that remarkable healings take place through osteopathy, chiropractic medicine and naturopathy, as well as through all the various religious bodies throughout the world, but it is obvious that all of these healings are brought about through the subconscious mind the only healer
there is.
Notice how it heals a cut on your face caused by shaving. It knows exactly
how to do it. The doctor dresses the would and says, “Nature heals it!”
Nature refers to natural law, the law of the subconscious mind, or selfpreservation, which is the function of the subconscious mind. The instinct
of self-preservation is the first law of nature. Your strongest instinct is the
most potent of all autosuggestions.

Widely Different Theories

It would be tedious and unprofitable to discuss to any great extent the
numerous theories advanced by different religious sects and prayer therapy groups. There are a great number who claim that because their theory
produces results it is, therefore, the correct one. This, as explained in this
chapter, cannot be true.
You are aware that there are all types of healing. Franz Anton Mesmer, an
Austrian physician (1734-1815) who practiced in Paris, discovered that by
applying magnets to the diseased body, he could cure that disease miraculously. He also performed cures with various other pieces of glass and
metals. He discontinued this form of healing and claimed that his cures
were due to “animal magnetism,” theorizing that this substance was projected from the healer to the patient.
His method of healing disease from then on was by hypnotism, which was
called mesmerism in his day. Other physicians said that all his healings
were due to suggestion and nothing else.
All of these groups, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, osteopaths, chiropractors, physicians and all the churches are using the one universal
power resident in the subconscious mind. Each may proclaim the healings
are due to their theory. The process of all healing is a definite, positive,
mental attitude, an inner attitude, or a way of thinking, called faith. Heal ing is due to a confident expectancy, which acts as a powerful suggestion
to the subconscious mind releasing its healing potency.
One man does not heal by a different power than another. It is true that
he may have his own theory or method. There is only one process of healing and that is faith. There is only one healing power, namely, your subconscious mind. Select the theory and method you prefer. You can rest
assured, if you have faith, you shall get results.

Views Of Paracelsus

Philippus Paracelsus, a famous Swiss alchemist and physician, who lived
from 1493 to 1541, was a great healer in his day. He stated what is now
an obvious scientific fact when he uttered these words, “Whether the object of your faith be real or false, you will nevertheless obtain the same
effects. Thus, if I believed in Saint Peter’s statue as I should have believed in Saint Peter himself, I shall obtain the same effects that I should
have obtained from Saint Peter. But that is superstition. Faith, however,
produces miracles; and whether it is true or false faith, it will always produce the same wonders.”
The views of Paracelsus were also entertained in the sixteenth century by
Pietro Pomponazzi, an Italian philosopher and contemporary of Paracelsus, who said “We can easily conceive the marvelous effects, which confidence and imagination can produce, particularly when both qualities are
reciprocated between the subjects and the person who influences them.
The cures attributed to the influence of certain relics are the effect of their
imagination and confidence. Quacks and philosophers know that if the
bones of any skeleton were put in place of the saint’s bones, the sick
would nonetheless experience beneficial effects, if they believed that they
were veritable relics.”
Then, if you believe in the bones of saints to heal, or if you believe in the
healing power of certain waters, you will get results because of the powerful suggestion given to your subconscious mind. It is the latter that
does the healing.

Bernheim’s Experiments

Hippolyte Bernheim, professor of medicine at Nancy, France, 1910-1919,
was the expounder of the fact that the suggestion of the physician to the
patient was exerted through the subconscious mind.
Bernheim, in his Suggestive Therapeutics, page 197, tells a story of a
man with paralysis of the tongue, which had yielded to no form of treatment. His doctor told the patient that he had a new instrument with which
he promised to heal him. He introduced a pocket thermometer into the
patient’s mouth. The patient imagined it to be the instrument which was
to save him. In a few moments he cried out joyfully that he could once more move his tongue freely.
“Among our cases,” continues Bernheim, “facts of the same sort will be
found. A young girl came into my office, having suffered from complete
loss of speech for nearly four weeks. After making sure of the diagnosis, I
told my students that loss of speech sometimes yielded instantly to electricity, which might act simply by its suggestive influence. I sent for the
induction apparatus. I applied my hand over the larynx and moved a little,
and said, ‘Now you can speak aloud.’ In an instant I made her say ‘a,’
then ‘b,’ then Maria.’ She continued to speak distinctly; the loss of voice
had disappeared.” Here Bernheim is showing the power of faith and expectancy on the part of the patient, which acts as a powerful suggestion
to the subconscious mind.

Producing A Blister By Suggestion

Bernheim states that he produced a blister on the back of a patient’s neck
by applying a postage stamp and suggesting to the patient that it was a
fly-plaster. This had been confirmed by the experiments and experiences
of many doctors in many parts of the world, which leave no doubt that
structural changes are a possible result of oral suggestion to patients.

The Cause Of Bloody Stigmata

In Hudson’s Law of Psychic Phenomena, page 153, he states, “Hemorrhages and bloody stigmata may be induced in certain subjects by means
of suggestion.
“Dr M Bourru put a subject into the somnambulistic condition, and gave
him the following suggestion: ‘At four o’clock this afternoon, after the
hypnosis, you will come into my office, sit down in the armchair, cross
your arms upon your breast, and your nose will begin to bleed.’ At the
hour appointed the young man did as directed. Several drops of blood
came from the left nostril.
“On another occasion the same investigator traced the patient’s name on
both his forearms with the dull point of an instrument. Then when the patient was in the somnambulistic condition, he said, ‘At four o’clock this afternoon you will go to sleep, and your arms will bleed along the lines
which I have traced, and your name will appear written on your arms in
the letters of blood.’ He was watched at four o’clock and seen to fall
asleep. On the left arm the letters stood out in bright relief and in several
places there were drops of blood. The letters were still visible three
months afterward, although they had gradually grown faint.”
These facts demonstrate at once the correctness of the two fundamental
propositions previously stated, namely, the constant amenability of the
subconscious mind to the power of suggestion and the perfect control,
which the subconscious mind exercises over the functions, sensations and conditions of the body. All the foregoing phenomena dramatize vividly abnormal conditions induced by suggestion, and are conclusive proof that as
a man thinketh in his heart (subconscious mind) so is he.

Healing Points In Review

1. Remind yourself frequently that the healing power is in your own subconscious mind.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. In praying for another, know that your silent inner knowing of wholeness, beauty and perfection can change the negative patterns of the
other’s subconscious mind and bring about wonderful results.
5. The miraculous healings you hear about at various shrines are due to
imagination and blind faith, which act on the subconscious mind, releasing
the healing power.
6. All disease originates in the mind. Nothing appears on the body unless
there is a mental pattern corresponding to it.
7. The symptoms of almost any disease can be induced in you by hypnotic
suggestion. This shows you the power of your thought.
8. There is only one process of healing and that is faith. There is only one
healing power, namely, your subconscious mind.
9. Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results.
Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon
faith as thought in your mind and that will suffice.

Chapter V
Mental Healings in Modern Times

Everyone is definitely concerned with the healing of bodily conditions and
human affairs. What is it that heals? Where is this healing power? These
are questions asked by everyone. The answer is that this healing power is
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. There is an old saying, “The doctor
dressed the wound, but God heals it.” The psychologist or psychiatrist
proceeds to remove the mental blocks in the patient so that the healing
principle may be released, restoring the patient to health. Likewise, the
surgeon removes the physical block enabling the healing currents to function normally. No physician, surgeon or mental science practitioner claims
that “he healed the patient.” The one healing power is called by many
names: Nature, Life, God, Creative Intelligence and Subconscious Power.
As previously outlined, there are many different methods used to remove
the mental, emotional and physical blocks, which inhibit the flow of the
healing life principle animating all of us. The healing principle resident in
your subconscious mind can and will, if properly directed by you or some
other person, heal your mind and body of all disease. This healing principle is operative in all men regardless of creed, color or race. You do not
have to belong to some particular church in order to use and participate in
this healing process. Your subconscious will heal the burn or cut on your
hand even though you profess to be an atheist or agnostic.
The modern mental therapeutic procedure is based on the truth that the
infinite intelligence and power of your subconscious mind responds according to your faith. The mental science practitioner or minister follows
the injunction of the Bible, i.e. he goes into his closet and shuts the door,
which means he still his mind, relaxes, lets go and thinks of the infinite
healing presence within him. He closes the door of his mind to all outside
distractions as well as appearances, and then he quietly and knowingly
turns over his request or desire to his subconscious mind, realizing that
the intelligence of his mind will answer him according to his specific
needs.
The most wonderful thing to know is this: Imagine the end desired and
feel its reality; then the infinite life principle will respond to your conscious choice and your conscious request. This is the meaning of believe
you have received, and you shall receive. This is what the modern mental
scientist does when he practices prayer therapy.

One Process Of Healing

There is only one universal healing principle operating through everything
– the cat, the dog, the tree, the grass, the wind, the earth – for everything is alive. 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.
There are many different approaches, techniques and methods in using
the universal power, but there is only process of healing, which is faith,
for according to your faith is it done unto you.

The Law of Belief

All religions of the world represent forms of belief, and these beliefs are
explained in many ways. The law of life is belief. What do you believe
about yourself, life and the universe? It is done unto you as you believe.
Belief is a thought in your mind, which causes the power of your subconscious to be distributed into all phases of your life according to your thinking habits. You must realize the Bible is not talking about your belief in
some ritual, ceremony, form, institution, man or formula. It is talking
about belief itself.
The belief of your mind is simply the thought of your mind. If thou canst
believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Mark 9:23.
It is foolish to believe in something to hurt of harm you. Remember, it is
not the thing believed in that hurts or harms you, but the belief or
thought in your mind, which creates the result. All your experiences, all
your actions, and all the events and circumstances of your life are but the
reflections and reactions to your own thought.

Prayer Therapy Is The Combined Function Of The Conscious &
Subconscious Mind Scientifically Directed

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.
Prayer therapy is sometimes referred to as mental treatment, and another
term is scientific prayer.
In prayer therapy you consciously choose a certain idea, mental picture or
plan, which you desire to experience. You realize your capacity to convey
this idea or mental image to your subconscious by feeling the reality of
the state assumed. As you remain faithful in your mental attitude, your
prayer will be answered. Prayer therapy is a definite mental action for a
definite specific purpose.

Let us suppose that you decide to heal a certain difficulty by prayer therapy. You are aware that your problem or sickness, whatever it may be,
must be caused by negative thoughts charged with fear and lodged in
your subconscious mind, and that if you can succeed in cleansing your
mind of these thoughts, you will get a healing.
You, therefore, turn to the healing power within your own subconscious
mind and remind yourself of its infinite power and intelligence and its capacity to heal all conditions. As you dwell on these truths, your fear will
begin to dissolve, and the recollection of these truths also corrects the erroneous beliefs. You give thanks for the healing that you know will come
and then you keep you mind off the difficulty until you feel guided, after
an interval, to pray again. While you are praying, you absolutely refuse to
give any power to the negative conditions or to admit for a second that
the healing will not come. This attitude of mind brings about the harmonious union of the conscious and subconscious mind, which releases the
healing power.

Faith Healing, What It Means, & How Blind Faith Works

What is popularly termed faith healing is not the faith mentioned in the
Bible, which means a knowledge of the interaction of the conscious and
subconscious mind. A faith healer is one who heals without any real scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved. He may claim that
he has a special gift of healing, and the sick person’s blind belief in him or
his powers may bring results.
The voodoo doctor in South Africa and other parts of the world may heal
by incantations, or a person may be healed by touching the so-called
bones of saints, or anything else which cause the patients to honestly believe in the method or process.
Any method which cause you to move from fear and worry to faith and
expectancy will heal. There are many persons, each of whom claims that
because his personal theory produces results, it is, therefore, the correct
one. This, as already explained in this chapter, cannot be true.
To illustrate how blind faith works: You will recall our discussion of the
Swiss physician, Franz Anton Mesmer. In 1776, he claimed many cures
when he stroked diseased bodies with artificial magnets. Later on, he
threw away his magnets and evolved the theory of animal magnetism.
This he held to be a fluid, which pervades the universe, but is most active
in the human organism.
He claimed that his magnetic fluid, which was going forth from him to his
patients, healed them. People flocked to him and many wonderful cures
were effected. Mesmer moved to Paris, and while there the Government appointed a
commission composed of physicians and members of the Academy of Science, of which Benjamin Franklin was a member, to investigate his cures.
The report admitted the leading facts claimed by Mesmer, but held that
there was no evidence to prove the correctness of his magnetic fluid theory and said the effects were due to the imagination of the patients.
Soon after this, Mesmer was driven into exile, and died in 1815. Shortly
afterwards, Dr Braid of Manchester undertook to show that magnetic fluid
had nothing to do with the production of the healings of Dr Mesmer. Dr
Braid discovered that patients could be thrown into hypnotic sleep by suggestion, during which many of the well known phenomena ascribed to
magnetism by Mesmer could be produced.
You can readily see that all these cures were undoubtedly brought about
by the active imagination of the patients together with a powerful suggestion of health to their subconscious minds. All this could be termed blind
faith as there was no understanding in those days as to how the cures
were brought about.

Subjective Faith & What It Means

You will recall the proposition which need not be repeated at length, that
the subjective or subconscious mind of an individual is as amenable to the
control of his own conscious or objective mind as it is by the suggestions
of another. It follows that whatever may be your objective belief, if you
will assume to have faith actively or passively, your subconscious mind
will be controlled by the suggestions, and your desire will be fulfilled.
The faith required in mental healings is a purely subj faith, and is attainable upon the cessation of active opposition on the part of the objective or
conscious mind.
In the healing of the body it is, of course, desirable to secure the concurrent faith of both the conscious and subconscious mind. However, it is not
always essential if you will enter into a state of passivity and receptivity
by relaxing the mind and the body and getting into a sleepy state. In this
drowsy state your passivity becomes receptive to subjective impression.
Recently, I was asked by a man, “How is it that I got a healing through a
minister? I did not believe what he said when he told me that there is no
such thing as disease and that matter does not exist.”
This man at first thought his intelligence was being insulted, and he
protested against such a palpable absurdity. The explanation is simple. He
was quieted by soothing words and told to get into a perfectly passive
condition, to say nothing, and think of nothing for the time being. His minister also became passive and affirmed quietly, peacefully and constantly for about one half hour that this man would have perfect health,
peace, harmony and wholeness. He felt immense relief and was restored
to health.
It is easy to see that his subjective faith had been made manifest by his
passivity under treatment and the suggestions of perfect healthfulness by
the minister were conveyed to his subconscious mind. The two subjective
minds were then en rapport.
The minister was not handicapped by antagonistic autosuggestions of the
patient arising from objective doubt of the power of the healer or the correctness of the theory. In this sleepy, drowsy state the conscious mind resistance is reduced to a minimum and results followed. The subconscious
mind of the patient being necessarily controlled by such suggestion exercised its functions in accordance therewith, and a healing followed.

The Meaning Of Absent Treatment

Suppose you learned that your mother was sick in New York City and you
lived in Los Angeles. Your mother would not be physically present where
you are, but you could pray for her. It is the Father within which doeth
the work.
The creative law of mind (subconscious mind) serves you and will do the
work. Its response to you is automatic. Your treatment is for the purpose
of inducing an inner realization of health and harmony in your mentality.
This inner realization, acting through the subconscious mind, operates
through your mother’s subconscious mind as there is but one creative
mind. Your thoughts of health, vitality and perfection operate through the
one universal subjective mind, and set a law of motion on the subjective
side of life, which manifest through her body as a healing.
In the mind principle there is no time or space. It is the same mind that
operates through your mother no matter where she may be. In reality
there is no absent treatment as opposed to present treatment for the universal mind is omnipresent. You do not try to send out thoughts or hold a
thought. Your treatment is a conscious movement of thought and as you
become conscious of the qualities of health, well-being and relaxation,
these qualities will be resurrected in the experience of your mother, and
results will follow.
The following is a perfect example of what is called absent treatment. Recently, a listener of our radio program in Los Angeles prayed as follows for
her mother in New York who had a coronary thrombosis: “The healing
presence is right where my mother is. Her bodily condition is but a reflection of her thought-life, like shadows cast on the screen. I know that in
order to change the images on the screen I must change the projection reel. My mind is the projection reel, and I know project in my own mind
the image of wholeness, harmony and perfect health for my mother. The
infinite healing presence, which crated my mother’s body and all her organs, is now saturating every atom of her being, and river of peace flows
through every cell of her body. The doctors are divinely guided and directed, and whoever touches my mother is guided to do the right thing. I
know that disease has not ultimate reality; if it had, no one could be
healed. I now align myself with the infinite principle of love and life, and I
know and decree that harmony, health and peace are now being expressed in my mother’s body.”
She prayed in the above manner several times daily, and her mother had
a most remarkable recovery after a few days, much to the amazement of
her specialist. He complimented her on her great faith in the power of
God.
The conclusion, arrived at in the daughter’s mind, set the creative law of
mind in motion on the subjective side of life, which manifested itself
through her mother’s body as perfect health and harmony. What the
daughter felt as true about her mother was simultaneously resurrected in
the experience of her mother.

Releasing The Kinetic Action Of The Subconscious Mind

A psychologist friend of mind told me that one of his lungs was infected. X
rays and analysis showed the presence of tuberculosis. At night being going to sleep he would quietly affirm, “Every cell, nerve, tissue and muscle
of my lungs are not being made whole, pure and perfect. My whole body
is being restored to health and harmony.”
These are not his exact words, but they represent the essence of what he
affirmed. A complete healing followed in about a month’s time. Subsequent X rays showed a perfect healing.
I wanted to know his method, so I asked him why he repeated the words
prior to sleep. Here is his reply, “The kinetic action of the subconscious
mind continues thought your sleep time period. Hence, give the subconscious mind something good to work on as you drop off into slumber.”
This was very wise answer. In thinking of harmony and perfect health, he
never mentioned his trouble by name.
I strongly suggest that you cease talking about your ailments or giving
them a name. The only sap from which they draw life is your attention
and fear of them. Like the above mentioned psychologist, become a mental surgeon. Then your troubles will be cu off like dead branches are
pruned from a tree.
If you are constantly naming your aches and symptoms, you inhibit the kinetic action, which means the release of the healing power and energy
of your subconscious mind. Furthermore, by the law of your own mind,
these imaginings tend to take shape, As the thing I greatly feared. Fill
your mind with the great truths of life and walk forward in the light of love.

Summary of Your Aids to Health

1. Find out what it is that heals you. Realize that correct directions given
to the subconscious mind will heal your mind and body.
2. Develop a definite plan for turning over your requests or desires to
your subconscious mind.
3. Imagine the end desired and feel its reality. Follow it through and you
will get definite results.
4. Decide what belief is. Know that belief is a thought in your mind, and
what you think you create.
5. It is foolish to believe in sickness and something to hurt or harm you.
Believe in perfect health, prosperity, peace, wealth and divine guidance.
6. Great and noble thoughts upon which you habitually dwell become
great acts.
7. 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.
8. Always remember, if you really want the power to heal, you can have it
through faith, which means a knowledge of the working of your conscious
and subconscious mind. Faith comes with understanding.
9. Blind faith means that a person may get results in healing without any
scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved.
10. Learn to pray for your loved ones who my be ill. Quiet your mind and
your thoughts of health, vitality and perfection, operating through the one
universal subjective mind, will be felt and resurrected in the mind of your
loved one.

Chapter VI
Practical Techniques In Mental Healing

An engineer has a technique and a process for building a bridge or an engine. Like the engineer, your mind 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. In this chapter you
will find practical techniques for the unfolding and nurture of your spiritual
life. 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 are many different
approaches and methods. We will not consider in this book the formal, ritual prayers used in religious services. These have an important place in
group worship. We are immediately concerned with the methods of personal prayer as it is applied in your daily life and as it is used to help others.
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 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 subconscious mind 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
now.” It passed away in about an hour. Use this technique with complete
simplicity and naiveté.

Your Subconscious Will Accept Your Blueprint

If you were building a new home for yourself and your 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 waving into your mind will come forth as more
toil, care, tension, anxiety and limitation of all kinds.
The most fundamental and the most far reaching activity in life is that
which you build into your mentality every waking hour. Your word is silent
and invisible; nevertheless, it is real.
You are building your mental home all the time, and your thought and
mental imagery represent your blueprint. Hour by hour, moment by moment, you can build radiant health, success and happiness by the
thoughts you think, the ideas which you harbor, the beliefs you accept
and the scenes that you rehearse in the hidden studio of your mind. This
stately mansion, upon the construction of which you are perpetually engaged, is your personality, your identity in this plane, your whole life story
on this earth.
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 mind will accept your blueprint and
bring all these things to pass. By their fruits ye shall know them.

The Science & 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. Ask, and it shall be given
you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew 7:7.
Here you are told you shall receive that for which you ask. It shall be
opened to you when you knock, and you shall find that for which you are
searching. This teaching implies the definiteness of mental and spiritual
laws. There is always a direct response from the Infinite Intelligence of your subconscious mind 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 mind, 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 subconscious mind, which is one with boundless wisdom and infinite power. By following this procedure, your prayers
will be answered.

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 mental image.
This process of thinking forms impressions in your mind; these impressions in turn become manifested as facts and experiences in your life. The
builder visualizes the type of building he wants; he sees it as he desires it
to be completed. His imagery and thought processes become a plastic
mold from which the building will emerge – a beautiful or an ugly one, a
skyscraper or a very low one. His mental imagery is projected and is
drawn on paper. Eventually, the contractor and his workers gather the essential materials and the building progresses until it stands finished, conforming perfectly to the mental patterns of the architect.
I use the visualization technique prior to speaking from the platform. I
quiet the wheels of my mind in order that I may present to the subconscious mind my images of thought. Then, I picture the entire auditorium
and the seats filled with men and women; each one of them illumined and
inspired by the infinite healing presence. I see them as radiant, happy
and free.
Having first built up the idea in my imagination, I quietly sustain it there
as a mental picture while I imagine I hear men and women saying, “I am healed,” “I feel wonderful,” “I’ve had an instantaneous healing,” “I’m
transformed.” I keep this up for about ten minutes or more, knowing and
feeling that each person’s mind and body are saturated with love, wholeness, beauty and perfection. My awareness grows to the point where in
my mind I can actually hear the voices of the multitude proclaiming their
health and happiness; then I release the whole picture and go onto the
platform. Almost every Sunday some people stop and say that their
prayers were answered.

Mental Movie Method

The Chinese say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” William James,
the father of American psychology, stressed the fact that the subconscious
mind will bring to pass any picture held in the mind and backed by faith.
Act as though I am, and I will be.
A number of years ago I was in the Middle West lecturing in several
states, and I desired to have a permanent location in the general area
from 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 a 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 subconscious mind, 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 years.
The method outlined here appeals to many who have described it as “the
mental movie method.” I have received numerous letters from people who
listen to my radio talks and weekly public lectures, telling me of the wonderful results they get using this technique in the sale of their property. I
suggest to those who have homes or property for sale that they satisfy
themselves in their own mind that their price is right. Then, I claim that
the Infinite Intelligence is attracting to them the buyer who really wants
to have the property and who will love it and prosper in it. After having
done this I suggest that they quiet their mind, relax, let go and get into a
drowsy, sleepy state, which reduces all mental effort to a minimum. Then,
they are to picture the check in their hands, rejoice in the check, give
thanks for the check and go off to sleep feeling the naturalness of the
whole mental movie created in their own mind. They must act as though
it were an objective reality and the subconscious mind will take it as an
impression and through the deeper currents of the mind, the buyer and
the seller are brought together. A mental picture held in the mind, backed by faith, will come to pass.

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
subconscious mind was to enter into a drowsy, sleepy state, or a state
akin to sleep in which all effort was reduced to a minimum. Then 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 subconscious mind) is to condense the idea,
which is to be the object of suggestion, to sum it up in a brief phase,
which can be readily graven on the memory and to repeat it over and
over again as a lullaby.”
Some years ago, a young lady in Los Angeles was engaged in a prolonged
bitter family lawsuit over a will. Her husband had bequeathed his entire
estate to her, and his sons and daughters by a previous marriage were
bitterly fighting to break the will. The Baudoin technique was outlined to
her, and this is what she did. She relaxed her body in an armchair, entered into the sleepy state and, as suggested, condensed the idea of her
need into a phrase consisting of six words easily graven on the memory.
“It is finished in divine order.” The significance to her of these words
meant that Infinite Intelligence operating through the laws of her subconscious mind would bring about a harmonious adjustment through the
principle of harmony. She continued this procedure every night for about
ten nights. After she got into a sleepy state, she would affirm slowly, quietly and feelingly the statement: “It is finished in divine order,” over and
over again, feeling a sense of inner peace and an all-pervading tranquility; then she went off into her deep normal sleep. On the morning of the
eleventh day, following the use of the above technique, she awakened
with a sense of well-being, a conviction that it was finished. Her attorney
called her the same day saying that the opposing attorney and his clients
were willing to settle. A harmonious agreement was reached and litigation
was discontinued.

The Sleeping Technique

By entering into a sleepy, drowsy state, effort is reduced to a minimum.
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. In this state
the negative thoughts, which tend to neutralize your desire and so prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind, are no longer present.
Suppose you want to get rid of a destructive habit. Assume a comfortable
posture, relax your body, and be still. Get into a sleepy state, and in that
sleepy state, say quietly, over and over again as a lullaby, “I am com pletely free from this habit; harmony and peace of mind reign supreme.”
repeat the above slowly, quietly and lovingly for five or ten minutes, night
and morning. Each time you repeat the words the emotional value becomes greater. When the urge comes to repeat the negative habit, repeat
the above formula out loud to yourself. By this means you induce the subconscious to accept the idea and a healing follows.

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 cosmic law of action and reaction.
For instance, a father promises his son a car for graduation; the boy has
not yet received the car, but he is very thankful and happy, and is as joyous as though he had actually received the car. He knows his father will
fulfill his promise and he is full of gratitude and joy even though he has
not yet received the car, objectively speaking. He has, however, received
it with joy and thankfulness in his mind.
I shall illustrate how Mr Broke applied this technique with excellent results. He said, “Bills are piling up, I am out of work, I have three children
and no money. What shall I do?” Regularly every night and morning, for a
period of about three weeks, he repeated the words, “Thank you, Father,
for my wealth.” in a relaxed, peaceful manner until the feeling or mood of
thankfulness dominated his mind. He imagined he was addressing the infinite power and intelligence within him knowing, of course, that he could
not see the creative intelligence or infinite mind. He was seeing with the
inner eye of spiritual perception, realizing that his thought-image of
wealth was the first cause, relative to the money, position and food he
needed. His thought-feeling was the substance of wealth untrammeled by
antecedent conditions of any kind. By repeating, “Thank you, Father,” over
and over again, his mind and heart were lifted up to the point of acceptance, and when fear, thoughts of lack, poverty and distress came into his
mind, he would say, “Thank you, Father,” as often as necessary. He knew
that as he kept up the thankful attitude he would recondition his mind to
the idea of wealth, which is what happened.
The sequel to his prayer is very interesting. After praying in the abovementioned manner, he met a former employer of his on the street whom
he ha not seen for twenty years. The man offered him a very lucrative position and advanced him $500 on a temporary loan. Today, Mr Broke is
vice-president of the company for which he works. His recent remark to
me was, “I shall never forget the wonders of ‘Thank you, Father’ It has
worked wonders for me.”

The Affirmative Method

The effectiveness of an affirmation is determined largely by your understanding of the 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 own being, you will rearrange the negative patterns of your subconscious mind based on your faith and understanding of
that which you affirm.
The result of the affirmative process of prayer depends on your conforming to the principles of life, regardless of appearances. Consider for a moment that there is a principle of mathematics and none of error; there is a
principle of truth but none of dishonesty. There is a principle of intelligence but none of ignorance; there is a principle of harmony and none of
discord. There is a principle of health but none of disease, and there is a
principle of abundance but none of poverty.
The affirmative method was chose by the author for use on his sister who
was to be operated on for the removal of gallstones in a hospital in England. The condition described was based on the diagnosis of hospital tests
and the usual X ray procedures. She asked me to pray for her. We were
separated geographically about 6,500 miles, but there is no time or space
in the mind principle. Infinite mind or intelligence is present in its entirety
at every point simultaneously. I withdrew all thought from the contemplation of symptoms and from the corporeal personality altogether. I affirmed as follows: “This prayer is for my sister Catherine. She is relaxed
and at peace, poised, balanced, serene and calm. The healing intelligence
of her subconscious mind, which created her body, is now transforming
every cell, nerve, tissue, muscle and bone of her being according to the
perfect pattern of all organs lodged in her subconscious mind. Silently,
quietly, all distorted thought patters in her subconscious mind are removed and dissolved, and the vitality, wholeness and beauty of the life
principle are made manifest in every atom of her being. She is now open
and receptive to the healing currents which are flowing through her like a
river, restoring her to perfect health, harmony and peace. All distortions
and ugly images are now washed away by the infinite ocean of love and
peace flowing through her, and it is so.”
I affirmed the above several times a day and at the end of two weeks my sister had an examination, which showed a remarkable healing and the X
ray proved negative.
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. Your thought can only affirm, for even if you deny
something, you are actually affirming the presence of what you deny. Repeating an affirmation, knowing what you are saying and why you are
saying it, leads the mind to that state of consciousness where it accepts
that which you state as true. Keep on affirming the truths of life until you
get the subconscious reaction, which satisfies.

The Argumentative Method

This method is just what the word implies. It stems from the procedure of
Dr Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Maine. Dr Quimby, a pioneer in mental
and spiritual healing, lived and practiced in Belfast, Maine, about one hundred years ago. A book called The Quimby Manuscripts, published in 1921
by Thomas Y Crowell company, New York City, and edited by Horatio
Dresser, is available in your library. This book gives newspaper accounts
of this man’s remarkable results in prayer treatment of the sick. Quimby
duplicated many of the healing miracles recorded in the Bible. In brief, the
argumentative method employed according to Quimby consists of spiritual
reasoning where you convince the patient and yourself that sickness is
due to his false belief,, groundless fears and negative patterns lodged in
his subconscious mind. 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 the body. This wrong
belief in some external power and external causes has now externalized
itself as sickness, and can be changed by changing the thought patterns.
You explain to the sick person that the basis of all healing is a change of
belief. You also point out that the subconscious mind created the body
and all its organs; therefore, it knows how to heal it, can heal it and is doing so now as you speak. You argue in the courtroom of your mind that
the disease is a shadow of the mind based on disease-soaked, morbid
thought imagery. You continue to build up all the evident you can muster
on behalf of the healing power within, which created all the organs in the
first place, and which has a perfect pattern of every cell, nerve and tissue
within it. Then, you render a verdict in the courthouse of your mind in favor of yourself and your patient. You liberate the sick one by faith and
spiritual understanding. Your mental and spiritual evidence is overwhelming; there being but one mind, what you feel as true will be resurrected in
the experience of the patient. This procedure is essentially the argumentative method used by Dr Quimby of Maine form 1849 to 1869.

The Absolute Method Is Like Modern Sound Wave Therapy

Many people throughout the world practice this form of prayer treatment with wonderful results. The person using the absolute method mentions
the name of the patient, such as John Jones, then quietly and silently
thinks of God and His qualities and attributes, such as, God is all bliss,
boundless love, Infinite Intelligence, all-powerful, boundless wisdom, absolute harmony, indescribable beauty and perfection. As he quietly thinks
along these lines he is lifted up in consciousness into a new spiritual wave
length, at which times he feels the infinite ocean of Bod’s love is now dissolving everything unlike itself in the mind and body of John Jones for
whom he is praying. He feels all the power and love of God are now focused on John Jones, and whatever is bothering or vexing him is now
completely neutralized in the presence of the infinite ocean of life and
love.
The absolute method of prayer might be likened to the sound wave or
sonic therapy recently shown by a distinguished physician in Los Angeles.
He has an ultra sound wave machine, which oscillates at a tremendous
speed and sends sound waves to any area of the body to which it is directed. These sound waves can be controlled, and he told me of achieving
remarkable results in dissolving arthritic, calcareous deposits as well as
the healing and removal of other disturbing conditions.
To the degree that we rise in consciousness by contemplating qualities
and attributes of God, do we generate spiritual electronic waves of harmony, health and peace. Many remarkable healings follow this technique
of prayer.

A Cripple Walks

Dr Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, of whom we spoke previously in this chapter, used the absolute method in the latter years of his healing career. He
was really the father of psychosomatic medicine and the first psychoanalyst. He had the capacity to diagnose clairvoyantly the cause of the patient’s troubles, pains and aches.
The following is a condensed account of the healing of a cripple as recorded in Quimby’s Manuscript’s:
Quimby was called on to visit a woman who was lame, aged and bedridden. He states that her ailment was due to the fact that she was imprisoned by a creed so small and contracted that she could not stand upright
and move about. She was living in the tomb of fear and ignorance; furthermore, she was taking the Bible literally and it frightened her. “In this
tomb,” Quimby said, “was the presence and power of God trying to burst
the bands, break through the bonds and rise from the dead.” When she
would ask others for an explanation of some passage of the Bible, the answer would be a stone; then she would hunger for the bread of life. Dr
Quimby diagnosed her case as a mind cloudy and stagnated, due to excitation and fear, caused by the inability to see clearly the meaning of the passage of the Bible, which she had been reading. This showed itself in
the body by her heavy and sluggish feeling, which would terminate as
paralysis.
At this point Quimby asked her what was meant in the bible verses: Yet a
little while am I with you, and then I go unto Him that sent me. Ye shall
seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
John 7:33-34. She replied that it mean Jesus went to heaven. Quimby
what it really meant by telling her that being with her a little while meant
his explanation of her symptoms, feelings and their causes; i.e. he had
compassion and sympathy for her momentarily, but he could not remain
in that mental state. The next step was to go to Him that sent us which,
as Quimby pointed out, was the creative power of God in all of us.
Quimby immediately traveled in his mind and contemplated the divine
ideal; i.e. the vitality, intelligence, harmony and power of God functioning
in the sick person. This is hwy he said to the woman, “Therefore, where I
go you cannot come, for you are in your narrow, restricted belief, and I
am in health.” This prayer and explanation produced an instantaneous
sensation, and a change came over her mind. She walked without her
crutches! Quimby said it was one of the most singular of all his healings!
She was, as it were, dead to error, and to bring her to life or truth was to
raise her form the dead. Quimby quoted the resurrection of Christ and applied it to her own Christ or health; this produced a powerful effect on her.
He also explained to her that the truth, which she accepted was the angel
or idea, which rolled away the stone of fear, ignorance and superstition,
thereby releasing the healing power of God, which made her whole.

The Decree Method

Power goes into our word according to the feeling and faith behind it.
When we realize the power that moves the world is moving on our behalf
and is backing up our word, our confidence and assurance grow. You do
not try and add power to power; therefore, there must be no mental
striving, coercion, force or mental wrestling.
A young girl used the decree method on a young man who was constantly
phoning her, pressing her for dates and meeting her at her place of business; she found it very difficult to get rid of him. She decreed as follows:
“I release (man’s name) unto god. He is in the true place at all times. Ia
am free and he is free. I now decree that my words go forth into infinite
mind and it brings it to pass. It is so.” She said he vanished and she has
never seen him since, adding, “It was as though the ground swallowed
him up.”
Thou shall decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the
light shall shine upon thy ways. Job 22:28.

Serve Yourself With Scientific Truth

1. Be a mental engineer and use tried and proven techniques in building a
grander and greater life.
2. 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.
3. Desire to accomplish things the easy way with the sure aid of mental
science.
4. You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts
you think in the hidden studio of your mind.
5. Experiment scientifically until you personally prove that there is always
a direct response from the Infinite Intelligence of your subconscious mind
to your conscious thinking.
6. Feel the joy and restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishment
of your desire. Any mental picture which you have in your mind is the
substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
7. A mental picture is worth a thousand words. Your subconscious will
bring to pass any picture held in the mind backed by faith.
8. Avoid all effort or mental coercion in prayer. Get into a sleepy, drowsy
state and lull yourself to sleep feeling and knowing that your prayer is answered.
9. Remember that the thankful hear is always close to the riches of the
universe.
10. 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.
11. Generate electronic waves of harmony, health and peace by thinking
of the love and the glory of God.
12. What you decree and feel as true will come to pass. Decree harmony,
health, peace and abundance.

Chapter VII
The Tendency of the Subconscious is Lifeward

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. Your subconscious processes are always lifeward and constructive.
Your subconscious is the builder of your body and maintains all its vital
functions. It is on the job twenty-four hours a day and never sleeps. It is
always trying to help and preserve you from harm.
Your subconscious mind 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 grader 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 subconscious mind. 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 depths of your subconscious. For example, during
the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, invalids
and cripples who had been confined to be for long periods of time, rose up
and performed some of the most amazing feats of bravery and endurance. The intense desire welled up within them to save others at all
costs, and their subconscious responded accordingly.
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 though
you, which your conscious mind knows nothing about.
Mark Twain confided to the world on many occasions that he never
worked in his life. All his humor and all his great writings were due to the
fact that he tapped the inexhaustible reservoir of his subconscious mind.

How The Body Portrays The Workings Of The Mind

The interaction of your conscious and subconscious mind requires a similar interaction between the corresponding system of nerves. The cerebrospinal system is the organ of the conscious mind, and the sympathetic
system is the organ of the subconscious mind. The cerebrospinal system
is the channel through which you receive conscious perception by means of your five physical senses and exercise control over the movement of
your body. This system has its nerves in the brain, and it is the channel of
your volitional and conscious mental function.
The sympathetic system, sometimes referred to as the involuntary nervous system, has its center in a ganglionic mass at the back of the stomach known as the solar plexus, and is sometimes spoken of as the abdominal brain. It is the channel of that mental action, which unconsciously
supports the vital functions of the body.
The two systems may work separately or synchronously. Judge Thomas
Troward, The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science (New York: Robert
McBride & Co 1909) says, “The vagus nerve passes out of the cerebral region as a portion of the voluntary system, and through it we control the
vocal organs’ then it passes onward to the thorax sending out branches to
the heart and lungs; finally, passing through the diaphragm, it loses the
outer coating, which distinguishes the nerves of the voluntary system and
becomes identified with those of the sympathetic system, so forming a
connecting link between the two and making the man physically a single
entity.
“Similarly different areas of the brain indicate their connection with the
objective and subjective activities of the mind respectively, and speaking
in a general way we may assign the frontal portion of the brain to the former and the posterior portion to the latter, while the intermediate portion
partakes the character of both.”
A rather simple way of looking at the mental and physical interaction is to
realize that your conscious mind grasps an idea, which induces a corresponding vibration in your voluntary system of nerves. This in turn causes
a similar current to be generated in your involuntary system of nerves,
thus handing the idea over to your subconscious mind, which is the creative medium.
This is how your thoughts become things.
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.

There Is An Intelligence Which Takes Care Of The Body

When you study the cellular system and the structure of the organs, such
as eyes, ears, heart, living, bladder etc., you learn they consist of groups
of cells, which form a group intelligence whereby they function together
and are able to take orders and carry them out in deductive function at
the suggestion of the master mind (conscious mind).

A careful study of the single-celled organism shows you what goes on in
your complex body. Thought the mono-cellular organism has no organs, it
still gives evidence of mind action and reaction performing the basic functions of movement, alimentation, assimilation and elimination.
Many say there is an intelligence which will take care of your body if you
let it alone. That is true, but the difficulty is that the conscious mind always interferes with is five-sense evidence based on outer appearances,
leading to the sway of false belief, fears and mere opinion. When fear,
false beliefs and negative patterns are made to register in your subconscious mind through psychological, emotional conditioning, there is no
other course open to the subconscious mind except to act on the blueprint
specifications offered it.

The Subconscious Mind Works Continually For The Common Good

The subjective self within you works continuously for the general good,
reflecting an innate principle of harmony behind all things. Your subconscious mind has its own will and it is a very real something in itself. It acts
night and day whether you act upon it or not. It is the builder of your
body, but you cannot see, hear or feel it building, as all this is a silent
process. Your subconscious have a life of its own, which is always moving
toward harmony, health and peace. This is the divine norm within it seeking expression through you at all times.

How Man Interferes With The Innate Principle Of Harmony

To think correctly, scientifically, we must know the “truth.” To know the
truth is to be in harmony with the Infinite Intelligence and power of your
subconscious mind, which is always moving lifeward.
Every thought or action, which is not harmonious, whether through ignorance or design, will result in discord and limitation of all kinds.
Scientists inform us that you build a new body every eleven months; so
you are really only eleven months old from a physical standpoint. If you
build defects back into your body by thoughts of fear, anger, jealousy and
ill will, you have no one to blame but yourself.
You are the sum total of your own thoughts. You can keep from entertaining negative thoughts and imagery. The way to get rid of darkness is with
light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the
negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good and
the bad will vanish.

Why It’s Normal To Be Healthy, Vital & Strong – It’s Abnormal To Be Sick

The average child born into the world is perfectly healthy with all its or gans functioning perfectly. This is the normal state, and we should remain
healthy, vital and strong. The instinct of self-preservation is the strongest
instinct of your nature and it constitutes a most potent, ever-present and
constantly operative truth, inherent in your nature. It is, therefore, obvious that all your thoughts, ideas and beliefs must operate with greater
potentiality when they are in harmony with the innate life principle in you,
which is forever seeking to preserve and protect you along all lines. It follows from this that normal conditions can be restored with greater ease
and certainty than abnormal conditions can be induced.
It is abnormal to be sick; it simply means you are going against the
stream of life and thinking negatively. The law of life is the law of growth;
all nature testifies to the operation of this law by silently, constantly expressing itself in the law of growth. When there is growth and expression,
there must be life; where there is life there must be harmony, and where
there is harmony, there is perfect health.
If your thought is in harmony with the creative principle of your subconscious mind, you are in tune with the innate principle of harmony. If you
entertain thoughts which are not in accordance with the principle of harmony, these thoughts cling to you, harass you, worry you, and finally
bring about disease; and if persisted in, possibly death.
In the healing of disease, you must increase the inflow and distribution of
the vital forces of your subconscious mind throughout your system. This
can be done by eliminating thoughts of fear, worry, anxiety, jealousy, hatred and every other destructive thought which tends to tear down and
destroy your nerves and glands – body tissue which controls the elimination of all waste material.

Pott’s Disease Cured

In the Nautilus magazine of March, 1917, there appears an article about a
boy suffering from Pott’s disease, or tuberculosis of the spine, who had a
remarkable healing. His name was Frederick Elias Andrews of Indianapolis, now minister of Unity School of Christianity, Kansas City, Missouri. His
physician pronounced him incurable. He began to pray, and from a
crooked, twisted cripple going about on hands and knees, he became a
strong, straight, well-formed man. He created his own affirmation, mentally absorbing the qualities he needed.
He affirmed over and over again many times a day, “I am whole, perfect,
strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy.” He persevered and said
that this prayer was the last utterance on his lips at night and the first in
the morning. He prayed for others also by sending out thoughts of love
and health. This attitude of mind and way of prayer returned to him multiplied many times. His faith and perseverance paid off with big dividends.
When thoughts of fear, anger, jealousy or envy drew his attention, he would immediately start his counteracting force of affirmation going in his
mind. His subconscious mind responded according to the nature of his habitual thinking. This is the meaning of the statement in the Bible, Go thy
way, thy faith hath made thee whole. Mark 10:52.

How Faith In Your Subconscious Powers Makes You Whole

A young man, who came to my lectures on the healing power of the subconscious mind, had severe eye trouble which his doctor said necessitated
an operation. He said to himself, “My subconscious made my eyes, and it
can heal me.”
Each night, as he went to sleep, he entered into a drowsy, meditative
state, the condition akin to sleep. His attention was immobilized and focused on the eye doctor. He imagined the doctor was in front of him, and
he plainly heard, or imagined he heard, the doctor saying to him, “A miracle has happened!” He heard this over and over again every night for perhaps five minutes or so before going to sleep. At the end of three weeks
he again went to the ophthalmologist who had previously examined his
eyes, and the physician said to this man, “This is a miracle!” What happened? This man impressed his subconscious mind using the doctor as an
instrument or a means of convincing it or conveying the idea. Through
repetition, faith and expectancy he impregnated his subconscious mind.
His subconscious mind made his eye; within it was the perfect pattern and
immediately it proceeded to heal the eye. This is another example of how
faith in the healing power of your subconscious can make you whole.

Pointers To Review

1. Your subconscious is the builder of your body and is on the job twenty-four hours a day. You interfere with its life-giving patterns by negative
thinking.
2. Charge your subconscious with the task of evolving an answer to any
problem prior to sleep and it will answer you.
3. Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your
brain to your solar plexus – your abdominal brain – and is brought into
your world as a reality.
4. Know that you can remake yourself by giving a new blueprint to your
subconscious mind.
5. The tendency of your subconscious is always lifeward. Your job is with
your conscious mind. Feed your subconscious mind with premises which
are true. Your subconscious is always reproducing according to your habitual mental patterns.

6. You build a new body every eleven months. Change your body by
changing your thoughts and keeping them changed.
7. It is normal to be healthy. It is abnormal to be ill. There is within the
innate principle of harmony.
8. Thoughts of jealousy, fear, worry and anxiety tear down and destroy
your nerves and glands bringing about mental and physical diseases of all
kinds.
9. What you affirm consciously and feel as true will be made manifest in
your mind, body and affairs. Affirm the good and enter into the joy of living

Chapter VIII
How to Get the Results You Want

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 the subconscious mind. When you know how
your mind functions, you gain a measure of confidence. You must remember whenever your subconscious mind 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
subconscious mind 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’s hopeless.” “I don’t know what to do.” “I’m all mixed up.” When
you use such statements, you get no response or cooperation from your
subconscious mind. 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
refuse to take you anywhere. It is the same when working with your subconscious mind. 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, you mind is then made up, and according to your
belief is it done unto you.

Easy Does It

A house owner once remonstrated with a furnace repairman for charging
two hundred dollars for fixing the boiler. The mechanic said, “I charged
five cents for the missing bolt and one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-five cents for knowing what was wrong. Similarly, your subconscious mind is the master mechanic, the all-wise
one, who knows ways and means of healing any organ of your body, as
well as your affairs. Decree health, and your subconscious will establish it,
but relaxation is the key. “Easy does it.” 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. Remember
how you felt after you had recovered from a severe state of illness. Bear
in mind that your feeling is the touchstone of all subconscious demonstration. Your new idea must be felt subjectively in a finished state, not the
future, but as coming about now.

Infer No Opponent, Use Imagination & Not Will Power

In using your subconscious mind you infer no opponent, you use no will
power. You imagine the end and the freedom state. You will find your intellect trying to get in the way, but persist in maintaining a simple, childlike, miracle-making faith. Picture yourself with the ailment or problem.
Imagine the emotional accompaniment of the freedom state you crave.
Cut out all red tape from the process. The simple way is the best.

How Disciplined Imagination Works Wonders

A wonderful way to get a response from your subconscious mind is
through disciplined or scientific imagination. As previously point out, your
subconscious mind is the builder of the body and controls all its vital functions.
The Bible says, Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. To believe is to accept something as true, or to live in the state of
being it. As you sustain this mood, you shall experience the joy of the answered prayer!

The three Steps To Success In Prayer

The usual procedure is as follows:
1. Take a look at the problem.
2. Turn to the solution or way out known only to the subconscious mind.
3. Rest in a sense of deep conviction that it is done.
Do not weaken your prayer by saying, “I wish I might be healed.” “I hope
so.” Your feeling about the work to be done is “the boss.” Harmony is y
ours. Know that health is yours. Become intelligent by becoming a vehicle
for the infinite healing power of the subconscious mind. Pass on the idea
of health to your subconscious mind to the point of conviction; then relax.
Get yourself off your hands. Say to the condition, and circumstance,
“This, too, shall pass.” Through relaxation you impress your subconscious
mind enabling the kinetic energy behind the idea to take over and bring it into concrete realization.

The Law Of Reversed Effort & Why You Get The Opposite Of What You Pray For

Coue, the famous psychologist from France who visited America about
forty years ago, defined the law of reversed effort as follows: “When your
desires and imagination are in conflict, your imagination invariably gains
the day.”
If, for example, you were asked to walk a plank on the floor, you would do
so without question. Now suppose the same plank were placed twenty
feet up in the air between two walls. Would you walk it? Your desire to
walk it would be counteracted by your imagination or fear of falling. Your
dominant idea which would be the picture of falling would conquer. Your
desire, will, or effort to walk on the plank would be reversed, and the
dominant idea of failure would be reinforced.
Mental effort is invariably self-defeated, eventuating always in the opposite of what is desired. The suggestions of powerlessness to overcome the
condition dominate the ind; your subconscious is always controlled by the
dominant idea. Your subconscious will accept the strongest of two contradictory propositions. The effortless way is better.
If you say, “I want a healing, but I can’t get it,” “I try so hard,” “I force
myself to pray,” “I use all of the will power I have,” you must realize that
your error lies in your effort. Never try to compel the subconscious mind
to accept your idea by exercising will power. Such attempts are doomed
to failure and you get the opposite of what you prayed for.
The following is a rather common experience. Students, when taking examinations and reading through their papers, find that all their knowledge
has suddenly deserted them. Their minds become appalling blanks and
they are unable to recall one relevant thought. The more they grit their
teeth and summon the powers of the will, the further the answers seem
to flee. But, when they have left the examination room and the mental
pressure relaxes, the answers they were seeking flow tantalizingly back
into their minds. Trying to force themselves to remember was the cause
of their failure. This is an example of the law of reversed effort whereby
you get the opposite of what you asked or prayed for.

The Conflict Of Desire & Imagination Must Be Reconciled

To use mental force is to presuppose that there is opposition. When you
mind is concentrated on the means to overcome a problem, it is no longer
concerned with the obstacle. Matthew 18:19 says, If two of you shall
agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done
for them of my Father which is in heaven.

Who are these two? It means the harmonious union between your conscious and subconscious on any idea, desire or mental image. When there
is no longer any quarrel in either part of your mind your prayer will be answered. The two agreeing may also be represented as you and your desire, your thought and feeling, your idea and emotion, your desire and
imagination.
You avoid all conflict between your desires and imagination by entering
into a drowsy, sleepy state which brings all effort to a minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent when in a sleepy state. The
best time to impregnate your subconscious occurs prior to sleep and just
after we awaken. In this state the negative thoughts and imagery which
tend to neutralize your desire and so prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind no longer present themselves. When you imagine the reality
of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realization of your desire.
A great many people solve all their dilemmas and problems by the play of
their controlled, directed and disciplined imagination, knowing that whatever they imagine and feel as true will and must come to pass.
The following will clearly illustrate how a young girl overcame the conflict
between her desire and her imagination. She desired a harmonious solution to her legal problem, yet her mental imagery was constantly on failure, loss, bankruptcy and poverty. It was a complicated lawsuit and there
was one postponement after another with no solution in sight.
At my suggestion, she got into a sleepy, drowsy state each night prior to
sleep and she began to imagine the happy ending, feeling it to the best of
her ability. She knew that the image in her mind had to agree with her
heart’s desire. Prior to sleep she began to dramatize as vividly as possible
her lawyer having an animated discussion with her regarding the outcome. She would ask him questions, and he would answer her appropriately. He would say to her over and over again, “There has been a perfect, harmonious solution. The case has been settled out of court.” During
the day when fear thoughts came into her mind, she would run her mental movie with gestures, voice and sound equipment. She could easily
imagine the sound of his voice, smile and mannerism. She ran this mental
picture so often it became a subjective pattern, a regular train track. At
the end of a few weeks her attorney called and confirmed objectively
what she had been imagining and feeling as true subjectively.
This is really what the Psalmist meant when he wrote, Let the words of
my mouth (your thoughts, mental images, good) and the meditations of
my heart (your feeling, nature, emotion) be acceptable in thy sight, O
Lord (the law of your subconscious mind), my strength, and my redeemer
(the power and wisdom of your subconscious mind can redeem you from sickness, bondage and misery). Psalm 19:14.

Ideas Worth Remembering

1. Mental coercion or too much effort shows anxiety and fear which block
your answer. Easy does it.
2. When your mind is relaxed and you accept an idea, your subconscious
goes to work to execute the idea.
3. Think and plan independently of traditional methods. Know that there
is always an answer and a solution to every problem.
4. 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 upon your subconscious and proclaim frequently that divine right
action is taking place.
5. The feeling of health produces health, the feeling of wealth produces
wealth. How do you feel?
6. Imagination is your most powerful faculty. Imagine what is lovely and
of good report. You are what you imagine yourself to be.
7. You avoid conflict between your conscious and subconscious in the
sleepy state. Imagine the fulfillment of your desire over and over again
prior to sleep. Sleep in peace and wake in joy.

Chapter IX
How to Use the Power of Your Subconscious for Wealth

If you are having difficulties, if you are trying to make ends meet, it
means you have not convinced your subconscious mind 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 thrill of it.
I know an executive in Los Angeles who receives a salary of $75,000
yearly. Last year he went on a nine month cruise seeing the world and its
beauty spots. He said to me that he had succeeded in convincing his subconscious mind that he is worth that much money. He told me that many
men in his organization getting about one hundred dollars a week knew
more about the business than he did, and could manage it better, but
they had no ambition, no creative ideas and were not interested in the
wonders of their subconscious mind

Wealth Is Of The 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.

Your 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. 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 man should lead a
life of indigence. You can 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 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. 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
subconscious mind 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 wealthy, I am prosperous,” they felt 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 idle words or
statements. The dominant idea or belief is always accepted by the subconscious mind.

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.
I suggested to one businessman whose sales and finances were very low
and who was greatly worried, that he sit down in his office, become quiet,
and repeat this statement over and over again: “My sales are improving
every day.” This statement engaged the cooperation of the conscious and
subconscious mind; results followed.

Don’t Sign Blank Checks

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 subconscious mind takes your fear and negative statement as your
request and proceeds in its own way to bring obstacles, delays, lack and
limitation to your life.

Your Subconscious Gives You Compound Interest

To him that hath the feeling of wealth, more wealth shall be added; to
him that hath the feeling of lack, more lack shall be added. Your subconscious multiplies and magnifies whatever you deposit in it. Every morning
as you awaken deposit thoughts of prosperity, success, wealth and peace.
Dwell upon these concepts. Busy you mind with them as often as possible. These constructive thoughts will find their way as deposits in your
subconscious mind, and bring forth abundance and prosperity

Why Nothing Happened

I can hear you saying, “Oh, I did that and nothing happened.” You did not
get results because you indulged in fear thoughts perhaps ten minutes
later and neutralized the good you had affirmed. When you place a seed
in the ground, you do not dig it up. You let it take root and grow. Suppose, for example, you are going to say, “I shall not be able to make that
payment.” Before you get further than, “I shall…” stop the sentence and
dwell on a constructive statement, such as, “By day and by night I am
prospered in all my ways.”

True Source Of Wealth

Your subconscious mind 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 want to emphasize is that if you convince your subconscious
mind 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.

Trying To Make Ends Meet & The Real Cause

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 conversation? In many instances their conversation
runs along this vein. 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

There is one 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 on 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 ever-greater measure of wealth to flow to you by the law of
your own subconscious mind.

Rubbing Out A Great Mental Block to Wealth

If you are worried and critical about someone who 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 & Grow Rich

As you got 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 subconscious mind.

Serve Yourself With The Powers Of Your Mind

1. Decide to be wealthy the easy way, with the infallible aid of your subconscious mind.
2. 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. 3. Wealth is a subconscious conviction. Build into your mentality the idea
of wealth.
4. The trouble with most people is that they have no invisible means of
support.
5. Repeat the word, “Wealth,” to yourself slowly and quietly for about five
minutes prior to sleep and your subconscious mind will bring wealth to
pass in your experience.
6. The feeling of wealth produces wealth. Keep that in mind at all times.
7. Your conscious and subconscious mind must agree. Your subconscious
accepts what you really feel to be true. The dominant idea is always accepted by your subconscious mind. The dominant idea should be wealth,
not poverty.
8. 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.”
9. 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.”
10. 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.
11. Deposit thoughts of prosperity, wealth and success in your subconscious mind, and the latter will give you compound interest.
12. What you consciously affirm, you must not mentally deny a few moments later. This will neutralize the good you have affirmed.
13. 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.
14. Envy and jealousy are stumbling blocks to the flow of wealth. Rejoice
in the prosperity of others.
15. the block to wealth is in your own ind. Destroy that block now by getting on good mental terms with everyone.

Chapter X
Your Right To Be Rich

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 subconscious mind? 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.

Money Is 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. When your blood is circulating
freely in your body, you are healthy. When money is circulating freely in
your life, you are economically healthy. When people begin to hoard money, to put it away in tin boxes and become charge with fear, there is economic illness. Money has taken many forms as a medium of exchange
down through the centuries, such as salt, beads and trinkets of various
kinds. In early times a man’s wealth was determined by the number of
sheep and oxen he had. Now we use currency, and other negotiable instruments, as it is much more convenient to write a check then carry
some sheep around with you to pay bills.

How To Walk The 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. The reason for this is that he has
conveyed the idea of wealth to his subconscious mind, 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 pattern may be due to early
childhood training, superstition or it could be based on a false interpretation of scriptures.

Money & 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 an 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 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 subconscious mind, 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 virtue 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 life principle in you is toward growth, expansion and the life
more abundant. You are not here to live in a hovel, dress in rags and go
hungry. You should be happy, prosperous and successful.

Why You Must Never Criticize Money

Cleanse your mind of all weird and superstitious beliefs about money. Do
not ever regards money as evil or filthy. If you do, you cause it to take
wings and fly away from you. Remember that you lose what you condemn. You cannot attract what you criticize.

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 for the riches of my mind.”

How The Scientific Thinker Looks At Money

Suppose, for example, you found gold, silver, lead, copper or iron in the
ground. Would you pronounce these things evil? All evil comes from man’s
darkened understanding, from his ignorance, from his false interpretation
of life and from his misuse of his subconscious mind. Uranium, lead or
some other metal could have been used as a medium of exchange. We
use paper bills, checks, nickel and silver; surely these things are not evil.
Physicists and chemists know today that the only difference between one
metal and another is the number and rate of motion of electrons revolving
around a central nucleus. They can now change one metal into another
through a bombardment of the atoms in the powerful cyclotron. Gold, under under conditions, becomes mercury. I believe that our modern scientists in the near future will be able to make gold, silver and other metals
synthetically in the chemical laboratory. The cost may be prohibitive now,
but it can be done. I cannot imagine any intelligent person seeing anything evil in electrons, neutrons, protons and isotopes.
The piece of paper in your pocket is composed of atoms and molecules
with their electrons and protons arranged differently. Their number and
rate of motion are different. That is the only way the paper differs from
the silver in your pocket.

How To Attract The Money You Need

Many years ago I met a young boy in Australia who wanted to become a
physician and surgeon, but he had no money. I explained to him how a
seed deposited in the soil attracts to itself everything necessary for its unfolding, and that all he had to do was to take a lesson from the seed and
deposit the required idea in his subconscious mind. For expenses, this
young, brilliant boy used to clean out doctors’ offices, wash windows and
do odd repair jobs. He told me that every night, as he went to sleep, he
used to picture in his mind’s eye a medical diploma on a wall with his
name on it in big, bold letters. He used to clean and shine the framed
diplomas in the medical building where he worked. It was not hard for
him to engrave the image of a diploma in his mind and develop it there.
Definite results followed as he persisted with his mental picture every
night for about four months. The sequel of this story was very interesting. One of the doctors took a
great liking to this young boy and after training him in the art of sterilizing
instruments, giving hypodermic injections and other miscellaneous first
aid work, he employed him as a technical assistant in his office. The doctor later sent him to medical school at his own expense. Today, this young
man is a prominent medical doctor in Montreal, Canada. He discovered
the law of attraction by using his subconscious mind the right way. He operated an age old law which says, “Having seen the end, you have willed
the means to the realization of the end.” The end in this case was to become a medical doctor.
This young man was able to imagine, see and feel the reality of being a
doctor. He lived with that idea, sustained it, nourished it and loved it until
through his imagination it penetrated the layers of his subconscious mind
and became a conviction, thereby attracting to him everything necessary
for the fulfillment of his dream.

Why Some Men Do Not Get A Raise In Pay

If you are working in a large organization and you are silently thinking of
and resenting the fact you are underpaid, that you are not appreciated
and that you deserve more money and great recognition, you are subconsciously severing your ties with that organization. You are setting a law in
motion and the superintendent or manager will say to you, “We have to
let you go.” Actually, you dismissed yourself. The manager was simply the
instrument through which your own negative mental state was confirmed.
It was an example of the law of action and reaction. The action was your
thought and the reaction as the response of your subconscious mind.

Obstacles & Impediments On The Pathway To Riches

I am sure you have heard men say, “That fellow has a racket.” “He is a
racketeer.” “He is getting money dishonestly.” “He is a faker.” “I knew him
when he had nothing.” “He is a crook, a thief and a swindler.”
If you analyze the man who talks like that, you discover he is usually in
want or suffering from some financial or physical illness. Perhaps his former college friends went up the ladder of success and excelled him. Now
he is bitter and envious of their progress. In many instances this is the
cause of his downfall. Thinking negatively of these classmates and condemning their wealth causes the wealth and prosperity he is praying for
to vanish and flee away. He is condemning the thing he is praying for.
He is praying two ways. On the one hand he is saying, “Wealth is flowing
to me now,” and in the next breath, silently or audibly, he is saying, “I resent that fellow’s wealth.” Always make it a special point to rejoice in the
wealth of the other person.

Protect Your Investments

If you are seeking wisdom regarding investments, or if you are worried
about your stocks or bonds, quietly claims, “Infinite Intelligence governs
and watches over all my financial transactions, and whatsoever I do shall
prosper.” Do this frequently and you will find that your investments will be
wise; moreover, you will be protected from loss, as you will be prompted
to sell your securities or holdings before any loss accrues to you.

You Cannot Get Something For Nothing

In large stores the management employs store detectives to prevent people from stealing. They catch a number of people every day trying to get
something for nothing. All such people are living in the mental atmosphere of lack and limitation and are stealing from themselves peace, harmony, faith, honesty, integrity, good will and confidence. Furthermore,
they are attracting to themselves all manner of loss, such as loss of character, prestige, social status and peace of mind. These people lack faith in
the source of supply and the understanding of how their minds work. If
they would mentally call on the powers of their subconscious mind and
claim that they are guided to their true expression, the would find work
and constant supply. Then by honesty, integrity and perseverance they
would become a credit to themselves and to society at large.

Your Constant Supply Of Money

Recognizing the powers of your subconscious mind and the creative power
of your thought or mental image is the way to opulence, freedom and
constant supply. Accept the abundant life in your own mind. Your mental
acceptance and expectancy of wealth has its own mathematics and mechanics of expression. As you enter in to the mood of opulence, all things
necessary for the abundant life will come to pass.

Let this be your daily affirmation; write it in your heart, “I am one with
the infinite riches of my subconscious mind. It is my right to be rich, happy and successful. Money flows to me freely, copiously and endlessly. I
am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my talents freely and I
am wonderfully blessed financially. It is wonderful!

Step Up This Way To Riches

1. Be bold enough to claim that it is your right to be rich and your deeper
mind will honor your claim.
2. 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 subconscious mind.
3. When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically
healthy. Look at money like the tide you will always have plenty of it. The
ebb and flow of the tide is constant. When the tide is out, you are abso lutely sure that it will return.
4. Knowing the laws of your subconscious mind, you will always be supplied regardless of what form money takes.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Don’t make money your sole aim. Claim wealth, happiness, peace, true
expression and love and personally radiate love and good will to all. Then
your subconscious mind will give you compound interest in all these fields
of expression.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Repeat frequently, “I like money. I use it wisely, constructively and judiciously. I release it with joy and it returns a thousand fold.
12. Money is not evil anymore so than copper, lead, tin or iron which you
find in the ground. All evil is due to ignorance or misuse of the mind’s
powers.
13. To picture the end result in your mind causes your subconscious to respond and fulfill your mental picture.
14. Stop trying to get something for nothing. There is no such thing as a
free lunch. You must give to receive. You must give mental attention to
your goals, ideals and enterprises and your deeper mind will back you up.
The key to wealth is application of the laws of the subconscious mind by
impregnating it with the idea of wealth.

Chapter XI
Your Subconscious Mind As A Partner In Success

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.. it is where moth
and rust do not consume, and where thieves do not break through and
steal. Matthew 6:20.

The Three Steps To Success

Let us discuss three steps to success.

First Step

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, if 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 subconscious mind 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.

Second Step

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 his 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 great 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 great, nobler and more altruistic. He must
serve others, thereby casting his bread upon the waters.

Third Step

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. Your desire must
not be selfish; it must benefit humanity. The path of a complete circuit
must be formed. In 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?
I knew a man in London who told me of his exploits. He had been a professional pickpocket and had amassed a large amount of money. He had a
summer home in France and lived in a royal fashion in England. His story
was that he was in constant dread of being arrested by Scotland Yard. He
had many inner disorders which were undoubtedly caused by his constant
fear and deep-seated guilt complex. He knew he had done wrong. This
deep sense of guilt attracted all kinds of trouble to him. Subsequently, he
voluntarily surrendered to the police and served a prison sentence. After
his release from prison, he sought psychological and spiritual counsel and
became transformed. He went to work and became an honest, law-abiding citizen. He found what he loved to do and was happy.
A successful person loves his work and expresses himself fully. Success is
contingent upon a higher ideal than the mere accumulation of riches. 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 the subconscious minds for their success.
There was an article published some years ago about Flagler, an oil magnate. 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 subconscious mind 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 subconscious mind.
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. 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 subconscious
mind. 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.

How He Made His Dream Come True

A movie actor told me that he had very little education, but he had a
dream as a boy of becoming a successful movie actor. Out in the field
mowing hay, driving the cows home or even when milking them he said,
“I would constantly imagine I saw my name in big lights at a large theater. I kept this up for years until finally I ran away from home. I got extra jobs in the motion picture field and the day finally came when I saw
my name in great, big lights as I did when I was a boy!” Then he added,
“I know the power of sustained imagination to bring success.”

His Dream Pharmacy Became A Reality

Thirty years ago I knew a young pharmacist who was receiving forty dollars a week plus commission on sales, “After twenty-five years,” he said to
me, “I will get a pension and retire.”
I said to this young man, “Why don’t you own your own store? Get out of
this place. Raise your sights! Have a dream for your children. Maybe your
son wants to be a doctor, perhaps your daughter desires to be a great
musician.”
His answer was that he had no money! He began to awaken to the fact
that whatever he could conceive as true, he could give conception.
The first step toward his goal was his awakening to the powers of his subconscious mind which I briefly elaborated on for his benefit. His second step was his realization that if he could succeed in conveying an idea to
his subconscious mind, the latter would somehow bring it to pass.
He began to imagine that he was in his own store. He mentally arranged
the bottles, dispensed prescriptions and imagined several clerks in the
store waiting on customers. He also visualized a big bank balance. Mentally he worked in that imaginary store. Like a good actor he lived the
role. Act as though I am, and I will be. This pharmacist put himself wholeheartedly into the act, living, moving and acting on the assumption that
he owned the store.
The sequel was interesting. He was discharged from his position. He found
new employment with a large chain store, became manager, and later on,
district manager. He saved enough money in four years to provide a down
payment on a drugstore of his own. He called it his “Dream Pharmacy.”
“It was,” he said, “exactly the store I saw in my imagination.” He became
a recognized success in his chosen field and was happy doing what he
loved to do.

Using The Subconscious Mind In Business

Some years ago I gave a lecture to a group of businessman on the powers of imagination and the subconscious mind. In this lecture I pointed
out how Goethe used his imagination wisely when confronted with difficulties and predicaments.
His biographers point out that he was accustomed to fill many hours quietly holding imaginary conversations. It is well known that his custom was
to imagine one of his friends before him in a chair answering him in the
right way. In other words, if he were concerned over any problems, he
imagined his friends giving him the right or appropriate answer, accompanied with the usual gestures and tonal qualities of the voice, and he made
the entire imaginary scene as real and as vivid as possible.
One of the men present at my lecture was a young stockbroker. He proceeded to adopt the technique of Goethe. He began to have mental,
imaginary conversations with a multimillionaire banker friend of his who
used to congratulate him on his wise and sound judgment and compliment him on his purchase of the right stocks. He used to dramatize this
imaginary conversation until he had psychologically fixed it as a form of
belief in his mind.
The broker’s inner talking and controlled imagination certainly agreed with
his aim which was to make sound investments for his clients. His main
purpose was to make money for his clients and to see them prosper financially by his wise counsel. He is still using his subconscious mind in his
business, and he is a brilliant success in his field of endeavor.

Boy Of Sixteen Years Turns Failure Into Success

A young boy who was attending high school said to me, “I am getting
very poor grades. My memory is failing, I do not know what is the matter.” I discovered that the only thing wrong with this boy was his attitude,
which was one of indifference and resentment toward some of his teachers and fellow students. I taught him how to use his subconscious mind,
and how to succeed in his studies.
He began to affirm certain truths several times a day particularly at night
prior to sleep, and also in the morning after awakening. These are the
best times to impregnate the subconscious mind.
He affirmed as follows: “I realize that my subconscious mind is a storehouse of memory. It retains everything I read and hear from my teachers.
I have a perfect memory and the Infinite Intelligence in my subconscious
mind constantly reveals to me everything I need to know at all my examinations, whether written or oral. I radiate love and good will to all my
teachers and fellow students. I sincerely wish for them success and all
good things.”
This young man is now enjoying a greater freedom than he has ever
known. He is now receiving all “A’s.” he constantly imagines the teachers
and his mother congratulating him on his success in his studies.

How To Become Successful In Buying and Selling

In buying and selling, remember that your conscious mind is the starter
and your subconscious mind is the motor. You must start the motor to enable it to perform its work. Your conscious mind is the dynamo that awakens the power of your subconscious mind.
The first step in conveying your clarified desire, idea or image to the
deeper mind is to relax, immobilize the attention, get still and be quiet.
This quiet, relaxed and peaceful attitude of mind prevents extraneous
matter and false ideas from interfering with your mental absorption of
your ideal. Furthermore in the quiet, passive and receptive attitude of
mind, effort is reduced to a minimum.
The second step is to begin to imagine the reality of that which you desire. For example, you may wish to buy a home, and in your relaxed state
of mind affirm as follows: “The Infinite Intelligence of my subconscious
ind is all-wise. It reveals to me now the ideal home which is central, ideal,
is in a lovely environment, meets all my requirements and is commensurate with my income. I am now turning this request over to my subconscious mind, and I know it responds according to the nature of my request. I release this request with absolute faith and confidence in the
same way that a farmer deposits a seed in the ground, trusting implicitly in the laws of growth.”
The answer to your prayer may come through an advertisement in the paper, through a friend, or you may be guided directly to a particular home
which is exactly what you are seeking. There are many ways by which
your prayer may be answered. The principle knowledge, in which you may
place your confidence, is that the answer always comes, provided you
trust the working of your deeper mind.
You may wish to sell a home, land, or any kind of property. In private
consultation with real estate brokers I have told them of the way I sold
my own home on Orlando Avenue in Log Angeles. Many of them have applied the technique I used with remarkable and speedy results. I placed a
sign which read, “For sale by owner,” in the garden in front of my home.
The day after, I said to myself as I was going to sleep, “Supposing you
sold your house, what would you do?”
I answered my own question and I said, “I would take that sign down and
throw it into the garage.” In my imagination I took hold of the sign, pulled
it up from the ground, placed it on my shoulder, went to the garage,
threw it on the floor and said jokingly to the sign, “I don’t need you anymore!” I felt the inner satisfaction of it all, realizing it was finished.
The next day a man gave me a deposit of $1,000 and said to me, “Take
your sign down. We will go into escrow now.”
Immediately I pulled the sign up and took it to the garage. The outer action conformed to the inner. There is nothing new about this. As within, so
without, meaning according to the image impressed on your subconscious
mind, so it is on the objective screen of life. The outside mirrors the inside. External action follows internal action.
Here is another very popular method used in selling homes, land or any
kind of property. Affirm slowly, quietly and feelingly as follows: “Infinite
intelligence attracts to me the buyer for this home who wants and who
prospers in it. This buyer may look at many other homes, but mine is the
only one he wants and will buy, because he is guided by the Infinite Intelligence within him. I now the buyer is right, the time is right and the price
is right. Everything about it is right. The deeper currents of my subconscious mind are now in operation bringing both of us together in divine order. I know that it is so.”
Remember always that what you are seeking is also seeking you, and
whenever you want to sell a home or property of any kind, there is always
someone who wants what you have to offer. By using the powers of your
subconscious mind correctly, you free your mind of all sense of competitor
and anxiety in buying and selling.

How She Succeeded In Getting What She Wanted

There is a young lady who regularly comes to my lectures and classes.
She had to change buses three times; it took her one and a half hours
each time to come to the lectures. In one lecture I explained how a young
man needed a car in his work and received one.
She went home and experimented as outlined in my lecture. Here is her
letter in part, narrating her application of my method, and published with
her permission:
Dear Dr Murphy,
This is how I received a Cadillac car – I wanted one to come to the lectures regularly. In my imagination I went through the identical process I
would go through if I were actually driving a car. I went to the showroom
and the salesman took me for a ride in one. I also drove it several blocks.
I claimed the Cadillac car as my own over and over again. I kept the mental picture of getting into the car, driving it, feeling the upholstery etc.,
consistently for over two weeks. Last week I drove to your lectures in a
Cadillac. My uncle in Inglewood passed away and left me his Cadillac and
his entire estate.

A Success Technique Employed By Many Outstanding Executives & Businessmen

There are many prominent who quietly use the abstract term, “success,”
over and over many times a day until they reach a conviction that success
is theirs. They know that the idea of success contains all the essential elements of success. Likewise, you can begin now to repeat the word, “success,” to yourself with faith and conviction. Your subconscious mind will
accept it as true of you and you will be under a subconscious compulsion
to succeed.
You are compelled to express your subjective beliefs, impressions and
convictions. What does success imply to you? You want, undoubtedly, to
be successful in your home life and in your relationship with others. You
wish to be outstanding in your chosen work or profession. You wish to
possess a beautiful home and all the money you need to live comfortably
and happily. You want to be successful in your prayer life and in your contact with the powers of your subconscious mind.
You are a businessman also because you are in the business of living. Become a successful businessman by imagining yourself doing what you
long to do, and possessing the things you long to possess. Become imaginative, mentally participate in the reality of the successful state. Make a
habit of it. Go to sleep feeling successful every night, and perfectly satisfied, and you will eventually succeed in implanting the idea of success in your subconscious mind. Believe you were born to succeed and wonders
will happen as you pray!

Profitable Pointers

1. Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous
and doing what you love to do, you are successful.
2. 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.
3. Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than
anyone else.
4. A successful man is not selfish. His main desire in life is to serve humanity.
5. There is no true success without peace of mind.
6. A successful man possesses great psychological and spiritual understanding.
7. If you imagine an objective clearly, you will be provided with the necessities through the wonder-working power of your subconscious mind.
8. Your thought fused with feeling becomes a subjective belief, and according to your belief is it done unto you.
9. The power of sustained imagination draws forth the miracle-working
powers of your subconscious mind.
10. 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.
11. Your subconscious mind is a storehouse of memory. For a perfect
memory, affirm frequently: “The Infinite Intelligence of my subconscious
mind reveals to me everything I need to know at all times, everywhere.
12. 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
for this house or property, who wants it, and who prospers in it.” Sustain
the awareness and the deeper currents of your subconscious mind will
bring it to pass. 13. 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.

Chapter XII
Scientists Use The Subconscious Mind

Many scientists realize the true importance of the sub mind. Edison, Marconi, Kettering, Poincare, Einstein and many others have used the subconscious mind. It has given them the insight and the “know-how” for all
their great achievements in modern science and industry. Research has
shown that the ability to bring into action the subconscious power has determined the success of all the great scientific and research workers.
An instance of how a famous chemist, Fredrich von Stradonitz, used his
subconscious mind to solve his problem is as follows: He had been working laboriously for a long time trying to rearrange the six carbon and the
six hydrogen atoms on the benzine formula, and he was constantly perplexed and unable to solve the matter. Tired and exhausted, he turned
the request over completely to his subconscious mind. Shortly afterward,
as he was about to board a London bus, his subconscious presented his
conscious mind with a sudden flash of a snake biting its own tail and turning around like a pinwheel. This answer, from his subconscious mind, gave
him the long sought answer of the circular rearrangement of the atoms
that is known as the benzine ring.

How A Distinguished Scientist Brought Forth His Inventions

Nikola Tesla was a brilliant electrical scientist who brought forth the most
amazing innovations. When an idea for a new invention came into his
mind, he would build it up in his imagination, knowing that his subconscious mind would reconstruct and reveal to his conscious mind all the
parts needed for its manufacture in concrete form. Through quietly contemplating every possible improvement, he spent no time in correcting
defects and was able to give the technicians the perfect product of his
mind.
He said, “Invariably, my device works as I imagined it should. In twenty
years there has not been a single exception.

How A Famous Naturalist Solved His Problem

Professor Agassiz, a distinguished American naturalist, discovered the indefatigable activities of his subconscious mind while he slept. The following has been reported by his widow in her biography of her famous husband.
“He had been for two weeks striving to decipher the somewhat obscure
impression of a fossil fish on the stone slab in which it was preserved.
Weary and perplexed, he put his work aside at last, and tried to dismiss it
from his mind. Shortly after, he waked one night persuaded that while
asleep he had seen his fish with all the missing features perfectly re stored. But when he tried to hold and make fast the image it escaped
him. Nevertheless, he went early to the Jardin des Plantes, thinking that
on looking anew at the impression he should see something which would
put him on the track of his vision. In vain the blurred record was as black
as ever. The next night he saw the fish again, but with no more satisfactory result when he awoke it disappeared from his memory as before. Hoping that the same experience might be repeated, on the third night he
placed a pencil and paper beside the bed before going to sleep.
“Accordingly, toward morning the fish reappeared in his dream, confusedly at first, but at last with such distinctness that he had no longer any
doubt as to its zoological characters. Still half dreaming, in perfect darkness, he traced these characters on the sheet of paper at the bedside. In
the morning he was surprised to see in his nocturnal sketch features
which he thought it impossible the fossil itself should reveal. He hastened
to the Jardin des Plantes, and, with his drawing as a guide, succeeded in
chiseling away the surface of the stone under which portions of the fish
proved to be hidden. When wholly exposed it corresponded with his
dream and his drawing, and he succeeded in classifying it with ease.”

An Outstanding Physician Solved The Problem Of Diabetes

Some years ago I received clipping from a magazine describing the origin
of the discovery of insulin. This is the essence of the article as I recall it.
About forty years ago or more, Dr Frederick Banting, a brilliant Canadian
physician and surgeon, was concentrating his attention on the ravages of
diabetes. At that time medical science offered not effective method of arresting the disease. Dr Banting spent considerable time experimenting
and studying the international literature on the subject. One night he was
exhausted and fell asleep. While asleep, his subconscious mind instructed
him to extract eh residue from the degenerated pancreatic duct of dogs.
This was the origin of insulin which has helped millions of people.
You will note that Dr Banting had been consciously dwelling on the problem for some time seeking a solution, a way out, and his subconscious responded accordingly.
It does not follow that you will always get an answer overnight. The answer may not come for some time. Do not be discouraged. Keep on turning the problem over every night to the subconscious mind prior to sleep,
as if you had never done it before.
One of the reasons for the delay may be that you look upon it as a major
problem. You may believe it will take a long time to solve it.
Your subconscious mind is timeless and spaceless. Go to sleep believing
you have the answer no. do not postulate the answer in the future. Have an abiding faith in the outcome. Become convinced now as you read this
book that there is an answer and a perfect solution for you.

How A Famous Scientist & Physicist Escaped From A Russian Concentration Camp

Dr Lothax von Blenk-Schmidt, a member of the Rocket Society and an
outstanding research electronic engineer, gives the following condensed
summary of how he used his subconscious mind to free himself from certain death at the hands of brutal guards in a Russian prison camp coal
mine. He states as follows:
“I was a prisoner of war in a coal mine in Russia, and I saw men dying all
around me in that prison compound. We were watched over by brutal
guards, arrogant officers and sharp, fast thinking commissars. After a
short medical checkup, a quota of coal was assigned to each person. My
quota was three hundred pounds per day. In case any man did not fill his
quota, his small food ration was cut down, and in a short time he was
resting in the cemetery.
“I started concentrating on my escape. I knew that my subconscious mind
would somehow find a way. My home in Germany was destroyed, my family wiped out, all my friends and former associates were either killed in
the war or were in concentration camps.
“I said to my subconscious mind, I want to go to Los Angeles, and you will
find the way.” I had seen pictures of Los Angeles and I remembered some
of the boulevards very well as well as some of the buildings.
“Every day and night I would imagine I was walking down Wilshire Boulevard with an American girl whom I met in Berlin prior to the war (she is
now my wife). In my imagination we would visit the stores, ride buses
and eat in restaurants. Every night I made it a special point to drive my
imaginary American automobile up and down the boulevards of Los Angeles. I made all this vivid and real. These pictures in my mind were as real
and as natural to me as one of the trees outside the prison camp.
“Every morning the chief guard would count the prisoners as they were
lined up. He would call out ‘one, two, three,’ etc., and when seventeen
was called out which was my number in sequence, I stepped aside. In the
meantime, the guard was called away for a minute or so, and on his return he started by mistake on the next man as number seventeen. When
the crew returned in the evening, the number of men was the same, and
I was not missed, and the discovery would take a long time.
“I walked out of the camp undetected and kept walking for twenty-four
hours, resting in a deserted town the next day. I was able to live by fishing and killing some wild life. I found coal trains going to Poland and trav eled on them by night, until finally I reached Poland. With the help of
friends, I made my way to Lucerne, Switzerland.
“One evening at the Palace Hotel, Lucerne, I had a talk with a man and
his wife from the United States of America. This man asked me if I would
care to be a guest at his home in Santa Monica, California. I accepted,
and when I arrived in Los Angeles, I found that their chauffeur drove me
along Wilshire Boulevard and many other boulevards which I had imagined so vividly in the long months in the Russian coal mines. I recognized
the buildings which I had seen in my mind so often. It actually seemed as
if I had been in Los Angeles before. I had reached my goal.
“I will never cease to marvel at the wonders of the subconscious mind.
Truly, it has ways we know not of.”

How Archaeologists & Paleontologists Reconstruct Ancient Scenes

These scientists know that their subconscious mind has a memory of everything that has ever transpired. As they study the ancient ruins and fossils, through their imaginative perception, their subconscious mind aids
them in reconstructing the ancient scenes. The dead past becomes alive
and audible once more. Looking at these ancient temples and studying
the pottery, statuary, tools and household utensils of these ancient times,
the scientist tells us of an age when there was no language. Communication was done by grunts, groans and signs.
The keen concentration and disciplined imagination of the scientist awakens the latent powers of his subconscious mind enabling him to clothe the
ancient temples with roofs, and surround them with gardens, pools and
fountains. The fossil remains are clothes with eyes, sinews and muscles
and they again walk and talk. The past becomes the living present and we
find that in mind there is no time or space. Through disciplined, controlled
and directed imagination, you can be a companion of the most scientific
and inspired thinkers of all time.

How To Receive Guidance From Your Subconscious

When you have what you term “a difficult decision” to make, or when you
fail to see the solution to your problem, begin at once to think constructively about it. If you are fearful and worried, you are not really thinking.
True thinking is free from fear.
Here is a simple technique you can use to receive guidance on any subject: Quiet the mind and still the body. Tell the body to relax; it has to
obey you. It has no volition, initiative or self conscious intelligence. Your
body is an emotional disk which records your beliefs and impressions. Mobilize your attention; focus your thought on the solution to your problem.
Try to solve it with your conscious mind. Think how happy you would be
about the perfect solution. Sense the feeling you would have if the perfect answer were yours now. Let your mind play with this mood in a relaxed
way; then drop off to sleep. When you awaken, and you do not have the
answer, get busy about something else. Probably, when you are preoccupied with something else, the answer will come into your mind like toast
pops out of a toaster.
In receiving guidance from the subconscious mind, the simple way is the
best. This is an illustration: I once lost a valuable ring which was an heirloom. I looked everywhere for it and could not locate it. At night I talked
to the subconscious in the same manner that I would talk to anyone. I
said to it prior to dropping off to sleep, “You know all things; you know
where that ring is, and you now reveal to me where it is.”
In the morning I awoke suddenly with the words ringing in my ear, “Ask
Robert!”
I thought it very strange that I should ask Robert, a young boy about nine
years of age; however, I followed the inner voice of intuition.
Robert said, “Oh yes, I picked it up in the yard while I was playing with
the boys. I placed it on the desk in my room. I did not think it worth anything so I did not say anything about it.”
The subconscious mind will always answer you if you trust it.

His Subconscious Revealed The Location Of His Father’s Will

A young man who attends my lectures had this experience. His father
died and apparently left no will. However, this man’s sister told him that
their father had confided to her that a will had been executed which was
fair to all. Every attempt to locate the will failed.
Prior to sleep he talked to his deeper mind as follows: “I now turn this request over to the subconscious mind. It knows just where that will is and
reveals it to me.” Then he condensed his request down to one word, “Answer,” repeating it over and over again as a lullaby. He lulled himself to
sleep with the word, “Answer.”
The next morning this young man had an overpowering hunch to go to a
certain bank in Los Angeles where he found a safe deposit vault registered in the name of his father, the contents of which solved all his problems.
Your thought, as you go to sleep, arouses the powerful latency which is
within you. For example, let us suppose you are wondering whether to sell
your home, buy a certain stock, sever partnership, move to New York or
stay in Los Angeles, dissolve the present contract or take a new one. Do
this: Sit quietly in your armchair or at the desk in your office. Remember that there is a universal law of action and reaction. The action is your
thought. The reaction is the response from your subconscious mind. The
subconscious mind is reactive and reflexive; this is its nature. It rebounds, rewards and repays. It is the law of correspondence. It responds
by corresponding. As you contemplate right action, you will automatically
experience a reaction or response in yourself which represents the guidance or answer of your subconscious mind.
In seeking guidance, you simply think quietly about right action which
means that you are using the Infinite Intelligence resident in the sub mind
to the point where it begins to use you. From there on, your course of action is directed and controlled by the subjective wisdom within you which
is all-wise and omnipotent. Your decision will be right. There will only be
right action because you are under a subjective compulsion to do the right
thing. I use the word compulsion because the law of the subconscious is
compulsion.

The Secret Of Guidance

The secret of guidance or right action is to mentally devote yourself to the
right answer, until you find its response in you. The response is a feeling,
an inner awareness, an overpowering hunch whereby you know that you
know. You have used the power to the point where it begins to use you.
You cannot possibly fail or make one false step while operating under the
subjective wisdom within you. You will find that all your ways are pleasantness and all your paths are peace.

Highlights To Recall

1. Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and
wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.
2. By giving your conscious attention and devotion to the solution of a
perplexing problem, your subconscious mind gathers all the necessary information and presents it full blow to the conscious mind.
3. If you are wondering about the answer to a problem, try to solve it objectively. Get all the information you can from research and also from others. If no answer comes, turn it over to your subconscious mind prior to
sleep, and the answer always comes. It never fails.
4. You do not always get the answer overnight. Keep on turning your request over to your subconscious until the day breaks and the shadows
flee away.
5. You delay the answer by thinking it will take a long time or that it is a
major problem. Your subconscious has no problem, it knows only the answer.

6. Believe that you have the answer now. Feel the joy of the answer and
the way you would feel if you had the perfect answer. Your subconscious
will respond to your feeling.
7. Any mental picture, backed by faith and perseverance, will come to
pass through the miracle-working power of your subconscious. Trust it,
believe in its power and wonders will happen as you pray.
8. Your subconscious is the storehouse of memory and within your subconscious are recorded your experiences since childhood.
9. Scientists meditating on ancient scrolls, temples, fossils, etc., are able
to reconstruct scenes of the past and make them alive today. Their subconscious mind comes to their aid.
10. Turn over your request for a solution to your subconscious prior to
sleep. Trust it and believe in it and the answer will come. It knows all and
sees all, but you must not doubt or question its powers.
11. The action is your thought, and the reaction is the response of your
subconscious mind. If your thoughts are wise, your actions and decisions
will be wise.
12. Guidance comes as a feeling, an inner awareness, an overpowering
hunch whereby you know that you know. It is an inner sense of touch.
Follow it.

Chapter XIII
Your Subconscious & The Wonders Of Sleep

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.
Many people have advocated the theory that you get tired during the day,
that you go to sleep to rest the body, and that a reparative process takes
place while you sleep. Nothing rests in sleep. Your heart, lungs and all
your vital organs functions while you are asleep. If you eat prior to sleep,
the food is digested an assimilated; also, your skin secretes perspiration,
and your nails and hair continue to grow.
Your subconscious mind never rests or sleeps. It is always active, controlling all your vital forces. The healing process takes place more rapidly
while you are asleep as there is no interference from your conscious
mind. Remarkable answers are given to you while you are asleep.

Why We Sleep

Dr John Bigelow, a famous research authority on sleep (Dr John Bigelow,
The Mystery of Sleep, New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1903),
demonstrated that at night while asleep you receive impressions showing
that the nerves of the eyes, ears, nose and taste buds are active during
sleep and also that the nerves of your brain are quite active. He says that
the main reason we sleep is because “the nobler part of the soul is united
by abstraction to our higher nature and becomes a participant in the wisdom and foreknowledge of the gods.”
Dr Bigelow states also, “The results of my studies have not only strengthened my convictions that the supposed exemption from customary tolls
and activities was not the final purpose of sleep, but have also made
clearer to my mind the conviction that no part of a man’s life deserves to
be considered more indispensable to its symmetrical and perfect spiritual
development than while he is separated from the phenomenal world in
sleep.”

Prayer, A Form Of 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. By claiming guidance, strength and
greater intelligence in all phases of your life, you will be enabled to overcome all difficulties and solve your daily problems. This regular withdrawal from sense evidence and the noise and confusion
of everyday living is also a form of sleep, i.e. you become asleep to the
world of the senses and alive to the wisdom and power of your subconscious mind.

Startling Effects Of Sleep Deprivation

Lack of sleep can cause you to become irritable, moody and depressed.
Dr George Stevenson of the National Association for Mental Health says,
“I believe it can safely be said that all human beings a minimum of six
hours sleep to be healthy. Most people need more. Those who think they
can get along on less are fooling themselves.”
Medial research scholars, investigating sleep processes and deprivation of
sleep, point out that severe insomnia has preceded psychotic breakdown
in some instances. Remember, you are spiritually recharged during sleep,
and adequate sleep is essential to produce joy and vitality in life.

You Need More Sleep

Robert O’Brien, in an article, “Maybe you Need More Sleep,” in an issue of
The Reader’s Digest, reports the following experiments on sleep:
“For the last three years experiments have been in progress at Walter
Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, Dc. Subjects – more than
one hundred military and civilian volunteers – have been kept awake for
as long as four days. Thousands of tests have measured the effects on
their behavior and personality. Results of these tests have given scientists
astonishingly new insights into the mysteries of sleep.
“They now know that the tired brain apparently craves sleep so hungrily
that it will sacrifice anything to get it. After only a few hours of sleep
loss, fleeting stolen naps called lapses, or micro sleep, occurred at the
rate of three or four an hour. As in real sleep, eyelids dropped and heartbeat slowed. Each lapse lasted just a fraction of a second. Sometimes the
lapses were periods of blankness; sometimes they were filled with images, wisps of dreams. As hours of sleep loss mounted, the lapses took
place more often and lasted longer, perhaps two or three seconds. Even if
the subjects had been piloting an airliner in a thunderstorm, they still
couldn’t have resisted micro sleeps for those few priceless seconds. And it
can happen to you, as many who have fallen asleep at the wheel of a car
can testify.
“Another startling effect of sleep deprivation was its attack on human
memory and perception. Many sleep deprived subjects were unable to retain information long enough to relate it to the task they were supposed
to perform. They were totally befuddled in situations requiring them to
hold several factors in mind and act on them, as a pilot must when he skilfully integrates wind direction, air speed, altitude and glide path to
make a safe landing.

Sleep Brings Counsel

A young lade in Los Angeles who listens to my morning radio talks told
me that she had been offered a lucrative position in New York City at
twice her present salary. She was wondering whether to accept or not and
prayed prior to sleep as follows: “The creative intelligence of my subconscious mind knows what is best for me. Its tendency is always lifeward,
and it reveals to me the right decision which blesses me and all concerned. I give thanks for the answer which I know will come to me.”
She repeated this simple prayer over and over again as a lullaby prior to
sleep and in the morning she had a persistent feeling that she should not
accept the offer. She rejected the offer and subsequent events verified
that her inward sense of knowing, because the company went bankrupt a
few months following their offer of employment to her.
The conscious ind may be correct on the facts objectively known, but the
intuitive faculty of her subconscious mind saw the failure of the concern in
question and prompted her accordingly .

Saved From Certain Disaster

I will illustrate how the wisdom of your subconscious mind can instruct
you and protect you relative to your request for right action as you go to
sleep.
Many years ago, before the Second World War, I was offered a very lucrative assignment in the Orient, and I prayer for guidance and right decision
as follows: “Infinite Intelligence within me knows all things, and the right
decision is revealed to me in divine order. I will recognize the answer
when it comes.”
I repeated this simple prayer over and over again as a lullaby prior to
sleep and in a dream came the vivid realization of things to come three
years hence. An old friend appeared in the dream and said, “Read these
headlines – do not go!” The headlines of the newspaper which appeared in
the dream related to war and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Occasionally, the writer dreams literally. The aforementioned dream was
undoubtedly a dramatization of the subconscious mind which projected a
person whom I trusted and respected. To some a warning may come in
the form of a mother who appears in a dream. She tells the person not to
go here or there, and the reason for the warning. Your subconscious mind
is all-wise. It knows all tings. Oftentimes it will speak to you only in a
voice that your conscious mind will immediately accept as true. Sometimes your subconscious mind will warn you in a voice which sounds like that of your mother or some loved one which may cause you to stop on
the street, and you find, if you had gone another foot, a falling object
from a window might have struck you on the head.
My subconscious mind is one with the universal subconscious and it knew
the Japanese were planning a war, and it also knew when the war would
start.
Dr Rhine, director of the Department of Psychology at Duke University,
has gathered together a vast amount of evidence showing that a great
number of people all over the world see events before they happen, and
in many instances are, therefore, able to avoid the tragic event which was
foreseen vividly in a dream.
The dream I had, showed clearly the headlines in the New York Times
about three years prior to the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. In consequence of
this dream, I immediately canceled the trip as I felt a subconscious compulsion to do so. Three years later the Second World War proved the truth
of the inner voice of intuition.

Your Future Is In Your Subconscious Mind

Remember that the future, the result of your habitual thinking, is already
in your mind except when you change it through prayer. The future of a
country, likewise, is in the collective subconscious of the people of that
nation. There is nothing strange in the dream I had wherein I saw the
headlines of the New York newspapers long before the war began. The
war had already taken place in mind, and all the plans of attack were already engraved on that great recording instrument, the subconscious
mind or collective unconscious of the universal mind. Tomorrow’s events
are in your subconscious mind, so are next week’s and next month’s and
they may be seen by a highly psychic or clairvoyant person.
No disaster or tragedy can happen to you if you decide to pray. Nothing is
predetermined or foreordained. Your mental attitude, i.e. the way you
think, feel and believe determines your destiny. You can, through scientific
prayer, which is explained in a previous chapter, mold, fashion and create
your own future. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap .

A Catnap Nets Him $15,000

One of my students mailed me a newspaper clipping three or four years
ago about a man called Ray Hammerstrom, a roller at the steel works in
Pittsburgh, operated by Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. He received
$15,000 for his dream.
According to the article , the engineers could not fix a faulty switch in a
newly installed bar mill which controlled the delivery of straight bars to
the cooling beds. The engineers worked on the switch about eleven or twelve times to no avail.
Hammerstrom thought a lot about the problem and tried to figure out a
new design which might work. Nothing worked. One afternoon he lay
down for a nap and prior to sleep he began to think about the answer to
the switch problem. He had a dream in which the perfect design for the
switch was portrayed. When he awoke, he sketched his new design according to the outline of his dream.
This visionary catnap won Hammerstrom a check for $15,000, the largest
award the firm ever gave an employee for a new idea.

How A Famous Professor Solved His Problem In Sleep

Dr H V Helprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania,
wrote as follows: “One Saturday evening I had been wearying myself in
the vain attempt to decipher two small fragments of agate which were
supposed to belong to the finger rings of some Babylonians.
“About midnight, weary and exhausted, I went to bed and dreamed the
following remarkable dream: A tall thin priest of Nippur, about forty years
of age, led me to the treasure chamber of the temple…a small, lowceilinged room without windows, with scraps of agate and lapis-lazuli
scattered on the floor. Here he addressed me as follows: The two fragments, which you have published separately on pages 22 and 26 belong
together, and are not finger rings. The first two rings served as earrings
for the statue of god; the two fragments you have are the portions of
them. If you will put them together you will have confirmation of my
words.”
I awoke at once. I examined the fragments and to my astonishment
found the dream verified. The problem was then at last solved.”
This demonstrates clearly the creative manifestation of his subconscious
mind which knew the answer to all his problems.

How The Subconscious Worked For A Famous Write While He Slept

Robert Louis Stevenson in one of his books, Across the Plains, devotes a
whole chapter to dreams. He was a vivid dreamer and had the persistent
habit of giving specific instructions to his subconscious every night prior
to sleep. He would request his subconscious to evolve stories for him
while he slept. For example, if Stevenson’s funds were at a low ebb, his
command to his subconscious would be something like this: “Give me a
good thrilling novel which will be marketable and profitable.” His subconscious responded magnificently.
Stevenson says, “These little brownies (the intelligences and powers of his
subconscious) can tell me a story piece by piece, like a serial, and keep me, its supposed creator, all the while in total ignorance of where they
aim.” And he added: “That part of my work which is done when I am up
and about (which he is consciously aware and awake) is by no means
necessarily mine, since all goes to show that the brownies have a hand in
it even then.

Sleep In Peace & Wake In Joy

To those who suffer from insomnia, you will find the following prayer very
effective. Repeat it slowly, quietly and lovingly prior to sleep: “My toes are
relaxed, my ankles are relaxed, my abdominal muscles are relaxed, my
heart and lungs are relaxed, my hands and arms are relaxed, my neck is
relaxed, my brain is relaxed, my face is relaxed, my eyes are relaxed, my
whole mind and body are relaxed. I fully and freely forgive everyone, and
I sincerely wish for them harmony, health, peace and all the blessings of
life. I am at peace; I am poised, serene and calm. I rest in security and in
peace. A great stillness steals over me, and a great calm quiets my whole
being as I realize the divine presence within me. I know that the realization of life and love heals me. I wrap myself in the mantel of love and fall
asleep filled with good will for all. Throughout the night peace remains
with me and in the morning I shall be filled with life and love. A circle of
love is drawn around me. I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me, I sleep
in peace, I wake in joy, and in Him I live, move and have my being.”

Summary Of Your Aids To The Wonders Of Sleep

1. If you are worried that you will not wake up on time, suggest to your
subconscious mind prior to sleep the exact time you wish to arise, and it
will awaken you. It needs no clock. Do the same thing with all problems.
There is nothing too hard for your subconscious.
2. Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all
your vital functions. Forgive yourself and everyone else before you go to
sleep and healing will take place much more rapidly.
3. Guidance is given you while you are asleep, sometimes in a dream. The
healing currents are also released and in the morning you feel refreshed
and rejuvenated.
4. When troubled by the vexations and strife of the day, still the wheels of
your mind and think about the wisdom and intelligence lodged in your
subconscious mind which is ready to respond to you. This will give you
peace, strength and confidence.
5. Sleep is essential for peace of mind and health of body. Lack of sleep
can cause irritation, depression and mental disorders. You need eight
hours sleep. 6. Medical research scholars point out that insomnia precedes psychotic
disorders.
7. You are spiritually recharged during sleep. Adequate sleep is essential
for joy and vitality in life.
8. Your tired brain craves sleep so hungrily that it will sacrifice anything to
get it. Many who have fallen asleep at the wheel of an automobile can
testify to this.
9. many sleep deprived people have poor memories and lack proper coordination. They become befuddle, confused and disorientated.
10. Sleep brings counsel. Prior to sleep, claim that the Infinite Intelligence
of your subconscious mind is guiding and directing you. Then, watch for
the lead which comes, perhaps on awakening.
11. Trust your subconscious completely. Know that its tendency is always
lifeward. Occasionally, your subconscious answers you in a very vivid
dream and a vision in the night. You can be forewarned in a dream in the
same way as the author of this book was warned.
12. Your future is in your mind now, based on your habitual thinking and
beliefs. Claim that Infinite Intelligence leads and guides you; and that all
good is yours, and your future will be wonderful. Believe it and accept it.
Expect the best and invariably the best will come to you.
13. If you are writing a novel, play or book or are working on an invention, speak to your subconscious mind at night and claim boldly that its
wisdom, intelligence and power are guiding, directing and revealing to
you the ideal play, novel, book or revealing the perfect solution whatever
it may be. Wonders will happen as you pray this way.

Chapter XIV
Your Subconscious Mind & Marital Problems

Ignorance of the functions and powers of the mind is the cause of all marital trouble. Friction between husband and wife can be solved by each using the law of mind correctly. By praying together they stay together. The
contemplation of divine ideals, the study of the laws of life, the mutual
agreement on a common purpose and plan, and the enjoyment of personal freedom bring about that harmonious marriage, that wedded bliss, that
sense of oneness where the two become one.
The best time to prevent divorce is before marriage. It is not wrong to try
to get out of a very bad situation. But, why get into the bad situation in
the first place? Would it not be better to give attention to the real cause of
marital problems, in other words, to really get at the root of the matter
involved?
As with all other problems of men and women, the problems of divorce,
separation, annulment and endless litigation are directly traceable to lack
of knowledge of the working and interrelationship of the conscious and
subconscious mind.

The Meaning Of Marriage

Marriage to be real must first be on a spiritual basis. It must be of the
heart and the heart is the chalice of love. Honesty, sincerity, kindness and
integrity are also forms of love. Each partner should be perfectly honest
and sincere with the other. It is not a true marriage when a man marries
a woman for her money, social position, or to lift his ego, because this indicates a lack of security, honesty and true love. Such a marriage is a
farce, a sham and a masquerade.
When a woman says, “I am tired of working; I want to get married because I want security,” her premise is false. She is not using the laws of
mind correctly. Her security depends upon her knowledge of the interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind and its application.
For example, a woman will never lack for wealth or health if she applies
the techniques outlined in the respective chapters of this book. Her wealth
can come to her independent of her husband, father or anyone else. A
woman is not dependent on her husband for health, peace, joy, inspiration, guidance, love, wealth, security, happiness or anything in the world.
Her security and peace of mind come from her knowledge of the inner
powers within her and from the constant use of the laws of her own mind
in a constructive fashion.

How To Attract The Ideal Husband

You are now acquainted with the way your subconscious mind works. You
know that whatever you impress upon it will be experienced in your
world. Begin now to impress your subconscious mind with the qualities
and characteristics you desire in a man.
The following is an excellent technique: Sit down at night in your armchair, close your eyes, let go, relax your body, become very quiet, passive
and receptive. Talk to your subconscious mind and say to it, “I am now
attracting a man into my experience who is hones, sincere, loyal, faithful,
peaceful, happy and prosperous. These qualities which I admire are sinking down into my subconscious mind now. As I dwell upon these characteristics, they become a part of me and are embodied subconsciously.
“I know there is an irresistible law of attraction and that I attract to me a
man according to my subconscious belief. I attract that which I feel to be
true in my subconscious mind.
“I know I can contribute to his peace and happiness. He loves my ideals,
and I love his ideals. He does not want to make me over, neither do I
want to make him over. There is mutual love, freedom and respect.”
Practice this process of impregnating your subconscious. Then, you will
have the joy of attracting to you a man possessing the qualities and characteristics you mentally dwelt upon. Your subconscious intelligence will
open up a pathway, whereby both of you will meet, according to the irresistible and changeless flow of your own subconscious mind. Have a keen
desire to give the best that is in you of love, devotion and cooperation.
Be receptive to this gift of love which you have given to your subconscious
mind.

How To Attract The Ideal Wife

Affirm as follows: “I now attract the right woman who is in complete accord with me. This is a spiritual union because it is divine love functioning
through the personality of someone with whom I blend perfectly. I know I
can give to this woman love, light, peace and joy. I feel and believe I can
make this woman’s life full, complete and wonderful.
“I now decree that she possesses the following qualities and attributes:
She is spiritual, loyal, faithful and true. She is harmonious, peaceful and
happy. We are irresistibly attracted to each other. Only that which belongs
to love, truth and beauty can enter my experience. I accept my ideal
companion now.”
As you think quietly and with interest on the qualities and attributes which
you admire in the companion you seek, you will build the mental equivalent into your mentality. Then, the deeper currents of your subconscious
mind will bring both of you together in divine order.

No Need For Third Mistake

Recently a teacher said to me, “I have had three husbands and all three
have been passive, submissive and dependent on me to make all decisions and govern everything. Why do I attract such type men?”
I asked her whether she had known that her second husband was he effeminate type, and she replied, “Of course not. Had I known, I would not
have married him.” Apparently she had not learned anything from the first
mistake. The trouble was with her own personality make up. She was
very masculine, domineering and unconsciously wanted someone who
would be submissive and passive so that she could play the dominant
role. All this was unconscious motivation, and her subconscious picture attracted to her what she subjectively wanted. She had to learn to break
the pattern by adopting the right prayer process.

How She Broke The Negative Pattern

the above-mentioned woman learned a simple truth. When you believe
you can have the type of man you idealize, it is done unto you as your believe. The following is the specific prayer she used to break the old subconscious pattern and attract to her the ideal mate: “I am building into
my mentality the type of man I deeply desire. The man I attract for a
husband is strong, powerful, loving, very masculine, successful, honest,
loyal and faithful. He finds love and happiness with me. I love to follow
where he leads.
“I know he wants me, and I want him. I am honest, sincere, loving and
kind. I have wonderful gifts to offer him. They are good will, a joyous
heart and a healthy body. He offers me the same. It is mutual, I give and
I receive. Divine Intelligence knows where this man is, and the deeper
wisdom of my subconscious mind is now bringing both of us together in
its own way and we recognize each other immediately. I release this request to my subconscious mind which knows how to bring my request to
pass. I give thanks for the perfect answer.”
She prayed in the above manner night and morning, affirming these
truths and knowing that through frequent occupation of the mind she
would reach the mental equivalent of that which she sought.

The Answer To Her Prayer

Several months went by. She had a great number of dates and social engagements, none of which was agreeable to her. When she was about to
question, waiver, doubt and vacillate, she reminded herself that the Infinite Intelligence was bringing it to pass in its own way and that there was
nothing to be concerned about. Her final decree in her divorce proceedings was granted which brought her a great sense of release and mental
freedom. Shortly afterward she went to work as a receptionist in a doctor’s office.
She told me that the minute she saw the physician she knew he was the
man she was praying about. Apparently he knew it too, because he proposed to her the first week she was in the office and their subsequent
marriage was ideally happy. This physician was not the passive or submissive type, but was a real man, a former football player, an outstanding
athlete and was a deeply spiritual man though he was completely devoid
of any sectarian or denominational affiliation.
She got what she prayed for because she claimed it mentally until she
reached the point of saturation. In other words, she mentally and emotionally united with her idea, and it become a part of her in the same way
that an apple becomes a part of her blood stream.

Should I Get A Divorce?

Divorce is an individual problem. It cannot be generalized. In some cases,
of course, there never should have been a marriage. In some cases, divorce is not the solution, no more so than marriage is the solution for a
lonely man. Divorce may be right for one person and wrong for another. A
divorced woman may be far more sincere and noble than may of her married sisters who perhaps are living a lie.
For example, I once talked with a woman who husband was a dope fiend,
an ex-convict, a wife beater and a non provider. She had been told it was
wrong to get a divorce. I explained to her that marriage is of the heart. If
two hearts blend harmoniously, lovingly and sincerely, that is the ideal
marriage. The pure action of the heart is love.
Following this explanation she knew what to do. She knew in her heart
that there is no divine law which compelled her to be browbeaten, intimidated and beaten because someone said, “I pronounce you man and
wife.” If you are in doubt as to what to do, ask for guidance, knowing that
there is always an answer, and you will receive it. Follow the lead that
comes to you in the silence of your soul. It speaks to you in peace.

Drifting Into Divorce

Recently a young couple, married only for a few months, were seeking a
divorce. I discovered that the young man had a constant fear that his wife
would leave him. He expected rejection and he believed that she would be
unfaithful. These thoughts haunted his mind and became an obsession
with him. His mental attitude was one of separation and suspicion. She
felt unresponsive to him; it was his own feeling or atmosphere of loss and
separation operating through them. This brought about a condition or action in accordance with the mental pattern behind it. There is a law of action and reaction, or cause and effect. The thought is the action and the
response of the subconscious mind is the reaction. His wife left home and asked for a divorce which is what he feared and
believed she would do.

Divorce Begins In The Mind

Divorce takes place first in the mind; the legal proceedings follow after.
These two young people were full of resentment, fear, suspicion and
anger. These attitudes weaken, exhaust and debilitate the whole being.
They learned that hate divides and that love unites. They began to realize
what they had been doing with their minds. Neither one of them knew the
law of mental action, and they were misusing their minds and bringing on
chaos and misery. These two people went back together at my suggestion
and experimented with prayer therapy.
They began to radiate love, peace and good will to each other. Each one
practiced radiating harmony, health, peace and love to the other and they
alternated in the reading of the Psalms every night. Their marriage is
growing more beautiful every day.

The Nagging Wife

Many times the reason the wife nags is because she gets no attention. Oftentimes, it is a craving for love and affection. Give your wife attention
and show your appreciation. Praise and exalt all her many good points.
There is also the nagging type of woman who wants to make the man
conform to her particular patter. This is about the quickest way in the
world to get rid of a man.
The wife and the husband must cease being scavengers always looking at
the petty faults or errors in each other. Let each give attention and praise
for the constructive and wonderful qualities in the other.

The Brooding Husband

If a man begins to brood, grows morbid against his wife because of the
things she said or did, he is, psychologically speaking, committing adultery. One of the meanings of adultery is idolatry, i.e. giving attention to or
uniting mentally with that which is negative and destructive. When a man
is silently resenting his wife and is full of hostility toward her, he is unfaithful. He is not faithful to his marriage vows which are to love, cherish
and honor her all the days of his life.
The man who is brooding, bitter and resentful can swallow his sharp remarks, abate his anger and he can go to great lengths to be considerate,
kind and courteous. He can deftly skirt the differences. Through praise
and mental effort, he can get out of the habit of antagonism. Then, he will
be able to get along better, not only with his wife, but with business associates also. Assume the harmonious state and eventually you will find
peace and harmony.

The Great Mistake

A great mistake is to discuss your marital problems or difficulties with
neighbors and relatives. Suppose, for example, a wife say to the neighbor,
“John never gives me any money. He treats my mother abominably,
drinks to excess and is constantly abusive and insulting.”
Now, this wife is degrading and belittling her husband in the eyes of all
the neighbors and relatives. He no longer appears as the ideal husband to
them. Never discuss your marital problems with anyone except a trained
counselor. Why cause numerous people to think negatively of your marriage? Moreover, as you discuss and dwell upon these shortcomings of
your husband, you are actually creating these states within yourself. Who
is thinking and feeling it? You are! As you think and feel, so are you.
Relatives will usually give you the wrong advice. It is usually biased and
prejudiced because it is not given in an impersonal way. Any advice you
receive which violates the golden rule which is a cosmic law, is not good
or sound.
It is well to remember that no two human beings ever lived beneath the
same roof without clashes of temperament, periods of hurts and stain.
Never display the unhappy side of your marriage to your friends. Keep
your quarrels to yourself. Refrain from criticism and condemnation of your
partner.

Don’t Try To Make Your Wife Over

A husband must not try to make his wife into a second edition of himself.
The tactless attempt to change her in many ways is foreign to her nature.
These attempts are always foolish and many times result in a dissolution
of the marriage. These attempts to alter her, destroy her pride and selfesteem, and arouse a spirit of contrariness and resentment that proves
fatal to the marriage bond.
Adjustments are needed, of course, but if you have a good look inside
your own mind, and study your character and behavior, you will find so
many shortcomings; they will keep you busy the rest of your life. If you
say, “I will make him over into what I want,” you are looking for trouble
and the divorce court. You are asking for misery. You will have to learn
the hard way that there is no one to change but yourself.

Pray Together & Stay Together Through Steps In Prayer

The First Step

Never carry over from one day to another accumulated irritations arising
from little disappointments. Be sure to forgive each other for any sharpness before you retire at night. The moment you awaken in the morning, claim Infinite Intelligence is guiding you in all your ways. Send out loving
thoughts of peace, harmony and love to your marriage partner, to all
members of the family and to the whole world.

The Second Step

Say grace at breakfast. Give thanks for the wonderful food, for your abundance and for all your blessings. Makes sure that no problems, worries or
arguments shall enter into the table conversation; the same applies at
dinner time. Say to your wife or husband, “I appreciate all you are doing
and I radiate love and good will to you all day long.”

The Third Step

The husband and wife should alternate in praying each night. Do not take
your marriage partner for granted. Show your appreciation and love.
Think appreciation and good will, rather than condemnation, criticism and
nagging. The way to build a peaceful home and a happy marriage is to
use a foundation of love, beauty, harmony, mutual respect, faith in God
and all things good. Read the 23rd, 27th and 91st Psalms, the 11th chapter
of Hebrews, the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians and other great texts of the
Bible before going to sleep. As you practice these truths, your marriage
will grow more and more blessed through the years.

Review Your Actions

1. Ignorance of mental and spiritual laws is the cause of all marital unhappiness. By praying scientifically together, you stay together.
2. The best time to prevent divorce is before marriage. If you learn how
to pray in the right way, you will attract the right mate for you.
3. Marriage is the union of a man and woman who are bound together by
love. Their hearts beat as one and they move onward, upward and Godward.
4. Marriage does not bequeath happiness. People find happiness by
dwelling on the eternal truths of God and the spiritual values of life. Then,
the man and woman can contribute to each other’s happiness and joy.
5. You attract the right mate by dwelling on the qualities and characteristics you admire in a woman or a man, and then your subconscious mind
will bring you together in divine order.
6. You must build into your mentality the mental equivalent of what you
want in a marriage partner. If you want to attract an honest, sincere and
loving partner in life, you must be honest, sincere and loving yourself.
7. You do not have to repeat mistakes in marriage. When you really be lieve you can have the type of man or woman you idealize, it is done unto
you as you believe. To believe is to accept something as true. Accept your
ideal companion now mentally.
8. Do not wonder how, why or where you will meet that mate you are
praying for. Trust implicitly the wisdom of your subconscious mind. It has
the “know-how,” and you don’t have to assist it.
9. You are mentally divorced when you indulge in peeves, grudges, ill will
and hostility toward your marriage partner. You are mentally dwelling with
error in the bed of your mind. Adhere to your marriage vows, “I promise
to cherish, love and honor him (her) all the days of my life.”
10. Cease projecting fear patterns to your marriage partner. Project love,
peace, harmony and good will and your marriage will grow more beautiful
and more wonderful through the years.
11. Radiate love, peace and good will to each other. These vibrations are
picked up by the subconscious mind resulting in mutual trust, affection
and respect.
12. A nagging wife is usually seeking attention and appreciation. She is
craving for love and affection. Praise and exalt her many good points.
Show her that you love her and appreciate her.
13. A man who loves his wife does not do anything unloving or unkind in
word, manner or action. Love is what love does.
14. In marital problems, always seek expert advice. You would not go to a
carpenter to pull a tooth; neither should you discuss your marriage problems with relatives or friends. You should go to a trained person for counsel.
15. Never try to make your wife or husband over. These attempts are always foolish and tend to destroy the pride and self esteem of the other.
Moreover, it arouses a spirit of resentment that proves fatal to the marriage bond. Cease trying to make the other a second edition of yourself.
16. Pray together and you will stay together. Scientific prayer solves all
problems. Mentally picture your wife as she ought to be, joyous, happy,
healthy and beautiful. See your husband as he ought to be, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and kind. Maintain this mental picture and you
will experience the marriage made in heaven which is harmony and
peace.

Chapter XV
Your Subconscious Mind & Happiness

William James, father of American psychology, said that the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century was not in the realm of physical science.
The greatest discovery was the power of the subconscious touched by
faith. In every human being is that limitless reservoir of power which can
overcome any problem in the world.
True and lasting happiness will come into your life the day you get the
clear realization that you can overcome any weakness the day you realize
that your subconscious can solve your problems, heal your body and
prosper you beyond your fondest dream.
You might have felt very happy when your child was born, when you got
married, when you graduated from college, or when you won a great victory or a prize. You might have been very happy when you became engaged to the loveliest girl or the most handsome man. You could go on
and list innumerable experiences which have made you happy. However,
no matter how marvelous these experiences are, they do not give real
lasting happiness – they are transitory.
The Book of Proverbs gives the answer: Whosoever trusteth in the Lord,
happy is he. When you trust in the Lord (the power and wisdom of your
subconscious mind) to lead, guide, govern and direct all your ways, you
will become poised, serene and relaxed. As you radiate love, peace and
good will to all, you are building a superstructure of happiness for all the
days of your life.

You Must Choose Happiness

Happiness is a state of mind. There is a phrase in the Bible which says,
Choose ye this day whom ye will serve. You have the freedom to choose
happiness. This may seem extraordinarily simple, and it is. Perhaps this is
why people stumble over the way to happiness; they do not see the simplicity of the key to happiness. The great things of life are simple, dynamic and creative. They produce well-being and happiness.
St Paul reveals to you how you can think your way into a life of dynamic
power and happiness in these words: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things
are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things. Phil, 4:8.

How To Choose Happiness

Begin now to choose happiness. This is how you do it: When you open your eyes in the morning, say to yourself, “Divine order takes charge of
my life today and every day. All things work together for good for me today. This a new and wonderful day for me. There will never be another
day like this one. I am divinely guided all day long and whatever I do will
prosper. Divine love surrounds me, enfolds me, and enwraps me, and I go
forth in peace. Whenever my attention wanders away from that which is
good and constructive, I will immediately bring it back to the contemplation of that which is lovely and of good report. I am a spiritual and mental
magnet attracting to myself all things which bless and prosper me. I am
going to be a wonderful success in all my undertakings today. I am definitely going to be happy all day long.”
Start each day in this manner; then you will be choosing to be a joyous
person.

He Made It A Habit To Be Happy

A number of years ago, I stayed for about a week in a farmer’s house in
Connemarra on the west coast of Ireland. He seemed to be always singing
and whistling and was full of humor. I asked him the secret of happiness,
and his reply was: “It is a habit of mine to be happy. Every morning when
I awaken and every night before I go to sleep, I bless my family, the
crops, the cattle and I thank God for the wonderful harvest.”
This farmer had made a practice of this for over forty years. As you know,
thoughts repeated regularly and systematically sink into the subconscious
mind and become habitual. He discovered that happiness is a habit.

You Must Desire To Be Happy

There is one very important point about being happy. You must sincerely
desire to be happy. There are people who have been depressed, dejected
and unhappy so long that were they suddenly made happy by some wonderful, good, joyous news, they would actually be like the woman who
said to me, “It is wrong to be so happy!” They have been so accustomed
to the old mental patterns that they do not feel at home being happy!
They long for the former, depressed, unhappy state.
I knew a woman in England who had rheumatism for many years. She
would pat herself on the knee and say, “My rheumatism is bad today. I
cannot go out. My rheumatism keeps me miserable.”
This dear elderly lady got a lot of attention from her son, daughter and
the neighbors. She really wanted her rheumatism. She enjoyed her “misery” as he called it. This woman did not really want to be happy.
I suggested a curative procedure for her. I wrote down some biblical verses and told her that if she gave attention to these truths, her mental attitude would undoubtedly change and would result in her faith and confi dence being restored to health. She was not interested. There seems to
be a peculiar, mental, morbid streak in many people, whereby they seem
to enjoy being miserable and sad.

Why Choose Unhappiness?

Many people choose unhappiness by entertaining these ideas: “Today is a
black day; everything is going to be wrong.” “I am not going to succeed.”
“Everyone is against me.” “Business is bad, and it is going to get worse.”
“I’m always late.” “I never get the breaks.” “He can, but I can’t.” If you
have this attitude of mind first thing in the morning, you will attract all
these experiences to you and you will be very unhappy.
Begin to realize that the world you live in is determined by what goes on
in your mind. Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman philosopher and sage
said, “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” Emerson, America’s
foremost philosopher, said, “A man is what he thinks all day long.” The
thoughts you habitually entertain in your mind have the tendency to actualize themselves in physical conditions.
Make certain you do not indulge in negative thoughts, defeatist thoughts,
or unkind, depressing thoughts. Recall frequently to your mind that you
can experience nothing outside your own mentality.

If I Had A Million Dollars, I Would Be Happy

I have visited many men in mental institutions who were millionaires, but
they insisted they were penniless and destitute. They were incarcerated
because of psychotic, paranoid and manic depressive tendencies. Wealth
in and of itself will not make you happy. On the other hand, it is not a deterrent to happiness. Today, there are many people trying to buy happiness through the purchase of radios, television sets, automobiles, a home
in the country, a private yacht and a swimming pool, but happiness cannot be purchased or procured in that way.
The kingdom of happiness is in your thought and feeling. Too many people have the idea that it takes something artificial to produce happiness.
Some say, “If I were elected mayor, made president of the organization,
promoted to general manager of the corporation, I would be happy.”
The truth is that happiness is a mental state. None of these positions
mentioned will necessarily bequeath happiness. Your strength, joy and
happiness consist in finding out the law of divine order and right action
lodged in your subconscious mind and by applying these principles in all
phases of your life.

He Found Happiness To Be The Harvest Of A Quiet Mind

Lecturing in San Francisco some years ago, I interviewed a man who was
very unhappy and dejected over the way his business was going. He was the general manager. His heart was filled with resentment toward the vice
president and the president of the organization. He claimed that they opposed him. Because of this internal strife, business was declining; he was
receiving no dividends or stock bonuses.
This is how he solved his business problem: The first thing in the morning
he affirmed quietly as follows, “All those working in our corporation are
honest, sincere, cooperative, faithful and full of good will to all. They are
mental and spiritual links in the chain of this corporation’s growth, welfare
and prosperity. I radiate love, peace and good will in my thoughts, words
and deeds to my two associates and to all those in the company. The
president and the vice president of our company are divinely guided in all
their undertakings. The Infinite Intelligence of my subconscious mind
makes all decisions through me. There is only right action in all our business transactions and in our relationship with each other. I send the messengers of peace, love and good will before me to the office. Peace and
harmony reign supreme in the minds and hearts of all those in the company including myself. I now go forth into a new day, full of faith, confidence and trust.”
This business executive repeated the above meditation slowly three times
in the morning, feeling the truth of what he affirmed. When fearful or angry thoughts came into his mind during the day, hew would say to himself, “Peace, harmony and poise govern my mind at all times.”
As he continued disciplining his mind in this manner, all the harmful
thoughts ceased to come and peace came into his mind. He reaped the
harvest.
Subsequently, he wrote me to the effect that at the end of about two
weeks of reordering his mind, the president and vice president called him
into the office, praised his operations and his new constructive ideas, and
remarked how fortunate they were in having him as a general manager.
He was very happy in discovering that man finds happiness within himself.

The Block Or Stump Is Not Really There

I read a newspaper article some years ago which told about a horse who
had shied when he came to a stump on the road. Subsequently, every
time the horse came to that same stump, he shied. The farmer dug the
stump out, burned it and leveled the old road. Yet, for twenty-five years,
every time the horse passed the place where the former stump was, he
shied. The horse was shying at the memory of a stump.
There is no block to your happiness save in your own thought life and
mental imagery. Are fear or worry holding you back? Fear is a thought in
your mind. You can dig it up this very moment by supplanting it with faith
in success, achievement and victory over all problems. I knew a man who failed in business. He said to me, “I made mistakes.
I’ve learned a lot. I am going back into business and I will be a tremendous success.” He faced up to that stump in his mind. He did not whine or
complain, but he tore up the stump of failure and through believing in his
inner powers to back him up, he banished all fear thoughts and old depressions. Believe in yourself and you will succeed and be happy.

The Happiest People

The happiest man is he who constantly brings forth and practices what is
best in him. Happiness and virtue complement each other. The best are
not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best in the art of
living life successfully. God is the highest and best in you. Express more of
God’s love, light, truth and beauty and you will become one of the happiest persons in the world today.
Epictetus, the Greek stoic philosopher, said, “There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, let this, therefore, be always ready at hand
with thee, both when thou wakest early in the morning, and all day long,
and when thou goest to late to sleep, to account no external things thine
own, but commit all these to God.”

Summary Of Steps To Happiness

1. William James said that the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century was the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith.
2. There is tremendous power within you. Happiness will come to you
when you acquire a sublime confidence in this power. Then, you will make
your dreams come true.
3. You can rise victorious over any defeat and realize the cherished desires of your heart through the marvelous power of your subconscious
mind. This is the meaning of Whosoever trusteth in the Lord (spiritual
laws of the subconscious mind), happy is he.
4. You must choose happiness. Happiness is a habit. It is a good habit to
ponder often on Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Phil. 4:8.
5. When you open your eyes in the morning, say to yourself, I choose
happiness today. I choose success today. I choose right action today. I
choose love and good will for all today. I choose peace today. Pour life,
love and interest into this affirmation, and you have chosen happiness. 6. Give thanks for all your blessings several times day. Furthermore, pray
for the peace, happiness and prosperity of all members of your family,
your associates and all people everywhere.
7. you must sincerely desire to be happy. Nothing is accomplished without
desire. Desire is a wish with wings of imagination and faith. Imagine the
fulfillment of your desire, and feel its reality, and it will come to pass.
Happiness comes in answered prayer.
8. By constantly dwelling on thoughts of fear, worry, anger, hate and failure you will become very depressed and unhappy. Remember, your life is
what your thoughts make of it.
9. You cannot buy happiness with all the money in the world. Some millionaires are very happy, some are very unhappy. Many people with very
little worldly good are very happy and some are very unhappy. Some
married people are happy and some are very unhappy. Some single people are happy and some are very unhappy. The kingdom of happiness is in
your thought and feeling.
10. Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on
peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness.
11. There is no block to your happiness. External things are not causative,
these are effects, not cause. Take your cue from the only creative principle within you. Your thought is cause, and new cause produces a new effect. Choose happiness.
12. The happiest man is he who brings forth the highest and the best in
him. God is the highest and best in him, for the kingdom of God is within.

Chapter XVI
Your Subconscious Mind & Harmonious Human
Relations

In studying this book, you learn that your subconscious mind is a recording machine which faithfully reproduces whatever you impress upon it.
This is one of the reasons for the application of the Golden Rule in human
relations.
Matthew 7:12 says, All things whatsoever ye would that men should do
unto you, do ye even so to them. This quotation has outer and inner
meanings. You are interested in its inner meaning from the standpoint of
your subconscious mind which is: As you would the men should think
about you, think you about them in like manner. As you would that men
should feel about you, feel you also about them in like manner. As you
would want men to act toward you, act you toward them in like manner.
For example, you may be polite and courteous to someone in your office,
but when his back is turned, you are very critical and resentful toward
him in your mind. Such negative thoughts are highly destructive to you. It
is like taking poison. You are actually taking mental poisons which rob you
of vitality, enthusiasm, strength, guidance and good will. These negative
thoughts and emotions sink down into your subconscious, and cause all
kinds of difficulties and maladies in your life.

The Master Key To Happy Relationships With Others

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with that judgment ye judge, ye
shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to
you again. Matthew 7:1-2.
A study of these verses and the application of the inner truths therein
contained represent the real key to harmonious relations. To judge is to
think, to arrive at a mental verdict or conclusion in your mind. The
thought you have about the other person is your thought, because you
are thinking it. Your thoughts are creative, therefore, you actually create
in our own experience what you think and feel about the other person. It
is also true that the suggestion you give to another, you give to yourself
because your mind is the creative medium.
This is why it is said, For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged. When you know this law and the way your subconscious mind
works, you are careful to think, feel and act right toward the other. These
verses teach you about the emancipation of man and reveal to you the
solution to your individual problems. And With What Measure Ye Mete, It Shall Be Measured To You Again
The good you do for others comes back to you in like measure; and the
evil you do returns to you by the law of your own mind. If a man cheats
and deceives another, he is actually cheating and deceiving himself, his
sense of guilt and mood of loss inevitably will attract loss to him in some
way, at some time. His subconscious records his mental act and reacts according to the mental intention or motivation.
Your subconscious mind is impersonal and unchanging, neither considering persons nor respecting religious affiliations or institutions of any kind.
It is neither compassionate not vindictive. The way you think, feel and act
toward others returns at least upon yourself.

The Daily Headlines Made Him Sick

Begin now to observe yourself. Observe your reactions to people, conditions, and circumstances. How do you respond to the events and news of
the day? It makes not difference if all the other people were wrong and
you alone were right. If the news disturbs you, it is your evil because your
negative emotions robbed you of peace and harmony.
A woman wrote me about her husband, saying that he goes into a rage
when he reads what certain newspaper columnists write in the newspaper.
She added that his constant reaction of anger and suppressed rage on his
part brought on bleeding ulcers and his physician recommended an emotional reconditioning.
I invited this man to see me and I explained to him the way his mind
functions indicating how emotionally immature it was to get angry when
others write articles with which he disapproves or disagrees.
He began to realize that he should give the newspaperman freedom to
express himself even though the latter disagreed with him politically, religiously or in any other way. In the same manner, the newspaperman
would give him freedom to write a letter to the newspaper disagreeing
with is published statements. He learned that he could disagree without
being disagreeable. He awakened to the simple truth that it is never what
a person says or does that affects him, it is his reaction to what is said or
done that matters.
This explanation was the cure for this man, and he realized that with a little practice he could master his morning tantrums. His wife told me, subsequently, that he laughed at himself and also at what the columnists say.
They no longer have power to disturb, annoy or irritate him. His ulcers
have disappeared due to his emotional poise and serenity.

I Hate Women, But I Like Men

A private secretary was very bitter toward some of the girls in her office because they were gossiping about her, and as he said, spreading vicious
lies about her. She admitted that she did no like women. She said, “I hate
women, but I like men.” I discovered also that she spoke to the girls who
were under her in the office in a very haughty, imperious and irritable
tone of voice. She pointed out that they took delight in making things difficult for her. There was a certain pomposity in her way of speaking, and I
could see where her tone of voice would affect some people unpleasantly.
If all the people in the office of factory annoy you, isn’t it a possibility that
the vibration, annoyance and turmoil may be due to some subconscious
pattern or mental projection from you? We know that a dog will react ferociously if you hate or fear dogs. Animals pick up your subconscious vibrations and react accordingly. Many undisciplined human beings are just
as sensitive as dogs, cats and other animals.
I suggested a process of prayer to this private secretary who hated women, explaining to her that when she began to identify herself with spiritual
virtues and commenced to affirm the truths of life, her voice, mannerisms
and hatred of women would completely disappear. She was surprised to
know that the emotion of hatred shows up in a person’s speech, actions,
in his writings and in all phases of his life. She ceased reacting in the typical, resentful and angry way. She established a pattern of prayer, which
she practiced regularly, systematically and conscientiously in the office.
The prayer was as follows: “I think, speak and act lovingly, quietly and
peacefully. I now radiate love, peace, tolerance and kindness to all the
girls who criticized me and gossiped about me. I anchor my thoughts on
peace, harmony and good will to all. Whenever I am about to react negatively, is ay firmly to myself, ‘I am going to think, speak and act from the
standpoint of the principle of harmony, health and peace within myself.’
Creative intelligence leads, rules and guides me in all my ways.”
The practice of this prayer transformed her life and she found that all criticism and annoyance ceased. The girls became co-workers and friends
along life’s journey. She discovered that there is no one to change but
myself.

His Inner Speech Held Back His Promotion

One day a salesman came to see me and described his difficulties in
working with the sales manager of his organization. He had been with the
company ten years and had received no promotion or recognition of any
kind. He showed me his sales figures, which were greater proportionately
than the other men in the territory. He said that he sales manager did not
like him, that he was unjustly treated and that at conferences the manager was rude to him and at times ridiculed his suggestions.
I explained that undoubtedly the cause was to a great degree within him self, and that his concept and belief about his superior bore witness to the
reaction of this man. The measure we mete, shall be measured to us
again. His mental measure or concept of the sales manager was that he
was mean and cantankerous. He was filled with bitterness and hostility toward the executive. On his way to work he conducted a vigorous conversation with himself filled with criticism, mental arguments, recriminations
and denunciations of his sales manager.
What he gave out mentally, he was inevitably bound to get back. This
salesman realized that his inner speech was highly destructive because of
the intensity and force of his silent thoughts and emotions and personally
conducted mental condemnation and vilification of the sales manager entered into his own subconscious mind. This brought about the negative response from his boss as well as creating many other personal, physical
and emotional disorders.
He began to pray frequently as follows: “I am the only thinker in my universe. I am responsible for what I think about my boss. My sales manager
is not responsible for the way I think about him. I refuse to give power to
any person, place or thing to annoy me or disturb me. I wish health, success, peace of mind and happiness for my boss. I sincerely wish him well,
and I know he is divinely guided in all his ways.”
He repeated this prayer out loud slowly, quietly and feelingly, knowing
that his mind is like a garden, and that whatever he plants in the garden
will come forth like seeds after their kind.
I also taught him to practice mental imagery prior to sleep in this way: He
imagined that his sales manager was congratulating him on his fine work,
on his zeal and enthusiasm, and on his wonderful response from customers. He felt the reality of all this, felt his handshake, heard the tone of
his voice and saw him smile. He made a real mental movie, dramatizing it
to the best of his ability. Night after night he conducted this mental move,
knowing that his subconscious mind was the receptive plate on which his
conscious imagery would be impressed.
Gradually by a process of what may be termed mental and spiritual osmosis, the impression was made on his subconscious mind, and the expression automatically came forth. The sales manager subsequently called
him up to San Francisco, congratulated him, and gave him a new assignment as Division Sales Manager over one hundred men with a big increase in salary. He changed his concept and estimate of his boss, and
the latter responded accordingly.

Becoming Emotionally Mature

What the other person says or does cannot really annoy or irritate you except you permit him to disturb you. The only way he can annoy you is through your own thought. For example, if you get angry, you have to go
through four stages in your mind. You begin to think about what he said.
You decide to get angry and generate an emotion of rage. Then, you decide to act. Perhaps, you talk back and react in kind. You see that the
thought, emotion, reaction and action all take place in your mind.
When you become emotionally mature, you do not respond negatively to
the criticism and resentment of others. To do so would mean that you had
descended to that state of low mental vibration and become one with the
negative atmosphere of the other. Identify yourself with your aim in life,
and do not permit any person, place, or thing to deflect you from your inner sense of peace, tranquility and radiant health.

The Meaning Of Love In Harmonious Human Relations

Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis, said that unless
the personality has love, it sickens and dies. Love includes understanding,
good will and respect for the divinity in the other person. The more love
and good will you emanate and exude, the more comes back to you.
If you puncture the other fellow’s ego and would his estimate of himself,
you cannot gain his good will. Recognize that every man wants to be
loved and appreciated, and made to feel important in the world. Realize
that the other man is conscious of his true worth, and that, like yourself,
he feels the dignity of being an expression of the One Life-Principle animating all men. As you do this consciously and knowingly, you build the
other person up, and he returns your love and good will.

He Hated Audiences

An actor told me that the audience booed and hissed him on his first appearance on the stage. He added that the play was badly written and that
undoubtedly he did not play a good role. He admitted openly to me that
for months afterward he hated audiences. He called them dopes, dummies, stupid, ignorant, gullible, etc. He quit the stage in disgust and went
to work in a drugstore for a year.
One day a friend invited him to hear a lecture in Town Hall, New York City,
on “How to Get Along With Ourselves.” This lecture changed his life. He
went back to the stage and began to pray sincerely for the audience and
himself. He poured out love and good will every night before appearing on
the stage. He made it a habit to claim that the peace of God filled the
hearts of all present, and that all present were lifted up and inspired. During each performance he sent out love vibrations to the audience. Today,
he is a great actor, and he loves and respects people. His good will and
esteem are transmitted to others and are felt by them.

Handling Difficult People

There are difficult people in the world who are twisted and distorted men tally. They are malconditioned. Many are mental delinquents, argumentative, uncooperative, cantankerous, cynical and sour on life. They are sick
psychologically. Many people have deformed and distorted minds, probably warped during childhood. Many have congenital deformities. You
would not condemn a person who had tuberculosis, nor should you condemn a person who is mentally ill. No one, for example, hates or resents
a hunchback; there are many mental hunchbacks. You should have compassion and understanding. To understand all is to forgive all.

Misery Loves Company

The hateful, frustrated, distorted and twisted personality is out of tune
with the infinite. He resents those who are peaceful, happy and joyous.
Usually he criticizes, condemns and vilifies those who have been very
good and kind to him. His attitude is this: Why should they be so happy
when he is so miserable? He wants to drag them down to his own level.
Misery loves company. When you understand this you remain unmoved,
calm and dispassionate.

The Practice Of Empathy In Human Relations

A girl visited me recently stating that she hated another girl in her office.
She gave her reason that the other girl was prettier, happier and wealthier
than she, and, in addition, was engaged to the boss of the company
where they worked. One day after the marriage had taken place, the crippled daughter (by a former marriage) of the woman whom she hated
came into the office. The child put her arms around her mother and said,
“Mommy, mommy, I love my new daddy! Look what he gave me!” She
showed her mother a wonderful new toy.
She said to me, “My heart went out to that little girl, and I knew how happy she must feel. I got a vision of how happy this woman was. All of a
sudden I felt love for her, and I went into the office wished her all the
happiness in the world, and I meant it.”
In psychological circles today, this is called empathy which simply means
the imaginative projection of your mental attitude into that of another.
She projected her mental mood or the feeling of her heart into that of the
other woman, and began to think and look out through the other woman’s
brain. She was actually thinking and feeling as the other woman, and also
as the child, because she likewise had projected herself into the mind of
the child. She was looking out from that vantage point on the child’s
mother.
If tempted to injure of think ill of another, project yourself mentally into
the mind of Moses and think from the standpoint of the Ten Commandments. If you are prone to be envious, jealous or angry, project yourself
into the mind of Jesus and think from that standpoint, and you will feel
the truth of the words Love ye one another.

Appeasement Never Wins

Do not permit people to take advantage of you and gain the point by temper tantrums, crying jags or so-called heart attacks. These people are dictators who try to enslave you and make you do their bidding. Be firm but
kind, and refuse to yield. Appeasement never wins. Refuse to contribute
to their delinquency, selfishness and possessiveness. Remember, do that
which is right. You are here to fulfill your ideal and remain true to the
eternal verities and spiritual values of life which are eternal.
Give no one in all the world the power to deflect you from your goal, your
aim in life which is to express your hidden talents to the world, to serve
humanity, and to reveal more and more of God’s wisdom, truth and beauty to all people in the world. Remain true to your ideal. Know definitely
and absolutely that whatever contributes to your peace, happiness and
fulfillment must of necessity bless all men who walk the earth. The harmony of the part is the harmony of the whole, for the whole is in the part,
and the part is in the whole. All you owe the other, as Paul says, is love,
and love is the fulfilling of the law of health, happiness and peace of mind.

Profitable Pointers in Human Relations

1. Your subconscious mind is a recording machine which reproduces your
habitual thinking. Think good of the other, and you are actually thinking
good about yourself.
2. A hateful or resentful thought is a mental poison. Do not think ill of another for to do so is to think ill of yourself. You are the only thinker in your
universe, and your thoughts are creative.
3. Your mind is a creative medium; therefore, what you think and feel
about the other, you are bringing to pass in your own experience. This is
the psychological meaning of the Golden Rule. As you that man should
think about you, think you about them in the same manner.
4. To cheat, rob, or defraud another brings lack, loss and limitation to
yourself. Your subconscious mind records your inner motivations,
thoughts and feelings. These being of a negative nature, loss, limitation
and trouble come to you in countless ways. Actually, what yo do to the
other, you are doing to yourself.
5. The good you do, the kindness proffered, the love and good will you
send forth, will all come back to you multiplied in many ways.
6. You are the only thinker in your world. You are responsible for the way
you think about the other. Remember, the other person is not responsible
for the way you think about him. Your thoughts are reproduced. What are you thinking about the other fellow?
7. Become emotionally mature and permit other people to differ from you.
They have a perfect right to disagree with you, and you have the same
freedom to disagree with them. You can disagree without being disagreeable.
8. Animals pick up your fear vibrations and snap at you. If you love animals, they will never attack you. Many undisciplined human beings are
just as sensitive as dogs, cats and other animals.
9. Your inner speech, representing your silent thoughts and feelings, is
experienced in the reactions of others toward you.
10. Wish for the other what you wish for yourself. This is the key to harmonious human relations.
11. Change your concept and estimate of your employer. Feel and know
he is practicing the Golden rule and the Law of Love, and he will respond
accordingly.
12. The other person cannot annoy you or irritate you except you permit
him. Your thought is creative; you can bless him. If someone calls you a
skunk, you have the freedom to say to the other, “God’s peace fills your
soul.”
13. Love is the answer to getting along with others. Love is understanding, good will and respecting the divinity of the other.
14. You would not hate a hunchback or cripple. You would have compassion. Have compassion and understanding for mental hunchbacks who
have been conditioned negatively. To understand all is to forgive all.
15. Rejoice in the success, promotion and good fortune of the other. In
doing so, you attract good fortune to yourself.
16. Never yield to emotional scenes and tantrums of others. Appeasement
never wins. Do not be a doormat. Adhere to that which is right. Stick to
your ideal, knowing that the mental outlook which gives you peace, happiness and joy is right, good and true. What blesses you, blesses all. All
you owe any person in the world is love, and love is wishing for everyone
what you wish for yourself – health, happiness and all the blessings of
life.

Chapter XVII
How To Use Your Subconscious For Forgiveness

Life plays no favorites. God is life, and this life-principle is flowing through
you this moment. God loves to express Himself as harmony, peace, beauty, joy and abundance through you. This is called the will of God or the
tendency of life.
If you set up resistance in your mind to the flow of life through you, this
emotional congestion will get snarled up in your subconscious mind and
cause all kinds of negative conditions. God has nothing to do with unhappy or chaotic conditions in the world. All these conditions are brought
about by man’s negative and destructive thinking. Therefore, it is silly to
blame God for your trouble or sickness.
Many persons habitually set up mental resistance to the flow of life by accusing and reproaching God for the sin, sickness and suffering of
mankind. Others cast blame on God for their pains, aches, loss of loved
ones, personal tragedies and accidents. They are angry at God and they
believe He is responsible for their misery.
As long as people entertain such negative concepts about God, they will
experience the automatic negative reactions from their subconscious
minds. Actually, such people do not know that they are punishing themselves. They must see the truth, find release, and give up all condemnation, resentment and anger against anyone or any power outside themselves. Otherwise, they cannot go forward into a healthy, happy ore creative activity. The minute these people entertain a God of love in their
minds and hearts, and when they believe that God is the Loving Father
who watches over them, cares for them, guides them, sustains and
strengthens them, this concept and belief about God or the life-principle
will be accepted by their subconscious mind, and they will find themselves
blessed in countless ways.

Life Always Forgives You

Life forgives you when you cut your finger. The subconscious intelligence
within you sets about immediately to repair it. New cells build bridges
over the cut. Should you take some tainted food by error, life forgives you
and causes you to regurgitate it in order to preserve you. If you burn your
hand, the life-principle reduces the edema and congestion, and gives you
new skin, tissue and cells. Life holds no grudges against you, and it is always forgiving you. Life brings you back to health, vitality, harmony and
peace, if you cooperate by thinking in harmony with nature. Negative,
hurtful, memories, bitterness and ill will clutter up and impede the free
flow of the life-principle in you.

How He Banished That Feeling Of Guilt

I knew a man who worked every night until about one o’clock in the
morning. He paid no attention to his two boys or his wife. He was always
too busy working hard. He thought people should pat him on the back because he was working so arduously and persistently past midnight every
night. He had a blood pressure over two hundred and was full of guilt. Unconsciously, he proceeded to punish himself by hard work and he completely ignored his children. A normal man does not do that. He is interested in his boys and in their development. He does not shut his wife out
of his world.
I explained to him why he was working so arduously, “There is something
eating you inside, otherwise, you would not act this way. You are punishing yourself, and you have to learn to forgive yourself.” He did have a
deep sense of guilt. It was toward a brother.
I explained to him that God was not punishing him, but that he was punishing himself. For example, if you misuse the laws of life, you will suffer
accordingly. If you put your hand on a naked charged wire, you will get
burned. The forces and nature are not evil; it is your use of them that determines whether they have a good or evil effect. Electricity is not evil, it
depends on how you use it, whether to burn down a structure or light up
a home. The only sin is ignorance of the law, and the only punishment is
the automatic reaction of man’s misuse of the law.
If you misuse the principle of chemistry, you may blow up the office or the
factory. If you strike your hand on a board, you may cause your hand to
bleed. The board is not for that purpose. Its purpose may be to lean upon
or to support your feet.
This man realized that God does not condemn or punish anyone, and that
all his suffering was due to the reaction of his sub mind to his own negative and destructive thinking. He had cheated his brother at one time and
the brother had now passed on. Still, he was full of remorse and guilt.
I asked him, “Would you cheat your brother now?” He said, “No.” “Did you
feel you were justified at the time?” His reply was, “Yes.” “But, you would
not do it now?” He added, “No, I am helping others to know how to live.”
I added the following comment, “You have a greater reason and understanding now. Forgiveness is to forgive yourself. Forgiveness is getting
your thoughts in line with the divine law of harmony. Self condemnation is
called hell (bondage and restriction); forgiveness is called heaven (harmony and peace).”
The burden of guilt and self condemnation was lifted from his mind, and
he had a complete healing. The doctor tested his blood pressure and it had become normal. The explanation was the cure .

A Murderer Learned To Forgive Himself

A man who murdered his brother in Europe visited me many years ago.
He was suffering from great mental anguish and torture believing that
God must punish him. He explained that his brother had been having an
affair with his wife and that he had shot him on the spur of the moment.
This had happened about fifteen years previous to his interview with me.
In the meantime, this man had married an American girl and had been
blessed with three lovely children. He was in a position where he helped
many people and he was a transformed man.
My explanation to him was that physically and psychologically he was not
the same man who shot his brother, since scientists inform us that every
cell of our bodies changes every eleven months. Moreover, mentally and
spiritually he was a new man. He was now full of love and good will for
humanity. The “old” man who committed the crime fifteen years before
was mentally and spiritually dead. Actually, he was condemning an innocent man!
This explanation had a profound effect upon him and he said it was as if a
great weight had been lifted from his mind. He realized the significance of
the following truth in the Bible: Come now, let us reason together, saith
the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18.

Criticism Cannot Hurt You Without Your Consent

A school teacher told me that one of her associates criticized a speech she
had given, saying to her that she spoke too fast, she swallowed some of
her words, she couldn’t be heard, her diction was poor and her speech ineffective. This teacher was furious and full of resentment toward her critic.
She admitted to me that the criticisms were just. Her first reaction was
really childish and she agreed that the letter was really a blessing and a
marvelous corrective. She proceeded immediately to supplement her deficiencies in her speech by enrolling in a course in public speaking at City
College. She wrote and thanked the writer of the note for her interest, expressing appreciation for her conclusions and findings which enabled the
teacher to correct the matter at once.

How To Be Compassionate

Suppose none of the things mentioned in the letter had been true of the
teacher. The latter would have realized that her class material had upset
the prejudices, superstitions, or narrow sectarian beliefs of the writer of
the note, and that a psychologically ill person was simply pouring forth
her resentment because a psychological boil had been hurt. To understand this fact is to be compassionate. The next logical step
would be to pray for the other person’s peace, harmony and understanding. You cannot be hurt when you know that you are master of your
thoughts, reactions and emotions. Emotions follow thoughts, and you
have the power to reject all thoughts which may disturb or upset you.

Left At The Altar

Some years ago I visited a church to perform a marriage ceremony. The
young man did not appear and at the end of two hours, the bride-to-be
shed a few tears and then said to me, “I prayed for divine guidance. This
might be the answer for He never faileth.”
That was her reaction – faith in God and all things good. She had no bitterness in her heart because as she said. “It must not have been right action because my prayer was for right action for both of us.” Someone else
having a similar experience would have gone into a tantrum, have had an
emotional fit, required sedation, and perhaps needed hospitalization. Tune
in with the Infinite Intelligence within your subconscious depths, trusting
the answer in the same way that you trusted your mother when she held
you in her arms. This is how you can acquire poise and mental and emotional health.

It Is Wrong To Marry, Sex Is Evil & I Am Evil

Some time ago I talked to a young lady aged twenty-two. She was taught
that it was a sin to dance, to play cards, to swim and to go out with men.
She was threatened by her mother who told her she would burn eternally
in hell fire if she disobeyed her will and her religious teachings. This girl
wore a black dress and black stockings. She wore no rouge, lipstick or any
form of make up because her mother said that these things were sinful.
Her mother told her that all men were evil, and that sex was of the devil
and simply diabolic debauchery.
This girl had to learn how to forgive herself as she was full of guilt. To forgive means to give for. She had to give up all these false beliefs for the
truths of life and new estimate of herself. When she went out with young
men in the office where she worked, she had a deep sense of guilt and
thought that God would punish her. Several eligible young men proposed
to her, but she said to me, “It is wrong to marry. Sex is evil and I am
evil.” This was her conscience of early conditioning speaking.
She came to me once weekly for about ten weeks and I taught her the
workings of the conscious and subconscious mind set forth in this book.
This young girl gradually came to see that she had been completely brainwashed, mesmerized and conditioned by an ignorant, superstitious, bigoted and frustrated mother. She broke away completely from her family and
started to live a wonderful life. At my suggestion she dressed up and had her hair attended to. She took
lessons in dancing from a man, and she also took driving lessons. She
learned to swim, play cards and had a number of dates. She began to
love life. She prayed for a divine companion by claiming that Infinite Spirit
would attract to her a man who harmonized with her thoroughly. Eventually this came to pass. As he left my office one evening, there was a man
waiting to see me and I casually introduced them. They are now married
and harmonize with each other perfectly.

Forgiveness Is Necessary For Healing

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any. Mark
11:25.
Forgiveness of others is essential to mental peace and radiant health. You
must forgive everyone who has ever hurt you if you want perfect health
and happiness. Forgive yourself by getting your thoughts in harmony with
divine law and order. You cannot really forgive yourself completely until
you have forgiven others first. To refuse to forgive yourself is nothing
more or less than spiritual pride or ignorance.
In the psychosomatic field of medicine today, it is being constantly
stressed that resentment, condemnation of others, remorse and hostility
are behind a host of maladies ranging from arthritis to cardiac disease.
They point out that these sick people, who were hurt, mistreated, deceived or injured, were full of resentment and hatred for those who hurt
them. This caused inflamed and festering wounds in their subconscious
minds. There is only one remedy. They have to cut out and discard their
hurts, and the one and only sure way is by forgiveness.

Forgiveness Is Love In Action

The essential ingredient in the art of forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. If you sincerely desire to forgive the other, you are fifty-one percent
over the hurdle. I feel sure you know that to forgive the other does not
necessarily mean that you like him or want to associate with him. You
cannot be compelled to like someone, neither can a government legislate
good will, love, peace or tolerance. It is quite impossible to like people because someone in Washington issues an edict to that effect. We can, however, love people without liking them.
The Bible says, Love ye one another. This, anyone can do who really
wants to do it. Love means that you wish for the other health, happiness,
peace, joy and all the blessings of life. There is only one prerequisite and
that is sincerity. You are not being magnanimous when you forgive, you
are really being self, because what you wish for the other, you are actually
wishing for yourself. The reason is that you are thinking it and you are
feeling it. As you think and feel, so are you. Could anything be simpler than that?

Technique Of Forgiveness

The following is a simple method which works wonders in your life as you
practice it. Quiet your mind, relax and let go. Think of God and His love
for you, and then affirm, “I fully and freely forgive (mention the name of
the offender); I release him mentally and spiritually. I completely forgive
everything connected with the matter in question. I am free, and he/she
is free. It is a marvelous feeling. It is my day of general amnesty. I release anybody and everybody who has ever hurt me, and I wish for each
and everyone health, happiness, peace and all the blessings of life. I do
this freely, joyously and lovingly and whenever I think of the person or
persons who hurt me, I say, ‘I have released you, and all the blessings of
life are yours.’ I am free and you are free. It is wonderful!”
The great secret of true forgiveness is that once you have forgiven the
person, it is unnecessary to repeat the prayer. Whenever the person
comes to your mind, or the particular hurt happens to enter your mind,
wish the delinquent well, and say, “Peace be to you.” Do this as often as
the thought enters your mind. You will find that after a few days the
thought of the person or experience will return less and less often, until it
fades into nothingness.

The Acid Test For Forgiveness

There is an acid test for gold. There is also an acid test for forgiveness. If
I should tell you something wonderful about someone who has wronged
you, cheated you, or defrauded you, and you sizzled at hearing the good
news about this person, the roots of hatred would still be in your subconscious mind, playing havoc with you.
Let us suppose you had a painful abscess on your jaw a year ago, and you
told me about it, I would casually ask you if you had any pain now. You
would automatically say, “Of course not, I have memory of it but no pain.”
That is the whole story. You may have a memory of the incident but no
sting or hurt anymore. This is the acid test, and you must meet it psychologically and spiritually, otherwise, you are simply deceiving yourself and
not practicing the true art of forgiveness.

To Understand All Is To Forgive All

When man understands the creative law of his own mind, he ceases to
blame other people and conditions for making or marring his life. He
knows that his own thoughts and feelings create his destiny. Furthermore,
he is aware that externals are not the causes and conditioners of his life
and his experiences. To think that others can mar your happiness, that
you are the football of a cruel fate, that you must oppose and fight others
for a living, all these and others like them, are untenable when you understand that thoughts are things. The Bible says the same thing. For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7.

Summary Of Your Aids To Forgiveness

1. God, or life, is no respecter of persons. Life plays no favorites. Life, or
God, seems to favor you when you align yourself with the principle of harmony, health, joy and peace.
2. God, or life, never sends disease, sickness, accident or suffering. We
bring these things on ourselves by our own negative thinking based upon
the law as we sow, so shall we reap.
3. Your concept of God is the most important thing in your life. If you really believe in a God of love, your subconscious mind will respond in
countless blessings to you. Believe in a God of love.
4. Life, or God, holds no grudge against you. Life never condemns you.
Life heals a severe cut on your hand. Life forgives you if you burn your
finger. It reduces the edema and restores the part to wholeness and perfection.
5. Your guilt complex is a false concept of God and life. God, or life, does
not punish or judge you. You do this to yourself by your false beliefs, negative thinking and self condemnation.
6. God, or life, does not condemn or punish you. The forces of nature are
not evil. The effect of their use depends on how you use the power within
you. You can use electricity to kill someone or to light the house. You can
use water to drown a child or quench his thirst. Good and evil come right
back to the thought and purpose in man’s own mind.
7. God, or life, never punishes. Man punishes himself by his false concepts of God, life, and the universe. His thoughts are creative and he creates his own misery.
8. If another criticizes you, and these faults are within you, rejoice, give
thanks and appreciate the comments. This gives you the opportunity to
correct the particular fault.
9. You cannot be hurt by criticism when you know that you are master of
your thoughts, reactions and emotions. This gives you the opportunity to
pray and bless the other, thereby blessing yourself.
10. When you pray for guidance and right action, take what comes. Realize it is good and very good. Then there is no cause for self pity, criticism
or hatred. 11. There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. There is no
evil in sex, the desire for food, wealth or true expression. It depends on
how you use these urges, desires and aspirations. Your desire for food can
be met without killing someone for a loaf of bread.
12. Resentment, hatred, ill will and hostility are behind a host of maladies. Forgive yourself and everybody else by pouring out love, life, joy
and good will to all those who have hurt you. Continue until such time as
you meet them in your mind and you are at peace with them.
13. To forgive is to give something for. Give love, peace, joy, wisdom and
all the blessings of life to the other, until there is no sting left in your
mind. This is really the acid test of forgiveness.
14. Let us suppose you had an abscess in your jaw about a year ago. It
was very painful. Ask yourself if it is painful now. The answer is negative.
Likewise, if someone has hurt you, lied about and vilified you, and said all
manner of evil about you, is your thought of that person negative? Do you
sizzle when he or she comes into your mind? If so, the roots of hatred are
still there, playing havoc with you and your good. The only way is to wither them with love by wishing for the person all the blessings of life, until
you can meet the person in your mind, and you can sincerely react without benediction of peace and good will. This is the meaning of forgive until seventy times seven.

Chapter XVIII
How Your Subconscious Removes Mental Blocks

The solution lies within the problem. The answer is in every question. If
you are presented with a difficult situation and you cannot see your way
clear, the best procedure is to assume that Infinite Intelligence within
your subconscious mind knows all and sees all, has the answer, and is revealing it to you now. Your new mental attitude that the creative intelligence is bringing about a happy solution will enable you to find the answer. Rest assured that such an attitude of mind will bring order, peace
and meaning to all your undertakings.

How To Break Or Build A Habit

You are a creature of habit. Habit is the function of your subconscious
mind. You learned to swim, ride a bicycle, dance and drive a car by consciously doing these things over and over again until they established
tracks in your subconscious mind. Then, the automatic habit action of
your subconscious mind took over. This is sometimes called second nature
which is a reaction of your subconscious mind to your thinking and acting.
You are free to choose a good habit or a bad habit. If you repeat a negative thought or act over a period of time, you will be under the compulsion of a habit. The law off your subconscious is compulsion.

How He Broke A Bad Habit

Mr Jones said to me, “An uncontrollable urge to drink seizes upon me, and
I remain drunk for two weeks at a time. I can’t give up this terrible habit.”
Time and time again these experiences had occurred to this unfortunate
man. He had grown into the habit of drinking to excess. Although he had
started drinking of his own initiative, he also began to realize that he
could change the habit and establish a new one. He said that while
through his will power he was able to suppress his desires temporarily, his
continued efforts to suppress the many urges only made matters worse.
His repeated failures convinced him that he was hopeless and powerless
to control his urge or obsession. This idea of being powerless operated as
a powerful suggestion to his subconscious mind and aggravated his weakness, making his life a succession of failures.
I taught him to harmonize the functions of the conscious and subconscious mind. When these two cooperate, the idea or desire implanted in
the sub mind is realized. His reasoning mind agreed that if the old habit
path or track had carried him into trouble, he could consciously form a
new path to freedom, sobriety and peace of mind. He knew that his destructive habit was automatic, but since it was acquired through his conscious choice, he realized that if he had been conditioned negatively, he
also could be conditioned positively. As a result, he ceased thinking of the fact that he was powerless to overcome the habit. Moreover, he understood clearly that there was no obstacle to his healing other than his own
thought. Therefore, there was no occasion for great mental effort or mental coercion.

The Power Of His Mental Picture

This man acquired a practice of relaxing his body and getting into a relaxed drowsy, meditative state. Then he filled his mind with the picture of
the desired end, knowing his subconscious mind could bring it about the
easiest way. He imagined his daughter congratulating him on his freedom,
and saying to him, “Daddy, it’s wonderful to have you home!’ he had lost
his family through drink. He was not allowed to visit them, and his wife
would not speak to him.
Regularly, systematically, he used to sit down and meditate in the way
outlined. When his attention wandered, he made it a habit to immediately
recall the mental picture of his daughter with her smile and the scene of
his home enlivened by her cheerful voice. All this brought about a reconditioning of his mind. It was a gradual process. He kept it up. He persevered knowing that sooner or later he would establish a new habit pattern
in his subconscious mind.
I told him that he could liken his conscious mind to a camera, that his
subconscious mind was the sensitive plate on which he registered and impressed the picture. This made a profound impression on him, and his
whole aim was to firmly impress the picture on his mind and develop it
there. Films are developed in the dark; likewise, mental pictures are developed in the darkroom of the subconscious mind.

Focused Attention

Realizing that his conscious mind was simply a camera, he used no effort.
There was no mental struggle. He quietly adjusted his thoughts and focused his attention on the scene before him until he gradually became
identified with the picture. He became absorbed in the mental atmosphere, repeating the mental movie frequently. There was no room for
doubt that a healing would follow. When there was any temptation to
drink, he would switch his imagination from any reveries of drinking bouts
to the feeling of being at home with his family. He was successful because
he confidently expected to experience the picture he was developing in his
mind. Today he is president of a multimillion dollar concern and is radiantly happy.

He Said A Jinx Was Following Him

Mr Block said that he had been making an annual income of $20,000, but
for the past three months all doors seemed to jam tightly. He brought
clients up to the point where they were about to sign on the dotted line,
and then at the eleventh hour the door closed. He added that perhaps a jinx was following him. In discussing the matter with Mr Block, I discovered that three months
previously he had become very irritated, annoyed and resentful toward a
dentist who, after he had promised to sign a contract, had withdrawn at
the last moment. He began to live in the unconscious fear that other
clients would do the same, thereby setting up a history of frustration,
hostility and obstacles. He gradually built up in his mind a belief in obstruction and last minute cancellations until a vicious circle had been established. What I fear most has come upon me. Mr Block realized that the
trouble was in his own mind and that it was essential to change his mental attitude.
His run of so-called misfortune was broken in the following way: “I realize
I am one with the Infinite Intelligence of my subconscious mind which
knows no obstacle, difficulty or delay. I live in the joyous expectancy of
the best. My deeper mind responds to my thoughts. I know that the work
of the infinite power of my subconscious cannot be hindered. Infinite Intelligence always finishes successfully whatever it begins. Creative wisdom works through me bringing all my plans and purposes to completion.
Whatever I start, I bring to a successful conclusion. My aim in life is to
give wonderful service, and all those whom I contact are blessed by what
I have to offer. All my work comes to full fruition in divine order.
He repeated this prayer every morning before going to call on his customers, and he also prayed each night prior to sleep. In a short time he
had established a new habit pattern in his subconscious mind, and he was
back in his old accustomed stride as a successful salesman.

How Much Do You Want What You Want?

A young man asked Socrates how he could get wisdom. Socrates replied,
“Come with me.” He took the lad to a river, pushed the boy’s head under
the water, held it there until the boy was gasping for air, then relaxed and
released his head. When the boy regained his composure, he asked him,
“What did you desire most when you were under water?”
“I wanted air,” said the boy.
Socrates said to him, “When you want wisdom as much as you wanted air
when you were immersed in the water, you will receive it.”
Likewise, when you really have an intense desire to overcome any block
in your life, and you come to a clear-cut decision that there is a way out,
and that is the course you wish to follow, then victory and triumph are assured.
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it, regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been
or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be. All this makes no
difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.
You know what you want, and you will definitely refuse to let the thieves
(thoughts) of hatred, anger, hostility and ill will rob you of peace, harmony, health and happiness. You cease to become upset by people, conditions, news and events by identifying your thoughts immediately with
your aim in life. Your aim is peace, health, inspiration, harmony and abundance. Feel a river of peace of flowing through you now. Your thought is
the immaterial and invisible power, and you choose to let it bless, inspire
and give you peace.

Why He Could Not Be Healed

This is a case history of a married man with four children who was supporting and secretly living with another woman during his business trips.
He was ill, nervous, irritable and cantankerous and he could not sleep
without drugs. The doctor’s medicine failed to bring down his high blood
pressure of over two hundred. He had pains in numerous organs of his
body which doctors could not diagnose or relieve. To make matters worse,
he was drinking heavily.
The cause of all this was a deep unconscious sense of guilt. He had violated the marriage vows, and this troubled him. The religious creed he was
brought up on was deeply lodged in his subconscious mind and he drank
excessively to heal the wound of guilt. Some invalids take morphine and
codeine for severe pains, he was talking alcohol for the pain or wound in
his mind. It was the old story of adding fuel to the fire.

The Explanation & The Cure

He listened to the explanation of how his mind worked. He faced his problem, looked at it, and gave up his dual role. He knew that his drinking was
an unconscious attempt to escape. The hidden cause lodged in his subconscious mind had to be eradicated, then the healing would follow.
He began to impress his subconscious mind three or four times a day by
using the following prayer: “My mind is full of peace, poise, balance and
equilibrium. The infinite lies stretched in smiling repose within me. I am
not afraid of anything in the past, the present or the future. The Infinite
Intelligence of my subconscious mind leads, guides and directs me in all
ways. I now meet every situation with faith, poise, calmness and confidence. I am now completely free from the habit. My mind is full of inner
peace, freedom and joy. I forgive myself, then I am forgiven. Peace, sobriety and confidence reign supreme in my mind.”
He repeated this prayer frequently as outlined, being fully aware of what
he was doing and why he was doing it. Knowing what he was doing gave
him the necessary faith and confidence. I explained to him that as he spoke these statements out loud, slowly, lovingly and meaningfully, they
would gradually sink down into his subconscious mind. Like seeds, they
would grow after their kind. These truths, on which he concentrated, went
in through his eyes, he ears heard the sound and the healing vibrations of
these words reached his subconscious mind and obliterated all the negative mental patterns which caused all the trouble. Light dispels darkness.
The constructive thought destroys the negative thought. He became a
transformed man within a month.

Refusing To Admit It

If you are an alcoholic or drug addict, admit it. Do not dodge the issue.
Many people remain alcoholics because they refuse to admit it.
Your disease is an instability, an inner fear. You are refusing to face life,
and so you try to escape your responsibilities through the bottle. As an alcoholic you have no free will, although you think have, and you may even
boast about your will power. If you are a habitual drunkard and say bravely “I will not touch it anymore,” you have no power to make this assertion
come true, because you do not know where to locate the power.
You are living in a psychological prison of your own making, and you are
bound by your beliefs, opinions, training and environmental influences.
Like most people, you are a creature of habit. You are conditioned to react
they way you do.

Building In The Idea Of Freedom

You can build the idea of freedom and peace of mind into your mentality
so that it reaches your subconscious depths. The latter, being all powerful,
will free you from all desire for alcohol. Then, you will have the new understanding of how your mind works, and you can truly back up your
statement and prove the truth to yourself.

Fifty-One Percent Healed

If you have a keen desire to free yourself from any destructive habit, you
are fifty-one percent healed already. When you have a greater desire to
give up the bad habit than to continue it, you will not experience too
much difficulty in gaining complete freedom.
Whatever thought you anchor the mind upon, the latter magnifies. If you
engage the mind on the concept of freedom (freedom from the habit) and
peace of mind, and if you keep it focused on this new direction of attention, you generate feelings and emotions which gradually emotionalize the
concept of freedom and peace. Whatever idea you emotionalize is accepted by your subconscious and brought to pass.

The Law Of Substitution

Realize that something good can come out of your suffering. You have not suffered in vain. However, it is foolish to continue to suffer.
If you continue as an alcoholic, it will bring about mental and physical deterioration and decay. Realize that the power in your subconscious is
backing you up. Even though you may be seized with melancholia, you
should begin to imagine the joy of freedom that is in store for you. This is
the law of substitution. Your imagination took you to the bottle; let it take
you now to freedom and peace of mind. You will suffer a little bit, but it is
for a constructive purpose. You will bear it like a mother in the pangs of
childbirth, and you will, likewise, bring forth a child of the mind. Your subconscious will give birth to sobriety.

Cause of Alcoholism

The real cause of alcoholism is negative and destructive thinking; for as a
man thinketh, so is he. The alcoholic has a deep sense of inferiority, inadequacy, defeat and frustration, usually accompanied by a deep inner hostility. He has countless alibis as to his reason for drinking, but the sole
reason is in his thought life.

Three Magic Steps

The First Step

Get still; quiet the wheels of the mind. Enter into a sleepy, drowsy state.
In this relaxed, peaceful, receptive state, you are preparing for the second step.

The Second Step

Take a brief phrase which can readily be graven on the memory, and repeat it over and over as a lullaby. Use the phrase, “Sobriety and peace of
mind are mine now, and I give thanks.” To prevent the mind from wandering, repeat it aloud or sketch its pronunciation with the lips and tongue as
you say it mentally. This helps its entry into the subconscious mind. Do
this for five minutes or more. You will find a deep emotional response.

The Third Step

Just before going to sleep, practice what Johann von Goethe, German author, used to do. Imagine a friend or loved one in front of you. Your eyes
are closed, you are relaxed and at peace. The loved one or friend is subjectively present, and is saying to you, “Congratulations!” You see the
smile; you hear the voice. You mentally touch the hand; it is all real and
vivid. The word congratulations implies complete freedom. Hear it over
and over again until you get the subconscious reaction which satisfies.

Keep On Keeping On

When fear knocks at the door of your mind, or when worry, anxiety and
doubt cross your mind, behold your vision, your goal. Think of the infinite
power within your subconscious mind, which you can generate by your thinking and imagining, and this will give you confidence, power and
courage. Keep on, persevere, until the day breaks and the shadows flee
away.

Review Your Thought Power

1. The solution lies within the problem. The answer is in every question.
Infinite Intelligence responds to you as you call upon it with faith and confidence.
2. Habit is the function of your subconscious mind. There is no greater evidence of the marvelous power of your subconscious than the force and
sway habit holds in your life. You are a creature of habit.
3. You form habit patterns in your subconscious mind by repeating a
thought and act over and over again until it establishes tracks in the subconscious mind and becomes automatic, such as swimming, dancing, typing, walking, driving your car etc.
4. You have freedom to choose. You can choose a good habit or a bad
habit. Prayer is a good habit.
5. Whatever mental picture, backed by faith, you behold in your conscious
mind, your subconscious mind will bring to pass.
6. The only obstacle to your success and achievement is your own
thought or mental image.
7. When your attention wanders, bring it back to the contemplation of
your good or goal. Make a habit of this. This is called disciplining the
mind.
8. Your conscious mind is the camera, and your subconscious mind is the
sensitive plate on which you register or impress the picture.
9. The only jinx that follows anyone is a fear thought repeated over and
over in the mind. Break the jinx by knowing that whatever you start you
will bring to a conclusion in divine order. Picture the happy ending and
sustain it with confidence.
10. To form a new habit, you must be convinced that it is desirable. When
your desire to give up the bad habit is greater than your desire to continue, you are fifty-one percent healed already.
11. The statements of others cannot hurt you except through your own
thoughts and mental participation. Identify yourself with your aim which
is peace, harmony and joy. You are the only thinker in your universe. 12. Excessive drinking is an unconscious desire to escape. The cause of
alcoholism is negative and destructive thinking. The cure is to think of
freedom, sobriety and perfection and to feel the thrill of accomplishment.
13. Many people remain alcoholics because they refuse to admit it.
14. The law of your subconscious mind, which held you in bondage and
inhibited your freedom of action, will give you freedom and happiness. It
depends on how you use it.
15. Your imagination took you to the bottle; let it take you to freedom by
imagining you are free.
16. The real cause of alcoholism is negative and destructive thinking. As a
man thinketh in his heart (subconscious mind) so is he.
17. When fear knocks at the door of your mind, let faith in God and all
things good open the door.

Chapter XIX
How To Use Your Subconscious Mind To Remove Fear

One of our students told me that he was invited to speak at a banquet. He
said he was panic stricken at the thought of speaking before a thousand
people. He overcame his fear this way. For several night she sat down in
an armchair for about five minutes and said to himself slowly quietly and
positively, “I am going to master this fear. I am overcoming it now. I
speak with poise and confidence. I am relaxed and at ease.” He operated
a definite law of mind and overcame his fear.
The subconscious mind is amenable to suggestion and is controlled by
suggestion. When you still your mind and relax, the thoughts of your conscious mind sink down into the subconscious through a process similar to
osmosis, whereby fluids separated by a porous membrane intermingle. As
these positive seeds, or thoughts, sink into the subconscious are, they
grow after their kind and you become poised, serene and calm.

Man’s Greatest Enemy

Is is said that fear is man’s greatest enemy. Fear is behind failure, sickness and poor human relations. Millions of people are afraid of the past,
the future, old age, insanity and death. Fear is a thought in you mind and
you are afraid of your own thoughts.
A little boy can be paralyzed with fear when he is told there is a boogie
man under his bed who is going to take him away. When his father turns
on the light and shows him there is no boogie man, he is freed from fear.
The fear in the mind of the boy was as real as if there really was a boogie
man there. He was healed of a false thought in his mind. The thing he
feared did not exist. Likewise, most of your fears have no reality. They are
merely a conglomeration of sinister shadows, and shadows have no reality.

Do The Thing You Fear

Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and poet, said, “Do the thing you are
afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain.” There was a time when the
writer of this chapter was filled with unutterable fear when standing before an audience. The way I overcame it was to stand before the audience, do the thing I was afraid to do, and the death of fear was certain.
When you affirm positively that you are going to master your fears, and
you come to a definite decision in your conscious mind, you release the
power of the subconscious which flows in response to the nature of your
thought.

Banishing Stage Fright

A young lady was invited to an audition. She had been looking forward to the interview. However, on three previous occasions, she had failed miserably due to stage fright. She possessed a very good voice, but she was
certain that when the time came for her to sing, she would be seized with
state fright. The subconscious mind takes your fears as a request, proceeds to manifest them and then brings them into your experience. On
three previous auditions she sang wrong notes, and she finally broke
down and cried. The cause, as previously outlined, was an involuntary autosuggestion, i.e. a silent fear thought 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 to the best
of her ability. Physical inertia favors 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, and gave an outstanding audition. Carry out the
above procedure, and the death of fear is certain.

Fear Of Failure

Occasionally young men from the local university come to see me, as well
as school teachers, who often seem to suffer from suggestive amnesia at
examinations. The complaint is always the same: “I know the answers after the examination is over, but I can’t remember the answers during the
examination.”
The idea which realizes itself, is the one to which we invariably give concentrated attention. I find that each one is obsessed with the idea of failure. Fear is behind the temporary amnesia, and it is the cause of the
whole experience.
One young medical student was the most brilliant person in his class, yet
he found himself failing to answer simple questions at the time of written
or oral examinations. I explained to him that the reason was he had been
worrying and was fearful for several days previous to the examination.
These negative thoughts became charged with fear.
Thoughts enveloped in the powerful emotion of fear are realized in the
subconscious mind. In other words, this young man was requesting his
subconscious mind to see to it that he failed, and that is exactly what it
did. On the day of the examination he found himself stricken with what is
called, in psychological circles, suggestive amnesia.

How to Overcome Fear

He learned that his subconscious mind was the storehouse of memory,
and that it had a perfect record of all he had heard and read during his
medical training. Moreover, he learned the the subconscious mind was responsive and reciprocal. The way to be en rapport with it was to be relaxed, peaceful and confident.
Every night and morning he began to imagine his mother congratulating
him on his wonderful record. He would hold an imaginary letter from her
in his hand. As he began to contemplate the happy result, he called forth
a corresponding or reciprocal response or reaction in himself. The all-wise
and omnipotent power of the subconscious took over, dictated, and directed his conscious mind accordingly. He imagined the end, thereby willing
the means to the realization of the end. Following this procedure, he had
no trouble passing subsequent examinations. In other words, the subjective wisdom took over, compelling him to give an excellent account of
himself.

Fear Of Water, Mountains, Closed Places Etc .

There are many people who are afraid to go into an elevator, climb mountains, or even swim in the water. It may well be that the individual had
unpleasant experiences in the water in his youth, such as having been
thrown forcibly into the water without being able to swim. He might have
been forcibly detained in an elevator which failed to function properly,
causing resultant fear of closed places.
I had an experience when I as about ten years of age. I accidentally fell
into a pool and went down three times. I can still remember the dark water engulfing my heard, and my gasping for air until another boy pulled
me out at the last moment. This experience sank into my subconscious
mind and for years I feared the water.
An elderly psychologist said to me, “Go down to the swimming pool, look
at the water, and say out loud in strong tones, ‘I am going to master you,
I can dominate you.’ Then go into the water, take lessons and overcome
it.” This I did, and I mastered the water. Do not permit water to master
you. Remember you are the master of the water.
When I assumed a new attitude of mind, the omnipotent power of the
subconscious responded, giving me strength, faith and confidence and enabling me to overcome my fear.

Master Technique For Overcoming Any Particular Fear

The following is a process and technique for overcoming fear which I
teach from the platform. It works like a charm. Try it!
Suppose you are afraid of the water, a mountain, an interview, an audition, or you fear closed places. If you are afraid of swimming, begin now to sit still for five or ten minutes three or four times a day, and imagine
you are swimming. Actually, you are swimming in your mind. It is a subjective experience. Mentally you have projected yourself into the water.
You feel the chill of the water and the moment of your arms and legs. It is
all real, vivid and a joyous activity of the mind. It is not idle daydreaming,
for you know that what you are experiencing in your imagination will be
developed in your subconscious mind. Then you will be compelled to express the image and likeness of the picture you impressed on your deeper
mind. This is the law of the subconscious.
You could apply the same technique if you are afraid of mountains or high
places. Imagine you are climbing the mountain, feel the reality of it all,
enjoy the scenery, knowing that as you continue to do this mentally, you
will do it physically with ease and comfort.

He Blessed The Elevator

I knew an executive of a large corporation who was terrified to ride in an
elevator. He would walk up five flights of stairs to his office every morning. He said that he began to bless the elevator every night and several
times a day. He finally overcame his fear. This was how he blessed the elevator: “The elevator in our building is a wonderful idea. It came out of
the universal mind. It is a boon and a blessing to all our employees. It
gives wonderful service. It operates in divine order. I ride in it in peace
and joy. I remain silent now while the currents of life, love and understanding flow through the patterns of my thought. In my imagination I am
now in the elevator, and I step out into my office. The elevator is full of
our employees. I talk to them and they are friendly, joyous and free. It is
a wonderful experience of freedom, faith and confidence. I give thanks.”
He continued this prayer for about ten days, and on the eleventh day, he
walked into the elevator with other members of the organization and felt
completely free.

Normal & Abnormal Fear

Man is born with two fears, the fear of falling and the fear of noise. These
are a sort of alarm system given you by nature as a means of self preservation. Normal fear is good. You hear an automobile coming down the
road, and you step aside to survive. The momentary fear of being run
over is overcome by your action. All other fears were given to you by parents, relatives, teachers and all those who influenced your early years.

Abnormal Fear

Abnormal fear takes place when man lets his imagination run riot. I knew
a woman who was invited to go on a trip around the world by plane. She
began to cut out of the newspapers all reports of airplane catastrophes.
She pictured herself going down in the ocean, being drowned etc. This is
abnormal fear. Had she persisted in this, she would undoubtedly have at tracted what she feared most.
Another example of abnormal fear is that of a businessman in New York,
who was very prosperous and successful. He had his own private mental
motion picture of which he was the director. He would run this mental
movie of failure, bankruptcy, empty shelves and no bank balance until he
sank into a deep depression. He refused to stop this morbid imagery and
kept reminding his wife that “this can’t last,” “there will be a recession,” “I
feel sure we will go bankrupt.” etc.
His wife told me that he finally did go into bankruptcy, and all the things
he imagined and feared came to pass. The things he feared did not exist,
but he brought them to pass by constantly fearing, believing and experiencing financial disaster. Job said, the thing I feared has come upon me.
There are people who are afraid that something terrible will happen to
their children, and that some dreadful catastrophe will befall them. When
they read about an epidemic or rare disease, they live in fear that they
will catch it and some imagine they have the disease already. All of this is
abnormal fear.

The Answer To Abnormal Fear

Move mentally to the opposite. To stay at the extreme of fear is stagnation plus mental and physical deterioration. When fear arises, there immediately comes with it a desire for something opposite to the thing
feared. Place your attention on the thing immediately desired. Get absorbed and engrossed in your desire, knowing that the subjective always
overturns the objective. This attitude will give you confidence and lift your
spirits. The infinite power of your subconscious mind is moving on your
behalf and it cannot fail. Therefore, peace and assurance is yours.

Examine Your Fears

The president of a large organization told me that when he was a salesman he used to walk around the block five or six times before he called
on a customer. The sales manager came along one day and said to him,
“Don’t be afraid of the boogie man behind the door. There is no boogie
man. It is a false belief.”
The manager told him that whenever he looked at his own fears he stared
them in the face and stood up to them, looking them straight in the eye.
Then they faded and shrank into insignificance.

He Landed In The Jungle

A chaplain told me of his experiences in the Second World War. He had to
parachute from a damaged plane and land in the jungle. He said he was
frightened, but he knew there were two kinds of fear, normal and abnormal which we have previously pointed out. He decided to do something about the fear immediately, and he began to
talk to himself saying, “John, you can’t surrender to your fear. Your fear is
a desire for safety and security and a way out.”
He began to claim, “Infinite Intelligence which guides the planets in their
courses is now leading and guiding me out of the jungle.”
He kept saying this out loud to himself for ten minutes or more. “Then,”
he added, “something began to stir inside me. A mood of confidence began to seize me, and I began to walk. After a few days, I miraculously
came out of the jungle and was picked up by a rescue plane.” His changed
mental attitude saved him. His confidence and trust in the subjective wisdom and power within him was the solution to his problem.
He said, “Had I begun to bemoan my fate and indulge my fears, I would
have succumbed to the monster fear and probably would have died of
fear and starvation.

He Dismissed Himself

The general manager of an organization told me that for three years he
feared he would lose his position. He was always imagining failure. The
thing he feared did not exist, save as a morbid anxious thought in his own
mind. His vivid imagination dramatized the loss of his job until he became
nervous and neurotic. Finally, he was asked to resign.
Actually, he dismissed himself. His constant negative imagery and fear
suggestions to his subconscious mind caused the latter to respond and react accordingly. It caused him to make mistakes and foolish decisions
which resulted in his failure as a general manager. His dismissal would
never have happened, if he had immediately moved to the opposite in his
mind.

They Plotted Against Him

During a recent world lecture tour, I had a two hour conversation with a
prominent government official. He had a deep sense of inner peace and
serenity. He said that all the abuse he receives politically from newspapers and the opposition party never disturb him. His practice is to sit still
for fifteen minutes in the morning and realize that in the center of himself
is a deep still ocean of peace. Meditating in this way, he generates
tremendous power which overcomes all manner of difficulties and fears.
Some time previously, a colleague called him at midnight and told him a
group of people were plotting against him. This is what he said to his colleague, “I am going to sleep now in perfect peace. You can discuss it with
me at 10.00 a.m. Tomorrow.” He said to me, “I know that no negative thought can ever manifest except
if emotionalize the thought and accept it mentally. I refuse to entertain
their suggestion of fear. Therefore, no harm can come to me.”
Notice how calm he was, how cool, how peaceful! He did not start getting
excited, tearing his hair, or wringing his hands. At his center he found the
still water, an inner peace and there was a great calm.

Deliver Yourself From All Your Fears

Use this perfect formula for casting out fear. I sought the Lord, and He
heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4. The Lord is
ancient word meaning law – the power of your subconscious mind.
Learn the wonders of your subconscious, and how it works and functions.
Master the techniques given to you in this chapter. Put them into practice
now, today! Your subconscious will respond, and you will be free of all
fears. I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my
fears

Step This Way To Freedom From Fear

1. Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain. Say
to yourself and mean it, “I am going to master this fear,” and you will.
2. Fear is a negative thought in your mind. Supplant it with a constructive
thought. Fear has killed millions. Confidence is greater than fear. Nothing
is more powerful than faith in God and the good.
3. Fear is man’s greatest enemy. It is behind failure, sickness and bad human relations. Love casts out fear. Love is an emotional attachment to the
good things in life. Fall in love with honesty, integrity, justice, good will
and success. Live in the joyous expectancy of the best, and invariably the
best will come to you.
4. Counteract the fear suggestions with the opposite, such as “I sing
beautifully; I am poised, serene and calm.” It will pay fabulous dividends.
5. Fear is behind amnesia at oral and written examination time. You can
overcome this by affirming frequently, “I have a perfect memory for everything I need to know,” or you can imagine a friend congratulating you
on your brilliant success on the examination. Persevere and you will win.
6. If you are afraid of the water, in your imagination swim freely and joyously. Project yourself into the water mentally. Feel the chill and thrill of
swimming across the pool. Make it vivid. As you do this subjectively, you
will be compelled to go into the water and conquer it. This is the law of
your mind. 7. If you are afraid of closed places, such as elevators, lecture halls etc.,
mentally ride in an elevator blessing all its parts and functions. You will be
amazed how quickly the fear will be dissipated.
8. You were born with only two fears, the fear of falling and the fear of
noise. All your other fears were acquired. Get rid of them.
9. Normal fear is good. Abnormal fear is very bad and destructive. To constantly indulge in fear thoughts results in abnormal fear, obsessions and
complexes. To fear something persistently causes a sense of panic and
terror.
10. You can overcome abnormal fear when you know the power of your
subconscious mind can change conditions and bring to pass the cherished
desires of your heart. Give your immediate attention and devotion to your
desire which is the opposite of your fear. This is the love that casts out
fear.
11. If you are afraid of failure, give your attention to success. If you are
afraid of sickness, dwell on your perfect health. If you are afraid of an accident, dwell on the guidance and protection from God. If you are afraid
of death, dwell on eternal life. God is life, and that is your life now.
12. The great law of substitution is the answer to fear. Whatever you fear
has its solution in the form of your desire. If you are sick, you desire
health. If you are in the prison of fear, you desire freedom. Expect the
good. Mentally concentrate on the good, and know that your subconscious
mind answers you always. It never fails.
13. The things you fear do not really exist except as thoughts in your
mind. Thoughts are creative. This is why Job said, The thing I feared has
come upon me. Think good and good follows.
14. Look at your fears; hold them up to the light of reason. Learn to laugh
at your fears. That is the best medicine.
15. Nothing can disturb you but your own thought. The suggestions,
statements, or threats of other persons have no power. The power is within you, and when your thoughts are focused on that which is good, then
God’s power is with your thoughts of good. There is only one creative
power, and it moves as harmony. There are no divisions or quarrels in it.
Its source is love. This is why God’s power is with your thoughts of good.

Chapter XX
How To Stay Young In Spirit Forever

Your subconscious mind never grows old. It is timeless, ageless and endless. It is a part of the universal mind of God which was never born and it
will never die.
Fatigue or old age cannot be predicated on any spiritual quality or power.
Patience, kindness, veracity, humility, good will, peace harmony and
brotherly love are attributes and qualities which never grow old. If you
continue to generate these qualities here on this plane of life, you will always remain young in spirit.
I remember reading an article in one of our magazines some years ago
which stated that a group of eminent medical men at the De Courcy Clinic, in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported that years alone are not responsible for
bringing about degenerative disorders. These same physicians stated that
is is the fear of time, not time itself, that has a harmful aging effect on
our minds and bodies, and that the neurotic fear of the effects of time
may well be the cause of premature aging.
During the many years of my public life, I have had occasion to study the
biographies of the famous men and women who have continued their productive activities into the years well beyond the normal span of life. Some
of them achieve their greatness in old age. At the same time, has been
my privilege to meet and to know countless individuals of no prominence
who, in their lesser sphere, belonged to those hardy mortals who have
proved that old age of itself does not destroy the creative powers of the
mind and body.

He Had Grown Old In His Thought Life

A few years ago I called on an old friend in London, England. He was over
80 years of age, very ill and obviously was yielding to his advancing
years. Our conversation revealed his physical weakness, his sense of frustration and a general deterioration almost approaching lifelessness. His
cry was that he was useless and that no one wanted him. With an expression of hopelessness he betrayed his false philosophy, “We are born, grow
up, become old, good for nothing, and that’s the end.”
This mental attitude of futility and worthlessness was the chief reason for
his sickness. He was looking forward only to senescence, and after that –
nothing. Indeed, he had grown old in his thought life, and his subconscious mind brought about all the evidence of his habitual thinking.

Age Is The Dawn Of Wisdom

Unfortunately, many people have the same attitude as this unhappy man. They are afraid of what they term “old age,” the end and extinction which
really means that they are afraid of life. Yet, life is endless. Age is not the
flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.
Wisdom is an awareness of the tremendous spiritual powers in your subconscious mind and the knowledge of how to apply these powers to lead a
full and happy life. Get it out of your head once and for all that 65, 75 or
85 years of age is synonymous with the end for you or anybody else. It
can be the beginning of a glorious, fruitful, active and most productive life
pattern, better than you have ever experienced. Believe this, expect it,
and your subconscious will bring it to pass.

Welcome The Change

Old age is not a tragic occurrence. What we call the aging process is really
change. It is to be welcomed joyfully and gladly as each phase of human
life is a step forward on the path, which has no end. Man has powers,
which transcend his bodily powers. He has senses, which transcend his
five physical senses.
Scientists today are finding positive indisputable evidence that something
conscious in man can leave his present body and travel thousands of
miles to see, hear, touch and speak to people even though his physical
body never leaves the couch on which it reclines.
Man’s life is spiritual and eternal. He need never grow old for life, or God,
cannot grow old. The Bible says that God is life. Life is self renewing, eternal, indestructible and is the reality of all men.

Evidence For Survival

The evidence gathered by the psychical research societies both in Great
Britain and America is overwhelming. You may go into any large metropolitan library and get volumes on The Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society based on findings of distinguished scientists on survival
following so called death. You will find a startling report on scientific experiments establishing the reality of life after death in The Case for Psychic Survival by Hereward Carrington, Director of the American Psychical
Institute.

Life Is

A woman asked Thomas Edison, the electrical wizard, “Mr Edison, what is
electricity?”
He replied, “Madame, electricity is. Use it.”
Electricity is a name we give an invisible power which we do not fully
comprehend, but we learn all we can about the principle of electricity and
its uses. We use it in countless ways. The scientist cannot see an electron with his eyes, yet he accepts it as a
scientific fact, because it is the only valid conclusion, which coincides with
his other experimental evidence. We cannot see life. However, we know
we are alive. Life is, and we are here to express it in all its beauty and
glory .

Mind & Spirit Do Not Grow Old

The Bible says, And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only
true God. John 17:3.
The man who thinks or believes that the earthly cycle of birth, adolescence, youth, maturity and old age is all there is to life is indeed to be
pitied. Such a man has no anchor, no hope, no vision and to him life has
no meaning.
This type of belief brings frustration, stagnation, cynicism and a sense of
hopelessness resulting in neurosis and mental aberrations of all kinds. If
you cannot play a fast game of tennis, or swim as fast as your son, or if
your body has slowed down, or you walk with a slow step, remember life
is always clothing itself anew. What men call death is but a journey to a
new city in another dimension of life.
I say to men and women in my lectures that they should accept what we
call old age gracefully. Age has its own glory, beauty and wisdom, which
belong to it. Peace, love, joy, beauty, happiness, wisdom, good will and
understanding are qualities which never grow old or die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and philosopher, said, “We do not count a
man’s years until he has nothing else to count.” Your character, the quality
of your mind, your faith and your convictions are not subject to decay.

You Are As Young As You Think You Are

I give public lectures in Caxton Hall, London, England, every few years
and following one of these lectures, a surgeon said to me, “I am 84 years
of age, I operate every morning, visit patients in the afternoons, and I
write for medical and other scientific journals in the evening.”
His attitude was that he was as useful as he believed himself to be, and
that he was as young as his thoughts. He said to me, “It’s true what you
said, ‘Man is as strong as he thinks he is, and as valuable as he thinks he
is.’”
This surgeon has not surrendered to advancing years. He knows that he is
immortal. His final comment to me was, “If I should pass on tomorrow, I
would be operating on people in the next dimension, not with a surgeon’s
scalpel, but with mental and spiritual surgery.”

Your Gray Hairs Are An Asset

Don’t ever quite a job and say, “I am retired; I am old; I am finished.”
That would be stagnation, death, and you would be finished. Some men
are old at 30, while others are young at 80. The mind is the master
weaver, the architect, the designer and the sculptor. George Bernard
Shaw as active at 90, and the artistic quality of his mind had not relaxed
from active duty.
I meet men and women who tell me that some employers almost slam
the door in their faces when they say they are over 40. this attitude on
the part of the employers is to be considered cold, callous, evil and completely void of compassion and understanding. The total emphasis seems
to be on youth, i.e., you must be under 35 years of age to receive consideration. The reasoning behind this is certainly very shallow. If the employer would stop and think, he would realize that the man or woman was not
selling his age or gray hair, rather, he was willing to give of his talents, his
experience and his wisdom gathered through years of experience in the
market place of life.

Age Is An Asset

Your age should be a distinct asset to any organization, because of your
practice and application through the years of the principles of the Golden
Rule and the law of love and good will. Your gray hair, if you have any
should stand for greater wisdom, skill and understanding. Your emotional
and spiritual maturity should be a tremendous blessing to any organization.
A man should not be asked to resign when he is 65 years of age. That is
the time of life when he could be most useful in handling personnel problems, making plans for the future, making decisions and guiding others in
the realm of creative ideas based on his experience and insight into the
nature of the business.

Be Your Age

A motion picture writer in Hollywood told me that he had to write scripts,
which would cater to the twelve year old mind. This is a tragic state of affairs if the great masses of people are expected to become emotionally
and spiritually mature. It means that the emphasis is placed on youth in
spite of the fact that youth stands for inexperience, lack of discernment
and hasty judgment.

I Can Keep Up With The Best Of Them

I am now thinking of a man 65 years of age who is trying frantically to
keep young. He swims with young men every Sunday, goes on long hikes,
plays tennis and boasts of his prowess and physical powers, saying,
“Look, I can keep up with the best of them. He should remember the great truth: As a man thinketh in his heart, so is
he. Prov. 23:7.
Diets, exercises, and games of all kinds will not keep this man young. It is
necessary for him to observe that the grows old or remains young in accordance with his processes of thinking. Your subconscious mind is conditioned by your thoughts. If your thoughts are constantly on the beautiful,
the noble and the good, you will remain young regardless of the chronological years.

Fear Of Old Age

Job said, The things which I greatly feared is come upon me. There are
many people who fear old age and are uncertain about the future, because they anticipate mental and physical deterioration as the years advance. What they think and feel comes to pass.
You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to
hunger after new truths and to search for new worlds to conquer. When
your mind is open to new ideas, new interests and when you raise the
curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the
universe, you will be young and vital.

You Have Much To Give

If you are 65 or 95 years of age, realize you have much to give. You can
help stabilize, advise and direct the younger generation. You can give the
benefit of your knowledge, your experience and your wisdom. You can always look ahead for at all times you are gazing into infinite life. You will
find that you can never cease to unveil the glories and wonders of life. Try
to learn something new every moment of the day, and you will find your
mind will always be young .

One Hundred & Ten Years Old

Some years ago while lecturing in Bombay, India, I was introduced to a
man who said he was 110 years old. He had the most beautiful face I
have ever seen. He seemed transfigured by the radiance of an inner light.
There was a rare beauty in his eyes indicating he had grown old in years
with gladness and with no indicating that his mind had dimmed its lights.

Retirement – A New Venture

Be sure that your mind never retires. It must be a parachute which is no
good unless it opens up. Be open and receptive to new ideas. I have seen
men of 65 and 70 retire. They seemed to rot away, and in a few months
passed on. They obviously felt that life was at an end.
Retirement can be a new venture, a new challenge, a new path, the beginning of the fulfillment of a long dream. It is inexpressibly depressing to hear a man say, “What shall I do now that I am retired?” He is saying in
effect, “I am mentally and physically dead. My mind is bankrupt of ideas.”
All this is a false picture. The real truth is that you can accomplish more
at 90 than you did at 60, because each day you are growing in wisdom
and understanding of life and the universe through your new studies and
interest.

He Graduated To A Better Job

An executive, who lives near me, was forced to retire a few months ago
because he had reached the age of 65. He said to me, “I look upon my
retirement as promotion from kindergarten to the first grade.” He philosophized in this manner: He said that when he left high school, he went up
the ladder by going to college. He realized this was a step forward in his
education and understanding of life in general. Likewise, he added, now
he could do the things he had always wanted to do, and therefore, his retirement was still another step forward on the ladder of life and wisdom.
He came to the wise conclusion that he was no longer going to concentrate on making a living. Now he was going to give all his attention to living life. He is an amateur photographer, and he took additional courses on
the subject. He took a trip around the world and took movies of famous
places. He now lectures before various groups, lodges and clubs and is in
popular demand.
There are countless ways of taking an interest in something worthwhile
outside yourself. Become enthusiastic over new creative ideas, make spiritual progress and continue to learn and to grow. In this manner you remain young in heart, because you are hungering and thirsting after new
truths, and your body will reflect your thinking at all times.

You Must Be A Producer & Not A Prisoner Of Society

The newspapers are taking cognizance of the fact that the voting population of the elderly in California elections is increasing by leaps and
bounds. This means that their voices will be heard in the legislature of the
state and also in the halls of Congress. I believe there will be enacted a
federal law prohibiting employers from discrimination against men and
women because of age.
A man of 65 years may be younger mentally, physically and psychologically than many men at 30. it is stupid and ridiculous to tell a man he
cannot be hired because he is over 40. It is like saying to him that he is
ready for the scrap heap or the junk pile.
What is a man of 40 or over to do? Must he bury his talents and hide his
light under a bushel? Men, who are deprived and prevented from working
because of age, must be sustained by government treasuries at county , state and federal levels. The many organizations who refuse to hire them
and benefit from their wisdom and experience will be taxed to support
them. This is a form of financial suicide.
Man is here to enjoy the fruit of his labor, and he is here to be a producer
and not a prisoner of society which compels him to idleness.
Man’s body slows down gradually as he advances through the years, but
his conscious mind can be made much more active, alert, alive and quickened by the inspiration from his subconscious mind. His mind, in reality,
never grows old. Job said, Oh that I were as in months past, as in the
days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head,
and when by his light I walked through darkness; As I was in the days of
my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle. Job 29:2-4.

Secret Of Youth

To recapture the days of your youth, feel the miraculous, healing, self renewing power of your subconscious mind moving through your whole being. Know and feel that you are inspired, lifted up, rejuvenated, revitalized and recharged spiritually. You can bubble over with enthusiasm and
joy, as in the days of your youth, for the simple reason that you can always mentally and emotionally recapture the joyous state.
The candle, which shines upon your head, is divine intelligence and reveals to you everything you need to know; it enables you to affirm the
presence of your good, regardless of appearances. You walk by the guidance of your subconscious mind, because you know that the dawn appears and the shadows flee away.

Get A Vision

Instead of saying, “I am old,” say, “I am wise in the way of the divine life.”
Don’t let the corporation, newspapers or statistics hold a picture before
you of old age, declining years, decrepitude, senility and uselessness. Reject it, for it is a lie. Refuse to be hypnotized by such propaganda. Affirm
life not death. Get a vision of yourself as happy, radiant, successful,
serene and powerful.

Your Mind Does Not Grow Old

Former President Herbert Hoover, now 88 years old, is very active and is
performing monumental work. I interviewed him a few years ago in his
suite at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City. I found him healthy, happy,
vigorous and full of life and enthusiasm. He was keeping several secretaries busy handling his correspondence and was himself writing books of
a political and historical nature. Like all great men, I found him affable,
genial, amiable, loving and most understanding.
His mental acumen and sagacity gave me the thrill of a lifetime. He is a deeply religious man and is full of faith in God and in the triumph of the
eternal truth of life. He was subjected to a barrage of criticism and condemnation in the years of the great depression, but he weathered the
storm and did not grow old in hatred, resentment, ill will and bitterness.
On the contrary, he went into the silence of his soul and communing with
the divine presence within him, he found peace, which is the power at the
heart of God.

His Mind Active At Ninety-Nine

My father learned the French language at 65 years of age, and became an
authority on it at 70. He made a study of Gaelic when he was over 60,
and became an acknowledge and famous teacher of the subject. He assisted my sister in a school of higher learning and continued to do so until
he passed away at 99. His mind was as clear at 99 as it was when he was
20. Moreover, his handwriting and his reasoning powers had improved
with age. Truly, you are as old as you think and feel.

We Need Our Senior Citizens

Marcus Porcius Cato, the Roman patriot, learned Greek at 80. Madame
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the great German American contralto,
reached the pinnacle of her musical success after she became a grandmother. It is wonderful to behold the accomplishments of the oldsters.
General Douglas MacArthur, Harry S Truman, General Dwight David Eisenhower, and American financier, Bernard Baruch are interesting, active and
contributing their talents and wisdom to the world.
The Greek philosopher, Socrates, learned to play musical instruments
when he was 80 years old. Michelangelo was painting his greatest canvases at 80. At 80, Cios Simonides won the prize for poetry, Johann von
Goethe finished Faust and Leopold von Ranke commenced his History of
the World, which he finished at 92.
Alfred Tennyson wrote a magnificent poem Crossing the Bar, at 83. Issac
Newton was hard at work close to 85. At 88 John Wesley was directing,
preaching and guiding Methodism. We have several men of 95 years who
come to my lectures, and they tell me they are in better health now than
they were at 20.
Let us place our senior citizens in high places and give them every opportunity to bring forth the flowers of Paradise.
If you are retired, get interested in the laws of life and the wonders of
your subconscious mind. Do something you have always wanted to do.
Study new subject and investigate new ideas.
Pray as follows: As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth
my soul after thee, O God. Psalm 42:1.

The Fruits Of Old Age

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; he shall return to the days of his
youth. Job 33:25.
Old age really means the contemplation of the truths of God from the
highest standpoint. Realize that you are on an endless journey, a series of
important steps in the ceaseless, tireless, endless ocean of life. Then, with
the Psalmist you will say, They shall bring forth fruit in old age; they shall
be fat and flourishing. Psalm 92:14.
But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23.
You are a child of infinite life, which knows no end, and you are a child of
eternity.

Profitable Pointers

1. Patience, kindness, love, good will, joy, happiness, wisdom and understanding are qualities which never grow old. Cultivate them and express
them and remain young in mind and body.
2. Some research physicians say that the neurotic fear of the effects of
time may well be the cause of premature aging.
3. Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of
man.
4. The most productive years of your life can be from 65 to 95.
5. Welcome the advancing years. It means you are moving higher on the
path of life which has no end.
6. God is life and that is your life now. Life is self renewing, eternal and
indestructible and is the reality of all men. You life forever because your
life is God’s life.
7. Evidence of survival after death is overwhelming. Study Proceedings of
Psychical Research Society of Great Britain and America in your library.
The work is based on the scientific research by outstanding scientists for
over 75 years.
8. You cannot see your mind, but you know you have a mind. You cannot
see spirit, but you know that the spirit of the game, the spirit of the artist,
the spirit of the musician and the spirit of the speaker is real. Likewise, the spirit of goodness, truth and beauty moving in your mind and heart
are real. You cannot see life, but you know you are alive.
9. Old age may be called the contemplation of the truths of God from the
highest standpoint. The joys of old age are greater than those of youth.
Your mind is engaged in spiritual and mental athletics. Nature slows down
your body so that you may have the opportunity to meditate on things divine.
10. we do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
Your faith and convictions are not subject to decay.
11. you are as young as you think you are. You are as strong as you think
you are. You are as useful as you think you are. You are as young as your
thoughts.
12. Your gray hairs are an asset. You are not selling your gray hairs. You
are selling your talent, abilities and wisdom which you have garnered
through the years.
13. Diet and exercise won’t keep you young. As a man thinketh, so is he.
14. Fear of old age can bring about physical and mental deterioration. The
thing I greatly feared has come upon me.
15. You grow old when you cease to dream, and when you lose interest in
life. You grow old if you are irritable, crotchety, petulant and cantankerous. Fill your mind with the truths of God and radiate the sunshine of His
love – this is youth.
16. Look ahead, for at all times you are gazing into infinite life.
17. Your retirement is a new venture. Take up new studies and new interests. You can now do the things you always wanted to do when you were
so busy making a living. Give your attention to living life.
18. Become a producer and not a prisoner of society. Don’t hide your light
under a bushel.
19. The secret of youth is love, joy, inner peace and laughter. In Him
there is fullness of joy. In Him there is no darkness at all.
20. You are needed. Some of the great philosophers, artists, scientists,
writers and others accomplished their greatest work after they were 80
years old.
21. The fruits of old age are love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.
22. You are a child of infinite life which knows no end. You are a child of
eternity. You are wonderful!