The Power of the Subconscious Mind is a motivational classic written by Dr Joseph Murphy. After so many years, this book is still relevant in today's context; more so in today's world where we are so stressed up and feel pessimistic of our current economic and political situation.This book explores the hidden potential in each and everyone of us. It assures readers that, you should never feel despair. You will recognize the hidden power that is all along within you. When you learn how to harness and apply this power, you will know how to overcome all your negative thoughts and emotions. You will have the confidence towards life and pursue what you understand deep in your heart, is the best for you in life. These include gaining your financial abundance, developing a cordial relationship with everyone and building a healthy body.
Up till the age of 6, the conscious part of your brain is non-existent. In a practical sense; everything you are being told becomes a truth to you. This is why babies born into Christian families often become Christians; babies born into Muslim families often become Muslims and so on. It also explains why I had the belief that my mothers face would be skewed if I didnt hug her on both cheeks. A pretty ridiculous belief, dont you think? Working as a sales coach, I have come to the conclusion that most people base their beliefs on their results. Today, I asked one of my employees what she thought was her average number of orders per hour. Her more or less instant reply was 13. She had been working on my team for about a week, so it was easy to do the math:
Day 1: 4 hours, 7 orders,Day 2: 6 hours, 4 orders,Day 3: 6 hours, 6 orders,Day 4: 6 hours, 7 orders,Day 5: 6 hours, 5 orders,Sum: 28 hours, 29 orders,I would say thats pretty close to 1 order per hour. Today, she worked for 5 hours, and I suppose you can guess how many orders she ended up with. If you answered 5, you were right! Lets explore this a little deeper. Day 1 was her first day on the phone, and she had seemingly no clue as to how many sales she could expect. The interesting thing is this: She had been sitting with me the day before listening to my calls. I had been working on the phone 6 hours that day, with 11 orders, and accordingly thats what she based her results on the first day. Knowing that on her first day she worked on the phone for 4 hours with 7 orders, thats pretty similar to the result I got the day she was listening. The problem is that everyone else has an average of one order per hour, which she experienced during her first day on the phone. So her second day on the phone, her sensory factors (hearing, in this case) had already picked up on that fact, and she started to adopt the belief everyone else around her seemed to be in love with; an average of 1 order per hour. Thus her result the second day was far from as good as her result the first day, and the result came close to 1 order per hour (10 hours, 11 orders). But the most interesting part is day 3, 4, 5 and 6, where the exact average is 1 order per hour.
Some psychologists characterize the subconscious as nave and child-like,with no awareness of good and bad, right and wrong. This definition explains why we persist in unhealthy habits, such as overeating and smoking. Logically, we know these habits are destructive, but we feel compelled to do them anyway because the subconscious seeks only instant pleasure and gratification. Being child-like, this version of the subconscious doesn't understand the difference between real and imaginary,thus the theory that the subconscious mind can be influenced by story-telling, guided imagery, and visualization.Other theorists describe the subconscious as a source of wisdom and healing,an inner genie that grants insight, intuition, spiritual guidance, and recovery from illness. To those who believe in metaphysics, the subconscious mind is a direct connection to the universal creative mind that brings ideas into physical reality.With its many attributes, perhaps it's no wonder hypnotherapists and psychologists seek to engage the subconscious to help their clients toward self-improvement. One stated purpose of hypnosis, in fact, is to "bypass the conscious mind," in an effort to reach the part of the mind that holds the key to real, lasting change, healing, and motivation.
The question remains; how do we steer this autopilot to different results? Lets take money as an example here and lets say we never have any money left at the end of the month, which was my problem for years. Linking cause and effect, that comes from the belief that I never have any money left at the end of the month , which is a belief based on results. Just like my employee believes she delivers an average of 1 order per hour. We change this belief through repetition, mixed with faith. What we want to do is replace the old belief with a new belief that says; I always have money left at the end of the month. As stated in a previous section of this article, the subconscious mind cannot distinguish the difference between reality and imagination. So if we start telling ourselves that I always have money left at the end of the month and starts to believe that its true, it will eventually be considered a truth to our subconscious mind.
When our subconscious mind believes something to be true, we will act accordingly to that belief. This is also called a habit. Various self-help books and movies state that it takes 21-30 days to form a new habit, or replace an old habit with a new one. Theres no hard evidence, as far as I know, that backs up this theory, but for the sake of simplicity on an already complex topic, lets assume this to be true. We want to involve as many of our sensory factors (hear, feel, taste, smell and see) as possible, as these are factors that influence our subconscious mind. Wanting to form the habit of always having money left at the end of the month, we could print a bank statement dated the day before our payday and write the exact amount of money we would like to have in our bank account at the end of the month. In addition, we could also stand in front of the mirror repeating to ourselves out loud that I always have money left at the end of the month or even better; I always have (X amount of money) in my bank account at the end of each month .
How the Subconscious Mind Communicates.The subconscious mind communicates its guidance in often unexpected and creative ways. That communication might be an intuitive hunch, a flash of insight, or a creative idea. It might be a dream or an image, seemingly irrelevant at first, yet, after a while one that begins to make sense. Some say the subconscious is that still, small voice within that speaks to us in quiet moments of curiosity, wonder, awe, or reflection. Sometimes the subconscious mind warns us of danger or threat with a sensation,a tightening in the stomach, a chill down the spine, a feeling of physical discomfort. I have often had the experience that when I am searching for something I've misplaced, I get an intuitive push to look in a certain place, and I usually find the lost item.Strengthen Your Connection.To increase your connection to the subconscious and foster its participation in your daily life, turn off the radio, the computer, the television and put down the magazine and the newspaper and take time for quiet, solitary reflection. Here are a few more recommendations.Get comfortable listening to your own thoughts and traveling your interior landscape. Stop thinking of everything you have to do and all the things you worry about and communicate with your inner spirit. Learn to occasionally exist fully in the moment. Figure out who you are, what your life is all about, and what brings you fulfillment and inner peace. Think deeply about these things and perhaps your inner wisdom will begin to listen and guide you to conclusions.
You need to be alert in your thinking. This makes you stay sharp and be fully aware of happenings around you so that you can protect yourself; like crossing the road, driving carefully and when handling a customer. In fact, you should consciously remind yourself that your subconscious mind is indeed resourceful and you should also consciously make an effort to meditate frequently. But there are times when you should not be too alert that you start worrying and anxious of matters that are not so bad as they seem or even imagine the worst that will never, ever happen. Instead, you should learn to set aside some time to meditate or quiet down yourself to listen to what your subconscious mind offers to you.
Eliminate fear-based, negative self-talk. Your subconscious listens to every thought you think and carries those messages to your body, and out to the universe. Monitor your thoughts and start thinking positively about the things that really matter in your life.Develop a capacity for curiosity and creativity; states in which the subconscious is most likely to be attentive and responsive. These states allow you to open your awareness and engage in possibility thinking.There are several "tools" that will help you communicate with the subconscious. They include journaling, mind-mapping, treasure-mapping, affirmations, focused thinking, and prayer.Journaling: Keep a diary to capture feelings, dreams, goals, impressions, and insights. In this way, you become more aware of your patterns of thinking and feeling.Mind-mapping: Choose a project you want to carry out and then create a pen-and-paper diagram of your thoughts. The diagram starts from a central point on the page and then branches out in all directions, as new ideas occur. Describe each idea with a few key words. The branches will develop "twigs" as you think of the details that accompany each major idea. Mind-mapping allows for creative, non-linear thinking that lends itself to planning and problem solving.Treasure-mapping: Assemble a collage of pictures of the things you want in life, so that the images are more easily communicated to the subconscious. The pictures can come from photos, sketches, and clippings from newspapers and magazines. Look at your treasure map often, for reinforcement.
Affirmations: Get into the habit of positive thinking about the things you are accomplishing in your life. Affirmations are the "slogans" you say to yourself that keep you optimistic and focused on your goals, and motivated to achieve them.Focused thinking and visualization: Take some time each day to dwell on your future. Visualize that you are accomplishing your goals and dreams.Prayer: Become a co-creator of your own reality, by meditating and conversing with the Deity, according to your spiritual beliefs. Ask for guidance, affirm that your needs and wants are satisfied, and express gratitude.Perhaps Dr. Joseph Murphy sums up the ideas in this article best in his writings: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... Within your subconscious depths lie infinite wisdom, infinite power, and infinite supply of all that is necessary, which is waiting for development and expression... Your subconscious mind takes the orders you give it based on what the conscious mind believes and accepts as true... Remember, your subconscious mind does not engage in proving whether your thoughts are good or bad, or true or false, but it responds according to the nature of your thoughts. (From: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Prentice-Hall, 1963)
Up till the age of 6, the conscious part of your brain is non-existent. In a practical sense; everything you are being told becomes a truth to you. This is why babies born into Christian families often become Christians; babies born into Muslim families often become Muslims and so on. It also explains why I had the belief that my mothers face would be skewed if I didnt hug her on both cheeks. A pretty ridiculous belief, dont you think? Working as a sales coach, I have come to the conclusion that most people base their beliefs on their results. Today, I asked one of my employees what she thought was her average number of orders per hour. Her more or less instant reply was 13. She had been working on my team for about a week, so it was easy to do the math:
Day 1: 4 hours, 7 orders,Day 2: 6 hours, 4 orders,Day 3: 6 hours, 6 orders,Day 4: 6 hours, 7 orders,Day 5: 6 hours, 5 orders,Sum: 28 hours, 29 orders,I would say thats pretty close to 1 order per hour. Today, she worked for 5 hours, and I suppose you can guess how many orders she ended up with. If you answered 5, you were right! Lets explore this a little deeper. Day 1 was her first day on the phone, and she had seemingly no clue as to how many sales she could expect. The interesting thing is this: She had been sitting with me the day before listening to my calls. I had been working on the phone 6 hours that day, with 11 orders, and accordingly thats what she based her results on the first day. Knowing that on her first day she worked on the phone for 4 hours with 7 orders, thats pretty similar to the result I got the day she was listening. The problem is that everyone else has an average of one order per hour, which she experienced during her first day on the phone. So her second day on the phone, her sensory factors (hearing, in this case) had already picked up on that fact, and she started to adopt the belief everyone else around her seemed to be in love with; an average of 1 order per hour. Thus her result the second day was far from as good as her result the first day, and the result came close to 1 order per hour (10 hours, 11 orders). But the most interesting part is day 3, 4, 5 and 6, where the exact average is 1 order per hour.
Some psychologists characterize the subconscious as nave and child-like,with no awareness of good and bad, right and wrong. This definition explains why we persist in unhealthy habits, such as overeating and smoking. Logically, we know these habits are destructive, but we feel compelled to do them anyway because the subconscious seeks only instant pleasure and gratification. Being child-like, this version of the subconscious doesn't understand the difference between real and imaginary,thus the theory that the subconscious mind can be influenced by story-telling, guided imagery, and visualization.Other theorists describe the subconscious as a source of wisdom and healing,an inner genie that grants insight, intuition, spiritual guidance, and recovery from illness. To those who believe in metaphysics, the subconscious mind is a direct connection to the universal creative mind that brings ideas into physical reality.With its many attributes, perhaps it's no wonder hypnotherapists and psychologists seek to engage the subconscious to help their clients toward self-improvement. One stated purpose of hypnosis, in fact, is to "bypass the conscious mind," in an effort to reach the part of the mind that holds the key to real, lasting change, healing, and motivation.
The question remains; how do we steer this autopilot to different results? Lets take money as an example here and lets say we never have any money left at the end of the month, which was my problem for years. Linking cause and effect, that comes from the belief that I never have any money left at the end of the month , which is a belief based on results. Just like my employee believes she delivers an average of 1 order per hour. We change this belief through repetition, mixed with faith. What we want to do is replace the old belief with a new belief that says; I always have money left at the end of the month. As stated in a previous section of this article, the subconscious mind cannot distinguish the difference between reality and imagination. So if we start telling ourselves that I always have money left at the end of the month and starts to believe that its true, it will eventually be considered a truth to our subconscious mind.
When our subconscious mind believes something to be true, we will act accordingly to that belief. This is also called a habit. Various self-help books and movies state that it takes 21-30 days to form a new habit, or replace an old habit with a new one. Theres no hard evidence, as far as I know, that backs up this theory, but for the sake of simplicity on an already complex topic, lets assume this to be true. We want to involve as many of our sensory factors (hear, feel, taste, smell and see) as possible, as these are factors that influence our subconscious mind. Wanting to form the habit of always having money left at the end of the month, we could print a bank statement dated the day before our payday and write the exact amount of money we would like to have in our bank account at the end of the month. In addition, we could also stand in front of the mirror repeating to ourselves out loud that I always have money left at the end of the month or even better; I always have (X amount of money) in my bank account at the end of each month .
How the Subconscious Mind Communicates.The subconscious mind communicates its guidance in often unexpected and creative ways. That communication might be an intuitive hunch, a flash of insight, or a creative idea. It might be a dream or an image, seemingly irrelevant at first, yet, after a while one that begins to make sense. Some say the subconscious is that still, small voice within that speaks to us in quiet moments of curiosity, wonder, awe, or reflection. Sometimes the subconscious mind warns us of danger or threat with a sensation,a tightening in the stomach, a chill down the spine, a feeling of physical discomfort. I have often had the experience that when I am searching for something I've misplaced, I get an intuitive push to look in a certain place, and I usually find the lost item.Strengthen Your Connection.To increase your connection to the subconscious and foster its participation in your daily life, turn off the radio, the computer, the television and put down the magazine and the newspaper and take time for quiet, solitary reflection. Here are a few more recommendations.Get comfortable listening to your own thoughts and traveling your interior landscape. Stop thinking of everything you have to do and all the things you worry about and communicate with your inner spirit. Learn to occasionally exist fully in the moment. Figure out who you are, what your life is all about, and what brings you fulfillment and inner peace. Think deeply about these things and perhaps your inner wisdom will begin to listen and guide you to conclusions.
You need to be alert in your thinking. This makes you stay sharp and be fully aware of happenings around you so that you can protect yourself; like crossing the road, driving carefully and when handling a customer. In fact, you should consciously remind yourself that your subconscious mind is indeed resourceful and you should also consciously make an effort to meditate frequently. But there are times when you should not be too alert that you start worrying and anxious of matters that are not so bad as they seem or even imagine the worst that will never, ever happen. Instead, you should learn to set aside some time to meditate or quiet down yourself to listen to what your subconscious mind offers to you.
Eliminate fear-based, negative self-talk. Your subconscious listens to every thought you think and carries those messages to your body, and out to the universe. Monitor your thoughts and start thinking positively about the things that really matter in your life.Develop a capacity for curiosity and creativity; states in which the subconscious is most likely to be attentive and responsive. These states allow you to open your awareness and engage in possibility thinking.There are several "tools" that will help you communicate with the subconscious. They include journaling, mind-mapping, treasure-mapping, affirmations, focused thinking, and prayer.Journaling: Keep a diary to capture feelings, dreams, goals, impressions, and insights. In this way, you become more aware of your patterns of thinking and feeling.Mind-mapping: Choose a project you want to carry out and then create a pen-and-paper diagram of your thoughts. The diagram starts from a central point on the page and then branches out in all directions, as new ideas occur. Describe each idea with a few key words. The branches will develop "twigs" as you think of the details that accompany each major idea. Mind-mapping allows for creative, non-linear thinking that lends itself to planning and problem solving.Treasure-mapping: Assemble a collage of pictures of the things you want in life, so that the images are more easily communicated to the subconscious. The pictures can come from photos, sketches, and clippings from newspapers and magazines. Look at your treasure map often, for reinforcement.
Affirmations: Get into the habit of positive thinking about the things you are accomplishing in your life. Affirmations are the "slogans" you say to yourself that keep you optimistic and focused on your goals, and motivated to achieve them.Focused thinking and visualization: Take some time each day to dwell on your future. Visualize that you are accomplishing your goals and dreams.Prayer: Become a co-creator of your own reality, by meditating and conversing with the Deity, according to your spiritual beliefs. Ask for guidance, affirm that your needs and wants are satisfied, and express gratitude.Perhaps Dr. Joseph Murphy sums up the ideas in this article best in his writings: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... Within your subconscious depths lie infinite wisdom, infinite power, and infinite supply of all that is necessary, which is waiting for development and expression... Your subconscious mind takes the orders you give it based on what the conscious mind believes and accepts as true... Remember, your subconscious mind does not engage in proving whether your thoughts are good or bad, or true or false, but it responds according to the nature of your thoughts. (From: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Prentice-Hall, 1963)
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