2 How Your Own Mind Works

2 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 subconscious mind to accept your idea, and the law of your own subconscious
mind will bring forth the health, peace, or the 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 and 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, nonselective, 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 and 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 through 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 subjective 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 concepts 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 at the gate,” and its
chief function is to protect your subconscious mind from false impressions. You are now
aware of one of the basic laws of mind: Your subconscious mind is amenable to
suggestion. As you know, your subconscious mind does not make comparisons, or
contrasts, neither does it reason and think things out for itself. This latter function belongs
to your conscious mind. It simply reacts to the impressions given to it by your 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 to him something like this:
“You look very ill. How pale you are! I feel certain you are going to be seasick. Let me
help you to your cabin.” The passenger turns pale. Your suggestion of seasickness
associates itself with his own fears and forebodings. He accepts your aid down to the
berth, and there 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 dear fellow, you’re looking very ill. Aren’t you
feeling sick? You look to me as if you were going to be seasick.” According to his
temperament he either laughs at your “joke,” or expresses a mild irritation. Your
suggestion fell on deaf ears in this instance because your suggestion of seasickness was
associated in his mind with his own immunity from it. Therefore, it called up not fear or
worry, but self-confidence.

The dictionary says that a suggestion is the act or instance of putting something into
one’s mind, the mental process by which the thought or idea suggested is entertained,
accepted, or put into effect. You must remember that a suggestion cannot impose
something on the subconscious mind 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 no fear of seasickness. He had convinced himself of his immunity, and
the negative suggestion had absolutely no power to evoke fear.
The suggestion of seasickness to the other passenger called forth his indwelling fear of
seasickness. Each of us has his own inner fears, beliefs, opinions, and these inner
assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself except
if you accept it mentally. 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 Truth Forum 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 in the English newspapers dealing with the
power of suggestion. This is the suggestion a man gave to his subconscious mind over
a period of about two 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 a so-called
incurable form of skin disease. Medical treatment had failed to alleviate the condition,
and the father had an intense longing for his daughter’s healing, and expressed his desire
in the words just quoted.
Dr. Evelyn Fleet said that the newspaper article pointed out that one day the family was
out riding when their car collided with another. The father’s right arm was torn off at the
shoulder, and immediately the daughter’s arthritis and skin condition vanished.
You must make certain to give your subconscious only suggestions, which heal, bless,
elevate, and inspire you in all your 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. Herbert Parkyn, in his excellent manual of autosuggestion,* records
the following incident. It has its amusing side, so that one remembers it. “A New York
visitor in Chicago looks at his watch, which is set an hour ahead of Chicago time, and
tells a Chicago friend that it is twelve o’clock. The Chicago friend, not considering the
difference in time between Chicago and New York, tells the New Yorker that he is
hungry and that he must go to lunch.”
Autosuggestion may be used to banish various fears and other negative conditions. A
young singer was invited to give an audition. She had been looking forward to the
interview, but on three previous occasions she had failed miserably due to fear
Herbert Parkyn, Autosuggestion (London: Fowler, 1916).of failure. This young lady had
a very good voice, 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 fear thoughts 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 as best she could. Physical inertia favors mental 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. When the invitation to audition
came, she gave a remarkable, wonderful audition.
How she restored her memory
A woman, aged seventy-five, was in the habit of saying to herself, “I am losing my
memory.” She reversed the procedure and practiced induced autosuggestion several times
a day as follows: “My memory from today on is improving in every department. I shall
always remember whatever I need 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 immediately present 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 been before.” At the end of three weeks, her
memory was back to normal, and she was delighted.
How he overcame a nasty temper
Many men who complained of irritability and bad temper proved to be very susceptible to
autosuggestion and obtained marvelous results by using the following statements three or
four times a day—morning, noon, and at night prior to sleep for about a month.
“Henceforth, I shall grow more good-humored.
Joy, happiness, and cheerfulness are now becoming my normal states of mind. Every day
I am becoming more and more lovable and understanding. I am now becoming the center
of cheer and good will to all those about me, infecting them with good humor. This
happy, joyous, and cheerful mood is now becoming my normal, natural state of mind. I
am grateful.”
The constructive and destructive power of suggestion
Some illustrations and comments on heterosuggestion: Heterosuggestion means
suggestions from another person. In all ages the power of suggestion has played a part in
the life and thought of man in every period of time and in each country of the earth. In
many parts of the world it is the controlling power in religion.
Suggestion may be used to discipline and control ourselves, but it can also be used to take
control and command over others who do not know the 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 response patterns 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 accepted them. 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 a chance.” “You’re all wrong.” “It’s no use.” “It’s not
what you know, but who you know.” “The world is going to the dogs.” “What’s the use,
nobody cares.” “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’ll get the virus.” “You can’t
trust a soul,” etc.
Unless, as an adult, you use constructive autosuggestion, which is a reconditioning
therapy, the impressions made on you in the past can cause behavior patterns that cause
failure in your personal and social life. Autosuggestion is a means releasing you from the
mass of negative verbal conditioning 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 could sow the seeds of
futility, fear, worry, anxiety, and impending doom. If accepted by you, 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 suggestions that people make to you. You do not have to
be influenced by destructive heterosuggestion. All of us have suffered from it in our
childhood and in our teens. If you look back, you can easily recall how parents, friends,
relatives, teachers, and associates contributed in a campaign of negative suggestions.
Study the things 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 instill fear into
you. This heterosuggestion process goes on in every home, office, factory, and club. You
will find that many of these suggestions are for the purpose of making you think, feel,
and act, as others want you to and in ways that are to their advantage.
How suggestion killed a man
Here is an illustration of heterosuggestion: A relative of mine went to a crystal 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
he accepted it completely. My relative also told me that this crystal gazer was believed to
have some strange occult powers, and he could do harm or good to a person. He died as
predicted not knowing that he was the cause of his own death. I suppose 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 the subconscious
mind works. Whatever the conscious, reasoning mind of man 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 going to
die at the next new moon. He proceeded to tell everyone about it, and he prepared for the
end. The activity took place in his own mind, and his own thought was the cause. He
brought about his own so-called death, or rather destruction of the physical body, by his
fear and expectation of the end. The woman who predicted his death had no more power
than the stones and sticks in the field. Her suggestion had no power to create or bring
about the end she suggested. If he had known the laws of his mind, he would have
completely rejected the negative suggestion and refused to give her words any attention,
knowing in his heart that he was governed and controlled by his own thought and feeling.
Like tin arrows aimed at a battleship, 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 own thoughts. You have to give your
mental consent; you have to entertain the thought. Then, it becomes your thought, and
you do the thinking. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose
love! Choose health!
The power of an assumed major premise
Your mind works like a syllogism. This means that whatever major premise your
conscious mind assumes to be true determines the conclusion your subconscious mind
comes to in regard to any particular question or problem in your mind. If your premise is
true, the conclusion must be true 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 in May, 1962, at Town Hall, New York, said to me, “Everything
in my life is topsy-turvy, and I have lost health, wealth, and friends. Everything I touch
turns 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, his subconscious mind would automatically
direct him wisely in his investments, decisions, and also heal his body and restore his
mind to peace and tranquility.
This professor formulated an overall picture of the way he wanted his life to be, and this
was his major premise: “Infinite intelligence leads and guides me in all my ways. Perfect
health is mine, and the Law of Harmony operates in my mind and body. Beauty, love,
peace, and abundance are mine. The principle of right action and divine order govern my
entire life. I know 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, quietly, and lovingly
several times a day knowing that they were sinking deep down into my subconscious
mind, and that results must follow. I am deeply grateful for the interview you gave me,
and I would like to add that all 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, “You must not impress me with that.”
For example, when you say, “I can’t do this.” “I am too old now.” “I can’t meet this
obligation.” “I was born on the wrong 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, thereby bringing
lack, limitation, and frustration into your life.
When you set up obstacles, impediments, and delays in your conscious mind, you are
denying the wisdom and intelligence resident in your subconscious mind. You are
actually saying in effect that your subconscious mind 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 the deeper wisdom of my
subconscious is now responding, and what I feel and claim within is expressed in the
without. There is a balance, equilibrium, and equanimity.”
If you say, “There is no way out; I am lost; there is no way out of this dilemma; I am
stymied and blocked,” you will get no answer or response from your subconscious mind.
If you want the subconscious to work for you, give it the right request, and attain its
cooperation. It is always working for you. It is controlling your heartbeat this minute and
also your breathing. It heals a cut on your finger, and its tendency is life ward, forever
seeking to take care of you and preserve you. Your subconscious has a mind 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 in your 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; I am 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 thanks because I know the infinite
intelligence of my subconscious knows all things and is revealing the perfect answer to
me now. My real conviction is 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 own 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.

The POWER of Your Subconscious Mind Joseph Murphy D.R.S., D.D., Ph.D., LL.D.

The POWER of Your Subconscious
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Joseph Murphy
D.R.S., D.D., Ph.D., LL.D.
Fellow of the Andhra Research University of India
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 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 the 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 true 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 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
so called 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 class
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 sub conscious 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 Moslem, 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 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.

1 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 my 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 mast er se cr et of th e ag es
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
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. A new light can inspire you, 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 lie 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 deeper 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. Because 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, and 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 would 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 anywhere, 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 heated. 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 shallcome 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 and 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
the soil, which will grow all kinds of seeds, good or bad. Do men gather grapes of thorns,
or figs of 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
0nly 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; 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,
which you find in your world of expression, has been created by you in the inner world
of your mind consciously or unconsciously.
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 very 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 of 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 of 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, and
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 and modes of operation
You will perceive the main differences by the following illustrations: The conscious mind
is like the navigator or captain at the bridge of a ship. He directs the ship and signals
orders to men in the engine room, who in turn control all the boilers, instruments, gauges,
etc. The men in the engine room do not know where they are going; they follow orders.
They would go on the rocks if the man on 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 and issues orders, which are automatically
obeyed. Members of the crew do not 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 a position to purchase what
you want. As long as you persist in saying, “I can’t afford that car, that trip to Europe,
that home, that fur coat or ermine wrap,” you can rest assured that your subconscious
mind will follow your orders, and you will go through life experiencing the lack of all
these things.
Last Christmas Eve a beautiful young university student looked at an attractive and rather
expensive traveling bag in a store window. She was going 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 at one 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 my subconscious sees
to it that I receive it.” At eight o’clock Christmas Eve her fiancé presented her with a bag
exactly the same as the one she had looked at and mentally identified herself with at ten
o’clock the same morning. She had filled her mind with the thought of expectancy and
released the whole thing to her deeper mind, which has the “knowhow” of
accomplishment.
This young girl, a student at the University of Southern California, said to me, “I didn’t
have the money to buy that bag, but now I know where to find money and all the things I
need, and that is in the treasure house of eternity within me.”
Another simple 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 like mushrooms.” This is an amusing example of the outstanding
differences and 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, 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 into your lap.
How her subconscious responded
A woman wrote me a few months ago as follows: “I am seventy-five years old, a widow
with a grown family. I was living alone and on a pension. I heard your lectures on the
powers of the subconscious mind wherein you said 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 happily married 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
day at the corner drugstore, I was introduced to a retired pharmacist. I found him 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 on our 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 prayer was felt as true
in her heart, and her affirmation sank down by osmosis into her subconscious mind,
which is the creative medium. The moment she succeeded in bringing about a subjective
embodiment, her subconscious mind brought about the answer through the law of
attraction.
Her deeper 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 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.
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 sub conscious 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,
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.

The Power is Ours its all there For the Taking