Within you lies a gold mine from which you can extract everything you need to live a successful life. This gold mine is the miracle-working power found in your subconscious mind. Written by Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind will guide you on how to use your subconscious mind to live a glorious and abundant life.
HOW THIS BOOK HELPED US?
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind helped us understand that sometimes we bring failure to ourselves by feeding our subconscious with bad ideas and statements such as Am bad at this or I don’t think I can do this. Therefore, it’s important to constantly feed your subconscious with positive ideas as it takes action on them the moment you provide them. The book also helped us realise that our subconscious mind can be helpful during the healing process for as long as we believe it.
THE BOOK EXPLAINED UNDER 60 SECONDS
Miracles have happened to men and women from all walks of life worldwide. And benefits will occur to you, too—when you begin to utilise the magic power of your subconscious mind. This book is designed to teach you that your habitual thinking and imagery mould, fashion, and create your destiny; as a man thinketh in his subconscious mind, so is he.
TOP THREE QUOTES
- “All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs and opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. Its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.”
- “As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.”
- “You remain faithful to your mental attitude; your prayer will be answered.”
BOOK SUMMARIES AND HIGHLIGHTS
Chapter one: The Treasure House Within You
Within you lies a gold mine from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. This gold mine is the marvellous, miracle-working power found in your subconscious mind. You can bring wealth, power and happiness into your life by learning to contact and release the hidden power of your subconscious mind. You don’t have to acquire this power, as you already possess it. You only have to learn how to use and understand it to implement it in all sectors of your life. Within your subconscious profundity lies infinite power, wisdom and supply waiting for development and expression. Begin now to recognise these potentialities of your deeper mind, and they will take form in the world. Using the infinite intelligence in your subconscious can drive new thought patterns and ideas, enabling you to come up with new inventions or new discoveries. Your subconscious mind is the principle and works according to the law of belief. You must know what belief is, why it works, and how it works.
Favourite quote of the chapter: “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.”
Chapter two: How Your Mind Works
Everyone has a mind, and it’s your responsibility to learn how to use it. Your mind has two levels—the conscious or rational level and the subconscious or irrational level. You think and anticipate using your conscious mind, and whatever you habitually think sinks into your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is the hub of your emotions, and it’s the creative mind. Good will follow if you feel good; if you think evil, evil will follow. This is the way your mind operates. Therefore, once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins executing it even when you’re unaware. It works by associating ideas and using every bit of knowledge you have gathered in your lifetime to bring about its purpose. It draws on the infinite power, energy, and wisdom within you. The funny thing is that the law of the subconscious mind operates on both good and bad ideas. If this law is applied negatively, it brings failure, frustration and unhappiness. However, when habitual thinking is constructive and harmonic, you experience perfect success, health and prosperity.
Favourite quote of the chapter: “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.”
Chapter three: The Miracle-Working Power of Your Subconscious
The power of your subconscious mind is immeasurable. It inspires you, guides you and reveals information such as names, facts and scenes from your memory. Your subconscious is capable of more than you anticipated; it controls your blood circulation, regulates digestion and starts your heartbeat. When you eat food, your subconscious mind transforms it into tissue, muscle, bone and blood. Your subconscious mind controls all your body’s vital processes and functions and knows the answer to all problems. To discover the miracle-working power of your subconscious, plainly make it aware of a specific task you want to accomplish. You’ll find that forces will be released within you, driving toward the desired outcome. Your subconscious mind is the source of your ideals, aspirations, and altruistic urges. Through the subconscious mind, people like Shakespeare could recognise great truths hidden from the average man of his day.
William James said the power to move the world is in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is one with infinite intelligence and boundless wisdom. It is fed by hidden springs and is called the law of life. Whatever you impress upon your subconscious mind, the latter will move heaven and earth to bring it to pass. You must impress it with the right ideas and constructive thoughts.
Favourite quote of the chapter: “The reason there is so much chaos and misery in the world is that people do not understand the interaction of their conscious and subconscious minds.”
Chapter four: Mental Healings in Ancient Times
In ancient temples, priests gave the patients drugs and practised hypnotic suggestions before the patients sleep, telling them that the gods would visit and heal them in their sleep. Many healings followed. All this was the work of potent suggestions to the subconscious mind. It is obvious that these strange procedures, as mentioned above, favoured guidance and acceptance by the subconscious mind of these people by making a powerful appeal to their imagination. In all these healings, the subject’s subconscious mind was the healer. Unofficial healers have obtained remarkable results in cases where authorised medical skill has failed. This gives cause for thought. How do these healers in all parts of the world affect their cures? The answer to all these healings is due to the blind belief of the sick person, which releases the healing power resident in his subconscious mind. Many of the remedies and methods employed were rather strange and fantastic, which fired the patients’ imagination, causing an aroused emotional state. This state of mind facilitated the
the suggestion of health, and was accepted both by the conscious and subconscious mind of the sick.
Favourite quote of the chapter: “Your subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body.”
Chapter five: Mental healings in Modern Times
Everyone is 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 ha the subconscious mind of each person, and a changed mental attitude on the part of the sick person releases this healing power. The modern mental therapeutic procedure is based on the truth that your subconscious mind’s infinite intelligence and ability to respond according to your faith. Faith is the healer; through scientific prayers (prayer therapy), healing is achieved. Prayer is the subconscious and conscious minds harmoniously working together for a definite purpose, releasing the healing power. However, faith is needed when communicating with your subconscious mind. The faith required in mental healing is purely subjective and attainable upon the cessation of active opposition on the part of the objective or conscious mind.
Favourite quote of the chapter: “The creative law of the mind (subconscious mind) serves you and will do the work. Its response to you is automatic. Your treatment is to induce an inner realisation of
health and harmony in your mentality.”
Chapter six: Practical Techniques in Mental Healings
Your mind has techniques and methods for governing, controlling, and directing your life. You must realise that methods and techniques are primary. There also are techniques and processes by which your prayers are answered. If your prayer is answered, there is a way in which it is responded to, and this is a scientific way. Nothing happens by chance.
The Passing over Technique essentially means inducing the subconscious mind to take over your request as handed it by the conscious mind. This passing over is best accomplished in a vision-like state.
Your Subconscious Will Accept Your Blueprint: 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 weaving into your mind will come forth as more toil, care, tension, anxiety, and limitation of all kinds. The most fundamental and far-reaching activity in life is that which you build into your mind every waking
hour. Your word is silent and invisible; nevertheless, it is accurate.
The Visualisation Technique: The easiest and most obvious way to formulate an idea is to visualise it, to see it in your mind’s eye as bright as if it was alive. This process of thinking forms impressions in your mind; these impressions, in turn, become manifested as facts and experiences in your life.
Favourite quote of the chapter: “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.”
Chapter seven: The Tendency of the Subconscious Is Lifeward
Your subconscious processes are lifeward and positive. Your subconscious is the builder of your body and maintains all its critical functions: it’s always in touch with infinite life and boundless wisdom, and its impulses and ideas are always lifeward. The great aspirations, inspirations, and visions for a grander and nobler life come from the subconscious. You cannot rationally argue about your profound convictions because they come from your subconscious mind. Your subconscious communicates to you through hunches, impulses, ideas and intimations, and it always informs you to rise and move forward to greater heights.
The interaction of your conscious and subconscious mind requires a similar interaction between the interconnected system of nerves, the cerebrospinal and sympathetic systems. The cerebrospinal system is the channel through which you receive conscious perception through your five physical senses. This system has its nerves in the brain, and it is the channel of your volitional and conscious mental action. The sympathetic system is the channel of mental activity that unconsciously supports the body’s vital functions.
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, which is very real.
Favourite quote of the chapter: “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.”
Chapter eight: How to Get the Results You Want
The principal reasons for failure are a Lack of confidence and too much effort. Many people block answers to their prayers by failing to fully comprehend the workings of their subconscious minds. When you know how your mind functions, you gain confidence. You must remember whenever your subconscious mind accepts an idea, it immediately begins to execute it. And this goes for bad ideas too. When you use your subconscious mind negatively, it brings trouble, failure, and confusion. And the opposite happens when you use it constructively, it brings guidance, freedom, and peace of mind. You will always fail to get results by using mental coercion—your subconscious mind does not respond to pressure but to your faith or conscious mind acceptance. Your failure to get results may also arise from statements like: “Things are getting worse.” “I will never get an answer.” “I see no way out.” “It is hopeless.” “I don’t know what to do.” “I’m all mixed up.” You get no response or cooperation from your subconscious when you use such statements.
Favourite quote of the chapter: “A wonderful way to get a response from your subconscious mind is through disciplined or scientific imagination.”
HOW THIS BOOK CAN HELP SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
“The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” by Joseph Murphy is a self-help book exploring the relationship between the conscious and subconscious mind and how it affects our behaviour, beliefs, and overall success. While the book is not explicitly targeted towards software developers, it can still be helpful to them. The book highlights the power of positive thinking, visualisation, and affirmations to influence the subconscious mind and ultimately achieve success. These techniques can be applied to help software developers set clear goals, overcome mental blocks, and develop the mindset necessary to excel in their field. For example, software developers can use visualisation techniques to mentally rehearse coding processes and problem-solving strategies, which can help them become more efficient and productive. The book also emphasises the importance of a positive attitude, which can help developers maintain motivation and persistence when facing challenges in their work.
