The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: One of the Most Powerful Self-help Guides Ever Written! [Paperback]

Having received bunch of emails from people who have read this book, but still had difficulty applying the principles in this, I felt compelled to share few ideas.

First, the principles in this book are correct and they work if you apply them. The book is about using the power of your subconscious mind. As I read over some previous reviews here, I noticed that some people stumbled upon the language and pointed out that one should read "As A Man Thinketh" (yes, it is a good book to read), and made a reference to "as you think in your HEART" - not mind. Another name for the SUBCONSCIOUS is HEART of the MIND, because SUBCONSCIOUS MIND is the REALM OF EMOTIONS.

Some people also erroneously think that the subconscius mind is in one's head, it isn't. It is not even confined to your physical body, but permeates it. Your physical body is IN your MIND. Another way to describe the subconscious may be to refer to it as your "energy field" (that may be somewhat more modern "language"). Do not get stuck to words and labels, though. They are merely useful to help describe things - they are not the experience itself.

To use self-hypnosis successfully, to use the power of your mind successfully, it is not enough to just repeat the words mechanically (although, with a lot of repetition, they too will be impressed upon your subconscious mind), but you must also use your feelings - EXPERIENCING the outcome you desire AS IF it were REAL for you now - subjectively.

The term subconscious mind is used to refer to your own individual storehouse of knowledge and memories. The term "superconscious", or "universal mind", "God", and sometimes in hypnosis the term "unconscious" are used to refer to the infinite storehouse of knowledge, which you access through your subconscious mind.

There is ONLY ONE Mind, but for the convenience we have divided it linguistically into three minds, according to its functions - conscious, subconscious and superconscious. You can imagine that there is one door standing between your conscious and subconscious mind and another between your subconscious and superconscious. You access both your subconscious and superconscious by getting the critical faculty of your conscious mind out of the way and the easiest way to do this is by fully engaging your imagination and your emotions.

Because you access your subconscious and superconscious mind in the same way, people sometimes just use the term "subconscious" to refer to both functions. Instead of using the world superconscious, Murphy sometimes uses he word "God" - which I like, but some people feel very uncomfortable with due to their religious upbringing or lack of understanding and direct experience (A Course in Miracles is one books that may help in that respect).

Your conscious mind is that part of your mind that judges things and contemplates whether you can or cannot do something. It compares things and when you attempt to use your conscius mind and work on some goal, it may pop up with all the reasons why something may not be possible for you to do. Your subconscious mind goes for DIRECT EXPERIENCE. It doesn't judge whether something is possible or impossible, good or bad - it merely ACCEPTS as true and real whatever you EXPERIENCE as REAL subjectively.

When you pick a goal to work on with your subconscious, make sure that it is something that is BELIEVABLE to you. Whatever ideas you desire to impress upon your subconscious mind will work in conjunction with that which is already in your subconcious mind - so if the ideas and beliefs which are currently in your subconscious are in conflict with your desired goal, it will take you a long time to experience the desired results. If you begin with things you are willing to accept as possible for you, you'll get much faster results and you'll also condition your mind for success and to the world of many new wonderful possibilities.

Also, keep in mind, that you are in one way or another programming your subconscious mind with every thought you think. So, if you are using self-hypnosis to help you create greater abundance and you are working on your goal for half an hour a day, then you spend the other 23 hours contemplating how you don't have money to pay the bills, you're just undoing all that work you invested in self-hypnosis. Once you are done with your mind-programming, whenever you think of your goal, you'll make it happen much faster if you spend time expecting the positive outcome and giving thanks that what you desire is already yours, or at least that it is on its merry way to you.

This lovely book teaches you how to use the power of your mind in many different areas in your life. It also provides examples from the lives of others who have successfully used the power of their mind to overcome numerous obstacles and create what their hearts desired. This little stories may serve you as an inspiration until you have an assortment of your own success stories to tell - and if you genuinely apply the principles in this book, you'll have many great stories of your own.

I bought this book based on the excellent reviews it had. I've previously read lots of the 'cosmic ordering' type stuff, and have to say - this was far more powerful for me. The author uses accessible language to get his simple message across - what we think, we become. Though the same message has been offered by all of the world's spiritual teachers, ancient and modern (more often than not however, this message has been corrupted by humankind) - the real value of this work is the regular case histories discussed - genuine examples of everyday people using the power of their mind to achieve sometimes 'miraculous' results. Included here is the well documented case of a 19th Century surgeon who carried out some FOUR HUNDRED major operations, administering NO ANESTHETIC to his patients. A form of hypnosis was used, and none of his patients described feeling ANY pain. No patients died during surgery - and the post op mortality rate was extremely low. Cases such as this I found amazingly powerful and inspiring.

Some reviewers have mentioned the biblical undercurrent of the book... in truth, the author touches more upon the true, spiritual message of the man known as Jesus Christ - that the power of the Divine is in all of us. This wasn't a problem at all for me, even though I do have big issues with the formal religious/political structure called 'Christianity'.

I have just begun using the techniques given in this book, and already can testify to the power of the process!

All in all, this book is highly recommended to any who seek to further their well-being, creative potential and wider spiritual understanding... as well as to any who doubt the power that operates through them!!

I bought this book on the strength of the glowing reviews here. Other reviewers have commented on the religious references in this book, I don't have a problem with that - prayer is a powerful thing. My issue with this book is the writing style and its lack of solid content. Chapter after chapter he goes on about how great the sub-conscious mind is - great, we get that.. but where are the tips?, the techniques to use to harness this?! Instead all we get are a few anecdotes and some pseudo-science (The lack of any scientific rigor worried me, but maybe that won't be an issue for some people). Personally I would far recommend Instant Confidence (Book and CD) by Paul McKenna, which covers similar ideas about how powerful the sub-conscious is, and how to harness it with visualisation etc., but is written far more clearly and concisely, and much more practical.