The subconscious mind is a powerful tool that controls access to your strongest and weakest emotions. When mixed with feelings, it can either break a person or push them away from their true desires, leading to a life quite opposite of what they truly want. However, you can control this part of your brain by focusing on your strongest emotions.
We all know that a thought can consume you, especially when repeated over and over again. Last year, I experienced terrible thoughts that put me in a spiral, making me feel like there was no escape. Slowly, I improved by placing positive thoughts in my mind. The good will always outweigh the bad, and the same applies to the emotions you carry. Negative thoughts are a heavy load that even you won’t be able to lift if not released.
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The Subconscious Mind Works Day and Night
The subconscious mind draws upon your inner strength to create something physical, whether it’s money, love, family, or the confidence to travel solo. While you may not have 100% control over your subconscious mind, the idea is to feed it with your plans, goals, and purposes to create something concrete, something you can see with your own eyes.
The Power of the Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
We all know the feeling of working hard but still not getting what we want, or feeling the opposite and achieving success with little effort. The answer lies in the subconscious mind. Below, I’ve listed six key points in detail taken from the book.
1. The Difference Between the Conscious and Subconscious Mind
The conscious mind is like the captain of a ship, staying on the deck and seeing where it’s going. On the other hand, the engineers, who control the engines and other instruments, follow the captain’s orders without knowing the destination. The engineers represent the subconscious mind.
Think of your conscious mind as the captain of your ship (your body and environment). Your subconscious mind takes orders based on what your conscious mind believes and accepts as true, without questioning them. The subconscious mind is like soil; whatever seed you plant, it will grow. It does not have the ability to argue or dispute, so if you provide it with incorrect information, it will accept it as true. For example, if you keep saying, “I can’t afford it,” you will go through life believing that because you created that thought.
2. You Have a Fundamental Right to Be Rich
Don’t let anyone make you feel ashamed of your desire to become rich. Just as freely circulating blood indicates physical health, freely circulating money indicates economic health. If you were physically ill, you would seek ways to improve your health, whether by going to the pharmacy for medication or consulting a doctor for advice. Have you ever wondered why you can’t get what you want? These emotions are often the reasons why.
Reason No. 1 – Envy
Whenever I used to see someone in my neighborhood driving a fancy car, my friends and I would wonder how they afforded it. We speculated that they might have sold drugs or engaged in other illegal activities. We talked enviously behind their back. After understanding the book, I chose to change my behavior because I realized envious thoughts put me in a negative position. You lose what you condemn and cannot attract what you criticize or envy. I wouldn’t be with a partner who always criticizes me, and neither should you. Find motivation in someone driving a nice car and tell yourself that you can achieve it as well.
Reason No. 2 – Trying Too Hard
If I asked you to walk on a narrow plank on the ground, you would do it easily as there’s no risk of danger. But if I asked you to walk on a plank 50 meters high between two walls, you probably wouldn’t do it because you would imagine falling. Fear would stop you because there’s a good chance you might fall. Never try to force your subconscious mind to accept an idea using willpower; such attempts will lead to failure. The effortless way is better.
Have you ever revised so hard for an exam, but when you sit down to take it, you suddenly forget everything? The harder you try, the more you forget, but you remember it later. The mistake is forcing yourself to remember. Instead, relax and imagine passing. If you do this, your subconscious mind will help you see new solutions and meet new people.
Don’t fixate so much on the end goal that you forget to notice what’s around you. Your solution can come from the most unexpected source. Be open to new solutions. It’s not your job to know how you will reach the destination; your job is to know where you’re going, and your subconscious mind will know how to get there. For example, you wouldn’t go to a doctor with a solution; you would expect the doctor to give you the solution.
Reason No. 3 – Fear
I set affirmations and did visualizations, but I still got no results. That was because I probably indulged in fearful thoughts. You can’t keep asking the taxi driver to change directions while you’re already en route; it will just confuse things. It’s the same with working with your subconscious mind. It’s important to have a clear idea in your mind and believe there’s a way out with a solution to a problem. Before doing something you’re scared to do, sit down, relax your mind, and visualize yourself winning before attempting it.
3. How to Visualize Your Goals
The easiest way to visualize your goals is to see them in your mind as if they were already alive. Can you see things that don’t yet exist? Of course, you can. The same way a phone or a laptop came into existence—someone saw it before it was made. This is what architects, engineers, and artists do. As a Civil Engineer, I would never build anything without having a design in place. So, it’s important to visualize something before you start building it.
The best time to visualize your goals is before you go to sleep and after meditation. When you’re in a relaxed and sleepy state, the conflict between the conscious and subconscious mind is reduced, allowing the subconscious mind to work better on your goals. We spend one-third of our lives sleeping, and many answers to our problems come to us during sleep.
4. How to Receive Guidance from Your Subconscious
When you have to make a difficult decision or fail to see a solution, you need to think constructively. If you are fearful or worried, then you’re not thinking properly. True thinking is free from fear. Here are some simple techniques to receive guidance on any subject:
- Quiet the mind and still the body (get it to relax).
- Focus your thoughts on the solution to your problem.
- Try to solve it with your conscious mind.
- Think about how happy you would be with the perfect solution.
- Let your mind play with this mood of happiness in a relaxed way.
After you do this, drop off to sleep. If you wake up without the answer, just keep working and don’t pressure yourself to get the answer. Feel the joy of the answer.
The book shows several good examples of how people used this technique to find answers and solutions to their problems, including the author himself. For instance, he found a ring he had lost by asking a neighbor’s kid if he had seen it, and to his surprise, the kid had put it on a table in his house.
5. How to Use Your Subconscious Mind for Forgiveness
Life always forgives you. It forgives you for cutting your finger or dislocating your hand by repairing it over time. But we struggle to do the same; we feel terrible every time we think about those moments where we could have done better.
We all have a few things from our past that we regret, whether it’s something we said to our parents, something we did to our friends, or how we managed our money. Years may pass, but you might still feel terrible about those moments. If this applies to you, consider this: scientists say that every cell in our body is replaced every 11 months, both physically and psychologically. Do you know what that means? It means that you are reborn every 11 months.
If you are still sacrificing your peace over something you did 11 months ago, then you are blaming an innocent person. It’s easier said than done, but look to forgive yourself.
6. How to Use Your Subconscious Mind for Healing
If you created a watch and one day it stopped working, you would know how to fix it, right? The subconscious mind is like a watchmaker; it created your body and knows exactly how to heal it without the help of your conscious mind. Your conscious mind cannot operate your body, but it can interfere with its proper functioning. For example, if you put a random person in the cockpit of a plane, they wouldn’t know how to operate it, but they could distract the pilot.
Products of the conscious mind, such as worry, anxiety, fear, and depression, interfere with the normal functioning of the heart, lungs, and stomach, causing problems. Stress disrupts the harmonious functioning of your subconscious mind. When you feel mentally and physically drained, the best way is to let go or at least slow down the wheel of your thought process. Only allow positive thoughts in your mind, such as harmony, health, and peace, and all the functions of your body will improve.
My Last Takeaway
The feeling of health produces health. The feeling of wealth produces wealth.
If you found the points mentioned in this article helpful, I highly recommend reading The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy. This book delves deeper into the concepts discussed and provides practical techniques to harness the power of your subconscious mind. Click here to purchase the book on Amazon and start your journey towards a more empowered and fulfilling life.
