Book Summary: The Power of Subconscious Mind: Author Joseph Murphy

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“The Power of Subconscious Mind” authored by Joseph Murphy

 

“The Power of Subconscious Mind” authored by Joseph Murphy is a self-help book that explores the concept of the subconscious mind and the role it plays in shaping our lives. First published in 1963, this book offers practical techniques, tips and advice to tap into the subconscious mind, overcome shortcomings, and become success. The book is a classic in the personal development genre and has been widely read and recommended.

 

  1. : The Treasure House is well within You, The Subconscious Mind is Always Active

Your subconscious mind continuously works, influencing your thoughts, emotions, and actions. Whatever you repeatedly think or believe is stored in your subconscious and manifests in your life.

  1. The Power of Belief and Autosuggestion: How Your Mind Works

  • Your subconscious accepts what you believe as true, it does not urgue.

  • Positive affirmations and visualization help reprogram the subconscious for success.

  • Repeated thoughts and emotions create habits that shape your destiny.

  • Choose to believe that something good can happen and is happening now. Never say “I can’t.” Instead, say “I can do all things through the power of my own subconscious mind.”

  1. Visualization and Mental Imagery: The Miracle Working Power of Your Subconscious

  • Imagine yourself already achieving your goal.

  • Get Your Subconscious Work for You

  • Your subconscious mind doesn’t distinguish between real and imagined experiences.

  • Consistent visualization helps attract the desired outcome.

  • Convey the Idea of Perfect Health to your Subconscious Mind.

  •  Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and your subconscious will faithfully reproduce your habitual thinking.

  1. The Law of Attraction and Mental Healing: Mental Healing In Ancient Times

  • What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

  • What you focus on expands in your life.

  • Replace negative thoughts with positive ones to attract better experiences.

  • Many illnesses are linked to negative thinking—mental healing is possible through belief.

  1. Faith and the Power of Prayer: Mental Healing in Modern Times

  • Faith in a positive outcome influences the subconscious to make it happen.

  • Repeating affirmations like “I am healthy, strong, and successful” programs your subconscious for success.

  1. Overcoming Fear and Negative Thinking:Practical Techniques in Mental Healing

  • The Art of True Prayer: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Bible

  • Fear is a product of the conscious mind but can be eliminated by feeding the subconscious with confidence and faith.

  • Replace fear with thoughts of success and well-being.

  • The Visualization Technique: The easiest and most obvious way to formulate an idea is to visualize it, to see it in your mind’s eye as vividly as if it were alive.

  • Mental Movie Method As the old saying proclaims, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Act as though I am, and I will be.

  • The Baudoin Technique A very simple way of securing this is to condense the idea which is to be the object of suggestion, to sum it up in a brief phrase which can be readily graven on the memory, and to repeat it over and over again as a lullaby.

  • The Sleeping Technique When you enter into a sleepy, drowsy state, effort is reduced to a minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent. The highest degree of outcropping of the subconscious occurs just prior to sleep and just after we awaken. In this state the negative thoughts, which tend to neutralize your desire and prevent acceptance by subconscious mind are absent.

  • The Thank-You Technique 13 It is recommended that we make known our requests with praise and thanksgiving. Some extraordinary results follow this simple method of prayer. The thankful heart is always close to the creative forces of the universe, causing countless blessings to flow toward it by the law of reciprocal relationship, based on the cosmic law of action and reaction.

  • The Affirmative Method In praying use not vain repetition. The power of your affirmation lies in intelligent application of definite and specific positives.

  • The Argumentative Method It consists of spiritual reasoning. You convince yourself and the patient that the sickness is due to false beliefs, groundless fears, and negative patterns lodged in the subconscious mind. The disease or ailment is due to distorted, twisted pattern of thought that has taken form in the body.

  • The Absolute Method Is Like Modern Ultrasound Therapy 14 The person using this method mentions the name of the patient. Then she silently thinks of God and His qualities and attributes, such as God is all bliss, boundless love, infinite intelligence, all-powerful, boundless wisdom, absolute harmony, indescribable beauty, and perfection. As she quietly thinks along these lines her subconscious is lifted into a new spiritual dimension. She feels the infinite ocean of God’s love dissolving everything unlike itself in the mind and body of the patient for whom she is praying. She feels all the power and love of God are now focussed on the patient. Whatever is bothersome or vexing is now completely neutralized in the presence of the infinite ocean of life and love.

  • The Decree Method Power goes into our world according to the feeling and faith behind it. When we realize the power that moves the world is moving on our behalf and is backing up our word, our confidence and assurance grow. There must be no mental striving, coercion, force, or mental wrestling.

  1. Success, Wealth, and Relationships

  • Your thoughts about money determine your financial reality.

  • Expect abundance and prosperity to attract wealth.

  • Harmonious relationships are built by maintaining love and goodwill in your subconscious.

  1. Sleep and the Subconscious Mind

  • Before sleep, your mind is most receptive to suggestions.

  • Use this time for positive affirmations and problem-solving.

Summing Up :

Your thoughts shape your reality—control them wisely.
The subconscious doesn’t argue; it accepts what you repeatedly tell it.
Visualization, affirmations, and faith can help you achieve success.
Replace fear with confidence and positivity to overcome challenges.
Your mind can heal your body and attract abundance.