Beyond the Power of Your Subconscious Mind (14 page)

There are many different approaches, techniques, and methods in using the universal power, but there is only one process of healing, which is faith and belief.

The law of belief

All religions of the world represent forms of belief, and these beliefs are explained in many ways. The law of life is belief. What do you believe about yourself, life, and the universe?

Belief is a thought in your mind which causes the power of your subconscious to be distributed into all phases of your life according to your thinking habits. The belief of your mind is simply the thought of your mind.

It is foolish to believe in something to hurt or harm you. Remember, it is not the thing believed in that hurts or harms you, but the belief or thought in your mind which creates the result. All your experiences, all your actions, and all the events and circumstances of your life are but the reflections and reactions to your own thought.

Affirmations and directed visualization are the combined function of the conscious and subconscious mind scientifically directed.

Affirmations are the synchronized, harmonious, and intelligent function of the conscious and subconscious levels of mind specifically directed for a definite purpose. In scientific prayer or affirmations, you must know what you are doing and why you are doing it. You trust the law of healing. Affirmations are sometimes referred to as mental treatment, and another term is scientific prayer.

In the affirmation process, you consciously choose a certain idea, mental picture, or plan which you desire to experience. You realize your capacity to convey this idea or mental image to your subconscious by feeling the reality of the state assumed. As you remain faithful in your mental attitude, your affirmation will be answered. The affirmation process is a definite mental action for a definite specific purpose. (See Chapter 8).

Let us suppose that you decide to heal a certain difficulty by using the affirmation process. You are aware that your problem or sickness, whatever it may be, must be caused by negative thoughts charged with fear and lodged in your subconscious mind. And that if you can succeed in cleansing your mind of these thoughts, you will get a healing.

You therefore turn to the healing power within your own subconscious mind and remind yourself of its infinite power and intelligence and its capacity to heal all conditions. As you dwell on these truths, your fear will begin to dissolve, and the recollection of these truths also corrects the erroneous beliefs.

You give thanks for the healing that you know will come, and then you keep your mind off the difficulty until you feel guided, after an interval, to affirm again. While you are affirming, you absolutely refuse to give any power to the negative conditions or to admit for a second that the healing will not come. This attitude of mind brings about the harmonious union of the conscious and subconscious mind, which releases the healing power.

Faith healing, what it means, and
how blind faith works

What is popularly termed faith healing is not the faith mentioned in the Bible, which means a knowledge of the interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind. A faith healer is one who heals without any real scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved. He may claim that he has a special gift of healing, and the sick person’s blind belief in him or his powers may bring results.

A voodoo doctor in South Africa and other parts of the world may heal by incantations, or a person may be healed by touching the so-called bones of saints, or anything else which causes the patients to honestly believe in the method or process.

Any method which causes you to move from fear and worry to faith and expectancy will heal. There are many persons, each of whom claims that because his personal theory produces results, it is, therefore, the correct one. This, as already explained in this chapter, cannot be true.

To illustrate how blind faith works: The Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, in 1776 claimed many cures when he stroked diseased bodies with artificial magnets. Later on he threw away his magnets and evolved the theory of animal magnetism. This he held to be a fluid which pervades the universe, but is most active in the human organism.

He claimed that this magnetic fluid, which was going forth from him to his patients, healed them. People flocked to him, and many wonderful cures were effected.

Mesmer moved to Paris, and while there the Government appointed a commission composed of physicians and members of the Academy of Science, of which Benjamin Franklin was a member, to investigate his cures. The report admitted the leading facts claimed by Mesmer, but held that there was no evidence to prove the correctness of his magnetic fluid theory, and said the effects were due to the imagination of the patients.

Soon after this, Mesmer was driven into exile, and died in 1815. Shortly afterwards, Dr. Braid of Manchester undertook to show that magnetic fluid had nothing to do with the production of the healings of Dr. Mesmer. Dr. Braid discovered that patients could be thrown into hypnotic sleep by focusing their attention on the flame of a candle during which many of the many of the well-known phenomena ascribed to magnetism by Mesmer could be produced. Braid called hypnosis “the physiology of fascination” (
fascination,
here, has the sense of
absorption
).

You can readily see that all these cures were undoubtedly brought about by the active imagination of the patients together with a powerful suggestion of health to their subconscious minds. All this could be termed blind faith as there was no understanding in those days as to how the cures were brought about.

Releasing the kinetic action of the subconscious mind

A psychologist friend of mine told me that one of his lungs was infected. X-rays and analysis showed the presence of tuberculosis. At night before going to sleep he would quietly affirm, “Every cell, nerve, tissue, and muscle of my lungs are now being made whole, pure, and perfect. My whole body is being restored to health and harmony.”

These are not his exact words, but they represent the essence of what he affirmed. A complete healing followed in about a month’s time. Subsequent X-rays showed a perfect healing.

I wanted to know his method, so I asked him why he repeated the words prior to sleep. Here is his reply, “The kinetic action of the subconscious mind continues throughout your sleep-time period. Hence, give the subconscious mind something good to work on as you drop off into slumber.” This was a very wise answer. In thinking of harmony and perfect health, he never mentioned his trouble by name.

I strongly suggest that you cease talking about your ailments or giving them a name. The only sap from which they draw life is your attention and fear of them. Like the above mentioned psychologist, become a mental surgeon. Then your troubles will be cut off like dead branches are pruned from a tree.

If you are constantly naming your aches and symptoms, you inhibit the kinetic action, which means the release of the healing power and energy of your subconscious mind. Furthermore, by the law of your own mind, these imaginings tend to take shape,
as the thing I
greatly feared
. Fill your mind with the great truths of life and walk forward in the light of love.

Lee Pulos adds:

The current thinking among most mind/body doctors is that with every illness, there is an emotion that has not been dealt with or it has been “stuffed.” What might the emotion be, (usually anger, stress, etc.,) that has not been dealt with?

Symptoms are a signal from the body/mind that you need to change something in your life. First the body whispers, then it talks, and if not listened to it shouts, and if still not listened to it screams, “too late!”

Summary of your aids to health

1. Find out what it is that heals you. Realize that correct directions given to your subconscious mind will heal your mind and body.

2. Develop a definite plan for turning over your requests or desires to your subconscious mind.

3. Imagine the end desired and feel its reality. Follow it through, and you will get definite results.

4. Decide what belief is. Know that belief is a thought in your mind, and what you think, you create.

5.
It is foolish to believe in sickness and something to hurt or to harm you. Believe in perfect health, prosperity, peace, wealth, and divine guidance.

6. Great and noble thoughts upon which you habitually dwell become great acts.

7. Apply the power of prayer therapy in your life. Choose a certain plan, idea, or mental picture. Mentally and emotionally unite with that idea, and as you remain faithful to your mental attitude, your prayer will be answered.

8. Always remember, if you really want the power to heal, you can have it through faith, which means a knowledge of the working of your conscious and subconscious mind. Faith comes with understanding.

9. Blind faith means that a person may get results in healing without any scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved.

10. Learn to pray for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your mind, and your thoughts of health, vitality, and perfection operating through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and resurrected in the mind of your loved one.

By 1974 my wife and I began to practice meditation (Transcendental Meditation). Today we still enjoy the many benefits of regular meditation. In my deep meditative state, I integrate my affirmations, as I have learned the subconscious is most responsive to data input when the conscious mind is in its deepest state of relaxation or what is also known as “hypnagogic” state.

As the chapter you have just read describes the power of the subconscious in the facilitation of physical (and mental) healings, let me share one personal story for which I have no scientific explanations.

In 1981, we were living in Sun Valley, Idaho. I had been feeling under the weather, had a sore throat, and didn’t seem to be getting any better (very unusual for me). I saw a doctor friend of mine who examined me and told me I had an acute case of mononucleosis. In fact, he insisted I be admitted to the hospital overnight for intravenous feedings and whatever else I was given. I was told it could take as long as a month or more to fully recover from whatever I had. This was unacceptable to me as I was to begin a new career the following week, which would result in our moving to Seattle. My physician friend smiled empathetically and said, “Jim, I appreciate your positive attitude, but your red cells and white cells . . .” and then he
proceeded to tell me, medically, why it would take so many weeks or months to restore my system to its normal health.

I was very determined to heal my body
that night
.

I put myself into a deep meditative state and visualized a white light energy healing and restoring my blood cells to normal. I don’t think I ever fell asleep, but I was in the deepest state of rest (theta) and for the longest time that I had (or have since) ever experienced. It was quite something.

In the morning, I felt very energized and called my wife asking her to please bring my jogging shoes, shorts, and a tee shirt to the hospital. I asked the nurses to remove the tubes in my arms and told the on-duty doctor I was going for a run. He didn’t want me to leave the hospital and told me I wouldn’t be able to run 100 feet. And I didn’t. I ran eight miles, what Sun Valley residents call the “loop.” I felt great!

When I returned to the hospital, my physician friend was there—who kindly told me I was crazy. I asked him to draw blood from my arm and call me at my home when he had the test results. He called me later and asked me to return to the hospital because they had to do another blood test. I returned to the hospital as requested and had a second blood test which also resulted negative for mononucleosis.

He had never seen anything like this before nor had I. There was no scientific explanation for what had occurred. But, at a deeper level, I
knew
I had experienced a healing which I believe to have been facilitated through my deep meditation and profound
belief
I would be healed. I didn’t make any fanfare over this, but simply said, “Thank you, God,” and went about my work.

Now, as I read Dr. Murphy’s words nearly 30 years later, I more fully understand the dynamics which created that healing and truly experienced the power of my subconscious mind.

The point will be made that all healings are the result of the acceptance of one basic fact: That matter is formed by those inner qualities that give it vitality, that structure follows expectation, that matter at any time can be completely changed by the activation of the creative faculties inherent in all consciousness.

The Nature of Personal Reality
, by Jane Roberts

12

The Tendency of the
Subconscious Is Lifeward

In Chapter 7, I briefly introduced the
supraconscious
. I wrote:

The supraconscious is our source of pure creativity. It is that area that we receive great inspiration and creative solutions in which information needed to solve the situation transcends any data stored in our subconscious, or memory bank. “Geniuses” seem to have an ability to tap into this vast reservoir at will.

I also wrote, “Dr. Murphy does not make reference to the supraconscious. Most of the work in this area of study has been done since Dr. Muphy wrote his work in 1963.”

Going forward in this book I will substitute “supraconscious” (in italics) where Dr. Murphy has written “subconscious” if it is as the supraconscious has been defined in this book (Chapter 13 describes the functions and characteristics of the supraconscious in detail).

Over 90 percent of your mental life is subconscious, so men and women who fail to make use of this marvelous power live within very narrow limits.

Your subconscious processes are always lifeward and constructive. Your subconscious is the builder of your body and maintains all its vital functions. It is on the job 24 hours a day and never sleeps. It is always trying to help and preserve you from harm.