The Connecting Link to Success: The Subconscious Mind

The subconscious mind consists of a field of consciousness, in which every impulse of thought that reaches the objective mind through any of the five senses, is classified and recorded, and from which thoughts may be recalled or withdrawn as letters may be taken from a filing cabinet.

It receives, and files, sense impressions or thoughts, regardless of their nature.You may voluntarily plant in your subconscious mind any plan, thought, or purpose which you de­sire to, translate into its physical or monetary equivalent. The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires which have been mixed with emotional feeling, such as faith.

The subconscious mind works day and night.

Can You Control the Subconscious Mind?

You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stu­pendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

The subconscious mind may be voluntarily directed only through habit.  Remember,your subconscious mind functions voluntarily, whether you make any effort to influence it or not. This, naturally, suggests to you that thoughts of fear and poverty, and all negative thoughts serve as stimuli to your subconscious mind, unless, you master these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed.


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What Are You Feeding Your Subconscious Mind?

The Connecting Link to Success: The Subconscious MindThe subconscious mind will not remain idle! If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect. Thought impulses, both negative and positive are reaching the subconscious mind continuously.

For the present, it is sufficient if you remember that you are living daily, in the midst of all manner of thought impulses which are reaching your subconscious mind, without your knowledge. Some of these impulses are negative, some are positive. You are now engaged in trying to help shut off the flow of negative impulses, and to aid in voluntarily influencing your subconscious mind, through positive impulses of desire.

When you achieve this, you will possess the key which unlocks the door to your subconscious mind. Moreover, you will control that door so completely, that no undesirable thought may influence your subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with “feeling” or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind. If it is true that the subconscious mind responds more quickly to, and is influenced more readily by thought impulses which are well mixed with emotion, it is essential to become familiar with the more important of the emotions.

There are seven major positive emotions, and seven major negative emotions. The negatives voluntarily inject themselves into the thought impulses, which insure passage into the subconscious mind. The positives must be injected, through the principle of auto-suggestion, into the thought impulses which an individual wishes to pass on to his subconscious mind.

THE SEVEN MAJOR POSITIVE EMOTIONS

  • The emotion of DESIRE
  • The emotion of FAITH
  • The emotion of LOVE
  • The emotion of SEX
  • The emotion of ENTHUSIASM
  • The emotion of ROMANCE
  • The emotion of HOPE

There are other positive emotions, but these are the seven most powerful, and the one’s most commonly used in creative effort. Master these seven emotions (they can be mastered only by use) and the other positive emotions will be at your command when you need them.

THE SEVEN MAJOR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS (To be avoided)

  • The emotion of FEAR
  • The emotion of JEALOUSY
  • The emotion of HATRED
  • The emotion of REVENGE
  • The emotion of GREED
  • The emotion of SUPERSTITION
  • The emotion of ANGER

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.

Here the law of habit will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

Reprinted with permission of the publisher,
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA).
©2007. All rights reversed. www.us.PenguinGroup.com


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