Book Review – The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy has many innovative approaches to curing the defects of human thinking. Denial and skepticism of the self is one of the key issues he handles. Invoke the power of prayer as one of the tools to overcome these two strong negative forces. His description of the tool goes beyond the limitations of religion and tradition. Unlike many spiritualists, he treats “desire” as a positive element that can lead the mind to the right path. It says that desire is also the infinite power that raises the subconscious mind from a mediocre state of thought to a state of dynamic force.
Subconscious mind and beliefs
Surprisingly, Dr. Murphy makes no distinction between belief, faith, and blind faith in this book. According to him, they are multiple forms of the same power that transcends known barriers and transforms life. At the same time, it warns about beliefs that can cause harm to oneself and others. Here it is necessary to use the logic of the conscious mind to differentiate the good from the bad.
· Final goal: Being in the state of goals achieved while setting is the established method to achieve them without deviating from the path. Here you can think of an athlete who wants to run the 100 meter sprint within a specific time limit. If you start to suggest to your subconscious mind that you have already done it once, the probability of achieving that goal increases several times.
· Mind feed: According to Dr. Murphy, the subconscious is a powerful machine that simply works according to information from the conscious mind. If a person feeds fear, self-doubt and other negative inputs to the subconscious, he will walk the same path without question. On the contrary, feeding positive aspects can lead to the desired results sooner or later.
· Scientific sentence: According to Dr. Murphy, prayer is an act that stimulates the subconscious mind to accept the belief of the conscious mind. You don’t know the logic, reason, analytical thinking, or knowledge to differentiate between good and bad. When a person begins to pray from the conscious mind, the waves naturally pass to the subconscious to make it flexible and strong. These prayers are said to be indelible and indestructible imprints on the subconscious. The person who prays can never forget them while awake and asleep.
Dr. Murphy goes on to suggest many techniques and methods for sleep, gratitude, affirmation, argumentation, decree, mind-to-body connectivity, etc. According to him, each organ of the human body has its own intelligence that is not touched by the conscious mind. The functioning of the heart, lungs, white blood cells, blood veins and many other organs are examples that he illustrates. This intelligence will take care of the body and the subconscious when the conscious mind does not disturb it.
The book is worth reading only when its principles are put into practice. It takes time, effort, and patience to start growing toward set goals in life.