Friday 9 January 2015

Think and Grow Rich Summary - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: The Subconscious Mind – The Connecting Link

1.       The subconscious mind works day and night.
2.      Through a method of procedure, unknown to men, the subconscious mind draws upon the forces of Infinite Intelligence for the power with which it voluntarily transmutes one’s desires into their physical equivalent, making use, always of the most practical media by which this end may be accomplished.
3.      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.
4.      The four primary methods for planting and reinforcing suggestion in your subconscious are:
a.      By formulation and writing out of your desire
b.      By repetition of positive affirmation
c.       By creative visualization of your goal
d.      By acting as though the goal is already yours
5.      Subconscious is the storehouse of all information and thoughts that you have ever experienced.
6.      Subconscious is the gateway to Infinite Intelligence.
7.      Through hypnosis, psychiatrists are able to help patients open the door to their subconscious so that they can retrieve information about traumatic situations that have been filtered out or repressed by the conscious mind.
8.     This storehouse aspect of the subconscious is what accounts for some ideas that come to us through creative imagination.
9.      In some instances, bits of information and ideas that our conscious mind has forgotten will connect with each other on a subconscious level to create a new idea, and that idea will be received by our creative intelligence which presents it to us as a flash of inspiration.
10.   If you do everything within your power to strongly, firmly, and with complete faith and conviction, plant the idea that you will be successful and achieve your desire, our subconscious will accept and store that idea.
11.   When you have given your subconscious this specific direction that it did not have before, ti will begin to put together pieces of information, and through your creative intelligence you will find that you are coming up with more and better plans and ideas to accomplish our goal.
12.  With absolute faith and conviction, you can achieve it.
13.  You must conduct yourself with the attitude that says you can accomplish your goal, and that you deserve the help of those who can help you to accomplish your goal, and you must conduct yourself in that way everyday.
14.  Remember, your subconscious mind function voluntarily, whether you make any effort to influence it or not.
15.   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.
16.  All thought impulses, intended for transmutation into their physical equivalent, voluntarily planted in the subconscious mind, must pass through the imagination, and be mixed with faith.
17.   The mixing of faith with a plan, or purpose, intended for submission to the subconscious mind, may be done only through the imagination.
18.  Enthusiasm is a positive mental attitude – an internal impelling force of intense emotion, a power compelling creation or expression.
19.  Being enthusiastic is an impelling external expression of action. When you act enthusiastically, you accentuate the power of suggestion and auto-suggestion.
20. By filling your conscious mind with enthusiasm, you also impress upon your subconscious mind that your burning obsession and your plan for obtaining it are certain things.
21.  Then, if your conscious enthusiasm dims, your subconscious will be there, full of images of your success, to help you stroke your conscious fires of enthusiasm once again.
22. Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
23. One of the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
24. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.
25.  Rules of thumb by modern experts:
a.      Affirm what you want, not what you don’t want.
b.      Affirmation work best when they are short and very clear about a single desired goal. Take the time to write and rewrite and polish your affirmation until you can express your desire in a short statement of precise and well-chosen words.
c.       Affirmation should be specific about the desired goal, not on how to accomplish it. Your subconscious knows better than you what it can do and how it can do it.
d.      Don’t make unreasonable time demand.
e.      Have faith and conviction to affirm your desire and convince your subconscious mind.
f.        Repetition of your emotionalized affirmation is crucial. By repeating your affirmation often every day your new way of thinking will begin to be your automatic response.
26. The subconscious mind is the intermediary, which translates one’s prayers into terms which Infinite Intelligence can recognize, presents the message, and brings back the answer in the form of a definite plan or idea for procuring the object of the prayer.



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