An excellent way to get acquainted with the two functions
of your mind is to look upon your own mind as a garden.
You are a gardener, and you are planting seeds (thoughts) in
your subconscious mind all day long, based on your habitual
thinking. As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you
reap in your body and environment.
Begin now to sow thoughts of peace, happiness, right
action, good will, and prosperity.
Think quietly and with interest on these qualities and accept
them fully in your conscious reasoning mind. Continue to plant
these wonderful seeds (thoughts) in the garden of your mind,
and you will reap a glorious harvest. Your subconscious mind
may be likened to the soil, which will grow all kinds of seeds,
good or bad. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Every
thought is, therefore, a cause, and every condition is an effect. For this reason, it is essential that you take charge of
thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.
When your mind thinks correctly, when you understand
the truth, when the thoughts deposited in you
e constructive, harmonious, and peaceful, the magic
mind are working power of your subconscious will
your subconscious respond and bring
about harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, and the
best of everything. When you begin to control your thought
processes, you can apply the powers of your subconscious
to any problem or difficulty. In other words, you will actually
be consciously co- operating with the infinite power and
omnipotent law, which governs all things.
Look around you wherever you live and you will notice
that the vast majority of mankind lives in the world without
the more enlightened men are intensely interested in the
world within. Remember, it is the world within, namely, your
thoughts, feelings, and imagery that makes your world without.
It is, therefore, the only creative power, and everything that
you find in your world of expression has been created by you
in the inner world of your mind, consciously or unconsciously.
A knowledge of the interaction of your conscious
and subconscious minds will enable you to transform your
whole life. In order to change external conditions, you must
change the cause. Most men try to change conditions and
circumstances by working with conditions and circumstances.
To remove discord, confusion, lack, and limitation, you must
remove the cause, and the cause is the way you are using your
conscious mind. In other words, the way you are thinking and
picturing in your mind.
You are living in a fathomless sea of infinite riches. Your
subconscious is very sensitive to your thoughts. Your thoughts
form the mold or matrix through which the infinite intelligence, wisdom, vital forces, and energies of your subconscious flow,
The practical application of the laws of your mind as illustrated
in each chapter of this book will cause you to experience
abundance for poverty, wisdom for superstition and ignorance,
for pain, joy for sadness, light for darkness, harmony for
discord, faith and confidence for fear, success for failure, and
freedom from the law of averages.Certainly, there can be no
more wonderful blessing than these from a mental, emotional,
and material standpoint.
Most of the great scientists, artists, poets, singers, writers,
and inventors have a deep understanding of the workings of
the conscious and subconscious minds. One time Caruso, the
great operatic tenor, was struck with stage fright. He said his
throat was paralyzed due to spasms caused by intense fear,
which constricted the muscles of his throat. Perspiration
poured copiously down his face. He was ashamed because in a
few minutes he had to go out on the stage, yet he was shaking
with fear and trepidation. He said, “They will laugh at me. I
can’t sing.” Then he shouted in the presence of those behind
the stage, “The Little Me wants to strangle the Big Me within.”
He said to the Little Me, “Get out of here, the Big Me wants
to sing through me.”
By the Big Me, he meant the limitless power and wisdom
of his subconscious mind, and he began to shout, “Get out,
get out, the Big Me is going to sing!”
His subconscious mind responded, releasing the vital
forces within him. When the call came, he walked out on
the stage and sang gloriously and majestically, enthralling the
audience.
It is obvious to you now that Caruso must have understood
the two levels of mind the conscious or rational, and the
subconscious or irrational level. Your subconscious mind is reactive and responds to the nature of your thoughts. When
your conscious mind (the Little Me) is full of fear, worry,
and anxiety, the negative emotions engendered in your
subconscious mind (the Big Me) are released and flood the
conscious mind with a sense of panic, foreboding, and despair.
When this happens, you can, like Caruso, speak affirmatively
and with a deep sense of authority to the irrational emotions
generated in your deeper mind as follows: “Be still, be quiet,
I am in control, you must obey me, you are subject to my
command, you cannot intrude where you do not belong.”
It is fascinating and intensely interesting to observe how
you can speak authoritatively and with conviction to the
irrational movement of your deeper-self, bringing silence,
harmony, and peace to your mind. The subconscious is subject
to the conscious mind, and that is why it is called subconscious
or subjective.