"Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, 'I cannot afford it,' your subconscious
mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, 'I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind...' "
DR. JOSEPH MURPHY
The human brain is the most complex, powerful machine in the universe. If you were to write our your brain's potential as expressed by the number of possible neural connections it could make, it would take you 75 years to write out all the zeros. That's the level of power and capacity you have at your disposal every moment of every day. This means that your potential to achieve what you want is essentially without limit.
There is a world within, a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are mighty.To get a better understanding of our "world within", lets take a minute to differentiate between the conscious and subconscious minds:
The conscious mind is the part of you that does the reasoning and thinking and decision making in your everyday life. A powerful counterpart, but the more limited part of your mind, it sees and processes the world around you, or the "world without". Your conscious mind has only a short term memory of about twenty seconds, and the ability to manage only one to three events at a time.
Your conscious brain has severely limited processing ability. If your conscious brain is a lot more limited than you realized, your subconscious brain is vastly more powerful than you have ever imagined.
Your conscious brain loses focus every six to ten seconds. Your subconscious brain never loses focus. Never. Not once. Not ever.
Your subconscious mind is the much more spectacular and amazing part of your mind. The only limits it knows are the ones that you set, it functions in every single cell of your body, and it houses your self-image and habits. It is the connection to your "world within".
Your subconscious mind is the power center of your brain. Your conscious mind is what you use to define, articulate and set goals – but it's your subconscious mind that follows through with all the dozens, hundreds, or millions of actions necessary to achieve those goals.
Your subconscious is where you plant the seed – where you transform your desires into beliefs. Once you've done this there is no force in the world that can stop it from happening.
If you look within, instead of around you, you absolutely cannot fail in making use of the mighty forces that will eventually determine your course in life and align you with all that is best, strongest and most desirable.
You will always find the cause in the world within – by changing the cause you change the effect.The world within is governed by your mind. When you discover this world you will find the solution for every problem, the cause for every effect. Because it is in your control, all laws of power and possession are also in your control.
It is when you recognize the vast potential of this infinite source that it takes form in the world surrounding you.Find harmony in your "world within" and it will be reflected in the life around you; harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, the very best of everything. It is essential to all greatness, power, achievement and success.
So how do we control this spiritual world within us? By controlling our thoughts, and determining how each and every experience affects us. Every thought is a cause and every condition an effect. So then, are you seeing how important it is that you control your thoughts?
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequence eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave it all to chance.
Your subconscious mind makes up five-sixths of your brain mass and controls 96-98% of your perception and behavior. This part of your brain averages four hundred billion actions per second by handling impulses that travel faster than a hundred thousand miles per hour. It sees in pictures and patterns and it cannot tell truth from a lie, real from imagined. It believes as totally true every picture or image you send it. At any given moment, ten thousand trillion electrical and chemical actions and reactions are happening in your wonderful brain. Yes, you are a genius.
John Assaraf, Having It All"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
THOMAS A. EDISON
As amazing as your subconscious mind is, what it cannot do is equally as important as what it can. Your subconscious does not have the ability to reject a command or habit. It does not do the thinking. Its function is simply to carry out orders.
Remember the Disney movie Aladdin? A genie appeared and told Aladdin he would grant him 3 wishes – all he had to do was ask. This isn't just for bedtime stories and make believe – your subconscious is your personal genie, at your beck and call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, whether you are awake or asleep.
John Assaraf is one of my favorite authors in this exciting field of "human potential", and I find his enthusiasm and hunger on the subject extremely contagious in all his books as well as his other projects. The following paragraph is taken from one of his books; it is one that I have found to be some of the most incredible and exciting information I have yet to come across:
There is a truly magical part of your subconscious. It's the side of you that connects on a nonphysical level with the entire Universal intelligence and energy fields. There's no line separating these energy fields. There are millions of different frequencies of energy, and with your subconscious mind you can tap right into the source of all the supply.
You know from physics that everything you see and cannot see is essentially energy, constantly in a state of motion and vibration. It's the energy and information you can't see that the subconscious can access. The intelligent energy in you is connected to all other energy fields and intelligence, and whatever you want to create in your life begins with desire and thought.