Beyond the Power of Your Subconscious Mind (2 page)

As I gained fluency and understanding of the principles of Omega, I began to look beyond Omega to every book and seminar I could experience to help deepen my understanding of the subconscious and the power of our intentional thoughts. Many roads would eventually lead to one author: Dr. Joseph Murphy.

In 2005, a colleague of mine, Tom Popa, came into my office and handed me a book that he thought I would enjoy. The book was
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
by Dr. Joseph Murphy. I thought, “Oh, my God! Could this be the same Joseph Murphy that John Boyle had studied with?” In fact, it was.

As I read the book, word by word I realized that the content of the Omega Seminar had come largely from this book, and John Boyle’s brilliance was in the construction of the four-day format that enabled the participants to really “get it” and emerge with a tool kit that enabled them to bring about whatever changes in their lives they desired.

As stated earlier in this introduction, Dr. Joseph Murphy was truly one of “the great early pioneers in the area of self image psychology.” Since his book was first written in 1963, there has been much more added through research to this exciting field of study. Also, the world in which we live today is considerably different than it was nearly 50 years ago.

My first thoughts were to revise and edit Dr. Murphy’s original text and simply add the words “Newly Revised and Edited” following the title,
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.
But, as I proceeded with my research and editing, I found more and more contemporary data that truly enabled me to provide the 21st Century edition of Dr. Murphy’s original work; thus the updated title,
Beyond the Power of Your Subconscious Mind.

What I have attempted to do in this revised edition of Dr. Murphy’s original book is provide the reader with new research and findings in this field. I have also added many “how-to” tools that were not included in his original text.

So that the reader can easily distinguish between the text originally written by Dr. Murphy and text added by me, I have used his original serif type for the words written by Dr. Murphy and sans serif for those words written by me.

It is hoped that this revised edition can become a real life-changer for many, as the teachings in the book are not taught in most of our schools or universities.

As is written in Jane Roberts’ brilliant book,
Seth Speaks
:

Many people, I hear, have lived within New York City and never taken a tour through the Empire State Building, while many foreigners are well acquainted with it. And so while you have a physical address, I may still be able to point out some very strange and miraculous psychic and psychological structures within your own system of reality that you have ignored.

I hope, quite frankly, to do far more than this. I hope to take you on a tour through the levels of reality that are available to you, and to guide you on a journey through the dimensions of your own psychological structure—to open up whole areas of your own consciousness of which you have been relatively unaware. I hope, therefore, not only to explain the multidimensional aspects of personality, but to give each reader some glimpse of that greater identity that is his own.

(Highly recommended reading,
Seth Speaks
, by Jane Roberts.*)

This is also the hope Dr. Murphy and I wish to provide for you in the pages that follow.

Foreword

By Lee Pulos
,
Ph.D., ABPP

It is indeed an honor to be invited to write the Foreword to a book that I first read forty years ago and can still remember the visionary and psychological excitement I experienced at that time.

This is not exactly the same book I first read, however, as Jim Jensen has judiciously and wisely edited and reframed some of the concepts that were valid in 1963 and has redefined and upgraded them so they are consistent with current neuroscience, psychological theory and research
.

The essence of
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
has not changed. Our ego or conscious mind skims just the topmost surface of reality and awareness and focuses on the limited confines of our five senses. However, the unrecognized and heroic portions of our psyche lie beneath the prosaic life.

Unfortunately, most scientists today believe that mind somehow emerges from a mysterious but unprovable interaction of molecules in the brain; thus, matter creates mind. This leads to a very reductionistic and limiting explanation of who we are—a cosmic pessimism of human potential and our deeper beingness.

However, Joseph Murphy’s brilliant insights about the depth and richness of our different thresholds of intelligence and corridors of consciousness has helped hundreds of thousands of men and women discover what we have known in the deepest regions of our hearts and minds—but have forgotten that we know it. That is, we are much, much more than our rational minds.

This book is a reminder of some of the oldest wisdom such as that of the Buddha who said, “A man is the product of his thoughts.” And from an even older tradition, the
Bhagavad Gita
, “Man is made by his belief—as he believes, so he is.”

The rational mind can be a barrier to the full use of our potential. It limits our capabilities with such a tight focus and has philosophically cut us off from the experimental theatre of our subconscious, the true source of our power. The older-growth forests of the mind contain the true potential—our intuition, our non-ordinary awareness, our dreams, our connection to the cosmic information field, our psychological and spiritual landscapes, and, yes, our mysticism.

This is a book for every generation, in that it comes closest to suggesting an evolutionary adventure that can be comprehended and utilized by every age ranging from a twelve-year-old to his or her grandparents. It also follows and embraces one of Einstein’s favorite sayings, “Make everything as simple as possible—but not simpler.”

In reading
Beyond the Power of Your Subconscious Mind
,
I experienced a great joy in following the bold sweep of Joseph Murphy’s and Jim Jensen’s thoughts which ranged from the potential for creating miracles, how to awaken our deeper mind for physical and mental healing, overcoming limiting beliefs and fear-driven behavior, developing a deservability for wealth consciousness, creating healing dreams, overcoming roadblocks to success and how to re-
educate and re-program our subconscious for attaining goals and creating and stepping into the most optimal, loving, successful, healthy future possible. And yes, there is even more.

But what resonated most for me throughout the book was how our life is a printout of our beliefs. We create what we focus or concentrate on, and our beliefs are largely responsible for the areas in which we focus most attention. Our life experiences then will follow our focus, beliefs, expectations and intention. The implications of Murphy’s and Jensen’s insights are unlimited in that, if we don’t deal with our limiting beliefs, they will deal with us, in our health, work, relationships, financial prosperity or other areas of our life. Most important, however, Jensen provides the tools and techniques to overcome the psychological antibodies we sometimes set up against ourselves that can impede change.

However, at the very root of every success or failure is self-esteem. It is the official and most important headquarters or base of operations that determines what kind of experiences we attract into our lives. It is the hub of the wheel of life which contains and holds together all the spokes that are necessary for creating and living our dreams easily, effortlessly, without struggle.

Of the thousands of patients I have seen over the years for a variety of issues, I would estimate that at least 95 percent of them had an issue with self-esteem, a sense of worthiness or unworthiness, which can influence the inner sense of deservability for love, success, health or prosperity.

To keep it simple, however, this book has described in various ways the three most important tools for manifestation, or giving vocal cords to the subconscious.

Desire
is the first tool for creating change. All change begins with desire, which is the purest of potential seeking manifestation or change. It is the fire in the belly of the beast. Even Plato recognized the importance of desire, which in his words, “Must drive the soul with a reigned-in craziness.”

The second tool is
expectation
, which follows desire. Expectation awakens our slumbering giant, the subconscious, which then leads to our behavior becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Expectation is at the root of, and responsible for, all placebo responses in double blind studies. Lowering your expectations, of course, ensures you won’t succeed.

The third tool of manifestation is
imagination
, creating the visualizations and mental movies of the successful future you wish to attain. Imagination breathes life into your goals and is the mental energy for creating your most optimal and brilliant future.

This book is a complete mental tool box that has taken the wisdom of the ages and legitimized it into a vocabulary that we can easily understand and embrace; how to release the past and become more than we ever thought possible. More important, it connects us with the heroic of our strong inner self, the magic within that is yearning to find expression.

Lee Pulos, Ph.D., ABPP

Clinical Psychologist

Author,
The Biology of Empowerment,
and
The Power of Visualization

November, 2011

Beyond
the Power of Your
Subconscious Mind

How This Book Can
Work Miracles In Your Life

By Dr. Joseph Murphy

I have seen miracles happen to men and women in all walks of life all over the world. Miracles will happen to you, too—when you begin using the magic power of your subconscious mind. This book is designed to teach you that your habitual thinking and imagery mold, fashion, and create your destiny; for as a man thinketh in his subconscious mind, so is he.

Unique feature of this book

The unique feature of this book is its down-to-earth practicality. Here you are presented with simple, usable techniques and formulas which you can easily apply in your everyday world. I have taught these simple processes to men and women all over the world, and recently over a thousand men and women attended a special class in Los Angeles where I presented the highlights of what is offered in the pages of this book. The special features of this book will appeal to you because they show you why oftentimes you get the opposite of what you asked for and reveal to you the reasons why. People have asked me in all parts of the world and thousands of times, “Why is it I have prayed and prayed and got no answer?” In this book you will find the reasons for this common complaint. The many ways of impressing the subconscious mind and getting the right answers make this an extraordinarily valuable book and an ever-present help in time of trouble.

There is one mind common to
all individual men (Emerson)

The miracle-working powers of your subconscious mind existed before you and I were born. It is with these thoughts in mind that I urge you in the following chapters to lay hold of this wonderful, magical, transforming power which will bind up mental and physical wounds, proclaim liberty to the fear-ridden mind, and liberate you completely from the limitations of poverty, failure, misery, lack, and frustration. All you have to do is unite mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody, and the creative powers of your subconscious will respond accordingly. Begin now, today, to let wonders happen in your life!

“All thoughts are prayers, and all prayers are answered”—positive or negative.

Think about that. All thoughts are prayers and all prayers are answered— positive or negative. A basic operating principle of this book is
any thought held on a continuous basis in the conscious mind must be brought into reality by the subconscious mind
.

We don’t get what we want, we get what we expect, unless what we want and what we expect are the same. We may desperately want our marriage or our business to be successful, for example. But if the internal stream of dialog occurring in our conscious mind is, “My marriage is falling apart,” or “My buiness is failing,” this is the result we are
commanding
our subconscious mind to fulfill.

Dr. Murphy shows us
precisely
why there can be no other result and precisely how becoming fully aware of the cybernetics, or interaction between the conscious and subconscious areas of the mind, is the key to creating the realities we desire and deserve.

In life, you often don’t get what you want. But . . . here’s what you do get—you get what you expect.

Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.

The Go-Givers
* by Burg & Mann

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The Treasure House Within You

Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.

Many are sound asleep because they do not know about this gold mine of infinite intelligence and boundless love within themselves. Whatever you want, you can draw forth. A magnetized piece of steel will lift about twelve times its own weight, and if you demagnetize this same piece of steel, it will not even lift a feather. Similarly, there are two types of people. There is the magnetized person who if full of confidence and faith. He knows that he is born to win and to succeed. Then, there is the type of person who is demagnetized. He is full of fears and doubts. Opportunities come, and he says, “I might fail; I might lose my money; people will laugh at me.” This type of person will not get very far in life because, if he is afraid to go forward, he will simply stay where he is. Become a magnetized person and discover the master secret of the ages.