Introduction by Joseph Murphy - How This Book Can Work Miracles in Your Life

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.

Do you know the answers?

Why is one man sad and another man happy?

Why is one man joyous and prosperous and another man poor and miserable?

Why is one man fearful and anxious and another full of faith and confidence?

Why does one man have a beautiful, luxurious home while another man lives out a meager existence in a slum?

Why is one man a great success and another an abject failure?

Why is one speaker outstanding and immensely popular and another mediocre and unpopular?

Why is one man a genius in his work or profession while the other man toils and moils all his life without doing or accomplishing anything worthwhile?

Why is one man healed of a so-called incurable disease and another isn’t?

Why is it so many good, kind religious people suffer the tortures of the damned in their mind and body?

Why is it many immoral and irreligious people succeed and prosper and enjoy radiant health?

Why is one woman happily married and her sister very unhappy and frustrated?

Is there an answer to these questions in the workings of your conscious and subconscious minds?

There most certainly is.

Reason for writing this book

It is for the express purpose of answering and clarifying the above questions and many others of a similar nature that motivated me to write this book. I have endeavored to explain the great fundamental truths of your mind in the simplest language possible. I believe that it is perfectly possible to explain the basic, foundational, and fundamental laws of life and of your mind in ordinary everyday language. You will find that the language of this book is that used in your daily papers, current periodicals, in your business offices, in your home, and in the daily workshop.

I urge you to study this book and apply the techniques outlined therein; and as you do, I feel absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure, and guide you to your true place, solve your difficulties, sever you from emotional and physical bondage, and place you on the royal road to freedom, happiness, and peace of mind. This miracle-working power of your subconscious mind can heal you of your sickness; make you vital and strong again. In learning how to use your inner powers, you will open the prison door of fear and enter into a life described by Paul as the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

Releasing the miracle-working power

A personal healing will ever be the most convincing evidence of our subconscious powers. Over forty-two years ago I resolved a malignancy—in medical terminology it was called a sarcoma—by using the healing power of my subconscious mind, which created me and still maintains and governs all my vital functions. The technique I applied is elaborated on in this book, and I feel sure that it will help others to trust the same Infinite Healing Presence lodged in the subconscious depths of all men.

Through the kindly offices of my doctor friend, I suddenly realized that it was natural to assume that the Creative Intelligence which made all my organs, fashioned my body, and started my heart, could heal its own handiwork. The ancient proverb says, “The doctor dresses the wound and God heals it.”

Wonders happen when you pray effectively

Scientific prayer is the harmonious interaction of the conscious and subconscious levels of mind scientifically directed for a specific purpose. This book will teach you the scientific way to tap the realm of infinite power within you enabling you to get what you really want in life. You desire a happier, fuller, and richer life. Begin to use this miracle-working power and smooth your way in daily affairs, solve business problems, and bring harmony in family relationships.

Be sure that you read this book several times. The many chapters will show you how this wonderful power works, and how you can draw out the hidden inspiration and wisdom that is within you. Learn the simple techniques of impressing the subconscious mind. Follow the new scientific way in tapping the infinite storehouse. Read this book carefully, earnestly, and lovingly. Prove to yourself the amazing way it can help you. It could be and I believe it will be the turning point of your life.

Everybody prays

Do you know how to pray effectively? How long is it since you prayed as part of your everyday activities? In an emergency, in time of danger or trouble, in illness, and when death lurks, prayers pour forth—your own and friends. Just read your daily newspaper.

It is reported that prayers are being offered up all over the nation for a child stricken with a so-called incurable ailment, for peace among nations, for a group of miners trapped in a flooded mine. Later it is reported that when rescued, the miners said that they prayed while waiting for rescue; an airplane pilot says that he prayed as he made a successful emergency landing.

Certainly, prayer is an ever-present help in time of trouble; but you do not have to wait for trouble to make prayer an integral and constructive part of your life. The dramatic answers to prayer make headlines and are the subject of testimonies to the effectiveness of prayer. What of the many humble prayers of children, the simple thanksgiving of grace at the table daily, the faithful devotions wherein the individual seeks only communion with God?

My work with people has made it necessary for me to study the various approaches to prayer. I have experienced the power of prayer in my own life, and I have talked and worked with many people who also have enjoyed the help of prayer. The problem usually is how to tell others how to pray. People who are in trouble have difficulty in thinking and acting reasonably. They need an easy formula to follow, an obviously workable pattern that is simple and specific. Often they must be led to approach the emergency.

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 workaday world. I have taught these simple processes to men and women all over the world, and recently over a thousand men and women of all religious affiliations attended a special class in Los Angeles where I presented the highlights of what is offered in the pages of this book. Many came from distances of two hundred miles for each class lesson.

The special features of this book will appeal to you because they show you why oftentimes you get the opposite of what you prayed 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.

What do you believe?

It is not the thing believed in that brings an answer to man’s prayer; the answer to prayer results when the individual’s subconscious mind responds to the mental picture or thought in his mind. This law of belief is operating in all religions of the world and is the reason why they are psychologically true. The Buddhist, the Christian, the Moslem, and the Hebrew all may get answers to their prayers, not because of the particular creed, religion, affiliation, ritual, ceremony, formula, liturgy, incantation, sacrifices, or offerings, but solely because of belief or mental acceptance and receptivity about that for which they pray.

The law of life is the law of belief, and belief could be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind. As a man thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his mind, body, and circumstances. A technique, a methodology based on an understanding of what you are doing and why you are doing it will help you to bring about a subconscious embodiment of all the good things of life. Essentially, answered prayer is the realization of your heart’s desire.

Desire is prayer

Everyone desires health, happiness, security, peace of mind, true expression, but many fail to achieve clearly defined results. A university professor admitted to me recently, “I know that if I changed my mental pattern and redirected my emotional life, my ulcers would not recur, but I do not have any technique, process, or modus operandi. My mind wanders back and forth on my many problems, and I feel frustrated, defeated, and unhappy.” This professor had a desire for perfect health; he needed knowledge of the way his mind worked which would enable him to fulfill his desire. By practicing the healing methods outlined in this book, he became whole and perfect.

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, before any church or world existed. The great eternal truths and principles of life antedate all religions. 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, let wonders happen in your life! Keep on, keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.



Contents

Chapter 1. The Treasure House Within You
The master secret of the ages—The marvelous power of your subconscious—Necessity of a working basis—The duality of mind—The conscious and subconscious minds—Outstanding differences and modes of operation—How her subconscious responded—Brief summary of ideas worth remembering.

Chapter 2. How Your Own Mind Works
Conscious and subconscious terms differentiated—Experiments by psychologists—The terms objective and subjective mind clarified—The subconscious cannot reason like your conscious mind—The tremendous power of suggestion—Different reactions to the same suggestion—How he lost his arm—How autosuggestion banishes fear—How she restored her memory—How he overcame a nasty temper—The constructive and destructive power of suggestion—Have you accepted any of these—You can counteract negative suggestions—How suggestion killed a man—The power of an assumed major premise—The subconscious does not argue controversially—Review of highlights.

Chapter 3. The Miracle-Working Power of Your Subconscious
Your subconscious is your Book of Life—What is impressed in the subconscious is expressed—The subconscious heals a malignancy of the skin—How the subconscious controls all functions of the body—How to get the subconscious to work for you—Healing principle of the subconscious restores atrophied optic nerves—How to convey the idea of perfect health to your subconscious mind—Ideas worth remembering.

Chapter 4. Mental Healings in Ancient Times
Bible accounts on the use of the subconscious powers—Miracles at various shrines throughout the world—One universal healing principle—Widely different theories—Views of Paracelsus—Bernheim’s experiments—Producing a blister by suggestion—The cause of bloody stigmata—Healing points in review.

Chapter 5. Mental Healings in Modern Times
One process of healing—The law of belief—Prayer therapy is the combined function of the conscious and subconscious mind scientifically directed—Faith healing, what it means, and how blind faith works—Subjective faith and what it means—The meaning of absent treatment—Releasing the kinetic action of the subconscious mind—Summary of your aids to health.

Chapter 6. Practical Techniques in Mental Healings
The passing-over technique for impregnating the subconscious—Your subconscious will accept your blueprint—The science and art of true prayer—The visualization technique—Mental movie method—The Baudoin technique—The sleeping technique—The “thank-you” technique—The affirmative method—The argumentative method—The absolute method is like modern sound wave therapy—A cripple walks—The decree method—Serve yourself with scientific truth.

Chapter 7. The Tendency of the Subconscious Is Lifeward
How the body portrays the workings of the mind—Thereis an intelligence which takes care of the body—The subconscious mind works continually for the common good—How man interferes with the innate principle of harmony—Why it’s normal to be healthy, vital, and strong—It’s abnormal to be sick—Pott’s disease cured—How faith in your subconscious powers makes you whole—Pointers to review.

Chapter 8. How to Get the Results You Want
Easy does it—Infer no opponent, use imagination and not will power—How disciplined imagination works wonders—The three steps to success in prayer—The law of reversed effort and why you get the opposite of what you pray for—The conflict of desire and imagination must be reconciled—Ideas worth recalling.

Chapter 9. How to Use the Power of Your Subconscious for Wealth
Wealth is of the mind—Your invisible means of support—The ideal method for building a wealth consciousness—Why your affirmations for wealth fail—How to avoid mental conflict—Don’t sign blank checks—Your subconscious gives you compound interest—Why nothing happened—True source of wealth—Trying to make ends meet and the real cause—A common stumbling block to wealth—Rubbing out a great mental block to wealth—Sleep and grow rich—Serve yourself with the powers of your mind.

Chapter 10. Your Right to Be Rich
Money is a symbol—How to walk the royal road to riches—Why you do not have more money—Money and a balanced life—Poverty is a mental disease—Why you must never criticize money—Getting the right attitude toward money—How the scientific thinker looks at money—How to attract the money you need—Why some men do not get a raise in pay—Obstacles and impediments on the pathway to riches—Protect your investments—You cannot get something for nothing—Your constant supply of money—Step up this way to riches.

Chapter 11. Your Subconscious Mind as a Partner in Success
The three steps to success—The measure of true success—How he made his dream come true—His dream pharmacy became a reality—Using the subconscious mind in business—Boy of sixteen years turns failure into success—How to become successful in buying and selling—How she succeeded in getting what she wanted—A success technique employed by many outstanding executives and businessmen—Profitable pointers.

Chapter 12. Scientists Use the Subconscious Mind
How a distinguished scientist brought forth his inventions—How a famous naturalist solved his problem—An outstanding physician solved the problem of diabetes—How a famous scientist and physicist escaped from a Russian concentration camp—How archaeologists and paleontologists reconstruct ancient scenes—How to receive guidance from your subconscious—His subconscious revealed the location of his father’s will—The secret of guidance—Highlights to recall.

Chapter 13. Your Subconscious and the Wonders of Sleep
Why we sleep—Prayer, a form of sleep—Startling effects of sleep deprivation—You need more sleep—Sleep brings counsel—Saved from certain disaster—Your future is in your subconscious mind—A cat nap nets him $15,000—How a famous professor solved his problem in sleep—How the subconscious worked for a famous writer while he slept—Sleep in peace and wake in joy—Summary of your aids to the wonders of sleep.

Chapter 14. Your Subconscious Mind and Marital Problems
The meaning of marriage—How to attract the ideal husband—How to attract the ideal wife—No need for third mistake—How she broke the negative pattern—The answer to her prayer—Should I get a divorce?—Drifting into divorce—Divorce begins in the mind—The nagging wife—The brooding husband—The great mistake—Don’t try to make your wife over—Pray together and stay together through steps in prayer—Review your actions.

Chapter 15. Your Subconscious Mind and Your Happiness
You must choose happiness—How to choose happiness—He made it a habit to be happy—You must desire to be happy—Why choose unhappiness—If I had a million dollars, I would be happy—He found happiness to be the harvest of a quiet mind—The block or stump is not really there—The happiest people—Summary of steps to happiness.

Chapter 16. Your Subconscious Mind and Harmonious Human Relations
The master key to happy relationships with others—And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again—The daily headlines made him sick—I hate women, but I like men—His inner speech held back his promotion—Becoming emotionally mature—The meaning of love in harmonious human relations—He hated audiences—Handling difficult people—Misery loves company—The practice of empathy in human relations—Appeasement never wins—Profitable pointers in human relations.

Chapter 17. How to Use Your Subconscious Mind for Forgiveness
Life always forgives you—How he banished that feeling of guilt—A murderer learned to forgive himself—Criticism cannot hurt you without your consent—How to be compassionate—Left at the altar—It is wrong to marry. Sex is evil and I am evil—Forgiveness is necessary for healing— Forgiveness is love in action—Technique of forgiveness—The acid test of forgiveness—To understand all is to forgive all—Summary of your aids to forgiveness.

Chapter 18. How Your Subconscious Removes Mental Blocks
How to break or build a habit—How he broke a bad habit—The power of his mental picture—Focused attention—He said a jinx was following him—How much do you want what you want—Why he could not be healed—The explanation and the cure—Refusing to admit it—Building in the idea of freedom—Fifty-one per cent healed—The law of substitution—Cause of alcoholism—Three magic steps—Keep on keeping on—Review your thought power.

Chapter 19. How to Use Your Subconscious Mind to Remove Fear
Man’s greatest enemy—Do the tiling you fear—Banishing stage fright—Fear of failure—How he overcame the fear —Fear of water, mountains, closed places—Master technique for overcoming any particular fear—He blessed the elevator—Normal and abnormal fear—Abnormal fear—The answer to abnormal fear—Examine your fears—He landed in the jungle—He dismissed himself—They plotted against him—Deliver yourself from all your fears—Step this way to freedom from fear.

Chapter 20. How to Stay Young in Spirit Forever
He had grown old in his thought life—Age is the dawn of wisdom—Welcome the change—Evidence for survival—Life is—Mind and spirit do not grow old—You are as young as you think you are—Your gray hairs are an asset—Age is an asset—Be your age—I can keep up with the best of them—Fear of old age—You have much to give—One hundred and ten years old—Retirement, a new venture—He graduated to a better job—You must be a producer and not a prisoner of society—Secret of youth—Get a vision—Your mind does not grow old—His mind active at ninety-nine—We need our senior citizens—The fruits of old age—Profitable pointers.