Maximize Your Potential Through The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind To Overcome Fear And Worry

Maximize Your Potential Through The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind To Overcome Fear And Worry

Maximize Your Potential Through The

Power Of Your Subconscious Mind

To Overcome Fear And Worry

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By Joseph Murphy, DD, Ph.D.

Summary of chapters

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Chapter 1 – Overcoming Worry

When worry thoughts come to your mind, remind yourself that Infinite Intelligence is bringing your desire, ideal, plan or purpose to pass in Divine order. That's supplanting the negative thought.

When your thoughts are God's thoughts, God's power is with your thoughts of good. You must cleanse your mind like you cleanse out your own home. The mind is your house. You have to keep constantly cleaning it, filling it with truths of God, which crowd out of the mind everything unlike God.

If you repeat a thought pattern or act over and over again, after a while it becomes second nature, which is the response of your subconscious mind to your conscious thinking and acting. And that's prayer, too.

The house of God is your own mind. Your mind is where you walk and talk with God, for God is that Supreme Intelligence, that Boundless Wisdom within you. It's locked in your own subconscious depths.

All conditions, circumstances and events are subject to alteration. Every created thing will some day pass away. The age-old maxim: This, too, shall pass away, is always true. But your mind and Spirit, the personality of you, will never pass away

Chapter 2 – Banish Guilt

We must learn to use the Life Principle the right way and cease going against the stream of life. When a child is born, it is universal life individualizing itself and appearing in your home. The child has no discrimination or discernment. It has not begun to use its reason as yet. Therefore, it is subject to the mood and attitude of the parents.

You must take charge of your own mind; not permit others to govern it for you. Creed, dogma, traditions, superstition, fear, and ignorance rule the mind of the average person. The greatest desert in the world is in the mind of the average person. Average people do not own their own minds at all. Their minds do not belong to them. It is often ruled over by strong-minded family members or governed by domination of others.

Children are particularly susceptible to feelings of guilt when they disobey parents or teachers. They are warned that disobedience will lead to punishment—not only by the parents for the specific disobedient act, but God will punish them for being naughty. This can be disastrous to some children. It breeds with in them a guilt complex that can destroy their lives. Do not invoke the fear of eternal damnation on the child. It is better to tell the child that God’s love never ceases and will be there to help him or her live a good life.

If you let other people take control of your mind, you lose the freedom God has given you to make decisions based on your own thoughts. You must follow your own heart – that is your own subconscious mind. You must feed your conscious mind with positive thoughts by prayer and meditation and it will push out from your subconscious the seeds of guilt sown by others.

Self-condemnation is the most destructive of all mental poisons. It robs you of vitality, enthusiasm, and energy. It may affect all the organs of your body. If you let Divine love, peace, and harmony flood your mind, and if you are sincere in transforming yourself, the past is forgotten and remembered no more.

Chapter 3 – The Supreme Mastery of Fear

Fear is like a poison gas pumped into one's atmosphere, It causes mental, moral, and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death - - death to energy, death to tissue, and death to all growth.

Fear and worry make us attract the very things we dread. The fear habit impairs health, shortens life and paralyzes efficiency. Doubt and fear mean failure; faith is an optimist, fear a pessimist.

Do not let yourself be subservient to another's thoughts. Have a healthy, reverent respect for your thought, because your thought is your prayer. What you feel, you attract; what you imagine, you become.

Your thought governs you, not another. So, stand tall. Stand up straight, and say: "I am one with the Infinite, which lies stretched in smiling repose.”

Fearful people are always very selfish. They are wrapped up in themselves. Love is always outgoing. It is an emanation. Fear is turning within in morbid introspection, believing someone is going to hurt you, that evil spirits can possess you. All this is ignorance. Ignorance is the only sin, and all the punishment is the consequence of that ignorance. Ignorance is the only devil in the world.

Realize that fear is a thought in your own mind created by yourself. It has no reality; it's a shadow in your mind. The thing you are afraid of does not exist. Fear is faith in the wrong thing. Fear is faith upside down. Fear is God upside down. It's a twisted, morbid concept of life.

God is the Life Principle. The Trinity is your Spirit, mind and body; or Spirit, mind and function because you need a body to express. And the mind is the priest, or the intermediary, between the Invisible and the visible; namely, your own thought. Therefore, the Spirit responds to the nature of your thoughts.

All humans have to err, because that's the only way we are going to grow, and expand, It is impossible for anybody to banish fear if you have been indoctrinated in a fear of the future and afterlife—if you have been taught that God is a God of fear. But God is a God of love.

In order to banish abnormal fear, you have to come back to the fundamental truth that there is but One Power. The Lord, thy God, is One Lord, One Power. Not two or three, or a thousand. Just one. It moves as unity. It is all love, all peace, and all harmony. Align yourself with that and all fear will go away.

Chapter 4 – The Healing Power of Love

There is only one love. It is pure, perfect, undefiled, approving, abundant and generous. It never changes nor wavers nor weakens. It is God. We love because God first loved us. God is the source of love.

God’s love responds to everyone as a liberating, lightening of the heart. It is a higher awareness of consciousness, which heals and makes us whole again.

Love in divine sense is an act of compassion and mercy and our every attempt to practice divine love is effective at some time, in a certain way. Granted, we are not perfect, but we can and are able and should become committed to practicing and living according to the golden rule and the law of love.

To love God is to give your allegiance, devotion and loyalty to the One Power, refusing to recognize any other power in the world. When you definitely recognize and completely accept in your mind that God really is Omnipotent in the most practical, literal and most matter of fact manner, you are loving God, because you are loyal to the One Power.

Faith is an attitude of mind. It's a way of thinking. You have faith if you have a mental image of accomplishing something wonderful, and if you sustain it with expectancy and confidence, your subconscious mind will bring that to pass.

If you want to conquer fear, you have to come back to the truth that there is only One Power, Indivisible, and a Source of love. When you know that, when you align with it, you can't be fearful, you can't worry. This Power has no opposition. There is nothing to oppose it, challenge it, vitiate it or thwart it. It is the Life Principle. It has overcome every opposition in the world. It's Omnipotent, All Powerful, goes on conquering and to conquer.

The love, the light and the glory of God surrounds you, enfolds you and enwraps you. The Divine Presence governs you now. You love to work with others. You love to represent and express God's ideas. So, affirm boldly: "God's ideas unfold within me bringing me harmony, health, peace and joy.

Chapter 5 – The Inner Meaning of The 23rd Psalm

Meditation determines your destiny. We are always meditating. Your thoughts and feelings control your destiny. Meditation is as real and as natural as digestion, assimilation, and breathing.

God is the Living Spirit within you, the Supreme Intelligence, the Life Principle. We will not want for any good thing if we choose the Supreme Intelligence as our guide and counselor.

Meditate on whatsoever things are true, lovely, noble, and God-like. To meditate is to eat all these truths, to cogitate, to give your attention to something, to focus on something.

The shepherd in the Bible is a symbol of the guiding, healing, protective power of the Divine Presence within you. You are a good shepherd when you know and believe that God, or the Supreme Intelligence, is the only Presence and Power, Cause, and Substance within you.

Close your eyes. Become still and quiet. And gently affirm that the wisdom of God anoints your intellect and is always a lamp unto your feet; it's always a light upon your path. . Look to the Infinite Presence at all times, and think, speak, act, and react from the standpoint of the Divine Center within you. Realize, know, feel, and claim that Infinite Sprit is your guide, your counselor, your boss, your senior partner; and that Divine right action governs you at all times.

If you're afraid of death, of after life, of judgment day, and things of that nature, then you are being governed by ignorance and delusion and by false beliefs of all kinds. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Death in Biblical language is ignorance of the truth. That's the only death there is.

The tabernacle of God is with humankind. He will dwell with them; they shall be his people. And God, Himself, shall be with them and be their God. You are now rooted in the Divine. You are at home with God. He gives you rest and security. You are relaxed, at peace, completely free from fear. For where you are, God is; and you dwell with God forever.

Chapter 6 – The Protective 91st Psalm

When you are fearful or worried, re-read the Psalm aloud, Speak it slowly and quietly, and you will dissipate, neutralize, and obliterate the fear.

Realize God's love surrounds you, which the impregnable fortress is within you as you dwell in the secret place, as you contemplate the Presence of God where you are. Then you are rendered impervious to all harm.

Affirm frequently: "I am inspired from On High. God loves me, for it is written: He careth for me." As you constantly claim that God is the Only Presence, Power, Cause, and Substance, guiding, directing, governing, and sustaining you, then after a while it will become your Lord, your master, your dominant conviction.

As you fill your mind with the eternal truths of God, you will crowd out of your mind everything unlike the One Who Forever Is. Right means the objective world. Your spiritual thoughts destroy the negative thoughts. One spiritual thought destroys ten thousand negative thoughts, and you will also neutralize all the negative patterns in your subconscious mind.

Love casts out hate, peace casts out pain, and joy casts out sadness. So, Divine love, Divine peace, and the miraculous Healing Power go straight to the roots of the trouble; then you are redeemed.

The wisdom of God anoints your intellect. It is a lamp unto your feet; it's a light upon your path. Your cup (your heart) is truly a chamber of God's Presence. It runneth over with love and joy. You mentally dwell on goodness, truth, and beauty. You are dwelling in the house of God at all times.

Chapter 7 – Why Did This Happen To Me?

When your thoughts are completely free from fear and worry, you are thinking from the standpoint of the Divine center within you; and God speaks, thinks and acts through you. Therefore, you speak in words of wisdom, truth and beauty; words of harmony, health and peace. So, you think, therefore, from the God center within.

If you do not think constructively, harmoniously and peacefully, the mass mind will do your thinking for you. And that mass mind believes in tragedy, misfortune, sickness, disease, accidents; hate, murder, and all sorts of things. If you don't do your own thinking, these negative vibrations, or thoughts of the mass mind, move in upon you, reach a point of saturation, precipitate as accident, misfortune, sickness, disease.

The law of life is the law of belief. If you fear sickness, you attract it. If you think good health, you will be healthy. So, the law of the Lord is perfect. You can't think one thing and produce another. Trouble of any kind is nature's alarm system that we are thinking wrongly in that direction. Nothing but a change of thought can set us free.

There is no worse suffering than a guilty conscience, and, certainly, none more destructive. Stop condemning yourself and begin to accept that the Infinite healing presence saturates your whole being, that God dwells in every cell of your body.

It is done unto you as you believe, and a belief is a thought in the mind. No external power or evil entity is trying to lure or harm you. No person has any power. The Power of God is in you. One with God is a majority. If God be for you, who can be against you?

Guilt, worry and fear are the psychosomatic equivalent of germs and viruses. By replacing thoughts of guilt, worry and fear with thoughts of faith, confidence and belief, healing is accelerated.

Chapter 8 – Prayer Is the Key

Your every thought and feeling is your prayer. Every thought tends to manifest itself unless it is neutralized by a thought of greater intensity. In the specific sense, prayer is conscious contact with the Infinite Intelligence within you. Effective prayer must be based upon the spiritual premise that there is a Supreme Intelligence within us that becomes the thing we desire.

There is an Infinite Intelligence operating in your subconscious mind that responds to your conscious mind's thinking and imagining. When you turn over your request to your subconscious mind, you should do so with the absolute conviction that it has the know-how of accomplishment that it will respond to you according to the nature of your request.

If you are having discord with another person, rearrange all your thoughts, imagery and responses on the side of peace and harmony. If you see hatred in the other, practice knowing that Divine love dissolves everything unlike Itself in the mind and heart of that person and also in your own mind and heart.

All that is required and asked of you is that you change in perception and conviction that every one has God-given privilege to be as he or she is. Let them go to find their highest good in God. The weight of the world will fall from your shoulders! You are not responsible for the world. Heal yourself; disabuse yourself that you are responsible for ills and evils of world.

Know that the Infinite Presence and Power loves you and cares for you. As you pray this way, fear will gradually fade away. Turn your mind to God and His love. Feel and know that there is only One Healing Power and Its corollary. There is no power to challenge the action of the Infinite.

Chapter 9 – Sleep Soundly

Quite often answers to the problems that have been on your mind all day are given to you while you are asleep.

Remember, you are spiritually recharged during sleep, and adequate sleep is essential to produce joy and vitality in life.

Assume the feeling of being what you long to be. Assume that you now have what you long to possess. Assume you are now experiencing that which you long to be. And live in that role. Live in that mood. You go off into the deep of sleep, and you are impregnating your subconscious mind.

Often you are instructed in your sleep, the way out, the solution to your problem. You are the master of your thoughts, emotions and responses to life. When you pray, delegate and turn over your request to your subconscious mind with faith and confidence. The deeper mind knows how to solve your problem and presents you with the answer. You will receive an answer, for it is written: "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength."

Chapter 10 – Living In the Presence

The four essential truths are these:

First, we must accept God as a Presence who is omnipresent and universal.

Second, omnipresence, God, being everywhere, is within us. We are in it. God is love; our relationship is as a beloved one.

Third, the Presence is Omniscient: God knows all and sees all and being love, forgives Dare and have the heart or courage to believe and claim a loving, all-knowing God, which wants and desires you to know and receive far more than you know and desire to receive God.

Fourth, the psalmist informs of a way to apply, use, these truths to heal, restore, and correct mind-body, conditions and relationships.

God is omnipresent. It is the very life of you. This Presence is always waiting for you to call up It. Regardless of the degree of bondage you may be in, this Presence and Power will respond as mercy, soothing, healing and restoring your soul.

The purpose and function of prayer, meditation, contemplation, is to cleanse the mind and to make the contents of the mind and heart obey our conscious direction. Literally, changing the habitual thought patterns and processes; make disciples of our mind and hearts.

You are innately, intrinsically, good. You are God's children,. Accept and acknowledge your royal and Divine inheritance! Dare to believe you are a child of the King of Kings. Walk the King's highway. All is yours!

Chapter 11 – Three Keys to Peace of Mind

Are we not all seekers? Money is good, but not without friendship.

Friendship is good, but not outside a higher devotion, devotion to art and music is good, but not without a clear conscience; a clear conscience is good, but impossible without forgiveness. These are all good and very good and we should be thankful for them, and we should express our thanks to the healing presence within.

The kingdom of heaven is within, so we must learn to be good merchants within -- our thoughts and feelings. To select with all the deliberate care and interest and involvement of one making an investment in the market. Select only those ideas that promote our well-being and prosperity and reject, refuse to accept, those which do not.

Love is the power that binds together in one magnificent harmony the universe. It is the harmonizing principle that sets us on the high road of the ancients to health, happiness, well-being, prosperity and peace of mind.

Remember and apply Dr. Albert Schweizer’s philosophy, which he termed, "A reverence for life." He gave us a legacy of three great ideas, "keys" which unlock the gates of our minds and hearts:

1. The very mystery that life – the God-mind -- exists in us, the world, the universe.

2. Our purpose is realized in serving life, not merely to be served.

3. A reverence for life.

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