dr joseph murphy the power of the subconscious mind

Miracles of healing, the author says, are simply the body's obeying of the subconscious mind's knowledge of 'perfect health' when the questioning nature of the normal conscious mind is silenced. Even today, doctors report the power of placebos to produce miraculous recoveries if accompanied by doubt-free instructions that 'this will do the trick'. In all the old rituals of ancient times, with their weird mixtures and incantations, it was the power of suggestion and acceptance in the subconscious mind that healed. 'If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth' (Mark 9:23). Be careful not to joke about misfortune, as the subconscious has no sense of humour. Whatever you give your subconscious - false or true, good or evil - it will register as fact. In the West we have made 'the truth' our highest value this motivation, while important, is weak next to the actual power of belief in shaping our lives. William James observed that whatever people expect to be true, will be so, irrespective of whether the object of their belief exists in fact. 'The law of your mind is the law of belief itself,' Murphy says.

Understanding your subconscious mind as a photographic mechanism removes the emotion and struggle from changing your life, because if it is simply a matter of replacing existing mental images with new ones, you begin to see the ease with which you may change. Mostly, the bad that happens is in us already, waiting for the light of day. While there are some things that will happen to us that we had no role in creating, these are in fact rare. We blithely let negative thoughts drop into the subconscious every minute of our lives, then are surprised when they find expression in day to day experiences and relationships. Being totally neutral in a moral sense, it is happy to adopt any habit as 'normal' - good or bad. The subconscious responds to habit and habitual thinking.

While the conscious mind sees an event, takes a picture of it and remembers it, the subconscious mind works backwards, 'seeing' something before it happens (why intuition is infallible). Murphy saw the subconscious mind as a darkroom within which we develop the images that are to be lived out in real life. It is a long way from the ancient East to 'LA', but Murphy felt that there were secrets he had found concerning the subconscious that were beyond time and culture, and that should find a wider audience. He was also, for 28 years, Minister at the Los Angeles branch of the Church of Divine Science, a New Thought church which promotes a practical spirituality, free of the usual religious creed and dogma. Dr Joseph Murphy spent a good part of his life studying Eastern religions, and was a scholar of the I-Ching, the Chinese book of divination whose origins are lost in history.

Dr joseph murphy the power of the subconscious mind