You Can Work Your Own Miracles Ch 15
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What role does the human mind play according to the description?

  • It is the most complicated organ in the body.
  • It connects man to Infinite Intelligence. (correct)
  • It is primarily responsible for physiological functions.
  • It is a passive observer of life.

Which department of the mind is described as the 'big boss'?

  • Faculty of Reasoning
  • Faculty of Emotion
  • Faculty of Memory
  • Faculty of Will (correct)

How does the mind influence a person's successes or failures?

  • By connecting solely with external resources.
  • By actively controlling only physiological functions.
  • Through passive observation of circumstances.
  • Through the manner of its use or neglect. (correct)

What is suggested about the Creator's relationship with the human mind?

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What is mentioned about the functional operations of the mind?

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What happens when the Will does not assert itself in decision-making?

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What role does the faculty of Conscience serve in decision-making?

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Why is the faculty of Imagination considered potentially dangerous?

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What is a significant drawback of the faculty of Memory?

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Which of the following statements about emotions is correct?

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What is the primary function of the faculty of Reason?

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What mental approach is suggested to handle dental work effectively?

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What is one of the main benefits of fasting mentioned?

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What is advised to consider before ending a fast in preparation for surgery?

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How is fasting viewed in relation to smoking and drinking habits?

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What is a psychological benefit of fasting mentioned in the content?

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What is primarily required for the reliability of memory?

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The 'Sixth Sense' serves as a medium for which type of communication?

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How does the subconscious mind differ in its response to emotionalized thoughts?

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What role does the subconscious play in the mind's communication with Infinite Intelligence?

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What happens to thoughts that become habitual according to the content?

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What is a common method used to influence the subconscious mind for therapeutic purposes?

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What happens if one neglects to choose their own thoughts for the subconscious?

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What is necessary for controlling the flow of negative influences to the subconscious?

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What operates through the two doors that connect to the world and the universal reservoir of Infinite Intelligence?

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What is identified as the primary source of fear in relation to dentistry?

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What results from allowing the conscious mind to dwell on undesirable conditions?

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How should one prepare their mind for an unpleasant experience such as dental work?

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What counterproductive effect can random, negative thoughts have according to the content?

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Hypochondria is best defined as what type of ailment?

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What does the subconscious mind do with negative thoughts that are not processed or rejected?

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What is a crucial step to take after writing a statement for the subconscious?

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What is the main purpose of conducting a fast before a dental procedure?

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What is the likely outcome when one continuously thinks about fears, doubts, and failures?

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What emotional state should one strive to achieve before repeating their statement to the subconscious?

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In the public lecture demonstration regarding hypochondria, what was the method used to induce illness in the 'victim'?

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What should be carefully checked with a physician before starting a fast?

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What can be a result of convincing the subconscious mind that one is ill?

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What common fears are associated with hypochondria?

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The subconscious mind does not differentiate between what types of thoughts?

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What term describes the inherited mental state that contributes to fear of health-related issues?

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What is constantly suggested as a method to give effective commands to the subconscious mind?

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Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a source of activating influences on the subconscious?

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What incorrect behavior do many people exhibit throughout their lives regarding their thoughts?

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Flashcards

Mind's Importance

The mind is considered the most important tool for relating to the world and influencing life. It's the bridge between the individual and everything around them.

Mind's Mystery

Despite its power, the human mind is complex and not fully understood. It's a powerful gift, but often misused.

Mind as Switchboard

The mind acts as a connector between the individual and infinite intelligence, allowing access to answers and fulfillment.

Mind's Exclusive Control

Humans have sole control over their minds, a prerogative given by the Creator, suggesting its importance and influence on destiny.

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Mind's Departments

The mind operates like a business, with different departments working together. Some are automatic while others are under conscious control.

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What is the role of the faculty of Reason?

The faculty of Reason acts as the "presiding judge" of the mind. It analyzes and judges all ideas, aims, desires, and situations presented to it. However, its decisions can be overridden by the Will or influenced by emotions unless the Will asserts itself.

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Why is relying solely on emotions for decision-making risky?

Emotions have no relation to logic or reason. Therefore, decisions based solely on feelings are often unsound and can lead to negative consequences.

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How does the faculty of Imagination work?

Imagination allows us to create, combine, and modify ideas and concepts. It empowers us to envision possibilities and shape our destinies. However, unchecked imagination can lead to negative consequences.

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What is the purpose of the faculty of Conscience?

Conscience serves as the moral guide, assessing the individual’s aims and purposes, and warning them when they contradict natural moral laws. Ignoring its warnings can lead to its decline.

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How do the five senses interact with the brain?

The five senses (sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch) act as the brain's physical "arms," connecting it to the external world and gathering information. However, their reliability can be compromised by strong emotions.

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What is the function of the faculty of Memory?

Memory acts as the brain's "filing cabinet" storing thoughts, experiences, and sensations gathered through the senses. Its reliability depends on the individual's organization and discipline.

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Fasting Benefits

Fasting offers several benefits, including physical health improvements, breaking unhealthy habits, connecting with spiritual powers, aiding mental health, and preparing the subconscious mind for directives.

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Subconscious Mind & Fasting

During a fast, the subconscious mind becomes highly receptive to suggestions and directives. This makes fasting an ideal time to give instructions to your subconscious for positive change.

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Directives to the Subconscious

Giving clear and specific instructions to your subconscious mind during a fast can help you overcome challenges, achieve goals, and improve your life.

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Fasting and Confidence

Fasting can lead to increased confidence and self-awareness. By mastering your appetite, you gain control over other aspects of your life, including overcoming fear and facing challenges.

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Fasting for Dental Operations

Fasting can prepare your mind and body for dental procedures, making them less stressful. However, it is essential to end the fast at least two weeks before the procedure and consult your doctor for proper health checks and dietary advice.

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Subconscious Influence: Outside Sources

The subconscious mind receives influences from the outside world through the five physical senses.

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Subconscious Influence: Telepathy

The subconscious picks up thoughts released by others through a sixth sense, similar to telepathy.

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Subconscious Influence: Individual Thoughts

Our own thoughts, both intentional and random, also influence the subconscious.

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Subconscious and Thoughts: Negative vs. Positive

The subconscious doesn't judge thoughts as good or bad, it simply acts on whatever it receives.

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Subconscious and Failure

Mostly negative thoughts lead to the subconscious creating a pattern of failure.

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Commands to the Subconscious: Clarity and Timeframe

When instructing the subconscious, clearly state your desired outcome and set a specific time frame.

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Commands to the Subconscious: Repetition and Belief

Repeat your instructions to yourself hundreds of times daily, especially before sleep, and believe they will be fulfilled.

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Commands to the Subconscious: Emotional Intensity

The subconscious responds strongly to emotions, so feel joy and enthusiasm when giving your instructions.

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Conditioning for Dentistry: Fasting

Prepare your body and mind for dental procedures through a supervised fast of 3-7 days.

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Conditioning for Dentistry: Auto-Suggestion

Use auto-suggestion to create positive associations with your dentist and dentistry.

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Two Doors of Prayer

Prayer operates through two doors: one connecting to the physical world and the other connecting to the Infinite Intelligence.

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Subconscious Mind Acceptance

The subconscious mind automatically accepts and acts upon every thought, both positive and negative, that reaches it.

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Mind's Attraction

The mind attracts the material equivalent of what you think about most frequently.

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Mind Control

Everyone has the power to control and direct their mind to achieve desired outcomes.

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Hypochondria

Hypochondria is the fear of illness, often resulting in imaginary physical ailments.

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Innate Fear of Illness

The fear of illness and physical pain is an inherited trait present in everyone.

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Power of Suggestion

Even without actual illness, mere suggestion can induce physical symptoms of illness.

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Subconscious Belief in Illness

Convincing your subconscious mind you are ill can lead to actual physical symptoms.

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Fear-Induced Illness

Fear and anxiety can cause real physical symptoms, such as rashes, stomach upset, or headaches.

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Ohio Penitentiary Experiment

A prank played on new inmates involved faking an execution, inducing severe fear and a belief of being murdered.

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What is the 'Sixth Sense'?

The 'Sixth Sense' refers to the mind's ability to send and receive thoughts and other vibrations beyond the physical realm. It's considered the medium of communication between individuals and unseen guides.

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What is the Subconscious Section of the Mind?

The Subconscious Section of the Mind acts as a 'switchboard' connecting the conscious mind to Infinite Intelligence. It responds to ideas and influences, reacting strongly to emotions like fear, anger, belief, and faith.

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How does the Conscious Mind influence the Subconscious?

The Conscious Mind can influence the Subconscious, but it can also create barriers due to fears, limitations, and beliefs. These barriers need to be overcome to access the Subconscious's full potential.

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What is Suggestive Therapeutics?

Suggestive Therapeutics is a method used to communicate directly with the Subconscious mind, often during sleep or using hypnosis, to influence and heal the body.

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How do thoughts become actions?

Thoughts, through repetition, become habits and are automatically acted upon by the Subconscious. This process is believed to connect thoughts to physical reality.

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What is Infinite Intelligence?

Infinite Intelligence is a universal source of energy believed to be accessed through the Subconscious mind. It represents limitless potential and creativity.

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How does the Subconscious influence your life?

The Subconscious is constantly active, influenced by both your deliberate thoughts and the thoughts of your environment. It can amplify both positive and negative impulses.

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What's the key to controlling your subconscious?

To master your Subconscious, you must learn to control the thoughts entering it, shutting out negative influences and replacing them with positive desires.

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Study Notes

Mind Power and Control

  • Mind is the most mysterious and awe-inspiring, yet least understood and abused, gift of nature and the Creator.
  • It's the instrument through which man interacts with life and the citadel of the soul, connecting man with Infinite Intelligence.
  • Mind allows for direct communication with infinite intelligence and solutions to problems, hopes, dreams and aspirations.
  • Man has complete control over their minds—a prerogative not usurped by the Creator.
  • Success, failure, and frustration stem directly from how one uses or neglects their mind.

Mind's Departments

  • Mind functions like a well-organized business, with nine departments.
  • Some departments function automatically, while others are under individual control.

Faculty of Will

  • The "big boss," initiating control over thoughts.
  • Implements decisions, regardless of effect, and its power grows with usage.

Faculty of Reason

  • The mind's "presiding judge."
  • Judges ideas, aims, desires, and circumstances, but its judgment can be overruled by will or emotions.
  • Important to use reason above emotions for soundest decisions.

Faculty of Emotions

  • Significant driver behind actions, impacting decisions and activities.
  • Love, while potentially spiritual, is dangerous if not properly moderated by Reason and Will.
  • Accurate thinkers carefully consider and control emotional responses, crucial for wise decisions.

Faculty of Imagination

  • Architect of the soul, shaping destiny.
  • Facilitates interstellar travel, air and sea conquests, and idea generation.
  • Combining fantasy and realism facilitates transformative industrial empires and societal change.
  • Potential for powerful ideas, but unbridled imagination is harmful.
  • Source of hypochondria, or imagined illnesses, yet also potentially remedial to physical ailments.
  • Requires constant monitoring by Reason and Will.

Faculty of Conscience

  • Provides moral guidance and processes aims and purposes, and warns of misalignment with nature's moral laws.
  • A functioning conscience provides access to faith for achieving aspirations.

Five Physical Senses

  • Brain's physical "arms" gathering external information.
  • Not always reliable, demanding constant supervision by reason and will, especially during strong emotions.
  • Emotional states often confuse and impair the sensory systems.

Faculty of Memory

  • "Filing cabinet" storing thought impulses, experiences, and sensations.
  • Can be unreliable without discipline and a system, but treatable through training.
  • Reliability results from organized "filing clerk" management and training.

The "Sixth Sense"

  • Mind's broadcasting/receiving station.
  • Automates thought and intelligent vibration exchange between minds and unseen guides, and medium of telepathy.

Subconscious Mind

  • Switchboard enabling direct contact with Infinite Intelligence.
  • Processes ideas, plans, and hopes without distinction between positive or negative.
  • Highly responsive to emotional states like fear, anger, belief, and faith.
  • Amenable to conscious mind influences, but conscious fears and limitations impact it.
  • Doctors sometimes use suggestible therapeutics to access and direct the subconscious during sleep (e.g., hypnotism).
  • Can follow recorded instructions while asleep using a specific mechanical device (phonograph-based system).

Thought and Creation

  • Thoughts mirror and shape reality, creating their physical equivalents—thus, thoughts, like habits, create things.
  • Every thought emits an ongoing vibration impacting the thinker.
  • Thought energy is derived from infinite intelligence.

Mind Conditioning for Unpleasant Experiences

  • Mind conditioning targeted at the subconscious, achievable via fasting (to increase subconscious sensitivity).

Procedures for Conditioning

  • 3-7 day fast under physician supervision, including a gradual return to normal eating habits.
  • Auto-suggestion statements aiming to boost confidence, and disassociation from current fears, focusing attention on desired objectives.
  • High emotional states enhance impact on the subconscious.
  • Important to follow instructions closely for positive outcomes.

Benefits of Fasting

  • Builds bodily resistance, aids breaking of bad habits (smoking, caffeine, alcohol), strengthens spiritual connection with its powers, helpful for mental imbalances, and increases subconscious receptiveness to directives.
  • Improved memory recall, self-confidence, and possible elimination of specific ailments (e.g., influenza) via concentrated subconscious direction.

Belief and Success Stories

  • Belief plays a significant role in achievement; examples of influential figures illustrating belief's impact on success highlighted.

Lasting Power of the Mind

  • Man alone holds the power to control his mind, a unique distinction among creatures.
  • Mind control is crucial for earthly destiny; the opposite leads to misery and negativity.
  • The mind and subconscious, through the right methods, can attain limitless achievements.

Techniques for Subconscious Communication

  • Maintain a clear and definite mental image of whatever it is one desires and repeat it often in a strong state of emotional feeling of belief.
  • Subconscious mind acts only if requests are clearly stated.

Conclusion

  • Success in mind conditioning depends largely on the believer's attitude.
  • Belief empowers subconscious mind directives.
  • Belief and its impact on great achievers ( Edison, Marconi, Columbus and more) emphasized.
  • Man possesses the power to create their destiny.

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