Sleeping And Your Subconscious Mind
October 10, 2009 by admin
In my earlier post, I share about The Power Of Sleep - today, I’ll cover the other aspect of sleeping… using the subconscious mind to attract success while you’re sleeping. It may be hard to grasp at first so take your time to understand this power.
Your body sleeps but your sub-conscious mind never sleeps. It is awake from the time of your birth until the day you leave this world. Without conscious guidance (meaning your direct instruction), it takes care of all the involuntary operations of your body from extracting the necessary elements from your food for blood, bone, tissue and energy to keeping your blood in circulation.
More importantly, your subconscious mind also governs your personality, your character and your inmost drives, your deepest and most secret desires.
Note that it’s also working independently from conscious mind. So we find that the subconscious mind is not only in charge of all of the involuntary operations in the body, but it also does the big job of following instructions from the conscious mind. And, in carrying out those instructions, it must, necessarily, be capable of reasoning.
Here is a very simple example to make this concept easier to grasp:
Suppose you hire a carpenter to do a repair job on your house. He would inspect the place, bring the tools he would need: a saw, hammer, auger, etc. He would not get a huge van and bring with him every tool and machine he had in his shop.
It is the same with your two minds. The conscious mind will bring in only the information you need to enable you to carry on the work you are doing at the time.
Sometimes there is a “road block” and wanted facts fail to come into consciousness.
These facts will not come into consciousness until the conscious mind gives the subconscious mind instructions to locate the facts through some such remark as: “It will come to me in a moment.” (Never use a negative, such as: “I have forgotten.” This is just the same as consciously instructing your subconscious mind to do nothing about it.)
As mentioned earlier, the subconscious mind has reasoning abilities which is independent of the conscious mind, but with this difference. The conscious mind, in making a decision, can base its judgment either on facts already stored within the subconscious mind, or on facts which it finds through research, outside the subconscious mind. The decision, therefore, may come from existing facts, newly acquired facts, or a combination of both.
The reasoning of the subconscious mind is confined to the facts and information already contained within it. This is important to know and to remember! Decisions reached through the reasoning of the subconscious mind will be good or faulty, depending upon the type of information it contains. If your mind leans heavily toward the negative side, your decisions will be negative in their nature. If your mind leans toward the positive side, your decisions will be positive in their nature.
Got it so far?
Suppose you had the opportunity to acquire a business of your own. You might decide to call upon your subconscious mind for a decision as to whether or not to accept the offer. Before retiring at night, you might hold a thought, such as: “Tonight, while I am asleep, my subconscious mind will work on my problem and give me a decision when I awaken in the morning.”
This is the part of how sleeping is so important in helping you to achieve success.
If you have a subconscious mind which leans toward the negative side, you will be apt to get a decision something like this: “No, I don’t think I had better tackle this business. I have not had very good luck in the past with my ventures; this one would probably cause me to lose money on it. No, I’d better stick to my present job, as poor as it is.”
On the other hand, if your subconscious mind is definitely on the positive, constructive side, most likely your decision will run something like this: “Boy, this is just the break I have been waiting for. With much study—and not being afraid to work—I know I can put it over in a big way. My decision is yes.”
With this illustration, you can easily understand why it was suggested in an earlier chapter that you hold to the thought: I CAN be a Success, until it establishes an impenetrable layer of positiveness in your subconscious mind.
SO HOW TO MAKE YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WORK FOR YOU?
If you wanted an errand boy to do something for you, what would you do? You would merely give him the proper instruction. If you wished him to go to the post office and mail a letter, you’d tell him to do so; and with perfect certainty that he would do just that, you dismiss it from your mind and think no more about it. You wouldn’t doubt his ability to do so; nor would you doubt his willingness to do so. You would instinctively know that the errand would be done.
You can give your subconscious mind instructions with the same carefree certainty.
Two specific things would happen—quickly:
1. You would lose the feeling of doubt as to whether or not you could obtain the money. There would be a feeling of assurance that within a short period of time, the needed money would be available.
2. Thoughts would begin flowing into your conscious mind not only telling you what to do to get the money, but actually inspiring you to take immediate steps to obtain it.
Here again I must repeat a statement made before: Your subconscious mind works best when your conscious mind is either in abeyance {ASLEEP) or pleasantly occupied.
Robert Updegraff, in his book, Putting Your Subconscious Mind to Work for You, said:
“It is not so much a lack of Brain Power or of business capacity or acumen that keeps men from progressing faster toward their objectives, and toward a solid position in the world. It is rather, because they take only half a mind into business with them. The result is—that they work their conscious mind too hard—too many hours of the day—and too many days of the year. We feel virtuous, because we work so hard and so conscientiously that we are tired, whereas we should feel ashamed that we work so hard— and make so little progress—and we are weary of mind.”
Mr. Updegraff meant by “half a mind” that we attempt to do all of our work consciously without taking advantage of the tremendous reservoir of power at our command in the subconscious mind.
From this moment onward you should begin forming the habit of putting the subconscious mind to work for you. This power-in-hand is on the job twenty-four hours every day. As you learn to use that great force, that endless source of intelligence at your disposal, you will find that, consciously, you have more time for recreation and enjoyment.
Have you ever observed that those people who accomplish the most are the ones who seem to work the least?
Let me crystallize the dominant idea in this blog post: The subconscious mind does its best work while the conscious mind is either in abeyance or pleasantly occupied.
This gives you the happy news that to be successful, it is really essential that you take more time for enjoyable diversion, instead of working harder—and longer. This is possible by utilizing the forces of the subconscious mind to do your constructive thinking and planning, while your conscious mind puts into action the results from the efforts of your subconscious mind.
“If I work my Creative Mind twenty-four hours each day, won’t I always be mentally tired?”
No because right now, your subconscious mind is already working twenty-four hours each day. If it is not being directed into positive, constructive channels through constructive thinking, it will be working against you by obeying negative thoughts.
You can, at will, direct your subconscious mind to assist you in the solving of problems; to help you make the right decisions; to create ways and means of great achievement.
Remember: Be specific in the instructions you give to your subconscious mind. If it is better health you want, know that your subconscious mind is directing the glands and organs of your body to bring you better health, and that thoughts will come into your consciousness directing you to do the things necessary to obtain better health.
If you desire further advancement in your work, know that your subconscious mind will direct you to take the steps necessary to assure advancement.
If problems stand between you and your happiness, know that your subconscious mind, with its reasoning faculties, will provide a practical solution for you. Know that your subconscious mind stands ready, able and willing to assist you in any way you may desire.
And you need to have faith. Make certain you are not merely wishing for better conditions through your subconscious mind.
What you have read in this blog is priceless. Make it a part of your consciousness by rereading it before exit this page, for your own advantage.
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Patric Chan
www.SuccessTrace.com
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