The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Updated

The last chapters in the book about cultivating a peaceful positive subconscious and conquering fear, including of old age, really resonated with me, particularly in these dark times of the 2020 pandemic, and as a 71-year old female without family questioning my usefulness. Thank you, Mr. Murphy!

A guide for life and to free your mind from this chaotic man made dimension.

This book provided a lot of concrete suggestions for how to achieve your goals, such as ways to meditate, writing affirmations, particular prayers that one could go through. The writing was very positive and I feel like this is a book you can turn to repeatedly when you feel helpless and at a loss as to what to do.The idea I found most interesting is that while the subconscious mind controls everything, including your physical body, it is incapable of assessing the validity of a particular idea or situation. To illustrate this point, the author reminds you of how your subconscious mind unquestioningly accepts all kinds of weird scenarios that are introduced in dreams. It is only the conscious mind that has the ability to detect fallacies or even begin to exercise that level of judgment. That's why you have to somehow control this powerful subconscious mind lest it sabotage your goals. That is, if you want to achieve one thing but you subconsciously believe you do not deserve it, then your subconscious mind will affirm your belief by sabotaging your efforts. Therefore to achieve anything you need to get your subconscious mind to cooperate and agree with your conscious goals. Trying to tame or communicate with this illogical beast is difficult and requires practice, and this book begins to instruct you on how to work towards this. The book emphasizes that the whole process requires time and work.I do not think this book offered a scientific basis for any of its ideas but instead relied on numerous personal anecdotes. It also would often refer to a higher power so if you object to that you may want to turn to another book on self hypnosis.

The revised edition has a pleasant writing style that that made it easy for me to apply what's taught in the book. It also uses the word "prayer" for the technique we're encouraged to employ. I find this helpful because it assists me to avoid my biggest pitfall when I use mind techniques: I push too hard and try to force outcomes. I find the style of this book promotes humility while still enabling me to be positive towards a specific outcome or goal. What I'm calling "humility" is actually getting my conscious mind and ego out of the way by aligning my intention with the transcendent power of a loving God. There are specific examples of the types of "prayers" that have been used successfully. I find that when I apply these principles my mood is better, my health is better and my life is better.

Even though this book was published in the 1960's, it is still as powerful and relevant as it was 40 years ago.It has definately changed my life for the better. I look at thousands of books a year in my business and this book is on my top 5 list. I was so impressed with this book that I bought more copies for my grown children and i keep my copy on my bed stand so I may refer to it frequently.The author has many other books which are also top rate. These books will change your life for the better.

My Mom loves this book. She thinks it is the best thing since sliced bread. I personally found this a bit of a hard read. Hard to get through. Guess my mind is just not built for this type of book.

If you want to learn how to really think for your most deserved life read this inspiring book. It sounds so easy but once you put this into practice you will find that it is a challenge. You need to study, re-read,and practice but it's worth it. I have read most of the books written on this subject and I find that this book is written the best...

This books provides you with “action” steps to move you forward in life through controlling your thought life. This is a great read!

Excellent book. This is my second time to read it.

Excellent book. I would recommend highly

Good book to have. A must read.

Amazing book. We all have the power.