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Raja Yoga or Mental Development
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SUB-CONSCIOUSING.
In
the Ninth Lesson we called your attention to the tact that Reasoning was not necessarily conscious in its operations, and that, in fact, a large part of the rational
processes of the mind arc performed below or above
the field of consciousness. And in the Eighth Lesson we gave you a number of
examples illustrating this fact. We also gave you a number of cases in which the sub-conscious field of the Intellect
worked out problems, and then after
a time passed on to the conscious
field of the Intellect the solution of the matter. In this lesson we purpose
instructing you in the methods by
which this part of the Intellect may be set to work for you. Many have stumbled upon bits of this truth for themselves, and, in fact, the
majority of successful men and men
who have attained eminence in any walk of life have made more or less use of
this truth, although they seldom
understand the reason of it.
Very few Western writers have recognized the work of this plane of
the mind. They have given us full and ingenious theories and examples of the
workings of the Instinctive Mind, and in
some cases they have touched upon
the workings and operations of the
Intuitional planes, but in nearly every case they have treated the Intellect as
something entirely confined to the Conscious plane of mentation. In this they have
missed some of the most interesting and valuable
manifestations of sub-conscious mentation.
In this lesson we will take up this particular phase of mentation, and trust to be able to point out the way to use it to the best advantage, giving some simple instructions that have been given by the Hindu teachers to their students
for centuries past, such instructions of course, being
modified by us to conform to the requirements and
necessities of the Western student of today.
We have taken the liberty of bestowing a new title upon
this phase of mentationwe have thought it well to
call it "Sub-consciousing." The word "Sub," of
course means "under; below;" and the word "Consciousing"
is a favorite term employed by Prof. Elmer Gates,
and means receiving impressions from the mind. In a
general way, "Sub-consciousing," as used in this lesson, may be understood to mean "using the subconscious
mind, under orders of the conscious mind."
By
referring to our Eighth Lesson, we see on page 177,
mention made of the case of the man who indulged in
"unconscious rumination," which happened to
him when he read books presenting new points of view
essentially opposed to his previous opinion. You will
note that after days, weeks, or months, he found that
to his great astonishment the old opinions were entirely
rearranged, and new ones lodged there.
On
the same page you will see mentioned the case of Sir
William Hamilton, who discovered an important law
of mathematics while walking with his wife.
SUB-CONSCIOUS1NG.
In this
case he had been previously thinking of the musing
link in his chain of reasoning, and the problem was
worked out for him by the sub-conscious plane of his Intellect.
On the same page, and the one following, is found the case of Dr. Thompson, who gives an interesting account of the workings of this part of his mind, which caused him at times to experience a feeling of the
uselessness of all voluntary effort, coupled with a feeling
that the matter was working itself clear in his mind. He tells us that at times
he seemed to be merely a passive instrument in the hands
of some person other than himself, who
compelled him to wait until the work was performed for
him by some hidden region of the mind. When the
subconscious part of the mind had completed its work, it
would flash the message to his conscious mind, and
he would begin to write.
On
page 178 mention is also made of the great French
chemist Berthelot, who relates that some of his best
conceptions have flashed upon him as from the clear
sky. In fact, the Eighth Lesson is largely made up
of examples of this kind, and we ask the student to re-read the same, in order
to refresh his mind with the truth of the
workings of the sub-conscious mentality.
But you will notice in nearly all the cases mentioned, that
those who related instances of the help of the sub-conscious
mind had merely stumbled upon the fact that there was a part of
the mind below consciousness
that could and would work out problems for one,
if it could somehow be set in operation. And these
people trusted to luck to start that part of the mind
in operation. Or rather, they would saturate their
conscious mind with a mass of material, like stuffing
the stomach with food, and then bid the subconscious
mind assort, separate, arrange and digest the
mental food, just as does the stomach and digestive apparatus digest the
natural foodoutside of the realm of consciousness or volition. In none of the
cases mentioned was the subconscious mind directed specially to perform
its wonderful work. It was simply hoped that it might digest the mental material with which it had been
stuffedin pure self defense. But there is a much
better way, and \vc intend to tell you about it. The Hindu Yogis, or rather those who instruct their pupils in "Raja Yoga," give
their students directions whereby
they may direct their sub-conscious minds to perform mental tasks for them, just as one may direct another to perforin a task. They teach them
the methods whereby, after having
accumulated the necessary materials,
they may bid the sub-conscious mentality
to sort it out, rearrange, analyze, and build up from it some bit of desired knowledge. More than this, they instruct their pupils to direct and
order the sub-conscious mentality to
search out and report to them
certain information to be found only within the mind itselfsome question of philosophy or metaphysics.
And when such art has been acquired, the student
or Yogi rests assured that the desired result will be
forthcoming in due time, and consequently dismisses
the matter from his conscious mind, and busies
himself with other matters, knowing that day and
night, incessantly, the sub-consciousing process is going on, and that the
sub-conscious mind is actively at work collecting the
information, or working out the problem,
You
will sec at once the great superiority of this method
over the old "hit-or-miss," "hope-it-will-work" plan
pursued by those who have stumbled upon bits of the truth.
The
Yogi teacher begins by impressing upon his students
the fact that the mind is capable of extending
outward toward an object, material or mental, and by examining it by methods inherent in itself, extracting
knowledge regarding the object named. This is not a
startling truth, because it is so common, everyone employing
it more or less every day. But the process by which
the knowledge is extracted is most wonderful,
and really is performed below the plane of consciousness, the work of the
conscious mind being chiefly concerned in holding
the Attention upon the object. We have spoken of the importance of Attention
in previous lessons, which it will be well for you to re-read, at this
time.
When the student is fully impressed with the details of
the process of Attention, and the subsequent unfoldment
of knowledge, the Yogi proceeds to inform him that
there are other means of obtaining know edge
about an object, by the employment of which the Attention
may be firmly directed toward the object, and then
afterwards held there unconsciouslythat is, a
portion of the Attention, or a sub-conscious phase of
mentation, which will hold the sub-conscious mind firmly upon the work until
accomplished, leaving the conscious Attention and
mentality free to employ itself with other things.
The Yogis teach the
students that this new form of Attention is
far more intense and powerful than is the conscious Attention, for it
cannot be disturbed or shaken, or distracted
from its object, and that it will
work away at its task for days, months, years, or a lifetime if necessary, according to the
difficulty of the task, and in fact
carries its work over from one life to another, unless recalled by the
Will. They teach the student that in
everyone's life there is going on a
greater or less degree of this sub-conscious work, carried on in obedience to a strong desire for
knowledge manifested in some former
life, and bearing fruit only in the
present existence. Many important discoveries have been made in
obedience to this law. But it is not of this
phase of the matter that we wish to speak in this lesson.
The Yogi theory is that the sub-conscious intellectual
faculty may be set to work under the direction of
orders given by the Will. AH of you know how the sub-conscious
mentality will take up an order of the Will, or a strong wish, that the person
be awakened at a certain hour in order to catch a train. Or, in the same way
how the remembrance of a certain engagement at, say, four o'clock, will flash
into the mind when the hands of the clock approach
the stated hour. Nearly every one can recall
instances of this sort in his own experience.
But the Yogis go
much further than this. They claim that any
and all faculties of the mind may be "set
going," or working on any problem, if ordered thereto by the Will. In fact, the Yogis, and their
advanced students have mastered
this art to such a surprising
extent that they find it unnecessary to do the drudgery of thinking in the conscious field, and prefer to relegate such mental work to the
sub-conscious, reserving their
conscious work for the consideration of
digested information and thought presented to them by the sub-conscious
mind.
Their
directions to their students cover a great deal of ground, and extend over a
long period of time, and many of the
directions are quite complicated and full of detail. But we think that
we can give our students an abbreviated and
condensed idea in a few pages of the
lesson. And the remaining lessons of the course wilt also throw additional light on the subject of sub-conscious mental action, in connection
with other subjects.
The
Yogi takes the student when the latter is much bothered
by a consideration of some knotty and perplexing
philosophical subject. He bids the student relax
every muscle,take the tension from every nervethrow
aside all mental strain, and then wait a few moments. Then the
student is instructed to grasp the subject which he has had before his mind,
firmly and fixedly before his mental vision, by means of concentration.
Then he is instructed to pass it on to the
sub-conscious mentality by an effort of the Will, which effort is aided
by forming a mental picture of the subject as a material substance, or
bundle of thought, which is being bodily lifted up and dropped down
a mental hatch-way, or trap-door, in which it sinks from sight. The student is
then instructed to say to the sub-conscious mentality: "I wish this subject thoroughly analyzed, arranged, classified
(and whatever else is desired) and
then the results handed back to me.
Attend to this."
The student is
taught to speak to the sub-conscious mentality just as if it were a separate
entity of being, which had been employed to
do the work. He is also taught that confident expectation is an
important part of the process, and that the
degree of success depends upon the degree of this confident expectation.
In obstinate cases,
the student is taught to use the Imagination
freely, until he is able to make a mental image or picture of the sub-conscious mind doing what is
required of it. This process clears away a mental path for the feet of the
sub-conscious mind, which it will choose thereafter, as it prefers to follow
the line of least resistance.
Of course much depends upon practicepractice makes perfect, you know,
in everything else, and subconscfousing is no exception to the rule.
The student gradually acquires a proficiency in the art of sub-consciousing, and thereafter devotes his time to acquiring new facts for mental digestion, rather
than bestowing it upon the mechanical act of thinking.
But
a very important point to be remembered is that the
Will-power back of the transferred thought-material,
which Will-power is the cause of the subconscious
action, depends very greatly upon the attention
and interest given to the acquired material. This
mass of thought-material which is to be digested, and threshed out by the sub-conscious mind, must be
well saturated with interest and attention, in order to
obtain the best results. In fact interest and attention are such important aids to the Will, that any consideration
of the- development and acquirement of Will-power
is practically a development and acquirement of
attention and interest. The student is referred to
previous lessons in this course in which the importance
of interest and attention is explained and described.
In
acquiring the mass of thought-material which is to be
passed on to the sub-conscious digestion, one must
concentrate a great degree of interest and attention upon each item of
thought-material gathered up. The gathering of this
thought-material is a matter of the greatest importance, and
must not be lightly passed by. One cannot hastily gather together alt sorts of thought-material, and then expect the subconscious mind to do its work properlyit will
not, in fact, and the student proceeding upon any
such erroneous supposition is doomed to disappointment.
The proper way to proceed, is to take
up each bit of thought-material in turn, and examine it with the greatest
possible interest, and consequently the greatest attention, and then after
having fairly saturated it with this interested attention, place it with the
pile of material which, after a while, is to be passed on to the sub-conscious
mentality. Then take up the next bit of material, and after giving it similar
treatment, pass it along to the pile also. Then after a while when you have
gathered up the main facts of the case, proceed to consider the mass as a
whole, with interest and attention, giving it as it were a "general treatment."
Then drop it down the trap-door into the sub-conscious mind, with a strong
command, "Attend to this thought-material," coupled with a strong expectant
belief that your order will be obeyed.
The idea
underlying this treatment of the thought-material with interest and attention is that by
so doing a strong "Mental Image" is created, which may he easily
handled by the sub-conscious mind. Remember that you are passing on
"thoughts" for the sub-consciousness
to act upon, and that the more tangible and real these thoughts are,
the better can they be handled. Therefore
any plan that will build these thoughts up into "real" things
is the plan to pursue. And attention and interest produce just this result.
If we may be
pardoned for using a homely and commonplace illustration we would say that the
idea may be grasped by the illustration
of boiling an egg, whereby the fluid
"white" and "yolk" becomes solid and real. Also the use of a shaving brush by a
man, by which the thin lather is
gradually worked up into a rich, thick, creamy mass, is an illustration. Again,
the churning of butter is a favorite
illustration of the Hindus, who thus
call the attention of their students to
the fact that thought-material if worked upon with attention and interest become
"thought-forms" that may be handled by the mind just as the hands
handle a material object. We ask you
to think of these illustrations,
for when you once grasp the idea that we wish to convey to you, you will have the secret of great thinking
powers within your grasp.
And
this power of sub-consciousing is not confined alone to
the consideration of philosophical questions. On the
contrary it is applicable to every field of human
thought, and may be properly employed in any and all
of them. It is useful in solving the problems of
every-day life and work, as well as to the higher flights of the human mind. And we wish every one of our students to realize that in this simple lesson we are giving them the key to a great mental power.
To realize just what we are offering to you, we would
remind you of the old fairy tales of all races, in which
there is to be found one or more tales telling of some
poor cobbler, or tailor, or carpenter, as the case may
be, who had by his good deeds, gained favor with the "brownies" or
good fairies, who would come each night when the man
and his family were asleep, and
proceed to complete the work that the artisan had laid out for the morrow. The
pieces of leather would he made into shoes;
the cloth would be sewed into garments; the wood would he joined, and
nailed together into boxes, chairs, benches and what not. But in each case the rough materials were prepared by
the artisan himself during the day.
Well, that is just what we are trying to introduce to you. A clan of
mental brownies, loving and kindly disposed
toward you, who are anxious and willing to help you in your work. AH you have
to do is to give them the proper materials, and tell then what you want
done, and they will do the rest. Rut these mental brownies are a part of your own mentality, remember, and no alien and foreign entities, as some
have imagined.
A number
of people who have accidentally discovered this power of the
sub-conscious mind to work out problems, and to render other valuable service
to its owner, have been led to suppose that
the aid really came from some other entity or intelligence. Some have
thought that the messages came from friends in the spirit land, and others have believed that some high
intelligenceGod or his angelswas working in their behalf. Without discussing spirit communication,
or Divine messages, in both of which we believe (with certain provisional reservations) we feel
justified in saying that the majority of cases of this kind may be referred
to the sub-conscious workings of one's own mentality.
Each of us has
"a friend" in our own minda score
of them in fact, who delight in performing services for us, if we will
but allow them to do so. Not only have we a
Higher Self to whom we may turn for comfort and aid in times of deep
distress and necessity, but we have these
invisible mental workers on the sub-conscious
plane, who are very willing and glad to perform much of our mental work
for us, if we will but give them the
materia! in proper shape.
It
is very difficult to impart specific directions for obtaining these results, as
each case must depend to a great extent upon
the peculiar circumstances surrounding it. Hut we may say that the main
thing needed is to "lick into shape" the material, and then pass it
on to the sub-conscious mind in the manner spoken
of a few moments ago. Let us run over a few cases wherein this
principle may be applied.
Let us suppose that
you are confronted with a problem consisting of an uncertainty as to which of
two or more courses to adopt in some affair of life. Each course seems to have advantages and disadvantages. and you seem unable to pass upon the
matter clearly and intelligently. The
more you try the more perplexed and worried do you become. Your mind seems to tire of the matter, and manifests a
state which may be called "mental nausea." This state will be
apparent to any one who has had much "thinking" to do. The average
person, however, persists in going over the matter, notwithstanding the tired
condition of the mind, and its evident distaste for a further consideration
of the subject. They will keep on forcing it back
to the mind for consideration, and even at night time
will keep thrashing away at the subject. Now this
course is absurd. The mind recognizes that the work
should be done by another part of itselfits digestive
region, in factand naturally rebels at the finishing-up
machinery being employed in work unsuited for it.
According to the Sub-consciousing plan, the best thing
for the man to do would be for him first to calm and quiet his mind.
Then he should arrange the main features of
the problem, together with the minor details
in their proper places. Then he should pass them slowly before him in review, giving a strong interest and attention to each fact and detail, as
it passes before him, but without
the slightest attempt to form a decision, or come to a
conclusion. Then, having given the
matter an interested and attentive review. let him Will that it pass on to his sub-conscious mind. forming the mental image of dropping it through
the trap-door, and at the same time
giving the command of the Will, "Attend to this for me!"
Then
dismiss the matter from your conscious mind, by an
effort of command of the Will. If you find it difficult
to do this, you may soon acquire the mastery by a
frequent assertion, "I have dismissed this matter from my conscious mind,
and my sub-conscious mind will attend to it for me." Then, endeavor to create
a mental feeling of perfect trust and
confidence in the matter, and avoid
all worry or anxiety about it. This may be
somewhat difficult at the first trial, but will become a natural feeling after you have gained the confidence
arising from successful results in several cases. The
matter is one of practice, and, like anything else that
is new, must be acquired by perseverance and patience. It is well worth the
time and trouble, and once acquired will be
regarded as something in the nature
of a treasure discovered in an unexpected place. The sense of tranquillity and contentof calm and confidencethat comes to one who has practiced
this plan, will of itself be worth all the trouble, not to speak of the main result. To one who has acquired this method, the old worries, frettings, and general
"stewed up" feeling, will
seem like a relic of barbarism. The new way opens up a world of new feelings
and content.
In some cases the matter will be worked out by the sub-conscious
mind in a very short time, and in fact we have
known cases in which the answer would be flashed
back almost instantly, almost like an inspiration.
But in the majority of cases more or less time is
required. The sub-conscious mind works very rapidly,
but it takes time to arrange the thought-material properly, and to shape it into the desired forms. In the majority of
cases it is well to let the matter rest until the
next daya fact that gives us a clue to the old
advice to "sleep over" an important proposition. before passing a
final decision.
If
the matter does not present itself the following day, bring it up again before the conscious mind for review. You will find
that it has shaped itself up considerably, and is assuming definite form and
clearness. But right hereand this is importantdo not make the mistake of
again dissecting it, and meddling with it, and trying to arrange it with your
conscious mind. But, instead, give it attention and interest in its new form, and then pass it back again to
the sub-conscious mind for further work. You will find an improvement
each time you examine it. Bui, right here
another word of caution. Do not make the mistake of yielding to the
impatience of the beginner. and keep on repeatedly bringing up the matter to
see what is being done. Give it time to have the work-done on it. Do not be
like the boy who planted seeds, and who each day would pull them up to see
whether they had sprouted, and how much.
Sooner or later, the sub-conscious
mind will, of its own choice, lift up the matter and present it to you in its finished shape for the consideration of
the conscious mind. The sub-conscious mind does not insist that you
shall adopt its views, or accept its work, but merely hands out to you the
result of its sorting, classifying and arranging. The choice and will still remains
yours, but you will often find that there is seen to be one plan or path that
stands out clearly from the others, and you will very likely adopt that one. The secret is that the sub-conscious mind with
its wonderful patience and care has analyzed the matter, and has
separated things before apparently connected. It has also found resemblances and has combined things
heretofore considered opposed to each other. In short it has done for you all
that you could have done with the expenditure of
great work and time, and done it well. And then it
lays the matter before you for your consideration and
verdict.
Its whole work seems to have been in the nature of
assorting, dissecting, analyzing, and arranging the evidence, and then presenting it before you in a clear, systematic
shape. It does not attempt to exercise the judicial
prerogative or function, but seems to recognize that
its work ceases with the presentation of the edited evidence, and that of the
conscious mind begins at the same point.
Now, do not confuse this work with that of the Intuition, which is a very different mental phase or plane.
This sub-conscious working, just mentioned, plays an
entirely different part. It is a good servant, and does
not try to be more. The Intuition, on the contrary,
is more like a higher friend-a friend at court,
as it were, who gives us warnings and advice.
In
our directions we have told you how to make use of this
part of the mind, consciously and knowingly, so as to
obtain the best results, and to get rid of worry and anxiety attendant upon unsettled questions. But, in fact, every one of us makes more or less use of this part of the mind unconsciously, and not realizing the important
part it plays in our mental life. We are perplexed
about a matter and keep it "on our minds" until we are forced to lay it aside by reason of some other demand, or
when we sink to sleep. Often to our surprise we will find that when we next
think of it the matter has somehow cleared
up and straightened itself out, and we seem to have learned something
about it that we did not know before. We do not understand it, and are apt to
dismiss it as "just one of those things." In these lessons we are
attempting to explain some of "those things," and to enable you to
use them consciously and understandingly, instead of by chance, instinctively,
and clumsily. We are teaching you Mastery of the Mind.
Now to apply the rule to another case. Suppose
you wish to gather together all the information that you possess relating to a
certain subject. In the first place it is
certain that you know a very great deal more. about any subject than you
think you do. Stored away in the various recesses of the mind, or memory if you
prefer that term, are stray bits of information and knowledge concerning almost
any subject. But these bits of information arc not associated with each other.
You have never attempted to think attentively upon the particular question
before you, and the facts are not corelated in the mind. It is just as if you
had so many hundred pounds of anything scattered throughout the space of a
large warehouse, a tiny bit here, and a tiny bit there, mixed up with thousands
of other things.
You may prove this by sitting down
some time and letting your thoughts run along the line of some particular
subject, and you will find emerging into the field of consciousness all sorts
of information that you had apparently forgotten, and each fitting
itself into its proper place. Every person has had experiences of this kind.
But the work of gathering together the scattered scraps of knowledge is more or
less tedious for the conscious mind, and the sub-conscious mind will do the
work equally well with the wear and tear on the attention. In fact, it is the
sub-conscious mind that always does the work, even when you think it is
the conscious mind. All the conscious mind does is to hold the attention firmly
upon the object before it, and then let the subconsciousness pass the material
before it. But this holding the attention is tiresome work, and it is not
necessary for it to expend its energies upon the details of the task, for the
work may be done in an easier and simpler way.
The best way is to follow a plan
similar to the one mentioned a few pages back. That is, to fix the interested attention firmly upon the question
before you, until you manage to get a clear, vivid impression of just
what you want answered. Then pass the whole matter into the sub-conscious mind with the command "Attend
to this." and then leave it. Throw the whole matter off of your mind, and
let the sub-conscious work go on. If possible let the matter run along until the next morning and then take it up for
consideration, when, if you have proceeded properly you will find the
matter worked out, arranged in logical sequence, so that your conscious attention will be able to clearly review
the string of facts, examples, illustrations, experiences, etc., relating to
the matter in question.
Now, many of you will say that you would like
this plan to work in cases in which you have not the time to sleep over
it. In such cases we will say that it
is possible to cultivate a rapid method of sub-conscious-ing, and in fact many
business men and men of affairs have stumbled upon a similar plan, driven to
the discovery by necessity. They will
give a quick, comprehensive, strong flash of attention upon the subject,
getting right to the heart of it, and then will let it rest in the
sub-conscious mind for a moment or two, killing a minute or two of time in
"preliminary conversation," until the first flash of answer comes to
them. After the first flash, and
taking hold of the first loose end of the subject that presents itself to them,
they will unwind a string of information and "talk" about the subject
that will surprise even themselves.
Many lawyers have acquired this knowledge, and are what is known as
"resourceful." Such men are
often confronted with questions of conditions utterly unsuspected by them a
moment before. Practice has taught
them the folly of fear and loss of confidence at such moments, and has also
impressed upon them the truth that something within them will come to the
rescue. So, presenting a confident
air, they will manage to say a few platitudes or commonplaces. while the sub-conscious
mind is most rapidly gathering its materials for the answer. In a moment an opening thought
"flashes upon" the man, and as he continues idea after idea passes
before his conscious and eager attention, sometimes so rapidly that it is almost impossible
to utter them and lot the danger is over, and a brilliant success
is often snatched from the jaws of an apparent failure and defeat. In such cases the mental demand upon the sub-conscious
mind is not voiced in words, but is the result of a strong mental need. However, if one gives a quick verbal
command "Attend to this," the result will be heightened.
We
have known of cases of men prominent in the world's affairs who made a
practice of smoking a cigar during important business interviews, not because
they particularly cared for tobacco, but because
they had learned to appreciate the value of a moment's time for the mind
to "gather itself together," as one man expressed it. A question
would be asked, or a proposition advanced
suddenly, demanding an immediate answer. Under the watchful eyes of the
other party the questioned party tried not to show by his expression any
indication of searching for an answer, for obvious reasons. So, instead, he
would take a long puff at the cigar, then a slow attentive look at the ashes
on its tip, and then another moment
consumed in flicking the ash into the receptacle, and then came the answer,
slowly, "Well, as to that" or some other words of that kind,
prefacing the real answer which had been rapidly framed by the sub-conscious
mind in time to be uttered in its proper place. The few moments of time gained
had been sufficient for the sub-conscious mind to gather up its materials, and
the matter to be shaped properly,
without any appearance of hesitation on the part of the answerer.
All of this required practice, of course,
hut the principle may be seen through it all, and in every similar case. The point is that the man, in such cases,
sets some hidden part of his mind to work
for him, and when he begins to speak the matter is at least roughly "licked into shape for him."
Our
students will understand, of course, that this is not
advice to smoke cigars during interviews of importance,
but is merely given to illustrate the principle. We
have known other men to twirl a lead pencil in their fingers in a lazy sort of
fashion, and then drop it at the important moment.
But we must cease giving examples of this kind,
lest we be accused of giving instructions in worldly wisdom, instead of teaching the use of the mind. The impressive pause of the teacher, before answering his pupil's question, is also an
example of the workings of this law. One often
says "stop, let me think a moment," and during his pause he does not really consciously think at all, but stares ahead in a dreamy fashion, while his subconscious mind does
the work for him, although he little
suspects the nature of the operation. One has but to look around him to realize the importance and frequent application
of this truth.
And not only may the sub-conscious mind be used in the directions indicated on preceding pages, but in nearly every
perplexity and problem of life may it be called upon for
help. These little
sub-conscious brownies are ever at our disposal, and seem to be
happy to be of service to us.
And so far from being apt to
get us in a position of false dependence,
it is calculated to make us self-confidentfor we are calling upon a part of ourselves,
not upon some outside
intelligence. If those people who
never feel satisfied unless they are getting "advice" from others
would only cultivate the acquaintance
of this little "home adviser" within them, they would lose that dependent attitude and frame of
mind, and would grow self-confident
and fearless. Just imagine the
confidence of one who feels that he has within him a source of knowledge
equal to that of the majority of those with
whom he is likely to come in contact,
and be feels less afraid to face them, and look them fearlessly in the eyes. He feels that his "mind" is not confined to the little
field of consciousness, but is an
area infinitely greater, containing a mass of information undreamed of. Everything that the man has inherited, or brought with him from past liveseverything that he has read, heard or seen,
or experienced in this life, is
hidden away there in some quarter of
that great sub-conscious mind, and, if he will but give the command, the "essence" of all that knowledge
is his. The details may not be presented to his consciousness (often it is not, for very good occult reasons) by the result, or essence of the
knowledge will pass before his
attention, with sufficient examples
and illustrations, or arguments to enable him to make out "'a good case" for himself.
In the next lesson we will call your attention to other
features and qualities of this great field of mind, showing you how you can put it to work, and Master it. Remember,
always, the "I" is the Master. And its
Mastery must always he remembered and asserted over all phases and planes of the mind. Do not be a slave to the sub-conscious, but be its MASTER.
SUB-CONSCIOUSING
MANTRAM (OR AFFIRMATION).
I have within me a great area of
Mind that is under my command, and subject to my Mastery. This Mind is
friendly to me, and is glad to do my bidding, and obey my orders. It will work
for me when I ask it, and is constant, untiring, and faithful. Knowing this 1
am no longer afraid, ignorant or uninformed. The "I" is master of it
all, and is asserting its authority. "I" am master over Body, Mind,
Consciousness, and Sub-conscioussness. I am
"I"a Centre of Power, Strength, and Knowledge. I am
"I"and "I" am Spirit, a fragment from the Divine Flame.
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