Chapter 8 – How to Get the Results You Want
The principle reasons for failure are: Lack of confidence and too much effort. Many
people block answers to their prayers by failing to fully comprehend the workings of their
subconscious mind. When you know how your mind functions, you gain a measure of
confidence. You must remember whenever your subconscious mind accepts an idea; it
immediately begins to execute it. It uses all its mighty resources to that end and mobilizes
all the mental and spiritual laws of your deeper mind. This law is true for good or
bad ideas. Consequently, if you use it negatively, it brings trouble, failure, and confusion.
When you use it constructively, it brings guidance, freedom, and peace of mind.
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The right answer is inevitable when your thoughts are positive, constructive, and loving.
From this it is perfectly obvious that the only thing you have to do in order to overcome
failure is to get your subconscious to accept your idea or request by feeling its reality
now, and the law of your mind will do the rest. Turn over your request with faith and
confidence, and your subconscious will take over and answer for you.
You will always fail to get results by trying to use mental coercion— your subconscious
mind does not respond to coercion, it responds to your faith or conscious mind
acceptance.
Your failure to get results may also arise from such statements as: “Things are getting
worse.” “I will never get an answer.” “I see no way out.” “It is hopeless.” “I don’t know
what to do.” “I’m all mixed up.” When you use such statements, you get no response or
cooperation from your subconscious mind. Like a soldier marking time, you neither go
forward nor backward; in other words, you don’t get anywhere.
If you get into a taxi and give half dozen different directions to the driver in five minutes,
he would become hopelessly confused and probably would refuse to take you anywhere.
It is the same when working with your subconscious mind. There must be a clear cut idea
in your mind. You must arrive at the definite decision that there is a way out, a solution to
the vexing problem in sickness. Only the infinite intelligence within your subconscious
knows the answer. When you come to that clear cut conclusion in your conscious mind,
your mind is then made up, and according to your belief is it done unto you.
Easy does it
A house owner once remonstrated with a furnace repairman for charging two hundred
dollars for fixing the boiler. The mechanic said, “I charged five cents for the missing bolt
and one hundred ninety-nine dollars and ninety-five cents for knowing what was wrong.”
Similarly, your subconscious mind is the master mechanic, the all wise one, who knows
ways and means of healing any organ of your body, as well as your affairs. Decree
health, and your subconscious will establish it, but relaxation is the key. “Easy does it.”
Do not be concerned with details and means, but know the end result. Get the feel of the
happy solution to your problem whether it is health, finances, or employment. Remember
how you felt after you had recovered from a severe state of illness. Bear in mind that your
feeling is the touchstone of all subconscious demonstration. Your new idea must be felt
subjectively in a finished state, not the future, but as coming about now.
Infer no opponent, use imagination and not will power
In using your subconscious mind you infer no opponent, you use no will power. You
imagine the end and the freedom state. You will find your intellect trying to get in the
way, but persist in maintaining a simple, childlike, miracle making faith. Picture yourself
without the ailment or problem. Imagine the emotional accompaniment of the freedom
state you crave. Cut out all red tape from the process. The simple way is the best.
How disciplined imagination works wonders
A wonderful way to get a response from your subconscious mind is through disciplined
or scientific imagination. As previously pointed out, your subconscious mind is the
builder of the body and controls all its vital functions.
The Bible says, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. To believe
is to accept something as true, or to live in the state of being it. As you sustain this mood,
you shall experience the joy of the answered prayer!
The three steps to success in prayer
The usual procedure is as follows:
1. Take a look at the problem.
2. Turn to the solution or way out known only to the subconscious mind.
3. Rest in a sense of deep conviction that it is done.
Do not weaken your prayer by saying, “I wish I might be healed.” “I hope so.” Your
feeling about the work to be done is “the boss.” Harmony is yours. Know that health is
yours. Become intelligent by becoming a vehicle for the infinite healing power of the
subconscious mind. Pass on the idea of health Jo your subconscious mind to the point of
conviction; then relax. Get yourself off your hands. Say to the condition and
circumstance, “This, too, shall pass.” Through relaxation you impress your subconscious
mind enabling the kinetic energy behind the idea to take over and bring it into concrete
realization.
The law of reversed effort and why you get the opposite of what you pray for
Coué, the famous psychologist from France who visited America about forty years ago,
defined the law of reversed effort as follows: “When your desires and imagination are in
conflict your imagination invariably gains the day.”
If, for example, you were asked to walk a plank on the floor, you would do so without
question. Now suppose the same plank were placed twenty feet up in the air between two
walls, would you walk it? Your desire to walk it would be counteracted by your
imagination or fear of falling. Your dominant idea, which would be the picture of falling,
would conquer. Your desire, will, or effort to walk on the plank would be reversed, and
the dominant idea of failure would be reinforced.
Mental effort is invariably self defeated, eventuating always in the opposite of what is
desired. The suggestions of powerlessness to overcome the condition dominate the mind;
your subconscious is always controlled by the dominant idea. Your subconscious will
accept the stronger of two contradictory propositions. The effortless way is the better.
If you say, “I want a healing, but I can’t get it;” “I try so hard;” “I force myself to pray;”
“I use all the will power I have,” you must realize that your error lies in your effort.
Never try to compel the subconscious mind to accept your idea by exercising will power.
Such attempts are doomed to failure, and you get the opposite of what you prayed for.
The following is a rather common experience. Students, when taking examinations and
reading through their papers, find that all their knowledge has suddenly deserted them.
Their minds become appalling blanks, and they are unable to recall one relevant thought.
The more they grit their teeth and summon the powers of the will, the further the answers
seem to flee. But, when they have left the examination room and the mental pressure
relaxes, the answers they were seeking flow tantalizingly back into their minds.
Trying to force themselves to remember was the cause of their failure. This is an example
of the law of reversed effort whereby you get the opposite of what you asked or prayed
for.
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The conflict of desire and imagination must be reconciled
To use mental force is to presuppose that there is opposition. When your mind is
concentrated on the means to overcome a problem, it is no longer concerned with the
obstacle. MATT. 18:19 says, If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that
they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Who are these
two? It means the harmonious union or agreement between your conscious and
subconscious on any idea, desire, or mental image. When there is no longer any quarrel in
either part of your mind, your prayer will be answered. The two agreeing may also be
represented as you and your desire, your thought and feeling, your idea and emotion,
your desire and imagination. You avoid all conflict between your desires and imagination
by entering into a drowsy, sleepy state which brings all effort to a minimum.
The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent when in a sleepy state. The best time to
impregnate your subconscious is prior to sleep. The reason for this is that the highest
degree of outcropping of the subconscious occurs prior to sleep and just after we awaken.
In this state the negative thoughts and imagery, which tend to neutralize your desire and
so prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind no longer present themselves. When
you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your
subconscious brings about the realization of your desire.
A great many people solve all their dilemmas and problems by the play of their
controlled, directed, and disciplined imagination, knowing that whatever they imagine
and feel as true will and must come to pass. The following will clearly illustrate how a
young girl overcame the conflict between her desire and her imagination. She desired a
harmonious solution to her legal problem, yet her mental imagery was constantly on
failure, loss, bankruptcy, and poverty. It was a complicated lawsuit and there was one
postponement after another with no solution in sight.
At my suggestion, she got into a sleepy, drowsy state each night prior to sleep, and she
began to imagine the happy ending, feeling it to the best of her ability. She knew that the
image in her mind had to agree with her heart’s desire. Prior to sleep she began to
dramatize as vividly as possible her lawyer having an animated discussion with her
regarding the outcome. She would ask him questions, and he would answer her
appropriately. He would say to her over and over again, “There has been a perfect,
harmonious solution. The case has been settled out of court.” During the day when fear
thoughts came into her mind, she would run her mental movie with gestures, voice, and
sound equipment. She could easily imagine the sound of his voice, smile, and
mannerism. She ran this mental picture so often; it became a subjective pattern, a regular
train track. At the end of a few weeks her attorney called her and confirmed objectively
what she had been imagining and feeling as true subjectively.
This is really what the Psalmist meant when he wrote, Let the words of my mouth [your
thoughts, mental images, good] and the meditations of my heart [your feeling, nature,
emotion] be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord [the law of your subconscious mind], my
strength, and my redeemer [the power and wisdom of your subconscious mind can
redeem you from sickness, bondage, and misery]. PSALM 19:14.
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Ideas worth recalling
1. Mental coercion or too much effort shows anxiety and fear, which block your answer.
Easy does it.
2. When your mind is relaxed and you accept an idea, your subconscious goes to work to
execute the idea.
3. Think and plan independently of traditional methods. Know that there is always an
answer and a solution to every problem.
4. Do not be overly concerned with the beating of your heart, with the breathing of your
lungs, or the functions of any part of your anatomy. Lean heavily upon your subconscious
and proclaim frequently that Divine right action is taking place.
5. The feeling of health produces health; the feeling of wealth produces wealth. How do
you feel?
6. Imagination is your most powerful faculty. Imagine what is lovely and of good report.
You are what you imagine yourself to be.
7. You avoid conflict between your conscious and subconscious in the sleepy state.
Imagine the fulfillment of your desire over and over again prior to sleep. Sleep in peace
and wake in joy.
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