- 潛意識是主體。
人類的精神生活中，潛意識至少占據了９０％，這種主導地位不容忽視。
- 引導潛意識
隻有我們在生活中正確地對待並引導潛意識，它才幫助我們克服種種困難，為人生的發展保駕護航。
- 精神也要接受引導
- 祖先遺留下來的能量
融在我們身體血液中的精神，有一種一脈相承的氣質，這就是我們通常所說的遺傳。它是我們祖先的經驗的傳承，體現的是一種生生不息的生命力量。一旦我們正確地理解了這一點，我們就能正視自身暴露的種種令人不悅的弱點，並且利用自身的主觀能量去加以改變，讓自己得以提升。
- 主觀能量
我們的主觀能量就體現在：保留並發揚自身遺傳下來的好的、積極的性格特點：修正或摒棄那些不好的、給我們帶來損害的性格特點。
- 遺傳與主觀努力一起發揮作用
由此可見，我們自身思想的獲得絕不僅僅是簡單的遺傳，還有事業、家庭以及社會環境綜合作用的結果。
- 引力法則
自亙古以來我們人類得以創造、發展的力量和源泉也正在於此：昨天的思考成就了今天的我，而今天的思考必將引導和塑造明天的我。這就是應驗在人類的“引力法則”。
- 精心構建你的精神家園
當我們想給自己建造住房時，總是周密籌劃，鑒別選用質量上乘的材料，認真關注每一個小細節。然而，在我們在為自己構建精神家園的時候，卻往往沒有做到如此細致。人類的損失也就在於此，因為，就重要性而言，後者遠遠超過前者。我們的精神家園的構架如何，其中所選用的材質如何，都將直接影響到我們生活中對每一個細微問題的處理。
- 精神家園的材質
話說回來，那麽，精神家園的材質又是什麽呢？其實，它是過往生活經曆集中反映在我們潛意識中所得到的一種反饋。
- 用最優良的材質去構建精神家園
一旦我們采取積極向上、勇敢堅定的態度，主動地同一切不良觀念作鬥爭，主動摒棄或改造它們，堅持下去，構建我們精神家園的材質就隻有絕對上乘的，有了這個作基礎，我們的精神家園必然會色彩繽紛，構建的精神家園自然也是恒久堅固，曆經風雨而不褪色，我們就可以十足的信心麵對將來。精神有了好的棲息之所，還有什麽可擔憂疑慮的呢？大膽向前走就對了！
- 千真萬確的真理
精神家園的建設絕不可偏廢，而需要用心經營。持久的關注它，讓它的內部充滿著溫馨、和諧、舒展的氣息，我們的生活將會因此而變得積極而富有張力。
- 精神家園是基礎中的基礎
隻有我們完成了精神家園的基礎性建設，我們才能在此徜徉，卓有成效地構築我們理想中的天地。
- 一個比喻
……美好的存在一旦被荒廢，那就等同於被無情的拋棄。
- 精神的美地
在人類的精神領域，確實也就存在著這樣一處房產。而你，就相當於房產的繼承人！你大可以無所顧忌地占有它，使出渾身解數，發揮自身最大能量去掌控它，營造出美麗和諧、繁榮興旺的景象，它的回報也是豐厚的，幸福、安詳、積極樂觀，將成為你再不會失去的財富，而軟弱、無能、無奈等等不良，將揮之而去。它就是你生命方向的權杖，把握它，你將為生命和尊嚴而戰！
- 三步，且隻需要三步
要想順理成章地擁有這筆豐厚的財產，就不要吝惜邁出的腳步：真誠渴望——主張權力——勢必擁有。三點一線的終點就是你所期盼的美好家園。憑心而論，邁出這三步對你而言並非難事。
- 生理的遺傳
我們的直立行走，以及其他種種生理功能——消化、血液循環、神經係統、肌肉力量、骨骼結構、運動，甚至是精神能力，如此種種，都得益於人類遺傳的成就。
- 另一種遺傳
然而，還是有一種遺傳被忽視在外了，它就是我們的潛能。
- 無盡的潛能
這種流淌在人類自身、充滿著每一個細胞的無限潛能就是人類自身，進入大門就是我們的感官意識。一旦你大膽地推開這扇門，就能輕而易舉地獲得這股能量，還躊躇什麽呢？
- 潛意識是潛能之源
- 去偽存真
- 重生
在獲得美好精神家園的同時，我們也因此而重生，擁有了敢於麵對一切的堅定與勇氣，不再彷徨、怯懦、恐懼、憂慮。潛意識在心底得到煥發，瞬間我們就擁有了無窮的潛能，指導我們跨越生命的坷途，微笑無畏地前行。
- 由內而生的能量
這股改變的能量來自哪裏？它是由內而生的，隻有我們先付出渴望，才能繼而擁有它，除此之外，別無他法。我們隻要實實在在地付出許多，就會得到更多。我們付出比一般更多的心血和毅力去堅持鍛煉，才會得以強壯；我們需要積累更多的財富，就必須先投資金錢去構築環境，隻有這樣，才能獲得豐盈的回報。
- 失去精神，即失去了切
我們隻有對自身已經擁有的精神能量加以利用，才能得到一切行動的能量。我們失去了精神，就失去一切。
- 強大的精神力量
一旦意識到了精神的力量如此強大，我們就有了擁有的能量——精神的、物質、心靈的，擁有一切。
- 一切財富源自於精神力量
一切財富是精神力量和金錢意識相互作用，累積而來的結果。精神力量如一柄充滿魔力的魔杖，在它的指引下，你將擁有有效的理念，可行的計劃，快樂的心態，永久的成功，和成功後的滿足感。
本課重點
１、潛意識在人類精神生活中占據多大分量？
——９０％以上。
２、人們意識到潛意識的重要了嗎？
——沒有，很遺憾，它被大多數人擱置了。
３、為什麽會被擱置呢？
——原因就在於，絕大多數的人都忽略了自己的主觀能動性。
４、顯意識中的引導性指令，它的根源在哪裏？
——來自於遺傳，先人的經驗，通過遺傳作用在我們身上的結果。
５、引力法則，它回饋給我們人類到底是什麽？
——就是我們“自身”。
６、何謂“自身”？
——我們之前的所有經曆和意識綜合形成的結果，包括顯意識和潛意識。
７、構築美好精神家園的材質指的是什麽？
——存在於我們自身的健康、積極、樂觀的觀念與想法。
８、我們體內的潛能從何而來？
——是宇宙能量分化擴散的結果。
９、潛能是如何發生的？
——一切的一切都源於內心，發源於潛意識。
10、我們怎樣擁有潛能？
——打開潛意識之門。
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Part Seven
Through all the ages man has believed in an invisible power, through which and by which all things have been created and are continually being re-created. We may personalize this power and call it God, or we may think of it as the essence or spirit, which permeates all things, but in either case the effect is the same.
So far as the individual is concerned, the objective, the physical, the visible, is the personal, that which can be cognized by the senses. It consists of body, brain and nerves. The subjective is the spiritual, the invisible, the impersonal.
The personal is conscious because it is a personal entity. The impersonal, being the same in kind and quality as all other Being, is not conscious of itself and has therefore been termed the subconscious.
The personal, or conscious, has the power of will and choice, and can therefore exercise discrimination in the selection of methods whereby to bring about the solution of difficulties.
The impersonal, or spiritual, being a part or one with the source, and origin of all power, can necessarily exercise no such choice, but, on the contrary, it has Infinite resources at its command. It can and does bring about results by methods concerning which the human or individual mind can have no possible conception.
You will therefore see that it is your privilege to depend upon the human will with all its limitations and misconceptions, or you may utilize the potentialities of Infinity by making use of the subconscious mind. Here, then, is the scientific explanation of the wonderful power which has been put within your control, if you but understand, appreciate and recognize it.
One method of consciously utilizing this omnipotent power is outlined in Part Seven.
PART SEVEN
1. Visualization is the process of making mental images, and the image is the mold or model which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge.
2. Make the pattern clear and make it beautiful; do not be afraid; make it grand; remember that no limitation can be placed upon you by any one but yourself; you are not limited as to cost or material; draw on the Infinite for your supply, construct it in your imagination; it will have to be there before it will ever appear anywhere else.
3. Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually and constantly bring the thing nearer to you. You can be what "you will to be."
4. This is another psychological fact which is well known, but unfortunately, reading about it will not bring about any result which you may have in mind; it will not even help you to form the mental image, much less bring it into manifestation. Work is necessary - labor, hard mental labor, the kind of effort which so few are willing to put forth.
5. The first step is idealization. It is likewise the most important step, because it is the plan on which you are going to build. It must be solid; it must be permanent. The architect, when he plans a 30-storey building, has every line and detail pictured in advance. The engineer, when he spans a chasm, first ascertains the strength requirements of a million separate parts.
6. They see the end before a single step is taken; so you are to picture in your mind what you want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any seed you want to know what the harvest is to be. This is Idealization. If you are not sure, return to the chair daily until the picture becomes plain; it will gradually unfold; first the general plan will be dim, but it will take shape, the outline will take form, then the details, and you will gradually develop the power by which you will be enabled to formulate plans which will eventually materialize in the objective world. You will come to know what the future holds for you.
7. Then comes the process of visualization. You must see the picture more and more complete, see the detail, and, as the details begin to unfold the ways and means for bringing it into manifestation will develop. One thing will lead to another. Thought will lead to action, action will develop methods, methods will develop friends, and friends will bring about circumstances, and, finally, the third step, or Materialization, will have been accomplished.
8. We all recognize the Universe must have been thought into shape before it ever could have become a material fact. And if we are willing to follow along the lines of the Great Architect of the Universe, we shall find our thoughts taking form, just as the universe took concrete form. It is the same mind operating through the individual. There is no difference in kind or quality, the only difference is one of degree.
9. The architect visualizes his building, he sees it as he wishes it to be. His thought becomes a plastic mold from which the building will eventually emerge, a high one or a low one, a beautiful one or a plain one, his vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary material is utilized and the building stands complete.
10. The inventor visualizes his idea in exactly the same manner, for instance, Nikola Tesla, he with the giant intellect, one of the greatest inventors of all ages, the man who has brought forth the most amazing realities, always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work them out. He did not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting defects. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought. "In this way," he writes in the Electrical Experimenter. "I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete, the product of my brain. Invariably my devise works as I conceived it should; in twenty years there has not been a single exception."
11. If you can conscientiously follow these directions, you will develop Faith, the kind of Faith that is the "Substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"; you will develop confidence, the kind of confidence that leads to endurance and courage; you will develop the power of concentration which will enable you to exclude all thoughts except the ones which are associated with your purpose.
12. The law is that thought will manifest in form, and only one who knows how to be the divine thinker of his own thoughts can ever take a Master's place and speak with authority.
13. Clearness and accuracy are obtained only by repeatedly having the image in mind. Each repeated action renders the image more clear and accurate than the preceding, and in proportion to the clearness and accuracy of the image will the outward manifestation be. You must build it firmly and securely in your mental world, the world within, before it can take form in the world without, and you can build nothing of value, even in the mental world unless you have the proper material. When you have the material you can build anything you wish, but make sure of your material. You cannot make broadcloth from shoddy.
14. This material will be brought out by millions of silent mental workers and fashioned into the form of the image which you have in mind.
15. Think of it! You have over five million of these mental workers, ready and in active use; brain cells they are called. Besides this, there is another reserve force of at least an equal number, ready to be called into action at the slightest need. Your power to think, then, is almost unlimited, and this means that your power to create the kind of material which is necessary to build for yourself any kind of environment which you desire is practically unlimited.
16. In addition to these millions of mental workers, you have billions of mental workers in the body, every one of which is endowed with sufficient intelligence to understand and act upon any message or suggestion given. These cells are all busy creating and recreating the body, but, in addition to this, they are endowed with psychic activity whereby they can attract to themselves the substance necessary for perfect development.
17. They do this by the same law and in the same manner that every form of life attracts to itself the necessary material for growth. The oak, the rose, the lily, all require certain material for their most perfect expression and they secure it by silent demand, the Law of Attraction, the most certain way for you to secure what you require for your most complete development.
18. Make the Mental Image; make it clear, distinct, perfect; hold it firmly; the ways and means will develop; supply will follow the demand; you will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way. Earnest Desire will bring about Confident Expectation, and this in turn must be reinforced by Firm Demand. These three cannot fail to bring about Attainment, because the Earnest Desire is the feeling, the Confident Expectation is the thought, and the Firm Demand is the will, and, as we have seen, feeling gives vitality to thought and the will holds it steadily until the law of Growth brings it into manifestation.
19. Is it not wonderful that man has such tremendous power within himself, such transcendental faculties concerning which he had no conception? Is it not strange that we have always been taught to look for strength and power "without?" We have been taught to look everywhere but "within" and whenever this power manifested in our lives we were told that it was something supernatural.
20. There are many who have come to an understanding of this wonderful power, and who make serious and conscientious efforts to realize health, power and other conditions, and seem to fail. They do not seem able to bring the Law into operation. The difficulty in nearly every case is that they are dealing with externals. They want money, power, health and abundance, but they fail to realize that these are effects and can come only when the cause is found.
21. Those who will give no attention to the world without will seek only to ascertain the truth, will look only for wisdom, will find that this wisdom will unfold and disclose the source of all power, that it will manifest in thought and purpose which will create the external conditions desired. This truth will find expression in noble purpose and courageous action.
22. Create ideals only, give no thought to external conditions, make the world within beautiful and opulent and the world without will express and manifest the condition which you have within. You will come into a realization of your power to create ideals and these ideals will be projected into the world of effect.
23. For instance, a man is in debt. He will be continually thinking about the debt, concentrating on it, and as thoughts are causes the result is that he not only fastens the debt closer to him, but actually creates more debt. He is putting the great law of Attraction into operation with the usual and inevitable result -- Loss leads to greater "Loss."
24. What, then, is the correct principle? Concentrate on the things you want, not on the things you do not want. Think of abundance; idealize the methods and plans for putting the Law of Abundance into operation. Visualize the condition which the Law of Abundance creates; this will result in manifestation.
25. If the law operates perfectly to bring about poverty, lack and every form of limitation for those who are continually entertaining thoughts of lack and fear, it will operate with the same certainty to bring about conditions of abundance and opulence for those who entertain thoughts of courage and power.
26. This is a difficult problem for many; we are too anxious; we manifest anxiety, fear, distress; we want to do something; we want to help; we are like a child who has just planted a seed and every fifteen minutes goes and stirs up the earth to see if it is growing. Of course, under such circumstances, the seed will never germinate, and yet this is exactly what many of us do in the mental world.
27. We must plant the seed and leave it undisturbed. This does not mean that we are to sit down and do nothing, by no means; we will do more and better work then we have ever done before, new channels will constantly be provided, new doors will open; all that is necessary is to have an open mind, be ready to act when the time comes.
28. Thought force is the most powerful means of obtaining knowledge, and if concentrated on any subject will solve the problem. Nothing is beyond the power of human comprehension, but in order to harness thought force and make it do your bidding, work is required.
29. Remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that turns the wheel of fortune, upon which your experiences depend.
30. Ask yourself a few questions and then reverently await the response; do you not now and then feel the self with you? Do you assert this self or do you follow the majority? Remember that majorities are always led, they never lead. It was the majority that fought, tooth and nail, against the steam engine, the power loom and every other advance or improvement ever suggested.
31. For your exercise this week, visualize your friend, see him exactly as you last saw him, see the room, the furniture, recall the conversation, now see his face, see it distinctly, now talk to him about some subject of mutual interest; see his expression change, watch him smile. Can you do this? All right, you can; then arouse his interest, tell him a story of adventure, see his eyes light up with the spirit of fun or excitement. Can you do all of this? If so, your imagination is good, you are making excellent progress.
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Study Questions with Answers
61. What is visualization?
The process of making mental pictures.
62. What is the result of this method of thought?
By holding the image or picture in mind, we can gradually but surely bring the thing nearer to us. We can be what we will to be.
63. What is Idealization?
It is a process of visualizing or idealizing the plans which will eventually materialize in our objective world.
64. Why are clearness and accuracy necessary?
Because "seeing" creates "feeling" and "feeling" creates "being." First the mental, then the emotional, then the illimitable possibilities of achievement.
65. How are they obtained?
Each repeated action renders the image more accurate than the former one.
66. How is the material for the construction of your mental image secured?
By millions of mental workers. Brain cells they are called.
67. How are the necessary conditions for bringing about the materialization of your ideal in the objective world secured?
By the Law of Attraction. The natural law by which all conditions and experiences are brought about.
68. What three steps are necessary in order to bring this law into operation?
Earnest Desire, Confident Expectation, Firm Demand.
69. Why do many fail?
Because they concentrate on loss, disease and disaster. The law is operating perfectly; the things they fear are coming upon them.
70. What is the alternative?
Concentrate on the ideals which you desire to see manifested in your life.
