Now we come to our second proposition: We are thinking and active centers in this Mind, and the sum total of all our thought is either silently attracting our good to us or repelling it from us. This shows the part that we are to play in our use of the Power greater than we are. It is the sum total of all our thinking that we must consider. In doing this, one of the first things we learn is that ninety percent of our mental activity is unconscious.

The subconscious mind is a storehouse that retains all the thoughts and memories we have ever had. It is this subconscious storehouse of memory, previous acts and thoughts, and emotional reactions to life that psychologists deal with. Our success or failure, our happiness or misery, is largely determined by the content of the subconscious.

In other words, scientific investigation verifies what we are talking about. Most of our thinking is unconscious. Here is where habit patterns of thought are laid down from infancy, and the whole purpose of applied psychology is to find out what these thought patterns are, and, when they are unhappy or morbid or filled with fear, change them so that the natural, normal flow of the Life Force shall be resumed.

Of course, we have no controversy with the psychologist. We follow him as far as he goes, but we do add something to his philosophy for we believe that there is a universal Principle of Mind that is always reacting to our thinking, whether it be conscious or unconscious. We really are attracting or repelling the good we desire according to the whole body of our thought.

We come now to our third idea, that we can change our thinking, and in so doing, cause the Law of Mind to act affirmatively for us instead of negatively. It may seem astonishing, but Jesus actually gave us a technique for this, and perhaps the greatest technique ever given, because he understood all these things probably better than we do. He implied that many of our beliefs are changed only through prayer and fasting, through meditation, and perhaps quite a bit of effort, in which, of course, he was right. He said