ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH
In our last talk you discovered the true function of your conscious mind - which is to act as a monitor of your thoughts, words and actions; that it is the analyzing, dissecting part of the mind. Through it you can choose to think whatever you want, and needless to say, can refuse to think what you don't want. But these thoughts alone will not demonstrate. Thought must be imbued with feeling before it manifests.
And by now you know that the subconscious is that which you carry around with you, that it is cause - and you, your life and your body are the effect. You see the results, or you measure the results by yourself. Actually we ARE our own lives and create the things that happen to us. Our health, our relations with other people and our finance - these are the three big factors of life, and they are the results we see. These are the measurements.
You have seen how you can change this pattern by working through the conscious mind on the subconscious.
Remember always that you cannot approach the subconscious directly. We have to coach it a bit as we do children, coax it a bit, but never upbraid it. It does not do any good to get angry with the subconscious. It is a complete waste of time. The angrier you get, the tougher the condition will be.
The indirect, effortless approach is the basis of all metaphysics; in fact it is the basis of any type of therapy that will change your life. The more you force, the less you will achieve. In metaphysics we have a most beautiful and expressive term for it - we call it EFFORTLESS EFFORT. Let go, the more you let go, the more effort you can pack into it.
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