Think and Grow Rich Chapter 12 July 2008
Sarah here~~
I am constantly amazed at the personal growth that I see in folks who particpate in the Mentoring for Free 30 Day Mental Cleanse- These are a few of the lessons submitted for Chapter Twelve - Please read these carefully, ponder the meaning and hopefully you will walk away with a clearer perspective of yourself.
This process has helped me to change the direction of my life from failure to success. This is a personal development call where we teach people how to stop the chatter in our minds. So What is this? What Are we doing?
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Life Is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the
moments in your life that take your breath away.
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Chapter 12, The Subconscious Mind.
The subconscious mind is scarry to think about
but also exciting to think this can link us to
infinite intelligence.We must control our thoughts
is overwhelming at the least how do we do this.
I struggle with doubt and fear I am not good enough
to reach my goals. How can I keep focused and
keep the seven positive emotions active at work
and keep the wolves at bay?
This is my struggle each and every day. Stay close
to the fire I hear, We must stay around positive
people if we are to keep these seven positives in
focus.We must have faith.
We must be patient we must be persistent.
These are very hard things for man to do. The sub
conscious mind is very scarry because it is at work
so either we control its outcome or it controls our
outcome.
I must have faith and believe to reach my goals.
It works even if we do not. So if i do not influence
it who does? Am I willing to let this control my out
come or is it worth working on so I get where I want
to go?
It will not remain idle so I am going in some direction
but who is in the drivers seat. We create everything
through thought good or bad. So we are where we
choose to be. That leaves a very bitter taste in my
mouth.
My thoughts brought me to where I am now? Are
thoughts are a magnet drawing to us things equal
to what we give to our subconscious.
How do I control my thoughts, o yes mentoring for
free, positive peoples influence, close to the fire,
great mentors Each thing creates its own kind I
must control my destiny or what will it be?
I must form a habit of positive thought but I thought
21 days formed a habit. I have been involved more
than 21 days why do I still struggle. How can I get
the positive so strong the negative has no room?
I must have faith, patience , persistence, and sincere
desire. For me the hardest is faith so I just stay
close to the fire and mentoring for free! I must belive
In me and have a burning desire to reach my goals.
I must strive with everything in me to reach my goals.
I can have it all whit faith desire and passion in my
daily activity. I will reach my dreams!
Thank you Michael and Linda for believing in me, I
can never let you know how much this means to
me. You will always be close to my heart.
I love You
Tony Casteel
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This chapter is so easy, yet so hard. Just reprogram
your subconscious mind by consciously allowing only
certain thoughts in.
Right! Napoleon Hill forgot to mention the battle that
goes on when you try to reprogram. After all, you
have years and years of negative thoughts that have
controlled your every action, word and deed.
And so much of it has been done so subtly, going
back to before we could even talk, that we don’t
realize what we’re fighting until we get hold of a
book like Think and Grow Rich.
The good news is that it does get easier with practice.
I was fortunate enough to come across this teaching
last year. That’s why, at the ripe “old” age of 60 I’m
starting over again. I’m starting an adventure!
And you know what? I will succeed.
I refuse to accept less than success. Over the past
year it has gotten easier…..easier to believe what I
tell myself now, easier to believe I deserve success,
easier to not hear the negative words from those
who would try to discourage me.
So now I”ll change the word ‘believe” to “know,”
because when one believes, then one can expect
it to happen or “know” it will happen.
I know I’ll succeed because I have believed it and
because I deserve it. That knowledge gives me the
courage to seek out whatever I need in order to
succeed.
That belief, that knowledge, has led me to
Mentoring For Free where I can be assured
that I’ll learn whatever I need in order to be
successful this time.
Stand back and watch me grow. Better yet,
join me and grow with me.
Judy Cox
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The Subconscious Mind
Have you ever had a childhood experience that was
relatively insignificant in the overall scheme of life
and it just keeps popping into your conscious mind
and you wonder why?
It’s an experience that was pretty significant at the
time, but it really doesn’t seem worthy of continuing
to think about it at all. It’s over, it’s long gone, no
body got hurt…let it go! Well, this week, I’ve become
aware of the fact that it’s over, it’s long gone…but
maybe someone did get hurt…me.
I read this chapter right after last week’s mental
cleanse call——-normally I wouldn’t get the new
chapter read until Monday or Tuesday of the next
week. I’ve read this chapter many times in years
past, and a time or two since being in this group.
But this time was different…the first two paragraphs
wouldn’t let go of me…
Dr. Hill said, “The subconscious mind consists of
a field of consciousness, in which EVERY impulse
of thought that reaches the objective mind through
any of the five senses, is classified and recorded,
and from which thoughts may be recalled or with
drawn as letters may be taken from a filing cabinet.
It receives, and files, sense impressions or thoughts,
regardless of their nature. You may VOLUNTARILY
plant in your subconscious mind any plan, thought,
or purpose which you desire to translate into its
physical or monetary equivalent.
The subconscious acts first on the dominating
desires which have been mixed with emotional
feeling, such as faith.”
So as I kept getting yanked back to these two
paragraphs and pondering what Dr. Hill was telling
me, I realized that the childhood experience that
kept coming back to my conscious thoughts 43
years after the fact was just like Dr. Hill said…it
was just as if the experience was filed away in
my mind at age 10 and for some odd reason, I
kept pulling that “folder” out of the file cabinet
of my mind with some regularity over the years–
not really dwelling on it, but just pulling the
“classified and recorded” file out of my “mind
cabinet” and leaving it lay on my desk of life for
a bit and then I’d file it away again and wouldn’t
give it another thought for a period of time.
Then, without warning, I’d find myself pulling that
same thought file out of my mind cabinet again.
I could never figure out why.
Another experience that flies out of the “file
cabinet” of my mind has tapped me on the
shoulder with a little more regularity through
out my adult life. To put it bluntly, I’ve always
had an underlying distrust of most women–an
uncomfortable feeling when I had to be around
a group of women or even in a conversation that
lasted very long with one woman.
I’ve always believed it was because I got married
when I was very young; I had three children by
the time I was 25 years old–I was busy; I grew
up on the farm…my mother never taught me to
be a shop-a-holic with your girlfriends; I never
had a group of girlfriends that I hung out with
other than at school…yadda, yadda, yadda!
I’ve always believed most women were judg
mental and critical and controlling and my
instincts were always focused on: do what
you’ve got to do and get out.
And I functioned that way in my life being a
very active mother of three children all involved
in many school activities; an active church life;
and a full time career for over 25 years.
Oh, I could function and participate quite
successfully on the surface, but at age 53
now, I could definitely count on one hand
with several fingers left over, the number of
women I have really trusted over my lifetime.
In fact, as I’m trying to remember who they
are, I think I may have 4 or 5 fingers left over
as I count them. But I never really experienced
that same anxiety and apprehension around men.
I’ve always wondered if I was some kind of real
weirdo or something because I just never ever
felt any kind of girlfriend comraderie going on
in any circle of friends–I just would not let my
self get that close to anyone. And “being very
busy” always gave me that excuse I needed to
“escape” when I wanted to.
On May 13th, Richard Dennis’ Tuesday skills
call on marketing was about a chapter called
“Giving Up Resistance” from a book by John
Gray titled “How to Get What You Want and
Want What You Have”.
As Richard was sharing this chapter, a few key
points were grabbing me. After the call, I ran
upstairs to my vast library of self-help books
and there it was on the shelf. I turned to re-
read the chapter Richard just shared on the
call.
John Gray said, “By linking present negative
feelings to past situations, you can relive your
past and enrich it with your more mature and
loving perspective. When you were a child,
you were dependent on your parents to know
the truth.
As an adult, you can go back to experience
the feelings you had as a child and make
corrections. As children, we did not have
fully developed brains capable of reasonable
thought.
At that fragile age, we formed beliefs that were
incorrect, yet they continue to shape and mold
our lives Although we can’t change the past,
we can change the beliefs we formed.
We can reevaluate what happened and how
we felt. Our limited and incorrect beliefs can
be corrected by going back and revisiting the
past and using certain processing techniques
described in another chapter.”
I’ve read both of these books before…this one
and “Think and Grow Rich”…I’ve read them
both more than once…I’m green…they’re all
highlighted and have notes in the margins.
As is said…”when the student is READY,
the ‘teacher’ appears.”
This week, I became aware of my 10-year-
old perspective of an emotional experience
when I accidentally overheard my mother
telling my father, “Oh, for pete’s sake…
she thinks she’s bleeding to death!” .
…after I woke her up in the middle of the
night scared to death about the mess that
had awakened me. I don’t remember any
thing that my mother said to me as she
came to help me; I only remember what I
heard her saying to my dad as I approached
their bedroom door to say something else
to her–I don’t remember what that was either.
And as I sit here writing this at age 53, the
tears are pouring down my cheeks, partly
out of sadness for how I felt then, partly
out of anger for how it’s likely played into
my misperception about trust over the
years; and partly out of sheer joy that I
can now understand the connection and
relativity of it all.
I can now see a 10-year-old child who did
not know that Moms and Dads talk about
EVERYTHING and what appeared to be
total betrayal of my most private experience
in a way that felt like judgment and criticism
and mockery were all filed away in my 10-
year-old file cabinet of my subconscious.
They weren’t given adult labels at that point,
but likely were labeled as hurt, embarrasment,
fear, and the fact that I shouldn’t have trusted
my mom with my “secrets”–my most private
moment of my life up to that point. And all of
that was definitely steeped with emotion for
me and as Dr. Hill said, “the subconscious
acts first on the dominating desires which
have been mixed with emotional feeling.”
So, now that the “Teachers” have appeared
because the “Student” is ready, I have been
back over it all this week with my adult “eyes”
and can re-write the story at age 10 the way
I SHOULD have filed it away in my sub
conscious mind with emotions of: love,
understanding, compassion, appreciation
of my 10-year-old concerns, comfort,
reassurance, specialness, respect, support,
caring, bonding, and joy to welcome my
womanhood into being.
And rewriting that story, I believe, has changed
my life from this week forward. I’ve cried over
what’s needlessly been lost and I smile about
my mom’s continued lack of patience with my
“green personality”, but I rejoice over the fact
that I am learning to know and love me…may
be for the first time in my life.
It’s an ongoing journey, but thanks to Michael
and Linda’s belief in me, and Sarah’s belief in
me, and the awesome support and love that
this group gives to everyone, I am beginning
to see the light at the end of the tunnel where
the success curve starts turning upward and
I know that if I keep VOLUNTARILY planting
my positive desires in my subconscious mind
through my self-talk, the MFF Recipe, stay
“close to the fire”–the MFF calls which is the
best campfire in the Universe, this business
and personal growth journey can take only
the road called “Success”.
Thank You, Michael and Linda, and Master
Mind friends for blessing me with your presence.
You are changing lives…and I appreciate you
so much!!
Friends Always,
Patti Blevins
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