心灵瑜珈课 (5)
- 思维是靠显意识和潜意识去运转的
显意识与潜意识是两种平行的意识模式。
- 潜意识在思维中运行
潜意识的运行是准确而又富有逻辑性的，但可惜的是，我们大多数人都不知道潜意识的存在。
- 潜意识在“幕后”运行
潜意识为我们的显意识活动提供了一个尽情表现的舞台。
- 伟人通过潜意识创作
- 潜意识支配着每一个人的行为
我们在生活与工作中的行为，大都不是依靠我们的显意识，而是从潜意识中来。
- 越是卓越的人，他对潜意识的运用就越纯熟
我们对潜意识的运用越是纯然，我们的思想就越是崇高、伟大、卓越。
- 潜意识无时不关注着我们的生活
潜意识从我们的记忆库中提取我们所需要的所有信息，诸如名称、场景、事件。它引导我们的思想过程、我们的兴趣品味还有对生活的态度。潜意识的价值是显意识所不具有的，是非凡的。
- 我们具有调动自己潜意识的能力
我们可以在潜意识的指引下随心所欲地去感受这个世界。
- 两种行为
我们的行为可以分为下面两种：一种是听从当前的指挥或发号施令，一种是根据潜意识中的规律有条不紊、从容不迫地进行。当然，后者是更高级的行为。
- 显意识与潜意识
在主导这两种行为的两种意识当中，外在的可能变量是显意识，或客观意识，内在的可变能量就是潜意识，或者说是主观意识。显意识和潜意识的不同在于：一个更接近现实层面，一个更接近精神层面。
- 显意识是我们的意志的动力源
它具有分辨、鉴别、选择甚至还有推理的能力。其中推理能力诸如归纳、演绎、分析、推论等等，还可以进行更深层次的开发和拓展。
- 显意识可以引导潜意识的活动
可以说，显意识充当了潜意识的监护人的角色，会为潜意识引导的行为承担后果。当然，显意识也在其他的精神活动上打上自己的烙印。
- 显意识会过滤潜意识中的错误信息
- 一位作家的概括
有一位作家这样概括显意识和潜意识：“前者是当前意志的结果，而后者则是以往意志结果的累积所引发的本能反应。”
- 潜意识需要显意识的引导
潜意识本身不具备把握方向的能力，它是一股巨大的潜能，但必须有显意识为它提供一个正确的释放途径，才能转化为现实中的能量。如果显意识提供的方向是错的，那么潜意识就会跟着犯错。
- 潜意识的错误释放会带来负面效果
由于潜意识从来不去判断它所接受的信息是正确还是错误的，这就要求我们的显意识有足够的判断力。否则，潜意识的迸发就会对我们的人生轨迹产生巨大的反作用。
- 显意识必须做一个合格监护人
作为潜意识的监护者兼门卫，显意识并非万能的，总有擅离职守或判断失误的时候，尤其是在异常复杂的情况下。
- 潜意识的激发短暂而又浓烈
由于潜意识只靠直觉行动，所以它的爆发过程非常短暂，而显意识与其相比则要缓慢许多。
- 潜意识当中蕴藏着无尽的潜能
- 我们应该了解、并且引导利用自己的潜意识的能量
一旦了解了潜意识的运行规则，我们就会发现生活中能够实践的地方比比皆是。
- 潜意识是良好习惯的策源地
我们为人处事的原则，我们对未来的向往，我们的审美、追求、兴趣等等都是来自于我们的潜意识。它就像已经写好的程序，直接会在我们的身体中运行。只要我们排除负面信息，使潜意识始终接受到健康、积极的信息，潜意识就会以充满能量、健康快乐的方式运行。长久下去，就会养成一种良好的习惯。这时，显意识就变得不再重要，潜意识的良好习惯会直接引导我们采用最佳的行为策略。
- 利用潜意识还可以改掉不良习惯
如果是健康的好习惯，就可以坚持下去，但如果是错误的坏习惯，就要反复利用自我暗示，告诉自己：“改变它，改变它”，就可以把这个坏习惯去除掉。要认识到潜意识中蕴含的巨大能量，并且相信，你可以开发你的潜意识，潜意识一旦变为现实，就会变成强大的创造现实的能量。
- 潜意识在物质层面的功能
在物质层面，潜意识可以保障我们生命的运作。在潜意识的引导下，我们的心脏、血液循环、肌肉运动等等生理功能可以自动运行，大脑可以自动地处理各种事件。
- 潜意识在精神层面的功能
从精神的层面讲，潜意识是一个记忆的仓库，它如同巨大无比的仓库，储存着我们所有的知识和思维感情。我们一切的智慧、思想、创造力，乃至潜能，都是从它而来。
- 潜意识在心灵层面的功能
从心灵的层面上讲，潜意识是想象、理想和激情的源泉，我们内心的所有力量都是从潜意识喷涌而出。可以说，潜意识是连接人类心灵与宇宙间无限智慧的桥梁。
- 潜能来自潜意识
潜能自潜意识中涌出，激发我们的创造性，在诉诸葛于行动之后，就会极大地改变我们的生存环境。
- 善于把握意识与潜意识
深层的、直接的是潜意识，表层的、有逻辑的是显意识。显意识引导着潜意识。如果我们能够充分发挥两种思维的功能，用显意识去恰当地引导潜意识，就能够把主观和客观完全统一起来，就会激发出无穷的创造力。
本课重点
１、意识的两种模式是什么？
——显意识和潜意识。
２、充满激情的最佳生活状态取决于什么？
——充满激情的最佳生活状态完全取决于我们对潜意识的发掘程度。
３、潜意识的价值何在？
——潜意识是记忆的仓库，是能量的源泉，我们生命的能量大多由它而来，我们的行为主要由它来驱动。
４、显意识的功能是什么？
——显意识是当前意志的活动。潜意识是以往意志活动累积的结果，以及由此产生的本能反应。
５、显意识和潜意识的差异是怎样的？
——显意识是当前意志的活动。潜意识是以往意志活动累积的结果，以及由此产生的本能反应。
６、应该采取什么样的必要方法来影响潜意识？
——潜意识接受暗示，所以要在内心里不断暗示自己，告诉它你想要什么。
７、这样做的结果是什么？
——如果潜意识与显意识之间接通，我们的最大的潜能就会从此迸发！
８、这一规律是运转，其结果是怎样的？
——我们的身心将会发扬最大的潜能，并且转化为惊人的创造力，创造出丰富多彩、前所未有的精彩人生！
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Part Five
Enclosed herewith you will find Part Five. After studying this part carefully, you will see that every conceivable force or object or fact is the result of mind in action.
Mind in action is thought, and thought is creative. Men are thinking now as they never thought before.
Therefore, this is a creative age, and the world is awarding its richest prizes to the thinkers. Matter is powerless, passive, inert. Mind is force, energy, power. Mind shapes and controls matter. Every form which matter takes is but the expression of some pre-existing thought.
But thought works no magic transformations; it obeys natural laws; it sets in motion natural forces; it releases natural energies; it manifests in your conduct and actions, and these in turn react upon your friends and acquaintances, and eventually upon the whole of your environment. You can originate thought, and, since thoughts are creative, you can create for yourself the things you desire.
PART FIVE
1. At least ninety per cent of our mental life is subconscious, so that those who fail to make use of this mental power live within very narrow limits.
2. The subconscious can and will solve any problem for us if we know how to direct it. The subconscious processes are always at work; the only question is, are we to be simply passive recipients of this activity, or are we to consciously direct the work? Shall we have a vision of the destination to be reached, the dangers to be avoided, or shall we simply drift?
3. We have found that mind pervades every part of the physical body and is always capable of being directed or impressed by authority coming from the objective or the more dominant portion of the mind.
4. The mind, which pervades the body, is largely the result of heredity, which, in turn, is simply the result of all the environments of all past generations on the responsive and ever-moving life forces. An understanding of this fact will enable us to use our authority when we find some undesirable trait of character manifesting.
5. We can consciously use all the desirable characteristics with which we have been provided and we can repress and refuse to allow the undesirable ones to manifest.
6. Again, this mind which pervades our physical body is not only the result of hereditary tendencies, but is the result of home, business and social environment, where countless thousands of impressions, ideas, prejudices and similar thoughts have been received. Much of this has been received from others, the result of opinions, suggestions or statements; much of it is the result of our own thinking, but nearly all of it has been accepted with little or no examination or consideration.
7. The idea seemed plausible, the conscious received it, passed it on to the subconscious, where it was taken up by the Sympathetic System and passed on to be built into our physical body. "The word has become flesh."
8. This, then, is the way we are consistently creating and recreating ourselves; we are today the result of our past thinking, and we shall be what we are thinking today, the Law of Attraction is bringing to us, not the things we should like, or the things we wish for, or the things some one else has, but it brings us "our own," the things which we have created by our thought processes, whether consciously or unconsciously. Unfortunately, many of us are creating these things unconsciously.
9. If either of us were building a home for ourselves, how careful we would be in regard to the plans; how we should study every detail; how we should watch the material and select only the best of everything; and yet how careless we are when it comes to building our Mental Home, which is infinitely more important than any physical home, as everything which can possibly enter into our lives depends upon the character of the material which enters into the construction of our Mental Home.
10. What is the character of this material? We have seen that it is the result of the impressions which we have accumulated in the past and stored away in our subconscious Mentality. If these impressions have been of fear, of worry, of care, of anxiety; if they have been despondent, negative, doubtful, then the texture of the material which we are weaving today will be of the same negative material. Instead of being of any value, it will be mildewed and rotten and will bring us only more toil and care and anxiety. We shall be forever busy trying to patch it up and make it appear at least genteel.
11. But if we have stored away nothing but courageous thought, if we have been optimistic, positive, and have immediately thrown any kind of negative thought on the scrap pile, have refused to have anything to do with it, have refused to associate with it or become identified with it in any way, what then is the result? Our mental material is now of the best kind; we can weave any kind of material we want; we can use any color we wish; we know that the texture is firm, that the material is solid, that it will not fade, and we have no fear, no anxiety concerning the future; there is nothing to cover, there are no patches to hide.
12. These are psychological facts; there is no theory or guesswork about these thinking processes; there is nothing secret about them; in fact, they are so plain that every one can understand them. The thing to do is to have a mental house-cleaning, and to have this house-cleaning every day, and keep the house clean. Mental, moral and physical cleanliness are absolutely indispensable if we are to make progress of any kind.
13. When this mental house-cleaning process has been completed, the material which is left will be suitable for the making of the kind of ideals or mental images which we desire to realize.
14. There is a fine estate awaiting a claimant. Its broad acres, with abundant crops, running water and fine timber, stretch away as far as the eye can see. There is a mansion, spacious and cheerful, with rare pictures, a well-stocked library, rich hangings, and every comfort and luxury. All the heir has to do is to assert his heirship, take possession, and use the property. He must use it; he must not let it decay; for use is the condition on which he holds it. To neglect it is to lose possession.
15. In the domain of mind and spirit, in the domain of practical power, such an estate is yours. You are the heir! You can assert your heirship and possess, and use this rich inheritance. Power over circumstances is one of its fruits, health, harmony and prosperity are assets upon its balance sheet. It offers you poise and peace. It costs you only the labor of studying and harvesting its great resources. It demands no sacrifice, except the loss of your limitations, your servitudes, your weakness. It clothes you with self-honor, and puts a scepter in your hands.
16. To gain this estate, three processes are necessary: You must earnestly desire it. You must assert your claim. You must take possession.
17. You admit that those are not burdensome conditions.
18. You are familiar with the subject of heredity. Darwin, Huxley, Haeckel, and other physical scientists have piled evidence mountain high that heredity is a law attending progressive creation. It is progressive heredity which gives man his erect attitude, his power of motion, the organs of digestions, blood circulation, nerve force, muscular force, bone structure and a host of other faculties on the physical side. There are even more impressive facts concerning heredity of mind force. All these constitute what may be called your human heredity.
19. But there is a heredity which the physical scientists have not compassed. It lies beneath and antecedent to all their researches. At a point where they throw up their hands in despair, saying they cannot account for what they see, this divine heredity is found in full sway.
20. It is the benignant force which decrees primal creation. It thrills down from the Divine, direct into every created being. It originates life, which the physical scientist has not done, nor ever can do. It stands out among all forces supreme, unapproachable. No human heredity can approach it. No human heredity measures up to it.
21. This Infinite Life flows through you; is you. Its doorways are but the faculties which comprise your consciousness. To keep open these doors is the Secret of Power. Is it not worthwhile to make the effort?
22. The great fact is, that the source of all life and all power is from within. Persons, circumstances and events may suggest need and opportunities, but the insight, strength and power to answer these needs will be found within.
23. Avoid counterfeits. Build firm foundations for your consciousness upon forces which flow direct from the Infinite source, the Universal Mind of which you are the image and likeness.
24. Those we have come into possession of this inheritance are never quite the same again. They have come into possession of a sense of power hitherto undreamed of. They can never again be timid, weak, vacillating, or fearful. They are indissolubly connected with Omnipotence. Something in them has been aroused; they have suddenly discovered that they possess a tremendous latent ability of which they were heretofore entirely unconscious.
25. This power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it. Use is the condition upon which we hold this inheritance. We are each of us but the channel through which the Omnipotent power is being differentiated into form; unless we give, the channel is obstructed and we can receive no more. This is true on every plane of existence and in every field of endeavor and all walks of life. The more we give, the more we get. The athlete who wishes to get strong must make use of the strength he has, and the more he gives the more he will get. The financier who wishes to make money must make use of the money he has, for only by using it can he get more.
26. The merchant who does not keep his goods going out will soon have none coming in; the corporation which fails to give efficient service will soon lack customers; the attorney who fails to get results will soon lack clients, and so it goes everywhere; power is contingent upon a proper use of the power already in our possession; what is true in every field of endeavor, every experience in life, is true of the power from which every other power known among men is begotten -- spiritual power. Take away the spirit and what is left? Nothing.
27. If then the spirit is all there is, upon the recognition of this fact must depend the ability to demonstrate all power, whether physical, mental or spiritual.
28. All possession is the result of the accumulative attitude of mind, or the money consciousness; this is the magic wand which will enable you to receive the idea, and it will formulate plans for you to execute, and you will find as much pleasure in the execution as in the satisfaction of attainment and achievement.
29. Now, go to your room, take the same seat, the same position as heretofore, and mentally select a place which has pleasant associations. Make a complete mental picture of it, see the buildings, the grounds, the trees, friends, associations, everything complete. At first, you will find yourself thinking of everything under the sun, except the ideal upon which you desire to concentrate. But do not let that discourage you. Persistence will win, but persistence requires that you practice these exercises every day without fail.
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Study Questions with Answers
41. What proportion of our mental life is subconscious?
At least ninety per cent.
42. Is this vast mental storehouse generally utilized?
No.
43. Why not?
Few understand or appreciate the fact that it is an activity which they may consciously direct.
44. Where has the conscious mind received its governing tendencies?
From heredity -- which means that it is the result of all the environments of all past generations.
45. What is the law of attraction bringing to us?
Our "Own."
46. What is our "Own"?
What we inherently are, and is the result of our past thinking, both conscious and subconscious.
47. Of what is the material with which we construct our mental home composed?
The thoughts which we entertain.
48. What is the Secret of Power?
A recognition of the omnipresence of omnipotence.
49. Where does it originate?
All life and all power is from within.
50. Upon what is the possession of power contingent?
Upon a proper use of the power already in our possession.
