心灵瑜珈课 (6)
- 太阳神经丛是潜意识的器官
在人的神经系统中，大脑—脊椎系统是显意识发生的器官，太阳神经丛（交感神经系统）是潜意识发生的器官。
- 显意识与潜意识之间相互联接
- 迷走神经是显意识与潜意识相互连接的通道
- 潜意识的运行是自动自发的
一种想法一旦到达潜意识，它就变成一台“自动机”，不再受显意识当中的判断、推理的影响。潜意识不能进行判断或者推理，它只是执行，它会导致完全自动自发的行为。
- 像太阳一样的太阳神经丛
太阳神经丛这所以被称为太阳神经丛，是因为它像太阳一样是分发能量的中枢机构，把全身产生的能量不断地传递出去。
- 有活力的人，亦是太阳丛发达的人
一个人的太阳丛越是强大，他就会变得越来越有吸引力，充满人格魅力。这样的人会向周围的人群挥发良好的能量。他的出现，不仅自己显得精神百倍，也会给周围的人带来龙去脉温暖，就像太阳照耀大地一样。
- 缺乏活力的人，也是太阳丛不发达的人
当太阳丛系统失灵、功能紊乱时，我们就会处于情绪低迷的状态，对一切都提不起兴趣，像天空的阴云遮住了阳光一样，通往身体各个部位的能量运输不再通畅。我们就会受到精神、肉体上的种种折磨，前途也会变得一片暗淡。
- 大脑做出最佳的判断
大脑—脊椎系统的使命是接受各种外界的信息，然后做出最佳的判断，这一判断在显意识里完成，然后它将判断的结果交付给潜意识执行。
- 太阳丛是生命活力的中枢
在我们的生命中，太阳丛处于十分重要的位置，就像一个枢纽，是各种能量、力量的交汇点。在这里，宇宙转化为个体，无形转化为可见，有限转化为无限，寂灭转化为创造。
- 太阳丛里蕴藏着我们全部的潜能
- 潜意识必须接受显意识的引导
- 显意识的质量决定着我们生命的质量
显意识的质量决定着我们思维的质量，显意识的品格决定着我们在生活中的品格，从而最终决定着我们在人生中的种种际遇。我们能够辐射出的能量越多，我们就会以越快的速度把令人不快的境遇改造成令人快乐的、受益无穷的坦途。因此我们所要做的一切，就是发现我们的潜能，让我们内心的光芒照亮四面八方。
- 用积极的信念引导太阳丛
烦恶的念头就像是寒流，会削减太阳丛的光芒，使这颗太阳黯然失色；而愉悦的念头就像春风，能使太阳丛升温，使太阳丛的活动更加活跃。才能、信心、勇气、希望，积极的信念，就是太阳丛的春风；而太阳丛最主要的敌人就是恐惧，所以要彻底打垮、消灭这个敌人，把它驱逐出我们的身体，这样就会使身体中的太阳永远灿烂，不再被乌云遮蔽光芒。
- 恐惧会吞噬太阳丛的光芒
只有把恐惧清除出你的内心，你的太阳丛才会重现光芒，阴霾将会消散，你会再次找到活力与能量的源泉，找到久违的快乐。
- 恐惧源于忧虑
产生恐惧是因为我们担心自己不够强大，对自己缺乏信心。只有当你发现自己真的拥有了几近无限的潜能时，当你通过实践证明了自己可以凭借思想的力量战胜任何困难，从而自觉地认识到这种力量的时候，你就没什么可恐惧的了，因为你知道，你远比恐惧更强壮有力。
- 有期望的人会得到的更多
正是因为我们不敢梦想，世界才会变得苛刻。担心自己的弱小，使我们的许多思想深埋于阴暗之中，不见天日。有期望才能有所得。如果我们一无所望，我们就将一无所有；如果我们冀望颇多，我们将得到更多。
- 太阳的能量来自于自己
拥有太阳的人，他们就像太阳一样辐射自己的勇气、信心和力量；他们的心态向往着成功，他们的能量把障碍砸得粉碎，他们的勇气把前进道路上的怀疑、犹豫一扫而空，没有什么能阻挡他们成功。
- 你就是太阳
当你意识到自己拥有太阳时，你就不会再畏惧黑暗。一旦认识到自己完全有能力自觉地向外界辐射勇气、力量与和和谐，我们也就认识到了其实没有什么可以畏惧，因为我们力量无穷。
- 开始行动
运动员必须通过艰苦的锻炼才能变得强壮有力，我们也必须通过“做”来学习。只有把知识付诸实践，才能获得更深刻的认识。
- 每个人都可以让自己的太阳发光
每个人都有不同的人生使命，科学家唤醒自己的太阳丛，激发他的研究热情；艺术家唤醒自己的太阳丛，激发他的创作灵感。
- 潜意识是显意识的镜子
潜意识如同显意识的镜子，会准确地对显意识的意愿作出有力的回应。那么，要想让潜意识发挥你想要的功效，最简单的方法又是什么呢？那就是在内心专注所向往的目标；当你专注于此时，潜意识就已经开始为你服务了。
- 太阳丛的激发会带来无尽的创造力
- 天人合一
宇宙之间自有规律运行。潜意识和宇宙精神的规律是相合、统一的。借助于显意识的中间作用，无限的宇宙精神汇聚在我们每一个人的潜意识当中，被我们所掌握。
- 驾驭无限的潜能
万流奔腾，只归东海。你只需要简简单单地告诉潜意识你所想要的，而不必说出你想去如何实现它，它就会自己开始行动。
- 你的心中即有宇宙
容纳宇宙于你心中。潜意识是宇宙精神的一部分，混沌一片的宇宙因为你的领悟而得以分化。
- 有张有弛
弓拉得太满则易断，一张一弛才是文武之道。放松绝对是必要的，可以使你驾驭潜意识的过程更加游刃有余。
本课重点
１、什么是显意识的器官？
——是大脑—脊椎神经系统。
２、什么是潜意识的器官？
——是太阳神经丛（交感神经系统）。
３、身体的潜能、力量来源于哪一个器官？
——是太阳神经丛。
４、哪些不利因素会影响太阳丛发挥功能？
——紧张、焦虑、不安的情绪状态会削弱太阳丛的功能，其中影响最严重的是恐惧感。
５、太阳丛被干扰以后的后果是什么？
——我们将会失去勇气、信心，失去能量之源，就像阳光被乌云遮蔽一样。
６、我们的潜能发生在哪里？又是如何被引导的？
——潜能产生于潜意识，但要被显意识所引导。
７、如何才能消灭恐惧感？
——只要我们认识到我们的潜能足以应对一切，就不再会感到恐惧。
８、太阳丛如何被激活？
——集中精神，专注于你希望在生活中出现的境遇，就不再会感到恐惧。
９、为什么潜意识中的能量是无限的？
——因为它与宇宙精神联为一体，故而无穷无尽。
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Part Six
It is my privilege to enclose Part Six. This part will give you an excellent understanding of the most wonderful piece of mechanism which has ever been created. A mechanism whereby you may create for yourself Health, Strength, Success, Prosperity or any other condition which you desire.
Necessities are demands, and demands create action, and actions bring about results. The process of evolution is constantly building our tomorrows out of our todays. Individual development, like Universal development, must be gradual with an ever-increasing capacity and volume.
The knowledge that if we infringe upon the rights of others, we become moral thorns and find ourselves entangled at every turn of the road, should be an indication that success is contingent upon the highest moral ideal, which is "The greatest good to the greatest number." Aspiration, desire and harmonious relations constantly and persistently maintained will accomplish results. The greatest hindrance is erroneous and fixed ideas.
To be in tune with eternal truth we must possess poise and harmony within. In order to receive intelligence the receiver must be in tune with the transmitter.
Thought is a product of Mind and Mind is creative, but this does not mean that the Universal will change its modus operandi to suit us or our ideas, but it does mean that we can come into harmonious relationship with the Universal, and when we have accomplished this we may ask anything to which we are entitled, and the way will be made plain.
PART SIX
1. The Universal Mind is so wonderful that it is difficult to understand its utilitarian powers and possibilities and its unlimited producing effects.
2. We have found that this Mind is not only all intelligence but all substance. How, then, is it to be differentiated in form? How are we to secure the effect which we desire?
3. Ask any electrician what the effect of electricity will be and he will reply that "Electricity is a form of motion and its effect will depend upon the mechanism to which it is attached." Upon this mechanism will depend whether we shall have heat, light, power, music or any of the other marvelous demonstration of power to which this vital energy has been harnessed.
4. What effect can be produced by thought? The reply is that thought is mind in motion (just as wind is air in motion), and its effect will depend entirely on the "mechanism to which it is attached."
5. Here, then, is the secret of all mental power; it depends entirely on the mechanism which we attach.
6. What is this mechanism? You know something of the mechanism which has been invented by Edison, Bell, Marconi and other electrical wizards, by which place and space and time have become only figures of speech, but did you ever stop to think that the mechanism which has been given you for transforming the Universal, Omnipresent Potential Power was invented by a greater inventor than Edison?
7. We are accustomed to examining the mechanism of the implements which we use for tilling the soil, and we try to get an understanding of the mechanism of the automobile which we drive, but most of us are content to remain in absolute ignorance of the greatest piece of mechanism which as ever come into existence, the brain of man.
8. Let us examine the wonders of this mechanism; perhaps we shall thereby get a better understanding of the various effects of which it is the cause.
9. In the first place, there is the great mental world in which we live and move and have our being; this world is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent; it will respond to our desire in direct ratio to our purpose and faith; the purpose must be in accordance with the law of our being, that is, it must be creative or constructive; our faith must be strong enough to generate a current of sufficient strength to bring our purpose into manifestation. "As thy faith is, so be it unto thee," bears the stamp of scientific test.
10. The effects which are produced in the world without are the result of the action and reaction of the individual upon the universal; that is the process which we call thinking; the brain is the organ through which this process is accomplished; think of the wonder of it all! Do you love music, flowers, literature, or are you inspired by the thought of ancient or modern genius? Remember, every beauty to which you respond must have its corresponding outline in your brain before you can appreciate it.
11. There is not a single virtue or principle in the storehouse of nature which the brain cannot express. The brain is an embryonic world, ready to develop at any time as necessity may arise. If you can comprehend that this is a scientific truth and one of the wonderful laws of nature, it will be easier for you to get an understanding of the mechanism by which these extraordinary results are being accomplished.
12. The nervous system has been compared to an electric circuit with its battery of cells in which force is originated, and its white matter to insulated wires by which the current is conveyed; it is through these channels that every impulse or desire is carried through the mechanism.
13. The spinal cord is the great motor and sensory pathway by which messages are conveyed to and from the brain; then, there is the blood supply plunging through the veins and arteries, renewing our energy and strength, the perfectly arranged structure upon which the entire physical body rests, and, finally, the delicate and beautiful skin, clothing the entire mechanism is a mantle of beauty.
14. This then is the "Temple of the living God" and the individual "I" is given control and upon his understanding of the mechanism which is within his control will the result depend.
15. Every thought sets the brain cells in action; at first the substance upon which the thought is directed fails to respond, but if the thought is sufficiently refined and concentrated, the substance finally yields and expresses perfectly.
16. This influence of the mind can be exerted upon any part of the body, causing the elimination of any undesirable effect.
17. A perfect conception and understanding of the laws governing in the mental world cannot fail to be of inestimable value in the transaction of business, as it develops the power of discernment and gives a clearer understanding and appreciation of facts.
18. The man who looks within instead of without cannot fail to make use of the mighty forces which will eventually determine his course in life and so bring him into vibration with all that is best, strongest and most desirable.
19. Attention or concentration is probably; the most important essential in the development of mind culture. The possibilities of attention when properly directed are so startling that they would hardly appear credible to the uninitiated. The cultivation of attention is the distinguishing characteristic of every successful man or woman, and is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired.
20. The power of attention can be more readily understood by comparing it with a magnifying glass in which the rays of sunlight are focused; they possess no particular strength as long as the glass is moved about and the rays directed from one place to another; but let the glass be held perfectly still and let the rays be focused on one spot for any length of time, the effect will become immediately apparent.
21. So with the power of thought; let power be dissipated by scattering the thought from one object to another, and no result is apparent; but focus this power through attention or concentration on any single purpose for any length of time and nothing becomes impossible.
22. A very simple remedy for a very complex situation, some will say. All right, try it, you who have had no experience in concentrating the thought on a definite purpose or object. Choose any single object and concentrate your attention on it for a definite purpose for even ten minutes; you cannot do it; the mind will wander a dozen times and it will be necessary to bring it back to the original purpose, and each time the effect will have been lost and at the end of the ten minutes nothing will have been gained, because you have not been able to hold your thought steadily to the purpose.
23. It is, however, through attention that you will finally be able to overcome obstacles of any kind that appear in your path onward and upward, and the only way to acquire this wonderful power is by practice -- practice makes perfect, in this as in anything else.
24. In order to cultivate the power of attention, bring a photograph with you to the same seat in the same room in the same position as heretofore. Examine it closely at least ten minutes, note the expression of the eyes, the form of the features, the clothing, the way the hair is arranged; in fact, note every detail shown on the photograph carefully. Now cover it and close your eyes and try to see it mentally; if you can see every detail perfectly and can form a good mental image of the photograph, you are to be congratulated; if not, repeat the process until you can.
25. This step is simply for the purpose of preparing the soil; next week we shall be ready to sow the seed.
26. It is by such exercises as these that you will finally be able to control your mental moods, your attitude, your consciousness.
27. Great financiers are learning to withdraw from the multitude more and more, that they may have more time for planning, thinking and generating the right mental moods.
28. Successful businessmen are constantly demonstrating the fact that it pays to keep in touch with the thought of other successful businessmen.
29. A single idea may be worth millions of dollars, and these ideas can only come to those who are receptive, who are prepared to receive them, who are in successful frame of mind.
30. Men are learning to place themselves in harmony with the Universal Mind; they are learning the unity of all things; they are learning the basic methods and principles of thinking, and this is changing conditions and multiplying results.
31. They are finding that circumstances and environment follow the trend of mental and spiritual progress; they find that growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.
32. As the individual is but the channel for the differentiation of the Universal, these possibilities are necessarily inexhaustible.
33. Thought is the process by which we may absorb the Spirit of Power, and hold the result in our inner consciousness until it becomes a part of our ordinary consciousness. The method of accomplishing this result by the persistent practice of a few fundamental principles, as explained in this System, is the master key which unlocks the storehouse of Universal Truth.
34. The two great sources of human suffering at present are bodily disease and mental anxiety. These may be readily traced to the infringement of some Natural Law. This is, no doubt, owing to the fact that so far knowledge has largely remained partial, but the clouds of darkness which have accumulated through long ages are beginning to roll away and with them many of the miseries that attend imperfect information.
That a man can change himself, improve himself, re-create himself, control his environment, and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action
Larsen
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Study Questions with Answers
51. What are some of the effects which can be produced by electricity?
Heat, light, power, music.
52. Upon what do these various effects depend?
Upon the mechanism to which electricity is attached.
53. What is the result of the action and interaction of the individual mind upon the Universal?
The conditions and experiences with which we meet.
54. How may these conditions be changed?
By changing the mechanism by which the Universal is differentiated in form.
55. What is this mechanism?
The brain.
56. How may it be changed?
By the process we call thinking. Thoughts produce brain cells, and these cells respond to the corresponding thought in the Universal.
57. Of what value is the power of concentration?
It is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired, and the distinguishing characteristic of every successful man or woman.
58. How may it be acquired?
By faithfully practicing the exercises in this System.
59. Why is this so important?
Because it will enable us to control our thoughts, and since thoughts are causes conditions must be effects; if we can control the cause we can also control the effect.
60. What is changing conditions and multiplying results in the objective world?
Men are learning the basic methods of constructive thinking.
