心灵瑜珈课 (7)
- 潜意识是主体。
人类的精神生活中，潜意识至少占据了９０％，这种主导地位不容忽视。
- 引导潜意识
只有我们在生活中正确地对待并引导潜意识，它才帮助我们克服种种困难，为人生的发展保驾护航。
- 精神也要接受引导
- 祖先遗留下来的能量
融在我们身体血液中的精神，有一种一脉相承的气质，这就是我们通常所说的遗传。它是我们祖先的经验的传承，体现的是一种生生不息的生命力量。一旦我们正确地理解了这一点，我们就能正视自身暴露的种种令人不悦的弱点，并且利用自身的主观能量去加以改变，让自己得以提升。
- 主观能量
我们的主观能量就体现在：保留并发扬自身遗传下来的好的、积极的性格特点：修正或摒弃那些不好的、给我们带来损害的性格特点。
- 遗传与主观努力一起发挥作用
由此可见，我们自身思想的获得绝不仅仅是简单的遗传，还有事业、家庭以及社会环境综合作用的结果。
- 引力法则
自亘古以来我们人类得以创造、发展的力量和源泉也正在于此：昨天的思考成就了今天的我，而今天的思考必将引导和塑造明天的我。这就是应验在人类的“引力法则”。
- 精心构建你的精神家园
当我们想给自己建造住房时，总是周密筹划，鉴别选用质量上乘的材料，认真关注每一个小细节。然而，在我们在为自己构建精神家园的时候，却往往没有做到如此细致。人类的损失也就在于此，因为，就重要性而言，后者远远超过前者。我们的精神家园的构架如何，其中所选用的材质如何，都将直接影响到我们生活中对每一个细微问题的处理。
- 精神家园的材质
话说回来，那么，精神家园的材质又是什么呢？其实，它是过往生活经历集中反映在我们潜意识中所得到的一种反馈。
- 用最优良的材质去构建精神家园
一旦我们采取积极向上、勇敢坚定的态度，主动地同一切不良观念作斗争，主动摒弃或改造它们，坚持下去，构建我们精神家园的材质就只有绝对上乘的，有了这个作基础，我们的精神家园必然会色彩缤纷，构建的精神家园自然也是恒久坚固，历经风雨而不褪色，我们就可以十足的信心面对将来。精神有了好的栖息之所，还有什么可担忧疑虑的呢？大胆向前走就对了！
- 千真万确的真理
精神家园的建设绝不可偏废，而需要用心经营。持久的关注它，让它的内部充满着温馨、和谐、舒展的气息，我们的生活将会因此而变得积极而富有张力。
- 精神家园是基础中的基础
只有我们完成了精神家园的基础性建设，我们才能在此徜徉，卓有成效地构筑我们理想中的天地。
- 一个比喻
……美好的存在一旦被荒废，那就等同于被无情的抛弃。
- 精神的美地
在人类的精神领域，确实也就存在着这样一处房产。而你，就相当于房产的继承人！你大可以无所顾忌地占有它，使出浑身解数，发挥自身最大能量去掌控它，营造出美丽和谐、繁荣兴旺的景象，它的回报也是丰厚的，幸福、安详、积极乐观，将成为你再不会失去的财富，而软弱、无能、无奈等等不良，将挥之而去。它就是你生命方向的权杖，把握它，你将为生命和尊严而战！
- 三步，且只需要三步
要想顺理成章地拥有这笔丰厚的财产，就不要吝惜迈出的脚步：真诚渴望——主张权力——势必拥有。三点一线的终点就是你所期盼的美好家园。凭心而论，迈出这三步对你而言并非难事。
- 生理的遗传
我们的直立行走，以及其他种种生理功能——消化、血液循环、神经系统、肌肉力量、骨骼结构、运动，甚至是精神能力，如此种种，都得益于人类遗传的成就。
- 另一种遗传
然而，还是有一种遗传被忽视在外了，它就是我们的潜能。
- 无尽的潜能
这种流淌在人类自身、充满着每一个细胞的无限潜能就是人类自身，进入大门就是我们的感官意识。一旦你大胆地推开这扇门，就能轻而易举地获得这股能量，还踌躇什么呢？
- 潜意识是潜能之源
- 去伪存真
- 重生
在获得美好精神家园的同时，我们也因此而重生，拥有了敢于面对一切的坚定与勇气，不再彷徨、怯懦、恐惧、忧虑。潜意识在心底得到焕发，瞬间我们就拥有了无穷的潜能，指导我们跨越生命的坷途，微笑无畏地前行。
- 由内而生的能量
这股改变的能量来自哪里？它是由内而生的，只有我们先付出渴望，才能继而拥有它，除此之外，别无他法。我们只要实实在在地付出许多，就会得到更多。我们付出比一般更多的心血和毅力去坚持锻炼，才会得以强壮；我们需要积累更多的财富，就必须先投资金钱去构筑环境，只有这样，才能获得丰盈的回报。
- 失去精神，即失去了切
我们只有对自身已经拥有的精神能量加以利用，才能得到一切行动的能量。我们失去了精神，就失去一切。
- 强大的精神力量
一旦意识到了精神的力量如此强大，我们就有了拥有的能量——精神的、物质、心灵的，拥有一切。
- 一切财富源自于精神力量
一切财富是精神力量和金钱意识相互作用，累积而来的结果。精神力量如一柄充满魔力的魔杖，在它的指引下，你将拥有有效的理念，可行的计划，快乐的心态，永久的成功，和成功后的满足感。
本课重点
１、潜意识在人类精神生活中占据多大分量？
——９０％以上。
２、人们意识到潜意识的重要了吗？
——没有，很遗憾，它被大多数人搁置了。
３、为什么会被搁置呢？
——原因就在于，绝大多数的人都忽略了自己的主观能动性。
４、显意识中的引导性指令，它的根源在哪里？
——来自于遗传，先人的经验，通过遗传作用在我们身上的结果。
５、引力法则，它回馈给我们人类到底是什么？
——就是我们“自身”。
６、何谓“自身”？
——我们之前的所有经历和意识综合形成的结果，包括显意识和潜意识。
７、构筑美好精神家园的材质指的是什么？
——存在于我们自身的健康、积极、乐观的观念与想法。
８、我们体内的潜能从何而来？
——是宇宙能量分化扩散的结果。
９、潜能是如何发生的？
——一切的一切都源于内心，发源于潜意识。
10、我们怎样拥有潜能？
——打开潜意识之门。
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Part Seven
Through all the ages man has believed in an invisible power, through which and by which all things have been created and are continually being re-created. We may personalize this power and call it God, or we may think of it as the essence or spirit, which permeates all things, but in either case the effect is the same.
So far as the individual is concerned, the objective, the physical, the visible, is the personal, that which can be cognized by the senses. It consists of body, brain and nerves. The subjective is the spiritual, the invisible, the impersonal.
The personal is conscious because it is a personal entity. The impersonal, being the same in kind and quality as all other Being, is not conscious of itself and has therefore been termed the subconscious.
The personal, or conscious, has the power of will and choice, and can therefore exercise discrimination in the selection of methods whereby to bring about the solution of difficulties.
The impersonal, or spiritual, being a part or one with the source, and origin of all power, can necessarily exercise no such choice, but, on the contrary, it has Infinite resources at its command. It can and does bring about results by methods concerning which the human or individual mind can have no possible conception.
You will therefore see that it is your privilege to depend upon the human will with all its limitations and misconceptions, or you may utilize the potentialities of Infinity by making use of the subconscious mind. Here, then, is the scientific explanation of the wonderful power which has been put within your control, if you but understand, appreciate and recognize it.
One method of consciously utilizing this omnipotent power is outlined in Part Seven.
PART SEVEN
1. Visualization is the process of making mental images, and the image is the mold or model which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge.
2. Make the pattern clear and make it beautiful; do not be afraid; make it grand; remember that no limitation can be placed upon you by any one but yourself; you are not limited as to cost or material; draw on the Infinite for your supply, construct it in your imagination; it will have to be there before it will ever appear anywhere else.
3. Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually and constantly bring the thing nearer to you. You can be what "you will to be."
4. This is another psychological fact which is well known, but unfortunately, reading about it will not bring about any result which you may have in mind; it will not even help you to form the mental image, much less bring it into manifestation. Work is necessary - labor, hard mental labor, the kind of effort which so few are willing to put forth.
5. The first step is idealization. It is likewise the most important step, because it is the plan on which you are going to build. It must be solid; it must be permanent. The architect, when he plans a 30-storey building, has every line and detail pictured in advance. The engineer, when he spans a chasm, first ascertains the strength requirements of a million separate parts.
6. They see the end before a single step is taken; so you are to picture in your mind what you want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any seed you want to know what the harvest is to be. This is Idealization. If you are not sure, return to the chair daily until the picture becomes plain; it will gradually unfold; first the general plan will be dim, but it will take shape, the outline will take form, then the details, and you will gradually develop the power by which you will be enabled to formulate plans which will eventually materialize in the objective world. You will come to know what the future holds for you.
7. Then comes the process of visualization. You must see the picture more and more complete, see the detail, and, as the details begin to unfold the ways and means for bringing it into manifestation will develop. One thing will lead to another. Thought will lead to action, action will develop methods, methods will develop friends, and friends will bring about circumstances, and, finally, the third step, or Materialization, will have been accomplished.
8. We all recognize the Universe must have been thought into shape before it ever could have become a material fact. And if we are willing to follow along the lines of the Great Architect of the Universe, we shall find our thoughts taking form, just as the universe took concrete form. It is the same mind operating through the individual. There is no difference in kind or quality, the only difference is one of degree.
9. The architect visualizes his building, he sees it as he wishes it to be. His thought becomes a plastic mold from which the building will eventually emerge, a high one or a low one, a beautiful one or a plain one, his vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary material is utilized and the building stands complete.
10. The inventor visualizes his idea in exactly the same manner, for instance, Nikola Tesla, he with the giant intellect, one of the greatest inventors of all ages, the man who has brought forth the most amazing realities, always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work them out. He did not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting defects. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought. "In this way," he writes in the Electrical Experimenter. "I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete, the product of my brain. Invariably my devise works as I conceived it should; in twenty years there has not been a single exception."
11. If you can conscientiously follow these directions, you will develop Faith, the kind of Faith that is the "Substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"; you will develop confidence, the kind of confidence that leads to endurance and courage; you will develop the power of concentration which will enable you to exclude all thoughts except the ones which are associated with your purpose.
12. The law is that thought will manifest in form, and only one who knows how to be the divine thinker of his own thoughts can ever take a Master's place and speak with authority.
13. Clearness and accuracy are obtained only by repeatedly having the image in mind. Each repeated action renders the image more clear and accurate than the preceding, and in proportion to the clearness and accuracy of the image will the outward manifestation be. You must build it firmly and securely in your mental world, the world within, before it can take form in the world without, and you can build nothing of value, even in the mental world unless you have the proper material. When you have the material you can build anything you wish, but make sure of your material. You cannot make broadcloth from shoddy.
14. This material will be brought out by millions of silent mental workers and fashioned into the form of the image which you have in mind.
15. Think of it! You have over five million of these mental workers, ready and in active use; brain cells they are called. Besides this, there is another reserve force of at least an equal number, ready to be called into action at the slightest need. Your power to think, then, is almost unlimited, and this means that your power to create the kind of material which is necessary to build for yourself any kind of environment which you desire is practically unlimited.
16. In addition to these millions of mental workers, you have billions of mental workers in the body, every one of which is endowed with sufficient intelligence to understand and act upon any message or suggestion given. These cells are all busy creating and recreating the body, but, in addition to this, they are endowed with psychic activity whereby they can attract to themselves the substance necessary for perfect development.
17. They do this by the same law and in the same manner that every form of life attracts to itself the necessary material for growth. The oak, the rose, the lily, all require certain material for their most perfect expression and they secure it by silent demand, the Law of Attraction, the most certain way for you to secure what you require for your most complete development.
18. Make the Mental Image; make it clear, distinct, perfect; hold it firmly; the ways and means will develop; supply will follow the demand; you will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way. Earnest Desire will bring about Confident Expectation, and this in turn must be reinforced by Firm Demand. These three cannot fail to bring about Attainment, because the Earnest Desire is the feeling, the Confident Expectation is the thought, and the Firm Demand is the will, and, as we have seen, feeling gives vitality to thought and the will holds it steadily until the law of Growth brings it into manifestation.
19. Is it not wonderful that man has such tremendous power within himself, such transcendental faculties concerning which he had no conception? Is it not strange that we have always been taught to look for strength and power "without?" We have been taught to look everywhere but "within" and whenever this power manifested in our lives we were told that it was something supernatural.
20. There are many who have come to an understanding of this wonderful power, and who make serious and conscientious efforts to realize health, power and other conditions, and seem to fail. They do not seem able to bring the Law into operation. The difficulty in nearly every case is that they are dealing with externals. They want money, power, health and abundance, but they fail to realize that these are effects and can come only when the cause is found.
21. Those who will give no attention to the world without will seek only to ascertain the truth, will look only for wisdom, will find that this wisdom will unfold and disclose the source of all power, that it will manifest in thought and purpose which will create the external conditions desired. This truth will find expression in noble purpose and courageous action.
22. Create ideals only, give no thought to external conditions, make the world within beautiful and opulent and the world without will express and manifest the condition which you have within. You will come into a realization of your power to create ideals and these ideals will be projected into the world of effect.
23. For instance, a man is in debt. He will be continually thinking about the debt, concentrating on it, and as thoughts are causes the result is that he not only fastens the debt closer to him, but actually creates more debt. He is putting the great law of Attraction into operation with the usual and inevitable result -- Loss leads to greater "Loss."
24. What, then, is the correct principle? Concentrate on the things you want, not on the things you do not want. Think of abundance; idealize the methods and plans for putting the Law of Abundance into operation. Visualize the condition which the Law of Abundance creates; this will result in manifestation.
25. If the law operates perfectly to bring about poverty, lack and every form of limitation for those who are continually entertaining thoughts of lack and fear, it will operate with the same certainty to bring about conditions of abundance and opulence for those who entertain thoughts of courage and power.
26. This is a difficult problem for many; we are too anxious; we manifest anxiety, fear, distress; we want to do something; we want to help; we are like a child who has just planted a seed and every fifteen minutes goes and stirs up the earth to see if it is growing. Of course, under such circumstances, the seed will never germinate, and yet this is exactly what many of us do in the mental world.
27. We must plant the seed and leave it undisturbed. This does not mean that we are to sit down and do nothing, by no means; we will do more and better work then we have ever done before, new channels will constantly be provided, new doors will open; all that is necessary is to have an open mind, be ready to act when the time comes.
28. Thought force is the most powerful means of obtaining knowledge, and if concentrated on any subject will solve the problem. Nothing is beyond the power of human comprehension, but in order to harness thought force and make it do your bidding, work is required.
29. Remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that turns the wheel of fortune, upon which your experiences depend.
30. Ask yourself a few questions and then reverently await the response; do you not now and then feel the self with you? Do you assert this self or do you follow the majority? Remember that majorities are always led, they never lead. It was the majority that fought, tooth and nail, against the steam engine, the power loom and every other advance or improvement ever suggested.
31. For your exercise this week, visualize your friend, see him exactly as you last saw him, see the room, the furniture, recall the conversation, now see his face, see it distinctly, now talk to him about some subject of mutual interest; see his expression change, watch him smile. Can you do this? All right, you can; then arouse his interest, tell him a story of adventure, see his eyes light up with the spirit of fun or excitement. Can you do all of this? If so, your imagination is good, you are making excellent progress.
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Study Questions with Answers
61. What is visualization?
The process of making mental pictures.
62. What is the result of this method of thought?
By holding the image or picture in mind, we can gradually but surely bring the thing nearer to us. We can be what we will to be.
63. What is Idealization?
It is a process of visualizing or idealizing the plans which will eventually materialize in our objective world.
64. Why are clearness and accuracy necessary?
Because "seeing" creates "feeling" and "feeling" creates "being." First the mental, then the emotional, then the illimitable possibilities of achievement.
65. How are they obtained?
Each repeated action renders the image more accurate than the former one.
66. How is the material for the construction of your mental image secured?
By millions of mental workers. Brain cells they are called.
67. How are the necessary conditions for bringing about the materialization of your ideal in the objective world secured?
By the Law of Attraction. The natural law by which all conditions and experiences are brought about.
68. What three steps are necessary in order to bring this law into operation?
Earnest Desire, Confident Expectation, Firm Demand.
69. Why do many fail?
Because they concentrate on loss, disease and disaster. The law is operating perfectly; the things they fear are coming upon them.
70. What is the alternative?
Concentrate on the ideals which you desire to see manifested in your life.
