When this passive state is reached, imagine that you have realized your wish — not how it was realized, but simply the wish fulfilled. The quality of the conscious two-thirds of our life is measured by the degree of attention we give our sleep.

Paul personified it as a "woman" and said, "The woman should be subject to man in everything" [Ephesians 5:24; also, 1Corinthians 14:34, Ephesians 5:22, Colossians 3:18, 1Peter 3:1].It is our task to accept the feelings we would have if our wishes were fulfilled and then believe that the subconscious creates them. The subconscious is not selective; it is impersonal and no respecter of persons [Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11]. In sleep and prayer – a state akin to sleep – a person enters their subconscious to make impressions and receive the necessary instructions to objectify them.

Detach yourself from what you perceive on the outside and accept the feeling of your wish fulfilled. The subconscious — unlike the woman of the world who marries her husband to change him — has no desire to change the conscious, waking state, but loves it as it is and faithfully reproduces its likeness in the outer world of form. Porque también yo soy hombre puesto bajo autoridad, y tengo soldados bajo mis órdenes; y digo a éste: Vé, y va; y al otro: Ven, y viene; y a mi siervo: Haz esto, y lo hace. It is natural to do the kind of work that the person you believe yourself to be would do – if you believe yourself to be a good businessman, your actions will reflect it – so live feeling as if you were the person you desire.If you are discouraged, dissatisfied, or feel like a failure: change this state of consciousness before falling asleep. GET into the spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you want to be. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being. To yield successfully to the wish as an accomplished fact, you must create a passive state, a kind of reverie or meditative reflection similar to the feeling which precedes sleep.

This book truly challenged me to think more deeply about the conscious mind and subconscious mind and how God has equipped us to have free will and walk in the authority He has given us! I also experienced such period when I am not sure the feeling I was entertaining is the right one for the fulfillment of desire. The subconscious itself does not originate ideas, but simply objectifies those that the conscious feels to be true. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I appreciated the value of dreams being brought up and the exercise to not believe yourself to aspire to anything, but to be it.Whenever you are in the state of mind "I should like to, but I cannot", the harder you try, the less you are able to yield to the wish. As soon as you succeed in convincing yourself of the reality of the state sought, results follow to confirm your fixed belief. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction", Job 33. When this passive state is reached, imagine that you have realized your wish – not how it was realized, but simply the wish fulfilled. By control of feeling is not meant restraint or suppression of your feeling, but rather the disciplining of self to imagine and entertain only such feeling as contributes to your happiness.