Get the Results you want

The true inner meaning of success is to be successful at the enterprise of living. A long period of peace, joy and happiness on this plane may be termed success. The real things of life such as peace, harmony, security and happiness are indefinable. They come from the deep self of human beings. Meditating on those qualities builds these treasures of heaven in our subconscious. That is the true place where... “moth and rust do not consume, where thieves do not break through and steal”

But the question arises, how to be successful in life? How to get the results we want? We have worked hard, still we have failed! What was wrong in our technique?

Any time when you try to force your subconscious mind to do something for you, you will fail. The results you want will become more distant instead of closer. Your subconscious mind does not respond to mental compulsion. Your failure to get results may also be a consequence of mentally making some statements as

·        Things are getting worse

·        I will never get an answer

·        I see no way out

·        I don’t know that to do, etc

When you use such statements, you get no response from your subconscious mind. Like a soldier marking time, you go neither forward nor backward. In other words you don’t get anywhere.

“When your desires and imagination are in conflict, your imagination gains the day”

Suppose you were asked to walk along a narrow plank that was resting on the floor, you would do it easily. But now suppose the same plank were twenty feet up, stretching between two walls, would you walk it? Could you? Probably not. Your desire to walk the length of the plank would come into conflict with your imagination. You would imagine yourself falling a long way to the ground. You might very much want to walk across the plank (Desire), but your fear of falling would keep you from being able to do it (Imagination). The more effort you put into conquering your imagination, the greater strength is given to the dominant idea of falling. Mental effort often leads to self-defeat, creating the opposite of what is desired.

Have you ever had something like this happen to you? You have to take an examination of some kind. You have pit a lot of time preparing for it. You feel as if you know it well. But when you face an exam, you find that your mind is blank. All you knowledge of the subject has suddenly deserted you. You can’t recall anything. You try harder and harder to remember, but the harder you try, the farther the knowledge seems to flee. Frustrated, you leave the examination room. The mental pressure slowly eases. Suddenly the answers you were hunting for so desperately a few minutes ago flow back to your mind. You told yourself that you knew the material, yes you did…but not even you needed. The mistake you made was to try to force yourself to remember. By the law of reversed effort, this led, not to success, but to failure, what you got was the opposite of what you asked or prayed for.

Now the question arises, how to avoid this conflict?

You avoid all conflict between your desires and imagination by entering into a sleepy state that brings all effort to a minimum. The conscious mind is submerged to a great extent when in a sleepy state. The best time to infuse anything in your subconscious is just prior to sleep. In this state the negative thoughts and imagery that tend to neutralize your desire and thus prevent acceptance by your subconscious mind no longer present themselves. When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realization of your desire.

-Sahil Shaparia