Mental blocks and Fear

What can you do if you are faced with a difficult situation and see no way clear? The solution lies within the problem! Every question implies its own answer. Your subconscious mind knows all and sees all. You must follow your subconscious mind with confidence. Once you achieve this new attitude, you will always find the answer you seek.

It has been said that people’s greatest enemy is fear. Millions of people are afraid of their past, future, death, etc. But actually fear is just a thought in your mind. This means that we are afraid of our own thoughts. A small child can be paralyzed with fear when someone says that there is a monster under the bed who will grab him in the night. But when the parents turn on the light, there is no monster. The fear is in the mind of the child. He was healed of a false thought in his mind. In the same way, most of our fears have no reality.

If you are an alcoholic or drug addict, admit it. Do not dodge from the issue, many people remain alcoholics because they refuse to admit it. Your disease is an inner fear. We are living in a psychological prison of our own making. We are bound by our own beliefs, opinions and other influences. We are a creature of habit and thus we are conditioned to react the way we do.

If you have a keen desire to free yourself from a bad habit, you are actually 51% healed. When your desire to give up a bad habit is greater than your need to continue it, you will be amazed to discover that complete freedom is just a step away.

“I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”

-PSLAM 34:4         

When fear knocks at the door of your mind, or when worry and doubt cross your mind, think of the infinite power within your subconscious mind. Fill your mind with the concept of freedom ie freedom from fear, bad habits, doubts, etc. And slowly this will give you confidence, power and courage. Keep on; keep trying, until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

-Sahil Shaparia

Wonders of Sleep

You spend about eight out of every 24hrs, or one third of your entire life, in sleep. Sleep is a divine law and also many answers to our problems come to us when we are in a deep sleep.

Your subconscious mind never rests or sleeps. It is always active, controlling all your vital forces. The healing process takes place more rapidly while you are asleep, because there is no interference from your conscious mind. Remarkable answers are given to you while you are asleep.

Lack of asleep can cause you to become irritable, moody and sometimes depressed. All human beings need a minimum of six hours of sleep to be healthy. Most people need more. Those who think they can get along on less are fooling themselves. Medical researchers who have investigated sleep processes and lack of sleep point out that severe insomnia have led to psychological breakdown in some instances.

One way to find out why we need sleep is to look at what happens when we do not get it. In 1964, a seventeen -year old boy named Randy Gardner kept himself awake for 264 hours i.e., eleven straight days! Medical tests showed that during the time he was awake, his thinking process deteriorated. His speech became slurred. He also suffered from memory lapses.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as many as 200,000 traffic accidents a year are related to sleep problems. Drivers are five to ten times more likely to have an accident late at night than during the daytime.

 There was a man named Ray Hammerstrom who worked as a roller in a Pittsburgh steel mill. Despite the best efforts of the installers, a machine which was installed recently could not be made to work properly. Ray thought a lot about the problem. He also tried to figure out a new design, but nothing worked. One afternoon he lay down for a nap. As he fell asleep, he thought about the problem. During his nap he had a dream in which he saw a perfect design for the problem. When he got up, he sketched his new design according to his dream. This visionary cat nap won Ray a check for $15,000, the largest award the firm had ever given an employee for a new idea.

Remember that, your future is the result of your habitual thinking which is already in your mind unless you change it through prayer. There is nothing strange in the dream where you see the headlines of the newspapers long before the events even take place. Tomorrow’s events are in your subconscious mind. So are the next week’s and next month’s. No disaster or tragedy can happen to you if you decide to pray. Nothing is predetermined. Your mental attitude ie the way you think, feel, believe determines your destiny.

-Sahil Shaparia

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

The Law of Mind

All religions of the world represent forms of belief, and these beliefs are explained in many ways. The law of Mind is the Law of Life. And the Law of Life is the Law of Belief. What you believe about yourself, life and the universe is done unto you as you believe.

“Believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself”

Belief is a thought in your mind that causes the power of your subconscious to be distributed into all phases of your life according to your thinking habits. You must realize that when the bible speaks of belief, it is not talking about your belief in some ritual, ceremony or a formula. It is talking about belief itself. The belief of your mind is simply the thought of your mind.

“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

                                                                                                                         -MARK 9:23

William James, the father of American psychology, said that the power to move the world is in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is one with infinite intelligence and boundless wisdom. It is fed by hidden springs and is called the law of mind which is The Law of Life. Fill your mind with concepts of harmony, health and peace and you will see how wonders will happen in your life.

The reason there is so much chaos and misery in the world is that many people don’t understand the interaction between their two minds. When these two principles are in peace and synchronously together, you will have everything you need in your life.

As discussed above, the law of Mind is the law of Belief, belief can be summed up as a thought in your mind. A person thinks, feels and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body or circumstances. A technique, a methodology based on an understanding of what are you doing and why will help you to bring a concrete form of all the good things of life.

-Sahil Shaparia