HOW TO PUT THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO WORK ONE IN A SERIES OF BOOKS ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY COVERING THE FIELD OF SUCCESS HEALTH AND HAPPINESS By DAVID V. BUSH Author of APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC LIVING. PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND SEX LIFE. PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX, HOW TO MAKE LOVE AND MARRY. ETC VOLUME VI DAVID V BUSH. PUBLISHER 225 NORTH MICHIGAN BLVD. CHICAGO. ILL. Copyright, 1924 DAVID V. BUSH Printed by The Huron Press, Inc. Chicago 1
PREFACE The very great advance made in the science of mental healing during the last half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century must be self-evident to the most superficial observer. However, both in conducting classes and in giving private counsel all authorities come sooner or later face to face with what I believe impresses every unprejudiced person in the line of mental healing, namely, the wide variety of cults and the large number of teachers and organizations, each one thinking he or it has discovered the one and only true method of mind healing. To my mind this condition is one of the biggest obstacles the whole movement of the power of the mind to heal has yet to overcome. There can be no single person, no single organization which has sequestered all of the healing truth. To think otherwise is to be circumscribed by one's own narrow prejudices. Anything is true that works. Call it what you may. Tabulate its manifestations in what fashion you will, designate it what you choose. It matters not what name you give it--if it works it is true. On every side we see cults, organizations and teachers who claim they draw from the only fount of mental healing truth. This, alas, is reverting to type, going back to the prejudiced, bigoted, circumscribed methods of the dark ages. That there may be made available to the public a set of books on mental healing which demonstrates the power of mind from every angle--showing that one method may be true for Smith, another for Jones, and a third for Brown-- is my object in presenting herewith various successful methods of healing. The desideratum, to my mind, in all healing, study and experience, is the development of a breadth of mind which will be nothing short of cosmic consciousness. In such a domain all will be able to worship at one shrine, enjoy peace of mind, fraternize with their fellows or commune with God in any manner they choose, free from the dictates of any powers that be, untrammeled by the chains of prejudice of their own or others' forging. Never will the world come into a cosmic consciousness-- the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man until we are willing to acknowledge the good which is to be found in realms other than our own whether it be in mental healing, in religion or in the life of practical experience. Hence, in dealing with the power of mind to heal, the purpose of this series is to present, all told, some twenty- eight different methods of healing as operated by different cults, teachers, religions, organizations and psychological centers, all of which have proved variously successful as they have been employed to meet the needs of various individuals. David V. Bush. 2
CONTENTS CHAPTER I - SUBCONSCIOUS MIND... 4 CHAPTER II - UNFRIENDLY SUGGESTION... 15 CHAPTER III - CURE ALL... 30 CHAPTER IV - ORGANIC AND FUNCTIONAL DISEASES... 39 CHAPTER V - CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTION... 42 CHAPTER VI - SUGGESTION... 58 CHAPTEE VII - AUTOSUGGESTION... 78 CHAPTER VIII - SEMI-NEGATIVE... 100 CHAPTER IX - HETERO SUGGESTION... 108 CHAPTER X. - LARVATED--PLACEBOS-- (MASKED)... 111 CHAPTER XI. # REPETITION... 114 CHAPTEE XII - HEALING CHILDREN... 119 CHAPTER XIII - HOW TO GIVE TREATMENTS... 122 CHAPTER XIV - HOW TO TREAT AND GIVE TREATMENTS--Continued... 128 CHAPTER XV - HOW TO GIVE TREATMENT--Continued... 131 CHAPTER XVI - AFTER THE HEALING--WHAT?... 138 CHAPTER XVII - BREATHING... 158 CHAPTER XVIII - KEEPING FIT... 160 CHAPTER XIX - EATING AND MIND... 163 CHAPTER XX - REST... 171 CHAPTER XXI - WORK--SERVICE--HOBBY... 178 CHAPTER XXII - RIGHT "ATMOSPHERE'... 182 CHAPTER XXIII - MENTAL INDOLENCE... 187 3
HOW TO PUT THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO WORK Alarm Clock CHAPTER I - SUBCONSCIOUS MIND The Subconscious is the most wonderful thing in the human mind, and perhaps in all the world we know; for it is the omnipotent part of man. A single illustration will suffice to show this transcendent quality. Did you ever go to bed at night desiring to awaken at a certain hour in the morning! The time may be altogether different from your usual arising hour, but is it not a fact that whatever it is, you generally awaken exactly on the dot. It may be two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock, five o'clock, six o'clock, or any other o'clock; but in nine cases out of ten you open your eyes on time. This involves an operation of the omniscient part of man. The subconscious mind knows everything though, of course, it must be properly directed. If you wish to awaken at five o'clock in the morning, and are not used to rising at that hour, your conscious mind gives a strong suggestion which the subconscious takes up, and as a result you actually do emerge from sleep at the right moment, though without visible or external cause. Notice the omniscient (all-knowing) part of this again. You do not have to take out your watch and say ''eight hours from now will be five o'clock Standard Time--I shall get up at five o'clock." No, it doesn't make any difference whether it is two hours or five hours, whether it is eight minutes or 800 minutes. At the appointed time you will awaken. Just pause a moment and see what this means. You awaken at the appointed time, and there you are. Time Changes Travel westward, if you will, where the time changes. You go to bed saying to yourself that you will awaken at five o'clock in the morning. You are traveling by sleeper on a fast express. You go to bed by Eastern Time, and while crossing the land enter the belt of Central Time, which is an hour slower; yet you awaken at literally five o'clock--not four o'clock, the absolute hour which would have been five for you had you remained in the Eastern belt; but the actual five o'clock of the new region, which is the Eastern six o'clock. Marvelous are the understandings and workings of the subconscious mind! Upon giving this illustration in my campaigns, I have often been asked with some perplexity how is it that, if the subconscious mind is the omniscient and divine part of man, this sensitive medium may take up wrong suggestions, such as fear, worry, doubt, sorrow, fright, lack, limitation or poverty. The answer is very simple. All life is orderly and scientific, and works according to certain rules and regulations of nature. The same omniscient spirit which is within man is also within the acorn and the tree. The principle of life is God-Power. The God-Power in the acorn makes the oak; in you, it makes the man. 4
Divine In Man There is a vast difference between the oak tree and man, just as there is a vast difference between the primitive savage and the great example of the divine in man as manifested by Jesus of Nazareth. All men have the divine in them. Jesus is the highest exemplification of this divinity but it would be absurd to say that because the primitiveman is not the Christ, the God spirit is not within him. In fact, Scripture tells us that man was made in the image of God--that is, that the spirit within man rather than the mere flesh of his body is the image. God spirit is in all living creatures, but is manifested differently according to the planes on which they live. But to return to the question of my perplexed auditors--if the spirit of man is omniscient, why does his subconscious mind receive wrong impressions, and why must he make conscious suggestions for their correction? The answer is really very simple. You see the God power in the oak and know that the oak's growth is the result of what God and the law of the tree can do. Similarly, the God power in man can accomplish as much as man and God can do. In other words, the omniscient part of man must work in accordance with the natural laws of life. The spirit as within man is obviously different from the pure spirit as emancipated from all earthly trammels. Of the one we may expect only inclinations toward complete divinity; the other is pure divinity itself. The butterfly has only those same potentialities within it which were once encased by the lowly cocoon. The same God power was at work with the life in the cocoon, as that which is at work in the well developed butterfly; but for a while that now gorgeous and active spirit was limited and made outwardly dull by the sluggish primitiveness of the cocoon environment. So with man. Spirit Limited In the Flesh The spirit in man is for the time being limited by the flesh... the cocoon of man, if you please. The same God spirit which presides in the individual, handicapped as it may be by the fleshly tabernacle, will some time leave the body and go into another and higher sphere of development, as the butterfly leaves the cocoon. And in that higher plane, where there is no limitation of the flesh, what may the spirit not be able to do? It may travel to distant lands and return in an instant, as our radio vibrations are sent out and caught by the aerials which link in fellowship all the homes of America from Boston to San Francisco. The spirit of man, when freed from the cocoon of the flesh, may have as little limitation as the pure essence of God himself. So one should not become discouraged by the seeming paradox involved in the necessity of suggestion to a subconscious mind which is omniscient and divine. We have to suggest, because that is the way in which the process happens to work. The way to catch radio broadcastings is to have your aerial, and gather in the vibrations. There may be millions of Universal radios vibrating through the Universal ether, but if you have no aerial and cannot listen in you do not know what is taking place. You catch the message by having your aerial and your radio machine, and without these you can never get it. It is the way it is done, that is all. 5
So, if we would have the subconscious mind work for us, we must recognize the way nature intended it to work. While it is encased in the cocoon of the fleshly tabernacle, it is amenable to suggestion; and this is the only way we are going to get it to work at such a stage, because this is the present way that God intended it to work. While it is limited by the flesh, we must work in the fleshly way. When it is freed from the flesh who may dream or prophesy what laws it will own or what heights it can reach. We are here now, and the way to get the omniscient part of us to perform the wonders of omnipotence, is to work according to the laws which God has laid down. Omnipotent and Omniscient Since the subconscious mind is both omnipotent (all-powerful) and omniscient (allknowing), it knows everything which ought to be done for man's good; and if properly directed by suggestion will do it. It will find one's right environment, and lead one to his right vocation. It will select one's proper life mate, and attract abundance and happiness to him.* Its omniscience gives it a thorough knowledge of man's cellular metabolism, glandular secretion, vascular, muscular and nervous activity, and indeed of all things pertaining to health and vitality; a knowledge which needs only the guidance of sincere and intelligent suggestion to make it the omnipotent corrective of every bodily inharmony. In "Therapeutic Suggestion Applied," the author gives a splendid elucidation of the workings of the subconscious mind for health. *For a detailed account of the operation of these laws read again the chapters on the "SUBCONSCIOUS MIND" in Vol. Ill of this series. How It Works The objective mind is the mind which results from organization, and it may be regarded as the function of the brain. It is the mind with which we do business; the mind that operates through the five physical senses. It comes, develops with, matures, and finally declines and dies with the physical body. It controls, in a great measure, all voluntary motion. We call this the "brain mind." It is capable of reasoning both deductively and inductively. The subjective mind is a distinct entity. It occupies the whole human body, and, when not opposed in any way, it has absolute control over all the functions, conditions and sensations of the body. While the objective mind has control over all of our voluntary functions and motions, the subjective mind controls all of the silent, involuntary and vegetative functions. Nutrition, waste, all secretions and excretions, the action of the heart in the circulation of the blood, the lungs in respiration or breathing, and all cell life, cell changes and development, are positively under the complete control of the subjective mind. This was the only mind animals had before the evolution of a brain; and it could not, nor can it yet, reason inductively, but its power of deductive reasoning is perfect. And more, it can see without the use of physical eyes. It perceives by intuition. It has the power to communicate with others without the aid of ordinary physical means. It can read the thoughts of others. It receives intelligence and transmits it to people at a distance. 6
a diagnosis, indicating a malignant or dreaded disease, may arouse in the patient (especially if he be a thoracic or a muscular) an emotional state such that the suggestion erected by the faulty diagnosis really causes a serious disease. Many physicians will not state the results of a diagnosis in the presence of a person who is in an emotional state. I should not be understood to assert that nothing but unfriendly suggestions may be readily accepted during emotionalism, for a person in a high state of emotionalism is just as impressionable to favorable as to unfavorable suggestions. How quickly a man in the heat of anger will change his attitude when a sympathetic third person gently speaks to him in terms of confidential and comprehending love. Therefore, all emotional states should be used to call up imagery of the beautiful, of the good, of the wonderful, the successful and the healthful. We have been taught and have been maintaining certain attitudes toward life in terms of conventional theories of disease and suffering. Your attitude is now beginning to be that of a thoughtful soul, speaking the language of health, not the nomenclature of disease. Out of this attitude will spring new habits of life and better health. Out of this attitude physical changes will come. They are bound to come. They must come. They will come. The essential thing is to attain this serene attitude and enjoy its benefits. Toward the close of the wonderful Sermon on the Mount Jesus admonished his hearers to be as modest in the matter of prayer as in all other aspects of deportment, in the following words: And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.--matthew 6: 5-6. Of course, Christ does not mean necessarily to go into a closet--he means to be by oneself in mind. This may be upon the street car as well as upon the desert sands. We may be surrounded by the multitudes and yet our mind be in the inner most recesses of the soul. The injunction Christ gives means that what you desire you should ask for in secret, and it will be presented to you openly. Brought to you by: www. MinsterEbooks.com EBOOK PRODUCTION & SALES Minster Glimpse, Southwell, Notts. NG25 0HY UK Telephone: 01636 813160 Email: ronwood50@0800dial.com "We aim to include original work and unique compilations targeted to niche markets" 196