| Have you ever fully appreciated that | | | | |
| marvelous tool for success that each and | | | | Albert Einstein |
| every one of us has at our command? It is our | | | | |
| mind. | | | | "The intellect has little to do on the road |
| | | | to discovery. There comes a leap in |
| Theodore Roosevelt | | | | consciousness, call it intuition or what you |
| | | | will, and the solution comes to you, and you |
| "All the resources we need are in the mind." | | | | don't know how or why." |
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| In the novel "Terminal Man" by Michael | | | | "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon |
| Crichton, it mentions that at that time | | | | my imagination. Imagination is more important |
| (1972) the largest and most expensive | | | | than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. |
| computer had the same number of circuits as | | | | Imagination encircles the world." |
| the brain of an ant. To make a computer with | | | | |
| the capacity of the human brain would require | | | | The subconscious mind is useful in two ways. |
| the size of a huge skyscraper. Its energy | | | | The first way involves receiving information, |
| demand would be the equivalent of a city of a | | | | solving problems, and receiving inspiration. |
| half a million. | | | | |
| | | | The second way deals with programming your |
| I know computers have come a long way since | | | | mind to supercharge your confidence, your |
| 1972 but it shows the tremendous capacity of | | | | self-image, and your desired beliefs. This |
| the human mind. | | | | can take a little time at first but like many |
| | | | things gets easier with practice. |
| Did you know our conscious mind is only | | | | |
| one-sixth of our brain's thinking and power? | | | | Programming your subconscious works best |
| Our subconscious mind represents five-sixths | | | | through visualization. Pictures and symbols |
| of our thinking and power. | | | | are by far the most effective way of |
| | | | impressing your subconscious. Speaking of |
| The whole mind, conscious and subconscious, | | | | symbols and pictures, this is why dreams are |
| possesses the power to solve any problem that | | | | largely symbolic in nature. While you sleep |
| may come up, or provide the necessary ways | | | | your mind processes information and presents |
| and means through which we can achieve our | | | | it back in the form of symbolic pictures. |
| ends. | | | | |
| | | | What's great about your subconscious mind is |
| The conscious mind holds only about 7 pieces | | | | that it never rests. Whatever goal or problem |
| of information in short-term memory. Your | | | | you give your subconscious, it will work on |
| sub-conscious mind, however, stores all the | | | | continually, day or night. |
| knowledge you have ever acquired. Everything | | | | |
| you have ever read, heard, thought or | | | | Whatever you think and ponder about deeply |
| imagined is held within its immense memory. | | | | with strong emotion makes a strong impression |
| | | | on your subconscious. This is why you also |
| Brain researchers estimate that your | | | | need to be careful. Excessive worrying and |
| unconscious mind outweighs the conscious on a | | | | negative self-talk can also make strong |
| scale of ten million to one. This is the | | | | impressions. |
| source of your hidden, natural genius. In | | | | |
| other words, this part of you is much smarter | | | | You want your subconscious mind to be a goal |
| than you think you are. This is where the | | | | achieving, success mechanism, not a failure |
| great artists, writers, and poets to get | | | | mechanism. |
| their inspiration. | | | | |