How to Reprogram the Subconscious Mind
"Be vigilant for God and His kingdom."
Jesus Christ
As Spoken Through "The Course In Miracles

By
Dr. Joshua David Stone

Since I have begun to give you affirmations in the previous chapters, I think it is appropriate now to explain more deeply what affirmations and visualizations are and how to use them. An affirmation is, in reality, an attitude. Every thought we think, be it positive or negative, is an affirmation. Every word we speak is an affirmation. Every action or behavior we take is an affirmation. This is true because everything stems from our thoughts. Our thoughts create our reality.

Affirmations used in a psychological healing context are specifically designed statements or attitudes that are set to program a new desired feeling, behavior or habit into the subconscious mind. In an earlier chapter I gave you affirmations to develop your personal power and your protective bubble.

Whenever you practice positive thinking or optimistic thinking you are practicing affirmations. The affirmations that I will be giving you in this chapter are specifically designed statements to help you develop certain key attitudes that pertain to your self concept and self image.

The continued repeated process of pushing the negative attitudes out of your mind with your personal power, and then repeating the new positive affirmations into the subconscious mind, is the main key to reprogramming the subconscious mind.

As mentioned earlier, the pushing out of your mind of the negative thought is like a plant that is not being watered. The negative thought is not getting energy, so it withers and dies. The continual, constant and repetitive use of positive thinking and affirmations waters this new seed thought in the soil of your subconscious mind and it begins to grow. It is like a tape recorder that re records over an old tape recording.

There are many different methods of programming the subconscious mind. Following are the best methods I have found.

1. Affirmations:

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so! The statement said silently to yourself until the pattern becomes a reality in your life and is fully programmed into the subconscious mind.

2. Decree: A decree is a spoken affirmation.

3. Creative Visualization:

This is the process of imagining the healed or finished result already taking place. This acts as a direct suggestion to the subconscious mind just as an affirmation would. Thoughts are images we have made.

4. Journal:

Write down your affirmations in a journal! This is also a very effective way of patterning and programming the subconscious mind. The act of "physically" writing it causes the thought pattern to take a more solidified and stable form. Change the wording as better ways of writing your affirmations come to you.

5. Affirmation Cards:

Write affirmations on cards and place them all over your house or in your place of work This is a very effective method. Put these affirmation cards next to your bed, on the mirror, in the bathroom, on the refrigerator, in your car, in your wallet, or on your desk. This will act as a reminder to say them and will accelerate the process.

6. Affirmation Walking:

Go for a walk! An affirmation walk is one of my favorites. I walk for as long as I am in the mood and affirm to my subconscious mind how "I" want everything to be. The subconscious mind will manifest anything you tell it, either good or bad. The value of affirmations and positive visualizations is clearly obvious, for if we are not affirming and visualizing the positive, we are doing the opposite.

7. Rhythmic Repetition:

Say your affirmations rhythmically while you are physically exercising. This is an excellent programming technique and keeps your mind focused and disciplined while exercising.

8. Three "Voices":

Say your affirmations in first, second and third person language.
Example:
I, Joshua, am in perfect radiant health.
You, Joshua are in perfect radiant health.
He, Joshua, is in perfect radiant health.
This technique is especially successful in taping your affirmations.

9. Positive Negative Clearing:

Draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper. Write one affirmation on one side of the page. Then wait and listen for any thoughts that come into your mind that contradict your positive affirmation. Write down the negative thoughts or the negative affirmations that come up from your subconscious mind.

The next step is to change each negative thought into another positive affirmation. record any negative thought after you have written that new positive affirmation. Change these negatives into new positive statements. Continue this process until no more negative thoughts come up.

You now have a list of the affirmations that most specifically deal with your personal lessons in this lifetime. This method is also excellent because it teaches you the process of creating your own affirmations. This is an essential ability to work on and to develop.

10. Mirror:

Look in the mirror every day for twenty one days and say your affirmations aloud. Say them with total personal power and conviction. Look yourself right in the eye! Continue affirming aloud until it totally becomes your reality and there is no subconscious resistance.

11. Endless Tape:

Record your affirmations onto an "endless" cassette tape that plays all night without stopping. Play the tape every night for twenty one nights while you sleep.

It is also possible to buy an endless cassette tape recorder that will play any standard tape all night long. This sleep tape method is one hundred percent effective! Pillow speakers are also available. Endless cassette tapes are usually available at Tower Records or Radio Shack and run from three to twelve minutes in length.

12. Hypnosis:

Find a trustworthy hypnotherapist to hypnotize you and plant positive suggestions into your subconscious mind while you are in the hyper suggestible state.

13. Reading:

Read and reread good books in the field of psychology and spirituality. This serves as a powerful programming and patterning device.

14. Pendulum:

Get a pendulum and communicate with your subconscious mind through "no" answers. This is a process that serves to get information from the subconscious mind and can be used to pattern or program the subconscious.

15. Dialogue:

Another very effective tool is to "dialogue" with the subconscious mind or with one sub personality or thought system within the subconscious mind. This can be done in a number of ways.

a) Voice Dialogue: Use chairs to represent the conscious and subconscious mind. You create a dialogue between them. The chairs represent the isolated sub personalities the person will be playing. The idea is to role play the various parts of the subconscious. The conscious mind then dialogues with these various parts. This is a very powerful tool in helping an individual to become the master of his life rather than the victim or effect.

b) Using this same process in a journal can also be exceedingly helpful. Have a dialogue on paper with any thought system within you that you are trying to block or to manifest in your consciousness. For example, have a dialogue with your Higher Self.

c) A third way to dialogue is just within your mind. When a destructive thought system or mental poison arises, talk to it and tell it you are the "captain of the ship" and you have the power in the personality, not it! Then affirm the opposite to yourself, and tell the opposite you will listen to it.

16. Acting "As if":

Act in your daily life the way you want to be, even if you don't feel it or if your subconscious is trying to do the opposite. This method takes an act of will power. If the tension can be carried long enough, eventually it will act as a reprogramming procedure.

This is an essential method to develop, because sometimes we just don't have the time to prepare properly for everything. Example: Spur of the moment job interview. You must act confident and qualified, even if you don't feel that way.

17. Pictures:

Create a physical picture of desired reality. This serves as a suggestion to the subconscious just as the creative visualization process does, except this is an actual physical reproduction of the imagined finished or healed result. (Example: If you are overweight, get a picture of somebody who has a body figure you want and place that body with your face). This will serve as a suggestion to the subconscious mind which it will seek to manifest.

18. Self Hypnosis:

Auto suggestions given to the subconscious mind while in a relaxed or hyper suggestible state symbolize the meaning of a longer affirmation. The discipline of hypnosis has demonstrated the fact that when the conscious, critical mind is relaxed, the suggestions given to the individual are almost immediately accepted by the subconscious mind.

What this teaches us is that we can take advantage of these relaxed and hyper suggestible states within ourselves to pattern and program our subconscious minds more quickly than with affirmations.

Affirmations are important but do take more work than this method. Some examples of periods during the day when you can use auto suggestion are:

a) Just before falling asleep, while you are in the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness, affirm to yourself a key word: "Perfect health ... wealth ...success ... good night's sleep."

b) When you are just relaxing.

c) After meditation is an excellent time to give yourself auto suggestions.

d) Do a self hypnosis and then give yourself a suggestion.

e) In the ionized atmosphere of a shower.

19. Tape Recording:

Make a tape recording of affirmations and auto suggestions and play it under any of the above mentioned hyper suggestible states of consciousness.

2O. Subliminal Tapes:

Another very good method of reprogramming the subconscious mind is through the use of subliminal tapes. A subliminal tape is one where a suggestion or affirmation is given in a barely audible tone as a background to classical, new age or environmental music. The suggestion is so quietly and softly given that you can't even hear it consciously unless you really strain to do so. Subliminal tapes are excellent as sleep tapes, especially if you find that regular affirmational sleep tapes keep you awake.

21. Singing:

Make up songs and sing your affirmations to yourself. You don't have to be a professional musician. Use the melodies of your favorite music. Create personal power songs, self love songs and financial prosperity songs. Allow yourself to be a little crazy and to have fun with it. Do it while you are alone driving in your car.

22. Poetry:

Another method along this same line would be to write poetry with these new ideals and ideas you are trying to program into your subconscious mind.

23. Artwork:

Draw or paint pictures of this new you that you are becoming. These last three methods are more right brain or yin methods of programming.

24. Self Talk:

Another very effective tool is to practice "self talk." The self talk that arises out of the subconscious mind is usually negative. The idea here is to practice positive self talk. Just talk to yourself as you would talk to a best friend or loved one. Affirmations are very formal and set, but this method is more informal.

For example, if I were working on self love, I might say to myself, "Joshua, I love you, I really do. You have made a lot of mistakes, and I just want to tell you that this is okay by me and I want to let you know that you are completely forgiven and I am on your side."

In other words, just practice talking to yourself with this new thought or image that you are attempting to incorporate as a habit within your subconscious mind. This method can be used in a number of ways:

1. In your mind
2. Talking to yourself out loud.
3. You could write yourself a letter and talk to yourself.
4. You could talk to yourself on a tape and listen to it as you go to sleep each night.

A visualization or image is really the same thing as a thought. Every thought has an image that is related to it. The concept of personal power may be visualized by a sword. The concept of self love may be visualized by a rose. In the field of psychology we talk a lot about positive thinking. We should also talk about positive imaging.

The subconscious mind can be programmed effectively by either using affirmations or imagery. If you want to create through imagery you just imagine yourself the way you want to be. The continued process of doing this programs the subconscious mind to work 24 hours a day towards program-ming the imagery you have impressed into it.

If you want more money, visualize yourself with the money you want. The key is to use all your inner senses see yourself with money, feel the money, smell the money, hear the money, taste the money. Make your visualization so real that you are actually in your visualization not just watching yourself, but actually there. The more realistic you make your visualization the more effective will be the manifestation by the subconscious mind of what you want.

Following is a series of visualization exercises to practice in your quiet meditative times. A lot of the theory of these exercises will be discussed in later chapters of this book. However, for now I just want you to get an overview of the different kinds of visualizations that are available to you.

Begin by finding a spot in your house where you can have some privacy for at least twenty to thirty minutes. Find a comfortable chair to sit in and begin by closing your eyes and taking three deep breaths. After each breath say to yourself inwardly, "Relax now." Begin visualizing or imagining that you are in a beautiful nature scene (mountains, meadow, ocean, forest). Imagine that you are actually experiencing this nature setting. Don't just see yourself there; be there!!! Imagine yourself as being very healthy, vital, alive and strong. Picture yourself in perfect radiant health. Use all five of your inner senses. See it, smell it, hear it, touch it, taste it and feel it. Try to make it so real that you feel you are actually there.

Next imagine yourself alone in this nature scene, feeling very powerful, strong, in control and in command of yourself. Imagine how it will feel to be the captain of a ship or the President of the United States. Or imagine being the executive of a major company or an orchestra leader of the leading symphony of the world.

Experience and feel the personal power and the authority you would have. Now realize that you are the captain, president, executive director, commander and orchestra leader of your thoughts, feelings, emotions, behavior, body, and environment. Imagine being the master of these things instead of letting them be your master.

Recognize that you don't need to be afraid of your power because you are going to use this power in

Since I have begun to give you affirmations in the previous chapters, I think it is appropriate now to explain more deeply what affirmations and visualizations are and how to use them. An affirmation is, in reality, an attitude. Every thought we think, be it positive or negative, is an affirmation. Every word we speak is an affirmation. Every action or behavior we take is an affirmation. This is true because everything stems from our thoughts. Our thoughts create our reality.

Affirmations used in a psychological healing context are specifically designed statements or attitudes that are set to program a new desired feeling, behavior or habit into the subconscious mind. In an earlier chapter I gave you affirmations to develop your personal power and your protective bubble.

Whenever you practice positive thinking or optimistic thinking you are practicing affirmations. The affirmations that I will be giving you in this chapter are specifically designed statements to help you develop certain key attitudes that pertain to your self-concept and self-image.

The continued repeated process of pushing the negative attitudes out of your mind with your personal power, and then repeating the new positive affirmations into the subconscious mind, is the main key to reprogramming the subconscious mind.

As mentioned earlier, the pushing out of your mind of the negative thought is like a plant that is not being watered. The negative thought is not getting energy, so it withers and dies. The continual, constant and repetitive use of positive thinking and affirmations waters this new seed thought in the soil of your subconscious mind and it begins to grow. It is like a tape recorder that rerecords over an old tape recording.

There are many different methods of programming the subconscious mind. Following are the best methods I have found.

To reprogram your subconscious mind try different ways to see which ones are most effective for you.

1. Affirmations: An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so! The statement said silently to yourself until the pattern becomes a reality in your life and is fully programmed into the subconscious mind.

2. Decree: A decree is a spoken affirmation.

3. Creative Visualization: This is the process of imagining the healed or finished result already taking place. This acts as a direct suggestion to the subconscious mind just as an affirmation would. Thoughts are images we have made.

4. Journal: Write down your affirmations in a journal! This is also a very effective way of patterning and programming the subconscious mind. The act of "physically" writing it causes the thought pattern to take a more solidified and stable form. Change the wording as better ways of writing your affirmations come to you.

5. Affirmation Cards: Write affirmations on cards and place them all over your house or in your place of work This is a very effective method. Put these affirmation cards next to your bed, on the mirror, in the bathroom, on the refrigerator, in your car, in your wallet, or on your desk. This will act as a reminder to say them and will accelerate the process.

6. Affirmation Walking: Go for a walk! An affirmation walk is one of my favorites. I walk for as long as I am in the mood and affirm to my subconscious mind how "I" want everything to be. The subconscious mind will manifest anything you tell it, either good or bad. The value of affirmations and positive visualizations is clearly obvious, for if we are not affirming and visualizing the positive, we are doing the opposite.

7. Rhythmic Repetition: Say your affirmations rhythmically while you are physically exercising. This is an excellent programming technique and keeps your mind focused and disciplined while exercising.

8. Three "Voices": Say your affirmations in first, second and third person language. Example: I, Joshua, am in perfect radiant health. You, Joshua are in perfect radiant health. He, Joshua, is in perfect radiant health. This technique is especially successful in taping your affirmations.

9. Positive-Negative Clearing: Draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper. Write one affirmation on one side of the page. Then wait and listen for any thoughts that come into your mind that contradict your positive affirmation. Write down the negative thoughts or the negative affirmations that come up from your subconscious mind.

The next step is to change each negative thought into another positive affirmation. record any negative thought after you have written that new positive affirmation. Change these negatives into new positive statements. Continue this process until no more negative thoughts come up.

You now have a list of the affirmations that most specifically deal with your personal lessons in this lifetime. This method is also excellent because it teaches you the process of creating your own affirmations. This is an essential ability to work on and to develop.

10. Mirror: Look in the mirror every day for twenty-one days and say your affirmations aloud. Say them with total personal power and conviction. Look yourself right in the eye! Continue affirming aloud until it totally becomes your reality and there is no subconscious resistance.

11. Endless Tape: Record your affirmations onto an "endless" cassette tape that plays all night without stopping. Play the tape every night for twenty-one nights while you sleep.

It is also possible to buy an endless cassette tape recorder that will play any standard tape all night long. This sleep tape method is one hundred percent effective! Pillow speakers are also available. Endless cassette tapes are usually available at Tower Records or Radio Shack and run from three to twelve minutes in length.

12. Hypnosis: Find a trustworthy hypnotherapist to hypnotize you and plant positive suggestions into your subconscious mind while you are in the hyper-suggestible state.

13. Reading: Read and reread good books in the field of psychology and spirituality. This serves as a powerful programming and patterning device.

14. Pendulum: Get a pendulum and communicate with your subconscious mind through "no" answers. This is a process that serves to get information from the subconscious mind and can be used to pattern or program the subconscious.

15. Dialogue: Another very effective tool is to "dialogue" with the subconscious mind or with one sub-personality or thought system within the subconscious mind. This can be done in a number of ways.

a) Voice Dialogue: Use chairs to represent the conscious and subconscious mind. You create a dialogue between them. The chairs represent the isolated sub personalities the person will be playing. The idea is to role play the various parts of the subconscious. The conscious mind then dialogues with these various parts. This is a very powerful tool in helping an individual to become the master of his life rather than the victim or effect.

b) Using this same process in a journal can also be exceedingly helpful. Have a dialogue on paper with any thought system within you that you are trying to block or to manifest in your consciousness. For example, have a dialogue with your Higher Self.

c) A third way to dialogue is just within your mind. When a destructive thought system or mental poison arises, talk to it and tell it you are the "captain of the ship" and you have the power in the personality, not it! Then affirm the opposite to yourself, and tell the opposite you will listen to it.

16. Acting "As-if": Act in your daily life the way you want to be, even if you don't feel it or if your subconscious is trying to do the opposite. This method takes an act of will power. If the tension can be carried long enough, eventually it will act as a reprogramming procedure.

This is an essential method to develop, because sometimes we just don't have the time to prepare properly for everything. Example: Spur of the moment job interview. You must act confident and qualified, even if you don't feel that way.

17. Pictures: Create a physical picture of desired reality. This serves as a suggestion to the subconscious just as the creative visualization process does, except this is an actual physical reproduction of the imagined finished or healed result. (Example: If you are overweight, get a picture of somebody who has a body figure you want and place that body with your face). This will serve as a suggestion to the subconscious mind which it will seek to manifest.

18. Self-Hypnosis: Auto-suggestions given to the subconscious mind while in a relaxed or hyper suggestible state symbolize the meaning of a longer affirmation. The discipline of hypnosis has demonstrated the fact that when the conscious, critical mind is relaxed, the suggestions given to the individual are almost immediately accepted by the subconscious mind.

What this teaches us is that we can take advantage of these relaxed and hyper suggestible states within ourselves to pattern and program our subconscious minds more quickly than with affirmations.

Affirmations are important but do take more work than this method. Some examples of periods during the day when you can use auto-suggestion are:

a) Just before falling asleep, while you are in the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness, affirm to yourself a key word: "Perfect health ... wealth ...success ... good night's sleep."

b) When you are just relaxing.

c) After meditation is an excellent time to give yourself auto-suggestions.

d) Do a self-hypnosis and then give yourself a suggestion.

e) In the ionized atmosphere of a shower.

19. Tape Recording: Make a tape recording of affirmations and auto-suggestions and play it under any of the above mentioned hyper suggestible states of consciousness.

2O. Subliminal Tapes: Another very good method of reprogramming the subconscious mind is through the use of subliminal tapes. A subliminal tape is one where a suggestion or affirmation is given in a barely audible tone as a background to classical, new age or environmental music. The suggestion is so quietly and softly given that you can't even hear it consciously unless you really strain to do so. Subliminal tapes are excellent as sleep tapes, especially if you find that regular affirmational sleep tapes keep you awake.

21. Singing: Make up songs and sing your affirmations to yourself. You don't have to be a professional musician. Use the melodies of your favorite music. Create personal power songs, self-love songs and financial prosperity songs. Allow yourself to be a little crazy and to have fun with it. Do it while you are alone driving in your car.

22. Poetry: Another method along this same line would be to write poetry with these new ideals and ideas you are trying to program into your subconscious mind.

23. Artwork: Draw or paint pictures of this new you that you are becoming. These last three methods are more right brain or yin methods of programming.

24. Self-Talk: Another very effective tool is to practice "self-talk." The self-talk that arises out of the subconscious mind is usually negative. The idea here is to practice positive self-talk. Just talk to yourself as you would talk to a best friend or loved one. Affirmations are very formal and set, but this method is more informal.

For example, if I were working on self-love, I might say to myself, "Joshua, I love you, I really do. You have made a lot of mistakes, and I just want to tell you that this is okay by me and I want to let you know that you are completely forgiven and I am on your side."

In other words, just practice talking to yourself with this new thought or image that you are attempting to incorporate as a habit within your subconscious mind. This method can be used in a number of ways: 1. In your mind 2. Talking to yourself out loud. 3. You could write yourself a letter and talk to yourself. 4. You could talk to yourself on a tape and listen to it as you go to sleep each night.

A visualization or image is really the same thing as a thought. Every thought has an image that is related to it. The concept of personal power may be visualized by a sword. The concept of self-love may be visualized by a rose. In the field of psychology we talk a lot about positive thinking. We should also talk about positive imaging.

The subconscious mind can be programmed effectively by either using affirmations or imagery. If you want to create through imagery you just imagine yourself the way you want to be. The continued process of doing this programs the subconscious mind to work 24 hours a day towards program-ming the imagery you have impressed into it.

If you want more money, visualize yourself with the money you want. The key is to use all your inner senses - see yourself with money, feel the money, smell the money, hear the money, taste the money. Make your visualization so real that you are actually in your visualization - not just watching yourself, but actually there. The more realistic you make your visualization the more effective will be the manifestation by the subconscious mind of what you want.

Following is a series of visualization exercises to practice in your quiet meditative times. A lot of the theory of these exercises will be discussed in later chapters of this book. However, for now I just want you to get an overview of the different kinds of visualizations that are available to you.

Begin by finding a spot in your house where you can have some privacy for at least twenty to thirty minutes. Find a comfortable chair to sit in and begin by closing your eyes and taking three deep breaths. After each breath say to yourself inwardly, "Relax now." Begin visualizing or imagining that you are in a beautiful nature scene (mountains, meadow, ocean, forest). Imagine that you are actually experiencing this nature setting. Don't just see yourself there; be there!!! Imagine yourself as being very healthy, vital, alive and strong. Picture yourself in perfect radiant health. Use all five of your inner senses. See it, smell it, hear it, touch it, taste it and feel it. Try to make it so real that you feel you are actually there.

Next imagine yourself alone in this nature scene, feeling very powerful, strong, in control and in command of yourself. Imagine how it will feel to be the captain of a ship or the President of the United States. Or imagine being the executive of a major company or an orchestra leader of the leading symphony of the world.

Experience and feel the personal power and the authority you would have. Now realize that you are the captain, president, executive director, commander and orchestra leader of your thoughts, feelings, emotions, behavior, body, and environment. Imagine being the master of these things instead of letting them be your master.

Recognize that you don't need to be afraid of your power because you are going to use this power in a loving spiritual manner. Feel how good it feels to have personal power and authority over yourself rather than letting everything else in this universe be your master.

Imagine now that whenever you have this power there is an image or symbol that automatically appears with you in your presence. Choose a symbol now that works best for you. It might be a sword, a scepter, crown, torch, a special ring, special clothing or piece of jewelry. Again experience and feel your personal power and self-mastery with this object with you.

Now imagine, with the power of your mind, you are creating a white and golden bubble around you that extends outward about two to three feet. Imagine that this bubble is a protective bubble. Make it thick and strong. Imagine that this bubble is semipermeable in nature. In other words, negative energy is kept out and positive, loving, and spiritual energy is allowed through it.

Next, fill the inside of that bubble with personal power, unconditional self-love and unconditional self-worth. See yourself fully assembled now with your personal power and emotional invulnerability, unchanging self-love and self-worth.

Imagine now that someone enters the nature scene in your mind's eye and tries to pick a fight with a negative comment. See this negative energy sliding off you like water off a duck's back, and then send him love along with personal power.

Now see yourself at work, and imagine one of your coworkers being irritable and uptight. See his negative energy slide off you like water off a duck's back. Now see your boss coming from his office in a bad and angry mood and hear him snap at you. See his negative energy sliding off you like water off a duck's back.

Imagine yourself now at home with your spouse or children. See your spouse being in a bad mood and see it slide off you like water off a duck's back. Follow the same procedure with your children, parents, or anyone else with whom it would be appropriate.

When this is complete, go back to your nature scene and imagine that your subconscious mind is bringing up some irrational or negative programming. See yourself pushing it out of your mind and denying its entrance. See yourself batting it out as your would with a baseball bat when hitting a ball out of the ball park.

Experience how good it feels to keep a disciplined mental and emotional diet. Experience how good it feels to have your subconscious mind dancing to your tune and following your every order as a faithful friend and servant would.

Imagine yourself in different situations taking command over your thoughts, feelings, emotions, behavior, body, instead of letting the content of your subconscious mind run you. Again experience how good it feels to be the master of your life, in service to a spiritual purpose.

See yourself powerful, loving, causal and an example and inspiration to and for others. See yourself being like a light to the world in your strength, self-love, love of others and emotional invulnerability. Everywhere you go people are being uplifted by your presence. See yourself fulfilling your spiritual purpose in this lifetime of spreading good energy, happiness, joy, cooperation, forgiveness, harmony, peace and love. See yourself setting this good example everywhere you go.

Visualize yourself in your nature scene, building a gigantic bonfire. See yourself taking all the negative-egotistical unbalanced thoughts, feelings, emotions, behaviors, physical ailments, and throwing them into the bonfire. See them all being burned up. See yourself only as powerful, strong, positive, loving, balanced and spiritual.

Experience it as an unbelievable weight being lifted off your back. Experience it as having finally returned to your true self, freed from faulty thinking and illusion. In your mind's eye see the fire two hours later having burned everything up, and all that is left in the middle of the fire is a one pound chunk of "gold." Alchemy has taken place.

By gaining all the "wisdom" from your past mistakes, you have changed base metal (experiences) into gold. Everything that has happened has been positive since you have learned from it.

Close your eyes and imagine taking an elevator, stairs or an escalator down into the recesses of your subconscious mind. In this first visualization exercise imagine that your subconscious mind looks like a computer room. Imagine that there is one master computer sitting on a large desk with a chair in front of it. Sit down in the chair and see the typewriter keyboard in front of you, with the computer screen also in front of you.

Imagine that there is a particular key on the typewriter which you can press to see what existing programs are already in your computer. Imagine you know how to work the computer and scan the "bad" habits or thinking patterns that are still existing in your computer (subconscious). See these faulty thinking patterns being printed out on the screen in front of you.

Choose three faulty thinking habits you want to change printed on the screen clearly in front of you. See these habits vanish off the screen. Now "type" into the computer screen the new thinking habits you want stored on the computer disks. Do this for all three habits and now see them printed clearly on the screen. Then press another button on your computer keyboard that signifies indefinite storage in your computer bank. When completed take the elevator back up to your conscious reasoning mind.

Close your eyes and again take the elevator down into your subconscious mind, and this time see it as a movie studio. In the middle of the room there is a large movie camera such as you would see in the filming of a television show or actual movie. In front of this camera is a large screen.

Walk up to the movie camera or projector and see yourself switching on the projection cassette reel. As you do so, before your eyes on the screen in front of you are three bad habits that you have been operating within your video tape machine in the past. See these bad habits being projected on the screen in full visual technicolor.

After watching the movie of your bad habits, shut off the movie projector and camera. See yourself take the video cassette out of the camera. As you look at the cassette it is titled, "Three Past Bad Habits." See yourself go to the metal waste paper basket which is filled with paper and light a match to the paper and see a small flame engulf the paper and throw this video cassette into the waste paper basket. See it start to melt and burn up the video reel.

Then go to the shelf on the wall and get a blank video cassette. Take this cassette and put it into the video machine. Examine the movie camera and press the button that says "record." As you do so, with your mind's eye visualize and imagine on the screen in front of you the new habits you want in your life in full Technicolor.

Use great detail in seeing every aspect of these new habits. When finished, shut off the movie camera, take the cassette out of the camera, label it, and put it on the shelf with the other existing video tapes you have in storage. Then take the elevator back to the conscious reasoning mind.

Close your eyes and take the elevator down into the subconscious mind and see a beautiful garden in front of you. Examine your garden and see what is growing out of the soil (subconscious mind). Are there a lot of beautiful flowers and plants and trees or is it overrun by "weeds"?

Walk through your garden and begin pulling out the weeds and shrubbery that don't belong in your garden. Each time you pull out a weed or shrub that doesn't belong there, look at it and see what negative thought or image or habit it symbolizes or represents.

Go through your garden and do this until satisfied, and then take the bucket of weeds you have collected and burn them. Then go to the shed in your garden where you store all the packages of new seeds (new thoughts and images). While in the shed, decide what new seeds you want to plant in your garden. Then see yourself very carefully planting these new seeds in the soil in an orderly manner.

Imagine time passing by, and see yourself every day for twenty-one days coming back and watering, talking to and fertilizing these seeds. Each day you come back see these seeds sprouting into the positive thought, image or habit that has laid previously latent within it.

See your garden now after twenty-one days. Do whatever you have to do within the garden of your subconscious mind to make it healthy and strong. Make note of which plants, flowers and trees represent what, within your garden. Be clear that the soil of your subconscious mind will grow any seed-thought you plant, be it positive or negative, so be sure not to let any bad seeds land in the soil of your subconscious mind. If any "bad seeds" have landed there and are starting to grow, be sure to pull them out daily.

Close your eyes and take the elevator down into your subconscious mind and see it as an audio recording studio. See the master tape recorder on the table before you. Press the play button and listen to the existing cassette of the bad habits or thinking or emotional patterns that are existing within your tape recorder.

After listening to three of the bad habits that have been playing, press the stop and eject button of the tape recorder. Take that tape and burn it. Take a brand new audio cassette tape and place it in the tape recorder. Press the record button and begin talking into the microphone, either aloud or internally, with the new audio recording you want playing in your subconscious mind.

This is your opportunity to do your affirmations or just talk to your subconscious servo-mechanism, and tell it what you would like to manifest within your reality. When complete, stop the machine and put this new cassette back into its tape container and file it with your other cassettes you have in storage. When you are finished take the elevator back up to your conscious reasoning mind.

While working with these different visualization exercises, it is a good idea to do them on a structured, regular basis just as one would do with affirmations. It takes twenty-one days to cement fully a new habit into the subconscious mind. Spending ten to fifteen minutes morning and night for twenty-one days, in conjunction with the affirmations you are working with on the same specific habit, will do the trick.

Close your eyes and see yourself the way you want to look. Don't just see yourself in the visualization. Be in the visualization. See yourself exercising. See yourself in the sunshine and fresh air. See yourself eating all the right foods. See your good thoughts and feelings and behavior creating perfect health within the cells of your body. See the good color in your skin tone. See the blood and energy within your body circulating vibrantly.

See and feel the glow of perfect radiant health emanating from the cells of your body. See yourself identifying with your true spiritual nature and the physical body reflecting or mirroring the inner health and light within you. See yourself with high energy and vitality. See yourself waking up every morning fully rested and refreshed, filled with physical energy and vitality. See yourself at your perfect weight.

See yourself having the perfect contour of the body you want and truly have. Your physical body is nothing more than a reflection of the thoughts and images you hold about it in conjunction with the food you eat. See yourself thinking and imaging only healthy, positive thoughts and images, and eating only healthful foods.

Realize you are the master of the subconscious and body. See yourself telling it what to do. See your subconscious mind and physical body do it. Use all your senses in your imagination to experience and feel what perfect health and physical fitness, at your highest level, feels like. If you can work to have it within your mind's eye for twenty-one days, you can develop the habit of having it within your physical experience.

Close Your eyes and imagine how it would feel to have all the money you want or need. See yourself opening your savings account book and see this numerical figure typed clearly within it. See yourself going to the bank on a weekly basis and depositing larger and larger sums of money. Imagine yourself getting a job promotion or a larger paycheck. Imagine winning a sweepstakes or inheriting a large sum of money.

Visualize clearly the material object you want. Make it so real it is as if you already have it. Use all your inner senses. See it, feel it, taste it, touch it, smell it and hear it. Use this object on a regular basis as you would if you actually had it physically. See yourself counting your money or checks.

See yourself being grateful to God for the abundance He has bestowed upon you. See yourself giving part of your money to charity or a worthy cause because the universe has been good to you and you want to give back to the universe.

1. My physical body is in perfect radiant health.

2. My physical body now manifests the health and perfection of Christ.

3. Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

4. I am physically fit with an abundance of energy.

5. I sleep soundly and deeply every night and wake up fully rested and refreshed early every morning.

6. Father, I thank You for my long and healthy life in your service.

7. Father, I thank You for my unlimited increase in the power and energy of my physical battery.

8. God, my personal power, and the power of my subconscious mind are now healing, energizing, and strengthening my physical body.

9. My physical body is now healing with Godspeed.

10. God, my personal power, and the power of my subconscious mind are now returning my body to perfect radiant health.

11. Be still, and know that I am God, and my physical body now manifests the health and perfection of Christ.

12. Father, I thank You for my unlimited increase in the functioning of my glandular system.

13. My glandular system is now operating at its full Christ Potential.

14. My thymus gland and immunity system are now operating at their full Christ Potential.

15. I am a son or daughter of God, so I cannot possibly be sick.

16. God, my personal power, and the power of my subconscious mind are now revitalizing, recharging, and awakening my physical body.

17. I am in love with physical exercise, and I am now being filled with an abundance of physical energy.

1. I have perfect faith, trust, and patience in my Higher Self.

2. I have perfect faith and trust that God is now providing for my every need.

3. I hereby surrender all problems and challenges into God's hands.

4. Why worry when I can pray?

5. With God helping me I will succeed for sure.

6. I have perfect faith in my own power as well as perfect faith and trust in God's power.

7. I have invited God's help and I know his invisible hands are now working in my life to answer my prayers.

8. I have invited God's help and I have perfect faith, trust, and patience He will provide me with what I want, or something better.

9. I have asked and I know I shall receive.

10. I know God will answer my prayer, in His time not mine, and I will have perfect faith, trust, and patience until that time comes.

11. If my prayer isn't answered in exactly the way I want, I know that this is a lesson He would have me learn.

12. I have perfect faith, trust, and patience that God will answer my every prayer.

13. Prayer, personal power, and affirmations and visualizations are an unbeatable team.

14. I have perfect faith, trust, and patience in my self, my superconscious mind, and the power of my subconscious mind, to attract and magnetize to me everything I need.

1. Mental strength, physical strength, spiritual strength!!!

2. Personal power, positive anger, mental strength!!!

3. I am the power, I am the master, I am the cause.

4. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

5. Get thee behind me, Satan!!!

6. I have perfect faith and trust in God!!!

7. Personal power, positive anger, eye of the tiger and faith, trust and patience in God!!!

8. Personal power, causality, steel-like mastery!!!

9. The power of my 3 minds makes me the omnipotent force in this universe!!!

10. God, my personal power and the power of my subconscious mind are an unbeatable team.!!!

11. My mind power and spirit power are an unbeatable team!!!

12. Be still and know that I am God.

13. Father, I thank you for the miraculous healing of my ......

14. Water off a duck?'s back, water off a window pane, invulnerability, invincibility, rubber pillow, filter ......

15. God, God, God, Christ, Christ, Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ!!!

16. Absolute total supreme mastery ........

17. Tough love, tough love, tough love!!!

18. Mental power, physical power, spiritual power!!!

19. Faith, trust, patience in God!!!

20. Fake it 'til I make it, fake it 'til I make it ......

21. Every day in every way I am getting stronger and healthier!!!

22. God is my co-pilot!!!

23. With my power and God's Power and the power of my subconscious I cannot and will not be stopped!!!

24. All out war against Satan, and for God and love and positivity!!!

25. I will be more powerful from this moment forward than I have ever been in my entire life!!!

26. As God is my witness, I will not be stopped!!!

27. The Force is with me and I am with the Force!!!

28. The Source is with me and I am with the Source!!!

29. I am sustained by the Love of God!!!

30. I can do all things with God, Christ, and my higher self who strengthens me!!!

31. As God is my witness, I will never give my power to anyone or anything ever again!!!

32. God, my personal power, and the power of my subconscious mind!!!

33. Not my will, but, Thine, thank you for the lesson!!!

34. I may lose a few battles, but I am going to win the war!!!

35. I declare all out war to get my life together!!!

36. I am going to be the absolute master of my life from this day and moment forward!!!

37. God goes with me wherever I go!!!

38. I love God with all my heart and soul and mind and might, and I love my neighbor as myself.

Read each affirmation from three to seven times!

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