• “自我”是一切的中心

　　“自我”既不是我们的血肉之躯，也不是我们的心智。身体只是“自我”用来执行任务的工具，而心智是“自我”用来思考、推理、谋划的工具。

• 意识到“自我的存在”

　　如果你认识了“自我”的真实存在，你就会体验到一种以前从来没有体验到的力量，因为“自我”能够控制并引导身体与心智，让他们以最好的状态、最佳的方式选择如何去做、怎样去做。

• 你有“选择”自己的权利

　　你可以成为任何你想成为的人，因为所有的个人特征、习惯、癖好等性格特点都潜藏在你的潜意识当中，但它们和你现在的“自我”并没有真正地关联起来。

• 成熟的人会懂得选择恰当的思维方式

　　思考是“自我”被赋予的最伟大、最神奇的力量，然而不幸的是，只有极少数人懂得选择以建设性的、积极正确的方式思考，而人与人之间就这样产生了差别。而大多数人选择的是不恰当的、不合适的思考方式，这样他们难免会显得自私而又幼稚，阻碍了他们的发展。而成熟的人会懂得选择恰当的思维方式，这导致了他们的成功。

• 与别人共赢

　　认为别人比自己愚蠢的人才是最蠢的人。做任何一件事情，都必须让每一个参与这件事情的人从中获益，任何一种利用他人的软弱、无知而使自己受益的举动，只会得到双倍的惩罚。

• 合力产生动力

　　世界是由无数的个体组成，个体是世界的一部分，每一个人的利益是与他人相关联的，每一个人的幸福都与其他人的幸福有关，团结才能产生合力。

• 专心致志

　　当你决定做一件事情的时候，就要最大程度地把自己的注意力集中到它上面，消除那些游移不定的想法，专用设备，不在无益的目标上浪费时间，这才是最明智的做法。

• 敢于梦想，才会有收获

　　春天播种，秋天收获。记住这样一句话：“我要成为怎样的人，我就能成为怎样的人。”这就是梦想的力量。

• 去理解“自我”的内涵

　　尽最大的努力去理解“自我”的真正内涵。如果你能做到，如果你能够把“自我”的目标与社会的目标和谐统一起来，那么你将无往而不胜。在奔向成功的道路上，你跑在最前面，别人只能看到你的背影。

• 把对“自我”的追求定为人生的目标

　　不论在什么时候，不管在什么地方，只要你想起“我要成为怎样的人，就能成为怎样的人”，就重复一遍，坚持下去，直到它成为一种习惯，成为你生命的一部分，成为你人生的目标。

• 坚持，再坚持

　　如果你不打算做一件事情，那就别开始；如果你开始了，即使天塌下来也要把它做成，要坚持到底，绝不能半途而废。当我们开始做某事但不把它完成，或是作了某项决定却并不坚守，失败就会成为一种习惯——像幽灵一样的习惯，缠绕着我们。一旦做出决定，就不要受任何人、任何事的干扰。骰子已经掷出去了，没有讨价还价的余地，只有坚持下去，完成它。

• 从小事做起

　　滴水也能折射太阳的光辉。从最小的事情做起，从那些你能够掌控、能够做成的小事做起，经小的成功换取大的成功，你将发现你最终能够战胜自己。战胜自己绝非易事，无数的经验表明，战胜自己，并不比战胜一个国家更容易，小事中也藏着大玄机。

• 战胜自己，将赢得一切

　　最强大的敌人往往是自己，当你学会战胜自己，你就会发现你拥有无尽的力量之源，你将攻无不克、战无不胜；你的每一个愿望都会顺理成章地变成现实，在那时，成功对于你来说，就如探囊取物一样。

• “自我”是宇宙精神中的一部分

　　“无限之我”即为宇宙精神或宇宙能量，人们通常把它们叫做“上帝”。内心世界是由“自我”掌控的，而这个“自我”正是那个“无限之我”的一部分。

• 我们从来都不缺乏能量

　　哲学家赫伯特·斯彭德说过：“在我们身边的所有奇迹中，最令人确信的是：我们一直身处在万物或由此产生的无限而永恒的能量之中。

• 科学与宗教的解释

　　科学和宗教有不同的分工，科学发现了宇宙国永恒的真理，然而宗教却发现了潜藏在这些真理背后的力量，并把它树立在人们的内心之中。

• 首先要发现自己的潜能

　　你不能给予别人你没有的东西。如果我们自己软弱无力，也就无法帮助他人，如果我们希望对他人有所帮助，我们首先自己要拥有能量，要想帮助别人，首先就要发现自己的潜能。

• 取之不尽的宝藏

　　人的潜力是永远挖掘不尽的，如同神话中那眼永不干涸的泉水。作为无限潜能的代言人，我们必须认识到自己的这股巨大的能量。开发自己的潜能吧，这会让你受用不尽！

• 掌握对“自我”的控制力

　　战胜一切却不目中无物，谨慎谦虚却不妄自尊菲薄。这就是力量的奥秘所在，也是对“自我”的控制力的奥秘所在。

• 做活力的“传递者”

　　我们必须对他人有所帮助，我们施予的越多，所得的回报就越多。宇宙间充满能量，但必须借助我们的帮助才能够相互沟通。我们应当成为宇宙传递活力的渠道。

• 高瞻远瞩

　　眼光要放长一些，不要只拘泥于眼前的安乐，让自己处于平静当中，然后内心的渴望就会自发地涌现出来，关注你的内心世界，你将会变得耳聪目明，你将会发现数不清的机遇，平常的生活将变得丰富多彩。

• 精神是生命的灵魂

　　万物的精华，不在于它现在是什么，也不在于它如何孔武有力，而在于它生生不息的精神，精神是真实的存在，是生命的核心；当精神离去的时候，生命也就消逝了，熄灭了，不复存在了，精神就是生命的灵魂。

• 精神创造一切

　　精神活动是在头脑和心灵中完成的，是属于内在世界的，属于“因”；而一切现实的世界，都是我们的精神动力的作用下创造出来的，它们是“果”。正因为如此，你就是创造者。精神劳作是最重要的劳作，比其他任何事情都理重要。

• 让精神得到休息

　　精神和肉体一样，在我们操劳过度的时候，就会感觉倦怠，就会影响我们的创造力，所以我们需要适时返回到“寂静”的状态之中。“寂静”并不是静止，相反，我们的精神得以休息，积淀，还有升华。升华的思想，正是一切成就的奥秘。所以不要忘记让自己的精神休息一下。

• 运动的思考

　　思考不是静止的，而是在不停地运动。爱赋予它活力，时时赋予它深度与厚度。思考是“自我”的产物，是一种神圣的、有创造性的运动。

• 唤醒激情

　　为了进行有创造力的思考，首先必须唤醒心中的激情，激情则可以让思考心潮澎湃，灵光四射。

• 思考会转变习惯，转变潜意识

　　你会发现，当我们持续思考同一件事情，到最后这种思考就变成自发性的了，我们会情不自禁地思考这件事情；精神力量的获得与身体力量的获得一样，是通过锻炼达到的。在我们思考一件事情的时候，可能在头一次非常困难，当我们第二次思考同样的问题时，就变得容易多了；当我反反复复一遍又一遍地思考的时候，就形成了一种精神习惯，成为我们自动自发的潜意识。

• 放松，然后掌握你自己

　　还不能做到有意识迅速放松下来的人，就不能够进到自己的意识深处，不能够进行有创造性的思考。可以说，尚未获得自由，还不能算是自己的主人，仍然受到外在条件的奴役。

本课重点

１、什么是思想？

——思想就是精神的能量。

２、思想的作用是什么？

——我们所见到的一切文明的成果，皆由思想而来。

３、思想如何获取活力？

——它遵循爱的定律，激情赋予它活力。

４、思想如何壮大？

——思想通过沉淀、累积而壮大。

５、如何解释创造性能力？

——创造性能力是积极的思想的产物。

６、如何开发勇气、信念和激情？

——它本来就在我们意识深处，认识到这一点即可获得。

７、宇宙之间的能量是怎样传递的？

——通过人与人之间的相互帮助。

８、为什么要帮助他人？

——因为能量会在彼此间相互转移，使我们变得更强大。

９、什么是“寂静”？

——“寂静”是身体的安宁。

10、安宁的价值何在？

——安宁是控制自我、主宰自我的第一步。

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Part Three
You have found that the Individual may act on the Universal, and that the result of this action and interaction is cause and effect. Thought, therefore, is the cause, and the experiences with which you meet in life are the effect. 

Eliminate, therefore, any possible tendency to complain of conditions as they have been, or as they are, because it rests with you to change them and make them what you would like them to be. 

Direct your effort to a realization of the mental resources, always at your command, from which all real and lasting power comes. 

Persist in this practice until you come to a realization of the fact that there can be no failure in the accomplishment of any proper object in life if you but understand your power and persist in your object, because the mind-forces are ever ready to lend themselves to a purposeful will, in the effort to crystallize thought and desire into actions, events and conditions. 

Whereas in the beginning of each function of life and each action is the result of conscious thought, the habitual actions become automatic and the thought that controls them passes into the realm of the subconscious; yet it is just as intelligent as before. It is necessary that it become automatic, or subconscious, in order that the self-conscious mind may attend to other things. The new actions will, however, in their turn, be come habitual, then automatic, then subconscious in order that the mind again may be freed from this detail and advanced to still other activities. 

When you realize this, you will have found a source of power which will enable you to take care of any situation in life which may develop. 

PART THREE 

1. The necessary interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind requires a similar interaction between the corresponding systems of nerves. Judge Troward indicates the very beautiful method in which this interaction is effected. He says: The cerebro-spinal system is the organ of the conscious mind and the sympathetic is the organ of the subconscious. The cerebro-spinal is the channel through which we receive conscious perception from the physical senses and exercise control over the movements of the body. This system of nerves has its centre in the brain. 

2. The Sympathetic System has its centre in a ganglionic mass at the back of the stomach known as the Solar Plexus, and is the channel of that mental action which unconsciously supports the vital functions of the body. 

3. The connection between the two systems is made by the vagus nerve which passes out of the cerebral region as a portion of the voluntary system to the thorax, sending out branches to the heart and lungs, and finally passing through the diaphragm, it loses its outer coating and becomes identified with the nerves of the Sympathetic System, so forming a connecting link between the two and making man physically a "single entity". 

4. We have seen that every thought is received by the brain, which is the organ of the conscious; it is here subjected to our power of reasoning. When the objective mind has been satisfied that the thought is true it is sent to the Solar Plexus, or the brain of the subjective mind, to be made into our flesh, to be brought forth into the world as reality. It is then no longer susceptible to any argument whatever. The subconscious mind cannot argue; it only acts. It accepts the conclusions of the objective mind as final. 

5. The Solar Plexus has been likened to the sun of the body, because it is a central point of distribution for the energy which the body is constantly generating. This energy is very real energy, and this sun is a very real sun, and the energy is being distributed by very real nerves to all parts of the body, and is thrown off in an atmosphere which envelopes the body. 

6. If this radiation is sufficiently strong the person is called magnetic; he is said to be filled with personal magnetism. Such a person may wield an immense power for good. His presence alone will often bring comfort to the troubled minds with which he comes in contact. 

7. When the Solar Plexus is in active operation and is radiating life, energy and vitality to every part of the body, and to every one whom he meets, the sensations are pleasant, the body is filled with health and all with whom he comes in contact experience a pleasant sensation. 

8. If there is any interruption of this radiation the sensations are unpleasant, the flow of life and energy to some part of the body is stopped, and this is the cause of every ill to the human race, physical, mental or environmental. 

9. Physical because the sun of the body is no longer generating sufficient energy to vitalize some part of the body; mental because the conscious mind is dependent upon the subconscious mind for the vitality necessary to support its thought, and environmental, because the connection between the subconscious mind and the Universal mind, is being interrupted. 

10. The Solar Plexus is the point at which the part meets with the whole, where the finite becomes Infinite, where the Uncreate becomes create, the Universal becomes individualized, the Invisible becomes visible. It is the point at which life appears and there is no limit to the amount of life an individual may generate from this Solar centre. 

11. This centre of energy is Omnipotent because it is the point of contact with all life and all intelligence. It can therefore accomplish whatever it is directed to accomplish, and herein lies the power of the conscious mind; the subconscious can and will carry out such plans and ideas as may be suggested to it by the conscious mind. 

12. Conscious thought, then, is master of this sun centre from which the life and energy of the entire body flows and the quality of the thought which we entertain determines the quality of the thought which this sun will radiate, and the character of the thought which our conscious mind entertains will determine the character of the thought which this sun will radiate, and the nature of the thought which our conscious mind entertains will determine the nature of thought which this sun will radiate, and consequently will determine the nature of the experience which will result. 

13. It is evident, therefore, that all we have to do is let our light shine; the more energy we can radiate, the more rapidly shall we be enabled to transmute undesirable conditions into sources of pleasure and profit. The important question, then, is how to let this light shine; how to generate this energy. 

14. Non-resistant thought expands the Solar Plexus; resistant thought contracts it. Pleasant thought expands it; unpleasant thought contracts it. Thoughts of courage, power, confidence and hope all produce a corresponding state, but the one arch enemy of the Solar Plexus which must be absolutely destroyed before there is any possibility of letting any light shine is fear. This enemy must be completely destroyed; he must be eliminated; he must be expelled forever; he is the cloud which hides the sun; which causes a perpetual gloom. 

15. It is this personal devil which makes men fear the past, the present and the future; fear themselves, their friends and their enemies; fear everything and everybody. When fear is effectually and completely destroyed, your light will shine, the clouds will disperse and you will have found the source of power, energy and life. 

16. When you find that you are really one with the Infinite power, and when you can consciously realize this power by a practical demonstration of your ability to overcome any adverse condition by the power of your thought, you will have nothing to fear; fear will have been destroyed and you will have come into possession of your birthright. 

17. It is our attitude of mind toward life which determines the experiences with which we are to meet; if we expect nothing, we shall have nothing; if we demand much, we shall receive the greater portion. The world is harsh only as we fail to assert ourselves. The criticism of the world is bitter only to those who cannot compel room for their ideas. It is fear of this criticism that causes many ideas to fail to see the light of day. 

18. But the man who knows that he has a Solar Plexus will not fear criticism or anything else; he will be too busy radiating courage, confidence, and power; he will anticipate success by his mental attitude; he will pound barriers to pieces, and leap over the chasm of doubt and hesitation which fear places in his path. 

19. A knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health, strength and harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear because we are in touch with Infinite Strength. 

20. This knowledge can be gained only by making practical application of this information. We learn by doing; through practice the athlete comes powerful. 

21. As the following statement is of considerable importance, I will put it in several ways, so that you cannot fail to get the full significance of it. If you are religiously inclined, I would say, you can let your light shine. If your mind has a bias toward physical science, I would say you can wake the Solar Plexus; or, if you prefer the strictly scientific interpretation, I will say that you can impress your subconscious mind. 

22. I have already told you what the result of this impression will be. It is the method in which you are now interested. You have already learned that the subconscious is intelligent and that it is creative, and responsive to the will of the conscious mind. What, then, is the most natural way of making the desired impression? Mentally concentrate on the object of your desire; when you are concentrating you are impressing the subconscious. 

23. This is not the only way, but it is a simple and effective way, and the most direct way, and consequently the way in which the best results are secured. It is the method which is producing such extraordinary results that many think that miracles are being accomplished. 

24. It is the method by which every great inventor, every great financier, every great statesman has been enabled to convert the subtle and invisible force of desire, faith and confidence into actual, tangible, concrete facts in the objective world. 

25. The subconscious mind is a part of the Universal mind. The Universal is the creative principle of the Universe, a part must be the same in kind and quality as the whole. This means that this creative power is absolutely unlimited; it is not bound by precedent of any kind, and consequently has no prior existing pattern by which to apply its constructive principle. 

26. We have found that the subconscious mind is responsive to our conscious will, which means that the unlimited creative power of the Universal Mind is within control of the conscious mind of the individual. 

27. When making a practical application of this principle, in accordance with the exercises given in the subsequent lessons, it is well to remember that it is not necessary to outline the method by which the subconscious will produce the results you desire. The finite cannot inform the Infinite. You are simply to say what you desire, not how you are to obtain it. 

28. You are the channel by which the undifferentiated is being differentiated, and this differentiation is being accomplished by appropriation. It only requires recognition to set causes in motion which will bring about results in accordance with your desire, and this is accomplished because the Universal can act only through the individual, and the individual can act only through the Universal; they are one. 

29. For your exercise this week, I will ask you to go one step further. I want you to not only be perfectly still, and inhibit all thought as far as possible, but relax, let go, let the muscles take their normal condition; this will remove all pressure from the nerves, and eliminate that tension which so frequently produces physical exhaustion. 

30. Physical relaxation is a voluntary exercise of the will and the exercise will be found to be of great value, as it enables the blood to circulate freely to and from the brain and body. 

31. Tensions leads to mental unrest and abnormal mental activity of the mind; it produces worry, care, fear and anxiety. Relaxation is therefore an absolute necessity in order to allow the mental faculties to exercise the greatest freedom. 

32. Make this exercise as thorough and complete as possible, mentally determine that you will relax every muscle and nerve, until you feel quiet and restful and at peace with yourself and the world. 

33. The Solar Plexus will then be ready to function and you will be surprised at the result. 

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Study Questions with Answers
21. What system of nerves is the organ of the Conscious Mind? 

The Cerebro-spinal.

22. What system of nerves is the organ of the subconscious mind? 

The sympathetic.

23. What is the central point of distribution for energy which the body is constantly generating? 

The solar plexus.

24. How may this distribution be interrupted? 

By resistant, critical, discordant thoughts, but especially fear.

25. What is the result of such interruption? 

Every ill with which the human race is afflicted.

26. How may this energy be controlled and directed? 

By conscious thought.

27. How may fear be completely eliminated? 

By an understanding and recognition of the true source of all power.

28. What determines the experiences with which we meet in life? 

Our predominant mental attitude.

29. How may we awake the solar plexus? 

Mentally concentrate upon the condition which we desire to see manifested in our lives. 

30. What is the creative principle of the Universe? 

The Universal Mind.