The power of your subconcious mind

Self-help

Print length: 224 pagesReward Books, 1988

Description

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind presents Joseph Murphy’s argument that repeated thoughts and beliefs influence behavior through the subconscious. Combining spiritual language with popular psychology, Murphy recommends practices such as prayer, visualization, affirmation, and mental rehearsal as ways to replace unhelpful assumptions with more constructive ones. He applies this framework to areas including relationships, work, fear, sleep, health, and prosperity. The book treats the subconscious as both a source of established habits and a possible avenue for personal change. Its central appeal is a simple motivational proposition: readers can deliberately revise inner expectations and use repetition to shape how they approach outward circumstances.

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Writing style

Conversational · Direct

Pace

Moderate

Tone

Earnest · Hopeful · Uplifting

Structure

Argumentative

Focus

Argument · Ideas

Emotional intensity

2 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 2 / 5
Background knowledge: 1 / 5

Themes

Mental healthReligion and faithTransformationWealthWork

About Joseph Murphy

Joseph Murphy was an Irish-born American minister in the Divine Science tradition and a prolific New Thought writer. In more than thirty books, he turned religious teaching into accessible guidance for everyday problems. His central idea was that deeply held beliefs shape conduct and expectations through the subconscious. He made that idea practical through prayer, visualization, affirmations, mental rehearsal, anecdotes, and exercises intended to change established patterns of thought. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind became the clearest statement of his method, while Believe in Yourself and How to Attract Money extended it to confidence, ambition, and prosperity. Throughout his work, Murphy addressed fear, failure, and limiting assumptions, urging readers to cultivate more useful habits of mind. His distinctive contribution was to combine spiritual teaching with the vocabulary of popular psychology and the structure of self-help. Prayer and belief appear in his writing as regular disciplines, useful in ordinary life as well as in moments of crisis.

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Reward Books
Language: English
ISBN: 9780136879725

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