The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Joseph Murphy · 1963
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963) is a book by Joseph Murphy on personal growth & mindset. Joseph Murphy's classic argues your subconscious mind accepts whatever your conscious mind repeatedly believes and then works to manifest it. He offers techniques, affirmation, visualization, and pre-sleep suggestion, to reprogram it toward health, wealth, and peace.
It reframes affirmation and belief as a teachable mental technology, arguing that the results you get are set less by willpower than by what your subconscious has quietly accepted as true.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.
- Your mind has two levels: the **conscious (objective) mind** that reasons and chooses, and the **subconscious (subjective) mind** that never sleeps, never argues, and faithfully executes whatever the conscious mind hands it. The whole art of living well is learning to feed the subconscious the right instructions.
- The master principle is the **law of belief**: your subconscious responds not to what you say you want but to what you *actually accept as true*. Repeated, emotionally charged conviction, not effort or willpower, is what gets impressed and expressed.
The other 5 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 8 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- The Treasure House Within You
- How Your Own Mind Works
- The Miracle-Working Power of Your Subconscious
- Mental Healing in Ancient and Modern Times
- The Law of Belief and Reversed Effort
- How to Get the Results You Want
- The Subconscious and Riches, Sleep, and Problem-Solving
- Harmonious Relations, Forgiveness, and Freedom from Fear
Finish The Power of Your Subconscious Mind tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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