EMBALSE DE TOUS

The conscious mind in man is also known as the objective mind. It is this mind that makes you aware of yourself, your mental powers, and the out-er, objective world in which you live.

It is through your conscious mind that you are aware of the cosmos and its orderly arrangement. It is in man’s conscious mind that he feels the need for worship of a superior intelligence, which he has named God. It is in this

realm of conscious control that you feel the need to align yourself with some vast, superior force which you intuitively feel, created you and the entire uni-verse.

Your conscious mind is the mind which chooses the people who shall be in your life and who help mold your future destiny. It is also the force within you that helps you select the events that make up the pattern of your destiny.

Someone has rightly said:

“Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice;

It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.”

The Laws Ruling Your Conscious Mind

The conscious mind can only reflect the higher power of the Divine Mind when you are aware of your true divinity. When you know that this God-power is within you, as it is in every cell of the visible and invisible un-iverse, you will become infused with a new life-force; there will be new pur-posefulness and meaning to your entire life.

There are laws that rule this conscious mind and you must observe these laws if you wish to avail yourself of the efficiency and dynamic power that is inherent in your conscious, volitional mind.

1. The Law of Order. The law of order is a cosmic one, in that it applies to all creation. There is order in the heavens; all the planets revolve in their orbits without confusion or collision. Think of the countless billions of stars and solar systems, bigger than our own, which are involved in a cosmic scheme so vast the mind of man cannot comprehend it. Then realize that these planets have such a system of order in their workings that we set our earth clocks by them. Duplicate this law of order in your own mind. Have a schedule by which you live. Write down a list each day of the things you want to accomplish that day. Have a plan and system underlying everything you do.

Keep track of your expenditures daily. Rockefeller’s system, on which he built his vast fortune, consisted in jotting down every expenditure, even if it was only a few cents. The mental habits he built of order and system later extended to his vast financial empire and made him a multi-millionaire.

2. The law of balance. Never let your mind race out of control, for the law of balance in nature demands that we pay a price for every excess. The law of the balance is likened to the swinging of a pendulum; the same arc it prescribes in its upward motion it must duplicate in its downward swing.

When you carry any emotion or indulgence to excess, nature exacts a penalty in order to maintain the law of balance. When you do not sleep enough on one night, you must make up for it the next day or your brain suffers from fa-tigue and inefficiency. An excess of alcohol or cigarettes, or sleeping pills, must be paid for by the body’s reaction to the poisons pumped into the blood stream, with a lowering of the body’s resistance, fatigue and a subsequent slump in all of the body’s functions.

The Divine Mind power that works through your conscious mind is a delicately balanced force and quickly withdraws when this law is upset. Each day balance work and play, love and worship, so that you do not have ex-cesses of any one thing in any department of your life.

3. The law of rationality or reason. The conscious mind works best with the Divine Mind when you rationalize your actions and your mental processes. Be consciously aware of your use of your conscious powers.

Know why you do certain things. Reason out the need for the physical emo-tion of love; control the funcemo-tions of your mind and body, do not let them control you. Every year thousands of Americans commit suicide because they have lost the art of rationality. Their minds get out of control because they do not make the daily effort to reason out their actions. Back of every mental cause there must be some physical effect. When you lose a good job through some thoughtless action, reason out the reasons for the loss. Do not blame so-ciety, the government, capitalism or communism. The Cause can be traced back to your own conscious or unconscious acts and thoughts.

4. The Law of attraction. What you put into your conscious, volitional mind, becomes the pattern of that which you shall attract. There is a law of magnetic attraction which applies equally to the mind as well as to the body.

You are what you think. Put only those thoughts into your conscious mind which you wish to externalize in dynamic forms of action in your outer cir-cumstances of life. Think friendly thoughts and you will attract friends. If you think thoughts of enmity, hatred and envy, you will attract people who will personalize these traits in the outer world. You have it within the power of your conscious choice to set the stage for the enactment of your life drama.

Do you wish it to be a drama or a tragedy? Is it to be a romantic love story? Is

it to become a comedy in which you play the part of a clown? Do you wish a stage setting of beauty and opulence or will you select a backdrop of ugliness and barrenness in which to act out your life drama? The choice is up to you.

The power of the Divine Mind within you will help you externalize an-ything that you consciously choose. Make that choice carefully and then sit back and watch how events will shape themselves to fit your mental pattern of action.