The Genie Within: Your Subconscious Mind (18 page)

The pendulum is used in the following manner. Sit and rest your elbow on a table. Hold the loose end of the thread gently between your thumb and forefinger. The weight should be suspended by about eight or so inches of thread. Bend your elbow enough to let the pendulum swing freely. Ask your subconscious mind to select one of the four signals for a “Yes.” You might close your eyes so there is less likelihood of your conscious mind overriding your subconscious mind. Also, it is best if you put yourself in the alpha state when you use the pendulum. The alpha state opens the door to the subconscious mind and subdues the conscious mind so it does not interfere.

If, when you open your eyes, the pendulum is not swinging, firmly command your subconscious mind to select one of the four signals to mean “Yes” and command that it swing the pendulum, and to swing it in wider and wider movements. I have never seen anyone fail.

After your subconscious mind has selected a signal for “Yes,” ask it to select one for “No.” Then repeat the procedure for “I do not know.” The fourth answer is not needed.

QUESTIONS

There are a few points to remember in asking your subconscious mind questions. Your subconscious mind takes things literally so phrase your questions precisely. Keep an open mind (conscious mind). Do not think of what the answer might be or what you would like it to be. Stay neutral.

Lecron reported that 90 percent of the 381 pregnant women that used the pendulum to determine the sex of their unborn baby (this was prior to the availability of modern testing methods) were correct. Many of those women who erred admitted that they had a strong conscious desire for the sex they predicted. Your conscious mind can override results. So rather than think (conscious mind) “I sure hope it is a little
girl!” when using the pendulum, stay neutral by thinking, ”I wonder what my baby’s sex will be?”

Bird hobbyists use pendulums to determine the sex of newborn chicks. Sex cannot be determined visually so an alternate method is required. You can test this right now. Hold your pendulum over a female. The pendulum will swing in circles. Hold it over a male and it will swing back and forth. The pendulum is useful for many things, for example:

       •    Checking hunches

       •    Dream interpretation

       •    Vitamin dosages

       •    Allergy sources

       •    Source of gut feelings

       •    Reason for procrastination

       •    Origin of illness

The items listed below can be helpful in determining the cause of an illness:

       •    Conflict

       •    Motivation

       •    Suggestion

       •    Organ language

       •    Identification (with someone else)

       •    Self-punishment (guilt)

       •    Past experience

       •    Need for attention

       •    Need to control someone

Questions you might ask your subconscious mind, for example, are:

       •    “Is this illness due to a conflict I have with someone or between my conscious mind and subconscious mind?”

       •    “Is there motivation serving to protect me in some way?”

       •    “Is this illness due to a suggestion my subconscious mind has accepted as true?”

       •    “Is (the problem) due to organ language?”

       •    “Is there a purpose this illness is serving?”

       •    “Am I seeking sympathy and attention?”

       •    “Is it preventing me from doing something I do not want to do?”

       •    “Is it preventing me from doing something that is harmful to me?”

Before I retired, I used to get two colds every year. These colds were severe enough that I had to stay home. Since I retired eight years ago, I have had only one cold, even though I have ample opportunities to get them from more frequent contacts with grandchildren. I became curious about this change and came up with a theory. I considered it a sin to take time off work even though there were times I desperately needed a break. Maybe my subconscious mind gave me a cold to justify taking time off work without feeling guilty. I asked my subconscious mind if this was true and it responded, “Yes.”

The pendulum method is an easy way to talk to your subconscious mind. Nevertheless, it does take some ingenuity since you have to work with only “yes” and “no” answers. Think of it as a game, a game like the old TV show, “Twenty Questions.”

FINGER MOVEMENT

Suppose you are in a restaurant giving your order to the waiter. You want the pork with the rich cream sauce but your stomach has been upset lately. So you are not sure the pork is right for your stomach. Ask your subconscious mind if it is okay to order the rich pork plate. You can do that with your pendulum, but the waiter, not to mention other patrons, might think you are crazy. You might also be so self-conscious you will not get the correct answer. Use the “finger movement” method and no one will be the wiser.

Comfortably place your dominant hand on the table in front of you. Explain to your subconscious mind that there is another method for responding with the “Yes,” “No,” and ”I do not know” answers. Command your subconscious mind to lift one of your four fingers for a “Yes.” The response will probably not be dramatic but one of your fingers will gently lift off the table. Command your subconscious mind to select another finger for a “No,” and a third finger for “I do not know.”

Now you can inconspicuously converse with your subconscious mind in public without any one knowing.

INDUCED DREAMING

DESCRIPTION

Your subconscious mind works 24 hours every day. Since it is awake at night and can do trillions of things at a time, you might as well give it a job. Put it to work solving a problem or coming up with a new idea. By problems, I do not mean personal problems because you do not want to
worry
while you sleep. I mean constructive problems like:

       •    How to decorate your living room,

       •    How to landscape your front yard,

       •    (If you are a student) how you can find more time to study,

       •    (If you are an architect) how to design the perfect house for your client,

       •    (If you are a writer) how to develop a story line for your book,

       •    How to get more people to join your new club,

       •    Etc.

Friedrich A Kekulé, a German scientist, was frustrated by a problem he (his conscious mind) worked on for years. The problem was how carbon atoms combined in the benzene molecule. None of his concepts met the scientific criteria. While asleep, when his conscious mind was out of the way, he dreamed of snakes. These snakes acted abnormally—they were chasing their tails, and when a snake caught its tail, it went around in circles. On awakening, Kekulé recalled the dream and it hit him. He had an “Aha” experience. He had not thought of that possibility before. Of course, the carbon atoms in benzene form a ring. The scientist won a Nobel Prize for defining the structure of the benzene molecule.

Steve Allen made the most money he ever made on a song he heard in a dream. He needed a song for the opening of a musical,
The Bachelor.
Consciously, he was not having luck coming up with a song. Remember, your subconscious mind is a goal-seeking computer. He gave his subconscious mind the goal, the need for a smash hit song with a particular theme, but his conscious mind was probably getting in the way due to the pressure. One night he dreamed of the song he needed and wrote it down when he woke up. The song was, “This Could Be the Start of Something Big.”

For years, Elias Howe worked on perfecting the sewing machine but he could not solve one sticky problem. One night he dreamed savages were chasing him. They caught him and dragged him to their king. The king ordered Howe to produce
the sewing machine within 24 hours or they would kill him. Howe could not meet the deadline and as the savages were about to kill him, he noticed their spears had small eye-shaped holes at the spear
tips
. That was the solution to his longtime problem—putting the eye of the sewing needle at the
opposite
end of the traditional needle.

In the 1700’s guns fired shot. The process of hand casting shot was slow and expensive. Thus, shot was limited in supply. (Maybe that was a good thing!). James Watt worked on ways of increasing production of shot with his conscious mind but could not come up with any practical ideas. Then he had a dream. He was walking in a rainstorm and the raindrops, instead of splattering, remained spherical when they hit the ground. Aha! He woke with the idea of lead rain that solidified before the drops hit the ground. He devised a way of creating molten lead rain. He poured molten lead through a sieve from a tall building. The drops of molten lead solidified in the air and dropped on the ground as pellets, all the correct size. Making lead shot was changed over night from slow and expensive to fast and cheap.

An article in the Jan/Feb, 1996 issue of
Intuition
magazine reported on interviews with fiction writers who obtain much of their writing material in dreams. The reporter got the idea for the article from one of her dreams.

One writer was Sue Grafton, the well-known mystery writer. Grafton said: “I reach a point in many of my books, when I’m very heavily engaged in the process of writing (conscious mind) where I have a problem I can’t solve. As I go to sleep I will give myself the suggestion that a solution will come...I know that I will waken and the solution will be there. I know when the analytical self finally releases its grip on us and gets out of the way, the creative side of us, which often surfaces in sleep, comes to the fore and in its own playful and whimsical manner solves many creative problems.”

“If I am blocked or very confused or frustrated, I will drink coffee late in the day, knowing that it’s going to wake me up in the dead of night. So I get to sleep perfectly soundly and then, at three A.M. when left brain (she is referring to her logical brain, her conscious mind) is tucked away, not being vigilant, right brain (she is referring to her subconscious mind) comes out to play and helps me...I write letters to right brain all the time (she has a good, friendly, relationship with her subconscious mind!)...And the right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two...All of the humor in my books (subconscious minds are playful) comes from Kinsey (Grafton has a name for her subconscious mind).”

“In order to get in touch, I have to block out ego (conscious mind). Ego is the piece of me that’s going, ‘How am I doing, champ?’ ‘Is this good?’ ‘Do you like this?’ ‘Do you think the critics will like this?’ That has nothing to do with creating...So I need to work from within...And that’s a question of not being self-conscious, not being cute, not thinking I’m so hot. Not thinking anything, not making judgments about myself. Not sitting critiquing myself, but being still enough to hear the voice that tells me what I’m supposed to do next.”

“I think if you tell your unconscious to give you information in your dreams, it will oblige you. It’s really amazing how the unconscious longs for ways to get in touch with us. And dreams are a perfect way to do it, because they often seem so unrelated to our conscious worries.”

METHOD

The way to use induced dreaming is simple. Just before you fall asleep, tell your subconscious mind to give you the answer to your question, or come up with an idea or solution to a problem, in a dream...in a dream
this
night...in a dream that you
remember
and
understand
.

Have pencil and paper ready. When you wake, the dream may be vivid and you think you will remember it later. However, when your subconscious mind fades as your conscious mind wakes, the dream may fade as well.

If you are not certain about your interpretation of a dream, ask your subconscious mind for verification using your pendulum.

AUTOMATIC WRITING

DESCRIPTION

At some time, you have found yourself doodling, that is, drawing figures unconsciously while talking on the phone or during some other distraction. Automatic writing is the same thing but the subconscious mind expresses itself by writing rather than drawing.

Everyone is capable of automatic writing but people differ in proficiency. Some people write backwards, upside down, or mirror wise. Most write childlike. Remember, this is your subconscious mind expressing itself. It is immature, playful, and illogical. So do not expect to see your normal (conscious mind) penmanship.

People have written stories, poetry, composed music, developed designs, etc. by automatic writing. Ruth Montgomery, a successful author, claims her books are written by her subconscious mind.
Conversations With God, I, II,
and
III,
were written, according to the author, Neal Donald Walsch, by God. Most people may not believe that God literally wrote his books, but if it was not God, then, at least, the writing was through his subconscious mind.