OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 1

Articles In This Section:

· Seat of Intelligence - part 1

· Seat of Intelligence - part 2

· The SUBCONSCIOUS MIND vs. the CREATIVE MIND

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 1

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 2

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 3

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 4

· OUR MENTAL POWERHOUSE - part 5

· HOW ABOUT HEALTH?

The following is a very simple description of the Creative Mind and its relationship to the conscious mind. It is the same illustration I gave on the radio in New York in 1930, which the late Alfred Adler thought was the best description of the subconscious mind he had ever heard.

We will use a large manufacturing plant as an illustration. A big corporation, you know, has a president and a general manager. Of course it has many intermediate officers: vice-presidents, secretaries, treasurer, etc. For the sake of simplicity, we will think only of the president and the general manager.

Let us assume that the corporation in this illustration is an automobile plant.

The president does the planning; the general manager executes the plans.

When a new-model car is being contemplated, the president will make the decision as to all changes to be made. These changes will be given to the general manager. Designers and draftsmen are instructed to put the plans on paper; models are made; the plant is tooled up to create the new designs and on and on it goes until finally a car rolls off the line bearing all of the changes originally planned by the president.

This gives an ideal example of the relationship between the conscious and the creative mind.

The conscious mind is the president; the Creative Mind is the general manager.

The conscious mind does the thinking, planning, evaluating. The Creative Mind carries out the orders.

Let us assume, by way of illustration, that an individual was just getting by. He managed to keep food on the table and to pay his rent; but there never was any money left over for nice clothes, recreation, etc.

Suddenly a powerful thought entered his mind. He began to see himself as a success. He began to think in terms of "I AM a Success." All right, what happens?

His general manager—his Creative Mind—accepts the thought "I AM a Success" as an instruction. It is a new model ordered by the president—the conscious mind.