My takeaways:
A large part of our mental life is sub-conscious. Which actually means that our minds store the information, just that they don’t surface to our consciousness. I guess because, if that were the case, our conscious mind would have exploded with too much information.
“In moments of intense stress – sudden danger – and other critical periods of life, these gates between these planes swing ajar and a flood of recollection pours out from them… The acts of a whole lifetime which are of consequence, and many that are not will be flashed across the screen of memory with such lightning rapidity and with such distinctness as to seem like a vast panorama whose every detail is grasped by the mind in an instant of time.”
Practice the habit of Willing or allowing no negative thoughts to remain in your mind. Instead, keep steadily working on replacing the undesirable things in your mind with desirable material. When a negative thought enters your consciousness, dismiss it, know that other positive thoughts exist, and let them come to consciousness.
“A class of brain cells actively used will manifest a tendency to spring into activity almost automatically, at the slightest need, while those remaining unused will become almost atrophied, and are called into action slowly and clumsily.”
“To develop traits of character in oneself, that e consider desirable but lacking, we should endeavour to think and act as often as possible along the lines that we wish to develop.”
“Think of the thing; act it out as far as possible; desire it ardently; picture it out to yourself as much as possible..”
Sometimes, we cannot remember the things we want to remember/think about. They just suddenly get lost. What we can do is to not continue ruminating on that matter, let the mind think of something else/move on to other things, but let our sub-consciousness do the work by command them to do so. “You must accompany that order with an earnest expectation that your Will will be carried our.” That desired thought/info may return to our consciousness over time.
Forethought/Auto-Suggestion
– Thinking about what you want and the thought that you succeed
– Trusting to the effect of ordinary sleep
– Have to be earnest about it
– Not too intense!
– Patient repetition/perseverance; gently repeat until we fall asleep
– One at a time, until your mind becomes familiar with the process
– As soon as you begin to realise it is working, redouble your efforts
Splatters Of Thoughts 