Power of the Mind

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
(Alchemist - Paulo Coelho)

Coelho's novels talk much about the Power of the Mind.
How human’s mind is linked to the universe so when the mind is focused into something, the universe will help to make it happen.

The idea was exactly the same with The Secret, one of the best selling books last year, Tung Desem’s “Dahsyat” teachings, and many more.
That human’s mind, God’s ultimate gift which distinguishes man from other mammals has very incredible power.

Talking from my personal experiences, I had my Eureka moments reading Coelho’s novels and listening to Tung Desem’s teachings (I didn’t read The Secret though; the idea’s similarity bored me even before reading it).

Being a religious person, I see similarity between the Power of the Mind and the faith to God.
It was said that only when a person have unquestioned belief then it is faith.
I remembered one of my mentors taught me that in order to get something I have to “visualize”, have unquestioned belief that I have it, and then I will have it.
He said that he read it from Pastor Joel Osteen’s book, Your Best Life Now.

Being a technical and practical person, I tried to explore deeper on the ‘mechanism’ which brought me on the study of the subconscious mind.
It is said that the subconscious mind is a very powerful super computer which works 24 by 7.
The tricky part is how to make the most of this super computer.

Blink, a book by Malcolm Gladwell said that in a blink of an eye, human’s subconscious mind can process enormous life’s data and knowledge to produce a result which human’s logic or conscious mind needs months or years.
As in the case of how experts in arts can determine authentic and fake paintings by mere seconds watching it.

I am no art expert but I had my own way of utilizing my very own super computer.

In my programmer’s days, usually when I had unsolved problem, I tried to gather as much data, scenarios, and restrictions as possible, then went to bed.
The answer (usually) popped up the time I opened my eyes.

Lately, I also used my subconscious mind as an alarm.
As Tung said that the instructions to the super computer need to be positive and very specific, I repeatedly said to myself that I need to wake up at a specific time.
Most of the time, aside of the time when my body really tired, I wake up on time.
Well, I supposed my super computer should be intelligent enough to overwrite the wake up instruction should there be more urgent needs of rest.

And yesterday, Chandra, my yoga instructor said that I should use my subconscious mind to enable me do yoga poses better.
As far as I know, yoga poses are something that my body muscles need to learn.
Logically, I think it will be more difficult than problem solving or wake up in time which is driven by the (conscious) mind.
I imagined the conscious and subconscious mind as two connected servers, while body muscles are mechanical parts commanded both by the conscious and the subconscious mind, so the route is longer and more complex.

Anyway, as a huge fan of the Power of the Mind (and Chandra), I will surely try it …