Three-Inch Maple Leaf

 

“Many years ago, as I was reading a biography on Thomas Edison, I came across this statement he made: ‘Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious mind.’ During sleep your conscious mind is not engaged in thought. It takes a much-needed break to rest and heal.  But the subconscious never sleeps. The mind is like an iceberg. The conscious mind is the little part we see about the surface of the water.  The subconscious is the part under water. It’s by far the biggest part, but we must use our conscious mind to direct it.  If we don’t, it’s like a powerful car without a steering wheel.  If we just feed it our worries and fears we’re directing it toward our worries and fears. What Edison was trying to say is we must consciously direct the subconscious to work on what we want—thereby enlisting its great power in our cause and for our benefit.” – Stewart Hughes