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The Tenth Lesson: Sub-Consciousing.647
But a very important point to be remembered is that the Will-power
back of the transferred thought material, which Will-power is the cause
of the subconscious action, depends very greatly upon the attention and
interest given to the acquired material. This mass of thought-material which
is to be digested, and threshed out by the sub-conscious mind, must be
well saturated with interest and attention, in order to obtain the best results.
In fact interest and attention are such important aids to the Will, that any
consideration of the development and acquirement of Will-power is
practically a development and acquirement of attention and interest. The
student is referred to previous lessons in this course in which the importance
of interest and attention is explained and described.
In acquiring the mass of thought-material which is to be passed on to
the sub-conscious digestion, one must concentrate a great degree of
interest and attention upon each item of thought-material gathered up. The
gathering of this thought-material is a matter of the greatest importance,
and must not be lightly passed by. One cannot hastily gather together all
sorts of thought-material, and then expect the subconscious mind to do its
work properly—it will not, in fact, and the student proceeding upon any
such erroneous supposition is doomed to disappointment.
The proper way to proceed, is to take up each bit of thought-material in
turn, and examine it with the greatest possible interest, and consequently
the greatest attention, and then after having fairly saturated it with this
interested attention, place it with the pile of material which, after a while, is
to be passed on to the sub-conscious mentality. Then take up the next bit
of material, and after giving it similar treatment, pass it along to the pile also.
Then after a while when you have gathered up the main facts of the case,
proceed to consider the mass as a whole, with interest and attention, giving
it as it were a “general treatment.” Then drop it down the trap-door into
the sub-conscious mind, with a strong command, “Attend to this thoughtmaterial,”
coupled with a strong expectant belief that your order will be
obeyed.