Are You Using Your Genie Enough? Are You Even Using It?

The Genie Within Blog, No. 2

Are You Using Your Genie Enough???
Are You Even Using It???

"Harry, what is your next book going to be about?" is a question I am often asked. Until recently, my answer was, "I'm not thinking of the next book until I've sold a million copies of The Genie Within." But I have concluded that a second Genie Within book would be useful. Would the second book be about more advanced techniques? About miraculous success stories? No, none of those. It would be about taking a step backwards. This is what I mean.

I would say, a majority of my students and readers tell me they love the book and agree that their genie can help them in many ways. But when I ask, "What methods are you using?" The answer is, "Well nothing right now." If not now, when? What are you waiting for?

Using your genie is easy and if you thought about it, you could think of 10 ways you could have used your genie TODAY—and used it effortlessly.

I know most of you are not using your genie as much as you could because I am not using it as much as I could. And, I teach the course! I wrote the book! I should be setting the example. If there is room for me to improve, there is room for you to improve.

Here is a personal example.

Harry Sees the Chiropractor

I was having some tension in my left shoulder, probably due a strained muscle. So what did I do? Go into alpha and relax it? That would have been simple, effortless, and inexpensive. But, no, I went to a chiropractor. The chiropractor did relieve the tension in my shoulder but he also did something else. He "cracked" my neck, a common chiropractic manipulation.

When he cracked my neck, something happened—something not good. Afterward, I felt sharp pain every time I turned my head to the left. Experiencing the pain was bad enough but, even worse, the condition interfered with daily activities. For example, pulling out into a cross street while driving my car became hazardous. I could not move my head back and forth from left to right fast enough to properly check the traffic. Also, when I turned over in bed at night, from left to right, I had to support my head with my left hand to minimize the pain.

The chiropractor treated me with a neck traction gadget and ultrasound. No help.

I saw my general practice M.D. He prescribed aspirin and physical therapy.

I had physical therapy two times a week for several months. No help.

I went to a neurologist. He diagnosed the pain as an impingement on one of the occipital nerves. The prognosis was to kill the nerve with an injection. But the result would only last a few months. I opted to do it anyway. No help. In fact, the injection made my entire neck sore for a week.

I had been treated by a chiropractor, an M.D., a physical therapist, and a neurologist. A year had gone by and my neck was no better.

Harry's Ahaaa

I was driving to the store one day when I got a wake-up call. I thought, "Harry, what are you doing? You teach a course on using your subconscious mind and you wrote a book on the subject. Why don't YOU take responsibility for your discomfort and DO something about it?

Well, I was driving my car. What could I do at that time? I've said it many times in classes and in the book—using your genie is easy. So, I thought, well I can use a one-word affirmation. That's simple and I can start now.

I opted for the word "GONE" and started using it immediately. From then on, every time I felt the sharp pain in my neck, I said, to myself, "GONE" and pictured the word in my mind.

That was it. That was all I did.

The Result

A couple of weeks later I was in my car getting ready to pull out into a cross street. I quickly looked left, turned my head to the right, and back to the left. (I am doubly cautious because I read that most accidents caused by seniors occur while pulling out into cross streets.) Then it dawned on me—the pain in my neck was GONE.

Conclusion

Using your subconscious mind is that easy. So, start now. Pick up The Genie Within, review the methods of using your genie. (There are 15 of them.) Look over your goals—you are keeping a list of your goals—right? And decide what method is best for you for each of your goals. And start using your genie now.

Next Letter

In the next newsletter, I will analyze how the one-word affirmation worked so well on my neck.

Harry Carpenter, author of The Genie Within: Your Subconscious Mind—How It Works and How to Use It. www.thegeniewithin.net.

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