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The Genie Within Blog, No. 3

Eliminating a Pain in the Neck

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In the last Genie Newsletter I told you about using the “one-word” affirmation method to remove a pain in my neck.

I felt a sharp pain in my neck every time I turned my head to the left. The pain was the result of a chiropractic manipulation where the chiropractor snapped my head with a short but firm jerk.

In following year, my neck was treated by a chiropractor, medical doctor, physical therapist, and neurologist. None of these treatments made any change in my condition.

After putting it off for a year, I decided to take responsibility for my body. I was driving my car when I had this epiphany. What could I do at that time? I've said it many times in classes and in the book—using your genie is easy. I thought, well I can use a one-word affirmation. That's simple and I can start now. I’ll use the word “GONE.”

I will explain why one-word affirmations work in another Information Bulletin.

THE PROCEDURE

Every time I felt the pain in my neck I said to myself, and visualized, the word, GONE. One-word affirmations are that easy!

In about three weeks (I am guessing because I was not conscious of how much time passed) the pain vanished. The pain was GONE!

How did this miracle occur? First, it was not a miracle. Our subconscious mind is capable of such cures and will heal a condition when asked—when asked in the right way.

EXPLANATION

Expectation How did my “cure” come about? First, I expected success. What the subconscious mind expects to happen, the subconscious mind makes happen. This LAW OF EXPECTATION is covered in detail on pages 87-90 in The Genie Within: Your Subconscious Mind. One of the subtopics is placebos?

A placebo is an imitation of a specific medicine. Unlike the real medication, the ingredients in a placebo are harmless and inert. Yet a placebo works as well as the real medicine a minimum of 30 % of the time. Under the right circumstances, a placebo can be 80 % effective (Benson, M.D., Timeless Medicine.)

When you ask, or command, your subconscious mind to do something, expect the result. Thus, if you are expecting a positive result, don’t be surprised when you get it. Just say thank you to your subconscious mind. (Of course, you would call your subconscious mind by its name.) All I had to say was, “Thank you Ralph! I appreciate you. Thank you, thank you.” (My subconscious mind told me he wanted to be called, Ralph. Ah, but that is a subject for another bulletin.)

Let Go Because I was not “conscious” of the process, I can only speculate what happened. Every time I felt the shooting pain, I said, to myself, GONE. It only took a day or two for my conscious mind to get bored. So I (conscious mind) forgot about it.

Forget your goal. Of course, I mean forgetting it consciously. You never forget it in the subconsciously. Once you’ve given your subconscious mind a goal, thinking about it (consciously) only interferes with achieving that goal.

For example, let’s say you give your subconscious mind the goal of finding, and wooing, the perfect partner. But when you consciously think about it, in the beta state, your conscious mind nudges you and says, “Come on now, how can you get a smart, good-looking guy or girl to fall in love with you. You are too shy to even meet her or him. Besides, why would someone you think so highly of pay any attention to you.” That kind of thinking kills your chance to succeed.

Use your conscious mind to give the goal to your subconscious mind. After that, refrain from thinking about it with your conscious mind. Only think of it when you are in the alpha or theta states and you will achieve your goal naturally, easily, and unconsciously. I tell my students and readers that when you are successful, and you will be, you will probably not credit this class, this book, or this article. You will not, because there likely won’t be a conscious connection between the seed (affirmation, idea, goal) you planted and the result. Success will happen effortlessly and unconsciously.

Back to the pain in the neck I consciously forgot to say GONE every time I felt the pain. But by then my subconscious mind was conditioned to the affirmation, GONE. Thus, every time there was pain, my subconscious mind was reminded of the affirmation. And, after a few weeks, and hundreds of repetitions (without interference from my conscious mind, my ego) my subconscious mind responded. It removed the pain. The pain was GONE.

How did my subconscious mind remove the pain? I don’t know. I don’t think my doctor, chiropractor, physical therapist or neurologist would know either. It doesn’t matter if I (conscious mind) don’t understand it. All that matters is that my subconscious mind knows how to heal my body and keep it feeling good. My subconscious mind knew how to remove the pain. Once given that goal, being a goal-seeking computer, it removed it.

Your subconscious mind does trillions of things every second. And you are not aware of these activities and processes. You do not have to think about breathing, keeping your heart beating, controlling the digestive juices in your stomach after you eat, manufacturing over a hundred different neurotransmitters that the best laboratories staffed with the brightest bioscientists cannot duplicate, on and on, example after example. You can’t possibly know everything your subconscious mind knows. Just take success for granted and expect success with your affirmations.

CONCLUSION

One-word affirmations are easy to use, powerful, and require zero preparation. Make a habit of using them daily.

P.S. Don’t eliminate a symptom without knowing what caused it or checking with your doctor. When you experience a symptom, your body is telling you something. If you eliminate the symptom without taking care of its origin, the energy will manifest somewhere else in your body. And the next time it shows up, it may be worse.

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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