The Genie Within: Your Subconcious Mind–How It Works and How To Use It

Review by Steve Bailey for The Genie Within: Your Subconcious Mind–How It Works and How To Use It
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What I really appreciate in this book are the specifics on the Alpha state. I have virtually all of Joseph Murphy books and he has repeated the instruction often, of the necessity to drop into that drowsy state, before reciting his reprogramming statements in your mind.

But this particular writer brings his own experience and knowledge of many different sources to the table, including Silva Method and cites many excellent current writers, and not so current.

The writer cites specific writers/books who have instructed the reader to only read goals in the morning when you are either coming up from Delta to Beta and you are suggestive, or at night when you are slipping from Beta back to to Delta and thus have that Alpha time again available to you.

(he mentions “It Works” as one of the books with the simple instruction to read/envision your goal at morning and night )

He does this to help convince you of how many experts in the past have always known of the effectiveness of the Alpha (and theta states).

(When a writer mentions a lot of sources, especially ones that I’ve read, I can really “crunch” into his material and it “gels” better.)

What I like about this book also, is that he refers to sooo many other sources and his sort of un-said disclaimer is that he’s not trying to tell you something that’s not already known since Ancient times.

If you want a solid book with a complete set of tools for making the maximum use of your powerful subconscious mind, get this one.

Review by Vincent Purdie for The Genie Within: Your Subconcious Mind–How It Works and How To Use It
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I have been buying self-help/power of positive thinking books and tapes for as long as I can remember. They haven’t all been complete wastes of time, I have picked up a few nuggets of wisdom here and there over the years, but I was never able to find that one resource that put everything together in a manner that was scientific enough for me to believe and plain enough for me to understand and use instantly to make major changes in my life. That was until my journey lead me to this book. It is the holy grail of self-improvement and the last book you’ll need to buy searching for the “magical secret” to change your life.

I won’t go into detail on how this book has changed me but events happened since reading this book that frightened me as they took place. All positive stuff, don’t worry, but unbelievable nevertheless.

Look out world, here I come!

Review by Todd Hilker for The Genie Within: Your Subconcious Mind–How It Works and How To Use It
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I’ve read this entire book and found that it is in step with many of the neuroscience books that I have read. If you take this book seriously and do the exercises (they offer a companion Cd for this) you will be astounded at the results you get. This is one of the most powerfull books I own. It’ll change your life for the better.

Review by Richard Jackway for The Genie Within: Your Subconcious Mind–How It Works and How To Use It
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The Genie within is perhaps the easiest to comprehend (and read) book written on the subconscious mind. It is written in everyday language, without much the airy fairy examples of other books on the same topic.

Further, the author does not spend 5 chapters writing about something that can be explained in 1 chapter, or even (sometimes) 1 page, and that alone makes this book stand out from others on this subject.

The Author acknowledges that the information isn’t new, and that he has basically put together what he knows in a format that makes it easy to understand.

If you have never read anything on the subconscious, this (in my opinion) is the best book to start with. It will create many ‘ah-ha, so that’s what I’ve been doing wrong’ moments.

That said, it does lack information in two distinct areas of the subconscious. The first one is in relation to symbols – the subconscious makes great use of symbols – anything you have an attachment to becomes a symbol, and symbols can go yet further (into the realm of fantasy) as they can do in dreams. Secondly, while he explains how the subconscious can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality (and how it can be used to set goals and program the mind), he doesn’t explain that this crucial ability of the subconscious mind can be used to create new memories, which allows a person to gain more confidence in an area they aren’t good at (because your subconscious mind uses past memories as a blueprint for how you react to future events, if you program new successful memories, your subconscious can use them as a guide, instead of previous encounters where you’re had difficulty)

Overall, I’ve still given this book 5 stars because it is so easy to understand, and gives so much good information. My ‘criticism’ comes from reading multiple books (so far 7) on the subject, none of which contained a complete picture of the subconscious.

Review by Tang Kok Heong for The Genie Within: Your Subconcious Mind–How It Works and How To Use It
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For more than a year, after watching a popular documentary -”The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, I been actively trying to find out more about the “Theory” and “Principle” that support the key idea that the show wanted to bring across to the audience – that’s “The Law of Attraction.”

One of the key reasons for me to do so is heal my “Gout” problem, which cause me to have leg pain frequently no-matter how carefully I controlled my diet. I wanted to understand how “Miracle was created”. As I belief that when a miracle had happened once, it would be happening again if the principle is well understood.

Possibly that is due to my education background as an engineering trained professional, I would want to find out Why first before I can fully trusting any simple instruction. Along the way, I had gone though many books on self-hypnosis, subconscious mind, subliminal music, visualization, intuition techniques, Reiki and some new age stuffs… These seem to help a bit here and there, but surely do not satisfy my goal.

And, after reading about the many good reviews of other readers, I ordered one to check out what’s the difference between this book and the others.

To my surprise! This book is Very Well Organized from the Basic Principle start from the Subconscious Mind to the Practical and Most Effective Technique of applying its Power. And, it link-up many of the other information and knowledge that I had learn earlier on.

Besides, the author also produced some CDs to facilitate the reader to practice the lessons in each chapter… Though the script can be read and recorded by individual… I would still strongly recommend to get a copy as some of the Track come with the Metronome… for Alpha and Theta Routine… (a 10Hz and 5 Hz tapping sound in the background that help to Synch the listener brainwave.)

After some training, I intentionally tried some food that is Not supposed to be taken by people with “Gout”, and my body does not have any problem with it.

Therefore, I take some time to appreciate the author.

Thank you very much – Harry W. Carpenter.

Last but not least, the application is much more in other respects in life… It is up to individual to explore.

Best Regards

Akers Tang(Singapore)