Applied Faith

"You have tried consciously to solve this problem in every way you know how. You've tried this and you've tried that and you've tried in every way you know and you have failed utterly. Now it's time to close your eyes and get in touch with another part of your mind. The part that keeps your balance in the chair, that pumps your heart and a thousand other things your unconscious mind does for you every day." Milton Erickson

The book The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind from Joseph Murphy explains how that part of your mind works for you in magical ways. Just as Maxwell Maltz explains in his work, the unconscious mind is a goal striving mechanism. Give the unconscious mind a clear command backed with applied faith and it will strive to manifest it into your experience. Napoleon Hill teaches that you must first have a burning desire and purpose backed with applied faith.

I have found that through the contemporary teachings of the law of attraction not a lot of teachers stress the difference between what Lynne Mctaggart calls "intention" and what what Napoleon Hills calls "applied faith". Intention is the practice of impressing your thoughts into the world and expecting results to manifest. Applied faith is the practice of impressing intention into the world and your action. They both have the same principles but they each are meant in different contexts.

Practicing intention without action and momentum is a burning desire soon to die out. In order for your intention to manifest you need to take massive action as Anthony Robbins stresses! When you take massive action you then apply faith (intention). This keeps your desire burning because you have something in reality to interact with. LOA teachers explain that you should send the intention but not interfere. This is true for some things but things you want to create have to come through you not to you. If it does not come through you then the desire goes. Desire needs something in reality that faith can be applied to. The more you take action and interact with reality the more faith you can apply to the stimulation you are getting.

I hope this has made sense.

Seb