Power of the Mind: Create a Dream Board, Maybe Improve Your Life

Dream boards... Positive affirmations... Does “positive affirmation” honestly lead to “positive life transformation?” Are your dream boards becoming your reality?

A few years ago, a friend recommended I read “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” by Dr. Joseph Murphy. It is a self-help book geared towards helping you realize the power in your subconscious thoughts. The book gives examples of this power:

My simple example

I was in need of a new TV, and really wanted a flat-screen TV to replace our fat bulky old one, but couldnt afford one at the time... Well, I had gone to a fundraiser party for a friend and, guess what? The grand prize was a Flat Screen TV.

I kept telling myself, and saying I was going to watch that TV hanging on my wall later when I got home... It's all set up and ready to go!..Guess what? I won!!

An extreme miracle?

A man with a sick daughter made the comment and says he’d give his arm to have his daughter healed and healthy again and a short time later he is in a freak accident where he loses an arm and voila, his daughter is healed.

More recently my best friend suggested that I watch the movie “The Secret.”  So, I hurried to my local library and picked up “The Secret.”  “The Secret,” also touts the power of thoughts, but is more focused on bringing money and dreams to reality, while “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” is applied to more varied scenarios, including healing and health.

How does it work?

Basically, both say that the thoughts you think bring about the life you live. That the “Universe” submits to your thoughts, good or bad. That as you think, so shall it be…a la “The Law of Attraction.” Your thoughts have waves that reverberate into the atmosphere, and those thoughts determine your life.

Think about debt and you bring by the “Law of Attraction debt.” Likewise by thinking of success or money you will attract those things. So by learning to change your thought pattern and training yourself to think positively, you will attract a new life.

“The Secret” tells the story of a man who created a dream board. On this board, he placed items such as cars and houses that he wanted to own. For months, he kept the dream board where he could look at it and visualize the items on the board.

Sometime later, he stumbled across the board after moving and realized that he and his family were living in the house similar to the one he put on the board and noticed similarities between his dream board and his real life. Had his dream board turned into his reality? Was it because he had put into the atmosphere the things he wanted and thus the atmosphere submitted to his thoughts?

While neither books are referenced as religious they both include a hint of religious/spiritual/faith-based practices. Both acknowledge the existence of a God that should be recognized as the creator. They encourage the reader or viewer to believe that God specifically gifted human beings to have and do all things if only we humans truly understand and tap into the power of our thoughts. They says it’s as simple as changing and training your mind.

So now on to the really big question… Is it true and does it work?

Well, honestly, I’m not sure. I decided to change my thoughts and in turn my feelings changed. I began to feel differently about my life, but I can’t say that my life is different. Maybe I just don’t know how to DO it properly. Maybe my conscious mind is too skeptical for me to release the power of my subconscious mind. Maybe I haven’t been practicing long enough.

All I know is that I haven’t won the lottery and Idris Elba has not come to romance me for a night. I also know that I’m feeling more OK with those things and about life in general, than not OK. Maybe that’s because I have learned “The Secret” and for me, that is…

As long as I have another day, I have another opportunity. That deserves some positive thinking.