subconscious mind and that will make it better. But he subconscious mind is a tape player. Put a tape in your cassette player, play it, and then tell it to play something different. The fact is, there’s nobody in there. It’s not going to do anything. And the power of positive thought—most people say, the power of positive thought! Try it! And when it fails, they feel worse because they can’t even do that. Why would it fail? Because if the subconscious program is not in alignment with the conscious direction, then you have a program that’s running on a 40 million-bit processor 95 percent of the time, taking you downhill while you’re spending 5 percent of your time in your imagination thinking positive thoughts, as your subconscious is running the show and sabotaging you right in the middle of your positive thoughts.
Positive thinking only works if the beliefs in the subconscious are in alignment with it, or if you’re fully mindful. If you’re fully mindful and using that desire to be positive and make it work, then you’ll see when your subconscious is running a tape and you can cancel it. But if you’re not mindful and you’re just thinking positive thoughts, then you’re not running the show. That’s where the conflicts come from. And, of course, if you were so positive in your mind and you think you’re running the show and think it doesn’t work, obviously the world is against you. No, the world isn’t running against you, it’s the limiting, self-sabotaging programs we acquire in our youth. That’s basically where we have to come back to zero.