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I have read countless books on the subconscious, positive thinking, and mental focus techniques. I firmly believe in the power of the subconscious mind and my negative review does not discount this in any manner. I gave this book one star as it rates among the worst I have read on the topic and recommend not wasting a moment with this piece. Murphy provides his explanations into the power of the subconscious mind and the power of belief based on his conclusions built on analysis of many events. He also spends time on the process of meditation and subconscious suggestion for the mind. The significant weakness of this book is Murphy's use of examples that he uses to comprise his analysis and draw his conclusions. For example, he describes a woman that desired a Cadillac so intensely that she put her subconscious mind to work thinking about it. Murphy states that she used the specific approach he advises. As a result, within two weeks, this woman was the owner of a Cadillac. Murphy then concludes this was the result of his thinking processes; using her subconscious mind. Murphy then further illustrates how she came upon the car as a result of her uncle passing away and willing it to her. If Murphy deduces from the example above that the major contributing factor for this woman receiving a Cadillac was her thoughts, then you also must conclude that the death of her uncle was also the result of her thoughts; a small piece of irony evidently lost on the author. Assessing the situation and giving full credence to the power of thought based only on these results is not only ludicrous, but it does a disservice to the true power of the mind that Murphy is unable to articulate. Murphy's line of reasoning in this book is filled with logical fallacies permitting one to simply replace the power of doing jumping jacks with his subconscious methods and not miss a beat. Of course I am not suggesting that jumping jacks would have any influence in his examples; however, Murphy's logical leaps are often so absurd that using his reasoning one could conclude the same about jumping jacks as one does in this book with thoughts. I do not discount the value of the subconscious mind as I believe from personal experience it is incredibly powerful; but The Power of Your Subconscious Mind hardly provides any scientific evidence nor any anecdotal explanation that would lead any intelligent person to the logical conclusion that mere thought was the cause. Murphy presents a very poor attempt at explaining the unknown power of the subconscious mind and does it so poorly that this book would be better served as a satirical piece.