<p><em>&#8220;It is a psychological law that whatever we wish to accomplish we must impress on the subjective or subconscious mind.&#8221; &#8211; Dr.Orison Swett Marden, physician, writer</em> </p>
<p>I was first introduced to &#8220;subconscious mind&#8221; in the early 1970&#8217;s while attending a massive convention, featuring motivational speakers and platform notables like the great W. Clement Stone, <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/zig.htm">Zig Ziglar</a>, <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/nvpeale.html">Dr. Norman Vincent Peale</a> and a host of other preachers of positive thinking.  </p>
<p>I was totally entranced because, on a very deep level, the whole idea of positive thinking, affirmations and programming the subconscious made sense to me.  Having become a student of clinical hypnosis, psychology and neurology, these speakers fueled my curiosity.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/03/your-mind-the-rider-and-the-elephant-by-james-mapes/" title="Permanent Link: Your Mind: The Rider and the Elephant By James Mapes" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":594,"date":"2011-03-31T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2020-12-20T23:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T04:19:06","slug":"your-mind-the-rider-and-the-elephant-by-james-mapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/03\/your-mind-the-rider-and-the-elephant-by-james-mapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Mind: The Rider and the Elephant By James Mapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;It is a psychological law that whatever we wish to accomplish we must impress on the subjective or subconscious mind.&#8221; &#8211; Dr.Orison Swett Marden, physician, writer<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I was first introduced to &#8220;subconscious mind&#8221; in the early 1970&#8217;s while attending a massive convention, featuring motivational speakers and platform notables like the great W. Clement Stone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/zig.htm\">Zig Ziglar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/nvpeale.html\">Dr. Norman Vincent Peale<\/a> and a host of other preachers of positive thinking.  <\/p>\n<p>I was totally entranced because, on a very deep level, the whole idea of positive thinking, affirmations and programming the subconscious made sense to me.  Having become a student of clinical hypnosis, psychology and neurology, these speakers fueled my curiosity.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/03\/your-mind-the-rider-and-the-elephant-by-james-mapes\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Your Mind: The Rider and the Elephant By James Mapes\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}