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By Franz Capek

The power of our feelings


This text attempts to adapt the knowledge from the book “The Master Key System” by Charles Haanel to the 21st century. ¹

This is a translated version. The original article is available in German.

Ultimately, it is about understanding the world we live in. Why are some people on this wonderful planet rich and happy, with all the love in the world, while others are poor, sick, and hopeless — even though everything exists in abundance within and around us? Unfortunately, many people cannot find the path to love, health, and success.
Is this given by God, determined by fate, or self-inflicted?
Fate is not a coincidence, it is determined by our feelings! Many difficulties arise from a lack of knowledge about ourselves and our true needs. We are also still missing the many unconscious feelings of the future that are waiting to be discovered!

“Consciousness” stands for present feelings.
“Subconsciousness” stands for the many feelings stored in the nervous system.
“Unconsciousness” stands only for the life-sustaining feelings.
“Non-consciousness” stands for feelings that are not present.

Before we can “understand, be, or do something”, we must “feel” it.
As long as our feelings for it are not programmed, we cannot engage with something new. When we “ride a bicycle”, the body is activated by feelings from our subconscious. “If we have no feelings stored for riding a bicycle, then we cannot ride a bicycle either”. Our experiences, as well as the DNA and genes we have inherited from our ancestors, are stored as personal feelings in the autonomic nervous system. It possesses the wonderful ability to make all stored feelings available for our goals.
Just as nature shows us, feelings and intelligence continuously develop in synchrony in all living beings. Real feelings become stable building blocks and unreal feelings become crumbling sandstone.

There are “no” thoughts; it is feelings that are formed with words in the brain into sentences, from which new feelings arise again!

For things like flower, house, or sun, we have “real feelings”.
For mental feelings such as security, permanence, attraction, relationship, love, confidence, and progress, we have “real, yet subjective feelings” that we have adopted from the universe! There, there are neither destructive feelings nor inferiority or emotional poverty, neither hatred nor lies, neither money nor deception nor war.
We also have “real feelings” for mathematics, Euclidean geometry with its dimensions, as well as for time, the meter, and languages, yet they are merely practical inventions — tools that make our life together easier.
And finally there are the “unreal subjective feelings” such as fears, worries, delusions, illusions, and hallucinations.

The view of the cause of every phenomenon leads us into the depth of all wisdom. If we observe attentively what interests us, then thanks to these experiences we receive valuable impressions for our future.

The great soul of a human being differs from that of an ordinary human being only through the “intensity of his real feelings”.
They are also the true source of all sciences!

Life is constantly governed by the forces of “attraction and emanation” — a feeling familiar to us humans, which we call “love”. It is our very own life, which protects us, nourishes us, and allows us to flourish.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE already described in his work
“Elective Affinities” how the power of feelings can reach the outer world and also determine attraction and repulsion among the chemical elements.
Attraction and repulsion is gravitation, the force of the universe!

One can see it everywhere, also in children, animals, and plants.
Without attraction and emanation, life is not possible. We can learn this from many animals; they wait patiently for the right partner.
And the reach of feelings depends on their power of emanation.
A mouse therefore has less power of emanation than an elephant.

Intuition

For example, in us humans, the quality of a tree awakens intuitions such as shade, nourishment, house construction, furniture, artwork, or firewood. Not the existence of two energy-matters alone, but the possibilities of intuitions are the omnipresent driving force of all life in the universe.

The spark of genius requires no silence for intuitions. Intuitions arise as real feelings from the confident subconscious.
When we let go of a seemingly unsolvable problem with sufficient primal trust, the solution can suddenly rise into consciousness as a gift.
This is not the inspiration of a higher power, “it is the force of faith, self-confidence, and conviction”. In the modern world, faith means “confidence in real desires”!

“Whatever you ask for in your prayer, believe only that you have already received it, and it will be granted to you”.²

For this, we need our full attention on receiving solutions from the subconscious. For the ordinary person, this phenomenon meets with incomprehension; for scientifically minded people, the precision of certainty is a sensation.

The ultimate recipe for success is:

Desire > imagine > act with confidence and self-assurance!

An example:

When we try to throw a ball into a basket, this action is only successful with the feelings of “imagination, self-confidence, and assurance”.
The physical law of cause and effect is also the law of feelings!
“The feeling is the cause of every change, the achieved goal the effect”!
In this way, real goals become reality with incredible precision! If we then also free ourselves from external appreciation and protect ourselves from external as well as internal criticism, we are “in the flow”, a term from sports! With willpower alone, such results are mere chance.

The healing of any illness also requires this confidence!
The cells of our immune system are sensitized and strengthened by it.
This happens just as with eating, drinking and breathing. Strength enters the body and waste leaves it again.
The placebo effect is a good example of how confidence can bring about healing. This influence on our body also becomes evident in the case of a broken leg. A doctor can certainly set a broken leg, but only the confidence in self-healing stored in the subconscious has this power.
It is also responsible for all life-sustaining bodily functions.

“Diseases are no coincidence; they do not fall from the sky either”.
It is our feelings that determine our fate. Destructive feelings are the cause of most illnesses!

“What I feared has come upon me”! ³
“We are what we feel”
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“Destructive feelings cannot simply be thrown into the sea”.

In order to be able to change undesirable life circumstances, one should put aside all selfish needs. Selfish people are not capable of this. They can only consume love, affection, harmony, and property.
We can only switch off a lack of self-confidence and destructive feelings such as fear, inferiority, and hopelessness if, with composure, confidence, and love, we focus on our important needs and goals! These feelings have the highest frequency and stand for wisdom, strength, and prosperity. They eliminate every form of error and always have control over our mental attitude and our body! “The subconscious never sleeps”.

To this end, two destructive and two constructive feelings! “Fears and worries” are hopeless; they only paint the devil on the wall. And the fear of an illness attracts illness. “Mindfulness and confidence are constructive”; they bring calm, health, security, and success.

Paralysis arises from a subconscious insecurity, Alzheimer’s from a loss of feeling, and Parkinson’s from fear of illness or death. Heart problems are the result of a lack of affection toward fellow human beings, and diabetics have difficulty feeling love and affection. Hemophiliacs generally have too little confidence stored in their subconscious.
And many retirees are marked by a feeling of hopelessness and the onset of depression.
Ultimately, every cancer arises from an insufficient flow of energy or an excessive loss of energy in the organs!

If the reservoir of confidence in the subconscious empties, healing is no longer possible. If these forces have left the patient, he loses his attraction, his love, his feelings (soul), and ultimately his life. All energy-matter slowly disintegrates after death into “Dark-Energy-Matter-Particles”, which are absorbed by the Earth and at some point become available to new life.

“The subject dies, but not life! This becoming and passing away is the continuum of the universe, an eternal breathing from Big Bang to Big Bang”!

“Ultimately, it is about feeling self-confident, valuable, and unique. These feelings are always successful, self-determined, and complete”.

From now on, we should become aware that we truly live in a wonderful world and that each of us is very valuable. ¹
We become a beacon of the joy of living, and we will also succeed in meeting all people with love.

They sense that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and no human heart has conceived what awaits those who dare to set out for the “promised land”. They have crossed the “river of judgment” and have arrived at the point where they can distinguish “between right and wrong”. And they have found that everything they ever dreamed of was only a faint reflection of what reality now holds in store for them.

PS:
By the “promised land” is meant the “land of confidence”, where the future is shaped with constructive feelings. “They have crossed the river of judgment” means: “They sift through their inherited opinions and can thus more easily distinguish between right and wrong”.

And Einstein’s words: “I do not know whether infinity exists, but I do know that the stupidity of mankind is infinite” can also mean:

“Most people, out of fear or out of convenience, are not willing to leave well-worn paths!

¹ “The Power of Feelings” attempts to align the knowledge from Charles Haanel’s book
“The Master Key System” with the science of the 21st century.
² Bible (Christ in Mark 11, 20, 26)
³ Bible (Job 3, 8)
⁴ Bible (Corinthians 2, 9)