Have you ever wanted to do cool Jedi mind bending tricks? Or find Aladdin’s lamp and get your three wishes to make life easier, simpler, better? Well, I can’t give you those for this Christmas, but I can give you something close to it…leveraging the power of the subconscious mind.
Four reasons why you should read/listen to this interview below:
1. Discover simple ways to deconstruct your old thought patterns you developed while a child that no longer help you (my personal favorite).
2. Ignite the creative genius within.
3. Feel more relaxed about life in general.
4. Increase your energy levels (nice to know that one technique finally exists that doesn’t require you to pop a pill).
I did an exclusive interview with Harry Carpenter. He wrote and published the book “The Genie Within.” We did this in the early part of 2010. Again, it was part of a another site project that went bust. Anyway, here’s the transcription below. Thank you Harry.
You can check out the book in paperback on Amazon.com. 60 reviews and 4.5/5 stars. Harry knows his stuff and keeps it simple. I like his approach. You will find the investment of time worth it.
Download the audio interview: The Genie Within By Harry Carpenter. Length of my interview: 45 minutes, 27 seconds.
Below is the actual transcript of the interview for The Genie Within.
Note: There was a bad phone connection and there are many errs, to no ones fault, in the interpretation from the original audio.
Matt: I’m on the phone today with Harry Carpenter he authored the book called The Genie Within. You can check out his book on Amazon.com and you can also visit his website at TheGenieWithin.net. His book has been translated into multiple languages including Arabic and Chinese and is an international bestseller including Taiwan. Harry teaches a very simplistic approach to tapping into the power of your subconscious mind. Does that introduction work for you?
Harry: I’m told that a publisher in Mainland China has signed an agreement and it is in the mail.
Matt: Right, I remember reading a bit of that on your website too. It sounds like an agent that’s going to be a done deal for you?
Harry: That was Taiwan. It is a bestseller in Taiwan but based on that publisher in China contacted my agent and consummately we are going to have a contract.
Matt: Right on, congratulations did they give you any kind of timeline or you are just in the beginning stages of that?
Harry: The contract? Well it’s supposed to be in the mail actually I’ve sent him copies of the book and the translation should be started.
Matt: Right on, did you ever think in your wildest dreams you’d be growing that big?
Harry: Well you know you visualize in your mind what you want and I visualized success and to tell you the truth I never dreamed about China.
Matt: Right on, but just out of curiosity how did you ever get involved with learning about the subconscious mind and that you can use it to basically create your life, your reality around you?
Harry: It’s actually the beginning of my book I had a healing when I was 9 or 10 years old. And it was a Krishna instilled in me that my mind and do anything. I was just not really, my family was not religious. So I didn’t associate this with God, so my lifetime goal was to find out how to use that valuable asset, the subconscious mind.
Matt: Just saying the book that you created, The Genie Within it has been an accumulation of everything you have learned and discovered over your lifetime? Okay just out of curiosity, a little example that I’m not sure a lot of people will be thinking of is how would this differ from say the movie that came out, The Secret?
Harry: I think the problem with The Secret is it gets you all excited, gives you the desire to make changes in your life but they don’t tell you how. It’s just like a [inaudible] book. They motivate but they don’t tell you how other than to have faith and think about it. My book is the ultimate How To book.
Matt: Okay so the biggest difference with your book is you actually display instructions for somebody on how to do it step one, step two, step three. Would that be my correct understanding?
Harry: Right, my background is in science so I’m a technical writer. The Genie Within is a manual to use it’s the most complete book that you will find on the subject.
Matt: Just out of curiosity when you say it’s the most complete book, can you dive a little bit deeper into that?
Harry: If you look at my biography you can see the books I’ve read and the highlights are the best parts of all those books plus many other books in courses I’ve taken and distilled it into very simple English and easy to use techniques. Did that answer your question?
Matt: It did and it actually perfectly goes into my next question. You mentioned that you read several other books and authors. I was just kind of curious because we all learn from each other and take what works for us and reject what doesn’t work for us. Who the system of your early influences were while you were developing your system and kind of doing everything together?
Harry: That’s an interesting question because when I was a teenager we didn’t a Google or anything close to it. I don’t know why and I had trouble finding anything on the subject. I ended up contacting there was a company called solving powers [inaudible]. And I spent time in hypnotism books and I don’t understand anything that he’s talk about.
I also read a brochure by [inaudible] who was a genius and I wish I had it because it’s a collector value didn’t understand it, so I threw it away. Then I took several course when I was about 30. I kind of tied it all together, then I chose and again using it and my wife was talking to friends how this had changed our lives and we are achieving goals and things like that.
And they insisted I teach them by teaching in the 1960s. raising four children but when I retired and I updated the course and started teaching it again and the students asked what can I buy, where can I get a book on this, which was one of the motivations for writing the book.
Matt: Okay so you originally started out teaching it to people locally and it kind of just began to grow upon that, correct?
Harry: Yes
Matt: Also too another question talking about books and influences nowadays it seems like there’s a Book of the Week Club, there’s a new self-help book published in regard to motivation, confidence of the subconscious mind. Do you feel a lot of that stuff is misleading or it’s incomplete?
Harry: I’m sorry which book are you referring to?
Matt: I’m just kind of talking just in general. It seems like there’s a lot of new stuff coming out on a daily basis, somebody who is in the self-help, how do you kind of, do you have any suggestions how we would weed out what would be good versus what would not be good?
Harry: Oh gosh you have to have background to know what’s right or wrong and you have to have some experience. So I wouldn’t know what to tell people. One question that gets asked a lot about the law of attraction and again it’s kind of like The Secret, they really don’t tell you enough about How To.
In fact I have one issue with the law of attraction and that is I understand that you are supposed to think of your goals all the time, whenever you can get around to it.
I have qualms about that because it’s kind of hard to describe without getting into more details in the books but when you just think about your goal during the day you are in your wake state. And in your wake state is the conscious mind.
The conscious mind is the critical mind and analytically there’s that little voice that’s saying, “Oh you really think you can do that? Your friends are going to laugh when they hear you are going to do this or that.” And that’s defeat you have to think of your goals in an altered state mind and that’s the doorway to the conscious mind, using your subconscious mind.
Matt: Okay like being in an altered state of mind does that have anything to do with get in like our full level way of thinking because that’s the kind of term you hear when you hear about tapping into the subconscious mind.
Harry: I’m getting about one of every three words but I had the altered level. There are basically four states, the awake state, the meditative state, the health state and data phase, then delta which is sleep. In order to be really effective in using the subconscious mind you have to be able to go down into those states of mind and stay there while you are doing or listening to your affirmation.
Matt: Now is that something that can be easily taught to people?
Harry: Yes it’s easy, nothing strenuous about it during the day we don’t realize that usually but if you’ve ever daydreamed or really getting engrossed in a movie or a book, watching TV. When you are watching TV you are in the alter state, did you know that?
Matt: No
Henry: That’s why watching TV advertising is so effective. When I learned this was reading about the dreams. All my dreams working at the Manager Institute in 1970s knew that the medical science said that you couldn’t control involuntary [inaudible] yet there were men in India and Himalaya just doing that.
They were controlling metabolism pain going through a heartbreak so they went to study people and the only thing that they could find that these men had in common when they were controlling involuntary functions which is controlled by the subconscious is that they were in the beta state. That proves to me that the whole of the subconscious was the alpha state.
Matt: Okay so is it better to be in the beta state level of thinking when you are trying to work with acclamations and creating your intentions within your life?
Harry: Well I think there has to be a balance if you are talking about what you are doing during the day. I will mention one thing the creativity is in the beta state but there are many cases where men or women are working on a science problem or a poem, a book, an article and they are doing it consciously and using their conscious mind only.
Finally they get tired of it and they give up and they go and relax in a spa or walk on the beach. They naturally drop in the beta and voila, it comes into their mind globally all at once.
Matt: Now when you are saying it comes into their mind globally can you expand upon that, what you mean by that?
Harry: I can give you personal examples. When I wrote my book I hired a publisher or a proofreader you might say for spelling issues. She read the book and said, “Most of The Genie Within is the conscious mind?” And she said, “You have to start introducing the…” Anyway I thought about that and I didn’t want to go and change the wording in all the text.
So I meditated and one day I was meditating which I dropped into the beta state naturally and bang, if you look at the parable in the beginning of the book, that came to me all at once, I didn’t think about it and develop it, it just came to me and I wrote it down. And that kind of associates the genie and the subconscious so I hope the reader gets the idea.
Matt: Okay now you said you meditate, is that a prerequisite to you learning to tap into the genie within as you referred to it as, or is it just a one method of doing so?
Harry: Meditation is something entirely different I don’t even mention it in the book and I’d rather not mention it in relation to the book, it’s something else.
Matt: Okay so your book can be completely applied without any sort of meditation.
Harry: Right, it has nothing to do with metaphysics, meditation, religion, new age stuff. It’s strictly about the subconscious mind.
Matt: Okay and I was wondering would you be able to recommend three steps that somebody could use from the book when they are looking to make a change in their life?
Harry: Say that one more time please.
Matt: Okay I was wondering would you be able to share three actionable steps that somebody could take whose wanting to make a change in their life? Say like giving up a bad habit for example.
Harry: First of all, yeah and I think I understand your question. First of all they have to have a desire to make a change.
They have to be motivated and unfortunately many people consciously are motivated but subconsciously they have a block like I’m not worthy enough, I don’t deserve making that much money, I don’t deserve to drive a Cadillac and one of the laws of the subconscious mind is when the will and the imagination are in conflict, the imagination always wins.
Translated that means when the conscious mind and the subconscious mind are in conflict the subconscious mind always wins. So these people have a double mind shift.
For example somebody who is overweight and want to go on a diet. They can will themselves to go on a diet but if they have a strong program in their subconscious mind that says to eat, to overeat for whatever reason, that program will dominate not the will in the conscious mind. So that’s one thing, in order to change yourself you have to single it in your goal.
Matt: Okay so how do you suggest that someone overcomes this block? How can someone overcome this block and reprogram that thought.
Harry: One of the fortunate things is you don’t even have to know the [inaudible]. The subconscious mind only holds one time step that’s true and binding on a particular subject. In other words if a person is shy, they focus on being shy and not outgoing. You don’t have to know what the reason is and when that developed and it probably developed early in your childhood, the program.
You don’t even have to know that and a subconscious mind never forgets so that program will always be there and what you have to do is overpower it with another program. One of being outgoing, having a better self image, does that explain your question?
Matt: It does, so you touched briefly on your website TheGenieWithin.net that you use one word acclamations. Is this an example of overcoming that previous subconscious thought?
Harry: Yes and I think I explained why I believe it worked is because kind of like the law of attraction. You say your word in a conscious state or your goals. It could be self defeating but the one word your soul wrote that I just got used to it, in fact my conscious mind just got bloated with it and it was a reflex.
My subconscious mind maybe every time my neck hurt and you don’t tell your sub conscious mind how to do something. So I simply forgot about it, I literally did. About two weeks later I’m driving and I’m turning my neck in both directions and all of a sudden I realized that the pain is gone after a year of sharp pain in the neck.
Matt: So you made an interesting point there. You don’t tell you sub conscious mind how to do something. So is that because it understands what it needs to do? You don’t need to worry about [inaudible]?
Harry: A subconscious mind says trillion of things every second literally, trillion of things every second. And it knows how to deal with that, it knows how to stand against one body and engage your skin. If it makes hormones, it makes vitamins etcetera. No it will step up circumstances, it will do whatever it takes. But when you start with conscious mind, telling it what to do it interferes and won’t get it done.
Matt: So you don’t want to use the conscious mind to direct the sub conscious because that will be just cause interference? Is that correct?
Harry: Say it again, I missed almost every word you said.
Matt: Okay so if someone tries to use their conscious mind to control the unconscious you are just going to cause nothing but interference and frustration.
Harry: Right and when you use your subconscious mind, give it a go and then forget it
Matt: That’s interesting.
Harry: That’s one technique you’ve just reminded me. You’ve heard of Bill Lear the inventor of Lear Jets and 128 patents made $1 million before he was 21 years old. That’s what he did, he got all the information about the subject as he could into the subconscious mind and then he forgot it. I mean he didn’t think about it until the idea started bubbling out in his mind.
Matt: Really?
Harry: That’s one of the techniques I talk about in the book. The conscious mind works 24 hours in a day, 7 days a week. I was just reading a book I think it was called the [inaudible] of Belief by Bruce Braden. Anyway he says like computers the subconscious is a million times more computational powers than a conscious mind. So if you want to be successful you have to let your subconscious mind help you out.
Matt: Okay that’s very interesting, I like the set it and forget it type method.
Harry: What’s that?
Matt: I was saying kind of what you are saying think about it and then forget it. instead of always, a lot of times you hear people say I want to start a career where you’ve got to think about it all the time.
Harry: When you think about it you go into the alpha state when you do think of it. That reminds me of another method It Works. It Works is the name of a small brochure and it’s interesting about 5 inches, 33 pages and it was written in the 20s and the man said he was famous if he gave his name we would know him, maybe we wouldn’t today.
He exhibited his thoughts through taking his goals, writing it out on a 3 by 5 card and looking at it first thing in the morning, last thing at night. Don’t tell anybody and don’t tell your subconscious mind how to do it.
The reason he said and I don’t know how he knew this is did explore for us intuitively but the reason is you think about it when you wake up in the morning you are going through the alpha and the beta state. When you go to bed at night you go from the awake state to the sleep state and you pass through the alpha and the beta.
So he’s saying only look at your goals in the alpha and the beta stage. And again don’t tell anybody because that puts pressure on you. And that little voice comes in and says, “Oh what are your friends going to say? You really can’t do that.”
Matt: Right that’s another great suggestion. Just out of curiosity if somebody were to write their goal on a 3 by 5 card, how lengthy would you suggest or is simple the best?
Harry: No I think it’s up to the individual. There are no rules, the subconscious mind is the most complex thing in the universe and a number of scientists said this and I believe it. So we really don’t know everything and maybe even much about the subconscious mind. So I wouldn’t write down any hard and fast rules myself.
I make them brief but when I look at it you want to bring out emotions and images or maybe a little picture or a referral when I’m thinking about it.
If I wanted to put down becoming more outgoing I would picture myself talking to people, being the life of the party and still have goodies. So you have to bring emotions and images. That’s one of the differences of conscious and unconscious mind. Conscious mind thinks in words predominantly, subconscious mind thinks in images and the feelings. If you want to get to the subconscious mind you have to use emotion and picture it.
Matt: I see, so is there a better way to say write a goal if somebody is going to look at it once in the morning and once at night? So for example instead of saying, “I want a red car,” they say “I have a red car.”
Harry: Yeah if you want a red car, your subconscious mind will give you your goal, your want for a car but you’ll never get a car. It just gives you the want for a car. Or if I want the car tomorrow, well tomorrow never comes. Subconscious mind only reacts in the present. You have to have to word your affirmations in the present tense.
You have to think and act and feel as if you’ve already achieved goals or you already have what you want. That’s pretty hard for some people to digest. That’s how it has to be.
Matt: So the idea is to eliminate the word want from your vocabulary
Harry: Pretty much so, there are a couple of other words you want to get rid of too when speaking about one-word affirmations is that little word try. Try denotes failure, whenever somebody is going to try and do something they are telling you they are going to fail, they are not going to do it. Get rid of that word in your thinking vocabulary.
Matt: Okay, just out of curiosity and I think we may have touched briefly on it is why is it that a lot of people have good intentions about achieving a goal yet they actually never get there?
Harry: I’m sorry come again
Matt: Okay I was also just wondering there are a lot of people that have good intention of achieving a goal but they never quite reach it. Do you have any suggestions as to why?
Harry: Yeah it all comes back to being single or double minded. If you have a program in your subconscious mind that’s blocking you then you are not going to achieve it. Brain scientists are telling us that 95% as much as, its not a fixed number of course. About 95% of our decision making and our behavior originates from the subconscious mind.
And unfortunately most of those programs were acquired in childhood. And we don’t even know they are there. One child psychologist estimated a child is told, “No you can’t do that don’t do that,” 150000 in the first couple of years. So when you are programmed that you can’t do things, we are limited. So we have to break that barrier, we have to overpower the mental blocks to be successful.
Matt: So these programs are they all controlled by the laws of the subconscious mind?
Harry: Subconscious mind is when 92% of our brain in the conscious mind is only 80. Actually they’ve measured what neurons are piling in a conscious mind when you are given a conscious task and according to scientists, it’s an amazingly small area where you could use your conscious mind. 92% of it works 24 hours a day and it has a million times more computational higher than your conscious mind. I’m starting to have so much trouble understanding your questions but did that answer it?
Matt: Yeah it did. And then also just something I have been wanting to ask you too is if you have another book burning inside of you or do you feel like what you have, this is it and I’m going to run with it?
Harry: Not until about a year or so ago, my attitude was I put one thing in the book, that’s it that’s all everybody needs to use their subconscious mind. I don’t have anything else. However I’ve changed that and I’ve started writing a book although I haven’t gotten back to it for a couple of months.
And the reason is, I’ll meet people and I’ll say, “Did you read the book?” and they’ll say, “Yeah, great book, loved it, I believe it, it really put things together for me.” And I’ll say, “Well what are you using?” and they’ll say, “Well I really haven’t gotten around to it yet, I’m not using anything.”
The messages in The Genie Within are so simple and so universal you should have been using them everyday. And so this book is going to be A Genie’s Personal Life Coach. I’ll take the reader in my hands and do everything for him, give him a schedule and what to do and that’s what that is going to be about.
Matt: I see, so you are working on a companion workbook, is it a safe way to put it?
Harry: You could look at it that way, there’ll be schedules, I’ll give them the affirmations, probably there’ll be CDs because you really have to—there are many methods but the classic method then one I decide in the book which is in my mind the heavyweight method, you really have to put on a CD or tape and then go into alpha and play the CD.
Matt: Okay now do you have, I was looking on your website briefly and you talked about you have a CD available for people if they’d be interested, is that correct?
Harry: I have two of them actually. One is [inaudible] it’s every exercise that’s in the book and really if you are serious in changing anything or reaching a goal you should get that CD.
The other CD is very simply nothing more than a [inaudible]. 20 minutes in the alpha rhythm and 20 minutes in the rhythm, and what that does is it coaxes your mind into either the alpha or the beta state. So anytime you want to go into the office and make sure you go there, you play that music quietly in the background. This has been a proven method that works.
Matt: And then from there when someone reaches the beta state they can kind of beginning doing some of the internal work in their mind with the affirmation?
Harry: When you are in the beta stage you really can’t consciously think of anything and if you do, you’ve got to get yourself out. And if you go into the alpha state and kind of dream about your goals, don’t be too analytical or critical because that brings you out of the state into the conscious. So yeah you can go down and daydream, visualize but you are pretty deep and I don’t think the subconscious will bring it out.
Matt: Okay right on, and is there any other place that somebody can order these CDs or they are only available from TheGenieWithin.net?
Harry: That’s the only place I sell them is in the website, frankly I’ve looked into Amazon and other places and the royalties are so slim, so small that it’s hardly worth it.
Matt: So I can get the CDs on TheGenieWithin.net and also I can order the book on there as well, correct?
Harry: Yes
Matt: Or also I can also go to Amazon.com order the book
Harry: In Amazon it’s also in e-book too
Matt: Is it on e-book form on Amazon or on your website or both?
Harry: Well I think you’d have to purchase something like e-book. I’ve never bought the book but there are places that sell e-books. Frankly if you are serious about it, you need it on paper, you need a reference. You need a book that you can write [inaudible] is available.
Matt: Okay, right on. And do you offer any kinds of workshops or classes like that, like one on one coaching?
Harry: No I don’t, everything is in the book, I feel guilty. And people have called me up to ask me how to do this and that and it’s so simple at least in my mind. So I hate charging them and I’m not soliciting people to call me and do that.
I’m just mentioning that in my mind, everything is in the book, read the book and study it and re-read it, one reading isn’t enough. Some of that stuff really didn’t stick into my mind until I started teaching it. And when you teach it you have to understand it thoroughly. The laws in the conscious are subtle.
Matt: That makes complete sense so with a little motivation somebody can dig deep and get the meat out of what you have to offer in the book?
Harry: Right
Matt: Well Harry I think that pretty much answers the questions that I had sent you. So I think that’s where I’m at at the moment. Do you have anything else to add?
Harry: Just a couple of things, one I can’t emphasize it too much, you have to understand how the subconscious mind works and the laws.
Because the methods are simple, really simple and nature itself uses the simplest ways. If it isn’t simple you are not going to do it and it’s not going to be successful. Like visualization, what could be more simple than that but you have to understand he laws in order to be successful.
Matt: And this again the laws of the subconscious mind, that’s the first part of the first part of the book, correct?
Harry: There’s one chapter on characteristics, one on the laws there’s another on communication which we haven’t touched upon. And then we get into the methods of using. Again once you understand the laws and how it works you can figure out your own methods.
Matt: I see so this is something that you can’t just skip right to the method. You need to understand the laws first.
Harry: Absolutely and I can’t emphasize that too much. And one other thing I might mention is I believe that successful people use much more of their subconscious mind than less successful people.
And it’s because as I said, the conscious and you only use the conscious mind they are limited to 8% or less and you are thinking within the box, you are thinking what you have been taught to think and you are thinking linearly.
If you introduce your subconscious into your thinking or your goals you have the computational power, the global instinct that works 24 hours a day and it’s where your creativity is. So if you want to be successful, learn how to use it and I can’t imagine anybody who doesn’t want to.
Well maybe I can a mental block to not being successful which is unfortunate. If you write something Matt will you send me a copy or let me know when it’s on the internet?
Matt: Absolutely I will. Actually I’m going to work on getting this edited and then transcribed and it should be done within the week and I’ll definitely be sure to send you the transcript and also the recording, the cleaned up version.
Harry: Okay, I appreciate it.
Matt: Absolutely and Harry I just want to say that I appreciate your time taken to do this and actually I’m going to order your book right now.
Harry: Oh good.
Matt: No I’m really excited to read it. I like your very simplistic approach.
Harry: So many books are written like, I woke up in the morning and the phone rang and I had a call from John and I went for breakfast and he said I had to meet somebody etcetera. I’m a technical writer and mine and is typically a How To menu.
Matt: And I get a sense of that too when reading a couple of your other newsletters and your blog posts. So it’s very straightforward which hopefully people are able to catch on to, doesn’t have to be so complicated.
Harry: And some very good reviews on Amazon.com. I just got one the other day which is three pages and it doesn’t have an Amazon account. I put it on my website and it’s probably on there today. I just sent it to my web master just yesterday but it’s an interesting read.
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