Grow Rich While You Sleep [Paperback]

Ben Sweetland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1976

Grow Rich While You Sleep

95% of all human problems stem from a negative mind.

This figure includes such traits as timidity, domestic discord, business failure, bad memory, tenseness, unhappiness, worry, etc.

You can do something about it... while you sleep!

You are a mind with a body attached, not a body with a mind attached! Realize this and you are on your way to self-mastery.

This is the new approach to the Conscious Mind through the other level that never sleeps, the Creative Mind.

What you will discover is priceless!

This book shows how to use the deepest thinking part of you, while you sleep, to get whatever you want out of life . . . money, personal influence, love, respect and admiration.

At will, you can direct your Creative Mind to assist you in solving problems . . . making the right decisions ... in creating ways and means of great achievement . . . over night!

With this technique you can sleep on it and awake in the morning with answers so clear-cut you will be amazed!

By unblocking the mind-line this method automatically improves the memory, strengthens other mental powers, casting out self-doubt and self-defeat.

It builds optimism, confidence, courage, and brings out latent talents, shows that you can grow rich ... in all things . . . material as well as spiritual . . . while you sleep.


About the Author

The late Ben Sweetland was widely known for his syndicated column, "The Marriage Clinic," and for his many books, including I WILL, and I CAN.

He was active on the West Coast as a consulting psychologist, and was much sought after as a lecturer throughout the states.

He also authored ADD YEARS TO YOUR LIFE AND LIFE TO YOUR YEARS, FOURTEEN GOLDEN SECRETS, MAGIC FORMULA FOR PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT and MAGIC FORMULA FOR SELLING.


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CONTENTS


How This Book Helps You Grow Rich 9
1. Riches: An Interpretation 19
2. Sleep: How To Enjoy Peaceful Sleep 30
3. Your Real Seat of Intelligence 40
4. Man Is Mind 51
5. Getting Acquainted with the Real You 62
6. You Are What You Think You Are 72
7. You Are Twice as Good as You Think You Are 82
8. Money: A Myth 92
9. Riches: A Matter of Consciousness 101
10. A Study in Contrasts 111
11. Grow Rich in All Things—While You Sleep 117
12. Accepting the Supremacy of Mind over Matter 127
13. Mental Exercises vs. Physical Exercises 134
14. Thoughts Are Pictures; Pictures Are Patterns 142
15. Your Mental Eraser 151
16. Building a Consciousness of Success 159
17. Discovering the Law of Abundance 168
18. You Become Rich Right Now 177
19. Psychosomatic Ailments: Are They Real? 185
20. Developing a Health Consciousness 192
21. Accentuate the Positive 202
22. Help Yourself by Helping Others 210
23. Electrosonic Means of Aiding You 218
24. Your New Life of Health, Wealth and Happiness 224

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Wilshire Book Company (December 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879800380
• ISBN-13: 978-0879800383
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #950,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Add This One to Your Library of Self-Help Classics!, January 28, 2002

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A. Moore (IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grow Rich While You Sleep (Paperback)

"Start by remembering that you are better than you consciously think you are." That sentence, in the introduction to "Grow Rich While You Sleep", speaks volumes about the further content of this worthwhile self help guide.

Written in a typical 1960's style, it is simple in content and repeats many of it's basic ideas. However, it is that outdated writing style that makes this the kind of classic book you pick up and read again and again. Although nothing in the book strikes me as being innovative (even for it's time), it does touch on numerous classic success principles in an uplifting, easy to read format.

One of these principles is discussed in the statement, "Man is a mind with a body." A simple truth, but one that we often fail to think about. Other priciples include..."One works harder at being a failure than at being a success"; "You are twice as good as you think you are"; "Picture the condition you want; not the condition you are attempting to overcome"; and many others.

Especially interesting to me was the chapter, "Money: a Myth." This chapter touches on the concept that we really own nothing, as all items are given without cost by nature. When we buy, we are buying labor. Labor is what takes the raw materials that nature has already given us and creates the products we then perceive as having value. We truly only have the "use" of material things, and how long we keep them depends on the care we give them. The end of this chapter states, "Do not give up your quest for dollars but seek them in connection with your objectives."

The bulk of the book discusses positive thinking, visualizing success, affirmations and developing a do it now attitude. If you have read and enjoyed "Think and Grow Rich" and other books by Napoleon Hill, "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David Schwartz, or "The Magic of Believing" by Claude Bristol, you are likely to enjoy this book as well.

The title, "Grow Rich While you Sleep", did not hit it's mark, although there are several areas of the book where it discusses turning your desires over to your "creative mind" and then letting it do it's job while you sleep. Personally, I believe the title was just a typical sales pitch of the era that really didn't focus on the books main message.

All in all, I enjoyed this book and found it to be very motivational . "I like to think of enthusiasm as thought aglow", the author states. I thought that was a wonderful definition of the word. Reading this book is certain to put your "thoughts aglow".... and what more can you ask of a book than that?

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Open Sesame, October 14, 2002

By 

Carmen Matthews "The Serene Samurai" (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grow Rich While You Sleep (Paperback)

I bought this book based upon its title, and because it is in a category with the U. S. Andersen books.

Had I not read "Three Magic Words," last month, 2 times, I would be more excited about "Grow Rich While You Sleep."

That having been said, I still vote this as a 5, because I have gained some great ideas from reading this book.

For example, early on, the author asks, "What is the greatest good one may expect from riches?"

Had I not read other books, I would probably have listed material things, but the answers that I wrote in the margins are: confidence; choices; living exactly where you want to live; and freedom to explore life on an entirely new level.

This led me to ask new questions regarding each of these benefits. Which of course led me to focus upon examples of myself having and expressing all of these.

One thing that I didn't care for, in this book, is that many of the examples are dated.

I had to tell myself to get pass this, so that I could really benefit from reading this wonderful book.

And in my growth, I realized that "Grow Rich While You Sleep," is about creating mental pictures of yourself in the act of solving your problems -- not having your problems solved, but in the act of solving those problems.

When I listed problems that I was facing it turned out that even though before buying this book I felt worried, I saw that I only had 3 problems.

With the affirmations that are in this book, as well as those that I created, which I use just before going to sleep, have guided me to wake up with solutions, that have netted me more than I expected.

Remember, "a problem wouldn't be a problem, if there wasn't a solution."

When you are about to fall asleep, if you will allow the room to be totally dark, with no sounds in the room, close your eyes. Inhale through your nose. Hold it for 5 seconds. Then exhale it for 5 seconds.

Next, while keeping your eyes closed, ask yourself what you see. You will notice, as the author has pointed out some geometric shapes. You will also be free to silently instruct your mind to find solutions for you, that will empower you, the next day.

And this works.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this book changed my life!!!!!!!, August 7, 1999

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This review is from: Grow Rich While You Sleep (Paperback)

this book came to me through finding it in a box of rubbish outside of someones house.at the time i was in an unstable marriage with no direction in life.i read this book 3 times over after which it gave me the confidence to get out of a bad marriage and do something better with my life,which 10 years on i have remarried have a nine year career and a wonderful life.i can truly say without ben sweetlands words i would'nt be where i am today.