Dr. Joseph Murphy, the author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, wrote this book as a manual to teach people how to pray, and how to maintain prayer as a part of their everyday activity, as well as how to use prayer in the case of danger or an emergency. According to Murphy, prayer is an ever present help in time of trouble, but you do not have to wait for trouble to make prayer an integral and constructive part of your life. People can find the source of their goodness and get the results they desire through proper prayer.