The Subconscious Mind

Subconscious Mind

Up unit this point we’ve really focused on the conscious mind. It is easy to relate to this part of our mental capacity. The conscious mind is the part of our brain that deals with our daily reality.

But there is a second mind you’ve also probably heard about: the subconscious mind. It operates simultaneously and in conjunction with the conscious mind, yet functions quite differently. Test your own knowledge of the subconscious.

How far back does your memory go?

What percentage of brainpower do you use on a daily basis?

Body functions operate independently of our conscious minds. True or False?

In making a tough decision, people often advise, “go with your gut.” They are referring to your subconscious.

The subconscious mind carefully evaluates all information it encounters. True or False?

Read on for the answers.

The subconscious mind, your subconscious mind, is your closest friend, loyal ally and most trusted advisor. Learning how to access, connect, program and response to the subconscious mind gives us the ability to rise above the fray of everyday living, and achieve another level of greatness. The subconscious mind is where our unlimited power lies.

The general consensus is that we use about 1% of our brainpower. But before you say that seems like a really low estimate, consider this. Some researchers insist it is really a much smaller fraction, one-thousandth of a percentage point or even less. That would mean we have a mind-boggling brain capacity. That brainpower is to be found in the subconscious.

Our normal body functions, the ones we don’t really think about, are all controlled by the subconscious mind. Our hearts beat and lungs breathe and nerves fire without any conscious effort. But our mind controlling and regulating these vast functions that are keeping us alive. Can you imagine it any other way? If the conscious mind controlled body functions, then after you had a meal you would literally have to concentrate on your stomach to begin digesting your food. You’d also be putting a tremendous effect into sending blood through each and ever vein. You see that we’d never get anything done. Think of it this way: if our subconscious didn’t control our bodily functions then as soon as we lost consciousness, like when we sleep, we would die. Can you imagine? You sleep, you die! That is how important our subconscious mind is to our body.

Most of us don’t have much of a memory before the age of 4 – 5. And some of us can’t even remember what we had for breakfast this morning. But etched in our subconscious mind is every event, every single thing we’ve every said or done, read or seen, heard or even overheard. Each and every ache or pain. They’re all inscribed in detail, in our subconscious minds. That’s pretty impressive. But there’s more. The subconscious mind is responsible for intuition and creativity. Even dreams emerge from your subconscious mind. The subconscious offers us guidance and ‘gut reactions.”

Not done yet. There’s another function of our ever-active subconscious mind that is even less understood. Have you ever heard the phrase “we are all one?” Through the power of focused thought, the subconscious mind is able to transmit and receive thoughts that connect us all in integral way.

Finally, the subconscious is able to direct our thought, desires, and purpose. When focused with regular and heart felt repetition and set in motion through synchronicity, a transformation of thought energy can transform into physical reality.

You’ve probably heard the old adage, you reap what you sow. That bit of wisdom, passed on through the ages, describes the interaction between the conscious and the subconscious. The subconscious has been likened to a fertile garden. The conscious mind, its gardener. Whether you know it or not, you intensely felt thought and beliefs are the seeds that you are planting. So be very careful what you place in your head. Good thoughts or bad thoughts can be the difference between a garden filled with weeds, or one overflowing with roses. You seeds, your thoughts, absolutely will and so make the difference.

This is how our two minds work together. The conscious mind is the evaluator, the instigator. It can discern right from wrong, lie from truth, beauty from beast. In the previous example, it is the conscious, “the gardener” creating the type of garden, choosing which flowers, which colors, which texture make the most striking combination.

The subconscious mind “the garden” will accept any passionately felt thought or belief. Whatever “seed” is pressed upon it. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or false, positive or negative. The subconscious is unable to evaluate, as the conscious mind is able to do.

It is a provider. A plowed field can’t determine what it will grow. It simply waits for the seeds to be planted in it’s midst, eager to nourish them and provide to gardener with splendid bounty.

The point is that the conscious and subconscious work in tandem but are absolutely dependent upon each other. The soil is at the mercy of the gardener. If the gardener has acute vision, creativity, a love of beauty and willingness to carefully tend the garden, then the soil will provide an exquisite out growth of his vision and care. Neglect the garden and return is a dusty patch of dirt and weeds.

Likewise the gardener is reliant upon soil. Plants roses on rocks and you still have rocks. He is gardener with no garden. Without the resource of the soil, he cannot nurture his vision into a reality.

Positive and Negative Energy

Energy is everything and everything is energy.

That is more than just a catchy phrase. It is full of meaning. If you could look through the most powerful electron microscope and examine a rock, you would see a perfect example. The closer you look at the rock, the more movement you would begin to see. Eventually, the matter is broken down into atoms. The rock becomes a swirling, orbiting mass of constantly moving atomic energy. It is the same for every single thing. In their most basic form, all objects, all people, all everything is nothing more than energy.

Thought are also energy. In physics, they like to say. “Like energy attracts.” It means one type of energy is drawn to a similar type of energy. So, positive thoughts attract more positive energy. And of course negative thoughts attract more negative energy. You’ve seen it happen.

It takes a gentleman to suffer ignorance and smile,

If you are a cynical, angry, negative person now, take a look at what negativity has brought into your life. Can you honestly say, “the more negative I am, the better my life becomes?”

Describe people overflowing with positive energy.

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Describe the traits of super negative people>

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Why would anyone consciously choose to be in the second group? They don’t sound like any fun to be with or around. The positive people are leaders. They set examples. They don’t have time to complain. They are too busy moving forward with rewarding activities.

Do yourself and the world a favor. Blanket yourself in positive thoughts and positive energy. Just that single effort could change your life from one of frustration and anger to one filled with optimism and opportunity.

Remember, it’s easier to see what is wrong in the world than truly appreciate what is right. It may take some training, but start by seeing what you want for yourself and those you love, and simply expect it to happen.

Exercise: Journal Code: NOT

Start your day with Positive Energy Activator. That a few moments three times a week to jot out a quick note or card. Two or three sentences are enough. It is a personal note, It must be a physical object expressing your feelings positive energy. You will see. People hold onto these little expressions like they are treasures.

You will be writing these notes these note three times a week. Write them to anyone who you’d like to give encouragement, or thanks, or advice, or just to say I miss you. You will drop off at the post office or deliver it to a mailbox, or leave it in an envelope on a desk. It can be written to a business associate who has been impressive. Yes, even a thank you note for a present or a recent dinner party will count. Make a gesture to someone who you’d like to know better, or an understanding missive to a friend who could use a kind work. Use your imagination. Begin to line up your contact list. It will grow longer every day. During the next 90 days you may send out close to 40 cards, and you will be spreading a tangible example of positive energy.

Now you should know that at first, people may mot know what to make of your notes. We are not used to getting unsolicited support. They may be suspicious that you have an ulterior motive. So don’t get discouraged if you are not immediately contacted in return. But you will be filled a vault with positive energy, much of which will returned in unexpected ways. Your recipients will file away your gesture and look for a reason to do something nice in return, creating a cycle of positive energy.

Yes, this requires you to put yourself out there. You are making the effort to activate positive energy. For those who are sky or don’t like to write, it is even more important tjo do this exercise. Id you run out of people, get creative. Remember old friends you haven’t spoken to in years. Write to a congressman or a child from an orphanage. Send notes of encouragement to anyone you admire. Repeat notes to the same people are allowed. Some lucky cardholder will look forward to more. They may have a drawer full of them eventually. Think of how many people will keep them and read them and smile all over again.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confident.

If you search for the positive in life, positive energy will find you.

This is not just a saying. There are scientifically measured methods that help make it so. One of them is the Reticular Activating System, it’s actually a filter. If you can program yourself to allow specific, positive and useful information to enter your consciousness, all sorts of doors will begin to open.

Our conscious mind is able to sort through 30,000 bits of information per second. There’s much more that that coming at our senses at any given time. But 30,000 bits is more than enough information for us to be able to function. In essence, your subconscious mind is offering information on a need to know basic. Potentially dangerous situations are always red-tagged with emotion. That which is familiar or things you admire are almost always given priority.

For instance, if you’re ever bought a car you will soon notice that everyone seems to be driving the same model. Or you might have heard a new word or phase, and suddenly it seems to be on everyone’s lips.

It may seem that anything you’ve invested with emotion is fast tracked to your brain. And that goes for negative things as well. If you are really bothered by people cutting into line in front of you, then you will notice it happened all the time.

So begin to program yourself to see good, and there will be more good. If you are lacking in opportunities, know that opportunities abound. By noticing and feeling good about opportunities where ever they occur and to whomever they occur, you will be opening your RAS sensitivity to opportunities that may be tapping you on the shoulder.

Keep in mind this important point. These techniques are a means of changing the way we approach life from the inside out. You may really, really want a new car. But that doesn’t mean you’ll get it. Crossing your fingers and hoping for better life, pretty much guaranteed you’ll never get it. We have to adjust the way we think first. It’s always a new way of thinking that comes first, before our circumstances ever change.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.