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Subconscious Mind 101

March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments

Most people have heard or even spoken the word, “Subconscious” but do they really know what subconscious is?

The meaning of “sub” means below or under and when it is read together with the word conscious, it literally means below or under consciousness. So subconscious is the mind that operates below the level of your normal consciousness.  Unconscious is sometimes used to substitute the word subconscious.

First and foremost, human minds are made up of two virtual parts: the conscious and the subconscious. As the word ‘virtual’ means, there’s really no way that we could separate the two minds and locate them in different parts of our bodies. It’s not possible because the mind and the body are really two different entities. Please bear in mind that your brain is not your mind. The brain like your liver and heart is just an organ that performs numerous vital activities in sustaining your life.

The subconscious is powerful but please take note that it is not in the sense that the subconscious is better or greater than the conscious. Subconscious and conscious are both great tools only when we know how to use them wisely and correctly. Both subconscious and conscious play different roles in sustaining our lives and which also mean they both compliment with each other. The subconscious cannot substitute the conscious and vice-versa. For that, we could not prefer one than the other; they are just two different kind of minds that possess different strengths and usage.

The conscious mind is the part or level of your mind which are reading this article; the state where you have your full awareness. Conscious is the mind that does all the thinking and it guides you in making decision. It thinks in a logical way and thus, it possesses the ability of reasoning and very often, the solutions that come up by the conscious mind are always to serve to our best, at least in its own perception.

On the other hand, the subconscious is the part of your mind that does not possess the ability of reasoning because it could never think. Some people even refer the subconscious as the dumb mind. It makes no decision and it depends entirely on the conscious mind to feed it information. Whatever the conscious mind impress on it will be taken seriously whether it is right or wrong, good or bad. They just make no difference to the subconscious; everything looks the same and it is its job to execute them.

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Unleashing Mind Power

March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment

In lesson 101, we have been generally introduced to both the workings of conscious and subconscious. Now, it’s time to revisit the conscious mind. If you have gone through self-development books and audio programs, you would definitely find out that most of them have placed a lot of emphasize on the subconscious mind. Even bestsellers like “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” by Dr Joseph Murphy and “The Subconscious Mind: A Source of Unlimited Power” by Erhard F. Freitag stresses a lot on this unlimited power that you possess within.  The question is, “It is the only power that you really need or It is the only mind that you need to pay attention to?”

Well, it’s a definite No.

While the subconscious might be great in terms of achieving what you want, it is however useless if one does not know how to employ it. This hidden power is always there whether you use it consciously or not because it is your responsibility to channel it for your own benefits. So the key word here is ‘conscious’ since without the interference from the conscious mind, the subconscious could never achieve anything. If you still can recall from lesson 101, the subconscious is a mind that could never think and reason. Its job is not to process but to execute and thus, it depends entirely to the conscious mind for information that it can acts upon on.

The subconscious is very similar to the genie that stays inside the Aladdin’s Lamp. In this case you are Aladdin and the genie is the subconscious. You commands and wishes is the information that the genie need before it can work on it. They serve as the direction for the genie aka your subconscious to precisely bring you want you want. Say if you want a healthy lifestyle, you have to communicate it clearly so that your genie knows what you want to achieve. The subconscious is the mind that works under the radar; it does not need your conscious interference once it received your message. All you need to do is just let it performs what you want from it.

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