Unleashing Mind Power
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.
Your true mental power lies in your conscious mind, the waking state that you are in now because only through this state that you can communicate effectively with your Self. However, please consider that communication here does not only mean things that you constantly speak to yourself; it also includes your imagination, visualization, emotions, thoughts, will and memory. Things that you do inside your head can influence the way of your subconscious works because it takes seriously what you constantly feed it. It does not deal with things that are true or good, it only deals with things that it believes is true or good and the way that you communicate your message determines what it believes to be good or true.
One of the biggest traps that most people fall into is the repetitive negative thoughts that they have inside their heads. The more that think in that particular way, the more things will fashion in that particular order. It could not be the other way round. The subconscious mind is very similar to your garden and your habitual thoughts and beliefs are the seed that you constantly sow on it. Sooner or later, it will produce a crop that matches the seeds that you have sown onto it earlier. If you plant apple, you’ll get apple and if you plant weed, you’ll get weed. In other words, you reap what you sow, there’s nothing truer than this ancient wisdom.
“The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.”
~ Bruce Lee
So in order for your mental power to work effectively and towards the good, you must consistently nourish your subconscious with positive thoughts, emotions and energy. Stay away from negative people and bad news because they influence a lot the way you work your mental faculty. If you ever sense negativity around the corner, run away as fast as you can. The faster you get away, the safer your mind will be.
You can only achieve your highest potential by working on both the conscious and subconscious mind. This is a dual mind system and it could never work if either one is shut down. Learn to take control of your mental power.
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