A Benevolent Stranger

This week we learned more about the subconscious mind and how we are the masters of our own destiny – way more than I ever thought about it before. Previously, I thought this just meant that we can choose, consciously, to pursue goals. That’s only tangentially accurate.

The conscious mind is concerned mostly with the outside world; data that we receive from our five senses, reasoning, judgement, and the like.

The subconscious mind not only handles the automation of keeping us alive but it is a vastly powerful part of our brain that we can use to set our lives in motion. The subconscious mind is composed of 40 billion pathways compared to thousands of pathways in the conscious mind.

The subconscious mind is the running program that was programmed in prior to the 7th year of life – not by our own choice, and not with our permission. This is the program that we received through watching and learning from parents, teachers, etc.

BUT it is malleable if we put forth the effort to do so. How? By using the law of dual thought – putting a strong emotion with the thought – we can push our wants and needs into our subconscious mind.

Most people live life backwards. They look at possible outcomes to determine whether an idea has merit. Mark used the example of someone who wanted to go to Paris but doesn’t have any money.

The intention was to go to Paris but the method (money) wasn’t available. But, if we reverse it, and supply an earnest desire with a firm demand and emotion, then amazing things can happen!

The desire gets pushed to the vastly powerful subconscious mind that never sleeps, where it can leverage the 40 billion neural connections to find the methods to make the desire happen.

Literally the subconscious mind manifests methods to reach our goals! Have you ever wanted something to so badly and then it came about in a manner that you didn’t even consciously consider?

But a word of caution, and this will resonate with parents everywhere – the conscious mind is the watchman, guarding the subconscious mind. If we are not careful about what gets into the subconscious, we may have much more work to do to get it out.

We can’t talk to it, nor reason with it – we can only change it through effort, intention, and emotion. This takes a lot more effort and time than guarding it at the outset. This really struck me with all of the inputs we have nowadays to our minds.

The subconscious mind is the benevolent stranger that is never sleeping and ever working on our behalf to supply us with mature fruit of our wildest dreams, if we allow it to work correctly for us.

As I said last week, this class couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time in my life. I am wildly excited about learning more next week!