🌳 The Power of the Subconscious 🌳

Hello, my friends!

Here is an article on the power of the subconscious mind, and how we can begin to work consciously with this power.

I hope you enjoy!

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"Now, today and over the course, I’ve spoken loads about the power of the subconscious mind.

Let’s review quickly to paint a clear picture.

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Our unconscious stories have more power over our lives than our conscious efforts.

So, the first task in this space is to inventory the subconscious stories and clear away those that no longer serve us.

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Energy flows where attention goes.

And it’s relatively easy for us to notice our conscious attention and see where it is going.

Energy is a creative force, one that builds situations in the outer world, and which aligns with specific outcomes.

But our attention is not directed only by our conscious mind.

We also have subconscious threads of attention sent out, and these have even more impact upon our lives than our conscious attention.

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One way that we can think of this is in terms of manifestation.

Let’s say that you have something you want, and you try to focus on it, sending your energy and will to that particular outcome.

And let’s say that deep down, you don’t really believe it will happen.

In moments like these, our conscious and subconscious minds are at odds with one another.

And here’s a tip: on a long enough timeline, the subconscious always wins.

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If you’d like to understand this a bit better, imagine the energy of your attention and will is like water.

The conscious mind carries buckets of water, one at a time, and pours them in the direction of the conscious focus.

It takes work, and it gets exhausting trying to maintain something like this over a long period.

The subconscious is like a constant gentle rain in the background.

It works more slowly, but more globally.

And it takes no conscious effort at all.

Which means your subconscious mind is sending energy out on automatic, aligning with specific outcomes that match your subconscious emotions and stories.

It takes NO EFFORT, and it is ALWAYS ACTIVE.

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And this is just a peek.

The subconscious mind directs our bodies how to grow, coordinating the symphony of autonomic functions.

To understand how deep this goes, just consider the placebo effect.

We have to test every medication’s efficacy against the placebo effect, because believing that we have had a treatment can cause our bodies to heal.

The subconscious receives the instructions, the new belief that it will be healed, and responds accordingly.

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This will not work when we have extremely strong counter-stories which cause the situation to persist.

But as soon as we loosen the hold of the subconscious weight against us, the belief in our healing has an almost magical power.

If our subconscious mind accepts this new story, it will cause the body to transform organically to match.

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And that’s not all.

The subconscious mind primes our perception to interpret the world in certain ways.

You will see what you expect to see.

If you believe it, you will see it.

If you have strong emotion and story around a particular situation or person, you will see this story and emotion played out in your perception of that person or situation.

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Our perception is powerfully influenced by things we carry in the subconscious, as well as by signals that we subconsciously receive and respond to.

We’re picking up stuff from the world around us all the time that’s too subtle for our conscious mind to notice.

And yet, we respond to it, in our bodies, hearts and minds.

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And still, it goes further.

Your subconscious mind holds a record of everything that you have experienced.

It processes all of this information with lightning speed, through parallel processing and association, rather than the linear processing of the conscious mind.

In fact, the conscious mind itself is a tiny fraction of our whole Being.

And the entire function of the conscious mind is to act as an interface between the context of this moment and the wealth of our subconscious information.

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It’s like an app. Like a program with only a certain amount of processing power.

While the bulk of our processing power is assigned to the subconscious mind.

So the key with all of this is that our energies are better spent harmonizing the conscious and subconscious minds than trying to double-down with conscious effort.

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But how do we do that? The subconscious mind is, by definition, something that we’re not conscious of.

How can we become conscious of the subconscious, so that we can clear the crap that’s creating situations we’re ready to grow past? How can we harmonize the functions of the conscious and subconscious so that we can use the clear intention of the conscious mind with the inspiration and power of the subconscious? Here are three different approaches:

1. Shadow Work

With shadow work, we understand that the outer world is a precise reflection of the inner world.

We look at the conditions we experience in the outer world, and we ask, how did I contribute to this?

How did I make it happen, or attract it, or navigate to it?

What’s my side of the street look like?

And, whenever we experience outer world challenge, we use the mirror of the world as a diagnostic tool to tune in to cores of suppressed emotion and limiting belief.

This requires awareness, accountability, and humility.

But clearing the subconscious crap will transform your life much more quickly and deeply than consciously adding a new element to the equation.

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2. Meditation and Energy Work

Meditation is a shift of mind state which brings the conscious and subconscious functions closer together.

It is our subconscious mind that directs our energy, so meditation is a way to enter the state in which we can most effectively (and intentionally) move energy.

Slowing down, we open our awareness of the body, heart, and mind, and we naturally move to harmonize the whole being.

And, by becoming aware of our energy, we tune in to a range of subtle feedback regarding our whole being.

We can learn to consciously read this energy, and gain insight into our subconscious blockages, imbalances, and loops.

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3. Ritual

When we perform a ritual or ceremony, we are partnering the conscious and subconscious minds.

The conscious mind speaks in logic and concept. But the subconscious mind speaks in symbol and association.

When we perform a ritual, we set a clear intention, and then take action that has specific meaning.

This formalizes the intention and meaning to be received by the subconscious mind.

So, let us say that you are writing on a piece of paper something that you would like to release from your life.

And then you hold the intention in your mind and heart, and then throw the paper into the fire.

This is magic.

It is ritual.

The power of this ritual comes from within, from the awesome natural power of the subconscious mind.

The mechanism of the ritual is a drama play, a formalization of intention, danced out in the outer world, directed by the conscious mind.

So that this symbolic action can be received by the subconscious mind and acted upon.

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You can see that these three ways of harnessing the power of the subconscious mind are very different. And yet, they are all expressions of the same principle.

All of our higher faculties arise from the interaction between the conscious and subconscious mind.

And when we make a good partnership, our ability skyrockets, even as things require less and less effort.

This is one of the first things that I explored on my journey, and it paved the way for incredible learning, vibrant health, and amazing depths of creativity and inspiration.

Working consciously with our inner world makes everything else so much easier."

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This lecture has been drawn from the Pathways in Consciousness course.

It is from Week 13 of the 16-week course, in which we discuss Clearing the Thought Trails.

If you have any questions or you'd like to know more, all questions or thoughts are welcome in the comments.

Thanks and blessings, beautiful beings!