If you have ever gone through self-help books and audio programs, chances are you discovered that most of them place a lot of emphasis 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 stress a lot on this unlimited power that you possess within. The question is, “Is it the only power that you really need or Is it the only mind that you need to pay attention to?”
Either way, the answer would be No!.
While the subconscious mind 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 good. So the key word here is ‘conscious’ since without the interference from the conscious mind, the subconscious could never achieve anything. After all, the subconscious is a mind that can 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 act upon on.
The subconscious is very similar to the genie that stays inside 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 needs before it can work on it. Commands from your conscious mind serve as the direction for your subconscious to precisely bring you what you desire!
The keyword here is desire! Desire is the driving force for all creativity and genius, and insanity too!
Say if you want a healthy lifestyle, you have to communicate that vision 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 receives your message. All you need to do is just let it perform 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 can you communicate effectively with your Higher 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 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.
God is no respector of persons, one very famous book once said.
One of the biggest traps that most people fall into is the repetitive negative thoughts that they have inside their heads. The more you think in a particular way, regardless of the nature of your thoughts, the more things will happen in that particular order - always, unless and until you change your mind!
The subconscious mind is very similar to your garden and your habitual thoughts and beliefs are the seed that you constantly sow in it. Sooner or later, it will produce a crop that matches the seeds that you have sown onto it. If you plant an apple, you’ll get apples multiplied and, if you plant weed, you’ll get weed, the best there is!
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 your common 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 of 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.
