Subconscious Mind

We possess within us two minds.Our subconscious mind contains such power and complexity that it literally staggers the imagination. We know that this subconscious

mind controls and orchestrates our bodily functions, from pumping blood to all parts of our body to regulating our breathing and digestion. We further know that the subconscious has recorded every event that has ever happened to us. Every incident in our personal history is recorded within, along with the emotions and thoughts evoked by those incidents.

It is also from this second mind that we can receive invaluable guidance and direction. Through our intuition,dreams, feelings and hunches, our subconscious will bring to us the ideas, insights and solutions needed to satisfy all our needs and desires. We are never alone or without guidance once we have awakened this inner faculty. And finally the subconscious is the mechanism through which thought impulses which are repeated regularly with feeling and emotion are quickened, charged and changed into their physical equivalent. You may voluntarily plant in your subconscious mind any plan, thought or purpose which

you desire to translate into its physical counterpart, and that counterpart will manifest itself for you. The subconscious is creative, prolific and ever-ready to serve you. Yet so few of us understand how to use its power. In order to understand how the conscious and subconscious minds work together as a team to create your reality, let me again use an analogy. Your subconscious mind is like fertile soil which accepts any seed you plant within it. Your habitual thoughts and beliefs are the seeds which are being constantly sown within, and they produce in your life what is planted just as surely as corn kernels produce corn. You will reap what you sow. This is a law.

Remember, the conscious mind is the gardener. It is our responsibility to be aware of and choose wisely what reaches the inner garden. But unfortunately for most of us our role as gardener has never been explained to us. And in misunderstanding our role, we have allowed seeds of all types, both good and bad, to enter our inner garden. This then is the cause of all that is happening in our life. If you wish to understand

why fortune or misfortune is happening to you in any area of your life, you need only look within. The subconscious will not discriminate. It will manifest failure, ill health and misfortune just as easily as success and abundance. It works to reproduce in our life according to what seeds we have nurtured within. Your subconscious accepts what is impressed upon it with feeling and emotion whether these thoughts are positive or negative. It does not evaluate things like your conscious mind, and it does not argue with you.

If you want to make changes in your life, you must look to the cause, and the cause is the way you are using the conscious mind—the way you are thinking and picturing in your mind. You cannot think both negative and positive thoughts at the same time. One or the other must dominate. The mind is a creature of habit, so it becomes your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions and thoughts constitute the dominating influence of your mind. In order to change external conditions, you must first change the internal. Most people try to change conditions and circumstances by working directly with those conditions and circumstances. This always proves futile, or at the very best temporary, unless it is accompanied by a change of thoughts and beliefs.

Awakening to this truth, the way to a better, more successful life becomes crystal clear. Train your conscious mind to think thoughts of success, happiness, health, prosperity, and to weed out fear and worry. Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and make sure the thoughts you habitually think are based upon what you want to see happen in your life.

Here the "law of habit" can assist you. Form the habit of practicing daily all the principles contained in this book. Don't just read the chapters, but take the principles and techniques into your life and make them a living reality for you. Water takes the shape of whatever container holds it, whether it be in a glass, a vase or a river bank. Likewise, your subconscious will create and manifest according to the image

you habitually project upon it through your daily thinking . This is how your destiny is created. Your life is in your hands to make of it what you choose.

Courtesy : John Kehoe (Mind Power in to the 21st Century)