The Subconscious Mind - Part 1

 

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The Subconscious Mind - Part 1

Our subconscious mind keeps absorbing information every second through our five senses – sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. This is an ongoing process and as most of us live a life in blissful ignorance about the quantum of information which is being pushed into our subconscious mind, we live in happy ignorance. The subconscious mind goes beyond learning new skills. The subconscious mind goes beyond learning new skills. It's involved in information processing and affects everything we think, say and do. It stores our beliefs and values, determines our memories and monitors the information all around us, deciding what to send to the conscious mind and what to store for later. Nature has given humans an absolute control over the information that enters the subconscious mind, through the five senses. However, this does not mean that everyone exercises this control. Even more, in the majority of cases the average person does not exercise this control.

Everything on earth happens for a reason – there is nothing like chance, luck or coincidence, whatever happens does so for a reason, it is just that we do not know the reason because we live in ‘ignorance’. The best thing that meditation or mindfulness practice can do to you, is to increase your awareness and help you realise the reason behind certain incidents which take place in life. When your subconscious mind starts working for you then things just start happening positively in your favour. You get a thought and that manifests and you start wondering how the hell did this happen.

Swamiji calls this chitta shakti, the power of the subconscious mind – we are now stepping into that era – this is the beginning of that change. Earlier brute physical strength was a sign of one’s power, then it became one’s inventions, then one’s intelligence and now we are progressing towards chitta shakti yug (era of power of intent). Invariably nowadays when I think of someone that person calls, if it is raining and I have to go out, then the rain stops till I get into the car of find a cab, I have no problems of parking in this crowded city – I always get a parking spot without any major waiting period – cars just exit the parking slot as my car drives in – I have no idea how this happens – maybe it is something to do with being in tune with the universe – I don’t know. But all these little incidents indicate that the subconscious mind is working in the background to clear obstacles for you.

The subconscious mind is always talking to you – the question is, ‘Are you listening?’ You start tuning in only when you reach a certain state on meditating regularly. I am sure quite a few of you too must have experienced what I have just mentioned above. I will continue on this topic in the next post too.