Do I have a subconscious mind? What the hell is it?Is there such a thing as a subconscious mind? What the hell is it? Do I want to know about it? Where did I put my keys? Oh wait... There is a lot of information available about guiding your "subconscious" mind to help you achieve desirable results in your life.
I prefer other terms better than "subconscious mind" because the "sub" makes me think part of my mind is "under" or "below" my awarness. I don't really think it works that way, but since I don't really know, I am willing to go with it.
So, for the purpose of this page I am going to offer up what I beleive other people are talking about when they refer to the "subconscious mind"
Subconscious Mind: "That part of my mind that I am not presently aware of or thinking about in the momment. This part of my mind could be thought of as a universal mind or my higher self. The universal mind knows everything I need to know and I can access the past and the future from it's deep well of knowledge".
This definition works well enough for me because it allows for the existence of that universal mind, or even a higher self that is connected to the universal mind.
I believe that I can access guidance, knowledge, insights and wisdom from the universal mind. The fact that I don't walk around conscious of the universal mind every moment is because it would not be practical to walk around on earth that way.
Why? Allow me to explain (or sum up as it were).
When I consciously and intentinally connect to the universal mind, I turn my attention inward and intentionally attempt to disconnect from my outward sensory input. I close my eyes, relax my body, try to quiet my mind.
If I did this while I was say, driving a car, I might create some interesting "earthly effects" indeed!
Also, on a practical note, I can't hold more than about maybe 7-10 bits of info at one moment in my puny short term memory. I am incredibly horrifically untalented when it comes to feats of short term memory.
But, I can access vast amounts of data that is stored in long-term memory which I think is "somewhere else"...and that somewhere else is the universal mind. I think doctors think that the brain stores long-term memories, but I don't think they really "know" for certain.
I tend to believe that our "brains" are akin to network interface cards that connect somehow to recall long-term memories. This makes more sense to me than the idea that our brains are like a hard drives storing data.
I remember a story about a doctor that was trying to find out which part of then brain held long-term memories. So, he taught a cat a trick, and then figured that the cat knew the trick well enough to believe that the cat had stored the trick in long-term memory.
Then, we started slicing away pieces of the cat's brain (yikes) until the cat finally died. Right up until the last and fatal cut, the cat could do the trick... ...which makes me think that the cat still had his network interface card connected to the place where the trick was stored and the data was somewhere "outside" his "kitty" brain matter.
The univeral mind is also provids guidance to me and responds to questions. I ask difficult questions to complex problems to the universal mind, and then get quite simple responses, answers, and directions about how to proceed.
So there is some intelligence and wisdom at work in the univeral mind...its not just a data center.
So, I will answer this question: "Do I have a subconscious mind?". As long, as I get to define the term, then I will answer "YES!" I have a subconsious mind and so do you. I, however, perfer to use the term "universal mind", but you say tomatoe, I say tomato... Call it what you will, I think it is much more than brain matter that is working without your awarness. Through different techniques and tools, you to can consciously and intentionally connect to the unversial mind...just don't try it when you are driving!
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