I've been with my mom for the past several days

as my dad is very ill and in the hospital.

With lots of time on my hands...

sitting around the hospital...

I've been doing a lot of reading

and reflection....

primarily on the power of the

Subconscious Mind.


It's a fascinating topic, but one that I feel

is often misunderstood, or just too "out there"

for some and so they choose not to consider it

at all.


What is the subconscious mind?

Well, it first helps to understand that we all

have a Conscious Mind

and a Subconscious Mind.

Your conscious mind is the thinker in you...

it's objective and responsible for reasoning and weighing decisions.


Your subconscious mind, on the other hand,

is subjective...

subjective to your conscious mind

because it accepts what your conscious mind tells it.

Your subconscious mind is your intuition...

your gut instincts...

again, based on what it has learned.


Ever drive home from work and suddenly realize

you've pulled up in your driveway and kinda

"spaced" the whole drive home?

You were able to do that because your

subconscious mind

took over while your

conscious mind was focusing on other things.

It was able to do that because your

conscious mind trained your subconscious mind

to do that...through repetition.

Your conscious mind has done that drive for you

hundreds, probably thousands of times...

and in doing so, trained your subconscious mind

to take over on occassion

when your conscious mind

has more pressing matters to focus on.


Think of the implications of that...

what else could you "train" your subconscious mind

to do through repetition?


There are those that say that your

subconscious mind and your higher power...

God...

are one in the same.

That when you can truly focus and allow your

subconscious mind to open up and accept all

that you want it to,

you are actaully becoming one with Him.


You can further look at this concept as

FAITH.

If you plant a seed, you have faith that it will grow.

That's what seeds do....

and trusting or having faith in

the laws of growth and agriculture,

you know the seed will do what seeds do.


FAITH then, is a way of thinking..

an attitude of mind...

knowing that the idea you fully accept in your conscious mind

will be planted in your subconscious mind...

it has to!

EVERYTHING that passes through your conscious mind

is planted in your subconscious mind.


It's what you do with that seed

that then determines its growth and manifestation.


Faith is, in a sense,

accepting as true what your reason and senses deny.

It is refusing to listen to the little

rational, analytical, objective...

conscious mind

and embracing an attitude of complete reliance

on your subconscious mind.

Faith is believing against all reasoning.


Faith is the difficult side of the subjective mind...

it's no joke...

it's is what keeps many from realizing

their goals and dreams.


I don't know about you, but I've struggled for years

with the concept of God.

There's the whole creation vs. evolution thing...

and I'm not here to start a debate on this topic...

I merely point that out as a means of further

explaining faith and the power of the subconsciou mind.

The belief in the concept of a higher power

is FAITH...

the kind of faith I described above.

It's the subconscious mind believing...

that God exists despite all the scientific rationalization.


That doesn't mean that you have to believe in God

in order to realize your subconscious mind...

but I think that realizing your subconscious mind

certainly lends itself to accepting Him a little easier.

I know it helps me to understand it all a little better.


I know that's a lot and it's kinda deep

but that's what I've been focusing on the past several days

and I wanted to share it with you.


Just keep in mind,

that the subconscious mind...

is where our creative ideas manifest...

that FAITH lives in your subconcsious mind

and is like a seed planted in the ground...

it grows after its own kind.

Plant the idea (seed) in your mind,

water it, fertilize it with expectancy...

and it will grow and manifest.


This is how the subconscious mind works.


Cheers!
Rick