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THE SUBCONCIOUS

To make all of our choices, we use both our conscious mind and our subconscious. According to scientists our conscious mind is in comparison to our subconscious mind as big as the tennis ball is compared to an elephant. The subconscious is like a gigantic hard disk and the conscious mind like a processor that spins one or two programs at a time. Behind every choice there is a feeling. The mind gives justification to our decision but most of our evaluating comes from our subconscious memory bank.

The subconscious holds everything we’ve seen and felt – our experiences. These experiences are called perceptions. There is always an image and feeling attached to each experience.

The fact I always feel sick when I smell rose hip tea is because I suffered painful stomach flu in the spring of 1986 and when I couldn’t drink coffee, I tried to sip on some rose hip tea. There is such a powerful memory image and memory feeling attached to this occasion that the smell causes my subconscious to spin so fast it tells my conscious to “watch out, or you’ll get a message from downstairs”.

 

Mathematician Peter Ouspensky calculated in his book In Search of the Miraculous1, the subconscious mind may function up to 30 000 times faster than the conscious mind.

The subconscious is both an information bank and a search engine. Its job is to ensure, the human being functions as he has been programmed to function. The subconscious is in operation around the clock and delivers the same harvest sown into it. The subconscious is not capable of evaluating what is true and what is a lie. It believes almost everything it is told.

If you constantly repeat, “this is not working out”, you sow this behavioral pattern into your subconscious. If you sow in hope, excitement and faith, you will be given back the same.

Our eyes see much more than our brains can process on a conscious level.

According to studies, the total capacity of our subconscious mind is 400 billions bits when our conscious observation is only 2000 bits. More information enters our subconscious through our eyes than we imagine. The brain can’t tell the difference between what it sees and what it remembers or visualizes. To our brain the past is no more real than our goals or our vision for the future. Philosophically we could even ask, “Which is more real, the future or the past?” Our brains cannot answer this question because it doesn’t see any difference between different dimensions. The same synapses (the connections between different neurons, nerve cells in our brain) are used in both cases.

 

An old tale tells the Native Americans simply couldn’t see Columbus’ ship sailing in the horizon because they didn’t believe it was real. It took a long time for their brains to agree to register the ship as real. From this we can conclude we only see what we believe to be real or true.