A sympathetic connection between the subconscious and conscious minds can be helpful for personal growth, self-awareness, and improving mental well-being. An excellent way to get acquainted with the two functions of your mind is to look at your mind as a garden.
Remember, you are a gardener of your mind, and you are constantly planting seeds (thoughts) in your subconscious mind depending on your regular thought patterns. As you seed in your subconscious mind, you will reap in your body and surroundings. Begin today to cultivate thoughts of peace, happiness, correct behavior, goodwill, and success. Think quietly and with curiosity about these attributes, and accept them completely in your conscious reasoning mind. Continue planting these lovely seeds (thoughts) in your mental garden, and you will reap a bountiful harvest.
Your subconscious mind might be compared to soil, which grows a variety of seeds, good and evil. Do men gather thistle figs or thorn grapes? Thus, every thought is a cause, and every circumstance is an effect. As a result, you must control your ideas to produce only desirable outcomes. When your mind thinks correctly, you will understand the truth, and the thoughts deposited in your subconscious mind are constructive, harmonious, and peaceful, Your subconscious magical working power responds and brings about harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, and the best of everything.
When you begin to control your thought processes, you can apply the powers of your subconscious to any problem or difficulty. In other words, you will actually be consciously cooperating with the infinite power and omnipotent law that govern all things. Look around you wherever you live and you will notice that the vast majority of mankind lives in the world without; the more enlightened men are intensely interested in the world within. Remember, it is the world within, namely, your thoughts, feelings, and imagery, that makes your world without.
It is, there-fore, the only creative power, and everything which you find in your world of expression, has been created by you in the inner world of your mind, consciously or unconsciously. Knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and sub-conscious minds will enable you to transform your whole life. To change external conditions, you must change the cause. Most men try to change conditions and circumstances by working with conditions and circumstances. To remove discord, confusion, lack, and limitation, you must remove the cause, and the cause is the way you are using your conscious mind. In other words, the way you are thinking and picturing in your mind. You are living in a fathomless sea of infinite riches.
Your subconscious is sensitive to your thoughts. Your thoughts form the mold or matrix through which the infinite intelligence, wisdom, vital forces, and energies of your subconscious flow. The practical application of the laws of your mind as illustrated in each chapter of this book will cause you to experience abundance for poverty, wisdom for superstition and ignorance, peace for pain, joy for sadness, light for darkness, harmony for discord, faith and confidence for fear, success for failure, and freedom from the law of averages. Certainly, there can be no more wonderful blessing than these from a mental, emotional, and material standpoint.
Most of the great scientists, artists, poets, singers, writers, and inventors have a deep understanding of the workings of the subconscious and conscious minds. One time, Caruso, the great operatic tenor, was struck with stage fright. He said:
His throat paralyzed due to spasms caused by intense fear, which constricted the muscles of his throat. Perspiration poured copiously down his face. He was ashamed because in a few minutes he had to go out on the stage, yet he was shaking with fear and trepidation.
He said,
“They will laugh at me. I can’t sing.” Then he shouted in the presence of those behind the stage, “The Little Me wants to strangle the Big Me within.”
He said to the Little Me, “Get out of here; the Big Me wants to sing through me.” By the Big Me, he meant the limitless power and wisdom of his subconscious mind, and he began to shout, “Get out, get out; the Big Me is going to sing!”
His subconscious mind responded, releasing crucial forces within him. When the call came, he strode onto the stage and sang beautifully and majestically, captivating the audience. It is clear now that Caruso must have recognized the two levels of mind: conscious or rational and subconscious or irrational. Your subconscious mind is reactive, responding to the content of your ideas. When your conscious mind (the Little Me) is filled with fear, worry, and anxiety, the negative emotions stored in your subconscious mind (the Big Me) are unleashed, flooding the aware mind with feelings of panic, foreboding, and despair.
When this occurs, you can, like Caruso, respond affirmatively and with a profound sense of authority to the irrational emotions that arise in your deeper mind as follows: “Be still, be quiet; I am in control; you must obey me; you are subject to my order, you cannot invade where you do not belong.” It is amazing and very interesting to see how you may talk authoritatively and with conviction about the irrational activity of your deeper self, bringing silence, harmony, and calm to your mind. The subconscious mind is also referred to as the subjective mind, as it is under the control of the conscious mind.
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