The Subconscious Mind:  It’s a kind of mental hard drive where every single experience you have had throughout your entire life, real or imagined is stored. The subconscious mind’s storage capacity is virtually limitless provided that the information is stored in the right way.  A memory is not just information it’s an entire experience stored as a program with a trigger and a short cut that allows you to access it. If someone asks you to think of a red apple your eyes often spontaneously move as if they are searching an imaginary screen is side your head. In fact it’s as if we can see into our minds with our eyes. The expression ‘the eyes are the windows to the soul’ may not be too far from the mark.  Perhaps ‘a window’ is a more accurate analogy, something that you can see through on both sides and where you could be both the observer and the observed depending on which side you look.  Now just imagine if you could look through a window (not a mirror) at yourself looking at yourself with your awareness in both places simultaneously. It’s a mind bending concept for the conscious mind to cope with; just thinking about this can make you feel like you are being split into two!

If you practice for a while you may find this shift in awareness difficult to cope with and end up with two different aspects or parts of yourself one on either side of the window. Depending on how you feel (your emotional state) you maybe on either side of the window.  If you have a sense of being inside a house or outside in a garden you may choose to be outside on a beautiful summers day however if it’s raining and miserable outside you may choose to be inside.  As this is just an imaginary world you can decide on the weather or any other element. There could be two worlds totally different with different rules and even existing in different time zones, anything is possible if we use our imagination. Depending on what I say now you will find yourself making decisions in an imaginary world using hypothetical concepts and this entire imaginary experience will be stored in your subconscious. Later if I were to say: ‘do you remember when I asked you to think about being on either side of the window’?  It would immediately trigger a memory of the experience even though the entire exercise took place in your imagination. The interesting thing about the Subconscious mind is that it cannot tell the difference between a real or imagined experience it’s only your conscious mind that’s capable deciding whether something is real or not. The ability of your conscious mind to decide on the authenticity of a specific experience is entirely dependent on you conscious filters.

The complex nature of awareness is fascinating and the ability of the human mind to cope with multiple states and locations (MSL) within an imaginary world is truly amazing.  

Have you ever been really angry? Can you remember a particular situation where you were absolutely furious? Do you remember how you reacted to the people around you at that time? Most people find that when they experience a powerful negative or even positive emotion they slip into an alternate personally with a completely different view of the world and they respond to people in ways that they may be embarrassed about later. 

Strong emotional states affect the mental processes in the brain and even a persons intelligence levels.  Angry people seem to regress down the evolutionary scale and appear to become less intelligent the angrier they get. On the other end of the scale we can experience a state of clarity where everything we do feels so easy and ideas seem to flow in abundance.   So there is a direct relationship between powerful emotions and a person ability to access their full intelligence potential. It’s as if each person has individual personas or intelligences within them and depending on the circumstances our consciousness can shift and we find ourselves behaving in a totally different way.

As well as a behavioural change there is often an accompanying energy shift that takes place within a person. Some people become physically stronger when they get angry others weaker and this change in energy takes place on multiple levels and can have other unexpected side effects. Emotion is the most powerful tool a human being possesses and a person that has total control over their emotions can achieve anything if they use that control wisely.

Have you ever wanted to do something but felt that a part of you was holding you back? Usually this is caused by a persona within your subconscious that has become detached from the hole. Imagine a child on a school trip that gets lost from a group of his classmates. As he searches for his friends, he become more and unsure of himself and an overwhelming sense of loneliness takes hold, this triggers a lack of self confidence and the feeing continues until he manage to find the group.

It’s this sense of uncertainty that makes us feel uncomfortable with a particular idea or decision. By asking the Higher Self to reintegrate the part that has become separated we can regain our confidence and find that decision making is more exciting instead of an ordeal.