Tapping Into Your Subconscious

By Trish Briggs

As our conscious awareness evolves through spiritual work, our need to explore and

become fluent in the different aspects of our minds becomes imperative. There are four

aspects to our mind: unconscious, conscious, subconscious, and superconscious.

Unconscious: shared, collective, realm of psyche.

Conscious: personal identity, source/spirit, creative mind, sees future, reviews

past, solves problems, wishes, desires, aspirations, conjures positive thought.

Subconscious: responds to stimuli/ response tapes, beliefs form instinctual and

behavioral responses, habitual loops, programs, overrules conscious thought.

Superconscious: higher self, nonphysical part of yourself with elevated

perspective, wisdom from outside our usual awareness.

Until we begin exploring these other regions of the mind, our awareness is limited to

only our conscious mind, and it only runs the show about 5% of the time. This is

concerning for someone who is seeking self-actualization.

Our subconscious, the master program, is making our everyday decisions without our active awareness and mindful input. At some point, we will need to know what is happening in the subconscious.

Our subconscious is essentially “an emotionless database of stored programs whose

function is strictly concerned with reading environmental signals and engaging

hardwired behavioral programs, with no questions, no judgments made” (Lipton, p.124).

It only functions in the now, the immediate, as things are happening. Until you take the

time to become of aware of the deeper level of hidden beliefs, perceptions, thoughts,

paradigms, truths, etc., that are the basis of the program, you are basically on autopilot

for the other 95% of your time.

When conscious mind has a belief that conflicts a former learned truth stored in

subconscious, the conflict expresses itself by weakening your body’s muscles. Know

that as your body registers the conflict, every time your subconscious will overrule your

conscious because it has the stronger neurological processing muscle.

Consider this, you may have beliefs programmed in the subconscious that are out of date, limit you, and/or hinder you from fulfilling some of your desires. You may also have misperceptions that were hardwired in with certain learned behaviors or responses that the conscious-you feels are inappropriate, but you seem to go there every time.

Understand that “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your

words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits

become your values, your values become your destiny.” This process is happening

behind the scenes, your subconscious is determining your destiny without any

conscious input from you.

You can change this when you are ready.

Since it is basically a program, you can rewrite the parts that need updated, and

eliminate those that no longer apply. Engage your subconscious to uncover the

workings of the program. This is where you will do your greatest belief work.

It is possible to have the conscious and subconscious work together so that the

conscious-you can: facilitate the subconscious habitual programs, is spontaneously

creative in response to stimuli, is self-reflective and observes own behavioral

responses, stops habitual behavioral responses, and creates new responses, has free

will, is not victim of incorrect or out of date programming, and becomes the voice of its

own thoughts.

This involves a new level of awareness of self that takes manual control over his/her

own destiny by becoming consciously aware of his/her subconscious and what resides

within.

Resource: Lipton, Bruce (2015). The Biology of Belief. Hay House, Mountain of Love Productions.