We all are aware of our physical mind but know very little about our subconscious mind though it plays a very important role in our lives. The Subconscious mind and the conscious or physical mind are two different things. A person can have a highly developed intellectual physical mind but it’s not necessary to have a developed subconscious mind. Acquiring worldly knowledge can sharpen your physical mind, but will not develop your subconscious mind. Even spiritual knowledge alone will not help your subconscious mind to evolve. It is only when you put that knowledge into practice that the subconscious mind grows. Therefore, the key to spiritual growth is pure action. The more open your subconscious mind, the more guidance and protection you will receive from the spirit world. Your subconscious mind must control your physical mind but often we are all controlled by our physical mind. Never let your physical mind make you its slave. Your subconscious mind is your link to the spirit world through which you receive protection and guidance from spirit souls. What is the role of the Subconscious mind? The Subconscious mind is both your guarding light as well as your guiding light. It serves as a spiritual radar. It warns you when you are about to make a choice that is spiritually wrong; therefore it guards your soul. But the spiritual path is not only about resisting temptation. It is not enough to stop yourself from doing wrong. More than anything, the path to God involves doing what is spiritually right. So, after guarding your soul by preventing it from taking the wrong actions, the subconscious mind guides you towards what is morally right.

IF EVERYONE ON EARTH HAS A SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, WHY DO PEOPLE FOLLOW THE WRONG PATH?

There will be times when you will have a clash of opinion between your physical mind and your subconscious mind. This is because the physical mind is rational – it may want to pursue a path or action that is logical – but the subconscious mind might be against it. It may seem as though the two minds are at war. This is a good thing. If there is no war between the physical and subconscious minds it means your subconscious mind is not working and your physical mind is controlling you fully. No human being on Earth can be led completely by his subconscious mind. This is because the average human being’s subconscious mind is open very little (1% to 2%). however, the subconscious mind is so powerful that even though only a fraction of it is open it still manages to warn your physical mind, which is 100% open.

IF THE TWO MINDS ARE CONSTANTLY AT WAR, HOW CAN WE AT PEACE?

You can strive for peace by acknowledging the battle between the physical mind and the subconscious mind and ensuring, through prayer and positive action, that the subconscious mind wins. The physical mind is very anxious to make you its slave and lead you down the path of spiritual decline by providing justifications for all your wrong actions. Peace of mind comes when you learn to listen to the subconscious mind and take the right actions.

HOW CAN YOU MAKE YOUR PHYSICAL MIND COOPERATE WITH SUBCONSCIOUS MIND?

You need to know the nature of the physical mind. Just as the subconscious mind is your spiritual, positive mind, the physical mind, by nature, is earthbound and negative. If not checked, it will let you down. It will trick you. It creates illusions. For example, when you commit a sin, your subconscious mind you that you have done something wrong. Just as you about to rectify that mistake and learn the lesson, your physical mind brings into action its greatest weapon: ego. Ego makes you justify your wrong actions, tricking you into believing that what you did was not wrong, but necessary. It will put forward a brilliant logical argument and you will be swayed. The voice of your subconscious mind will rise and speak out, but you will silence it because the physical mind has given you reasons. It has told you that you are right through logic. We do not mean that logic is bad, but logic and truth are not the same things. Unfortunately, people use logic to run away from the truth. The physical mind gives you logic; the subconscious mind gives you the truth. Another weapon that the physical mind possesses is doubt. It will plant the seed of doubt within you that challenges your faith and wisdom. The subconscious mind is the seat of truth and is therefore all-knowing; it helps you transcend doubt, but only if you allow it to steer your soul. If you nurture the seed of doubt, you slowly weaken your connection to the spirit world, for doubt essentially leads to one question: Do I believe in God? Listen to the subconscious mind for it is your master, your connection to your good self and your God-self. The physical mind has weaknesses by developing the subconscious mind. The most harmful aspect of the physical mind is that it is habit-forming and comfortable with its bad habits. It will seize the chance to talk to it and confess the wrong they have done, in order to avoid a physical blow. when we use the word ‘confess’ we mean a genuine desire to change. I will leave you with a famous quote by William James

“The power to move the world is in your subconscious mind”.
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