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Chapter 10: Memory Mechanics Part II

In this chapter, we will continue our discussion on the role that your subconscious memory plays in the charging process. Instead of focusing on the parity of subconscious memory as it relates to positive and negative, we will actually be focusing on what could be considered a new kind of parity involved in subconscious memory. This time, we will now look at how subconscious memory behaves when it is being called or accessed in the present moment and compare that to how it behaves when it is not being called or accessed in the moment. This will allow us to talk about subconscious memory in more detail from the perspective of timing. As you will see, your most recent subconscious memories will boosts your ability to charge your subconscious energy while your older subconscious memories won’t add to your charging capabilities much at all. However, older subconscious memories do still play an important role in our intelligence and what you might categorize as learned behavior and wisdom. We will then focus on how the concept of “closeness” tends to manifest in the operation of your subconscious memory and explore some of the implications of this phenomenon. This discussion will set things up quite nicely for the next chapter, where we begin to learn the actual techniques for charging your subconscious.

PASSIVE AND ACTIVE MENTAL STATES

So far we’ve been spending a lot of our time focusing on how your subconscious memory affects the state of your subconscious. We learned that whenever your attention becomes focused on a particular subject, your subconscious accesses the specific subconscious memory that’s associated with that subject and then reverts back to the subconscious state that’s essentially stored in that memory. This will reflect the state your subconscious was in the last time you were focused on that particular subject. However, this is only showing us how your subconscious memory affects you whenever these memories are being actively recalled. But it’s not really telling us what’s going on with your subconscious memory when it’s not being actively recalled. For example when you’re not focused on the particular subject that’s associated with a specific subconscious memory, then what is that subconscious memory actually doing? Does it simply lie deep beneath the surface of your subconscious and switch to a relatively dormant and ineffective state, waiting to be recalled? Or is it doing something that has a more active effect on your subconscious?

To answer this question, I’d like to first focus on a hypothetical thought experiment that I believe will help in understanding things later on. To carry out this thought experiment, let us go back to the example of the dark alley again and say that I’m flashing a whole bunch of money at night time for any unscrupulous figure to see. I then get robbed and become very traumatized by the experience. Now whenever I think about this dark alley again at a later time, I tend to feel a strong sense of anxiety and trauma in response. In other words, the subject is the dark alley and the subconscious memory for this subject contains within it the association of anxiety and trauma. Thus when this subconscious memory is recalled, my subconscious reverts to the state it was in when I was being robbed, which means that it will switch back to the anxiety frequency and compel me to have anxious and trauma based thoughts, the same kind I had when I was being robbed and shortly after when the experience was still fresh in my mind.

Now let’s say that a few hours have passed after the robbery and I find that I’m still feeling a pretty intense amount of anxiety and trauma from the experience. To get rid of these bad thoughts and feelings, I then try to watch some tv to get my mind off of things for a moment. After a few minutes of watching my favorite tv show, I notice that I am starting to feel a bit better now but still not completely. Those bad feelings related to trauma still haven’t completely gone away and I can still feel them as I’m watching the tv, but watching the tv does help in dealing these bad feelings. Well let’s now fast forward a year later and say that I’m watching my favorite tv show. By this time I notice that I can now can pretty easily watch the tv without feeling any of the trauma that I felt from that night I got a robbed exactly one year earlier. In fact by this time there are probably parts of the experience I’ve likely even forgotten about. However, when I do try to directly focus on the experience of getting robbed in that dark alley again, a little bit of that feeling of anxiety and trauma comes back again but not necessarily as strongly as it did when the experience was still fresh.

Ok, that’s the end of our little thought experiment. Now although this little imaginary exercise was certainly hypothetical in nature, you might agree that it was still a fairly accurate portrayal of what our emotional responses would be if we were to experience such events. That being said, there are relatively interesting observations we can make about the nature of subconscious memory from this experiment. The first is actually one that was already briefly mentioned earlier when discussing positive memory. Specifically, we see that the intensity of an emotional response that’s stored in a subconscious memory naturally tends to get weaker and weaker over time. But assuming that this rule applies to all of your transcendental mental abilities and not just your emotions, we can actually be a bit more precise and say instead that the energy component of any positive memory naturally gets weaker over time. This is evident in the experiment by the fact that I didn’t feel nearly as much trauma from the experience of being robbed one year after it had occurred but felt it much more strongly when the experience was still fresh.

The second observation we can make from this hypothetical thought experiment is perhaps the even more interesting one. Specifically, this experiment gives us the answer to our earlier question and shows us that your subconscious memory does in fact still have an effect on your subconscious even when it’s not actively being recalled. It is not the case that it simply travels to the deepest recesses of your subconscious and becomes completely inert until our intention recalls it again. This was evident by the fact that I still felt some of those negative traumatic feelings even when I took my mind off the experience of the dark alley by watching my favorite tv show. In this case my attention, even if at least only some of the time, was fully drawn to the tv. Therefore the specific subconscious memory related to the dark alley should not have been recalled since my attention was not focused on the dark alley – which is the subject associated with that subconscious memory. And yet it was since I still felt some trauma while watching the tv show. But what’s interesting about this is the fact that watching the tv show did still help a little bit. The feeling of trauma wasn’t quite as strong when I was focused on the tv as it was when I was focused directly on the idea of the dark alley.

This experiment and our corresponding observations, allow us to make some important new conclusions about the way our subconscious memory functions. As much as I hate to make the topic of subconscious memory even more complex, it is clear that we need to make a distinction between a subconscious memory that’s being actively recalled and a subconscious memory that isn’t. That is because subconscious memory functions a little bit differently depending on which recall state is the case. For this reason, on top of memory polarity, I’d like to create two new terms to that make it easier to talk about the recall state of a subconscious memory. Whenever you focus directly on a particular subject and that subject’s corresponding subconscious memory gets recalled, we will call that active memory. And whenever you’re not focused on the subject associated with a particular subconscious memory, we will call it passive memory. One nice additional rule we can give for these two subconscious memory states is that active memory will always stimulate your subconscious more powerfully than passive memory. In our thought experiment, I felt more trauma whenever I focused directly on the dark alley and the experience of being robbed and less of it whenever I took my attention off of the dark alley such as when I was watching tv. But it still should be noted that, while passive memory doesn’t affect your subconscious as strongly as active memory, it can still have a strong affect on your subconscious depending on how intensely charged the energy component of that memory is. For example when the traumatic event is really fresh and the feeling of anxiety is most intensely charged, I will still feel a great deal of anxiety even when I manage to momentarily take my attention off the traumatic experience.

The last important fact to note about active and passive memory has to do with the discharge process. In some cases a person can experience so much trauma from an event that they tend to still feel an intense amount of anxiety from it even months later. And yet, there are individuals who can fully recover from such an experience by this same time. Where does this difference in recover ability come from? Well the answer has to do with how we choose to respond to this traumatic experience from the perspective of our intention. Recall from chapter 4 that, when a person feels anxiety from the primal emotional response of their body, it is possible that their mind can actually take over that charge and make their anxiety worse by continuing to charge that feeling. But let us now look at this more from a subconscious memory and transcendental state perspective. When a person focuses directly on some particular subject, such as a traumatic event, that subconscious memory then switches to an active state.

From here, my subconscious will switch to a frequency of anxiety and compel me to have anxious thoughts. Well as I hold the intention to keep focusing on that particular event and my intention keeps expressing the command that this event is a bad experience, then my mind will also keep entering a transcendental state and my subconscious will be quantized in a way that causes it to keep charging the anxiety the emotion. This is what happens when people experience a traumatic event and can’t seem to get over it, even after a significant amount of time has passed. However, there is also another way this process could play out. If you’re not going out of your way to do something fancy with your intention, then subconscious entropy will just occur as you continue to focus on the traumatic event. In this case, negative memory will just build up and make it harder and harder for you to enter a transcendental state and continue to charge the feeling of anxiety. In this case, you will actually start to feel better as you continue to focus on the event over time and will be able to eventually recover emotionally from it.

As you can see, subconscious memory in its active state doesn’t really discharge per say. In this case, your conscious mind is either working to charge your subconscious based on that subconscious memory, thus adding more energy to the memory, or it’s allowing subconscious entropy to happen and dampening your ability to charge based on that subconscious memory, thus preventing your mind from adding more energy to the memory. In the charging case, that memory becomes more and more positive while in the dampening case that memory becomes more and more negative. Where discharging really occurs is when a subconscious memory is in its passive state. In this case your conscious mind is not focused on the subject of that memory, and since your subconscious accesses its memories based on the subject that you focus on, you can’t really make that passive memory more positive or negative. The energy component of that subconscious memory therefore tends to simply grow weaker over time naturally and automatically.

Thus we can summarize this by saying that the energy component of your subconscious memory discharges more and more as it spends more and more time in its passive state. Thus the longer you go without thinking about some traumatic event, the less strong of a reaction you’ll have when you finally do think about that event again. This discharging process, combined with the occurrence of subconscious entropy when you do focus on the traumatic event, is what allows us to recover from traumatic experiences over time. You’ve likely noticed throughout your life that no matter how bad some experience made you feel, you simply started to feel better about it after a few days and noticed that it just stopped bothering you as much as it did initially. Eventually you just stopped thinking about this negative experience and moved on with life. In the same way good and enjoyable songs get old to you, so too do negative traumatic experiences. In these cases, subconscious entropy is actually a welcomed phenomenon that helps us out emotionally.

SUBCONSCIOUS MOOD BOOST

A very important and very interesting question that we can now ask is how exactly does passive memory affect the subconscious charging process? So far, we’ve been looking at how the subconscious charges up when our subconscious memory in its active state. For example, we now know that your subconscious charges by going through a kind of back and forth behavior between a normal and transcendental state, while focused on some particular subject and building up more and more positive memory for that subject. But this approach wouldn’t exactly work for passive memory since we’re not actually focused on the subject associated with the subconscious memory at the time. Well assuming there’s no other means by which to charge your subconscious energy, does this then mean that passive memory has no meaningful role in the charging process? No, actually it's quite the opposite. Passive memory plays a huge role in the process of subconscious charging. In fact it’s so important that I don’t believe you can ever really reach an intense level of subconscious charge without it.

To understand why this is the case, I’d like to first set up some new terminology that will allow us to talk about passive memory in a slightly smoother way. Since passive memory can still stimulate your subconscious to feel some emotion, even when you’re not actually focused on the subject in that memory, it tends to create a kind of emotional ambiance that just lingers around and doesn’t really go away until the energy component of that memory has finally discharged. The feeling and awareness of this emotional ambiance is colloquially referred to as your “mood”. Although that word isn’t generally used in the context of the mechanics of the subconscious mind, it does precisely refer to this ambient effect that comes from your passive memory. For this reason, we will use the term mood to describe the effect of passive memory on your subconscious.

It should also be noted that, in the context of passive memory, your mood doesn’t necessarily only refer to the emotional ambiance the comes from your passive memory although that is how it is normally used. Rather your mood more generally refers to the state your passive memory is stimulating, or pressuring, your subconscious to revert to. And since passive memory has an energy component to it, your mood can actually refer to an ambient urge to instinctively to use subconscious action to express any transcendental ability such as transcendental perception, transcendental control or transcendental creativity – not just emotion. In many of our examples however, we will focus on your mood from the perspective of emotion since this will be the most clear and easy to understand.

But going back to our question regarding how passive memory affects your ability to charge your subconscious, we need only focus on our past experiences with our “mood” to answer this question more intuitively. There have of course been times when you might’ve described yourself by saying that you were in a really good mood or a really bad mood. During the times you were in a good mood, you felt a positive ambient emotional feeling that lingered around and took a while to go away. When you were in a bad mood, it was the opposite. In this case, you experienced a negative emotional feeling that lingered around instead. I’d like you to focus on these past experiences for a moment and try to imagine what it would be like if you were to try to feel some emotion more intensely while you were in one of these moods. For example, let’s say that you’re in a really bad mood. How do you think that would affect your ability to feel like you’re having fun? Or your ability to feel more of the love emotion or the humor emotion? Would it be just as easy to feel these emotions more intensely in a bad mood as it would be if you were in a good mood?

Similarly if you’re in a good mood, would it be easy to feel the emotions of anger or annoyance? Past experience should tell you that it is generally much harder to feel a negative emotion more strongly when you’re in a good mood and a positive emotion more strongly when you’re in a bad mood. It certainly isn’t impossible though, you can still feel a degree of anger or annoyance when you’re in a good mood but it is generally harder to do so. In contrast to this, it is generally much easier to feel some positive emotion more strongly when you’re in a positive mood and a negative emotion more strongly when you’re in a bad mood. For example let’s say that you’ve just won the lottery and find that you’re in a really good mood. You might find that little things, which would normally be insignificant to you, are actually evoking a positive emotional response from you instead. Similarly when you’re in a bad mood, you may find that little things, which normally wouldn’t bother you, are evoking a negative emotional response from you.

These experiences tell us that your mood, or the stimulational effect of passive memory overall, actually has the ability to either boost or dampen your subconscious charge. For example if I’m in a good mood, it will actually be much easier to charge some positive frequency than it usually is and much harder to charge a negative emotional frequency than it usually is. It may even be the case that certain subconscious frequencies are more complementary than others and charge more easily together compared to other frequencies even if they’re all positive or all negative. For example, it’s possible that when your mood is charged up at humor frequency, it could boost your ability to charge the fun frequency slightly more than it boosts your ability to charge the joy frequency. However, I have not researched the possibility of more complementary frequencies too much. For the most part, it is enough to simply know that a positive mood generally boosts your ability to charge all positive frequencies and vice versa for a negative mood and all negative frequencies.

PASSIVE MEMORY TIMING CONSTRAINTS

In this section, I’d like to now talk about your mood and the stimulational effect of passive memory more so from the perspective of time. For example, let’s say that I’m driving on the parkway and some stupid driver cuts me off and I suddenly charge a great deal of the anger emotion. This charge then puts me in a bad mood as a result. An interesting question to ask is how long will this bad mood be around. Will it linger around for a whole year and dampen my ability to charge positive emotions until then or will it only last a few hours or even just a few minutes? How long do our subconscious mood states last in general and what factors play a role in determining this length of time? Well to answer these questions, let us first remind ourselves of a couple of facts about passive memory. The first is that active memory always stimulates the subconscious more powerfully than passive memory does. Recall from chapter 7 that an intention tends to stimulate your subconscious more strongly whenever the subject within that intention has more and more of your mind’s attention. Well we can think of this as applying in a similar manner to your subconscious memory. When your mind’s attention is directly focused on the subject of a particular subconscious memory, then that subconscious memory will stimulate your subconscious more strongly than when your attention isn’t focused on that memory’s subject – such as is the case when that memory is in its passive state.

This first fact is important because it tells us that the energy component of a passive memory probably needs to be really high or intense in order to stimulate our subconscious very strongly while still in its passive state. Thus the more intense our mood is, the longer that mood will probably last before it finally starts to go away. And this brings us to the second important fact about passive memory. Namely, the energy component of a subconscious memory can only discharge while that memory is in its passive state. When in its active state, the subconscious memory is either becoming more negative – from subconscious entropy – or is becoming more positive – from charging up while our mind is in a transcendental state. It cannot actually discharge while you’re attention is focused on the subject of that subconscious memory. Therefore the amount of time it takes for your mood to go away will also depend on how long you go without thinking about the subject in that subconscious memory. This means that the more time the subconscious memory spends in its passive state, the more your mood is discharging and going away.

Technically your mood could also go away as a result of subconscious entropy. However, for our purposes here, I’d like to only focus on the former scenario where your mood goes away due to the discharging of the energy component of the subconscious memory. In this case, a subconscious memory must spend a certain amount of time in its passive state before it has discharged so much of its energy that it’s virtually no longer affecting your mood in any significant way. Furthermore the length of time that it takes for a passive memory to reach this point of insignificance will depend on how charged up that memory was to begin with. If I get angry and charge up a subconscious memory for only a few minutes, that will probably not affect my mood as much or as long as if I were to charge up a subconscious memory for a whole day. Thus the exact time it takes for your subconscious mood to go away can greatly vary.

However, this is not to say that we can’t give a generalized number for it as a rule of thumb. In my experience, no matter how much I’ve charged up my subconscious, I feel like the corresponding subconscious memory – if left in its passive state – only affects my mood in a significant way for approximately 7 days or about one week. After that, the overall feeling of the subconscious memory pertaining to my charge is mostly inconsequential. I’d probably say that I can still feel it to some degree, perhaps even for another week or so longer. But in my opinion, it just doesn’t have a significant impact on my mood after about 7 days.

I’m able to tell this by being aware of how I feel even when I’m no longer thinking about the main subject that I was focused on when I was charging my subconscious. For example let’s say that I focus on my girlfriend and charge the love emotion for a couple of days. The subconscious memory associated with her becomes very positive and very charged up. Whenever I think of her, I feel the love emotion again very strongly. This is because the subconscious memory has switched to its active state. But let’s say that I choose to stop thinking about her altogether, even though subconscious memory associated with her is so charged up. Well because of that charge, I will still notice that I’m in a lovey dovey mood even when I’m not thinking about my girlfriend at all. The feeling of love will still linger around while I’m focused on other things. However, as I go for longer and longer spates of time without thinking about her, that lovey dovey feeling in my mood will get weaker and weaker. And no matter, how charged up it was, it will pretty much be gone by day 7. At least from my observations.

It should be noted that I don’t necessarily need to go all 7 days without thinking about this girl at all in order for this full discharging process to occur. For example it is not the case that if I think about my girlfriend on the evening of day six, then my subconscious memory will instantly charge back up again to where it was 6 days earlier and I need to start over and leave the subconscious memory associated with her in its passive state for another 7 days again before it mostly discharges. On the contrary, it doesn’t really matter how many times I actually focus on her during this 7 day period. What matters is the total amount of time I spend not thinking about her at all. For example if I think about her for every hour of every day, but only do so for 1 second each hour, then her subconscious memory will likely still discharge at close to the same rate that it would have if I hadn’t actually thought of her at all.

These facts about timing as it relates to a subconscious memory are very important because they indicate that passive memory experiences a phenomenon that I like to refer to as “aging out”. This simply means that passive memory will pretty much always grow to become “old” after about 7 days and will no longer have a significant impact on your mood at that time. This will theoretically always be the case no matter how intensely charged up that subconscious memory was. I suppose it is possible for these numbers to be a little different for different people. For example maybe it’s 8 days for some people or 6 days for others. Ultimately it’s difficult to say for sure, but I find for myself that it’s roughly about 7 days. It could also be the case that I’ve just never charged up my subconscious to a high enough level of intensity for passive memory to still significantly affect my mood after 7 days and that it may be possible to charge a subconscious memory intensely enough for this happen. However, once again, 7 days seems to be a pretty solid number for passive memory to age out in my experience.

SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM MEMORY

This phenomenon of aging out is very important because it allows us to make a meaningful distinction between subconscious memories that have been in an active state most recently compared to ones that haven’t. In general, subconscious memories that have been in an active state within the last 7 days are going be the ones whose energy components are going to be the most highly charged because they haven’t had the chance to age out yet. To be clear, this is not necessarily guaranteeing that any subconscious memory that has been active within the last 7 days will have a significant charge that’s affecting your mood. It is only saying that, if any subconscious memory is affecting your mood, then it must have been in an active state within the last 7 days. In other words you must have thought about the subject of that subconscious memory at least once in the last 7 days.

Ultimately this rule about passive memory has an even more powerful and meaningful consequence. Notice that when we talk about the way passive memory affects your mood, we don’t need to specify which specific passive memory or corresponding subject we’re talking about it. This is because all of your passive memories will affect your mood simultaneously at the same time – at least all of the passive memories that haven’t aged out yet. For this reason, I like to divide the concept of subconscious memory into two parts. The first is one that I like to refer to as your short-term subconscious memory or short-term memory for short. This of course is not referring to how long it takes for you to forget something but rather refers to all of your subconscious memories that have been in an active state within the last 7 days. The second section of your subconscious memory is your long-term subconscious memory or long-term memory for short. This term refers to all your subconscious memories that have not been active within the last 7 days. Any subconscious memory that is in your short-term memory can eventually age out and go into your subconscious long-term memory if it ends up staying in a passive state for 7 days or longer.

Because your short-term subconscious memory is the part of your subconscious memory that has all of the significant energy charged up, it is very important to be aware of what’s going on with your short-term memory when it comes to subconscious charging. This is especially true when it comes to your mood. Since your mood can boost and enhance your ability to charge your subconscious, you can actually manipulate your short-term memory to increase the intensity of your mood more and more and boost your ability to charge your subconscious more and more. This is actually special kind of charging technique which we will talk about in more detail in the next section.

Before moving on, I’d like to focus for a moment on the role that your long-term subconscious memory plays in controlling your subconscious. Now because all of your long-term subconscious memories have already aged out and left your short-term memory, they’re no longing contributing in any meaningful way to your subconscious mood state. This simply means that they’re not significantly boosting or dampening any subconscious charge you perform nor are they causing you to feel any kind of ambient emotion. However, although the energy component of these subconscious memories are negligible in their passive state, they can still be of use to you in their active state. Recall that subconscious memories in their active state affect the subconscious more strongly than subconscious memories in their passive state. Well subconscious memories, no matter how long they’ve been in a passive state, are still able to have a meaningful affect on your subconscious when they finally switch to an active state.

A good example of this is the dark alley that we spoke about a few sections ago. When I got robbed in the dark alley and became very traumatized by it, this experience affected my mood and caused me to feel an ambient feeling of panic and trauma, even when I wasn’t thinking about the dark alley. However, lets say that at some point I find that I’m starting to recover from the experience and begin to stop thinking about the dark alley. Let’s say that 5 years have passed since the last time I thought about the dark alley. In this case, the subconscious memory associated with the dark alley has also been in a passive state for about 5 years since I’ve never thought about it once in that whole time. Well during those 5 years, my mood was pretty good and trauma free since the passive subconscious memory associated with the dark alley has aged out. Now let’s say that something triggers my memory and I think about this dark alley again 5 years later. Well even then, I will likely still feel a little bit of that trauma even if it’s not nearly as much as it was when that memory was still fresh. This shows us that all subconscious memories, even your long-term ones, can affect your subconscious when in an active state.

I believe this nature of long-term memory plays an important role in the concept of learning as well as what it means to have experience and wisdom. This is because there will be many times in our lives that we end up using intention to charge our subconscious in a way that alters our perception to help us to understand different things about the world around us. Well this charge is actually also stored in your subconscious memory. The more positive your subconscious memory becomes, the more intensely it is able to alter your perception when recalled, or when it switches to an active state. I remember when I was younger, I went through a phase where I studied lots of math very intensely. At first it was rather difficult and I had a lot of trouble with the math. However, over time, I began to understand the math more and more deeply. I remember I was studying so intensely that I would occasionally find myself in the zone, where thoughts about math were just flowing into my head almost non-stop. Now while I was in this zone, I was able to problem solve and perceive math on a transcendental level that went far beyond what I could achieve at a normal performance level.

At one point I was in the zone so much that I could actually solve the Schrodinger wave equation for a particle in a box or harmonic oscillator by hand. I could solve the differential equation using a power series solution and find the corresponding orthogonal polynomial that fits the equation. Now I’m certainly not in any kind of zone like that these days and would likely have a great deal of trouble trying to remember how to solve that equation now. This is because the energy component of the subconscious memory associated with that charge has now dwindled since I’ve stopped practicing to solve math problems in that way. Another way of saying that is that the passive memory associated with that creativity, or intelligence, charge has aged out. But just because this memory no longer has enough energy to affect my subconscious in a passive state, it doesn’t mean that it can’t still influence it in an active one. For example if I were to try to solve a complex math problem now, then all of those subconscious memories that previously had a charge to help me solve these problems, would then switch from a passive state to an active one.

Although these memories no longer have enough of a charge to help me perform at the same transcendental level for solving math problems that they used to, they can still help me with the little bit of energy that they do have. Furthermore the specific compulsion contained in these subconscious memories still retains a decent chunk of the complexity – or organization – that it had before even if the strength of that compulsion is weaker. For example, if you ask me to solve a specific integration problem by using the integration by parts method, I might not remember at all how to do this at just the thought of it. However, if you put a problem in front of me and give me a pen to solve it, I might suddenly feel a natural compulsion or urge to start thinking about the equation in a certain way and start doing certain things with it that end up solving it. This will be the case even though I had a hard time remembering how to solve the problem on a conscious level.

This natural urge that has guided me through the problem occurs as a result of the compulsion stored in the subconscious memory associated with solving these kinds of problems. You’ve probably experienced similar phenomena with certain activities that you practice heavily at one point in your life and then stopped for a while but came back to again a few years later. You may have noticed that, although you were very rusty, you still felt an instinctive urge to just start doing certain things and using certain moves or techniques that you used years earlier even though you couldn’t necessarily remember those techniques on a conscious level. Thus the aspect of our intelligence and creativity that occurs on a level of intuition – which can be altered through subconscious charging – actually has the ability to still help us even many years later, perhaps for the rest of this our lives. I believe this is ultimately what it means to have wisdom and experience and is why such perceptions cannot necessarily be taught but only gained with time.

However, that wisdom will generally still become most developed during the times that we charge our subconscious to give it an organizational structure – again we'll talk more about this in chapter 13 – that helps us to solve certain kinds of problems. This is why I believe having a period of intense and rigorous study of math and science is the only way to truly develop the kind intuition that is suitable for excelling at it. If a person never goes through this experience, they may never develop the kind of intuition that allows them to more easily process math problems. But the good news is that once they do, that intuition will likely stay with them in some meaningful form for the rest of their lives. Adults in general are able to use the intuition they’ve developed throughout their lives to help make better decisions in the real world without needing to charge first. Children and younger adults lack this same degree of intuition because they simply haven’t had enough experiences to charge it up.

DEEP CHARGING

In this section, I’d like to turn your attention back to short-term subconscious memory. Understanding this aspect of your subconscious will be quintessential in understanding how to more completely control your subconscious. I remember when I first started practicing to control my subconscious, which I did by practicing to raise the intensity of my emotion, I experienced a great deal of inconsistency in my efforts. Sometimes I found that I could experience really intense levels of emotion while at other times I noticed that I could only feel the desired emotion I wanted to charge very mildly. At the time I couldn’t understand why I seemed to be having such an inconsistent experience when it came to controlling my subconscious to raise my emotion. Now to be fair there were many different things causing this as I was fairly new to the act of controlling my subconscious, but there was one mistake that I was making that was fairly catastrophic in nature and really seemed to be sabotaging my efforts.

When I first started practicing to raise my emotion, I would generally just decide to practice out of the blue and try to intensely raise my emotion in a single charging session. Usually I would lay down in a meditative position, listen to music related to the emotion I wanted to charge and then try to see how intensely I could raise my emotion over the course of what was usually about one hour. Around this time, I also practiced charging somewhat sporadically and didn’t necessarily engage in this behavior everyday. Well as I continued to practice, I noticed something fairly interesting. I noticed that whenever I’d done a little bit of practicing earlier in the week, I seemed to be able to reach higher levels of intensity for one of my practice sessions later in the week. It seemed as though my recent attempt to stimulate my subconscious at some particular frequency actually loosened up my subconscious at that frequency and made it relatively easy to charge up at that frequency later on. Eventually I realized that this loosening up quality is what allowed me to reach higher levels of intensity for some of my practice sessions later.

When I first started practicing to charge my emotion, I wasn’t necessarily aware of the nature of subconscious charging as I’ve explained it to you in this book. At that time, I thought that I could feel any level of emotional intensity instantaneously with the right amount of effort. So I always tried to feel as much emotion as possible in a single session. During this time, I wasn’t taking into account the way my mood affected my charging capability. That is not to say that I would try to charge my subconscious when I was in a really bad mood and then be surprised when I had trouble charging up. I knew of course that I’d have a lot of difficulty in that circumstance. But what I wasn’t aware of at that time was just much of a difference it makes when I have charging sessions earlier in the week compared to when I didn’t. These prior charging sessions seem to enhance my mood in a way that really boosted my charging capability later. At first, I was simply attempting to charge my subconscious without any care for how my mood was boosting or dampening my charge. I’d simply try to reach the highest levels of emotional intensity possible in the face of whatever random state my mood was in.

However, over time, I eventually learned that the key to boosting my charging ability even further and reaching even higher and more intense levels of subconscious charge was to rely much more on this boosting effect from my mood that I had been previously ignoring. I eventually came to start calling this kind of charging technique deep charging. This kind of charge is different from a normal charge in that it requires you to specifically manipulate the nature of your short-term subconscious memory. In this case, you will consciously control the subconscious memories that fill up your short-term memory in an effort to boost some particular charge more and more. To understand why this works, I often like to think of your subconscious short-term memory as functioning very much like a battery. If you’re familiar with electrochemical batteries, than you know that they generally consists of two main parts called terminals. One terminal is called the cathode while the other is called the anode. To get a battery to store electrical energy, manufacturers who create the battery will try to get the cathode to hold more and more negatively charged ions and the anode to hold more and more positively charged ions. They will do this up to the point that represents the voltage of the battery.

This is difficult to do because like charges will always try to repel each other. So all of the negatively charged ions in the cathode and all of the positively charged ions in the anode will constantly try to repel each other. In order to keep stuffing more and more ions in each terminal despite the fact that they’re constantly trying to repel each other, you need more and more energy to overcome this repulsion force. And once you’ve stuffed a certain amount of ions in both terminals, all you have to do is prevent them from having any other place to go by ensuring there is no conductive material, or a contact, connecting them. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of charged particles who are just waiting to either give up their electrons, because they’ve got too many, or take in more electrons because they don’t have enough. And when some conductive material – such as a metal wire – touches both terminals, electrons will travel from the cathode to the anode due to the repulsion force of like charges in the cathode and the attraction force of its opposite charge in the anode. How badly these electrons will want to move into the anode will depend on how much of them were stuffed into the cathode. Again this quantity is measured by the term voltage.

Ok back to your subconscious energy. The purpose of that somewhat random incursion into the nature of electrochemical batteries is to say that your subconscious short-term memory functions an awful lot like the way batteries work. Of course there are no forces of attraction or repulsion or things that have to travel or anything like that. But your short-term memory does hold charged subconscious memories, with each one of the positive one’s having an energy component to them as well. And when you when your short-term memory contains more and more positively charged subconscious memories, who energy components all have the same subconscious frequency, then they will all try to add or contribute to any current charge you perform at the time for that same frequency. This contribution from all of these passive memories boosts or enhances your charging capability. The more passive memories there are like this in your short memory, or the more charged they are more specifically, the more they boost your charge.

So your short-term subconscious memory functions very much like a battery. The more positive memory you stuff into your short-term memory, whether it be for one subject or multiple subjects, the more it will boosts some related charge and allow you to reach even higher levels of that charge. To accomplish this, you mostly just have to keep charging some particular frequency throughout a 7 day period. For example when I first started to practice charging my emotion, I practiced with charging the love emotion. Whenever I practiced out of the blue, with no prior charge in the last 7 days, it was very difficult to reach higher levels of charge. However, whenever I had like 2 or 3 charging sessions within the last week, I noticed that it was much easier to charge the love emotion and that I could reach higher levels of intensity than usual. This is because the two previous sessions caused a great deal of highly charged passive memory to be stored in my short-term memory. This passive memory enhanced my mood and caused me to feel a little of the love emotion ambiently even when I wasn’t focused on charging or on the main girl who was the point of focus of this memory. But even more than this, it caused a boosting effect whenever I did try to charge again.

Thus to perform a deep charge, you’ve got to keep charging your subconscious for some particular purpose within a rolling 7 day period. It is not a charge that you can simply perform in the spur of the moment like with a normal subconscious charge. Deep charging can only be performed gradually over time. This was something that it took me a while to realize. But when I did, I was able to really enhance my charging capabilities. It should be noted that deep charging doesn’t necessarily have a limit of 7 days. While it is true that passive memories age out after about 7 days and no longer boosts your charge at that point, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you only have 7 days to store passive memory into your short-term subconscious memory. For example let’s say that I keep charging my subconscious at the strength frequency for 7 days straight. Does this mean that by day 8, all of those passive memories at the strength frequency will age out and I have to start my deep charge over? Even though I was charging this frequency all 7 days prior? Of course not. The act of charging my subconscious at the strength frequency each day means those subconscious memories all switched to an active state and therefore will take at least another 7 days to age out again.

So if I charge the strength frequency everyday for about 7 days, then I’ve got until about day 14 to still enjoy the boosting effects of that deep charge, at least as of the 7th day. The boosting effect of course being most intense or strongest on day 7 and gradually tapering off and becoming weaker and weaker each day until it’s pretty much negligible by day 14 if those subconscious memories stay in a passive state after day 7. This example shows us that you can keep deep charging your subconscious indefinitely, even if it’s in a very gradual way. For example if charge my subconscious even once a week and keep doing this every week, then my subconscious will still deep charge since I’m charging once within a rolling 7 day period. This prevents the related passive memory from aging out and allows me to still use it to boosts my charge later. Even if the boosting effect of the passive memory is weakest by day 7, it will still help me to charge so as long as I do charge again before reaching day 8. In this case, my deep charge would occur very very slowly but it still would occur.

People often notice that when they meditate for about 20 minutes a day, they experience various benefits such as having a more calm and relaxed mood, better focus, more alertness and an overall physiological response that indicates they’re less stressed. These effects are actually occurring because the individual is deep charging some particular frequency that’s related to the act of meditating. As they continue to meditate day after day, they’re continually focusing on some particular subject, or a set of different subjects, and charging at what you might call the relaxation or peace frequency. And when they stop meditating and focus on other things as they go about their day, the subconscious memory of that meditation session goes into a passive state and will add to their mood for 7 days. And when they meditate again the next day, either that passive memory will switch to an active state and they can piggy back off some of the charge remaining from the previous day or, if they focus on a new subject, that previous subconscious memory will stay in a passive state but still add to their new charge as long as it’s at relatively the same frequency.

As a person keeps meditating in this fashion day after day, their short-term memory becomes more and more filled up with positive memory that is charged up at the relaxation frequency. This impacts their mood by making them feel more peaceful and relaxed at all times and boosts their ability to charge these frequencies more and more. It should be noted that in theory, this deep charging process can occur indefinitely no matter how gradual. For example if you to keep charging for 20 minutes a day or even just 20 minutes altogether within a rolling 7 days period, then technically your subconscious should just keep deep charging more and more until eventually it just starts to sort of get out of control from being so intense. This should even happen at some point from charging 20 minutes a week, even if it takes years to reach that point. The reason this actually doesn’t happen has to do with subconscious entropy. This effects ensures that you’re not building up positive memory at a faster rate than you’re building up negative memory. For example if I meditate 20 minutes each day, then it is true that I’m building up positive memory and that is why my subconscious charging up at the relaxation frequency. However, what is also true is that I’m also having more and more experience with the act of meditating and therefore it is also getting somewhat “old” to me as well. Thus I’m actually building up some negative memory for this experience in addition to the positive memory. Subconscious entropy ensures that negative memory will continue to build up to a point that a kind of equilibrium is reached where it will be hard for me to charge more as a result. To avoid this, I’ve got to charge the relaxation frequency in a very specific way that avoids, or minimizes, this build up of negative memory. The general technique for accomplishing this is what we’ll be discussing in the next chapter.

Before moving on, I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge that, although we’ve been discussing the concept of deep charging in terms of emotions, it is certainly not limited to just that one transcendental ability. Rather, you can deep charge any transcendental mental ability, including transcendental belief and transcendental creativity. In fact when people are constantly exposing their mind to things that convince them of a certain truth, such as when they watch politics, they’re actually deep charging a political belief. Now, under normal circumstances subconscious entropy would kick in and prevent these beliefs from deep charging too far. But when you’re doing certain fancy things with your intention, like you do reflectively when watching certain kinds of political news, you end up charging your subconscious in a way that goes beyond the “containment” of subconscious entropy. In these cases, a person can deep charge their belief so far that – for all intents and purposes – they’re practically crazy. Their grip on reality is for the most part lost. And as long as they keep watching political news, they will keep deep charging their subconscious to maintain such a strong belief.

Another example of deep charging has to do with creativity. When artists constantly practice to create or perform in some way, there is also the possibility that they end up deep charging some creative ability. Once again, under normal circumstances, subconscious entropy occurs and prevents a person’s creativity from charging out of control. In fact, as you will see, creativity is a bit trickier to charge because it’s a lot harder to avoid the subconscious entropy problem for it. For this reason, many artists or performers often find that practicing too much causes their creativity to actually drop rather than increase. Previously I referred to this as mentally overtraining. However, every so often, a person is able to avoid the subconscious entropy problem as they continuously create day in and day out. Eventually they will deep charge their ability to create and will find themselves “in the zone” as they perform. The connection between creativity, and transcendental performance in general, and your subconscious memory is a bit trickier to explain and will be covered in chapter 13.

A NEGATIVE DEEP CHARGE

One last comment I’d like to make about deep charging – which was actually alluded to in the previous section – is that it is also possible to do this with negative memory. Although again I really don’t like to consider the build up of negative memory as “charging” per se, it still should be understood that it is possible for your short-term subconscious memory to become filled up with negative memory as well. Something like this might happen whenever your subconscious goes through a period of time where it’s not entering an excited state all that often. This might occur if you’re not having many experiences that emotionally stimulate you, in which case your subconscious would spend a great deal of time in its ground state. It could also occur if you’re constantly engaging in repetitive activities that cause you to continuously focus on the same things over and over. Due to subconscious entropy, this will cause negative memory to build up more and more as you repeat these same actions over and over again. This build up of negative memory will suppress your ability to enter a transcendental state. As you continue to engage in activities that cause negative memory to build up over a rolling 7 day period, your subconscious short-term memory will fill up with more and more negative memory which will dampen your ability to enter a transcendental state more and more.

As you can probably tell, having too much negative memory in your short-term memory isn’t really a good thing. It’s actually healthy to have a good chunk of positive memory in your short-term memory too. This means experiencing events that emotionally stimulate you or motivate you to create or believe in some way. I believe that too much negative memory in short-term memory corresponds to an emotional state that’s similar to depression. This is because the large amount of negative memory would make it difficult for you to feel emotion. Even if you were to finally experience some event that emotionally stimulates you, the weight of all that negative memory in your short-term memory would greatly dampen how much emotion or motivation you could feel in that moment. And it wouldn’t just be your mind that has trouble controlling your subconscious and getting it to enter an excited state. As your short-term memory becomes more negative, even your body might have trouble charging your subconscious in the face of it. For example it might have trouble charging primal emotions when needed.

Many people who find themselves in this emotional or creative slump, often have difficulty figuring out how to get out of it. Well I believe the answer in some cases is basically to perform a deep charge. In this case the individual would need to try to engage in experiences that emotionally or creatively stimulate them – preferably at a positive subconscious frequency – over a rolling 7 day period. As they keep doing this day after day, all of that negative memory will start aging out and positive memory would begin to fill up their short-term memory instead. They would then notice that their mood changes and would find that it’s much easier to be emotionally stimulated than it was before. In this case all of that positive memory in their short-term memory boosts their ability to enter a transcendental state and would make it harder for their subconscious to stay in its ground state. That being said, it should be clear that too much positive memory in your subconscious short-term memory is also a bad thing as well. Too much positive memory could cause you to feel way too much emotion or have a belief that alters your perception of reality so much that you can no longer think rationally. It would also cause your mind’s attention or focus to stay in constant motion – again similar to what happens when you’re dreaming. In general, the compulsions you’d feel from your subconscious during this time would be so powerful that it would be hard to resist them and thus hard to function in a normal and logical way – in other words you’d practically go crazy. Thus a certain amount of negative and positive memory in your subconscious short-term is actually healthy.

I believe that sleeping overall helps to naturally reduce the build up of too much negative memory since subconscious entropy is not occurring during this time. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t still build up too much negative memory during the waking day. Although if you experience insomnia and have trouble sleeping, then you’re probably at risk of building up too much negative memory in your short-term memory. By the same token though, if you build up too much negative memory during the day, the weight of that negative memory could also make it harder for you to dream since your awareness has to enter a transcendental state during this time. Thus too much negative memory could also cause insomnia as well. In my experience a large amount positive memory actually makes it easier for you to dream rather than making it harder to or being inconsequential to it. In fact, since I first began the practice of charging my subconscious, I’ve noticed that I pretty much always dream now. I didn’t really have a problem not dreaming before I started controlling my subconscious. But now, I can’t really remember the last time I didn’t dream. I remember asking my brother about his dreams one day and he told me that he doesn’t really dream all that often. I remember being kind of shocked by that answer because I forgot that not dreaming was even thing. It hadn’t happened to me in such a long time that I just assumed that most people dream all the time the way I did. There is one exception though where more positive memory actually makes it harder to sleep overall. This occurs when you perform a very specific kind of charge that affects the function of your pineal gland, which helps you to sleep. We will discuss this special charge much later in chapter 7 of book II.

An interesting question about negative memory we’ve not fully addressed here is how long it lasts. We know that the energy component of positive memory generally has the ability to influence your subconscious in its passive state for about 7 days. After this, the memory has lost a good chunk of its energy and probably won’t be able to do much for you, intensity wise, in its active state either. But what about negative memory? Presumably this memory doesn’t exactly have an energy component to it so it’s not even entirely clear how to analyze how long it “lasts” so to speak. Yet, at the same time, we can still easily get a sense of this by looking at how long it takes for something that’s old to us to seem new again after we’ve gone for a long time without focusing on it. For example if there’s a song that you really liked at one point and have since stopped listening to it because it got old to you, how much time needs to pass before it will feel new again when you listen to it? Is it months or years? Well these are fairly tricky questions that I’ve had a great deal of trouble answering. Since negative memory has no energy component, it doesn’t quite just get weaker and weaker in an obvious way over time like positive memory does.

I’ve noticed that when I listen to an old song, even a few years later, it still for the most part feels pretty old. If there’s a song I haven’t listened to since I was kid, then yea it can sometimes feel mostly new again in that case. Overall I get the sense that negative memory is largely related to the physical memory capabilities of your brain – as opposed to the metaphysical memory capabilities of your subconscious. So as long as a memory is very fresh in your brain cells, then its negative subconscious memory is also very fresh. In theory, if your brain is really good at storing physical memory for some subject and keeps that memory fresh, then the corresponding negative subconscious memory may never truly go away or at least may never reach a point of insignificance like positive memory does. What I will say though is that I do get the sense that negative memory in short-term memory does get weaker after 7 days just like positive memory does. In other words the strength of passive negative memory does seem to be able to increase or decrease with time while the strength of active negative memory doesn’t really seem to ever change – although it does have the capability of suppressing a transcendental state of awareness more and more as the memory becomes more and more negative. I know this is something of contradiction though but this is ultimately how it feels to me perception wise. It could be that the absence of positive memory in short-term memory actually gives the appearance of negative memory being stronger when in reality that may not be the case. Overall though the long-term behavior of negative memory has been very tricky for me to study.

SUBCONSCIOUS VOLATILITY

The next topic I’d like to discuss is a bit less about theory and more so about naming convention. In this section, I’d like to establish some new terminology that will make it much easier to talk about the technique for actually charging your subconscious, which we will do next chapter, as well as the after-effects of charging. So far, you learned that whenever you focus on something while in a transcendental state of awareness, you’re building up positive memory for that particular subject. This means that when you focus on that same subject at later time, the association stored in that positive memory will cause your subconscious to try to revert back to its excited state which in turn will try to push your awareness into a transcendental state. Remember that a transcendental state corresponds to your subconscious’ excited state. That being said, the more positively charged a subconscious memory becomes for some particular subject, the more intensely your subconscious will try to revert back to its excited state whenever you focus on that subject. Now even though this is true, it can still only stay in its excited state for a few seconds at a time. Or to be even more specific, you can only stay in a transcendental state of awareness for a few seconds at a time. This means that even after your awareness falls back into a normal state of awareness, your mind will have a relatively high affinity for going back into a transcendental state of awareness. This is because the energy component of the positively charged subconscious memory still has not fully discharged. And so, as long as you continue to focus on this subject with a highly charged positive memory, your subconscious will keep favoring a transcendental state of awareness and will keep trying to push your awareness back into a transcendental state each time your awareness falls back into its normal state. This will continue to happen until subconscious entropy happens and the subconscious memory becomes more negative in its polarity or until you stop focusing on that memory’s subject and the subconscious memory switches into its passive state and remains there long enough to age out.

Now this subconscious behavior of trying to constantly go back into its excited state, after going into its ground state, makes your awareness feel very volatile – as though it's rapidly changing or in flux. For this reason, I like to refer to this affinity of your subconscious to want to enter a transcendental state as subconscious volatility. Thus the more positively charged a subconscious memory is for some particular subject, the more volatile your subconscious will become whenever you focus on that subject. This means that your subconscious will have an easier and easier time entering a transcendental state while focused on this subject. Conversely, this also means that your subconscious will have a harder and harder time staying in its ground state, which corresponds to your normal state of awareness. It should also be noted that this same principle applies to your mood as well. The more positive memory gets stored in your subconscious short-term memory, the higher your subconscious volatility becomes. This means that you will have an easier and easier time entering a transcendental state as a result of the charging boosts that comes from this mood. Although that volatility will primarily be related to the subject and frequency that’s most charged up in your short-term memory, it could also apply to other subjects you focus on and try to charge at other frequencies. For example if I deep charge the love emotion for one particular girl, I might also notice that it’s easier for me to feel a sense of fun and joy even when I’m not with this girl or thinking about her. This means that my subconscious is more volatile to these frequencies as well. However, it will not be as volatile as it is for the main frequency and subject of that specific deep charge.

Lastly, I’d like to mention that technically “new” things have a natural volatility to them too even though there may actually be no positive, or negative for that matter, subconscious memory stored for them. This is because it is enough for there to be no negative memory for a particular subject for your subconscious to still have a fairly easy time entering a transcendental state while focused on it. Although not necessarily as easy a time as if that subject had highly charged positive memory. Whenever you experience something that’s fairly new to you, you have a fairly easy time entering a transcendental state and charging your subconscious as a result. However, it’s only a matter of time before subconscious entropy catches up to you and starts making it harder and harder for you to enter a transcendental state while focused on this particular subject. At this point, your subconscious volatility starts to drop and really won’t increase again until you charge your subconscious directly, while focused on this subject, using the special techniques we’ll discuss in the next chapter.

SUBCONSCIOUS ANALYSIS – CLOSENESS

The overall study of mathematics is divided up into a few major branches of study such as algebra, probability, topology, analysis and so on. The branch of “analysis” specifically is the part of mathematics that studies the “closeness” of things. It essentially attempts to study all of the interesting things that occur whenever you keep increasing or decreasing some particular number, usually by a very small amount. This causes us to deal with numbers that are all very very “close” to each other but still different. Even the concept of closeness is mathematically defined in these circumstances. Usually a space of possible values called a “metric space” is created, with its values generally representing spacial coordinates. From there, the distance between any two points in the metric space is defined by an operation called the “metric”. The metric can then be used to tell us whether or not two points are close to each other. From this, we’re able to study many different interesting concepts such as continuity, limits, convergence, differentiability and so on.

Well in a rather strange twist, your subconscious also has a similar concept of “closeness” in its operations that we’re able to study. Until now we’ve been mostly assuming that subconscious memory recall is a perfect one to one functional operation. This means that when I focus on one specific subject, I will only access the subconscious memory associated with that specific subject. In which case, I will be able to recall past thoughts and feelings I had when I was last focused on that particular subject. It will not be the case that I will be able to focus on one particular subject and then automatically access the subconscious memory of another subject. For example if I focus on friend A, I will not suddenly recall past thoughts and feelings I had for friend B instead of A. This is ultimately how we’ve been assuming your subconscious functions in terms of theory.

This assumption is generally a decent approximation of subconscious behavior most of the time in my opinion. However, the reality is, our subconscious memory doesn’t actually operate in such a precise way. There are times when focusing on subject A for example would actually cause your subconscious to also access the memory stored for subject B and vice versa. This usually occurs when two subjects are very “similar” or “close” to each other. This quality of closeness in subjects isn’t something that, as far as I can tell, is within your conscious control. To your subconscious, subjects can simply look very similar to each other whether you consciously want them to or not. And when they do look similar to your subconscious, it is possible for your subconscious also recall the memory of one subject whenever you focus on a different subject.

We normally refer to this phenomenon as being “reminded” of something. For example if I have a traumatic experience getting robbed in a dark alley, I might recall that same emotional trauma whenever I focus another dark alley that’s similar to – or reminds me of – the one that I was robbed in. I don’t necessarily need to focus on the exact same dark alley in which the robbery occurred to recall that trauma, rather I only need focus on one that – to my subconscious mind – bears some kind of resemblance to the actual one. This shows us that “subjects” in subconscious memory have the ability to be “closer” to each other or further way from each other. The closer subjects are to each other, the more similar they are and the more easily they can all stimulate each others subconscious memories to be recalled.

If I work in customer service and speak to customers everyday and answer relatively the same questions and deal with solving relatively the same problems over and over, I might be reminded of past problems and situations when focusing on new ones even though the actual client, the main subject in this instance, is different. In this case, the two subjects – the old client and new client – are “close” to each other and I’m able to recall a past subconscious memory when focusing on the new subject. The confidence emotion actually relies very heavily on this phenomenon of closeness in subjects. When you’ve dealt with a situation 100 times and have a high a very high success rate, then it is easy to recall that feeling of success in a situation that is new but similar, or close, to the old one. This makes it easy for you to believe you’ll be successful again which in turn makes you confident. It is difficult to feel a great deal of confidence in a completely new situation because there is no prior subconscious memory of success to stimulate your subconscious in that situation.

It should be noted that this quality of recall also occurs on a scale of intensity as well. Among a series of subjects that are relatively close to each other in your subconscious memory, there may be one main subject that, in a sense, carries the main charge. This means that you were primarily focused on that particular subject when the charging, through your intention, occurred. However, it may still be the case that you come across secondary subjects that are similar to the main subject later and when you focus on these secondary subjects, you also recall the subconscious memory of the main subject. However, the degree to which the subconscious memory associated with the main subject gets recalled will depend on how similar the secondary subject is to the main subject.

In the dark alley example, the main subject is of course the dark alley. When I focus on the dark alley I was robbed in, I fully access the corresponding subconscious memory and feel a great deal of anxiety as a result – say 100% of the amount stored in the main subject's subconscious memory. However, if I focus on another alley that only reminds me of the dark alley a little bit, then I might only access the memory of the original dark alley a little bit and will only feel a little bit of anxiety – say, 30% of the total amount stored in the main subject's subconscious memory. By the same token, if I come across another alley that reminds me a lot of the original dark alley that carries the charge, I may recall a lot of the original dark alleys memory and feel a lot of anxiety – perhaps 80% - 90% of the amount stored in the main subject's memory. So the closer a secondary subject is to some main subject, the more the main subject’s memory will be recalled, including its energy component for positive memory.