In the last chapter, you were formally introduced to both the theory and concept of a dual-natured mind that has two main structures. The first structure we discussed, the conscious mind, was likely very intuitive and easy to understand. However, the second structure, the subconscious mind, was likely much more foreign and strange to you. In this chapter, you will likely get a better feel for the subconscious as we will discuss the most basic properties that govern its operation. This includes taking a closer look at the structure of intentions that are produced by the conscious mind. This is necessary because the subconscious obeys these intentions. Thus having a better understanding of the subconscious mind requires that we have a better understanding of our intentions as well. We will also look at the properties of the subconscious related to how it accesses past information, how it behaves in regards to energy, and what factors determine its state of quantization. These basic principles will form the foundation of all our future discussions on the subconscious throughout the book.

 

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SUBJECTS

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In this section, I’d like to break down the structure of thoughts produced by the conscious mind into, similarly to the last chapter, two main parts. For clarity, we will be considering all thoughts produced by the conscious mind to be intentions. There are some people who might define this term a bit differently from the way I am defining it here but for our purposes in this book, I believe it is more apt to simply treat every thought from the conscious mind as an intention. Now every intention your mind produces has a structure to it that is relatively similar to the linguistic structure of a sentence. You probably remember learning in elementary school that a sentence can be broken up into two parts, the subject and the predicate. The subject is what the sentence is about and the predicate is the part of the sentence that makes some statement that is directed toward the subject. For example in the sentence “I like to go for a walk”, the subject is “I” and the predicate is “like to go for a walk”. Well, I believe that intentions also have a very similar structure to them. Every intention you produce asserts a command of some kind that your conscious mind wants to express. For example when you think to yourself “I will win”, you’re producing an intention that asserts your victory.

          However, like a normal sentence, this intention will also contain a subject or main point of focus that the command, which is embedded within your intention, is directed toward. The command “to win” actually makes no sense on its own for example since there is no subject to give it a clearly defined meaning. However, if you were to focus on a sports competition or video game and then hold the intention that you will win in that context, then the intention would make sense. So every intention will always contain a predicate part, which asserts a command from the conscious mind, and a subject part, which is the main point of focus that the command part is directed toward. Going forward we will simply call the main point of focus of an intention the subject. Subjects can pretty much be any person, place, or thing – similarly to a noun – that your mind is capable of focusing on directly. This even includes abstract things such as a feeling or a concept like happiness or socializing. Lastly, it should be noted that, like a normal sentence, intentions can actually have multiple subjects – and also multiple commands – embedded within them. We will actually look at how the subconscious responds in these more complex cases in chapter 7. However, whenever possible, I will keep things simple by talking about intentions in the context of one subject and one embedded command.

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ASSOCIATION

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The next phenomenon I’d like to talk about is a relatively simple one but is still very important when it comes to understanding the nature of the subconscious mind. This phenomena has to do with the way your subconscious mind essentially saves and recalls thoughts and feelings that you have. In a nutshell, your subconscious pretty much automatically saves, or records, all of the information contained in the experiences that you have throughout the day. This includes thoughts, emotions, sensations, and whatever other categories you wish to classify what we’re capable of being aware of in to. This information gets stored in our memory and is able to be recalled at a later time. We can generally recall these memories at will using intention from our negative mind. For example when you try to remember what you did yesterday, you do so by consciously holding the intention to remember. However, information from your memories can also be recalled in more somewhat automatic way as well. In this case, we end up recalling our memories even when we didn’t directly intend to on a conscious level. This more automated form of recall is one that I like to refer to as association.

          To understand this, let’s look at a hypothetical example of it. Let’s say that I’m doing pretty well for myself and have lots and lots of cash on me. I then decide, rather naively, to walk through a dark alley at night time and start flashing all of this cash around and waving it in the air like I just don’t care. Some unscrupulous figure in this dark alley then notices me foolishly flashing all of this money around and then decides to rob me for my cash. They threatened me with a knife and stick me up for all of my money. I then hand over this cash in an effort to protect my life and live to see another today. The robber then takes the money and scurries off into the night like a cockroach. I’m relatively unharmed but a bit traumatized by the experience overall. Now let’s say that I am walking down the street the next day and then see this same dark alley again. I will likely recall the event of getting robbed and will be able to remember all of the uncomfortable thoughts and feelings that I had while I was getting robbed as well as ones that I had shortly after the experience when it was still fresh in my mind. In this case, I didn’t directly intend to remember these bad feelings but, at the same time, I also couldn’t help but feel them again when I saw the dark alley. This seemingly automated form of recall is an example of association. My mind now associates this dark alley with very negative and uncomfortable thoughts and feelings related to the experience of being robbed there.

          Although this was just a hypothetical, you can probably verify through your own experiences that this phenomenon of association does actually occur in the real world and does so in the manner demonstrated in this example. An important detail worth acknowledging is that the process of association didn’t just occur randomly in the scenario mentioned above. It only occurred when I focused directly on the dark alley again. This is an important property of association in general. It occurs whenever we focus on the same subject that we were focused on at the time the original thoughts and feelings, which are now being recalled, were produced. So I won’t feel all of those negative thoughts and feelings when I focus on the sky or on a random car in traffic. However, when I focus on that dark alley again, or even one that reminds me of it, association will occur and I will have the same negative thoughts and feelings that I had when the experience of getting robbed was still fresh in my mind. Again while this is a very simple phenomena that you were likely already aware of, it was important to discuss more formally here as it is a very important concept to understand in the practice of controlling one’s subconscious.

 

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SUBCONSCIOUS CHARGING

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The next property of the subconscious I’d like to discuss is perhaps the most important and most consequential. It is through this property that we really get a sense of what it means to “control” the subconscious mind. We touched on this property a little bit in the last chapter when we talked about subconscious energy. I’d like to focus more deeply on this property now and discuss it in more detail. To understand this property, I’d like you to think for a moment about a song that you really like. We usually like a song because it stimulates a lot of feelings or emotions within us as we listen to it. Try to remember the last time a song was very emotionally stimulating to you. You might recall that you had to listen to the song a few times before it became really emotionally stimulating to you. It probably wasn’t the case that you felt some peak level of emotional stimulation within the first second that you started listening to the song for the first time. In fact, in many instances, you may have to listen to a song multiple times before you can say that you start to feel a great deal of emotional stimulation from it. This is not just the case for music either. Video games, sports, movies, books, and really any form of entertainment in general requires you to sort of go through a warm-up phase before you can start to really feel large amounts of emotional stimulation from the event or activity. But then why does this occur? Why can’t we just experience a huge amount of emotional stimulation instantaneously whenever we engage in some entertaining activity?

          Well the reason for this has to do with another special property of the subconscious. This is the property that the subconscious has to essentially charge or build up its energy. Unlike the negative mind, it cannot just express its thoughts at any level of intensity instantaneously. Instead it has to go through a timing phase first where it starts off by expressing some thought, such as emotion, with only a little bit of energy. Then, over time, it is able to express that thought with more and more energy. In the case of emotion, more energy means that you’ll experience this emotion with greater and greater intensity. We could also say that you’ll experience this emotion more and more purely but this terminology requires a deeper explanation which we’re not really ready to go over at this time. So we’ll simply use the term intensity for simplicity.  Thus when you listen to a song more and more, your subconscious is actually going through a phase where it is charging up more and more and that is why you need to listen to the song a few times before you were able to feel a lot of emotion from it.  This same principle applies to movies, books, sports, and so on. Your subconscious requires a warm-up phase where it has to charge up to experience more emotion. In a nutshell, your subconscious is like a battery that has to be charged up to do certain things with a certain level of strength or intensity.

          We will talk about how to charge your subconscious more directly at a much later time, in chapter 11. There are a great deal more things to discuss before I think it makes sense to go over how to do that. However, just know that all subconscious thought has the ability to charge up and that your subconscious energy grows more and more as your subconscious charges. Although we limited our discussion to the case of emotion, we will talk about other types of subconscious thought in the next chapter and what happens when your subconscious charges up more and more and expresses those kinds of thoughts with greater and greater intensity. An interesting question you might be wondering about subconscious charging is whether or not there is an upper limit to it. A battery for example doesn’t just charge forever. It will reach a certain point of potential energy and then it can no longer be charged any further after that. Does the subconscious mind work in the same way or can it theoretically charge forever? Well let me just say that, while I don’t really think that it can charge forever, I’ve also never quite reached an upper limit for charging either. The problem is that it becomes too unrealistic to continue charging past a certain point because the corresponding subconscious compulsion starts to become too strong and it feels like your mind is way too unstable. You’ve probably experienced a similar feeling when you were in a very intense emotional state in the past and found it hard to concentrate and think logically as a result. This effect grows more and more as you continue to charge your subconscious until it's so strong that you’re effectively no longer able to think very clearly at all. You’re in an almost delusional state that can be somewhat dangerous in itself due to your inability to focus.

          The last thing I’d like to mention here about subconscious charging is the relatively opposite phenomenon, subconscious discharging. Just as your subconscious takes a while to build up its energy, it also has to take a while to get rid of its energy. You notice this when you experience some traumatic event and find it really hard to get over it emotionally. No matter how quickly you want the bad feelings associated with the memory of that event to go away, they just don’t seem to want to do so. However, eventually you notice, over time, that these bad feelings are finally getting weaker and weaker and you start to feel better and better as a result. This transient period of time where these negative feelings are getting weaker is the result of your subconscious discharging the energy associated with these negative feelings which, at one point, was charged up. Subconscious discharging generally occurs when you stop thinking about things that are related to the subconscious charge. For example, the longer you stopped thinking about the negative event related to those negative feelings, the more your subconscious was able to discharge the negative emotional energy it had previously charged. On the other hand, if you keep playing this negative event in your mind over and over again, these negative emotions will discharge at a much slower pace and may even start to charge up again.

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SUBCONSCIOUS FREQUENCY

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last topic I’d like to mention in this chapter is also related to your subconscious energy and has to do with a very special characteristic it has. In the previous section, it was mentioned that your subconscious energy has the ability to charge by building up its energy. This is not unlike the way a phone charges up and stores potential energy in its battery.  Now although this analogy may be appear rather apt on the surface, its actually not quite right when we look more closely at the nature of subconscious energy. Unlike normal physical energy, your subconscious’ energy has another special property that, in a sense, causes there to be many different types of subconscious energy – perhaps an infinite amount. When you plug your phone into the wall to charge its battery, you wouldn't need to specify which kind of electrical energy you’d want to use to charge your battery – there’s only one kind. Similarly if you wanted to convert electrical energy into heat for the purpose of cooking, it wouldn’t be the case that electrical energy A is better for this conversation than electrical energy B. Again, there’s always only one kind of energy that you have choose from in this particular sense of the word.  Subconscious energy on the other hand, doesn’t quite work like this. In this case, there are different types of energy to choose from and each one will empower your subconscious mind in a different way.

          The clearest example of this involves looking at the nature of our own emotions. When you’re very angry, this would seem to indicate that your subconscious has charged up a good chunk of energy and is using that energy to make you feel the anger emotion more intensely. But just because your subconscious has charged up a whole bunch of energy for your anger, that doesn’t necessarily mean that this same energy can be used to make you feel happiness or gratitude instead. If you want to feel either of those emotions, you’d have to charge up those kinds of subconscious energy individually – preferably after letting the anger-based subconscious energy discharge. This demonstrates that each kind of subconscious energy has a unique characteristic that defines its nature. The easiest way to know which type of subconscious energy you’ve charged up at any given moment is by focusing on the way you feel. Every emotion is associated with a different kind of subconscious energy type. Because of this, we could easily classify every subconscious energy type by its corresponding emotional feeling. However, this would get a little confusing later on since emotion is only one of the types of thought that your subconscious mind is able to express. Other subconscious thought types are also affected by the subconscious energy type too so it would be rather cumbersome to talk about these energy types solely in terms of only one type of subconscious thought.

          To make our future discussions go a bit more smoothly, I’d like to define a new characteristic of the subconscious mind called subconscious frequency. The frequency of your subconscious is a component of your subconscious state that simply tells us what kind of subconscious energy it will charge while in that state. For example, when our subconscious is at the anger frequency, it is able to charge the anger emotion. When our subconscious is at the love frequency, it is able to charge the love emotion and so on. I like to use the term “frequency” to talk about the nature of subconscious energy because this property very much reminds me of channels on a TV or colors in the electromagnetic spectrum. When you’re flipping through channels on your tv and see a specific program on each channel, you’re actually adjusting the tuner in your cable box to let in different frequencies from the primary video signal being sent by your cable provider. Thus, in a sense, your cable box is able to express a unique combination of sound and video depending on which channel, or frequency, that it is tuned into. Similarly, your subconscious is also able to express itself in unique ways depending on which frequency its energy is charged up at.

          The color analogy may be even more apt to describe the property of subconscious frequency because colors can be broken down into different shades, which we can technically also do with subconscious frequencies. To understand this, recall that every color you see actually represents the unique wavelength of an electromagnetic wave. In a vacuum, we can instead simply think of colors as a unique frequency that an electromagnetic wave is able to have. Objects that appear to us as red, blue or green for example all reflect electromagnetic waves with different frequencies. However, what’s interesting about this is that there can actually be a collection of different electromagnetic waves that all have unique frequencies, or represent different colors, but we would still feel the need to classify them all under one main color. For example, the colors scarlet, ruby, and crimson all have different electromagnetic frequencies and appear as slightly different colors to us but we would still classify all of these colors as red or a type of red. The different versions of what we consider to be main colors are of course called shades. This same phenomena also seems to occur when it comes to your subconscious and the different frequencies it’s able to have. It is possible for us to have a whole bunch of different feelings that have different subconscious frequencies and yet still recognize these feelings as belonging to some main emotion or frequency. For example, the humor or laughter emotion can have different “shades” such as the more slapstick kind, the more calm kind, or the more depressing humor kind. This is important because it will be necessary to think about your emotions down to their shade if your want to charge your subconscious properly. As you will see, even slight changes in the way your intention is expressed will also cause slight changes in your subconscious frequency. This means that different shades of some main frequency will be charged depending on how specifically your intention is expressed.

          The last thing I’d like to mention about subconscious frequency is that, just as different colors can be mixed together, so too can different subconscious frequencies. For example, you can both feel and charge different emotions at the same time. Thus subconscious frequency is not a singular value such that once your subconscious switches to one, it can’t possibly charge or use energy at any other frequency during that same time. However, what is true is that the more strongly your subconscious charges at one particular frequency, the less strongly it is able to charge at any other subconscious frequency. We’ll talk a little more about the mixing of subconscious frequencies in chapter 7. One last thing about frequency mixing I’d like to mention here though is the nature of polar or antithetical frequencies. These are simply subconscious frequencies that tend to be very difficult to charge and feel at the same time. For example it would be rather difficult to charge my subconscious at the hate frequency and the love frequency at the same time. For this reason, we can say that the love and hate emotions are polar or antithetical to each other.

          Oddly enough antithetical frequencies can still be charged and felt at the same time if you perform the standard charging techniques. I have actually done this in the past as an experiment. However, there’s not much of a purpose in doing this since the charge of one frequency tends to have a kind of canceling effect on the charge of the other frequency. Because of this, it is important to recognize when you’re looking to charge a frequency that has an opposite, or antithetical nature, to some existing subconscious charge that you’ve already built up. For the most part, we can simply say that all subconscious frequencies that feel bad to us, or negative subconscious frequencies, are antithetical to subconscious frequencies that feel good to us, or positive subconscious frequencies. The love and hate frequencies would be hard to both charge at the same time but the love and gratitude emotions would be fairly easy to charge at the same time. This also goes for negative emotions as well. Emotional frequencies such as anger and the feeling of wanting revenge would both be fairly easy to charge at the same time.

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Footnotes

   

1. We’ll elaborate on this more deeply in chapter 12.

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2. Technically this is not entirely true. Your subconscious will charge the first few times you listen to a song but, after a while, it will actually stop charging up in response to this song. When this happens, you’ll notice that you no longer feel as much emotional stimulation from the song as you once did. Why this occurs is very important in understanding the subconscious and is something we’ll discuss in more detail in chapter.

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3. Of course we do classify energy into different types such as electrical, chemical, mechanical, nuclear, sound, light and so on. But these are just nice categorizations that help us to know what the source of that energy that is being transferred is. In reality though, it's actually all the same kind of physical energy.