Now that we’ve gone over a more complete overview of the properties of the subconscious mind and the role your body plays in controlling the subconscious, we’re ready to move things along and begin working toward a more complete discussion on how to actually control your subconscious in practice. To start things off, we will turn our focus back to the connection between the conscious and subconscious minds. In particular, we will now look much more deeply at the role your intention plays in the charging process. We will not necessarily be discussing how to charge subconscious energy using intention in this chapter but rather we’ll primarily be looking at the way your intention quantizes your subconscious. You will get a much more complete idea of how your subconscious actually responds to your intention and how to use intention to properly command your subconscious mind. Later in the chapter we will use a new formalism to talk about the connection between your intention and the subconscious mind. Although this new formalism will be rather abstract in nature, I believe it will make many of our future discussions go much easier and smoother. To begin this discussion, I’d like to once again go into another diatribe about a past experience of mine that’s related to what we’ll be going over in this chapter.

 

 

MY EMOTIONAL EXPERIMENT

 

When I first began learning to control my subconscious, I started off by attempting to charge my subconscious for the purpose of feeling emotion more and more intensely. I didn’t actually think of it in terms of my subconscious at the time though and was really just conducting what I thought was a relatively simple science experiment. During this time I had become interested in the nature of emotions and wanted to know how the properties of the mind and body change when emotions reach extremely high levels of intensity. I would often engage in relatively random studies such as this out of purely scientific self-interest. In order to carry out this experiment with emotion, I decided that I needed to pick an emotion that I wanted to feel at an extremely high level of intensity. Naturally, this should be a positive emotion that I would actually enjoy feeling at such a high level. Well after some thought about the different emotions I could use for this experiment, I decided that I wanted to feel the love emotion more intensely. I hadn’t felt this emotion very strongly for a while at that time and became interested in feeling it again.

          I then decided to set out and try to feel this emotion as absolutely intensely as I possibly could. I wasn’t actually sure if there was some immediate limit to how strongly one could feel this emotion, or any emotion for that matter. Perhaps I’d reach this limit very quickly and find that nothing particularly special happens when the mind and body are subjected to this maximum level of emotional intensity for a prolonged period of time. Or maybe I wouldn’t actually reach a limit and would find that emotions are capable of reaching levels of intensity that I never thought was possible. I might also discover at this point some special unforeseen side effect or phenomenon that only occurs when emotions reach these higher levels of intensity. I was curious what the answer was and figuring this out was ultimately the goal of my experiment.

          Well, needless to say, it didn’t take long for me to realize just how hard it was to “simply raise” the intensity of my emotions at will as I was attempting to do for this experiment. I quickly realized that despite feeling emotions for my whole life and controlling them quite naturally in various circumstances, I still didn’t fully understand them – at least not on a conscious level. I didn’t actually know why I felt certain emotions in some circumstances but not in others or why I felt them so strongly during some moments and not during other moments. It seemed that these were questions that absolutely needed to be answered and understood on a conscious level, to some satisfactory degree, in order to carry out this experiment. Well over time, after a continuous and stubborn effort to make myself “feel” more emotion, I did begin to understand more about how emotions worked. For one, I understood that emotions actually came from the place in my mind that I had been referring to as my subconscious. At the time I knew that my subconscious enabled me to reach higher levels of creativity, but I didn’t actually know that it was also responsible for my emotions too.

          I also learned that my intentions weren’t directly responsible for causing me to feel emotion more intensely. Sure there is a very close connection and link between the two events, it’s practically impossible to feel emotion without doing specific things with my intention. However, correlation is not necessarily causation and intent alone doesn’t actually charge your subconscious or directly stimulate it to generate emotion. This was important to understand because my initial instinct at the beginning of the experiment was that I could just consciously “will” myself to feel more emotion. That of course is the same as trying to use intention to control my emotions. Eventually, I learned that this wasn’t really how things worked. However, while intention doesn’t directly charge your subconscious, it does determine how your subconscious charges up. For example, it will determine the specific frequency your subconscious charges up at. And since I was trying to control emotion, it was a very natural thing to focus very attentively on my subconscious frequency – although I didn’t entirely think of it that way at the time.

          Later, I came to understand the relationship between intention and emotion even more deeply. As explained previously, when I tried to simply will myself to feel more of the love emotion, it didn’t work out so well. However, I noticed that when I listened to certain songs and played out certain imaginary scenes in my mind, it was actually lot easier to feel the love emotion more strongly. There seemed to be something about these particular types of songs and the particular types of fantasies I imagined that were intricately linked to the emotion I was trying to charge. Eventually, I gained a better understanding of the love emotion in particular and learned what kind of songs and imaginary story-like fantasies helped me to feel this emotion more strongly. Some songs and stories pushed this emotion away, while others seemed to pull it in. Furthermore, I learned that I had to be more specific about the emotion I wanted to feel and that trying to simply feel “the love emotion” wasn’t specific enough.

          I realized that there were many different shades of the love emotion and that different songs and fantasies, or imaginary stories, helped to charge specific ones more strongly than others. If I wanted to feel more of this emotion, I had to specifically hone in on some particular shade of it rather than just randomly jumping around from one of its shades to another – at least at that time it would’ve made a lot more sense for me to just focus on one shade. Charging different shades now is not really that big of a deal. But overall I learned that emotions in general had unique associations or links to certain kinds of songs and stories. Part of learning how to charge the love emotion involved learning which songs and stories were strongly linked to that emotion in particular. But then how is this the case? How exactly does this unique relationship work and how do we understand this more deeply in terms of the properties of the subconscious? Well, these are questions that we will try to answer throughout the chapter.

 

 

ABSOLUTE NATURE OF INTENT

 

One of the biggest takeaways from my experiment, although I didn’t understand it right away, was that our subconscious has a relatively unique response to the way we express our intention. To understand this, it is important to first understand that our conscious mind has the ability to essentially pack a dense amount of information into our intentions. For example, I could hold the intention that I will win a basketball game that I’m playing no matter what. This specific intention obviously contains information about a sports game and probably the opponents I’ll be facing in that game. Similarly, I could hold the intention that I want to stay home from school today and play video games – knowing I’ll still have to go to school all the while. This intention obviously contains information about school, video games  and a command-like assertion that it would be a good thing to stay home instead of go to school. Now in both of these cases, my subconscious will respond to my intention but will also have a different response for each one. The intent to win the sports game will likely cause my subconscious to the switch the frequency associated with the emotion of ambition and determination. The intention to stay home from school will cause my subconscious to switch to the frequency associated with the emotion of yearning and neediness.

          Each intention contains within it a different kind of scenario and a different kind of command relating to that scenario. Another way that I like to say this is that your intention “expresses” a different kind of scenario and command. Well as you could see, and can verify is the case for you, my subconscious responds differently to both kinds of expression of intention. And this of course isn’t conveniently a phenomenon that only occurs with the two situations mentioned in our example. Rather all expressions of intention cause some unique response or reaction from your subconscious. When I hold the intention to relax and imagine a calm beach or a tranquil forest, my subconscious will then switch to the relaxation frequency. When I hold the intention to try out a new burger restaurant, my subconscious may switch a frequency of excitement and desire and so on. Our subconscious is always responding to our intentions in some unique preset way that we didn’t have to program into it beforehand.

          Of course, this naturally raises a new question that is important in its own right and should not be overlooked. Who programmed this preset pattern of response into our subconscious? If it wasn’t us who told our subconscious to respond to these intentions in the way that it apparently does, then who was it? For example why does the intent to win a sports game make me feel the emotion of ambition and not sadness or guilt? Who decided that the feeling of ambition would be associated with this specific expression intention? Well as far as I can tell, the answer is simply God himself. Now I know that not everyone reading this will believe in God, however I do and I believe that he is the one who has built these unique responses into our subconscious mind. For the non-believer though, you can simply replace God with “nature” if you’re more comfortable with that. However, I believe that God is the grand spiritual mechanic that performs this special sort of pairing between expression of intent and the corresponding subconscious response. Thus our subconscious has a prebuilt program that tells it how to respond whenever our intention is expressed in a certain way.

          A useful way of thinking about this is to compare it to how colors work in nature. From physics, we know that colors are a form of sensory experience that occurs as a result of electromagnetic waves entering our eyes and then being converted into visual information that our brain then sends to our consciousness. The different wavelengths of electromagnetic waves correspond to different colors that we see. For example, an EM wave with a wavelength of X causes us to see blue while an EM wave with a wavelength of Y causes us to see red. Of course, an interesting question to ask here too is why? Why does wavelength X cause us to see blue and not green or yellow instead? Who made the decision that the color blue be what is seen whenever an EM wave of wavelength X enters our retina? I believe the answer to this question too is God. I know some people may defer to some sort of evolutionary reason for why we see the colors we do but again I don’t personally believe in this. I believe that this same pairing principle also applies to our other senses as well. The sound we hear at certain audible frequencies, the smell we perceive for certain chemical structures at the atomic level and even the feeling we have when we touch certain surfaces are all sensory experiences that are paired with certain categories of physical structure. And this pairing, as well, is predetermined by God.

          Now one important quality to this pairing between your subconscious and your intention is that it seems to be absolute in nature. This means that you can’t change how your subconscious is programmed to respond to your intent. For example, I can’t make it so that when I hold the intention to win a sports game, I feel humor and bust out laughing instead of the feeling of ambition and determination. Nor can I make it so that I feel confident whenever I hold the intention that I’m worthless and unworthy. The pairing between subconscious response and intention is fixed and cannot be changed or altered. At least that is what seems to be the case based on my own personal experience with my subconscious and the behaviors that I’ve observed in others. Thus learning how to properly control your subconscious involves learning which intentions got paired up to the subconscious responses that you're interested. In the experiment I mentioned earlier, I ended up learning what kind of intentions I needed to produce to get my subconscious to respond by switching to the love frequency. Put more specifically, I learned how to express my intention in the necessary way that caused my subconscious to become quantized at the love frequency. Every subconscious frequency will have a similar learning curve to it as far as learning what specific ways you to need to express your intention to get your subconscious to charge at that specific frequency.

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INTENTION AND EXPRESSION

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Given the absolute nature of our subconscious response, it is clearly very important to know what kind of intentions are necessary to get your subconscious to perform some particular action that you’d like it to take. However to obtain this level of understanding, it is important to understand the structure of our intentions even more deeply. First, I’d like to reiterate that the relationship between the conscious mind and subconscious mind is one of commander and servant. This isn’t exactly a perfect analogy because the subconscious still has some freedom to express itself how it wants to even after the conscious mind has quantized it. However for the most part, it is fairly accurate to think of the conscious mind as the part of you that commands your subconscious mind. Now the conscious mind provides commands to your subconscious in form of intention. Again each intention has two parts that make it up, a subject part which is the focus of the intention and the command part which makes an assertion that is directed toward the subject.

          While the nature of the subject is not usually all that consequential in terms of the subconscious mind’s absolute response to it, the command part on the other hand is extremely consequential. This is because it is actually the command part of the intention that induces a unique response from the subconscious mind. For example if you hold the intention to support someone no matter what happens, then your intention is actually asserting the command that you will support someone through thick and thin. Your subconscious actually responds to this assertion by switching to a very specific subconscious frequency – the one God has paired up with this specific type of command. Can you guess what this frequency is and describe it in terms of the emotion associated with it? Well experience should tell you that, when you assert that you're highly committed to supporting someone, you generally start to feel the emotion of loyalty. This tells us that the intention “support this person no matter what” got paired up with the frequency and feeling that we would generally describe by the term loyalty. Notice that it does not matter whom I have held this intention for. In other words, the subject itself is not really consequential in terms of how my subconscious responds to my intention.

          The specific part of my intention that induced a unique response from my subconscious was actually the command or assertion embedded within it. This term “embedded” is a bit clumsy though so I often like to use the term “expresses” instead. Using this terminology, we can say that your intention expresses a particular command and your subconscious switches to a specific frequency in response to it. Now in the first example above, we looked at a circumstance where your intention expressed a command that reflected a deeper underlying desire of yours. For example, the intention to support someone, in a sense, reflected your desire to be loyal to someone. An intention that says you love this person or that you adore them, actually reflects your conscious mind’s desire to love. These examples show us that many of the commands expressed by your intention can actually placed into the category of "desire" type commands. These commands of course, as the name suggests, describe intentions whose command part expresses the conscious mind’s desire.

          But then why go through the work of acknowledging this on a conscious level? Surely all intentions are desire type commands as we don’t normally use the word “intention” to talk about something not related to the conscious mind’s desires. Well, in the context of the subconscious mind, we can actually get even more specific and talk about two other kind of command types that the conscious mind can produce. To understand the first of these two other command types, I’d like you to first perform a quick thought experiment. To set up this experiment, I’d like to first talk briefly about the nature of normal imagination and transcendental imagination using the more complete paradigm of the positive and negative minds discussed in chapter 5. Recall that, based on our previous discussions regarding the role the body plays in regulating the behavior of the subconscious, our subconscious can respond to our intentions while it is in its ground state or excited state. When it responds to your intentions while in its ground state, it will allow you to perform a normal action or mental ability. When it responds to your intentions while in its excited state, it will allow you to perform a transcendental action or mental ability.

          Now when you imagine something while your subconscious is in its ground state, you will be using your normal imagination instead of transcendental imagination. Normal imagination of course requires no transient charging period to perform since your body is already doing all the work in keeping your subconscious charged up at the ground state level. Thus you can use normal imagination anytime, anywhere and for anything you’d like to while you’re awake. Ok, now to perform this quick thought experiment, I’d like you to hold the image of an apple in your mind for about 5 – 10 seconds. Keep your focus on the image that comes to your mind as you perform this little experiment. As you did this, what color did you notice the apple was? For most people, the color will likely have been red but for some it will have been green or even another color. Now let’s go even further and look at what you might have considered to be some of the less important details about the image that came to your mind. For example, what was the apple that appeared in your mind actually sitting on? Was it sitting directly on a plate or table? Was it inside of a fruit basket? Was it suspended in air? What background appeared in your mind? Did you see the apple in your home or a restaurant? Perhaps it was some white space or black void like image.

          For me, the apple was sitting on a plate on the table with a black void like background. But then why are these seemingly minor details important? Well because, for the experiment, you likely only intended to focus on the image of an apple in your mind. You probably didn’t really think much about any of those other details that appeared in the image in your mind and yet they were still there. But then where did these other details of the image come from? Who gave your subconscious the command to compel you to visualize all of these other details separate from the apple? Perhaps it was the little bit of freedom the subconscious has after quantization that I’ve been mentioning. But this freedom mostly only becomes significant when the subconscious is in its excited state and not its ground state. In your subconscious ground state, your subconscious is mostly tame and is very obedient to the conscious mind, at least to the degree that the body allows it to be. Thus, if this is true, then the subconscious probably received all of these additional commands from your conscious mind too.

          In other words your conscious mind’s intention also expressed commands that told your subconscious what to compel you to visualize. These visualization type commands gave your subconscious instructions regarding what color the apple should be, what surface it should be sitting on, what background was behind the apple, how close up or far away the apple should appear and even how sharp or dull the apple appears in the image in your mind. All of this information was contained within the intention that told your subconscious to alter your perception to see the image of an apple in your mind. As you can see, these kinds of commands expressed by your intention are a bit different from the desire type commands mentioned earlier. I call these kinds of commands "concrete" type commands. This is because these commands tell your subconscious to compel you to perceive things that can be represented by at least one of the 5 senses. For example, when you hold the intention to see an apple in your mind, this can be represented by the sense of sight. You could also hold the intention to hear a sound in your mind, such as when you imagine hearing a song you like. This command intention can be represented by the sense of hearing. This similarly occurs for your other senses as well.

          After concrete type commands there is another category I refer to as "abstract" type commands. These are commands expressed by your intention that mainly provide abstract information that can’t really be represented by your 5 senses. For example when I solve the equation 2 + 2 = 4, I’m actually producing intentions that tell my subconscious mind to compel me to perceive a mathematical relationship. Even this kind of information requires my subconscious to alter my perception in order for me to perceive it. For example, I cannot perceive the actual "math" in the equation unless my subconscious alters my perception to perceive this. Similarly when I focus on the history of a character in a story I’m watching play out, I do so by holding an intention that expresses information related to that character's history.   In fact, if I use transcendental perception, I can actually charge my subconscious to compel me to perceive a relatively large amount of information all at once. This kind of charge might be useful for transcendental intelligence. For example if you mentally attempted to solve the equations 1+2=x and 3+4=y at the same exact time, you probably could pull it off. But what if you mentally tried to solve 10 equations like this at the same exact time? What about 20 or even 30?

          This would be incredibly difficult. Your normal imagination simply doesn't allow you to work with so information at one time. But I believe transcendental imagination could actually be charged to allow you to process all of this information at once. In this case, your subconscious would respond to abstract commands in a way that alters your perception to be able to hold a large amount of information in your mind at once. Although this represents one way of using abstract type commands, there is actually another that is even more interesting. The conscious mind can also use abstract type commands to express "relationships". This is important because this kind expression of intention often involves multiple subjects at once, rather than just one as we've been primarily focused on. For example if I see two people walking down the street, my intention has the ability to command my subconscious to perceive the two individuals as strangers, friends, boyfriend and girlfriend, brother and sister, enemies, coworkers and so on. Again even this kind of information requires a perception altering compulsion from your subconscious in order for you to perceive it. Although we are not normally aware of this fact on conscious level, that is actually how our mind works. Our brain gives us the ability to perceive lots of different relationships very easily without needing to charge our subconscious too much first. However, we gain the ability to perceive these relationships more clearly when our subconscious charges up and alters our perception even more strongly to do so.

          But once again we can ask the important question of, who cares? Why was it necessary to break down the nature of our intentions into these three different command types. Well the reason why I think it is useful to do this has to do with the absolute nature of your subconscious. I’ve come to learn that the subconscious has a preprogrammed response to our intentions even down to these levels of detail. For example, when you hold the intention to visualize a specific color, even this will cause your subconscious to switch to a specific frequency and begin compelling you in ways that are unique to that frequency. For example I’ve noticed that, when I charge the confidence frequency very intensely, I start to feel like I can perceive a nice goldish yellow color in my mind. I'm not sure why that is but it pretty much always happens when I charge the confidence emotion. It's as if this emotion has a strong relation to this particular color. Thus focusing on this color will likely help me to charge the confidence frequency even more easily. Similarly when charging the love emotion, I can sense a particular shade of red. A certain shade of blue helps me to charge a feeling of inner peace. I’m jumping ahead a little here, but the color white helps me to charge spiritual energy and the  color purple helps to charge psychic energy.  

          If I look at or imagine a messy room, this helps me to charge a feeling chaos or disorderliness and so on. Similarly abstract information expressed by your intention also causes preset responses from your subconscious as well. For example if I imagine a person with super powers saving others from danger, then I would need to first express how this person is related to the people he's saving. This expression of relationship would be asserted by an abstract type command. And in order for my subconscious to alter my perception to perceive this kind of relationship between the person with powers and the people in danger, it actually needs to first switch a specific subconscious frequency. Furthermore it is only on this frequency that my subconscious has the ability to alter my perception to perceive this special kind of relationship. Of course we might call this particular subconscious frequency the hero frequency. Thus while on this frequency, my subconscious is able to alter my perception to perceive someone as being a "hero" and also allows me to feel what you might call the hero emotion – this is just the feeling we usually have when we see someone saving others from danger. It should also be noted that seeing this kind of relationship externally, such as when watching a Superman movie, would also make it easier for me to charge the hero perception and emotion if I desired to do so. Similarly when I think of two people as being family, I must produce an intention whose abstract command expresses this kind of relationship. And when I do this, my subconscious switches to a unique frequency that alters my perception so that I’m able to perceive this unique kind of relationship between two individuals and I feel the corresponding unique emotion as well. For example when you think of two people as being family, this should evoke a slightly different emotion within you compared to when you think of two people as being friends.

          Overall, all of this information about command types is important because they make it easier to talk about the nature of intentions down to much more specific levels of detail. This additional need for detail is important because the subconscious mind has preset responses even to different command types and all of the possible expressions of command that each command type can have. Learning how to control your subconscious involves learning which expressions of intention got paired up with certain subconscious responses down to the level of command types. For example, if you wanted to feel the hero emotion more, you'd have to learn what kind of relationship your intention needs to express in order to provoke that particular response from your subconscious. Although you have always been aware of this information for some frequencies on a subconscious level, it is a different matter to become adept at knowing this information on a conscious level. As you get better and better at learning what intentions quantize your subconscious at a particular frequency, you will get better and better at charging that frequency. I had to go through this learning curve to get better and better at charging the love emotion.

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CONTEXT AND FREQUENCY

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Now while it is useful to recognize that your subconscious has unique responses to each of your intention's command types, it would be quite cumbersome to try to focus directly on all of the command types expressed in each intention that you produce. In particular, each intention actually expresses all three of these command types to some degree. But constantly focusing on the three command type components of each intention might get exhausting. When I started learning how to control my subconscious more proficiently, I found it much easier to focus on what I simply referred to as the “context” of the stories I'd play out in my mind. Recall that I mentioned that I’d often listen to music and play out certain fantasies in my mind in order to charge the love emotion for more strongly. Well in order to pull this off, I had to focus very heavily on the context of each scene in those imagined fantasies. This involved constantly thinking about some imagined history or future related to things I’d imagine, as well the type of relationships that existed between different characters or objects I’d perceive in these fantasies. The more heavily I focused on context in my imagination in this manner, the more easy I found it to charge a particular emotion. All I had to do was keep mentally adjusting the context until I felt some particular feeling come in more strongly and purely. To remind myself of this principle, I'd often repeat to myself the aphorism "context is frequency". In other words, the perceived context of the scenes I play out in my mind specifically determines what frequency my subconscious will switch to.

          Eventually, after getting used to focusing on the context underlying the scenes I’d focus on in my mind, I found it easier to just tell stories in my mind and use them to help charge my subconscious. I then realized that this kind of makes sense because stories are really just abstract data structures that allow us to focus on a particular context and observe how it changes with time. For example if I use my intention to think of a burglar walking into a bank, my subconscious will switch to a particular frequency, or combination of frequencies, as it compels me to perceive this scene. Now this process could end here or I could move the scene along even further. I could then imagine the burglar actually sticking up the bank and demanding money. My subconscious will then once again switch to a slightly different frequency as it compels me to imagine this new scene and it's context, including the relationships that exists between the different subjects that make it up – such as the teller and robber and the robber and customers. I could then advance the scene even further and imagine cops entering the scene. This introduces a new relationship between the characters, or subjects involved, and causes my subconscious to change to a new frequency again.

          By constantly evolving the context over time, I’m able to control my subconscious frequency in a relatively smooth and continuous way. Keep in mind my subconscious still isn’t really doing anything other than reacting to the intentions I’m producing down to their three command type components. In fact, these examples provide circumstances where our intention takes on a more complex form by containing multiple subjects and expressing many different relationships that exists between those different subjects all at once. In these cases still, our subconscious is responding in the preset way that God has programmed it to. However, all of these different subjects and relationships that my intention focuses on and expresses can be nicely summed up by the term  “context”. And when you change the context in a way that, in a sense, moves forward from where it was, you’re basically just engaging in the act of storytelling.  This shows us that stories are really the natural means by which the conscious mind would control the subconscious mind. This is ultimately why most, if not all, forms of entertainment contain some kind of underlying story that you’re able to perceive as you become “entertained” by them.

          We will talk more about the basic theory of entertainment shortly. However, while stories are the natural means by which to control your subconscious, this still doesn’t tell us what kind of stories are best to get our subconscious to do something that we'd like it to. For example some stories will help you to charge the love emotion while others may help you to charge the emotion of gratitude. Again learning how to charge your subconscious will involve learning what stories are best for getting your subconscious to perform a particular action. Each subconscious frequency has a learning curve to it in terms of knowing what kind of stories help to charge it. As you get used to charging some particular frequency, you’ll get better and better at knowing what stories to use to charge that frequency. We’ll talk more directly  about how to use stories to charge your subconscious in chapter 11. For now, it is mainly important to know that stories represent the primary means by which the conscious mind quantizes the subconscious mind.

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IMPORTANCE OF ATTENTION

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In the last section, we learned that your intentions can be used to express the context of things that you imagine and that this context can evolve in a way that’s basically the same as telling a story. When you play out this story in your mind, with a heavy focus on context as you do, you will be able to essentially control your subconscious using your intention. However it will not always be the case that you wish to control your subconscious by, in a sense, going into your mind. There will, no doubt, be many times when you will wish to control your subconscious while focused on things in the real world too and not necessarily just in your own imagination. In fact this concept is basically the main idea when we seek out things for the purpose of entertainment. To discuss how subconscious control works in these instances, I’d like to first talk about the relationship between your attention and your intention in the subconscious control process. This connection is probably somewhat obvious, but it is quite powerful nevertheless and therefore important enough to discuss directly.

          You’ve probably heard of the aphorism “where your attention goes, energy flows”. Well if you’re talking about subconscious energy, then that is actually correct. I believe that this very old and well-known saying is actually referencing the way your subconscious responds to whatever it is that has your attention. To better understand this, let’s try to more formally define what exactly it is that we mean by the very common word “attention”. Now you could say that this term simply refers to whatever it is that your mind is focused on at any given moment. So if your mind is focused on A, then we would say that A has your attention. It is worth noting that this definition sounds awfully similar to our definition of what a subject is –  some point of focus that the command part our intention is directed toward. But in the case of attention, we didn’t make any sort of reference to what’s going on with your intention. Attention is more general in nature and simply refers to wherever your mind’s eye or focus is at the time. It doesn’t try to give any information about what it is that your conscious mind is commanding or asserting while maintaining that focus as the term “intention” would. But then how does this term relate to your subconscious mind?

          Well if every intention has a subject that the command within the intention is directed toward, then presumably the mind’s “attention” must have been drawn to that subject during the time the command was expressed. In other words your mind is only capable of producing intentions that are related to whatever it is that you’re paying attention to in the moment. A rather simple and obvious observation but an important and powerful one nonetheless. I like to refer to this principle as the attention principle. You can demonstrate this principle in practice by paying more attention to the nature of your own intentions. Just try to express some intention about any particular thing without giving at least some of your attention toward that thing first, it’s pretty much impossible. For example, let’s say that I’m holding the intention to win the lottery. It would be impossible for my conscious mind to assert any command in relation to the lottery without first directing my attention toward the subject “lottery”. This principle in general is very important because it indicates two major consequences as a result.

          To understand the first consequence, I’d like you to first recognize that your conscious mind has a perpetual never ending nature to it. This means that there isn’t exactly a way for you to shut off your mind and stop thinking altogether for any period of time. Sure we can clear our mind and practically “think nothingness” but that is still not the same as not thinking at all. As far as I can tell, we simply have to think whether we want to or not. Now given that our mind is always thinking, this also means that we’re always producing intentions related to wherever it is that our attention is drawn to in that moment. This is also something that we have to do whether we want to or not. Now what makes this rule so important has to do with the way our subconscious is affected by the things we focus on. For example, if I draw my attention to money, then my subconscious is going to respond in some way that’s related to whatever money represents to me. More specifically it will respond to whatever command my intention expresses to actually "perceive" some object as being "money". Recall that the meaning of money and its relationship to you or something else can only be perceived by virtue of the abstract command component of your intention. Similarly, if my attention is constantly drawn toward food, then my subconscious will constantly respond in some way that's related to what I think about food and so on. Again this necessarily must occur because I have to produce an intention that is related to whatever it is that I’m paying attention to at the moment. If I keep my attention on some goal I want to achieve day in and day out, then my subconscious won’t be able to help but charge up in a way that’s related to the context of achieving this goal and will likely charge up at the ambition frequency as a result. Notice that this kind of attention-based subconscious control is able to occur without the requirement that I be consciously aware of it.

          The second important consequence of the attention principle is related to a quality that your attention has which we’ve not yet discussed. In chapter 2 it was mentioned that an intention always has two parts, a command that the conscious mind is asserting and a point of focus that the command is directed toward called the subject. But that phrase "point of focus" is really just saying that you have to be paying attention to the subject before you can assert a command that's related to it. But, if you think about, attention is not a fixed quantity. It is not simply the case that you're always paying the exact same amount of attention toward anything and everything that you're giving any of your attention to at all. Instead it is possible to only give something a little bit of your attention or give it a lot of your attention. It doesn't have be the same amount each time. But if that's true then do our intentions behave any differently or do they have a different effect on our subconscious when we give the subject of that intention more or less of our attention?

          I've come to believe that the answer is yes. In my experience, when I give some particular subject more and more of my attention, I find that my subconscious has a stronger and more intense response to that intention. Over time, this has caused me to start thinking of attention as behaving almost like money – which is why the term "paying attention" makes so much sense. Think of your attention as being like money that you have in your bank account. You don't actually have an infinite amount of it that you can spend on any and everything – for example you can't easily focus on a million things at once. Instead you've only got a finite amount of it to spend. Now, to keep this analogy accurate, we will say that this is a magic bank account that automatically refills the money you spent immediately after use. However, you've always only got a finite amount of it to spend in the present moment and therefore have to be rather frugal with how you spend it during that time. If you give only a little bit of your total attention toward some task or event, then you've still got a lot of it left to give toward other things. But because you only gave a little bit of it away toward the task or event, your subconscious won't respond very strongly to the corresponding intention. This means that your perception won't be altered strongly enough to make much sense of the task or event. Not only will you have trouble perceiving its context properly, but even the sensory information coming from your physical senses will be difficult to consciously tune in to. We spoke about this phenomenon in chapter 3 in the section on transcendental sensory perception. This reduced level of attention will also make it harder for you to have a strong emotional response to that task or event as well. For example you might agree that you won't feel very emotionally stimulated by a movie that you're barely paying any attention to.

          Thus it is not always that helpful to be overly frugal with your attention. Similarly it is not overly helpful to try to focus on too many events or tasks at the same time. If you're trying to get a lot of work done, you might initially think it best to multitask and perform many of those tasks at or around the same time. However, giving each task only a small amount of your attention means your subconscious will only weakly compel you to perform those tasks. This means overall that you will not be able to perform any one of those tasks very well. This is somewhat obvious when it comes to transcendental performance but it should be noted that this will even affect your normal performance level as well. This level of performance also relies on how much attention you're spending on some task. These examples show us that, much of the time, it will probably be better for us to be a big spender and give some task or event a lot of our attention rather than just a little bit. Although you won't have much attention left over for anything else, you can at least ensure that your subconscious is responding very strongly to your intentions during this time. "Strongly" in this case mainly means that your subconscious will compel you more intensely and charge faster.

          Overall you can think of your subconscious as a store clerk that takes your attention as currency and gives you some desired outcome in the form of compulsions and transcendental mental abilities. Intense compulsions that cause you to feel emotions very strongly or have strong beliefs are very expensive and require a lot your attention to buy. This is similarly true for higher levels of transcendental creativity. I have somewhat simplified the relationship between attention and subconscious charge here to help you get a more intuitive sense of it. You will get an even better understanding of this relationship when we actually discuss how to charge your subconscious and you begin to practice doing so on your own. In chapter 12, we will talk about how to charge your subconscious using all of your attention at once. This results in a very powerful charge that I like to refer to as a level two charge.

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REFLECTION PRINCIPLE

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Another important principle I’d like to discuss is actually something of an offshoot of the attention principle but I like to think of it as a separate principle all its own. To understand this new principle, I find it useful to think of your conscious mind as behaving almost like a mirror. This is because our conscious mind has a tendency to try to copy or “reflect” whatever it is that we’re paying attention to. To be more specific, it likes to produce an intention whose three command components try to express the context of what the conscious mind is observing. The tendency for the conscious mind to do this is something I refer to as the reflection principle. As an example, let's say that you're walking down the street and notice a red car moving down the road quickly. Well, due to the attention principle, it would be rather difficult for you to observe the car traveling down the street and not also think to yourself, "there is a car and it is traveling down the street". I believe this tendency arises from the constant attempt of the conscious mind to try to make sense of the world around it.

           Although the physical body is constantly feeding sensory information to the conscious mind, this alone still doesn't enable the conscious mind to perceive the "context" of the information the body is feeding it. For that, the conscious must produce an intention that essentially fills in that blank. For example if you see a bear running down the street toward you, then such an event is mostly just a meaningless amalgamation of colors, sounds and perhaps even smells. It is only when your conscious mind produces an intention that says this bear is a threat to you that you gain the ability to perceive the actual context of this event as dangerous. And once you do perceive this context, remember context is frequency, your subconscious switches to the fear frequency and your body responds by charging anxiety and undergoing a fight or flight response. Since information from the body is not enough to make more sense of the world around us, our conscious mind is pretty much always making an effort to produce an intention that contextualizes what it's observing or, as I like to say, copies it.

          This principle is very important because it tells us that the external world can indirectly affect our subconscious mind as well – particularly the frequency our subconscious mind switches to in response to what we're observing. For example whenever certain events are occurring in the world around us, we will likely produce an intention that copies the context of those events and therefore quantize our subconscious as a result. In your daily life, you may have noticed this principle in effect when it comes to personalities you naturally gravitate towards. People often like to be around others who project confidence because it make them feel a little confident too. In order to perceive someone as confident, your subconscious has to be on the confidence frequency first. Only then can it alter your perception to perceive confidence. And a nice benefit of being on that frequency is that your subconscious charges the confidence emotion as well. Similarly we often don't like to be around others who are constantly depressed because it causes us to also feel depressed. Where the reflection principle is perhaps the most interesting though is when we're being entertained by something. We will explore this  phenomenon in more detail in the next section.

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