04-11-2015, 10:07 PM
I recently have read some teachings that suggest the following.
We have a sub-conscious, conscious and super-conscious all working in concert with one another. The sub-conscious acts as the storage, the conscious the logical problem solving mind and the super-conscious the connection to infinite intelligence. As we move through life, we naturally rely on one of these more than the other. Babies are born utilizing the super-conscious the most. They have not built up the conscious enough yet to depend on it and the sub-conscious has not had enough time to store experience (except that which was kept from previous lives). To ease the transition of being confined to a physical body, babies still have a strong connection to infinite intelligence through the super-conscious and rely pretty exclusively on that to get by.
As the baby grows, it starts to strengthen the conscious with problem solving and saving off results in the sub-conscious. When it encounters a familiar issue it can refer back to the sub-conscious and say "last time this happened, this is what I did and it worked or did not work". The sub-conscious is also where we store events or trauma that we are not yet capable of processing via the conscious or super-conscious so that we can retrieve at a later time for processing. As we move into teenage years we have experienced enough and strengthened the conscious mind enough that we start to switch to rely exclusively on the conscious problem solving mind more than the super-conscious. Some do this more than others and all to varying degrees.
I had a funny understanding of this concept thinking of it in terms of computing. The sub-conscience being the hard drive, conscious the processor and the super-conscious the ethernet port (internet connection). :-)
We have a sub-conscious, conscious and super-conscious all working in concert with one another. The sub-conscious acts as the storage, the conscious the logical problem solving mind and the super-conscious the connection to infinite intelligence. As we move through life, we naturally rely on one of these more than the other. Babies are born utilizing the super-conscious the most. They have not built up the conscious enough yet to depend on it and the sub-conscious has not had enough time to store experience (except that which was kept from previous lives). To ease the transition of being confined to a physical body, babies still have a strong connection to infinite intelligence through the super-conscious and rely pretty exclusively on that to get by.
As the baby grows, it starts to strengthen the conscious with problem solving and saving off results in the sub-conscious. When it encounters a familiar issue it can refer back to the sub-conscious and say "last time this happened, this is what I did and it worked or did not work". The sub-conscious is also where we store events or trauma that we are not yet capable of processing via the conscious or super-conscious so that we can retrieve at a later time for processing. As we move into teenage years we have experienced enough and strengthened the conscious mind enough that we start to switch to rely exclusively on the conscious problem solving mind more than the super-conscious. Some do this more than others and all to varying degrees.
I had a funny understanding of this concept thinking of it in terms of computing. The sub-conscience being the hard drive, conscious the processor and the super-conscious the ethernet port (internet connection). :-)
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