The Importance of Owning Your Personal Power - Our Sub-conscious and conscious minds

All of us have 3 types of consciousness: The Super-conscious mind, the Conscious mind, and the sub-conscious mind. The super-conscious mind is akin to our higher self, the all-knowing mind. The conscious mind is our reasoning mind. The sub-conscious mind is the non-reasoning mind.

Our sub-conscious mind is an information store (or memory bank if you prefer) containing all our thoughts, emotions, imaginations, habits, patterns, impulses and desires. It has been programmed by our environment, people we come in contact with, the media etc since the day we were born. As children, we were already poisoned from small with faulty thinking and faulty beliefs. All parents are guilty to different degree of this, not by conscious choice, but by their own sub-conscious too. So, just as the body can be filled with physical toxins from poor eating and abuse, the sub-conscious is filled with mental toxins from improper programming and education.

And the thing about the sub-conscious mind is that it is as happy to destroy the body as it is to create perfect health. It will create whatever it has been programmed to do. No one consciously destroys themselves, but many people unconsciously program diseases into their bodies with self-hatred, victim syndrome, revenge, depression etc. The idea is that we should consciously tell our sub-conscious minds constantly that we are in perfect radiant health and that every day we are getting healthier and healthier.

From the Law of Attraction, we know that what we focus on, we become. So those of us who talk a lot about making money, makes the most money. Conversely, those of us who talk a lot about the lack of money, always have to struggle for money.

It is probable that the sub-conscious mind is where the Law of Attraction operates. The sub-conscious mind is continually attracting and repelling things to and from us according to what it has been programmed to do. Therefore, it follows that a master would use this law via affirmation and visualization to his own conscious benefit.

The sub-conscious mind is also the seat of our psychic abilities. All human beings have psychic abilities. It is just either latent or awakened to varying degrees. We have 5 senses. The sixth sense is what most people associate with psychic abilities. Not true. The “sixth sense” is actually 5 corresponding inner senses to our 5 physical senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. They are inner sight (clairvoyance), inner hearing (clairaudience), inner smell, inner taste, and inner touch.

The best proof of these 5 psychic abilities is when we dream. I am sure some of you would have noticed that in your dream, you have 5 senses available to you while you sleep. How is this possible if you are physically asleep? You are using the 5 inner senses of your sub-conscious mind. Everyone has psychic abilities and we can all develop it further. It requires proper training and practice just like any other skill. There are schools who teach the use of these abilities and they have become quite common place now compared to a few decades ago.

Anyway... the key function of the conscious mind is to be the driver of the sub-conscious mind. Unfortunately, most people let their sub-conscious take control of their lives. In Buddhist terms, it is akin to letting their ego take charge of their lives. And this creates a lot of problems for us.

Even when we say we want to change, after going for some personal development program and coming out on a high note, very often, we end up going back to our default mode which is letting the sub-conscious run our lives. Look at it this way... Think of it as an iceberg. Only 1/3 of an iceberg is above water whereas the bulk of it is submerged. The submerged part is like our sub-conscious mind while the part above water is the conscious mind. So even if we say we want to go in a certain direction, we end up going another direction, the direction that our sub-conscious mind is programmed to move in.

The first key to change would of course be awareness of our patterns. By being aware, we are “pushing” the water level down and we then can make a conscious effort to catch ourselves when old patterns repeat. It is said that it takes 21 days to make something into a habit.

Psychological health is the process of letting into your mind only the positive spiritually balanced thoughts. Just like if we want to be physically healthy we put healthful food into our bodies, we need to put good healthful thoughts into our minds if we want to be psychologically healthy. By disregarding negative thoughts (not pushing it away) and letting go of it, we are not giving them energy. Eventually, like a plant that is not watered, the negative thoughts would die off from lack of attention and focus. In its place, we will keep affirming positive thoughts or spiritual thoughts. By continuing the process over 21 days a new positive habit can be formed in place of the old negative habit.

Always remember that if you do not take ownership and responsibility of your sub-conscious mind, your sub-conscious mind or other people will run your life. It is always ideal to be the cause, creator and master of your own life.

When circumstances or someone attacks use psychologically or psychically, you can protect yourself by visualizing a golden bubble shield encompassing you and protecting you. Any negative energies directed towards you hits this bubble shield and slides off like water off a duck’s back. You can even imagine it bouncing off like rubber pillow. You make a conscious effort or choice not to let it into your sub-conscious mind. However, it is important to note here that this bubble needs to be semi-permeable and allows positive energies in but keeps out negative energies. Your intention is important in this aspect in order to make the bubble shield strong.

Sometimes, it is not possible to protect yourself with the shield especially if you are in a room full of negative people throwing negative vibes at each other unless you are very powerful spiritually (or are a powerful healer). In such circumstances, it is better to just leave the room. No one is responsible for your own psychological well being other than yourself. If leaving the room is not possible, then do need to watch yourself to make sure you do not react to them and maintain your inner core’s stillness. You can respond by choosing how you want to deal with the incoming negative energy. But do not react to it because reacting would be to let it in to your sub-conscious.

One of the best metaphors I have read is likening psychological health to physical health. If a person you know catches a cold or the flu, you certainly don’t want to get it. You do everything in your power not to get it. You stay away from that person. You take extra Vitamin C. You tell yourself you are not going to get sick. You eat well and try to get enough sleep. In other words, you build up your resistance. If you keep your resistance up you don’t get sick. Doctors and nurses don’t get all the sicknesses of their patients. How come? The reason is that there is no such thing as a contagious disease. There are only people with “low resistance”. This analogy is exactly the same on the psychological level. There is no such thing as a contagious psychological disease. There are only people with low psychological resistance.

The protective bubble shield is one technique. Another is maintaining one’s personal power. There are other ways but I’ll not delve into them here. We are here in this world to set a better example for others. We are here to bring people up, not let ourselves be sucked down.

We will now look at Personal Power.

What is Personal Power? Personal Power is Personal Will is the guiding force of a healthy personality. It is first and foremost an attitude. We can choose to hold an attitude of weakness or strength every single day from start to end. Your power is the energy that you use to enforce your decisions.

Say for example you decided to wash the car at 6pm. When 6 pm comes, do you wash your car as you have committed to do or do you push it to another time? This power is also needed to control your sub-conscious mind. Your sub-conscious mind will push you around unless you own your own personal power. That means your conscious mind’s enforcer is your personal power. It is that energy that your conscious mind musters to command and direct that personality.

One cannot be a master of one’s own life if one lacks personal power. Let alone help others.

Many personal development gurus have advocated that everyone find their own personal power to take charge of their own lives. We all have personal power. It is whether we choose to use it or not. Some forms of yoga teaches that life is not only a school but also a battlefield whereby progress means taking three steps forward and taking two steps backwards until the top of the mountain is reached. People who own their own personal power will never quit.

Your personal power is required to even keep your bubble shield strong and impregnable. The moment you waiver, it collapses. By using your personal power for long periods of time, you will eventually develop discipline. Owning your personal power will allow your conscious mind to stay in control and not be overwhelmed by your sub-conscious mind nor the environment.

You need not be afraid of your own personal power even if you are a wilful person. Why? Because you are only going to use it to serve yourself and the people around you in a loving way. You will feel good when you maintain that power with you. And we must own our power if we are to create our own realities all the time instead of being a victim of circumstances.

You can claim your personal power every morning, the moment you get up, by choosing to affirm in your mind that you have it. Therefore, every morning, when you get up, claim your power and commit to yourself by becoming the master of your own life.