The Relationship Between the Subconscious and Your Imagination

Would you please discuss the subconscious and how handling it correctly could easily manifest our dream life?

- Priti (via tumblr)

Why is imagination so important to the manifesting process?

- Malcolm 

Hello to you both, and thank you for your questions. I will answer both questions with one answer as I think that although many people believe (I used to be one of them) that both the subconscious and the imagination are linked, each have very little relevance to the other.

For the great majority of people, the surface conscious mind is the place from which most operate on a daily, moment to moment basis. It’s the place we think from, and perhaps more importantly, it’s the place we react from.

Our conscious awareness is the buffer between our outer reality and our deeper, (sub)conscious awareness.

Conscious awareness predominately deals with outer reality. Subconscious awareness predominantly deals with inner reality – specifically the inner reality of ‘being’ or simply existing.

The conscious mind is also the place which is more fundamentally ‘us’. The conscious is our mental bedrock, the foundation upon which our personalities and ego are built.

The normal sequence of learning, understanding, or measuring goes something like this: we gather feedback from our outer physical reality with our physical sense. This feedback is processed with the conscious mind. From there, with repetition, the processed feedback is used to establish belief systems, values, and rules which are recorded deep within the conscious mind.

Now, this process of learning and information gathering is fine for collecting feedback from our outer reality – it’s all part of the measurement of purpose.

The problem is that those measurements are not just used to gather information (to see if we are measuring a sense of purpose or a lack of purpose). Those measurements are also used to build a sense of our overall level of purpose.

It’s a bit like eating a carrot and then using that experience to assume that you now look, smell, and taste exactly like a carrot.

To put that in the context of a real life situation, if you look around at your current environment and see bills that need paying, a house in need of repair, and a general level of lack or poverty, you automatically assume that you are poor and in need, and this ultimately contributes to taking away from your level of purpose.

If it’s foolish to assume that by eating a carrot, you become one, why is it acceptable to assume that just because your outer circumstances are one way, those same circumstances now make you the same within?

The problem time and time again is that we are constantly using feedback from outer circumstances and events to define who we are. Up until this point, we have all mostly been measuring on autopilot, blindly accepting what we experience in our outer reality, allowing it to shape and define who we are within.

Emotions get in our way on a constant basis. Instead of simply gathering feedback and measuring our results, choosing carefully the values we assign to our measurements, we fix our attention upon the emotional feedback we gather and allow that to dictate our focus.

In short, we become fixed upon one set of results, unaware that we can simply record the results and start measuring again, using our previous results from past measurements to modify and trigger new measurements of purpose as dictated by ourselves.

All too often we allow outer reality to shape and influence our attention, thoughts, and focus. We must now learn to take control of our attention, thoughts, and focus in order to alter and shape outer reality.

The conscious mind is the nexus point between outer reality and inner (sub)conscious awareness. The conscious mind both receives and transmits data – it receives data in the form of sense feedback from outer reality, and sends measurement data to the (sub)conscious awareness.

The (sub)conscious awareness receives the data from the conscious mind with little if any resistance. Over time, an inner sense of purpose (or lack of purpose) becomes established. Really, this is all your conscious awareness is – an awareness of your existence tied to a measurement of purpose.

Many believe that the subconscious is where all the answers lie, that the subconscious is the mystical gateway through which inner enlightenment can be found.

I would suggest that your (sub)conscious awareness is simply an awareness of being. There are no mystical gateways or paths to higher learning and enlightenment. There is simply the pure essence of existence.

Your true power lies in your ability to consciously direct your focus and attention, because without your conscious mind, you would not be able to measure purpose (or lack of purpose).

Again, your subconscious is simply the essence of your existence. The spark of conscious awareness. It is the closest thing to original source. It has neither the ability to think (as we conceive the act of thinking to be) or measure – it simply is.

Thinking is a necessary component of the measuring process. Thinking is tied to ego, the individualised aspect of self. (Sub)conscious awareness is simply an awareness of being.

Your conscious mind chooses the measurements of purpose using values that it assigns to things in order to make those measurements. Without the ability to think and experience emotional or sense feedback, you would only be left with (sub)conscious awareness. A sense of simply ‘being’.

There is no correct way to handle the subconscious because your (sub)conscious awareness is simply the essence of your existence – and you cannot exist unless you are able to define yourself and measure purpose, and this is done exclusively with the conscious mind.

I have previously outlined and detailed numerous ways in which to direct the conscious mind so that you can influence and shape your experience of reality, but again, the key to your measurements of purpose is your imagination.

The imagination is the place where values are assigned. The imagination is the place where you picture potential environments and situations you would like to experience. The imagination is a place of unlimited potential and infinite power.

Without imagination, Einstein would not have been able to explore reality. Without imagination, Beethoven would not have been able to create symphonies.

Our ability to explore our reality allows us freedom and expansion – values assigned to an overall sense of purpose. Our ability to create music that triggers emotional resonance with others allows us to reach out and connect, to expand and feel love or excitement – values assigned to an overall sense of purpose.

We use our imagination to alter and reconfigure one single nonlocal bubble of force interacting with our reality, a bubble of force individualised and existing in infinite supply locally in our reality of three dimensions governed by space and time. We combine these individualised bubbles of force, over and over in ever different ways just so we can produce a myriad of values that we can use to make our individual measurements of purpose.

The imagination is tied to the conscious mind. Without the conscious mind existing in some form, there would be no imagination. If there were no imagination, there would be only a finite way to measure purpose, and no way to assign values to ever greater and more expanded measurements of purpose.

This is why the imagination and conscious mind work hand in hand. Contrary to what is widely accepted, there is no ‘subconscious’ mind – there is only (sub)conscious awareness of existing.

The closest we can come to the conventional idea of the subconscious would be to classify it as simply a collection of thoughts repeated over and over to the point that a strong sense of confidence is established in those thoughts.

This is how personality and ego are formed. This is how we train ourselves to be strong and powerful, or weak and powerless.

It’s not the (sub)conscious awareness that drives you and gives you the power to manifest your dreams. Your dreams are simply values you have chosen to assign to a measurement of purpose, values that of you were to experience them would contribute to your overall sense of purpose.

Those values, those dreams are created by your imagination, formed by feedback gathered by your conscious mind.

The conscious mind and your imagination is where all the power lies. Master them, and you master the ability to manifest the life of your dreams – and again, your dreams are nothing more than values that YOU have chosen to assign to your individualised measurements of purpose.

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