Your mind has two parts: the Conscious Mind and the Subconscious Mind. Together these two parts control all of your actions and ultimately the results you have in your life. As we explore each area of your mind, understand that while these ideas may seem simple and elementary, they have a wide reaching and profound affect on your life. They control every aspect of what makes you who you are and will continue to control everything in your life until the day you die.
The Conscious Mind is where you do all your day to day thinking. This is where you make decisions and where you primarily operate from in normal life. When you hold a conversation or watch a t.v. program you are using your conscious mind. Both the conscious mind and the subconscious mind think in pictures. If you think about your family members a picture of them will flash on the movie screen of your conscious mind.
You also can only hold one picture on the screen of your mind at any one time. For example you cannot think of a banana and a watermelon in detail at the same moment. While you might be able to project them side by side you are not able to see the grain in the skin of the watermelon or the yellow in the peel off the banana at the same moment. You would ahve to blend the two together.
This ultimately means that you cannot think of a negative idea and a positive idea at the same time. While your mind might be able to flip back and forth between negative and positive ideas or images very rapidly, it is not able to hold those two images at the same time.
Most people would think that the Conscious Mind controls the Subconscious Mind, but this is not so. The Subconscious Mind is the real power source in our lives. The Subconscious Mind stores all our concepts about who we are, what we are capable of, what we are not capable of and every other detail we believe to be true about our world. We can refer to the Subconscious Mind as the emotional mind.
The subconscious mind operates in the background of your life and while you sleep, when you zone out, when you do something you have done a hundred times and any other automatic motion or thought you think. Dreams are a product of your subconscious mind. You can think of the subconscious mind as a computer program running without your help or mental effort at all times. An example of this would be when you have suddenly realized that you have not been paying attention while driving and you are almost home from work or you missed an on ramp.
The entire drive to and from work is a program that you have put into your subconscious mind through repetition. Your driving is almost automatic and takes very little thinking on your part. In fact without consciously thinking about going to the store when driving that pathway you will drive straight home. Your programming will take over and you will "forget" to go to the store unless you hold the image of the store at the forefront of your mind when driving home.
To convert the things you want in your life to reality you must understand how to use both your conscious and sub-conscious mind. By continually thinking about the good things you want and visualizing these images you will impress them on your subconscious mind. Over time your actions will change and you will start to move the things you want into your reality.