CHAPTER 03

UNTAPPED POWER

As we move away from our conscious minds remember this: we can get too cozy with our conscious. It is with us constantly, whispering in our ear each moment of every waking day. The conscious knows what it wants. It controls the way we act and react. Sometimes too much so.

It is when we finally stop reacting to the bombardment of our external joys and challenges, and listening to our conscious mind’s constant chattering about those events, that we begin to become acquainted with our true power.

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. —K.T. Jong

A change in your consciousness is not measured in time or effort but in awareness. Become aware of everything surrounding you, then begin to turn inward. Why? So you can meet your silent partner, the subconscious mind.

Repeat this line: My partner in success is my subconscious mind.

Get familiar with that affirmation. For inside your head is the untapped power of the subconscious mind. It is not a power you must acquire. Already it is in your possession. Release the frenetic, reactive drama of the conscious mind and begin allowing the inner guidance of the subconscious to have its say. It will emerge slowly like a giant whale skimming just below the surface of the ocean before breaching into view in a magnificent display. As the subconscious gains our attention, consciousness expands. Our vibration rises to a higher frequency. A shroud is lifted so that our immediate surroundings are less important than the interchange with the greater whole. Where previously you may have been drawing a blank in your search for meaning, these new frequencies will carry to you understandings and truths that through depth of feeling you’ll know to be true. Lose the cynical veil that so many of us begin to develop. Cynicism doesn’t make us more clever than the rest, it holds us in the vice grip of criticism and disappointment.

Start to see the good in everything. Notice the beauty all around. Don’t respond to aggressive or inconsiderate behavior with dislike or contempt. To do that, you are allowing it inside, where it affects you. Meet it with an eye that registers the inherent beauty, the pure light that resides past the façade.