Getting Past the Subconscious Mind

So you have stilled your senses and gone beyond your conscious mind into the subconscious. Now what is happening inside your mind?

Everything. Visions, pictures, memories, plans, anxieties. They are flooding your mind in a torrent. You remember everything you did during the day and plan everything you will tomorrow. Your regret auguring with your friend and losing your temper a your mother. You worry about the children, or you wonder when you will get married, and to whom. You picture the new car you wish you had. You plan what you are going to eat as soon as you finish meditation, and you imagine, yourself eating it. You write a letter in your mind. You make your shopping list for tomorrow. You analyze your character and praise your own virtues, and analyze the people you know and criticize their faults.

Then you start to wonder, "What good is this meditation anyway? I'm supposed to get mental peace, but I am thinking more than over before!" Your mind is rattling and churning, and ideas are flying everywhere like popcom popping from the pot when the lid is suddenly removed. The internal activity of the subconscious mind is usually repressed by the intense activity of the conscious mind, which is outwardly directed into the external world, (only people like artists, poets and day-dreamers' are accustomed to giving their subconscious minds full rein).  So when the conscious repression is suddenly released, as in dreaming, the subconscious mind bursts into activity and there you are, sitting there with your head clattering with images and thoughts.

This is why many people find it difficult to perform certain types of meditation that seek merely to "empty the mind" or to " think of nothings/" It is impossible to think of nothing. The mind must always have some object. Even if you think that you are thinking of nothing, you are actually thinking, "Aha! I am finally thinking about nothing!"

Let us make an experiment: please close your eyes for thirty seconds and think about anything you like, except a RED COW.

You just couldn't help it, could you? That big red cow kept coming back into your mind, whatever you tried to do to get rid of it.

And if you tell your mind to think about nothing, it will vengefully erupt in an avalanche of thoughts and feelings.

There must be a better way. And there is. It has been tried and tented for thousands of years - the most efficient and practical process to pierce through the disturbances of th subconscious mind and enter the blissful, super-conscious state. It is called MANTRA - "that which liberated the mind."