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Exploring conscious and
nonconscious intentions
Our perspective
and the relationship of the unconscious and subconscious
Exploring the conscious level
Exploring the subconscious level
Exploring the unconscious level
The goal is to align all the
intentions in our life to create a coherence in our creative power
and coherent focus much like the difference between normal light and
a laser. It is to align our unconscious,
subconscious and conscious intentions. This means exploring each
level to align the intentions.
Our
perspective and the relationship of the unconscious and
subconscious (Top)
Probably the most import thing to
realizing in exploring our conscious and nonconscious intention is
that our perspective will make a big difference in what we find and
experience. As discussed in the topic, “The
Subconscious and Unconscious,” allowing our awareness to
identify with the form our conscious takes will require us to move
solely on feeling to explore the unconscious. If we take the
perspective as a detached witness and as the creator of the
experiences we have, we can use the same techniques to explore the
unconscious as we use for the subconscious.
For any of the discussions on creativity using the
energy consciousness model and as used in the Releasing Your
Unlimited Creativity material, the term subconscious refers to that
which exists in
mind as a result of the experiences in our current
life. The term unconscious refers to that which exists in mind prior
to this life.
From an energy consciousness perspective, consciousness is
consciousness wherever it is found and ultimately has the same
properties and follows the same rules. Within the energy
consciousness perspective the concepts of consciousness,
subconscious and unconscious lie on a spectrum. The only difference
seen between the conscious, subconscious and unconscious is a matter
of the degree of consciousness. However, we will not see this as
such and work with this simple relationship unless we take the
perspective of the
detached witness.
What many will find is that taking the perspective of the detached
witness can not be readily done unless we are willing and open to
explore and address how we shut down the free expression of
our creative spirit and our true self. Most will find that it is
not so much fear that keeps us from exploring the aspects of our
true self. Rather it is the implications for our life that result
from the awareness of an intention for our life and, probably more
importantly, the implications about Creation in the awareness that
such an intention even exists. We will have to
give our creative spirit permission to come out and freely
express itself and be willing to accept the
required sacrifice for our world to change. That is, our world
will need to change for us to live with aspects of our unconscious
becoming known and there will be a sacrifice accompanying those
changes. The reason for this is
our inner and outer worlds are integrally linked. If we change
one, we change the other.
Exploring the conscious
level (Top)
Exploring the conscious level
means understanding what we consciously intend and why. This is
actually relative easy to do and not too threatening to people. Most
are willing to state their intention and are will to discuss why
they have the intention they do. It is relatively easy to
pull the string and get to the “Why” behind the conscious
intention we have even if it takes several iterations of asking “Why
- why this and not something else?”
Exploring the
subconscious level (Top)
The second level we need to
explore and understand is what we subconscious intend and why. The
subconscious intentions arise because of the programming we received
in our current life and as a result of the experiences we have had
in life. Exploring this level starts to become more difficult than
the conscious level. This requires surfacing the past. In most
cases, it means exploring the past that surrounds how we have
thwarted the free flow of
our creative spirit to protect it and lost our ability to
creatively play. This, in turn, requires us to
visit and process the
pain we experienced when the free expression
of our creative spirit was thwarted. This exploration starts to move
us deeper and deeper into feeling and what we feel. In this
exploration pain in one form or another tends to stand at the
doorway of the exploration. The question becomes, “Are we willing to
face the pain and all the other reasons that cause us to be unable
to allow the free flow and free expression of our creative spirit.”
The
most creative state of being, a state in which we were born, is
a state of spontaneous and innocent childlike play in the
exploration and discovery of ourselves and our world. Relative to
our creativity, there are three levels to this play. One is the
freedom to be spontaneous and innocent in our
creative imagination to express what we can imagine and freely
play and explore ideas. This level is usually safe.
The second is the freedom to be spontaneous and innocent to freely
play with the situation we face externally. Expressing this play is
more challenging and can be frightening. By looking at where an
individual is or is not able to spontaneous and innocently play with
the situation at hand, both in their
mind and in the physical world,
one can get an ideal of where, how and why the free expression of
the individual’s creative spirit is blocked and where to begin to
look in the subconscious.
The third level of this play is to spontaneous and innocent in our
creative imagination. Then be able to bring the spontaneous and
innocent play into the external world to play with the external
world to manifest what we experienced in our creative imagination.
This is the essence of invention and transforming the world in which
we find ourselves. Here again, what surfaces as obstacles that do
not allow us to perform such play gives us a idea of where to start
to explore the subconscious.
In surfacing the subconscious as discussed here there are two types
of subconscious intentions we will uncover. One type are the
intention that deal with the past experiences of our current life
and why the we seeks to protect
our creative spirit the way we do because of what we have
experienced. These intentions opens the door to understanding what
subconscious intentions exist that move an individual to protect
themselves from the past and avoid risks in life. These are the
types and kinds of things that often can be addressed in a
soul retrieval in whatever form it takes to retrieve aspects of
our creative power denied become of the
pain experienced in the
past.
The second type of subconscious intentions are those based on the
subconscious programming we received about life, what we are suppose
to do in life and any and all aspects of life. These intentions are
often overlaid on top of the intention we have that seek to protect
our creative spirit. This subconscious programming gives rise to
a whole new set of intentions that can be quite convoluted, diverse
and often conflicting. These two types of intentions are the bulk of
our subconscious intentions.
The issues in exploring our subconscious programming are about why
that programming exists. It is about whether the programming is
something we have freely chosen or something pushed onto us in the
past. The issues tend to be all that we have come to learn and
believe about God, sex, society, the role of the male and female,
our role in life, what a human is or isn’t, and the like. These
issues also tend to be about
pain and in particular, the pain we
have experienced that does not allows us to freely play both in our
mind and in a give physical situation. Obviously there are often
real physical hazards that one could face in any situation but real
hazards can be effectively addressed. The issue here is about
perceived hazards and what keeps an individual from even considering
acting when the real hazards can be addressed.
Subconscious issues, whatever they may be, can usually be addressed
in a variety of ways and can be effectively addressed by many
therapies, self help programs, ministers, friends., counseling, bar
tenders, and the like. It all depends on where the individual is
willing to
place their trust and whom they can trust to help them to
face what needs to be faced. With the correct perspective, the
issues associated with the subconscious level can be effectively
addressed by programs developed by the logical
mind and how and what
it thinks relative to how and what it believes about Creation works
and the role of the human in creation.
Exploring the unconscious
level (Top)
The third level, the unconscious
level, is very difficult to access. Not because it cannot be
accessed but because it is beyond
mind as we understand our mind and
we must feel our way unless we are willing to change our
perspective. Exploring the unconscious level is to step into a
darkness where mind cannot see where to go. This is because our mind
as we currently experience it does not have a conscious experience
of that for which we look. With subconscious issues, there is
usually some type or kind of experience we can remember that gives
rise to the issue we face. However, what unconscious issues, mind
will most probably not have the
minimum set of requisite experience,
if any experience, to properly characterize what is giving rise to
the issue.
One can only feel their way. But to access the necessary level of
feeling, one must be
open to feeling. Opening oneself to feeling
means facing many of the reasons why we shut down our ability to
feel. To explore this level we must be willing to step out of what
we think and believe. We must learn to trust and work with what we
feel and with the body as a instrument that senses the energy which
gives rise to what we feel. Here it needs to be noted that there is
an
awareness in the body that can give
significant insights into ourselves and the nature of Creation.
But there is a way to access the
intention for our life without
having to open ourselves to feeling except at the most minimal
level. Since consciousness is consciousness wherever it is found it
ultimately has the same properties and follows the same rules. In
this regard and as discussed in the topic “The Subconscious and
Unconscious,” it is possible to for the unconscious to be as easily
addressed as the subconscious level.
Allowing our awareness to identify with the form consciousness
takes, our experience is much like the ocean. As we go down deeper
in water the volume of water on top increases the pressure. Unless
we are adequately and effectively protected we cannot readily go
between the depths of the water and shallow water. Like the water in
the ocean, there is the weight of the water itself that causes one
to have to face the depths differently. So too our own subconscious
and unconscious. We have to be prepared to deal with them
differently and adjust to the changing pressure between the two
levels.
To deal with the unconscious we have to be open to feeling in a
completely different way that how most of us are taught to use
feelings. It is like learning a new language within a different
culture. Yet it is a language and a culture where certain concepts
do not exist and there are no words or actions to directly translate
some of the understanding accessible in and through the unconscious.
We cannot assumed the
inner language of the subconscious can easily
address the unconscious.
What is in our heart and
symbolized in the heart, is often buried
beneath many life experiences and lies at the depths of the ocean.
To access the subconscious, we must be intuitive.
Mind cannot take
us there. Everything cannot readily be known to mind even when what
we are exploring is inside our mind. We must properly use the symbol
of our intuitive guidance and make the ground fertile such that
whatever you accessed would grow.
What needs to be noted here is that it was said thee is an
alternative way to explore the unconscious. It is to take the
perspective of the
detached witness and understand we are the creators of our
experiences and the reality of those experiences. What this means is
that we stand apart from our life. As the detached witness, we can
ask, “Why did I create the experience I have” We only need to listen
as that detached witness to know the answer. In surfacing the
answer, we can choose to act on the information that is presented to
us. To act to change what created what we experience we need to ask,
“What do I need to do, what do I need to become to correct/change
the experience I have?” We then need to
honor the intuitive guidance we receive.
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