Ways to tap your sub-conscious mind

Indian saints from centuries knew the power of the sub-conscious mind and ways to tap into this power. They also knew that the biggest challenge in reaching the sub-conscious is the conscious mind.

Sage Patanjali in his epic book – Patanjali Yog Sutras has recommended meditation or mindfulness as the first step to reach your sub-conscious. When you meditate simply by focusing on the gap between the two breaths gradually you reach a meditative state. Modern science has deduced that in this state your brain frequency is 7-8 cycles/second which is also called the alpha state. When you are in alpha state of mind your conscious mind is almost asleep and now you can communicate with the sub-conscious.

The other method is to confuse the sub-conscious mind or fool it in a way that it no longer stops your access to the sub-conscious. While this method too was known to the sages in India and abroad, it has been researched by modern hypnotherapists and psychiatrists. The California Institute of Hypnosis has developed a method wherein they use a script to confuse the conscious mind forcing it to give up. Once that happens the subject is in a hypnotic trance and now the hypnotist can feed positive affirmations to his sub-conscious thereby changing its programming.

The reason why I say that ancient Indian saints knew about this “confusion of the mind” technique is a story about Rishi Valmiki. Rishi Valmiki was a dacoit in his earlier life before Sage Narada advised him to chant “Mara..Mara...” repeatedly to attain enlightenment. Sage Narada realized that with his dacoit mindset he is finding it difficult to chant “Rama…Rama…”  hence he was asked to chant the opposite.

Rihsi Valmiki chanted as advised with full trust and eventually got the enlightenment. Though his conscious mind understood the chant as “Mara..Mara..” his sub-conscious understood it as “Rama…Rama…”  The Rishi subsequently had the good fortune to take care of Ma Sita and train Lord Ram’s sons when they were young.

This is an ideal example on how the conscious can be fooled to reach the sub-conscious

VastuAcharya Manoj is a Senior Vastu Consultant and can be reached on mshrivastava2005@gmail.com for a professional Vastu Advice.