Getting to Know Your Subconscious Mind

“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.”
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
 
This is the first of two posts about the function of the subconscious mind according to Huna philosophy.  Today we’ll focus on learning to recognize the reactive nature of our subconscious and how it shows up in our daily lives.

Becoming aware of how our subconscious functions in our lives is tremendously empowering. According to Huna philosophy the subconscious self acts as the gas in our engine, energizing all that we intend, or stalling it out, as the case may be. As we learn how to partner with our subconscious self we take charge of responses and manifestations that hitherto were unconsciously determined.

Huna philosophy teaches that the subconscious self is in charge of the autonomic functions that make the body run. It keeps the heart beating, the lungs breathing, and everything working the way it should for our healthy bodily functioning.

Huna as well as traditional psychology teach that the subconscious self is the center of our emotional responses. This function of the subconscious has been referred to as the Inner Child. These are the knee-jerk emotional responses we may feel little or no control over, programmed into our subconscious through life experiences. Most importantly, it is this aspect of the subconscious that will put the brakes on the manifesting of our goals because of past wounding and fears.

The language of the subconscious mind is emotion. If we are feeling emotion Huna teaches that we are responding from our subconscious.    
     
If you have ever known a two-year old child you have an idea of what the subconscious mind is like.  It is illogical, emotional, selfish and given to tantrums.

It is also primed for learning with absolute faith in the truth of what it is learning. As such the subconscious mind is a faithful servant or a staunch adversary depending upon what truths it adheres to.

If we experienced wounding in the past, the subconscious internalizes truths or beliefs based on that wounding and this creates feelings of fear, shame, guilt, anger, resentment, greed, jealousy and any number of negative emotional reactions preventing the larger self from moving forward.

Our task then as we partner with our subconscious mind is to release the beliefs that do not support us and teach our subconscious truths which better serve us. There are many techniques and tools that can aid  in this. We offer you a particularly easy to use technique in today's Spiritual Toolbox.

On our Resources page you'll find instructions for another effective tool, Faster EFT-V, which I've used with success, for both myself and my clients. 


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Your Spiritual Toolbox

​Take the time today to become aware of your emotional self. Do you have knee-jerk responses to certain types of events in your life? These may be positive or negative emotional responses.

Don’t try to fix anything. Just note when you respond emotionally and what you are responding to.

These are your triggers, those events that create an automatic emotional response. You don’t have to know how or why. This is your subconscious reacting emotionally because of a belief based upon your experiences in the past.
 
A simple and powerful tool
for easing uncomfortable emotional responses is the breath.

Breathe into the feeling, focusing all your attention on the feeling and the breath. Don’t attach any story to the feelings. You don’t need to know why you’re feeling this way. Just allow yourself to feel and keep breathing deeply.

As you do so you may find that the feelings shift, and other feelings may come up.

​Eventually you may feel yourself relax. That is when you know that you have released what was ready to release.