There is something very close to you, which has been either
inspiring you or depressing you throughout your days. It’s your
Subconscious. Your intuitive mind. You are often so busy with
your conscious self that you forget that the mover and shaker of
all your thoughts and deeds lies deep within you.
Your subconscious mind has been receiving inputs from your
conscious mind since the day you were born. Good and bad
experiences, all the books you’ve read, the songs you’ve heard, the
praise and damnation you have received, they all sink slowly
through the film of your consciousness into your inner core. It
is the good stuff that rises to spur you on to great
achievements, but if negative messages have been accumulated for
too long, they too will reach out and drag you down.
The intuitive mind is a great co-worker as Fritjof Capra
observed. When Kekule the chemist fretted over the molecular
structure of benzene, he could come up with no solution. Yet as
he slept, he dreamed of two snakes chasing each others tails. He
woke up to the sudden inspiration that the structure of benzene
was circular!
The tale of the Shoemaker and the Elves, wherein the little elves
work at night to finish the incomplete shoes of the tired old
man, is also a metaphorical story of our Subconscious Mind.
Try it out for yourself. If you have a vexing task, focus hard on
it for a few days and then let it rest. After a few more days,
you will find the answers come floating hazily up from your inner
intuition. Grab the idea and then give it shape. Your
subconscious team mate has been working while you were sleeping
and has tossed up the solution(s) to your Consciousness.
If the Subconscious is empty or hurt, it cannot give you great
results. So feed it with good literature, music and loving
relationships. It will grow healthy and powerful within you and
then keep you supplied with many a Eureka moment of inspiration!
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