You Started Your Life With Your Subconscious Absorbing the World

And it’s your subconscious that gives you ideas on how to start anything.

The first words in our lives were there without us understanding them. The greetings by our parents and those to facilitate and witness our birth, the date and time of birth, the measurements of our bodies, the weight called out by the nurses.

We didn’t understand a word being said, but we felt and appreciated the cozy feeling from each cooing sound, the warmth of the arms that held us, the smell of the mother’s skin, and the new big world that so suddenly surrounded us.

The first words in a book

Last week, I started working on a new book.

The first words for that little book came stumbling on the screen, and I realized that they were as chaotic and as undefinable as those we heard at birth. To be honest, I didn’t know where I would be going with it.

All I knew was that a couple of weeks ago, I was caught in writing articles and essays on the mysterious power of the subconscious mind. And as I was writing those pieces, my subconscious mind was not only giving me company in this adventure but providing all that inspiring nudges to do that.

Birth of an idea

And a week, or a little more, ago, it dawned on me. I wanted to take all those pieces, add some more, and create a small book on this fantastic, sparkling, sometimes utterly annoying and headache-generating entity inside me — my mind. Especially the one that is responsible for those unspoken nudges, which the conscious part of me needs to interpret.

The ever gameful and playful subconscious mind.

Just like life itself, it will never stop surprising the analytical and the rational part of us.

A remarkable subject to study

Studying my subconscious mind as a scientist, an anthropologist, would — with interest and without judgment — helped not only to enrich my conscious mind and grasp into words of what I haven’t thought before but also to get that conscious part of me to relax and become playful and gameful itself.

You probably noticed the small size of the sections in this story. An observation about our subconscious inspired me to do so.

Even if the ideas that spark from our subconscious minds might look like giant leaps out from nowhere, our minds, and often along with our bodies, never stop absorbing, processing, analyzing each tiny bit of information coming through all of our senses, as well as the thought processes and the feelings generated by each of them.

Being attentive to what the subconscious teaches

The input we get from our subconscious also comes in tiny portions. We forget to consume them that way and be attentive or just look. So those signals we receive from our subconscious but leave unheard and unappreciated accumulate in big piles of information that at some point shock and overwhelm us like a hurricane.

The more attentive I became about my emotions, thought processes, and reactions toward the world outside and inside me, the easier the process of interaction between my subconscious and conscious became.

Instead of a conclusion, an inspiring note for your journey

We often try so hard to find out who we are that we often forget to simply be. I’m finishing this little article with the words of my favorite writers on living in the moment, Ariel and Shya Kane, which reveals the clue to the journey of self-discovery to become exciting and fun:

“Self-discovery isn’t meant to be painful. If it is, then you’re working on yourself, lost in the story of your life, or simply resisting what is.”

— Ariel & Shya Kane, Practical Enlightenment

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