Jim's Secret Thoughts

I want inspiration. I need answers. I want to know the right thing to do. Have you had these and similar questions going through your head? You analyse, you look at the pros and cons, you search for ideas and evidence, yet you still can’t make up your mind if the particular move you have in mind is right or not. Perhaps it is a decision over a relationship or a business deal, or whether you should contact that person or not. Whatever it is you wish someone would shout from heaven and just tell you the answer.

Right? Isn’t this what you have wished many times, many many times? What’s going on in your head? Where are the answers? Where do you expect the answers to come from? I tell you from where. From inside your head.

Does that sound amazing, or simply matter of fact. Of course the answers come from inside my head if no one else gives me an answer. What kind of answer is that? Well it’s not strictly “inside” your head, not there where all the intellectual thinking takes place. But the answer comes from inside you.

So what’s the difference? By “you” I mean the real being that is you, not the thinking physical being which is a part of you. The real you consists of several parts, or layers or levels of consciousness. There is the conscious mind, that part of you which you are aware of, the thinking you. Then there is the Sub-conscious mind. That is the part of you which is responsible for your habits, your  reactions and mind patterns. It is here, in the sub-conscious mind, where essential paradigms are formed, maintained and replaced. The sub-conscious mind is also that part of you which is connected to every other sub-conscious mind. We are all connected on this level and it is from here that information can be retrieved from other minds. Ideas are formed and the right people and situations are attracted.

But there is another, higher, part of your consciousness, that is the super-conscious mind. This is a hidden part, even more obscure than your sub-conscious mind. The super-consciousness is the part of you which has a direct link to to the Divine, to God, or the Universal Consciousness. Here is where true inspiration for new ideas and new ways comes from. The only problem is the intellectual mind, it is so busy thinking it doesn’t even know the super-conscious mind exists. Luckily we have the sub-conscious mind which can send messages to the super-conscious mind.

Here is how it works: First your conscious mind gets an idea, a desire, a plan – something it wants, something you want. Secondly the conscious mind, you, uses intention, repetition, affirmations, visualization and emotions to impress this desire, this image, onto the sub-conscious mind. Thirdly, the sub-conscious mind, now that it has a clear picture of what is desired (and it doesn’t know if it’s good or bad) passes this message to the Super-conscious mind, which processes it and gives it to the Divine. Next, fourthly, the Divine sends an answer via the super-conscious mind direct to the conscious mind – inspiration. At the same time the sub-conscious mind is attracting like vibrations. So “chance” meetings and unexpected circumstances, combined with the Divine Inspiration, all work together to produce the desired result.

But like I said, there is a problem. The busy thinking mind can’t communicate its desire clearly enough to the sub-conscious mind, nor can it hear the inspiration from the super-conscious mind.

Mind blowing? Tell me what you think below.

So what to do to get that answers, that important inspiration? Simply – shut up! Shut up your mind. Stop thinking, literally. Only by stilling the mind can you possibly hear what God has to say to you. And how do you quieten your mind? Focus! Focus on something still, like a nail head, a candle flame, a spot of the wall. Just focus and allow your mind to settle down. Accept but ignore any thoughts coming into your mind. Just let the waters settle. Stay focused and calm will return. Then and only then will your hear it –  the still small voice – speaking to you.

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