The most amazing part of our mind is its duality – the conscious and the subconscious. It is like they are two different beings. It exists and it is so common that sometimes we ignore its existence – we are always able to talk to ourselves.
The subconscious has been the most difficult thing to comprehend.The conscious mind is logical, it applies reason to the most current thought and gives an answer. While the subconscious is involuntary, and its answers are based on our past experiences and the practices we have been following. The subconscious intervenes when it goes against our conscious decision. The thing with the subconscious is – it develops and learns over time from our actions and thoughts.
The human has the ability to control his actions. The actions on the correct path, nurtures a subconscious that coincides with the conscious and helps on those events when the conscious mind is incapable. While actions on an incorrect path, always leads to a time when the human conscious loses the capability to control. It is then the subconscious which controls. For example, laziness and procrastination. Once the subconscious gets used to any of these, it takes very strong drive and hard determination for the concerned person to get back in his control.
Its our thoughts and actions which define our future. For current gain, if we feed a negative thought to our subconscious, it will make us do that negative thing repeatedly and will one day lead to a loss far greater than all gains made.
Most of us are the slaves of our subconscious. The best way to test whether we are in our ‘conscious’ control is to just remember chronologically what we did the earlier day without doubting ourselves even once!