Using your conscious mind is something like standing in…

Using your conscious mind is something like standing in the middle of a vast museum at night with all the lights off. There you stand, and pitch blackness, and your conscious mind is the pencil thin being of a pen light. You can shine it on one shelf, anyone exhibit, but not on all of them at once. When we have formed beliefs that are direct conflict with our conscious desires, intentions, values, and goals in life then we have a problem. When we have an experience in our conscious awareness, our subconscious is busy in the background, looking for past experiences that resonate with it or that are in someway similar. It’s saying, what can we draw on to help us deal with the situation? This is the reason the powerful experiences of our early lives can hold such a powerful sway over our present lives. If we built a belief based on traumatic from micro traumatic childhood experiences, that said, everyone I get close to will abandon me, or I am a fraud and a failure, then those are the flies are elephant refers to in deciding which way he goes.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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