The Superconscious Mind
The superconscious mind is the part of your mind that is able to achieve wisdom, knowledge, compassion and unconditional love. It is aligned to the harmonious flow of life if we were to live according to our highest intelligence, our purest love; it is aligned to the Tao, Dharma, God’s Will, Universal Law, Collective Consciousness, the Higher Will… call it whatever feels comfortable for you.
Each and every one of us is plugged into this energy, and your superconscious mind is your connection to this ultimate network. It is your source of creativity, knowledge and inspiration. It fires up your imagination, it stokes your curiosity and prompts you to question established norms that feel at odds with the inner self. It always works to transcend our differences and looks towards our connectedness and unity.
As an example if we ask what is confidence? We’re conditioned to think of our standing in our community or prominence as a main source of our confidence so it’s normal for us to consciously think that someone who is successful, intelligent, wealthy or attractive would have more confidence than someone who’s fallen on hard times and is maybe homeless. The superconscious would present a different perspective: we all have an equal right to be here, to belong, to be loved, and to contribute what we can. So rather than seeing our status in terms of being winners and losers the superconscious prompts the thought processes of how can I grow, how can I increase my sentience, and how can I help others to live better lives and fulfil their potential?
Usually this higher awareness come as a slow but steady drip-feed of insights to grow your conscious mind but every now and then it shows you a door you didn’t know existed and opens it. Ever had one of those dreams where you find another room in your house, see a closed door, or being woken up in your dream? Just a few examples of dreams indicating awakening conscious awareness. Intuitively we know by the quality of these dreams that through interpreting and understanding them they could guide us to greater emotional and mental sovereignty and transcendence.
Your superconscious works throughout the whole of your mind so it works to clear and strengthen your subconscious and expand your conscious awareness. This helps to relax defensive behaviour, improve confidence and allows you to create a more intimate space for warmer relationships, and a clearer mind for a more rewarding work environment.
If you’re intently focussed on a problem or something you’re passionate about chances are you’re entering into superconscious awareness. Most of us have experienced times when we’ve been so completely engrossed in an activity that we forget to eat and lose track of the time. When you’re focussed on a project or subject you really enjoy working on, your mind is overflowing with ideas and the work leaves you full of energy and satisfaction. That’s you accessing your higher awareness, your particular brand of genius. Mozart supposedly heard the music in his head and took it down as if in dictation — it’s said he never put down a false note.
If you can’t think of a single incident of this, it’s possible you’re not engaging with what you love to do and there could be many reasons for that, but most common is your passion is buried under low self-esteem and isn’t being registered by your conscious awareness. Go back to when you were younger and think back to what you loved doing then, what did you take refuge in, what were your day dreams, what were your favourite films, songs, and work from there.
There is a theory, The 100th Monkey, that if enough people start on a course of behaviour the rest will automatically receive that behaviour code as a thought and start to employ it even though they’ve never been taught it. So maybe, just maybe, if enough of us consciously turned our minds and hearts to the light, that could help to pay a little bit of kindness forward to each other.
7 Steps to Access Your Superconscious:
1- Make a conscious choice to align your conscious mind to your superconscious. Set your intention
2- Focus on a high stress situation in your life and actively question what it’s about and what it is bringing to you
3- Meditation helps to subdue the day to day chatter and bring calmer, more serene thoughts where the superconscious can be accessed to gain insights and understanding
4- Do more of what brings that calmer, more refined quality of thought into your life: walking, music, problem solving, exercising, painting. You know what works for you… do more of that
5- When an insight comes through first there is recognition of the message, and then acceptance. Acceptance is key — this precedes a shift in the energy
6- Go back to 2 and widen your field of vision around the problem, and now see what you can perceive. This reframes the problem in a wider context and helps you to make an informed, spiritually intelligent decision on the best way forward for you
7- If you miss something with your conscious mind, not to worry. The superconscious is nothing if not persistent — just like that recurring dream you kept having until you understood it, it will keep sending you messages until it gets through to the conscious and subconscious minds and they’re all working in harmony
Finally, I’ll leave you with this:
“From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing. What we commonly call man does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. And the blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882
