Your conscious mind is small and unable to enter into your subconscious. However, there is a point of intersection. To enter your subconscious, you must relax and focus through either through hypnosis or meditation.
Zen Buddhists focus on what they call the hara. Most practitioners will tell you it is the center of your being, physically located 2 inches below your navel. Actually, it is really nothing at all. Claudio Naranjo describes it in his essays on the Psychology of Meditation. It is not "nothing", but "no-thing". It is the complete emptying of your conscious mind so that your subconscious can speak to you.
Communication can go either way. Like Edison, you can listen to your subconscious and discover the solution that has been evading you.
Alternatively, you can input something into your subconscious, to create a new "normal" for you. That is what the Soviet athletes were doing. They were visualizing or meditating on the perfect performance to create a new "normal" for them and elevate their actual performance.
When you connect with your subconscious through meditation, you release much more mental power than you do with just your conscious mind. Your conscious mind works verbally and focuses on one issue at a time. Even when multi-tasking, you conscious mind only deals with one issue at a time. It just moves from one to another and back again. Multi-tasking with your conscious mind is like a juggling act. That is why numerous studies have indicated it is dangerous to multi-task when driving.
Your subconscious mind works with powerful images, symbols, and processes and is capable of handling numerous tasks simultaneously. Just think of how your subconscious handles your bodily functions without ever a conscious thought. Heart beat, respiration, digestion, muscle control, and cell reproduction are all going on at the same time without your conscious awareness. Yet your brain is busy controlling them all. Your subconscious is busy recording numerous stimuli including emotions you can't quite put into words.
Your subconscious is much smarter than your conscious mind. Connecting with your subconscious mind through meditation will open entire new worlds of insights and intuitions as you will be able to process much more information in images and symbols than you could possible address with your conscious mind - and at lightning speed.
Continue to mediate or probe more deeply into the subconscious and you will discover yet another doorway, this time into the noosphere. Once you have connected to the noosphere, you can access thoughts and understandings that are beyond your personal experience. Carl Jung espoused a similar concept that he termed the "collective unconscious", where powerful archetypal images provide the basis for our conscious symbols and imagery.
Continue past that, and you can touch God.
The point is that you can choose to live in your conscious life, or you can begin to explore yourself and your universe and discover wonderful things you probably never dreamt were there. Your ticket for that journey is meditation.
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When I meditate and reach that place of no-thing, I call it the place of nothing of me and everything of God. it is very true that creativity and problem solving are easy when I spend at least one hour everyday committed to being that wonderful, blue place. Of course, sometimes I have set aside an hour but God, who exists outside of time, often takes me there, does the work, and I'm 'awake' in only minutes, with the same effect as having been in that quiet place for hours. God is pretty cool
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