Subconscious clues

Fleeting thought, transient feeling, momentary emotion, vague memory… Every life experience is full of information that mostly stays behind the border of our conscious awareness. But very often our reaction to a certain catalyst/event is based purely on the feeling caused by something in our past and may have nothing to do with the current situation. If we knew that consciously at every moment of our life, we would be able to change the way we see ourselves, others and certain situations by dropping our past baggage. But it’ not easy – most of the clues for recognising this baggage are outside our conscious awareness. This is why it’s so important to sit in silence/meditation and to allow these hidden clues to get to the surface of the conscious mind, so that we can see our unfavourable patterns and trace them back to their origins.

“There are certain events of which we have not consciously taken note; they have remained, so to speak, below the threshold of consciousness. They have happened, but they have been absorbed subliminally, without our conscious knowledge. We can become aware of such happenings only in a moment of intuition or by a process of profound thought that leads to a later realization that they must have happened; and though we may have originally ignored their emotional and vital importance, it later wells up from the unconscious as a sort of afterthought. It may appear, for instance, in the form of a dream. As a general rule, the unconscious aspect of any event is revealed to us in dreams, where it appears not as a rational thought but as a symbolic image.” – Carl Gustav Jung