In a previous post, I discussed the trinity of mind, body, and spirit, and the importance of maintaining a balance between the three, particularly when you embark on a spiritual journey such as this one. Now, it’s time to introduce another trinity within one of these aspects: The Mind.
It might not sound sexy or romantic when we are so drawn to spirit and want to spend all of our time there. However, no matter how spiritual we are, our connection with spirit and our ability to bring that connection into our lives through our physical body is always – and will always be – perceived and understood through our mind…but not in the way you may think.
It is not and cannot be a logical thought process alone. It occurs through three levels of consciousness: the Conscious Mind, the Subconscious Mind, and the Superconscious.
The Conscious Mind
The Conscious Mind is the logical, analytical part of our mind. It is responsible for many of the actions we take throughout the day. It gets us to where we need to be on time. It gets dinner on the table. It figures out a whole lot for us. We cannot live without it in this world. It analyzes our problems and then focuses on fixing them, often fixating on the problems to a fault.
Because we know how helpful it is, we often rely on this aspect of our mind for just about everything. But here’s the catch: the Conscious Mind makes up only between 5-10% of our individual mind power. The Subconscious Mind makes up the other 90-95%.
The Subconscious Mind
The Subconscious Mind controls most of what makes up our human experience. It informs our conscious mind of what to do and what not to do. Its main function is to keep us safe and alive. Our subconscious mind controls our autonomic nervous system, which keeps our body running on autopilot. It keeps our hearts beating and our lungs breathing. Our subconscious mind is also where all of our emotions live . Feelings and emotions often inform our conscious thoughts, but can also exist under the surface and remain unrecognized or unacknowledge on a conscious level often wreaking havoc on our emotions.
The subconscious mind forms our habits and patterns of behavior that we have learned over time to keep us safe. It contains our long-term memory, recording every experience we have ever had in this lifetime, as well as in past lives and between lives. Our imagination and creativity also originate in the subconscious mind, and with it, the ability to create our lives, in both positive and negative ways, based on the stories we make up in our mind and how these stories play out.
Our intuition also originates in our subconscious mind as our inner guidance system that always knows what is best for us. Most importantly, the subconscious mind is a servant. It does whatever we tell it to do…as long as it feels safe to do it.
The Superconscious.
Beyond the subconscious mind is the part of our mind that is not ours alone: the Superconscious. The superconscious is essentially all-that-is, the universe, source. It is where all information and energy and abundance exists. It is where all ideas generate from.
The Superconscious, containing all that is, is also where spirit exists. In the superconscious, we have the ability to connect with our spirit guides and any other wisdom we seek, once we learn how to connect with it.
To summarize, our mind’s connection to the spirit realm looks like this:
Conscious Mind → Subconscious Mind → Superconscious
These three aspects make up our human experience and they all serve us in some way, with the subconscious mind as the central entity. Working with the subconscious mind is the most powerful way to connect with the spirit realm and your spirit guides. Often one of the biggest doubts people express when it comes to spirit guides is the fear that it is all just in their head. It is a valid concern given that it is hard, if not impossible, to ever receive concrete proof of spirit.
Here is the thing: the connection to spirit is in your mind. In all levels of it. In fact, everything we ever experience in our lives is processed through our mind to come into our conscious awareness. Spiritual connection and spirit guides are not any different.
In fact, if the guidance we receive from our guides does not pass from the superconscious through our higher self, into our subconscious, past the gatekeeper, and into our conscious mind, we will never be able to take action on this guidance because it will never enter our conscious awareness.
Rather than fearing that it is only in your mind, I encourage you to embrace that fact that yes, it is in your mind. Simply allow it to exist there along its destined path in your life.
Creative Alchemy with Melissa Conkling 
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