Storage and Subconscious
Storage units, hoarders, and the subconscious mind
Now, when you don’t process the other 1999 thought you had where do you think they go? They unfortunately don’t just fly off into the universe. The one that you have chosen broadcasts and creates reality momentarily. The additional 1999 options get stored in the subconscious mind.
One of the only things that we have in us that is finite, besides the physical form, is the subconscious mind. For the most part, we are infinite creatures. Yes, our bodies are finite, but our souls are infinite.
There are some crazy yogi calculation for how large the subconscious mind is. It said that it some 8,000,000 miles north 8,000,000 miles south 8,000,000 miles east and 8,000,000 miles west, so it’s big. But eventually finite. So it can, and does get full. And any kind of stress, weird behavior, or neurotic thought pattern is always a symptom of an overflowing subconscious mind. But the subconscious mind can be cleaned through the process of meditation and sound technologies.
A good culture reference for the subconscious mind is the TV show Hoarders. There is an episode where this woman, a really sweet woman, has filled up all 15 storage units of a local storage facility year after year she kept buying and filling and buying and filling more and more storage units until there were no more left.
The woman was very sweet and she was pleading for more storage units. The owners were so uncomfortable because there weren’t any more. It was heartbreaking.
And that’s a great metaphor for the subconscious mind. It’s finite. You can only fill it with so much. Once it gets full, you start to get crazy, anxious, depressed, and start to have nightmares, insomnia, and suffer through all kind of epidemics. Then these stress epidemics that you’re suffering under because of your full subconscious mind start to leak out into your unconscious and conscious mind, and as a result become more and more of your waking reality.
It’s a law of being in the human form on this planet that the subconscious mind has to be cleaned. Just like you take a shower to clean your body and you clean your house, anything that is finite must be cleaned. Because when we don’t clean the subconscious we get psychic, emotional, and mental build up. But when we do clean the finite arenas, our homes, our body, our mind they are much more beautiful. They sparkle. And then there is room for something more magical and creative to come in.
So this meditative work is, in my belief, a requirement, but many of us were not really taught any kind of mechanism for clearing the subconscious mind other than possibly some prayer practice and prayer is powerful, especially when it helps us to connect to something more infinite inside of us. But generally we have no secular practice to clean out the subconscious mind.
When you start to bring more energy into the system, say with a pranayam, or any other practice that we’ve talked about, the mind will automatically start to clean itself. You will naturally begin to dump subconscious thoughts. For this reason, don’t be alarmed if you feel negative or something bizarre comes up during or after meditation. This is always a good sign that you are releasing some old garbage from the storage bins.
A lot of people don’t like meditating. As soon as they sit down, the mind starts releasing, which is a healthy thing, but it scares some people off. The only advice I can give is to just keep going. Don’t back off. Living in a house stuffed to the gills with old newspapers is way worse than the kind of courage you have to muster to take out the trash. Don’t identify with the thoughts, just let them filter out. Meditating will become easier with continued practice. And you just have to remember that you always feel better after taking a shower or cleaning your room. Always
Trauma broadcast, and the space Time Machine
When you don’t clean the subconscious mind, you end up with what is called a trauma broadcast, which is kind of like the the Peanuts character, pig pen. You’re carrying around a lot more dirt than you need or want to, but you’ve collected it and now it’s with you and playing a part of how people see you and feel you and concurrently how you see the world.
Your mind is not subject to time and space. But properly trained mind is useful to move through time and space. You can project into the future, to some imagined possibility, or even a real situation that you know is going to happen. You can also take yourself back to when you were four, eating pasta at your grandparents home. Close your eyes and remember a time from earlier. You can take yourself back there can’t you? And you can re-create all the emotional biochemistry from that instance, too. So it actually starts to feel the same. This should show how easily the mind can traverse the space spectrum and direct your experience of reality at any given moment.
Often times we are unconsciously, projecting trauma, or some traumatic event that harm us into the world on a daily basis, long after the event occurred. This then becomes like a satellite broadcast or a Wi-Fi signal. And even more often this trauma broadcast has been with us for many incarnations, in our various lifetimes and familial lineages. The study of epigenetics is finding fascinating things about how these traumas actually passed from generation to generation on a cellular level.
So these traumas or fear broadcast can be heavy and can carry through generations or lifetimes. I’ll never be loved. Success is threatening to my safety. Everything bad happens to me. What happens is that you are projecting this into a wave or beam through time and space. It’s in your now, but it’s also projecting into your past and projecting into your future. Layman’s quantum theory maintains that past present and future exist simultaneously. So, as we subconsciously identify and broadcast into the future from the past, or from now, a trauma pattern starts to accumulate energy and create reality. Then we catch up to it in the future, we say look there it goes again. I knew that would happen. The trauma broadcast becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
What we have the opportunity to do in kundalini and meditation is actually move our mind to different situations in the past and rewrite them go into the past, surround a moment of trauma, pain, or grief, heal it, rewrite it, and re-calibrate it.
