God has gifted us human beings the most powerful mind and blessed us with two additional qualities of Self-consciousness (thinking) and freewill (taking independent decisions), which no other creature on this earth is so lucky to possess. The human mind is more powerful than even nuclear energy. Let me remind you that it is the human mind only who has created this nuclear energy. The mind is an instrument or tool in your hands and you need to use it the way you want. It may not be wrong to say that you are the Master and your mind is the servant to obey your order.
To establish the supremacy over the mind, you must have a thorough knowledge about it and its functioning, and your role to manage it throughout the journey of life. This mind when controlled and pointed to the right direction, can also ruin it. Your mind has great power to manifest the thoughts as directed by you.
The human mind is an invisible part of the brain. Your brain works as hardware and the mind works as software of the ‘human computer’. Your brain is attached with your five senses, heart and other parts of your body. The ‘human computer’ functions on the same principle of electronic magnetic force, transmitting and receiving signals just like a man-made computer. Mind functions as a tool for processing, programming, recording, transmitting and receiving the signals. Your mind is the composition of three distinctive minds known as Conscious Mind, Sub-Conscious Mind and Super-Conscious Mind. They all play different roles but are very closely linked and correlated with each other. So, it is very important to learn about them as most of us are unaware of them.
Conscious mind : is like a processor of the computer. It is responsible for logic and reasoning. It receives all the information, filters it and stores for programming. It guides and controls all the organs of the body. In size, it is the smallest. This mind keeps running from the past to the future and rarely stays at the present moment of time. You may call it a ‘monkey mind’ also. Its main function is to manifest the thoughts as ordered by you. It has the capacity to manifest about 70000 to 75000 thoughts per day and can think one thought at one time. It works only when you are awake, but goes to sleep to charge the human battery connected to the universal charger. It takes about eight hours for a grown-up person and approximately 10 to 12 hours for a child, to charge the human battery and accordingly your physical body sleeps and by doing so, your conscious mind and body take full rest.
When you are asleep, your Sub-conscious mind takes over to perform the duty of breathing and monitoring your heart beat in order to keep you alive. This mind functions on Beta Brain Wave at a frequency between 13 to 30 Hz. This mind stores the memories for a short time to be transferred subsequently to the Sub-conscious mind.
The Sub-conscious mind: It stor es all your life experiences, skills, beliefs, memories, and so on. In fact, it records your autobiography. It keeps functioning 24 hours even when you are asleep. It manifests the dreams while you’re sleeping. It is like computer retrieving information from a disk to storage. It works on Alfa Brain Wave frequency between 8 to 13 Hz. This mind cannot discern between false or true information. Hence all the information including imaginative get stored there. Based on this quality of the Sub-conscious mind, the skill of positive affirmations and visualisations plays an important role to what you desire. You need to be careful while feeding positive thoughts and must eliminate negative feelings, emotions and beliefs and replacing them with positive ones.
The Super-conscious mind : It is little known to most of us, has the power to create miracles in one’s life. The Super-conscious mind has the power to create anything which can be conceived by your mind with positive consciousness. This mind functions on two frequencies, first the Delta Brain Wave of 0.5 to 4 Hz and second Theta Brain Wave 4 to 8 Hz. The Super-conscious mind has divine powers and you can reach to this through deep meditation, skills of affirmation, visualisation and prayers.
From the above studies, you must have learned that God has blessed these three categories of mind to play different roles, so that human being struggles hard to lead a happy and fulfilled life by positive thinking and taking independent decisions of your life without any outside intervention, thus making him or her self-independent. Based on the Polaris Law of Nature, your conscious mind has the power to think positive or negative and you have the power to guide this mind to manifest the positive or negative thoughts. But let me tell you, that the conscious mind is very prone towards negative thoughts. Because of this negative quality of mind, it keeps jumping from the past to the future to create the negativity in life. As you know, past is history and future is a mystery, but the present moment of mind is the gift which is also known as present.
So, in order to stay positive there is a great need to discipline your ‘monkey mind’ and keep it absolutely under command and control. You must treat your mind like your friend and in turn this mind will act like a loyal servant. When the mind is manifesting positive thoughts and continuously stays in the same state, it is known as positive consciousness state of mind and when the mind creates negativity of life, it is a negative consciousness state of mind. When a number of people are creating positive thoughts, then it is known as Collective Positive Consciousness and vice versa as Collective Negative Consciousness. This aspect can have great repercussions on the social health of our society. People in negative collective consciousness may further behave like animals, killing others mercilessly.
Lt Col (Retd.) Surjan Singh Randhawa is the author, writer and Retired army veteran