The Mind is the Matter

What's the matter? The mind. It is in itself matter...grey matter - blood vessels and nerves and synapses and neurons - cells and oxygen. It is the most complicated piece of ingenuity in the entire universe. No wonder we struggle to help those whose minds are "made-up." When the thing gets wired, go ahead and take a shot at rewiring it. What complicates it is that it is made up of two sometimes conflicting pieces: The conscious mind and subconscious mind. Mine are at war.

The subconscious is the operating system - running the show in the background...the conscious is the RAM - the workspace where now realities are lived out and where thoughts and ideas, sights, smells, and experiences enter and feed into the subconscious mind. The loop-back from the sub-to-conscious mind is feelings - feelings are messages from the subconscious that tell you about you. The subconscious is about the business of keeping you honest with yourself. Proof?Shove stuff down and it won't last in the subconscious mind - it'll come out in some way - usually a feeling, and usually an inappropriate one.

The subconcious mind is a funny machine - it doesn't know the difference between reality and unreality - and will send signals to your conscious mind and your body to prepare for something that is not really there (i.e. think in the conscious mind of a lemon and you'll salivate and get that gritty feeling in your glands - think subconsciously that some danger is coming and you'll feel anxiety).

I guess the trick of it is to just rewire your subconscious and always have it think in truth and reality! Now... where to start....

The subconscious could use a cleaning - stuff that is stuck on needs to get shut off. And it's all about beliefs. If someone (ehem) could JUST get in there and begin to speak truth, the body would respond appropriately (it's been said, where the mind goes, so goes the man; or as scripture says, "as he thinketh in his heart, so is he").

I guess we just ask God to get to the heart of the grey matter. No drug, or forceful thought seems to change beliefs...God must do it. Yeah, so - why doesn't He? Right?