A. The Sub-conscious Mind

The Subconscious mind has following functions:

1. It controls the automatic functions of the body, such as our heartbeat, breathing, digestion and our physical development etc. Controls our immune system.

2. It controls all our learned functions like habit, attitudes, the way we walk, we drive a car, how we use our reflexes in riding a bicycle or ducking to avoid an injury. The way we programme ourselves to behave.

3. It maintains our memory and records all our experiences of life regarding what we think, whst we say and what we imagine of ourselves. It stores up our interpretation of reality.

4. Controls our Extra Sense Perception e.g. Telepathy and Clairvoyance.

5. Has links with the Unknown, the spiritual being.

6. Controls Body Language.

7. Controls, Energy and Creativity.

8. Solves our problems and achieves our goals. It operates as our Servo-mechanism our Guidance System.

9. Controls our instincts and intuitions.

The Subconscious Mind

"Your subconscious is often referred to as Subjective mind. It takes cognizance of its environment by

means independent of the five senses. Your subjective mind perceives by intuition. It is the seat of your emotions and a store house of memory, it performs super-rapid functions when the conscious mind is in abeyance. In a word, it is intelligence which makes itself manifest when objective mind (Conscious) is suspended or is in a sleepy or drowsy state.

The subconscious mind sees without the natural organs of vision. It has the capacity of clairvoyance and clair-audience. It can leave your body, travel distant lands and bring back information often of most exact and truthful character. Though your subconscious mind you can read the thought of other, read the contents of sealed envelops and closed safes. Your subconscious mind has the ability of to apprehend the thoughts of others without the use of ordinary objective means of communications. It is of greatest importance that we understand the interaction of the objective and subjective minds....... Your subconscious cannot reason or argue controversially like your conscious mind."

"Your Sub-conscious mind is the seat of your emotions, energy and creativity. If you think good, good will follow; if you think evil; evil will follow. This is how minds works."

("The Power of Your Subconscious Mind", by Dr. Joseph Murphy)

There may be some more functions not yet known to Man.

However, there are three basic functions of the Subconscious Mind, namely:-

1. With it's intuitive understanding of the bodily needs, it maintains and preserves (unaided by conscious mind) the well-being and indeed the very life of the body.

2. In times of great emergency it springs into immediate action (again independently of the conscious mind) and takes supreme command, acting with incredible certitude, super-rapidity, accuracy and understanding in saving the life of the individual.

3. It is operative in the psychic world in which the subconscious powers are manifest in such phenomena as telepathy, clairvoyance and psycho-kens-is. But it can also be summoned to help in times of great personal necessity, when the conscious calls upon the subconscious to use its powers and resources. It responds to solve a vital problem or bring to pass that which is sought and desired by the individual.

It is the last part we will be mostly concerned with during this programme.

The Brian Hemispheres

Much of brain research took place in 1980's and there after. In 1981 Roger Spencer, a psychologist at California Institute of Technology, won a Noble Prize in psychology and medicine for his work on functioning of the two hemispheres of the brain, referred to as "split brain" research.

Left Brain - Right Brain

The evidence shows that we have a Left-brain and a Right-brain. The two are connected by a communication network called the CORPUS COLOSSEUM which sends information back and forth between the two hemispheres of the brain. When you hear people talking about the conscious and the subconscious minds they refer to the same duality. Scientists have determined that 95% of the population is left brain dominated.

The Left Brian is the logical side, it is engaged in reasoning, evaluating, criticizing and analyzing and going into detail.