Get To Know Your Higher Mind!

Honest question: have you ever found yourself immersed in social media, scrolling endlessly through the feed, looking for nothing in particular and yet keep going? Or you’re sitting in front of your TV, hopping from one channel to another, searching for you don’t even know what? And then all of a sudden like a bright projector light a thought pops up: “What am I doing? I just wasted so much time.” Has this ever happened to you? I’m willing to bet that it has. But here is an intriguing point to consider. Have you ever questioned where this question came from? Why did it come and how was it different from the preceding activity? Here is the answer that may surprise you. It was your higher mind, sending you a conscious thought to end the unconscious activity. In that instant is hidden the access to deliberate creation.

Perhaps you already know this, but for the sake of reiterating an important point I’ll repeat it again. In a nutshell, your everyday thoughts and resulting feelings create your reality. Right now, at this second your life, your reality is nothing but the reflection of your innermost thoughts and feelings. What a grim concept if you think you have no control of your thoughts, but what a miraculous revelation when you realize you do!

We all have the same mind structure: the lower mind, the higher mind and supermind. What’s the difference between these?

The lower mind is the autopilot. All problems exist here in a form of thoughts. These automatic thoughts attract similar thoughts and feelings and keep us unconsciously stuck in a cycle. A thought about losing a job leads to thoughts of losing your house, car, piling up debt etc., which in turn generate feelings of worry and anxiety. You get the picture! They keep you on an unconscious autopilot. As long as there’s nothing to interrupt this thought flow, you are powerless to change anything because you’re not even aware that these are just thoughts.

That’s where the higher mind comes to the rescue. It is the home of the conscious thought, the link between the lower mind and supermind (AKA The Source, God, universal intelligence, quantum field etc.). Love, joy, peace, faith, empowerment, hope, all reside here. Remember the question that interrupted your social media feast? It came from the higher mind! It elevated you out of the lower mind and gave you the power to deliberately choose your next action.

Conscious thought, or rather conscious state of being, is the powerhouse of deliberate creation.The distinctive feature of the conscious thought is the awareness of what you are thinking. Why is it so powerful? Because it draws the power directly from the supermind, the infinite source. Interestingly, this power not only doesn’t diminish, but it rather multiplies by sharing.

So, how can you take control of your life? To take the reigns of your life into your own hands you need to learn making deliberate use of your higher mind by staying more aware. You’ve heard of affirmations, mantras, sticky notes, reminders… What is their purpose? To pull you out of your uncontrolled thought stream into the position of will. Will equals conscious choice. Conscious choice leads to better decisions and better outcomes. In other words, the more aware you are, the less unaware you are. And as you remember, unawareness was the signature feature of the lower mind.

If you’ve ever tried to forcefully control your thoughts then I know what you are thinking right now. It’s almost impossible to control them! I assure you that not only is it possible, but that is precisely what the universe itself wants from you and is willing to aid you if you only allow it.

Here are some higher mind activities that will help bring you into the present, which is the domain of the higher mind:

Expression of gratitude. When you’re feeling gratitude, you know what you are expressing gratitude for, you are aware. And it’s such a majestic feeling that makes you feel incredible. You can feel a flow of fresh energy into your body.

Repetition of Affirmations. Unless your goal is to become an evil villain from a movie, your affirmations are probably positive and constructive! Affirmations break the flow of unconscious thought and assert conscious creation.

Stretching of Imagination. This exercise pushes the boundaries of the lower mind and gradually destroys the thick walls of tiyr conditioned programming. Try to imagine something that nobody ever has imagined before. It can be the silliest thing, maybe a combination of totally unrelated objects or ideas. The content is not so relevant as the fact that you’re training your mind to question its limits and go beyond them.

Art/Creative Activities. By the very definition art is a creative activity. It calls for inspiration which comes from the higher mind and supermind. The best works of art are created in a state called a “flow”, which means the unobstructed flow of ideas from supermind into the higher mind.

Contemplating Nature. Somehow connecting with nature awakens our sense of peace and brings us to a state of pure awe. Such a state can only be reached by the higher mind.

Some of these activities may not appear to have a direct relationship with taking control of your life, but they very much do. Think of a dam that’s holding the water within because of the rocks in its structure. The lower mind represents the rocks while the supermind is the water. The higher mind is the link, the worker that removes one rock at a time to allow the water to flow. Each of the activities above (and you may think of many others) remove one rock at a time. When enough rocks are removed the water will flow and it will start clearing the way with its own power. But the worker and his activities are necessary in the beginning to create the first opening.

Lasting change is only possible by building daily habits of higher mind activities. Some days you may have 5 minutes, other days a few hours, but the key is to consciously, deliberately and purposefully raise your awareness every day. And you just completed today’s exercise by reading this article!