I read an article today in New Scientist about the subconscious and it influence in our lives. The article is called: ‘The other you’ and it gives an overview of the current scientific understandings on the subject. (Older articles can be read via their archives section, but you will need to wait some time before this article appears on the site)

On of the interesting things that this article mentions is that our subconscious is constantly monitoring our environment in a way that we cannot do in a conscious way (it is a well established fact that the things we do and perceive consciously are limited. The tiny number of 3% is often put forward).
So what the subconscious does is to monitor the outside world and log it and then call our conscious attention whenever it ‘thinks’ this is needed. The problem is that we do not have a lot of control over when this happens.
The article also goes on to say that the subconscious often outperforms the consciousness. They give the example of playing tennis or driving a car. Once you know how to do it, you can do it automatically, as on auto pilot, read: performed by the subconscious.
But also in social situations, the subconscious often makes better decisions than the consciousness. And people who are very creative use this part of themselves to get their best ideas.

And now for the link with the law of attraction.

From the same article, and everyones personal experience, we know that we have very little to no control over this part of ourselves.

And here comes all the literature on ‘the law of attraction’: they devise a way to ‘talk’ to your subconsciousness and get it to pay attention to whatever we want (and do not forget, NOT to pay attention to whatever we do not want).
A large part of ‘The secret’ is actually a way to control or to guide the subconscious processes in ourselves.

And science tells us that if we succeed in doing this, our subconscious will start showing us whatever it finds interesting (but now it finds interesting what we told it to find interesting). And that whatever it shows us is really relevant. This then also explains why we are told to act when after visualizing we get hunches.

In conclusion, I would say that these scientific findings are pointing in the direction that if we can somehow direct our subconscious, we can harness a great and efficient power in ourselves.
The methods to do this, I have not read any scientific account on, but I am sure that in a few years research will direct us in the good direction, finally proving ‘The law of attraction’

Be Well. Be rich. Be great.

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