Most people spend their lives out of alignment with their subconscious, creating a constant, low-grade sense of confusion. For example, have you ever had a nightmare after what seemed like an essentially decent day? Have you caught yourself, mid-sentence, using an intonation that felt much more antagonistic than you intended? Remained in a job or relationship in spite of the many signs that the arrangement just wasn’t right?
All of these instances are examples of dissonance between the subconscious and conscious mind. I’d argue that this absence of rapport is at the root of all our problems.
Fortunately, bringing the conscious and subconscious into alignment is a straightforward process.
Congruence is written into your nervous system
“It’s against my dignity as a body to accept some ideology.” — Terence McKenna
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a bundle of nerves within the brain stem. It’s responsible for sleep, arousal, and the filtering of extraneous sensory information, among…
