There's a way to get subconscious material that is affecting our lives, adversely, quickly to become conscious -- for the invisible to become visible.
It involves our four "core" muscles of intelligence:
ATTENTION | INTENTION | MEMORY | IMAGINATION
Surprised, huh? (by now, not, right?)
Still, I'd like to provide a little bit of explanation.
Those core muscles of intelligence operate best when they cooperate in a state of balanced integration.
When they are out of balance, it's because one or more of those four "muscles" is sluggish, overactive, or poorly integrated with the others. That's their set-point and it's gumming up the works -- attention is stuck on something, intention is weak or poorly coordinated with the other three, a memory of an experience is being suppressed, or imagination is being squashed by loud memories that drown out any new information.
Feel that. Sounds like psychology -- or politics -- doesn't it?
What makes subconscious material, subconscious, rather than conscious, is the state of imbalance.
That's handy, to know; it means that by balancing and coordinating our four core muscles of intelligence, we can get subconscious material not only to "surface" (become visible), but also to come to a free and easy balance. It happens quickly.
This is helpful to understand.
Our experiences are given form and intensity by the interaction of attention, intention, and memory. Without attention, no experience is possible; without intention, there's no intensity and no attention goes onto an experience because, "Who cares?"; without memory, we can't keep our attention on anything long enough to experience its details -- or even to steady on it.
So, those three, together, give experience "substance" -- make it visible -- but not active or even perceptible. Without the "incoming" channel of imagination, our memory only reinforces existing memories. It's a state of "static" experience -- which is to say, no experience because we can perceive only things that are in changing relationship, to us.
If you want to test that statement, gaze fixedly at something. In less than 30 seconds, you'll notice that it "washes out" or goes invisible. That applies to all of our senses and experiences.
The function of our senses is to perceive things that are changing. That's why prey-animals freeze, when afraid; it reduces their visibility. You can see how that might have survival value.
Imagination is our incoming channel for perceiving change.
Every time our attention shifts to something new, or something in our situation changes, our imagination links what's happening now to what we remember, so we can make sense, of it.
That's how we understand language, for example. Language connects words with relevant memories of experiences.
We discover how important memory is to perception whenever we enter into an unfamiliar situation. Without memories to orient us, what do we feel? Yes. That. I call it, being in the zone -- of incomprehensibility!
Here's the practical application:
You can test this. Whenever you feel stuck in a situation or state, shift to imagining that state, vividly, while experiencing it. That takes intention, attention and memory, so now we have all four working together. To the degree that we sufficiently balance all four, our now-experience loses its "stickiness"; our attention and intention come free. The experience is of relief from stress. It happens in moments.
However, there's a catch:
If one or more of the muscles of intelligence -- attention, intention, memory and imagination -- is gummed up (sluggish or hyperactive -- out of balance with the others) we feel stuck, caught. That's the catch.
The release comes from activating and freeing all four muscles of intelligence, equally, in the moment. It's quite remarkable, and undeniable, when it happens.
That, in fact, is how The Gold Key Release Balanced Intelligence procedure works to make the invisible, visible: balance.
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