All in all, it’s always a good day if you stay in step with all the good work you have been doing on yourself all week, if you give yourself credit for attempting something new, if you intend another day of small steps in a new direction. As mentioned, change is happening all the time, it is inevitable, and yet it doesn’t have to be drastic or life shattering. It can certainly be something small in the context of everyday life, with a larger goal in mind so that each day the picture of that greater goal reminds you to keep to the path you have set. For that goal, in picture form, is already waiting for you to reach out and own it. It’s your picture, your dream, your goal, thus it is also already your accomplishment in reality.
When things feel that they will never change, we ask that you stop and think a little. Change did bring about what is happening now. That means that change is always active. If you are feeling a lack of change in your own life it might just mean that you are missing the opportunities that abound, or that you are not taking any action that will engage you in the changing times. Engagement is key. What are you prepared to do to engage in change on your own behalf? Start out with something simple and easily done. Without taking drastic measures change can be instigated. Step-by-step and one-day-at-a-time, set your intention to begin a new journey of change. And don’t forget to say a little prayer of thanks. It will lift your spirit and direct your gratitude to where it is most receptive.
The subconscious mind is our inner partner that links us with the unfathomable depths and resources of our greater being. Learning to love the subconscious mind is like building any soulful relationship. We begin by getting to know who our partner truly is and how best to communicate with them.
The subconscious is, first and foremost, a receptive mind. In contrast to the conscious thinking mind, the subconscious mind operates primarily through feeling. What we truly believe is what most impresses the subconscious mind. And belief, though it may appear to be the product of a logical process, is primarily governed by what we feel to be true.
This is the secret to the placebo effect, which demonstrates, par excellence, the impact of a strong belief upon the subconscious mind and its consequent effect upon the physical body. If one truly believes in the efficacy of a pill, even if it might actually be a powerless sugar pill, the subconscious mind can produce its believed effect upon the body.
The subconscious mind can literally create what appears to be a miracle, but it operates primarily from the true feeling it receives from the conscious mind. If we truly believe, all things are on the table of possibility.
This is why Neville Goddard emphasizes the exercise of the imagination by the conscious mind to cross the threshold to welcomed suggestion by the receptive subconscious mind. When we can truly imagine our intention fully realized, and felt in our imagination, we open the door to the influence of powerful belief.
Imagination is far greater than mere passive fantasy. To imagine ourselves truly living in the life of our desire realized, we must cross the bridge to actually feeling ourselves living in that reality. To accomplish this, we must truly believe in the possibility.
The subconscious may not think, but it is acutely aware of our true feelings and responds to ambivalent beliefs with inaction. Essentially, this is its way of returning to the sender of suggestions, the conscious mind, the task of reaching a definitive belief, which it will then gladly receive and take action upon.
The subconscious mind does not judge the suggestions it receives. Judging is a function of consciousness, which it does not possess. The conscious mind is fully charged with the responsibility for its beliefs.
The subconscious will act upon any belief powerfully felt, for better or for worse. It remains for the conscious mind to assume the integrity to autosuggest to the subconscious for the greater good of self, and other. The conscious mind expresses love for the subconscious mind by respecting its power to create and acting from the place of right action.
We build a loving relationship with the subconscious through a fervent gratitude practice. Gratitude is an expressive feeling. The subconscious is impressed by genuine feeling.
The subconscious records every experience sensed in our lives.The conscious mind, with its limited memory capacity, relies heavily upon the subconscious to produce the right words to express a thought or gain access to a long buried memory. Every time I ask for a name, regardless of a delay in response, I express deep gratitude for the gift of word or memory delivered to me.
The subconscious has a perfect internal clock. Most nights, I tell my subconscious the exact time I wish to wake up. Without fail I am awoken at the time requested. I immediately express deep gratitude for that support. I point out that my belief in the subconscious to be able to complete this task is total. When we truly believe something is possible, the subconscious responds.
The subconscious is our most powerful partner in this life, with capabilities greater than AI because it has access to all of human history and knowledge, far transcending what has been recorded.
Furthermore, we can develop a truly loving relationship with this partner, but we must be accepting of who it is and how it operates. The practices of feeling, imagination and gratitude are central to this loving relationship.
I close with one final practice in relationship building with the subconscious: Patience. The subconscious has its own wisdom for the how and when of the suggestions it accepts to manifest. Respect that autonomy, and know that that which has been felt and believed will be born physically into your life, sometime, somehow.
In certain parts of the world the daylight hours are shorter now, which opens the door to deeper inner work. When darkness falls take some time to contemplate your day, to reflect in thought and word upon the successes and failures of the past few hours. Prepare for the night ahead, for sleeping and dreaming, as well as for a new day to come. In closing down one day while opening to the next something new might slip in, a new creative idea, a new method of tackling some problem, a new energy that seeks life. Let yourself be ready for each day by setting calming intentions each night. That way the next day is not only already begun but it is begun with optimism and eagerly looked forward to.
We are seriously into the final occurrence of a Mercury retrograde for 2026, which spans from 10/24 through 11/13. During a retrograde the planet Mercury gives the appearance of moving backwards, generating a glitch in the normal orderly flow of life.
Astrologically, Mercury is the ruler of the domain of communication, hence, expect all kinds of communication mishaps with people, as well as with the machines of communication.
Retrograde is also a a time of retros, throwbacks into issues from prior times, most especially the disheartening experience of feeling stuck by lifelong limiting beliefs. The danger lurks to get swallowed up in negative thoughts, and consequent feelings, of deep failure.
On the bright side, these sudden glitches in time may afford a different perspective as we suddenly awaken from the sleep of our habitual self with a start. In such a moment, we may gain an insight or experience, a new feeling that frees us from the reigning view of our habitual self.
If, in this moment of enlightenment, we claim ourselves to now be the change we desire, closing the door to the habitual conception of our life, we enter into the energy of infinity and timelessness. It is here that we have the opportunity to reshape our living experience into what we truly desire. Embracing the forbidden of the habitual self is the immaculate conception of the desired self.
Perhaps we have been focused arduously at manifesting a core desire and feel befuddled by setbacks to old defeatist habits. It may help to achieve an objective perspective, which acknowledges that this is a time of retrograde, for all. It’s simply not personal.
What is personal is what we are being shown, the unfinished business that has secretly been undermining the best of our suggestions to our subconscious mind. For instance, if behind it all, we still harbor a belief of unworthiness, or undeservedness, this retrograde might shine a bright light upon this tucked away shadow.
The law of creation is quite clear. What we currently believe ourselves to be is the state of our being. We simply can’t be that which we can’t conceive ourselves to be.
This awareness enables us to move beyond the defense of defeatism by imagining, in a deep way, living in the world of our desire, fully manifested. The key is to deeply feel the self fully realized as the person in the circumstance we truly desire. If we can sustainedly feel it in our imagination, we’ve made room for it in the physical actuality of our being. For once something is imagined, it exists, in some form.
The key is to allow the subconscious its own time and means to further our dream into waking life. The gift of retrograde is to illuminate blockages and focus the imagination on the task of truly becoming receptive to what we desire by allowing ourselves to become it, in a truly impassioned way.
This is a positive path to obtaining the holy grail of our life, by defeating the old guard of protectionism of the heart. If we can truly feel our deepest desire realized in our imagination, we are already there, living it within, as it finds its way without.
Love in the time of retrograde is gratitude for all the gifts we are given. We must pay our dues to the tao of everything. Seasons of retrograde, however challenging, are course corrections, which if heeded, hold the karma of ultimate success.
If we face, and live, our revealed truths, regardless of our necessary bouts with failure, and love ourselves for our ability to do so, we are graced.
