Quote Originally Posted by Memm View Post
Your intention is like throwing a rock into a lake, with the lake being your brain. Even a small rock that you hardly notice (for example let's say you want to find an object) means that the waves created hit a lot of different memory paths and so you get a lot of content that is somehow related to your intention (you see a whole pile of objects).
That's probably the best description I've heard!

Quote Originally Posted by Memm
So my understanding is that what people call the subconsciousness is simply all the processes of the mind that happen too fast to notice without sitting down and slowing everything down (with meditation) or a level of self-awareness that is not good enough to notice some of the more subtle things.
This is actually something I was going to bring up--worrying about your interaction with your subconscious seems to be based on seeing two distinct parts of your brain, conscious and subconscious. I'm not a psychologist, but I believe this theory of the conscious and subconscious was only popularized in the time of Freud. All I'm trying to say is that it's a theory of psychology, not a physically proved thing, as if you could see your "subconscious" or "conscious" mind lighting up at specific times on an MRI. It is a theory used to try to explain human behavior, some accept it and use that model, others reject the importance of making any distinction.

Veered off topic...

Back to the subject at hand: it's like meditation, it's a difficult skill, but if you start thinking when you're meditating it's counter-productive to fight with yourself; you're supposed to acknowledge the thought and not judge yourself for a lapse, but simply be aware.