How occasional forays into the subconscious provides a remedy

It is in the second layer of consciousness that you can locate stimuli to keep the conscious mind alert, active, and eager to contribute to the progression of your third age lifestyle. However, you cannot visit the subconscious on a whim and to access it at all requires a little work on your part. But this is not difficult work and when you persist at it, perfect it, the rewards ensuing can prove extremely satisfying.

Putting your subconscious to the test

You are a walking compendium of learned life skills; not just those skills you acquired in your career but the aggregated knowledge of a lifetime: work, hobbies, general interests, specialist interests, child bearing/raising/educating, and so on. The list is endless. And in one or more of these areas you are an expert. You don’t believe me? Then take a test and prove it for yourself.

Make a list in random order of topics that interest you.

Isolate the one topic you instinctively feel you know more about than any of the others. Start jotting down in tabular form every aspect relating to your conscious knowledge of the topic as it springs to mind; one word per aspect will suffice. Keep on adding as the thoughts tumble out.

Repeat this exercise for the next topic in order of perceived interest.

Repeat it for the next again.

Leave your lists aside and come back to them a few days later.

Unless you are brain dead something has been occurring in the interim. Your little exercise has sparked off the interest of your subconscious and it is enthused about the outcome. It has been carrying this stuff around for years and is desperate to disclose the extent of your collective intelligence, to tell you how much you really know. Given the opportunity, it could have conveyed this information a long time ago.

But you never asked – until now.

Review each of your lists again individually and at the prompting of the second level of your consciousness keep on adding until you have exhausted the deepest recesses of your memory bank. Upon completion you may be shocked to discover that the topic you thought you knew most about is in fact the one about which you know the least. One of the others may have the grabbed the Number 1 Spot thanks to power of recall of your helpful inner friend.

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