Not necessarily the subconscious level. The subconscious is that part of the mind which is necessary for 'spontaneous' reactions that the conscious mind doesn't have to be bothered about... like you touch a hot plate, immediately your hand pulls back... that doesn't have to be a consciously made decision, it is something the body has learnt and absorbed into its nature as a result of prior experience (over millions of years).Quote:
Originally Posted by viraajan
The mind too, has so many subconscious reactions as a result of the evolution of the human psyche. All these are subconscious imprints, and although we experience their effects in the physical world, we are unaware of why we react in that way or what caused such a reaction.
The desire of having an experience of living with hardships, or the desire of living any particular kind of experience in a life, are often made at the superconscious levels. By the superconscious I mean that level of awareness where there is a understanding of the 'big picture', like getting a birds eye view of the cosmic interconnections between ourselves and the souls of the universe, the lifetimes that we have lived on the physical plane and elsewhere.
From this state of awareness, one could deliberately make a decision which might be one of shocking and unimaginable pain in one's own physical manifestation. Like the fact that one understands the need to take bitter medicine in order to get cured of a physical ailment, just so, at that level of awareness, it is a perfectly sane decision.
When does such a decision get made? First of all, time is not linear. So it is often better to accept 'states of Awareness' as the reference point, not time. For example, a normal human being who lives in and out of the three states of existence - Sleep, Waking, Dreams, in general makes many such "Life decisions" before he/she comes into the physical existence because that is where he/she would be in the superconscious state.
But a spiritually awakened human being, who has transcended his/her attachment with the world, can by his/her own accord move to a superconscious state inspite of being in waking/dream/sleep states and make his/her Life decisions there.
Can such a decision be overwritten when living the Life or would one have to live with the pain till the end? Yes surely, but for that one needs to be spiritually developed. It is very possible to shift the states of Awareness while being in the physical body by performing actions with certain intent - also called Tapas or Penance or Yoga or Communion. This might be through Bhakti, Jnaana, Karma .. the systems of Yoga most well documented in Hindu philosophy. Any other system will probably fall into one of these categories.
Love and Light.
