I only wish it were quite that simple. It is not. You must change the thought pattern which has produced the unwanted condition in your life. And that thought pattern is found in your subconscious mind.

Lots of people have tried to describe the subconscious mind - but since it is mind, and invisible, this is on the difficult side! We just cannot see it, you know.

But in a sense it is a cause, and the person is its effect. So if you want to get an idea of the state of anyone's subconscious, take a look at the person. To repeat a well known quotation, "What you are thunders so loud I cannot hear what you say!"

That was from Ralph Waldo Emerson, and it is very true. You can not see the subconscious. You cannot find it, nor actually locate it. It is intangible from the point of the physical plane, but it is very, very much in evidence! You can certainly feel it and its effect on you.

Instinctively, when we speak of the subconscious we almost always indicate our solar plexus. When we are struck by a sudden shock or fright, we are quite likely to grip our tummies. Many people think the subconscious is located there. It is not, but it so happens that the region of the solar plexus is the connection to the subconscious mind, if we can put anything quite as intangible as that in words.

That area of your body is known as the gateway to the subconscious mind. It is where the first physical reaction is felt when the subconscious registers fear, but never joy. When a joyous thing occurs, there is no particular locality of feeling. You feel completely uplifted. You feel lighthearted.

Where do your ideas come from? Where do the thoughts that come into your mind arise? Where is the point of departure? Nobody has ever been able to find out photographically, but we know that they come up from the well of the subconscious, and often the ideas it generates are very wonderful.

Have you ever wondered where intuition comes from?