 The conscious mind is like a gardener and the subconscious mind is like the soil in which that gardener sows seed. But here's what no one tells us. The conscious mind's job is to think. The subconscious mind's job is to just absorb with no filter. The subconscious mind will make room for and cultivate wherever you ask it to grow however awful or brilliant it is. And the conscious mind remembers the last thing you told it. And if the last thing it was told was when you were 5 and now you're 45, seriously. That's why we grow into adult life unaware that we are defaulting to ancient belief systems we don't know we have because you did not put them there.