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Understanding the Action of the Subconscient · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The field of psychology in the West has developed over the last
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  couple of centuries with a focus on the influence of the
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  subconscious levels on our external lives, fixating on
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  trauma, past events and their effect on the way we respond to
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  circumstances in our lives. This has led to techniques such
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  as psychotherapy, dream interpretation, regression
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  therapy, and hypnosis as mechanisms to unlock the
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  subconscious realm to gain an understanding of what what lies
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  hidden there. Western psychology has notably
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  failed to expend much effort on understanding levels that are
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  super conscient or circumconscient.
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  Sri Aurobindo has included these planes or levels in his more
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  comprehensive review of human psychology.
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  Without an understanding of these additional segments of our
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  existence, it is virtually impossible to truly resolve the
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  issues that arise through a deep examination of the subconscious
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  errors. And thus such such examinations
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  as Western psychology have undertaken have revealed a
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  number of dangers for the individuals involved who get
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  labeled as having certain conditions and who create a
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  surface personality around the existence of those conditions
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  and act to actually strengthen and embed them further rather
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  than find ways to resolve them and move forward freely without
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  them. Thus, few people ever succeed in
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  going beyond the need for therapy in the currently
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  understood methods and techniques of psychological
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  practice without the active intervention of the forces
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  active at the Super conscient levels.
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  Such a review of the sub conscient acts primarily as a
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  stirring up an awakening of those forces that lie hidden
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  there, Fiorobindo writes, Quote. The subconscient is a concealed
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  and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below
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  all our conscious physical activities.
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  Just as what we call the superconscient is really a
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  higher consciousness above from which things descend into the
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  being, so the subconscient is below the body consciousness,
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  and things come up into the physical, the vital, and the
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  mind nature. From there, just as the higher
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  consciousness is super conscient to us and supports all our
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  spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is
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  the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up
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  in the physical nature. Men are not ordinarily conscious
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  of either of these planes of their own being, but by sodna
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  they can become aware. The subconscient retains the
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  impressions of all our past experiences of life, and they
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  can come up from there in dream forms.
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  Most dreams and ordinary sleep are formations made from
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  subconscient impressions. The habit of strong recurrence
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  of the same things in our physical consciousness, so that
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  it is difficult to get rid of its habits, is largely due to a
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  subconscious support. The subconscient is full of
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  irrational habits. When things are rejected from
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  all other parts of the nature, they go either into the
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  environmental consciousness around us, through which we
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  communicate with others and with universal nature and try to
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  return from there, or they sink into the subconscient and can
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  come up from there even after lying long quiescent, so that we
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  think they are gone. When something is erased from
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  the subconscient so completely that it leaves no seed, and
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  thrown out of the circumconscient so completely
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  that it can return no more than, only can we be sure that we have
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  finished with it forever. End Quote Reference Shriorobindo
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  and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 2,
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  Hidden Forces within pages 36 to 37.