The subconscious mind contains many unnecessary thought waves, unfulfilled desires, memories and dreams of the future. None of them relate to the present moment at all: ‘I feel cold; I am hungry; Is he going to call?; Where do I have to go?; What do I still have to do?; I need to clean up, but I feel lazy; I want to loose weight; I want to gain weight’. All our life our mind has been occupied with this ‘me and mine’ thinking. As long as our intellect does not have the strength to apply proper discrimination, this type of automatic thinking continues like a tape recorder. If you allow yourself to be dominated by the subconscious mind in this way, you will remain a prey of your past.