What you desire contains your roadmap for healing and personal growth. This doesn’t mean you should act on every desire. It means that you should acknowledge each one, and determine whether it’s conscious or unconscious. If it’s conscious, for example, the desire to transform a problem, it will feel like a goal to push toward. If it’s unconscious, for example, the drive toward an addiction, it will feel like being pulled into seeking relief from something no matter what the cost.
A conscious desire is the need to express your true ideas, feelings, creativity, compassion, power, joy, etc. An unconscious one is a need that makes you feel hungry in an oppressive way—oftentimes, manifesting as a physical urge you have have little control over and can’t ever satisfy. For example, I’ve had lots of client with addictions in which healing involved connecting with the underlying states of mind they actually sought. In some people, the urge to get stoned was actually a drive for a spiritual experience. Other folks were yearning to feel loved or to experience peace.
Conscious desires lead to expansive growth whereas unconscious ones lead to pain, addiction, depression, destructive behavior, etc.. This episode guides you through an exercise to identify your conscious and unconscious desires, and apply what you learn to your life and problems.