Beautiful ...and..the powerful Mind !!!

in the past few months i have been reading a lot about our mind !!

The most stunning fact that i have come across is this : the processing power of concious mind is 40 instructions per second whereas that of the subconcious mind is 40 million instructions per second !!! wow..our subcincious mind is million times faster than the concious mind..

And yet all the spiritual teachings and scientific research encourage to use our concious mind - one that is million times slower...why is that ??
Subconcious mind is like a computer...It has great processing power..but will just carry out the programmed instructions based on past experiences, learings and results.. Once the conputer starts its programs there is no re-course and results are also fairly predictable.
Thats what happens with our subconcious mind. once you give it the control, thats it..all the actions just happen (just like you breathe every second, digest your food, and umpteen other functions that you carry out day in and day out without ever distinctly remembering them..and without much choice on how its carried out)

But concious mind, even though, extremely slow compared to its subconcious cousin has one weapon up its sleeve...It can choose !!! it can choose to do some thing or, more importantly, choose NOT to !! This power of choice also give it the power to re-program the subconcious mind !!

And how do we excerise this power ?? Literature right from the great Baghavad gita and Bible to the very latest "New Earth" by Eckart Tolle suggest the same thing - Focus on the present moment..That helps to the concious mind to take control from its infinitely more powerful cousin..
Come to think of it...there is only one solution for all the ills of the world..if only people are able to always have their concious mind in charge of themselves and help teach the subcincious mind the right things..and then let the power of this newly programmed subconcious help them achieve new heights !!