You Must Control Your Lower Instincts

The lowest of the mental principles is the instinctive mind. This is the lower part of the subconscious mind. You remember the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, right? Well, the instinctive mind is found in all of them. It is the one that taught the animals how to build its nests, how to migrate before winter, how to hibernate, and countless other things. It is the first plane of mental activity reached in the scale of evolution.

Among humans, the instinctive mind can also be referred to as the "habit" mind. It does many things instinctively. It learns tasks from the intellect and then performs them automatically. When we say we learn to do things "by heart," it means we have mastered them on the intellectual part of our mind, and then passed onto the instinctive mind.