How to Uncover the Unconscious? Do Tendencies of the Mind come from Past Lives?

Questioner: How can we expose the subconscious mind?

Acharya Prashant: By watching your daily actions very, very closely.

Alright, somebody comes to you and says, ‘Namaste'. Quickly show me how you respond.

[Listeners: Namaste (keeping hands together and smiling)]

So, you are smiling. And the moment the fellow is gone, show me what happens to your smile. Show me.

[Smile disappears]

This is what is to be noticed. Notice the smile. The smile comes from which level?

Questioner: Superficial level.

Acharya Prashant: You notice only the smile; you don't notice how quickly the smile disappears because the smile is fake. Notice both: how you are before you pick up that phone call and how you are as soon as you hear the voice of your boss or your wife or your neighbor. Let's enact that.