If your efforts are not finely coordinated to place your hands on the child at just the right moment and push with just the right amount of force, it does not work. To tap into more of the richness of the concept of resonance, and to go further into the complexities of how the two parts of the mind work together, think of two musical instruments, say a horn and a guitar. If a note is played on the horn it will make the guitar strings vibrate the same note and some of its harmonics. That is resonance. Now consider two related qualities of resonance, consonance and dissonance .
Consonance is a good thing.
It sounds good when two notes that are consonant are played simultaneously, and in the same way it is easy for us to do something when there is consonance between the conscious and subconscious parts of the mind. The more consonant they are, the easier it is. Dissonance is not such a good thing. Same goes for ideas. In other words, without conscious-subconscious agreement, the only thing that will happen will be what the subconscious wants.