The Subconscious
Whenever you think a thought, encounter an idea, react to outside stimulation, your subconscious jots that down to your experience.
If you watch a scary movie, read a tear-jerker book, empathize with a loved one, your subconscious takes that as your own
experience and places your reaction into your inner emotional archives. If you have ever experienced trauma, then your
subconscious attempts to hide that away so that it ceases to hurt, and at the same time it creates a protection mechanism
within your inner beliefs that will keep you from ever coming close to re-experiencing that pain. The protection provided
here is so thorough that it inadvertently creates blockages to you venturing toward similar experiences which hurt you before.
This may keep you from entering relationships, becoming famous, earning lots of money, etc. This inner blockage is often hidden
from your conscious mind, which continues to set high goals and then gets frustrated or impatient when the goals seem to be self-sabotaged.
There are powerful ways in which you may communicate with your subconscious, limbic brain. Treating it gently and letting it know
you are grateful for its vigilance is important. Speak to yourself as if you are a young child who gets scared easily. You cannot
"will" your subconscious to let go of its control - that is its job and it will maintain control until long after you have worn
yourself out exerting will alone.
Understanding your subconscious is the first step to start clearing your inner resistance and blockages, and this will help you
improve your body, mind and spirit. With more awareness of the roles played by your subconscious mind, along with understanding
of how to best access this and communicate with it, you will be able to much more easily identify and clear inner blockages to
your success.
Which has more impact on your life, Conscious or Subconscious mind? Everything you have ever lived goes into storage in the memory
bank and is on some level, playing itself back to you and making an impact on your current life. You may not realize that’s what is
happening until you find yourself automatically reacting to things in a specific way.
Life material stored in your memory bank behaves much like programming in the hard drive of your computer. Your computer responds
according to how it has been programmed. So does your stored life material respond back to you according to how it has been programmed,
only with the added influence of your current thinking.
Introduction to your SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
If you take all the amazing inventions humans have created back to their origins, they all began with a thought in someone’s mind.
Thought has the power to create and yet is intangible energy! It is intangible, but so powerful it can heal or kill, give or
destroy life, create happiness or misery. Our thoughts create our reality!
“As a man thinketh, so is he”. (The Bible)
See, a thought you keep thinking over and over again eventually becomes a belief. Your current experience is a combination of
every thought you choose to think NOW and ones that have become beliefs. Also, stored are the beliefs and perceptions given you
by your family system and/or your culture when you were very, very young. Your young mind soaked it all in as truth. Troubled
or traumatic early programming can be a set up for difficulty later in life.
Whatever is programmed into the subconscious mind will run automatically. Remember learning to drive a car? It was a conscious
effort until it was stored in Long Term Memory in the Subconscious Mind. Now you do it automatically. Well, that is what your
subconscious mind does with beliefs, values, traumas....it just runs those programs automatically! Sometimes good, sometimes
not what we want! Sometimes it causes us to think and behave in self-defeating ways.
Your Subconscious mind is the hard drive of a computer and its stored information behaves like programming in a computer.
It stores the “software” of every life experience you have ever lived, along with all accompanying beliefs, emotions and
perceptions of every event. Information stored in your subconscious mind computer dramatically impacts your current life.
The fortunate part is that there are Subconscious Reparative Techniques (SRT) that have the potential to effectively
release self-limiting beliefs and negative programming, and restore your personal power and freedom. The secret is
tapping into your own wisdom and re-programming your subconscious mind with the beliefs that you desire!
Roles of the Conscious and Subconscious parts of the mind
Your Conscious mind is where you spend the majority of your awake time. You are using your Conscious mind as you are
reading this text. Following are other Conscious mind roles:
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Uses logic and reason; asks questions and is skeptical.
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Sets goals and judges results
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Perceives time as linear – past and future
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Places boundaries on people and things
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Limited Processing Capacity: average 40 bits of information per second
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Short-term memory: 20 seconds or 1-3 events at a time
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Ego part of us
Following are some of the roles of the Subconscious mind:
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Thinks literally, like an innocent child
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Is Habitual and likes the familiar
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Monitors operation of the body – motor functions, heart, digestion
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Perceives time only in the present
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Expanded Processing Capacity: average 40 million bits of information per second
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Long-term memory: past experiences, perceptions, values and beliefs
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Home of your spiritual, intuitive side
Hopefully, you realize the potency of your Subconscious mind, as well as the importance of
positive thinking. Your inner mind works the same way whether you are giving it a good instruction
or a bad one. Without judgment, it simply does what it’s told by your imagination. It has no
discretion of the quality of the information you give it, so choose your thoughts wisely.
They are the seeds of creation!