Do you know anyone, maybe yourself, who has tried to change but encountered some deep resistance to change in some areas of your life? You may find some interesting answers here. I spent many years struggling with personal change, went through abusive relationships, divorce and plenty of financial issues. Since then I have turned my life around using what I’ll tell you in this article.
In this article, may I inform you of some of my new discoveries regarding the amazing impact of the subconscious mind and how it totally influences us and our results. You will learn some very amazing facts and information that will make the Natural Laws of the Mind much clearer.
The learning since finishing my book, The Power of Simplicity has been wonderful, have you noticed how things increase in momentum? I have found that’s what’s been happening for me. I have had deep realizations about what drives us treat ourselves and others the way we do, with the results we have in our lives. In my book, The Power of Simplicity, a part of of the “why” was mentioned, along with lots of how to release inner habits faster than ever before.
Well, the more I researched what others were writing about, the sub-conscious mind looks like being the most important piece of the puzzle, I found that there were pieces missing from what I investigated. The conscious mind is really not a positive contributor in our lives except in one area, it has the potential to re-write the subconscious. The issue is it passes through way too much crud to get into our subconscious, because we do not know any better, or about it’s true role in our lives.
May I give you an example? If you are passionate about seeing horror flicks or if you come from a culture where spirits and demons are part of everyday life, like in many areas in Asia, do you think you might start believing certain things are happening in your life? I can give you an example of exactly this. A woman came to one of my seminars and insisted loudly that she had been possessed for years, she said had even roared like a beast in church and had only awoken from a strange state of drifting for years after the priest intervened. She had all class positive “something was going on”. Yet after I asked her more questions and got deeper into the issue, it finally came out she had abusive relationships with her in-laws and terribly oppressive relationship with her husband, in fact she had been viciously put down and ignored for decades. She had kept silent and all that internal pressure and very low self-esteem built up inside like a pressure cooker until it exploded. She was really looking for attention, at some point her church must have talked about possession, or someone had in her life and so she had this deep belief about certain behaviors and being possessed so she acted it out since it solved a deep need for attention. There were no bats in the belfry. I am not saying her experiences are just because of her emotional trauma, but it certainly played a large part in her experience. Each of us is an individual and under pressure we will react in unique ways. How would you have reacted based on your beliefs about emotional abuse? So her beliefs about herself and her powerful need for attention became a spectacular response that got her what she wanted: some attention from her family. In what areas of your life are your beliefs and attitudes producing obvious results, in your relationships, your money or even your health?
You see, the sub-conscious is where all our opinions about ourselves lies buried amidst all our beliefs and here is the secret even those we hold about others. But if we nourish a set of beliefs that hinder us, our inner beauty has little chance to manifest in our lives. So what does all this have to do with the conscious mind? Well, one of its most tasks is to filter what goes into our sub-conscious. Just think of the “mental diet” you have: what do you feed your mind with? What are you absolutely convinced is true? So in the end, our subconscious adopts the most common themes in our conscious thoughts as its belief system. Write a list of your common phrases or opinions. If you’re not sure what you say often, ask your friends or family what you are like, you might get some unexpected answers. Just remember, that is what they see- through their own opinions, but knowing that may allow you to see things about yourself you are currently blind to. Your truth is true for you, theirs is true for them. This is not a cause for self-criticism or blame of yourself or others.
Did you know the mind worked that way? I didn’t either until I took action and really started learning how to improve my life. Knowing one thing in your intellect is not really knowing, that only happens when you see results based on your actions.
What’s so special about this? You see, the subconscious does not understand negatives, nor does not have a sense of humor and it is imprinted with highly emotionalized thought. So it is when you have an idea plus strong emotion that you imprint most strongly on the subconscious. So when we have a bad event in our lives, we may have strong emotions plus opinions, this creates a belief around the event, so future events will be “filtered” with the same belief, even if the future event is a little bit like the earlier one. The same is also true of repeated whining emotional thought, for example: being depressed about money and the list could continue forever.
For another example, let’s say you watch a horror film, some part of that “junk” will leak into your sub-conscious. Many years ago, when the movie “Jaws” came out (it was about this Great White Shark attacking a village in New England) my two older brothers went to watch it. I was too small at the time to watch it with them. We lived in Mexico which has lots of beautiful beaches. Which we used to go to regularly. For at least six months after watching the movie, both of them were much more reluctant to go into the sea. Where before the movie, they had leaped in with abandon at the first chance.
Now here’s the kicker, it also affected me too, even though they did not talk about the movie a lot, it was their reactions when we went to the beach more than a month later that really hit me, they did not want to get in to the sea and talked about the movie as the reason, because they were scared, I became scared. More than one month later! This carried on for nearly a year after the movie every time we went to the beach. For years (and I mean years) I also used to check out the sea before I went in, looking for sharks. Was it rational? No, because Great White Sharks do not frequent the beaches I used to go to as a boy and I knew this because I asked. This is a great example of how our conscious mind fails to stop junk going into our sub-conscious and how we are influenced by the thoughts of others too which affect us emotionally. These then become beliefs that we later need to remove with hard work. So it is vital to teach the conscious mind to filter out crud and to be able to clear the stuff already stored there.
Once its in there its pretty hard to weed out. So what if you have beliefs around money, relationships or health for example? Would that not impact you just a little? What choices would you make? What actions would do because of your beliefs?
These kinds of beliefs have on occasion been called transparent beliefs because we cannot “see” them. We assume the world is a particular way and we’re sure of it, sometimes even when external facts prove us wrong. Have you ever had the experience where you are hearing a sound constantly, and eventually you “tune” the sound out, and later someone says “what’s that noise?” and only then do you become aware of it again? This is because the brain is processing billions of bits of data from the our senses all the time, and the conscious mind can only be aware of a much smaller amount of information, so it “throws away” some 95% or more of what we sense. What does it use to “filter” this data? Your beliefs, opinions and past experiences that justify those opinions. A great deal of it is filtered by the limbic system or your reptile brain, this is the bit we inherited from our dinosaur many times over great-grandparents. The reptile brain deals with pure survival, so it does not care about anything (not being happy or rich or healthy even) it just simply cares about “are there any danger right now that I am aware of?”. No wonder there are phrases in our culture like “there is no one blinder than the person who does not want to see”. So we give layers and layers of meaning to things around us that have nothing to do with the things themselves. For example, have you ever been looking for something, say your your wallet, and you are sure you left them in the kitchen say, but you check but do not see them because they are not exactly where you saw them in your mind and then it just “appears” when you look again? “You put it there just now, didn’t you? I just checked and it wasn’t there, I saw with my own eyes!”. That happened to me just the other day and when I saw what was going on, I laughed.
Let’s get back to the sharks. Sharks, even Great White sharks do not naturally attack man, there always other pressures that cause them to behave in extraordinary ways. For example, in Brazil, there are loads of sharks swimming off the beaches and there had been virtually no shark attacks for years. Then all of a sudden, shark attacks became common. It started to affect the tourism industry badly, which provided 60% of the employment in some areas. After years of investigation, they found that two things affected the sharks’ behavior, the currents had changed slightly because of the construction of a nearby port and so some sharks were getting “trapped” in the area where the swimmers were. The investigators thought they had identified the cause of the problem, because we’ve all heard that sharks will attack people if they are trapped by waves near the beach. Actually no, because the port had been in operation for several years already and the sharks had not attacked anyone during that time. What the researchers were really doing was removing their own opinions one layer at a time about shark behavior. In the end the cause was found to be a meat factory that had started up many miles upstream in a river that washed out to the sea. The factory had ignored local regulations and dumped their waste, especially the blood into the river. So that was the real reason: the blood in the water (which sharks can smell miles away) plus lots of wriggling bodies looked like food to the sharks, they were responding to their patterns too. Once they closed down the meat factory, the attacks stopped. So all our beliefs about sharks viciously attacking people at the first opportunity is certainly up for question at least. How many other beliefs do you hold as “true” that affect your choices and actions?
So how do you clear limiting beliefs? Many of the processes in The Power of Simplicity, especially the Affirmations work very well with deep issues. However, I am constantly researching new aspects and information about using our mind to the very best we can and this information is my book and also practical and easy to follow tips come out in my newsletter. If you really want to make deep changes, especially in areas that you have experienced resistance in, or difficulties in making lasting change, consider signing up for the newsletter or buying the book or both. If you do, I’ll be very happy to give you a free e-Book which is all about the subconscious and how you can really transform your life.
Whatever you do, the subconscious responds best to consistent practice of affirmations. This is the key, also remember, you do not need to believe them! Most people think you do, but as long as you repeat them with high energy and as though they have already happened they will take root in your subconsicous mind.
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