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The Subconscious Mind

If you think back to childhood stories of magic genies you 

have a pretty good sketch of your subconscious mind.  Like the genie it is all powerful and capable of granting you any wish.  It is eternal, all knowing, ever- present, and once mastered, yours to command.  In fact, just like the genie, it cannot ignore any of your commands.  Your subconscious mind is a treasure chest overflowing with gems of wisdom and advice.  It holds every memory of your existence.  It has never missed a thing.  Nor will it in the future.  

But... as with any genie, you must be careful what you wish for...

The subconscious mind has no choice but to carry out your every thought, action and belief.  However, all ideas, images, thoughts, and words are translated by your subconscious into images.  Similar to a copy machine, what you put into it, is what is reproduced.  Your subconscious doesn’t lie, it doesn’t translate, nor does it think abstractly.  Rather, it thinks literally.  It is an excellent multi-tasker,  processing thousands of events at a time, and several million bits per second.  It operates out of habit.  It is time free.  In other words, it knows no past or present.  Whatever your subconscious is focusing on is happening now, in the present.  When you recall a memory, your subconscious mind applies it to the now.  Many people fail to focus on the positive, instead remembering a past failure or unintentionally using language that is incongruent with their desired outcome.  And of course, the genie carries out the command.

The Conscious Mind

Your conscious mind is all about what you are actually aware of.  It sets goals and judges the results giving you an ‘atta-boy’ or finding you lacking.  It thinks abstractly and possesses a  limited processing capacity of 1-3 events at a time and processes about 40 bits of information a second.  It is the seat of short term memory holding a thought for about 20 seconds.  The subconscious backs it up numerous times a day the most obvious being while driving or performing repetitious tasks like typing.  In fact, for many things it’s better to let the subconscious take over.  Sometimes we have to get out of our own way and just not think.  Thinking can diminish or stop many processes.  

Imagine your conscious mind as an editor.  It’s analytical, judgmental, non-feeling and rational.  It filters and adds its own take to all information coming in.  Some people’s filters are like having a micro-manager for a boss where everything is over analyzed and forced to conform to a rigid structure or set of beliefs.  The beliefs have come from your past influences and experiences and strongly affect your behavior and outcomes. Depending on the belief it can have positive or negative results.  However, if there is an incongruency between your goals or desires and the accepted beliefs, your goals and desires will have an uphill battle.  

Hypnosis and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programing) are excellent tools to uncover and locate negative or unproductive beliefs and practices which can be set aside and/or replaced with positive, productive beliefs and images.  Through the vehicles of hypnosis and NLP you can accelerate your path forward to the life you want to live.