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your subconscious mind is busily working behind the
scenes, absorbing or rejecting information based on an
existing perception you have of the world around you.
This existing perception began forming when you were
an infant. "With every experience, your subconscious
mind soaks in information like a sponge."
It rejected nothing while you were young because you
didn't have any pre-existing beliefs to contradict what it
perceived. It simply accepted that all of the information
you received during your early childhood was true.
You can probably see why this becomes a problem later
in life. Every time someone called you stupid, worthless,
slow, lazy, or worse, your subconscious mind just stored
the information away for reference.
You may also have received messages about your
potential in life or limitations you'll face based on your
physical abilities, skin colour, gender, or economic
status.
By the time you were 7 or 8 years old, you already had a
solid foundation of belief based on all that
programming from people in your life, television shows
you watched, and other environmental influences.
Now that you're an adult, you may think that you can
simply discard the hurtful or untrue messages you
absorbed during your early life, but it's not quite that
simple.
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oriented sound bites.
This is why motivational activities, such as reading
inspirational quotes are so impactful for people
committed to positive thinking. By focusing your
thoughts on uplifting ideas, your subconscious will
begin to implement a positive pattern in your way of
thinking and your outlook on life.
Your subconscious mind is subjective. It does not think
or reason independently; it merely obeys the
commands it receives from your conscious mind. Just as
your conscious mind can be thought of as the garden,
or fertile soil, in which the seeds germinate and grow.
This is another reason why harnessing the power of
positive thinking is important to the foundation of your
entire thought process.
Your conscious mind commands and your subconscious
mind obeys.
Your subconscious mind is an unquestioning servant
that works day and night to make your behaviour fits a
pattern consistent with your emotionalized thoughts,
hopes, and desires. Your subconscious mind grows
either flowers or weeds in the garden of your life,
whichever you plant by the mental equivalents you
create.
Remember that all of this information is stored below
your level of conscious awareness. The only time you
become aware of it is when it limits your progress in
creating a balanced, successful and productive life. Your subconscious mind has what it called a
homeostatic impulse. It keeps your body temperature at
98.6 degrees, just as it keeps your heart beating at a
certain rate. Through your automatic nervous system, it
maintains a balance among the hundreds of chemicals
in your billions of cells so that your entire physical
machine functions in complete harmony most of the
time.
Let's first take a moment to consider the fact that your
subconscious mind is like a huge memory bank. Its
capacity is virtually unlimited and it permanently stores
everything that ever happens to you. Your subconscious mind also practices homeostasis in
your mental realm, by keeping you thinking and acting
in a manner consistent with what you have done and
said in the past.
By the time you reach the age of 21 you've already
permanently stored more than one hundred times the
contents of entire Encyclopedia. The Function of Subconscious Mind All your habits of thinking and acting are stored in your
subconscious mind. It has memorized all your comfort
zones and it works to keep you in them. This is why it's
so important to make writing smart goals a regular
habit. After time, staying productive and focusing on all
of your goals will become part of your comfort zone.
The function of your subconscious mind is to store and
retrieve data. Its job is to ensure that you respond
exactly the way you are programmed. Your
subconscious mind makes everything you say and do fit
a pattern consistent with yourself-concept, your "master
program." This is why repeating positive affirmations are
o effective that you can actually reprogram your own
thoughts pattern by slipping in positive and success Your subconscious mind causes you to feel emotionally
and physically uncomfortable whenever you attempt to
do anything new or different or to change any of your
established patterns of behaviour. The sense of fear and
discomfort are psychological signs that your
subconscious has been activated. But it's been working
to establish those behaviour patterns in the background
long before you'll ever notice such feelings.