7 Must-Know Facts About Your Subconscious Mind And How It Determines Your Reality
The Subconscious Mind 101
1. The subconscious mind does not know what is real and what is not.
This is why visualization practices are so powerful: your subconscious takes what you imagine as true.
2. The subconscious mind is an operating system that runs programs based on the rules you learned.
These rules are a set of memorized thoughts, behaviors, emotional reactions, and habits HARDWIRED within this OS. 95% of who you are by the time you are 25 years old is determined by this system.
3. The subconscious uses emotions to guide your life.
Our hardwired programs are triggered by our emotions which are linked to memories (past experiences). The subconscious is constantly evaluating your emotions and running the corresponding program.
4. We can only see and create in physical reality what we are programmed to see and create.
In order to upgrade how you perceive and operate within reality, you have to get into the operating system and wire in better programs.
5. The subconscious mind is the bridge-keeper; your guardian against personal growth and change.
The subconscious seeks to always have your external reality in balance with its OS. The moment you introduce something new in your reality that doesn’t coincide with what is hardwired in the operating system, your subconscious will work hard to override it. This is why installing new beliefs about yourself is difficult.
6. Our body is a reflection of our subconscious programs.
Besides controlling automatic processes like digestion, blood sugar levels, body temperature, and more, the subconscious uses the body as a container to hold and represent all the beliefs and perceptions stored in its OS. Every thought and emotion you have produces a chemical response in your body. Over time these repeated thoughts and emotions get memorized, and the body will produce the corresponding physical response on auto-pilot.
7. The subconscious mind is also your access point to source intelligence.
Some call it God, while others call it the Universe — regardless, your subconscious mind is the connecting link between your finite mind and the formless spirit of interconnectivity and intelligence that animates and permeates all of creation. The forces of inspiration get relayed to you through the subconscious.
“Never forget that your unconscious is smarter than you, faster than you, and more powerful than you. It may even control you. You will never know all of its secrets.”
— Cordelia Fine, “A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives”
The Takeaway
We’ve memorized our way into existence and how we experience reality.
But the empowering truth is that we can rewrite the scripts, uninstall the programs that don’t serve us and code a new future. We can construct the most extraordinary operating system — housed in the most delicious physical container as our bodies — and accompanied by a mind that constantly gets upgraded and enhanced.
Things are only set in stone if you let them be.
Remember, you are a conscious creator of your reality.
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