Your Subconscious Mind is in charge of your automatic functions

Your Subconscious Mind

Your subconscious mind is the part of you that is in charge of your automatic functions, like making your heart beat, digesting your food and healing wounds.

It is also the part that is in control of all your emotional feelings, your creative imagination and your ability to meditate and dream. It enables you to do many things like walking down the street, driving a car safely and singing in tune, without you having to consciously think about it.

That’s because your subconscious mind stores all of your
memories – every experience you have ever had – everything
you have ever seen, heard, felt, tasted or smelled.

That’s why they say you never forget how to ride a bike, your subconscious has retained that knowledge and that information is available to you in an instant, because in your subconscious mind, there is no past, it doesn’t matter how long ago the event happened. Everything is there as if it had just happened.

So when you make the decision to ride a bike after many years, your subconscious can immediately provide you with the information on how to do that, even though you may not consciously remember learning how to ride a bike.

Or course, your body may not necessarily co-operate
if you have aged somewhat during the intervening time,
but you will still know how.

I like to think of the subconscious as like a pond, with many your past experiences floating on top like waterlilies. These are the experiences that you call on most often in your day to day life. Then there are some floating just below the surface, you have to think a little bit before it comes to you. There are also some on the bottom of the pond, which you may not have needed for some time or need very rarely. And there are some buried under the sand on the bottom that you don’t even know are there.

Your subconscious is not rational, it does not discriminate or make decisions, it acts only on the information you give it through your thoughts and actions and on information it has gathered from your past experiences, whether or not you consciously remember them.

It accepts this information as fact and acts on it instantly.
If you think you are dumb the subconscious accepts that
and will cause you to act like a dumb person.

Your subconscious accepts information you give it as real and works to make it true.
If you constantly think of yourself in a negative way, your subconscious will make sure that you become the person that you think you are.

In the same way, if you change the way you think about yourself, your subconscious will eventually co-operate and work to make you into that type of person.

Your subconscious mind does not know the difference
between a real and an imagined experience.

You can use your imagination to create a better life for yourself by focusing on what you want from life. Or you can continue focusing on what is wrong in your life and keep creating that.

The subconscious is often called the creative mind, because it creates your world based on your perceptions or beliefs. Change your beliefs or perceptions and you can change your life.

Although some of your memories are not accessible,
(buried under the sand) they determine how you
react throughout your life.

That’s why you sometimes react to something someone has said or done and then wonder why you got so upset. It’s because it was similar to something that happened to you long ago, you might not remember the incident, but your subconscious remembers and also remembers how you reacted, and so caused you to react the same way.

For example you may have had the experience, as a small child, of being locked in a cupboard and be unable to open the door to get out.

Although you may not consciously remember the experience, you would probably experience feelings of fear when you find yourself in a situation that is similar to the subconscious. Being in an elevator for example.

Fear is a learned response.

Most people are afraid of spiders. However, a small baby crawling along the floor will not hesitate to head straight for an ugly looking spider and try to touch it. They have not yet learned to fear spiders.

Once you have learned to fear something, your subconscious never forgets. Obviously, some fears are good, because it means we can act fast when faced with danger, and it is probably a good thing to teach our children to be afraid of deadly creatures, as a lack of fear in them could very well lead to disaster.

However, some fears are irrational, they can result from an early childhood experience that is no longer relevant to you as an adult. In some cases they can even cause phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders and all kinds of emotional and behavioural problems