YOU may not realise it, but your conscious mind – or your thinking mind – only accounts for five percent of your mental capacity.
The other 95 percent is your subconscious mind, and that’s the part which takes care of all the important stuff keeping you alive – heart rate, breathing, digestion etc. And let’s face it, if we consciously had to think about doing all that, we’d be in trouble!
Your subconscious mind is also where your feelings are generated and your memories are stored. It holds all your beliefs about yourself and how you perceive yourself – in other words, the type of person you believe you are.
These beliefs stored in your subconscious mind have a huge impact on how you experience your life. If you hold negative beliefs about yourself at the subconscious level, you will tend to experience negative realities in your life. (If you think you’re no good, guess what, you will live your life like you’re no good.)
So, here’s an example of the power of your subconscious mind. Imagine that you’re four or five years old, you’re in the kitchen and a spider runs out. Mum screams and jumps on a chair, and your subconscious mind says “that’s the appropriate response to those things because mum just did it and that’s who we’re learning from”. That goes into your mind and onto your map of reality – how you navigate the World.
Then, for every spider you see for the rest of your life, your mind produces a fear response. You tense up, your heart beats faster and you start to sweat, even though your logical mind is now saying “that’s tiny, it can’t possibly harm me”.
However, all of that logical stuff is being rejected by your subconscious mind because it doesn’t match up with what you already know: Spiders are scary!
Your lived reality matches what the subconscious believes. Or, put another way, your thoughts determine your reality.
