Beyond the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

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problem is that these theories are thoroughly conditioned into us when we are children, literally automatizing the way we perceive ourselves and the world. We don’t act on them “sometimes” or choose to act on them. And the process of enculturation transmits not only the culture’s knowledge but also its restrictions.
    Our unexamined belief systems control how we live. Jumping ahead to the question of what we can do to live a better life . . . , one thing is to find out what theories have been conditioned into us, acquire some perspective on them, and make some adult decisions about whether to continue to automatically believe them. “Do I want to believe that that is who I am?” Let’s not confuse the theories we have about ourselves, even though they may run a lot of our life, with who we actually are and what we can find out by direct observation. As I said, from the perspective of cultivated experience, I am nothing : I am not a thing but a process that is open to change.*

     
    Thank you, Dr. Tart.

     
    7
    Understanding the Relationship Between the Conscious and Subconscious Mind
    In Chapter 5, Dr. Murphy wrote:

     
    The reason there is so much chaos and misery in the world is because people do not understand the interaction of their conscious and subconscious minds. When these two principles work in accord, in concord, in peace, and synchronously together, you will have health, happiness, peace and joy. There is no sickness or discord when the conscious and subconscious work together harmoniously and peacefully.

     
    Now let’s look more closely at the interaction between the conscious and subconscious that Dr. Murphy speaks of and how the data stored in our subconscious largely determines the decisions we make and how we behave.
    We have three areas of the mind that are the foundation for how we think, how we create, and how we make decisions both consciously and subconsciously. The three areas of the mind are: the conscious, the subconscious, and the supraconscious. These are not three separate minds, but three spheres of our one mind.
    When I first attended the Executive Dynamics (later named Omega) seminar in 1969 as referenced in the Introduction to this book, I remember the founder, John Boyle, going up to the blackboard and writing the following three circles on the following page.
    This is what I learned from his description of how these areas of the mind interact.
    We will begin with the subconscious. One of the primary functions of the subconscious is to store data. It is the area of our mind that records and stores memory. In computer terms we could think of it as our hard drive. And, what is fascinating is everything we have seen, heard, experienced, and how we felt about those experiences, since birth, is all stored in our subconscious or memory bank—everything. And that which we have “forgotten” can be retrieved through the use of chemicals or age regression hypnosis. Many psychotherapists use hypnosis as a technique of rediscovering early childhood traumas that may still have a negative or detrimental impact on a person’s behavior as an adult. Powerful phobias and deep rooted fears are often formulated as young children, and when we become adults, we have amnesia as to where these fears came from; but we know that certain circumstances or situations trigger what often is very irrational behavior.
     

     
    Additionally, our negative habit patterns are stored in our subconscious. So, mentally imagine the subconscious as looking like this.
     

     
    As we will now learn, the data stored in our subconscious largely determines our behavior. And, since none of us have gone through life having had exactly the same experiences, or data input, no two of us can be expected to act exactly the same way. This is often why when we see someone acting completely differently than we would to the same situation, we think they are crazy or something is wrong with THEM. All of our behavior is conditioned

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