By Bryan Tracy
The subconscious mind – something that has a huge effect on
every action, but is constantly overlooked.
Instead, the focus is often on our conscious mind, which
contains the critical thought function of our brains. The subconscious is the
powerful layer underneath. It encompasses the awareness of all things the
conscious mind cannot recognize.
Once the subconscious is tapped into, this remarkable part
of the brain plays many different roles in your everyday life.
The Memory Bank
Your subconscious mind is like a huge memory bank. Its capacity is virtually
unlimited. It permanently stores everything that ever happens to you.
By the time you reach the age of 21, you’ve already
permanently stored more than one hundred times the contents of the entire Encyclopedia
Britannica.
Under hypnosis, older people can often remember, with
perfect clarity, events from fifty years before. Your unconscious memory is
virtually perfect. It is your conscious recall that is suspect.
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 your self-concept. This is your “Master Program.”
The Unquestioning Servant
Your subconscious mind is subjective. It does not think or
reason independently. It merely obeys the commands it receives from your
conscious mind.
Your conscious mind can be thought of as the gardener,
planting seeds. Your subconscious mind can be thought of as the garden, or
fertile soil, in which the seeds germinate and grow.
Your conscious mind commands and your subconscious mind
obeys.
Your subconscious mind is an unquestioning servant. It works
day and night to make your behavior 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 is based on the mental equivalents you
create.
The Preserver Of Balance
Your subconscious mind has what is called a homeostatic
impulse. It keeps your body temperature at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. It keeps
you breathing regularly and keeps your heart beating at a certain rate.
Through your autonomic nervous system, it maintains a
balance among the hundreds of chemicals in your billions of cells. Your entire
physical machine functions in complete harmony most of the time.
Your subconscious mind also practices homeostasis in your
mental realm. It keeps you thinking and acting in a manner consistent with what
you have done and said in the past.
The Comfort Zone
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.
Your subconscious mind causes you to feel emotionally and
physically uncomfortable whenever you attempt to do anything new or different.
It goes against changing any of your established patterns of behavior.
You can feel your subconscious pulling you back toward your
comfort zone each time you try something new. Even thinking about doing
something different from what you’re accustomed to will make you feel tense and
uneasy.
One of the biggest habits of successful men and women is always stretching themselves
or pushing themselves out of their comfort zones. They are very aware how
quickly the comfort zone, in any area, becomes a rut. They know that
complacency is the great enemy of creativity and future possibilities.
Tap Into Your Subconscious
Remember, for you to grow and get out of your comfort zone,
you have to be willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable doing new things. If
it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly until you get a feel for it. Keep
trying until you develop a new comfort zone at a new, higher level of
competence.
No comments:
Post a Comment