The subconscious mind - facts and rules
1. It records absolutely everything and is always alert and awake!!
2. It controls 95% of our lives
3. It is built on habituation
4. It speaks to you in dreams
5. It has no verbal language
6. It takes everything literally
7. It can do a trillion things at once
8. It is NOT logical, it is the feeling mind
9. It is ONE MILLION times more powerful than the conscious mind
10. It always does what it thinks you want it to do
11. It only responds to two things, the pictures in your head and the words you say to yourself
12. It only ever works in the present tense
13. It likes to stay in the familiar and avoids the unfamiliar (which is why change can be so challenging without getting it on board!)
14. Its biggest job is to protect you, it moves us from pain to pleasure
15. It cannot tell the difference between right or wrong, good or bad, true or false
16. It cannot hold conflicting beliefs
17. Thoughts cause our physical reactions and emotional responses
18. The words we use and the pictures in our head form a blueprint of our reality.
19. It works like this…..first you make your beliefs then:
- beliefs trigger our thoughts
- thoughts create feelings
- feelings cause actions
- actions have results
- the results of events reaffirm our beliefs
We call this “looping thoughts”
(RTT can help you get off that merry-go-round)