You have been on a quest for self-improvement. You meditate and pay attention to self-care. You have managed to stop worrying about the future for the most part. You try to think positively about everything, and you are giving back wherever you can. You’re certainly a happier person than you were five years ago.
With all the effort you are putting into changing your life for the better, however, you wonder why your life hasn’t changed that much — you still struggle with money, you are still afraid of crowds, you are still postponing satisfaction and you are still more focused on trying than allowing…
You still find yourself chasing shiny objects. Self-proclaimed gurus bombard you with promises of miraculous solutions. Every day you are offered salvation through a new wonder pill or moneymaking course. But those you have bitten on have led to little more than you’re being poorer.
So why are you spinning your wheels? The problem comes down to the fact that all of your efforts, all of your positive thoughts and all of your expression is from your conscious mind. Make no mistake; the conscious mind is very powerful. It’s the creative mind and the source of your spiritual identity — but it has one millionth the power of your subconscious mind.
The conscious mind can run any aspect of your biology, temporarily, but as soon as you think about anything else, your subconscious mind takes over. In fact, any time you focus on something, your subconscious mind is running all other aspects of your life.
This imbalance between your subconscious and conscious minds is both a problem and a blessing. It may get in the way of your achieving the life you envision, but it also frees up your consciousness to be creative.
Think of your subconscious mind as a computer hard drive. It collects and stores huge amount of data. It also stores and plays a great many programs, most of which you got from other people early in life. For the first six years or so of your life you were in a hypnotic-like state — you just took things in and stored them as truth. Over your lifetime of experience your subconscious has accumulated enough additional programs to allow it to run most aspects of your life on automatic.
You can’t direct your subconscious; it’s a hard drive. Being aware of the old programs doesn’t change them. No matter what your intention, and no matter how hard you try, your conscious mind is no match for the 24/7 power of your subconscious mind. You are left feeling like a devalued victim of your programming.
Is there a way you can bypass this power imbalance and change the programming in your subconscious? Is there a way to replace a limiting program with a supportive program? Is it possible to reprogram the subconscious to work in concert with conscious intent? These are the big questions.
What has been emerging in the last couple of decades is that energy psychology has allowed us to access and alter the programming. Energy psychology is a young science, although its origins lie in ancient healing arts. It is emerging that the body’s subtle energy systems provide avenues for getting at and altering the programming in the subconscious. Recent studies are showing that physical changes in the neural pathways in the brain accompany changes to the programming. But we are just beginning to understand how this works.
When the conscious mind and the subconscious mind become aligned, we get glimpses of the immense power of the whole mind to heal the effects of trauma, to conquer an addiction or to eliminate a cancerous tumor. I say “glimpses,” because with energy psychology, I believe we are just scratching the surface of what can be done in our individual quests for more conscious and fulfilling lives.
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Hi. I was raised by my mother and watched the results of her getting electro-shock therapy when I was a child. My alcoholic father killed my oldest brother in a farm accident when I was six years old (I’m missing two years of my life after this!).
When I was 17, I was the oldest sibling at home and had to “pull” alcohol for my father when he was drinking himself to death. I was a 14-year drug addict and alcoholic before I sobered up. Decades later, I’m taking a Reike treatment (still trying to figure out why my life wasn’t going very well).
The Reike practitioner said “welcome to my crying room” and I’m thinking right, I’m going to cry over what? I’m all done crying. Five minutes later, I’m bawling my eyes out (and in subsequent sessions) and in still later sessions I’m not crying at all.
The point being – all the therapy, self-help books and whatever else I tried never did release this trapped energy in me that was still dragging me down. Then, in the space of some 18 months or so, I’m finally getting some peace in my life.
I would definitely second Dr. Neil’s assessment of energy therapy and add Reike to the list. Keep working on yourself, there is a better day ahead.
God Bless
Chasing shiny objects, trying to create peace and harmony, etc. as you say come from still living in the hypnotized state of believing the stories that the mind of this-world is feeding anyone who is open to it’s 24/7 broadcast station. Our victimhood of this propaganda that blares “you must improve, you need fixing, you’re not good enough” prompts the seeking of things exterior of ourselves to make the necessary improvements we think we need. Even when we are doing what we call inner work with affirmations and the like, our reason for doing so comes from living in the wrong foundation believing: I am flawed.There is something wrong with me.
So how do we break free of The Lie’s hypnotic trance that we hear 24/7? There is a time for us all to be rocked awake out of our trances and there is a Power, Wisdom and All Present One Who insures that all have many many opportunities to come awake and choose to agree with the Truth despite the blaring of all the propaganda. Each one gets to choose and no one can choose for another.