Sub concious v Concious mind.

Are you aware that your subconscious mind can endeavour to control you instead of your rational conscious mind?

When I was in high school we had physical education and it was common for us to play competitive sports. This meant choosing up teams when playing netball. The way the choosing was done is the gym teacher would pick to team captains, generally the best players, and they would take turns picking players for their teams. Of course they would pick the best players first so the picking of teams was a way of rating the students according to ability. If a girl was athletic she would be picked early and if she was perceived by her peers not to be athletic she would be picked last.

I was always last and would have to endure the embarrassment of hearing the Captain say "OK, we’ll take Margaret." When I filtered this through my unconscious mind it came out as "Our team’s so good that we can win even if we have the handicap of having a loser such as Margaret on our side." My unconscious brain interpreted this to mean that I was a loser. I was not wanted or needed on the team and it was an easy jump from that to assume that this was true about me as a person and should be applied to other parts of my life.

I spent most of my youth with a low self esteem in regard to my interacting with other people, and sport. I was not great at any sport. Was this the truth? It was the truth as my brain saw it and because I imagined it was the truth it became true for me. Later on in life I had experiences that taught me that in fact I was pretty good at other sports such as jumping hurdles for a charity sports day and I was especially good at the long jump.

So did I suddenly become good at this? No. The thing that changed was my perception of myself. As long as I carried the belief that I was not good at sport it was a self fulfilling prophecy. Once I change that belief about myself the new belief manifested itself in what I was able to do. The subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between real and imagined experiences. If my subconscious mind thinks I am a loser because I was picked last for the netball team that is real for me, even if it is not the truth. The truth is that my other ability hadn’t manifested yet. That did not make me worthless or a loser.

In conclusion we create our own reality by effectively using our imaginations. If we don’t like the way we are relating to the world, we have the power to change it. We can’t change it by changing other people’s views, because the way that we perceive the world is not their fault. We begin the change by imagining the world the way we want to see it. We can reprogram our subconscious mind with positive affirmations and visualizations. We are incredibly powerful, but only if we recognize and choose to use that power. If we do, there are no limits to what we can achieve.

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