We are created as a combination of the sperm and egg of our biological parents. The sperm and egg come with various genetic codes instructions for development from the mother and father. This foundational software of the mind is in place long before we are born. During the gestation period this software is impacted by stimuli from the environment in the womb. For instance, the chemistry of the developing fetus is affected by the chemistry of the mother. In other words, chemically speaking, what the mother experiences, the child also experiences.
If the mother is having a particularly stressful pregnancy, the fetus will experience the corresponding chemical stresses fed to it through the mothers bloodstream. For example, babies born to drug addicts are themselves addicted to the same drug at birth. It is also one of the reasons why prospective mothers are encouraged not to smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol during pregnancy.
The good news about the sharing of this chemical information between baby and mother during pregnancy is that it sends important information to the cells of the developing fetus, preparing it for the inevitable emergence into the world. The cells develop receptors for various environmental stimuli and learn to recognize and respond to their presence in the future.
Your developmental experiences from the moment of conception are creating memories, receptors, and programmed responses. It is natures way of educating the child to his or her environment before having to deal with it directly, thereby increasing the odds for the survival of the child, and hence the species.
After birth, the environment into which the child is born often perpetuates this preconditioning. If the biological parents are both present in the childs life, they typically reinforce the messages the developing fetus received during gestation.
If the environment was stressful before birth it may very well be stressful after birth. Consequently, the childs preconditioned response is perpetuated. It can also lead to other stress-related disorders, including emotional disorders. Because the body and mind are intimately related through chemistry, its not difficult to see how chemical imbalances in the body can lead to emotional and behavioral problems, and conversely, how emotional and behavioral problems can lead to physical difficulties.
In fact, research shows that we are most programmable from conception to about age six. During that time we have little or no faculty of conscious discernment. That is to say, as young children we possess limited capability to put into proper perspective harsh, critical, or mean-spirited comments directed toward us by parents, siblings, schoolmates, or adult authority figures.
In effect, we take everything personally. It is this early lack of discernment that creates the mental software that makes up the foundation of our adult personalities. Contemporary studies in neurophysiology show that our reactions to various stimuli are decided before we become consciously aware of them. Conscious vs. Subconscious Beliefs Ever try to change your mind, only to find out that Your mind has a mind of its own? Two Minds Are Bet t er Than One The software we have been talking about is often expressed as attitudes, values, and beliefs.
These programs create a kind of filtering system through wich we see the world and our place in it. These perceptions determine our choices and direct our behaviors. In other words, we dont see the world as it is. We see it as we are! Some beliefs can be changed at the level of the conscious mind by simply becoming aware of new information and then acting on it. For instance, in the Middle Ages people believed that the sun revolved around the earth, until new information was presented that proved otherwise.
Peoples beliefs changed because of indisputable new information, and despite continued religious resistance to the science of astronomy, our world was forever changed. Sometimes all that is necessary to change a belief is to become consciously aware of the belief and have a desire to think or behave differently. Not all beliefs change just because the facts suggest they should.
A young girl with anorexia nervosa a debilitating psychological disorder that affects thousands of preteen and teenage girls can look at her body in a mirror and see a figure that is fat, while others see a dangerously emaciated body. Reasoning and facts do not seem to make a difference in this kind of situation.
The young girl continues to insist that she is fat, even in the face of the facts. Many beliefs and perceptions are impervious to facts, reason and willpower, or motivation. These beliefs are usually held at the subconscious level of the mind. Unfortunately, many therapeutic and self-help change processes depend heavily on facts, reason, willpower, positive thinking, and motivation.
It is one of the main reasons so many attempts to change negative thought patterns and behaviors fail. By learning the differences between the conscious and subconscious mind, you can avoid the disappointment of failed attempts and learn to make real and lasting changes in your life. Lets take a look at another important characteristic of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is sensory based and knows the world only through the five senses: visual seeing , auditory hearing , kinesthetic feeling , gustatory tasting , and olfactory smelling.
Consequently, effective communication with the subconscious is achieved by using one or more of these senses. Although taste and smell are occasionally useful in communicating a goal to the subconscious, they are secondary to the primary senses of seeing, hearing, and feeling. Therefore, I will restrict my examples to the big three. It turns out that most people tend to specialize in one of these processing modalities. For example, people who visualize easily can use the visual modality to communicate a message to the subconscious by making a mental picture of what they want.
People who are auditory processors are affected by sound in ways that others are not. They hear the subtle nuances in a voice or in a piece of music. They can use this ability to communicate with the subconscious and usually benefit by listening to audiotape presentations. The kinesthetic processors are unusually sensitive to physical sensations, movement, and feelings.
They communicate with the subconscious best through physical activity or bodily sensations. Physically active techniques for change will usually work best for them. It is important to remember that we use all of our senses. It is also important to realize that most of us show a tendency to specialize in one more than the others.
This realization explains why a change process that depends heavily on visualization disappoints some people who specialize in auditory or kinesthetic PDFmyURL.
Or conversely, why audiotape programs often disappoint people who are primarily visual or kinesthetic processors. The messages are not effectively communicated to the subconscious. Another important factor in effective goal setting for the subconscious is that, unlike the conscious mind, the subconscious thinks literally rather than abstractly.
You know those inspiring affirmations youve been saying to yourself in the mirror for years, like I love myself, I am a worthy person, or I am slim, trim and healthy? Well, those statements are mostly abstractions to the subconscious mind and therefore difficult to internalize except in a general way. Until such statements are defined in the language of the subconscious sensory-based language , it is unlikely that the subconscious will be able to incorporate them into your life in a way that is meaningful and obvious.
We will deal with how to translate abstract statements into the language of the subconscious later. For now it is enough to understand why using affirmations to change habitual behavioral and thought patterns can often be disappointing and frustrating. The subconscious simply does not understand what you are talking about. To complicate things a bit, a belief created by a past experience may be wired in such a way that it requires access to one or more of your nondominant modalities.
Consequently, a strictly visual approach to changing it may be ineffective. The secret is to use a change process that allows the subconscious mind to choose its own method of processing , rather than choosing the method consciously. The PSYCH-K belief change process takes the guesswork out of choosing the best method for changing a belief, based on the unique characteristics of that belief.
Now, lets turn our attention to translating general goals into sensory based language the subconscious mind can understand and act upon. I have used this V-isual A -uditory, K -inesthetic format for many years to translate nonspecific conscious goals into sensory-based language the subconscious mind can understand. Here is a typical example of a common goal and the method of defining it in a way that the subconscious mind can accept and put into action.
Overall Goal: Happiness The problem with stating the goal in this way is that often the subconscious doesnt really understand a general goal like happiness. What you mean by happiness probably includes various specific aspects of your life, including relationships, financial prosperity, health, and spirituality. Without specifying some details of your goal, chances are your subconscious will not have a clear idea of what it is you want.
Remember, the subconscious takes things literally and will stop its efforts toward manifesting your goal as soon as it thinks it has satisfied your criteria. If the criteria are too general, the results will usually be disappointing because the subconscious wont know what resources to mobilize in order to accomplish the goal.
It is important to define your goal as specifically and possible and to do it in sensory-based language visually, auditorily, and kinesthetically.
For example, if your goal is to be happy, it is helpful to the subconscious mind if you can answer the following sensory based questions:. What will you see in your life that will let you know that you have achieved your goal? More specifically, if you were happy, what would you see that you dont see now? For example, you might see yourself surrounded by friends. You might see yourself on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. You might see yourself on a bathroom scale weighting in at your ideal weight.
These are all tangible, visual examples of having achieved your goal. The subconscious mind can literally see these examples. What will you hear other people saying about you when you have accomplished your goal? What will you be saying to yourself? The answers to these questions should be quotes from the future like hearing a friend say, Youre one of the happiest people I know.
And from yourself you would hear a comment like, I am happier than I have ever been! This question is a little trickier in some cases because the answer may be expressed as emotions similar to happiness such as joyful or PDFmyURL. These words are still abstractions to the subconscious mind so they need to be broken down into a more sensory-based description.
The best way to accomplish this task is to imagine a time in your past when you had the desired feeling, such as joy. It is not necessary for the feeling you select to directly relate to the experience that inspired that feeling of joy in the past. It is only important that you experience the joyful feeling itself. It doesnt matter how long ago it was. To describe it in sensory-based language, allowed yourself to reexperience the feeling as much as possible, then ask the following questions:.
While thinking about the past feeling, ask yourself where in your body you notice the greatest concentration of the feeling. What color do you associate with it? What temperature is it? What shape is it? Does it have a texture?
These kinesthetic answers are tangible, sensory-based descriptions of an otherwise abstract concept of joy. Now, the concept of joy is defined in such a way that the subconscious mind can understand it and mobilize its resources to manifest the feeling you want to have.
Describing your goal in a language the subconscious mind can understand is often critical to achieving the results you want. Whether your goal is happiness, as described in the preceding example, or a different goal such as healthy relationships, wellness, financial prosperity, selfimage, and so on, the VAK to the Future process will help clarify your goal for the subconscious mind. You are in effect creating a road map for the subconscious to follow until it arrives at its specified destination.
If you dont know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? Affirmations, visualization, positive thinking, and willpower are often ineffective in communicating our conscious goals to the subconscious in a language it can understand. This often results in a great deal of frustration and disappointment in achieving our goals, a frustration and disappointment that can be transformed into joy and satisfaction using PSYCH-K.
Putting It All Together There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. Coupled with knowing how to effectively communicate your personal goals to the subconscious mind where they can do the most good, PSYCH-K is an effective way to quickly and easily change outdated subconscious perceptions and beliefs that may be sabotaging your goals in life. Although no single process of change has all the answers, all the time, for all people, the following elements included in PSYCH-K should make any process more effective.
The Plague of Powerlessness A growing sense of powerlessness is evident in people everywhere. It is a deep feeling of helplessness to influence or control important aspects of our lives. The result is that we often depend on experts to take care of our mental, physical, and spiritual well-being.
This dependency can foster an attitude of victimhood and impotence. We stop taking responsibility for our lives and turn that responsibility over to others.
This tendency is even apparent in the world of self-help techniques. It is common to hear self-help practitioners of various backgrounds talk about doing a technique on or to a client. In essence, the success of the session will depend on the skill of the facilitator rather than any resources the client may bring to the interaction.
PSYCH-K is a do-with process that depends predominantly on the inner wisdom of the individual seeking change. It is designed to engage and activate the inner resources of the subconscious to the superconscious minds more about the superconscious later. In partnership with a PSYCH-K facilitator, this approach honors the power and responsibility of the individual in making the changes they seek.
Hence, they are an effective vaccine against the Plague of Powerlessness. Many self-help techniques simply assume it is a good idea to fix a problem without first considering the possibility that the problem may be cleverly disguised as an opportunity to learn an important life lesson. By hastily killing the messenger, you may lose the message and miss the lesson!
Furthermore, problems can simply be conscious or subconscious strategies for meeting important needs in your life. In other words, the problem you want to get rid of may actually be a solution to a much greater problem.
What may appear to be a disability to do one thing may actually be an ability to do or avoid something else. For instance, I worked with a teenage girl and her mother in a series of private sessions.
The girl was having epileptic-like seizures. A neurologist had examined her, and the physiological reality of the seizures was confirmed; however, attempts at treatment were unsuccessful. During private sessions with the young girl I became suspicious about the role the seizures were playing in her life. As it turns out, the girl was graduating from high school and was terrified about going to college and living more independently. She would then be subject to the consequences of her choices in life, and she felt extremely insecure about her ability to make the right choices.
As a consequence, she came to rely on her mother to drive her wherever she wanted to go and to use her seizures as a reason to restrict most of her activities to the home environment where she felt safe. By establishing new, supportive subconscious beliefs, she completely changed her attitude about going to college and living on her own. In just a few sessions her fears were gone, and so were her seizures.
This experience illustrates the importance of considering the consequences of simply removing symptoms without being aware of the purpose they may play in the total picture of a persons life. It is little wonder that the physiological attempts to treat the seizures didnt work, because the underlying cause was psychological.
Had the medical treatments removed the symptom, I can only wonder: What other symptom would the mind have manifested to cope with the fear of being independent? Removing symptoms by a medical, psychological, or self-help process, without considering the benefit the symptom may be providing in a persons life, may be just trading one problem for another.
Unless you believe we live in a random universe devoid of meaning, where chance and accidents are the norm, you probably see your life as a series of meaningful occurrences that happen for a reason. I certainly came to the conclusion after numerous meaningful coincidences, also known as synchronicities, shaped my life. Problems are a part of our meaningful experiences. They can be the bearers of important messages. Have you noticed that even if you can get rid of the problem, it will often recur in the same or a different form to give you yet another chance to learn the lesson it may represent?
In fact, it often comes back with a vengeance. The change process uses muscle testing to get permission before making the change. Permission is requested from both the subconscious and superconscious minds to ensure the safety and appropriateness of proceeding with the belief change process.
Whether you call it Superconscious Mind, Higher Self, Spirit, Soul, or something else , the concept of a part of consciousness beyond our conscious and subconscious minds has been a part of human culture for millennia.
Although many mainstream scientists and psychologists continue to debate the existence of the superconscious mind, several thousand years of spiritual history and acceptance by some of the brightest minds humanity has produced qualify it for inclusion in the PSYCH-K model for change. This reality of a spiritually expanded consciousness is an important bridge between contemporary spirituality and contemporary psychology.
With acceptance of this concept of the superconscious mind as a valuable source of an expanded awareness comes a caveat about the temptation to defer even the most mundane daily choices to this level of mind. Remember, it is our conscious mind that is designed to set goals and judge results; it is our volitional mind. By contrast, the subconscious is the habitual mind. It doesnt choose actions as much as it simply responds to its environment in an automatic fashion. The superconscious mind is different from either of the other minds.
Its more like a watchful and caring parent. Its job is to oversee the developmental process of your growth and evolution as a spiritual being having a human experienceto enable you to learn your lessons and grow up to be a fully functioning adult. If you deferred all your decisions to your parents you would never achieve the necessary confidence and self-sufficiency to make it in the world on your own.
Its one thing to confer talk it over with a parent when an important decision needs to be made; its quite another to defer to them to let them make the decision for you. If you think of the conscious mind as a superconscious mind in training, you will get the point here. The famous Greek philosopher Socrates understood this principle well. He was known for answering his students questions with questions. This response may have frustrated his students.
However, Socrates realized the importance of each student coming to his or her own conclusion in order to develop confidence and self-sufficiency. The goal of a great teacher or parent is to have the student or child no longer depend on the teacher for answers. The goal here is for your conscious mind to integrate with the superconscious and subconscious minds, becoming a unified consciousness. In this state, intuition, volition, and action become ONE.
This axiom should be obvious to anyone who ever set a goal and accomplished it, yet it is a step often omitted in other personal growth processes. Many approaches simply focus on releasing or getting rid of a problem. To the subconscious mind, it is like getting into a taxi cab in New York City , with the desire to go to the Empire State Building , but telling the cab driver you dont want to go to Times Square. Even though it is true that you dont want to go to Times Square , that information is not especially useful to the cab driver in determining where you do want to go.
Expressing your desires as negations is not only confusing but can even be counterproductive. The subconscious mind tends to omit negations. For instance, the previous sentence would most likely be heard by your subconscious as I negation deleted want to go to Times Square , one of the many places you dont want to go! To tell your subconscious that you no longer want to be depressed, anxious, uncertain, or sick isnt the same as telling it what you DO want, which is to be happy, calm, confident, or healthy.
Even with a more positive choice of words, abstraction can still be a problem. The positive statements just mentioned are often too abstract for the subconscious to understand and act on with clarity and precision.
They need to be translated into a more sensory-based language, creating a more concrete, literal description of your goal. Remember, the subconscious knows the world only through your five senses. Abstract goals often create abstract, and disappointing, results. You Cant Build a House wit h Only One Tool Many self-help systems use one specific technique to address all problems, which is like asking a carpenter to build a house using only a hammer!
If the whole house could be built using only nails, it wouldnt be a problem, but houses are more complex than that. And, people are more complex than houses. An important feature of PSYCH-K is that, via muscle testing, it enables the subconscious mind to choose the change process it prefers.
Because the subconscious mind makes the necessary belief and perceptual changes, it only makes sense to let it choose the right tool for the job. It was Albert Einstein who said, Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. In my exploration of other self-help change techniques over the past twenty plus years, I discovered many processes that seemed unnecessarily complex. One assumption among many practitioners and self-help explorers is that the more complex a process or body of knowledge is, the more powerful it is.
The notion of complexity carries with it an air of mystery and power. The more exotic and mysterious, the better! Alas, we are still praying to the gods of complexity for the power we seek to improve our lives. The fact is, the power of belief rather than the power of complexity may account for the effectiveness of many complex techniques.
PSYCH-K taught me that the subconscious mind is the best judge of how complex a process needs to be because it is the part of the mind that will be making the changes.
On the other end of the spectrum, I witnessed processes that were so simple they seemed too good to be true, and usually were. Caveat emptor. By using the knowledge of the subconscious mind to determine how simple or complex a process needs to be in order to accomplish your goal, you can rest assured that the process of choice will be as simple as possible, but not simpler. Most self-help processes depend heavily on the skill of the facilitator.
If the facilitator is distracted or just having a bad day, you can have a less than satisfactory or even counterproductive experience. The fact is, you can be marginally skilled at doing PSYCH-K and still facilitate remarkable changes with yourself and others.
The reason is that the quality of the experience is mostly a result of the wisdom that resides in the superconscious, and the ability of the subconscious mind of the person experiencing the process, not the skill of the facilitator. It takes the pressure off the person facilitating the process as well as the person experiencing the change. PSYCH-K relies on the inner wisdom and ability within the individuala wisdom and ability most people dont even know they have.
Over the years, I have watched this inner intelligence manifest in people from ages 9 to 90 in workshops and private sessions, offered nationally and PDFmyURL. When I first began using muscle testing in my private practice, I noticed I didnt always get accurate or logical answers when muscle testing some of my clients.
For instance, when establishing communication with the subconscious mind using muscle testing, I instruct the individual to say, My name is subjects actual name. The normal muscle response is usually strong. When asked to substitute a false name in the sentence, the normal muscle response is usually weak. However, from time to time, the subject would test strong to the false name as well as their actual name.
In fact, they would test strong to a variety of false statements about themselves. Without credible muscle responses, continuing with the desired belief change work was no more than a guessing game. Over time, I began to notice a peculiar quirk of these people. Just before I pressed on the extended arm used for muscle testing, I noticed that the persons eyes would move upwards, as if they were glancing at something on the ceiling. I remembered a bit of information from my earlier training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming NLP suggesting that when people look up, they are usually processing their thoughts visually making pictures.
When they are focused straight ahead, they are processing auditorily hearing sounds , and when they are looking downward, they are usually processing kinesthetically experiencing feelings or physical sensations. In effect, when they looked up during the muscle test, they were moving out of their feelings and into their visual sensory system. Because the muscle testing response to selfreferential statements depends on a physiological response from the subconscious mind expressed through the physical body, it was possible that the individual was not experiencing the necessary feelings to ensure an accurate muscle test.
Upon further reflection and observation, I also noticed that clients with histories of significant childhood trauma were more likely to look up when asked to access unpleasant memories or make statements that might involve having to do so. It appeared that looking up was a subconscious strategy to dissociate from the unpleasant memories. This practice effectively disconnected them from the feelings necessary to create a conflicted weak muscle response from the subconscious.
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