“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
If you’ve ever tried to change your way of thinking and behaviour, only to find yourself repeating familiar patterns that frustrate you, then you have come to the right place to find out why that happens and what can be done about it.
Our thoughts drive our behaviour. Many of our thoughts are known to us (conscious thoughts), but a more significant amount are unknown to us (subconscious thoughts). If you are finding it difficult to change your behaviour permanently, it is because you are setting a goal for change with your conscious mind, but if your subconscious mind has contrasting goals for you, it WILL NOT permit the change to occur.
Whatever beliefs lie within your subconscious mind are the components that shape how you behave in the world. Your life is a reflection of the thoughts you hold in your subconscious mind, so if you want to improve your life, then you need to make changes at the subconscious level of the mind.
Picture your conscious mind as the visible part of a plant above the ground. We don’t see the roots under the soil, but they are fundamental to the way the plant grows. Your subconscious equates to the root system beneath ground level. It is the soil in which seeds of belief were planted when you were young. These seeds have now sprouted (your behaviours) and are being continually fuelled by the substance in the soil (your subconscious mind). If you want to change the health of your plant, you make changes within the soil. Similarly, if you want to make changes to YOU, you need to make changes at the subconscious level.
The key to all effortless and successful change, therefore, is to align your subconscious goals with your conscious desires.
But how do you make these two parts of your mind align? First, gain awareness of what is being held in your subconscious mind. Second, let your subconscious mind realise a more productive beneficial way of processing information, so that old limiting beliefs and patterns of behaviour can transform.