Let’s go back and look at the subconscious a bit more and you’ll realize how much it controls our daily lives. Our subconscious mind is a culmination of our past experiences and memories. It is also where our habits and belief systems are formed. It consists of memories, which have an emotional connection to the past: this is the primary reason it can be so difficult to discontinue any limiting beliefs and behaviors. Consider it a storage unit for all that has happened in our lives. It is quite similar to our childhood home in that it is also where our memories are stored. What we feel, think, or do forms the basis of our experiences, which are stored in the form of underlying impressions in the subconscious mind. These perceptions cause us to behave or think in certain ways.
The subconscious drives our mind in the same way a locomotive pulls the cargo cars down the track. It works nonstop, twenty-four hours a day, fueling our thoughts. This process occurs subconsciously and is so rapid that our feelings prompt our behavior. It is so automatic to us that we don’t even have time to notice it is happening. Almost instantaneously, we react when we hear or see something.
Every time Cory and I saw an ambulance, for instance, we thought of our firstborn child. The flashing lights and sirens transported us back to the time when our son passed away of SIDS. We made a conscious decision to change and reprogram that habit because the feeling of sadness and loss that the ambulance triggered wasn’t serving us anymore. It was just causing us to re-live our grief.
Our beliefs that are stored in our subconscious mind are expressed through our actions, which are visible to our children. Kids do as they see, not as they are told, and your limiting beliefs can filter into their adult lives and cause problems. If you want to know what you are thinking subconsciously, simply look at the results in your child’s life. Many times, parents don’t think about their reactions consciously. Just as we made a conscious decision to change our reaction to the sounds of sirens and sight of flashing lights, you need to look at your actions and do the same.
Let us know about something in your subconscious that you want to change.
