Quantum
HEALTH
Issue 9 February 2011
of your life, the truth is that at a subconscious level you may be simply living out patterns and programmes that you learned from others during your childhood and over the course of your life so far. Most of us joke about how the more things change, the more they stay the same. But that is generally true in terms of the subconscious. You can change your conscious mind, but until you also convince your subconscious to also change its mind in the same way, it will eventually dominate. That’s why we all know people who keep making the same ‘mistakes’ over and over, such as repeatedly choosing the same unsuitable romantic partners or continually getting into trouble with authority. A belief pattern is a programme that your subconscious mind runs. And like a computer, until you reprogramme it with new ‘operating instructions,’ it will continually output the same data in the same way, no matter how much the external circumstances have changed.
In fact, a computer is a good analogy for most things about the conscious and subconscious minds, especially in showing why the subconscious mind dominates. For instance, the conscious and subconscious minds can be likened to information processors, each being able to process a certain amount of energy and information. Think of each as having a certain bandwidth of processing power that can be measured in bits per second. Research has shown that the conscious mind processes approximately 40 bits of information per second. In contrast, the processing power of the subconscious mind is a whopping 40 million bits of information per second! The subconscious mind is one million times more powerful in processing information than the conscious mind. Now here’s the real kicker: What percentage of your day-to-day thoughts, feelings and actions are coming from your conscious choices, as compared to those that are coming from learned programmes and behaviours in your subconscious mind? Astonishingly, only about 5 percent of your actions, thoughts and feelings each day are arising from your conscious, logical, reasoning mind. The other 95 percent are governed by learned programmes in your subconscious mind.
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Almost everything that you think and do in life is driven from a level of mind you are not aware of!
Now all of a sudden it’s easy to see why those New Year’s resolutions fall by the way side. If you have a conscious goal, let’s say to lose some weight and improve your level of fitness, and yet at a subconscious level you hold beliefs that exercise is hard work and excess weight is a protection from emotional intimacy, which ‘you’ do you think is going to win this conflict—your conscious mind with a 40-bit processor operating at a dominant level to affect behaviour about 5 percent of the day or your subconscious mind with its 40-million-bit processor that takes control for a minimum of 95 percent of the day?
Now, I don’t want you to misunderstand the subconscious mind. It is not your enemy! In fact, many of our subconscious belief systems and rote programmes are essential to our well-being. We cannot think consciously about more than a couple of things at the same time, yet our subconscious mind is continually processing vast amounts of input that keeps us safe and sane. As a mundane example, you don’t think too much about how to cross the street against traffic, and that’s because your subconscious is keeping track of enormous amounts of input to help you do that safely. In an ideal world, everyone would be aware of all their behaviours, emotions, and thoughts; however, in the fast-paced modern world, this is simply an impossibility. Our two minds (conscious and subconscious) are capable of processing incredible amounts of information, most that we don’t need on a moment-to-moment basis. We have to screen out some of these streams of information so as not to be overwhelmed. So what we need to focus on in the present remains conscious to us, and what we don’t need right away is filed away in the subconscious.
Another difficulty we face is that although our conscious mind can be incredibly creative, it can also be incredibly demanding and busy. It flits from one thought to another very quickly, and that can be a recipe for inefficiency, diversion and the many excuses that keep us from living up to our potential and realising our goals. In addition,
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