Subconscious Thoughts and Emotions Are Running the Conscious Show
of Your Life – How Do You Like What They Are Doing?
Do you think your
conscious mind is in control of your thoughts, emotions and actions? If you do,
think again.
Have you ever wondered why you really want to do something, but never seem to make time for it? Do you also wonder why you keep gravitating back to the familiar, whether in relationships or other areas of your life, which might not be what is best for you or your spirit? Do you ever feel like your life is not the one your conscious mind had imagined and no matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to make the necessary changes to move forward? Does it feel like your life sometimes is stuck in molasses or mud and you are just trying to trudge through it?
If you answered “yes”
to any of these questions, then your smug subconscious is probably feeling very
gratified that it is doing its job so well of holding you back, keeping you
cycling in familiar patterns and doing what it thinks it does best -- protecting you from yourself and from anything
else it believes is not in your best interest.
I recently wrote
about the extraordinary poet Lucille Clifton who died on
Lucille Clifton – Photo from http://www.poets.org
Each one of us has had childhood trials and traumas to some greater or lesser degree. Those experiences go deep into our hearts, minds and souls. Perhaps most importantly, those thoughts and experiences have all been sucked into the vortex of our subconscious that just can’t seem to get enough material to churn around in the depths of our minds. The subconscious is insatiable and loves to take control of our thoughts and patterns of behavior. Our thoughts wind up controlling our actions. And our actions help create the picture or “show” of our lives.
One of the most insidious aspects of the subconscious is that although submerged, it is the unseen power that fuels all your thoughts and actions, that pushes you forward or holds you back. And its great power can act as a centrifugal force, holding you hostage unless you know how to break those often limiting, invisible bonds that have you and your life literally tied up in knots. If you are unable to either clear or change the content of your subconscious and let inspiration in or reprogram it, then you are destined to repeat behaviors and actions over and over again that you probably wish had never manifested in the first place.
Your conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg. What lies beneath – your subconscious – is very powerful. It can also help shipwreck your life if you don’t clear out the old thoughts and memories, and reprogram it to set it on the right course for health and abundance.
While driving your car, you’re not paying attention to what’s happening under the hood, how the oil is or isn’t flowing, how weak or strong your battery is, how clean your air filter is or how well your transmission and engine are doing. Unless you’re someone with expert skills in fixing cars, you let your mechanic take care of all those issues. You just open your car door, put your key in the ignition, put your seatbelt on, put your foot on the brake, click the transmission into drive gear, step on the gas pedal and go.
What's happening under the hood of your car? And what's happening under the hood of your subconscious mind?
When you drive, you
are looking ahead at the road and not thinking about what’s going on underneath
the hood of your car. You are trusting that all is well – that is until you get
a red light on your dashboard or your car breaks down in some way.
It is similar with the way our subconscious operates. Most of the time, we don’t know it’s there, so we don’t even realize that there is something to fix. We think we are in control of our actions and decisions. We don’t even know that we are in need of a tune-up or overhaul to help our lives run more smoothly – that is until we get the same kind of flashing red light that shows up in the way of serious problems or deep unhappiness within our lives that has no easy remedy. The mechanics we then go to are therapists, doctors and healers.
When we are all
making decisions and taking action, we believe that our conscious mind has
control, because in our conscious state, we are not aware of all the
information that our subconscious is continually feeding us. And when your
subconscious is flooding you with thoughts, then there is not much room for
Divine inspirations and brilliant co-creations to flow through.
If you have ever really
wanted to do something, but somehow never made the time or effort to do it, it probably
has something to do with what your subconscious mind wants or doesn’t want you
to do. If you are stuck in the same patterns year after year despite wanting to
make some significant changes, then your subconscious clearly has a strong hold
on your thoughts and emotions.
The subconscious, in
directing and sometimes dictating your thoughts and actions, believes it is
protecting you from your worst nightmares. It also is like a grand computer in
the way it reads information very literally.
For instance, it
might be protecting you from success, because being successful would be too
demanding and take up too much of your time. Or if you succeeded, then you’d
have to worry about maintaining that success or topping it. Or success might
threaten your relatives and friends, so your subconscious wants you to play it
small to make sure you don’t rock any boats or offend anyone. It wants to
maintain the status quo and what is familiar – and it thinks it is for your own
good.
If your subconscious gets its way, then it will be very hard to make any strides and move forward in your life to places that your conscious mind would like to go. And if your subconscious mind, which sometimes holds your body hostage too, is playing some old negative tapes, memories and emotions relentlessly, then it is also contributing to the illness of both your body and mind. That illness will manifest in a variety of chronic diseases and mentally you might be grappling with depression or other forms of mental illness.
Deep Emotions Held in the Subconscious Mind and in the Body - Illness Made Manifest
Through her strong
poetic voice,
However, because she
suffered through illnesses like cancer and kidney disease, I can’t help but
wonder if she was still holding on to some deep anger and resentment in her
body and within her subconscious mind that she had not really been able to
fully process and come to terms with. Perhaps after all those years of
introspection, she still had not worked deeply enough on forgiveness. She might
not have learned how to release or to reprogram some of her old subconscious
thoughts and emotions, creating some healthier ways of thinking and being.
Perhaps, despite her great gifts and poetic achievements, the subconscious tapes that swirled around within her brilliant mind may have been playing some very unpleasant tunes about difficult remembrances of times past and the messages that were fed to her about herself very early on. And then there were the unspeakable violations of her body and soul by trusted parents, one committing the deeds and the other incapable of stopping them.
Louise Hay and others note the strong connection between thoughts and emotions that keep going round in the mind and the illnesses that eventually manifest if old thoughts and subconscious tapes cannot be cleared and released to make a welcome space for some new, more positive ways of thinking. Your thoughts, especially subconscious ones, become your destiny.
In her book, You Can Heal Your Life, Hay has a
listing of the corresponding physical and emotional connections between illnesses
and the thoughts that may have helped create them. For cancer, she says the
feelings that help create it are “Deep
hurt. Longstanding resentment. Deep secret or grief eating away at the self.
Carrying hatreds. “What’s the use?” The affirmation she recommends is “I lovingly forgive and release all of the
past. I choose to fill my world with joy. I love and approve of myself.”
For kidney disease, Hay notes the emotional issues are “Criticism, disappointment, failure. Shame. Reacting like a child.” The affirmation for kidney disease is “Divine right action is always taking place in my life. Only good comes from each experience. It is safe to grow up.”
A Way to Clear Old Thought Patterns and Reprogram Your Subconscious for Renewed Health, Wealth and Abundance
When my spiritual teacher and friend, Anita Pathik Law, www.powerofmyway.com, first became a coach, she noticed that her clients were having a difficult time shifting to more positive ways of thinking and acting. She knew she had to find a way to loosen the tight hold that the subconscious had over her clients’ lives.
In addition to being
a minister, healer, and teacher, she also became certified as a hypnotherapist.
Through her various guided hypnotic meditations, Anita uses her beautiful voice
and deep spiritual wisdom to help people heal and shift into new ways of thinking
to improve their health, enabling them to open new doors for all manner of
abundance in their lives.
When Anita speaks
either as a guest, host or seminar leader, or when she is teaching one of her
teleseminars or classes, she will sometimes address the lack of progress
reported by people who do affirmations or for those who follow the advice of The Secret and “The Law of Attraction,”
who achieve no positive results. The
Secret, she maintains, leaves out a number of important variables, such as
Divine Timing, Divine Order, and Soul Contracts, among other Divine laws.
Anita also maintains that The Secret completely ignores the deep hold that old subconscious tapes have on a person’s thoughts and life. So even if someone consciously wants to move forward and release old negative patterns, often they are unknowingly held hostage by old subconscious thoughts and patterns that have had a stranglehold on their minds and lives for years.
I was recently listening
to Dr. Daniel Amen on PBS. He is the author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and his latest book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body. He
was discussing ways to help people change their eating habits and become
healthier. He spoke about something he calls “ANTS” or automatic negative
thoughts. They infiltrate thoughts regularly. Dr. Amen noted how most of them
are just not true.
Dr. Amen recognizes that telling people what they need to do to become healthier and the habits they need to shift can’t be realized just at the conscious level. That’s why he includes in his program hypnotic tapes specifically geared to address thoughts at the subconscious level. To learn more about Dr. Amen, his books and his program, go to http://www.amenclinics.com.
Hypnotic Meditations for Reprogramming the Subconscious and Providing a Gateway Connection to the Divine
Through her hypnotic meditations, Anita Pathik Law also works on clearing her clients’ and listeners’ old subconscious programs, thoughts and emotions. Her meditations are deeply soothing and many of her clients have reported significant breakthroughs in their health after using them, especially her “Cultivating Energy” daytime meditation. Within her meditations, Anita, a gifted healer, brings through many special healing energies and what for many feels like a distinct connection and channel to the Divine.
Anita Pathik Law, minister, healer and teacher in her sacred space.
I have been a student
and client of Anita’s for over a year and have been using her amazing
meditations since I enrolled in my first class with her. Having listened to an
array of meditations done by a variety of gifted people, for me there is no one
whose voice quite compares with Anita’s. There is a softness and sweet melody
in it that seems to reflect her special soul as a healer and teacher and as
someone on a deeply spiritual path.
Because of all the
feedback she’s gotten from clients and listeners about her gorgeous voice, she
has come to recognize it as one of her many gifts in her healer’s medicine bag.
Wise and steeped in many traditions, including Hindu and Christian, and
traveling a highly evolved and spiritual path in the Lakota tradition, Anita
never seems to be doing her meditations alone. Indeed, it seems that the hand
of the Divine is involved as well as she channels her magnificent thoughts of
love and light and transports people into the heightened realms of love, compassion and
healing.
For those interested
in learning more about how Anita’s skills as a healer and hypnotherapist can
help you clear some old subconscious thoughts and reprogram them to help you
move forward, check out http://www.powerofmyway.com/shareabundance.html.
Anita currently has a
special offer to share 12 months of her hypnosis audios in 12 weeks at a
substantially reduced cost. Her decision to do this came as a result of
numerous requests by her hypnotic manifestation students and her clients to
make the wonderful MP3 audios available more quickly. For more information
about Anita’s special offer, what tapes are being offered and how you can
benefit from them, go to http://www.powerofmyway.com/shareabundance.html.
I wonder if Lucille
Clifton ever cleaned up her subconscious tapes and whether she ever moved into
the realm of compassion, empathy and forgiveness, most especially for herself
as well as for others who disappointed her and those who hurt her so deeply.
That kind of forgiveness, as Dr. Wayne Dyer has attested after he finally
forgave his father -- the alcoholic father who abandoned him and his family
when he was just a boy -- can be restorative to both the body and soul.
If you’re hesitating
about clicking on to Anita’s offer, it may just be your subconscious mind that
is telling you to skip it and move on. It thinks it is protecting you from making
a purchase or maybe from moving forward. This time you can override your
subconscious doubts, click on the link and take a look at how much Anita is
offering for a considerably reduced price.
Her audios have been my constant companions. My day would not feel the same without hearing her melodious voice and what I believe to be her connection to the Divine. Just check out her beautiful new video, "God Knows the Sound of your Voice" at http://powerofourway.blogs.com/power_of_our_way_blog/2010/03/god-knows-the-sound-of-your-voice.html.
Thank your subconscious for trying to help you, but let it know that you are heading for Anita’s website at http://www.powerofmyway.com/shareabundance.html to see some exciting new possibilities for both your subconscious and conscious minds. In doing so, you will also pave a pathway for the much brighter future you will have when you begin to clear out some old thought patterns so you can move forward to be more in step with your conscious desires for health, wealth and all manner of abundance.
Wishing you blessings
and love, peace and prosperity,
Donna
Donna Poler, M.A.
Alternative Health Consultant for People and their Pets
Certified Tellington TTouch® Practitioner
Certified Reiki Master
Animal Communicator
Angel Energy Lightworker
Intuitive Oracle Card Reader
Writer and Author of forthcoming E-book, “100 Plus Tips for Maintaining a Happy and Healthy Dog”
E-mail - Donna@DonnaPoler.com
Website - http://www.DonnaPoler.com
Blog - http://www.donnapoler.typepad.com
To
arrange a Tellington TTouch® or animal communication session for your pet, a
Reiki session or distance Reiki session for either you or your pet, a health
consult for your pet, or an angel, crystal or animal oracle card reading for
you, please contact me at Donna@DonnaPoler.com.
another eloquent and beautiful article Donna....wow you are brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
Posted by: Anita Pathik Law | 03/16/2010 at 12:39 PM