Your Conscious Mind
This is the part of you that thinks and reasons. This is where your intellect and free will resides. This is the part of your mind that will decide the changes required to live the type of life you want to experience. The conscious mind can accept or reject any idea, unlike the Subconscious mind.
Conscious Mind Facts
- Controls only 2 — 4% of actual perceptions and behaviour.
- Conscious impulses travel at 200-225 km/s
- The thoughts you consistently choose and impress from your conscious mind to your Subconscious mind will determine the results in your life.
- Sets goals...Judges Results
- Time-Bound - Past and Future
- Limited Processing Capability (approximately 2 000 bits of information/second)
- Short-term memory (approximately 20 seconds)
- 1-3 events at a time
Go back to page 7 and 8 and compare above facts with the Subconscious Mind facts and notice the vast difference in processing power and abilities. We are fed information at approximately 400 Billion bits per second through our 5 senses (VAKOG)? This goes to your Subconscious mind for processing. Your Reticular
Activation System (RAS) filters ALL that information (based on our filters like Values, Belief System, etc...) and prioritizes this information. Your RAS performs 3 main functions as it Filters, Deletes, Distorts and Generalizes. It does this ruthlessly as it needs to reduce the information from 400,000,000,000 bits per second to only 2,000 bits per second for your Conscious Mind to process.
When comparing the difference in processing capacity between the Conscious and the
Subconscious Mind you realize that we get to experience less than 1% of what our senses process consciously. 99% of the information is lost or given a different meaning based on your conditioning. We have learnt that our senses are limited in their capacity and so they don’t get to process everything that is out there. So we don’t get the full picture through our senses. Now we are faced with the realisation that consciously we get to experience less than 1% of what our senses can process. Think about this... The world is not the way you see it consciously. You are seeing one version of it, based on your internal filters and the way your Subconscious Mind is wired.
This is really good news. Mathematically speaking you have so much to work with to create a change in your perception. By taking control of your filters, in other words by changing the hierarchy of your Values, deleting Limiting Beliefs and letting go of your unprocessed negative emotions or any other change work in your Subconscious Mind you will change your reality. Changing or altering your filters that your RAS uses to determine which information gets Deleted, Distorted and Generalized will give you a different 2000 bits per second to work with. This will change the reality that you get to experience. This is what makes us all so unique and how we get to experience this world in so many unique ways. It’s our filters that shape our reality.
6 Intellectual Functions of Your Conscious Mind
Reason
Deductive reasoning is the part of your personality that separates you from the rest of the animal kingdom. When properly developed, your deductive reasoning can help you collect ideas, but what you choose to do with them will determine their outcome. It is also known as critical or analytical reasoning that questions every thought/idea that comes along. You should always, be questioning the ideas and deciding whether it will improve the quality of your life or not. If answer is YES — it most probably will. If the answer is NO, you should probably reject the idea regardless from whom you received the idea.
Inductive reasoning has no ability to reject ideas; it can only accept it and pass it on to your Subconscious Mind. When you are in an inductive state — you are not thinking for yourself and you become the product of your environment. You are open to all the influence of your surroundings, being positive or negative.
Will
Will is a very powerful part of your attitude. You should definitely treasure the will for life as without it we lose the energy that keeps us going forward - without it, we start disintegrating.
Imagination
Imagination is the ability to form mental images. It helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process.
Memory
You have short term memory which is electrical in nature and a long term memory which is chemical in nature. You also need to know that all of your memories...all of them... are perfect memories and are forever stored in your Time Line (Subconscious Mind’s domain).
Intuition
Intuition is when you know something before you think. It’s the inner feeling that tells you that something is wrong or good, without any facts supporting your feeling. You can pick up on people’s vibratory state which will cause you to feel whether someone is positive or negative based on your model of the world.
You feel like hugging some people and others you don't. It’s simply your intuition response to their vibratory state. Picking up negative stressful vibes from a person does not necessarily mean that the person in question is bad. It could just mean that that person had a very stressful day or had some tragic loss in his/her family, got fired or retrenched. The vibe you are picking up is correct and real. The meaning you give it purely based on your conditioning. Be cautious with your judgments.
Perception
Our perception depends on our past conditioning. This means that we do not see the world as it really is. We see only what your Subconscious Mind, or your "internal Map" is conditioned to see. One of the Presuppositions of NLP states: "The Map is not the Territory."
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