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Your Subconscious Mind is the part of your mind you are not conscious about. It is the biggest part of your mind which is about 95% of your mind. Where as the conscious mind is only about 5%. Your Subconscious Mind stores al your Memories, Emotions, Beliefs, Habits, Programming and Instincts. The Subconscious Mind makes use of the neurons in the body to store itself. You do not only have neurons in your brain, but every single cell in your body is bathed in neurons. Each of these neurons has the capabilities of the to ten to eleven neurological connections. That’s the number 10 with 10 zeros behind it, written eleven times. This number is too big to even try to contemplate. What it all comes down to is that one neuron has unlimited potential and that is only one neuron. What if all of them work together as one big whole?

Your Subconscious Mind makes use of all the neurons in your body to store itself and each neuron in your body is like a hologram of the whole neuron network. So all your memories, emotions, habits, programming, and instincts is stored through out you entire body and every cell in your body get affected by them. So if you have a lot of Negative Emotions like anger, sadness, fear, hurt and guilt that you did not resolve yet, they will have a negative impact on you whole body and not just your brain. That can cause a lot of unwanted behaviours, symptoms and dis-eases.

Your Subconscious Mind determines your Behaviour which determines you end results. The results we have in life are a result of our behaviour. What we do, or don’t do, determines our outcome. So ultimately our Subconscious Mind determines our results. To change our current results we need to change our behaviour which means we have to work with our Subconscious Mind to get a different result. And this is exactly where I can help you as a Master NLP Life Coach.

It controls 97% of our perception and behaviours
It averages 10 billion actions per second!
It sees in pictures and patterns
Its impulses travel at more that 160 000 km/s
It doesn’t know the difference between a truth or a lie
It can’t tell real form imagined – it believes to be absolutely true, whatever you send it – being an image or a picture.
It works on an orderly manner
It stores memories using the Time Line (it uses time line to store memories chronologically, so you can know the difference in time between the events that have happened last month, five years ago, 10 years ago, ect…)

Your Subconscious mind is the operating system for you and your body. It runs everything. It stores your Memories, Emotions, Beliefs, Habits and Generates your Instincts. It regenerates cells in your body; it runs your hart, controls your immune system and regulates your hormones, enzymes and all other chemical reactions. It controls over 97% of your behaviour!!! And you think that you are in charge of your decisions and your life!? Well, you could be? Or you will be when you finish with your Personal Breakthrough Session.

Understanding the Prime directives of the Subconscious Mind is crucial as you learn how the Subconscious mind goes about running your life. We care a lot about Conscious Unconscious integration and it’s important for your Conscious Mind to remember that all true change happens at the Unconscious level. It’s also important to understand consciously as much as you can about how and what the Subconscious Mind does. Your Subconscious Mind works in an orderly manner in line with its prime directives:

1. Stores memories.
Your Subconscious Mind stores all your memories in relationship to time (Temporal) and also not in relationship to time (Atemporal).
a. Temporal memories are stored in relationship to time; it saves these memories in a chronological manner, using your Time Line.
b. Atemporal memories are those not related to time, like acquisition of language for an example - the meaning of the words that we learn are not in relationship with time.

2. Is the domain of the emotions.
You were perhaps lead to believe that your heart is domain of the emotions? I agree that your heart will process your emotions, just like any other organ or a cell in your body. However, it all starts in your Subconscious Mind. As it links thing sand gives meanings to things your hypothalamus produces matching chemicals that impact all the cells in your body. Your Subconscious Mind is where it all starts - it’s the domain of the emotions.

3. Organizes all your memories.
Your Subconscious Mind organizes all your stored memories. It uses your Time Line as a filing system. Mechanics of it is gestalt, which simply means that it also organizes memories according to subjects or feelings. It will chain all memories related to happiness — it will link them together. I’ll speak about it in much greater detail later on. (In case you are familiar with the Gestalt Therapy, it has no relation to it —treat this newly!)

4. Represses memories with unresolved negative emotion.
Your Subconscious Mind can repress memories to protect you. Continuously facing your baggage will drive you crazy. It represses the unresolved negative emotions until it feels that you are ready to deal with or resolve it. It can also present you with unprocessed negative emotions because the memory was triggered by some event.

Both the Conscious and Subconscious Mind know that negative emotions are not good for the body, don’t they? If they were good for the body, I doubt that they would feel so destructive and damaging to our system. This is not to say that we should not process anger, sadness, fear, hurt or guilt. We have the ability to feel and experience them for a reason. I think they can be useful when used in the appropriate context. Later you will learn about warranted and unwarranted use of emotions. Back to negative emotions and storing of unresolved ones in your body.

The usual metaphor I use is that it puts them all in a small black bag and stores it in the body for processing later. Since EVERYTHING is made of energy, including our thoughts... that means that these unprocessed negative emotions are also made of energy, made of atoms, remember? Since it’s a physical thing your Subconscious Mind can’t store them in the fridge — it has to store them within the body. And then these unprocessed negative emotions, stored in our body cause stress to our organs, hurts the body, makes the flow of the communication of all your internal systems rather difficult. This impacts our health and this is the stress doctor’s talk about when they say that 80% of all our diseases are caused by stress.

Think about it - information flowing from your brain to your elbow, say it’s healing a cut, creating new cells, replacing the old ones... and that information gets intercepted by this energetic blockage, this black bag stored somewhere on the way, say in your shoulder area. This is bound to change the quality of the information, making the communication and healing difficult or confusing, or even worse, it can change the direction of that information meant for your elbow and it may end up in the kidney?! Kidney receives some very confusing instructions and acts accordingly. This causes stress for kidney, which causes stress to all the other organs in the body. Usually, the weakest link in the chain will develop some sort of a dis-ease.

Knowing this, you may wonder WHY does the Subconscious Mind do this then and works against itself, hurting the body? Well, that ties up with the next directive...

5. Presents repressed memories for resolution.
Have you ever experienced a significant emotional event where you were deeply touched or affected emotionally? Has it happened to you (I think it happens to everyone) that some time later, time did the healing and you moved on. You thought that you were healed and that life has carried on. Only to be surprised days, weeks, months or years later, when you were in a far better state, this issue presents itself again. Those thoughts start crawling back in to your Conscious Mind and your thinking? Has this ever happened to you?

This is when you discover that you did bury it long ago. You buried it in your body. Now your Subconscious Mind is presenting it to you for resolution as it thinks you can handle it now. It’s opening that little black bag to your Consciousness and inviting you to PLEASE deal with it now, process it and get some learning’s, get some resolution, so that you can grow and move on, not repeating the same mistakes in life, etc... It just wants to make these memories rational so that it can release the emotions.

6. May keep the repressed emotions repressed for protection.
Now, in very rare occasions, it may keep the memories repressed for protection.
Some people experience horrible events in life, so horrible and unimaginable, that the Subconscious Mind may repress them and not bring them out again. This can be displayed when we can’t recall the full content of such memory.

7. Runs the body.
This is useful, hey? Imagine if you had to consciously do everything that your
Subconscious Mind is doing to run your body! Imagine if you were consciously responsible for all the breathing, heart function, healing, food processing etc.
Imagine the number of processes that the Subconscious Mind does for you every single second of the day! And yet, some people dare tell me that they don’t trust their Subconscious Mind. I refuse to believe that, as I am sure they do! They certainly did last night when they trusted their Subconscious Mind to keep breathing while they were asleep, to run their heart and everything else! They maybe just need to be reminded how deeply they trust their Subconscious Mind with their precious life!

Your subconscious mindhas a blueprint of your body now and of your perfect health in conception. Based on this we ask the Subconscious Mind to heal the body. You see, your Subconscious Mind was programmed to build your body from a little tiny fetes to the baby size, making sure you had a head, two arms, legs, etc... It used a blueprint of perfect health that exists in the deepest parts of your Subconscious Mind.

8. Preserves the body.
Your Subconscious Mind maintains the integrity of the body. It preserves the body.
This is the highest prime directive. Its main and most important function. Preserving the integrity of the body is its No. 1 priority. Your Subconscious Mind, acts on your instruction and responds the world around it. This cause confusion and impact its ability to always perform this function optimally. When this happens there is possibility for dis-eases to occur.

9. Is a highly moral being.
Your subconscious mindis very moral — the morality you were taught and accepted. There is a saying "There is honour amongst thieves." A thief steals, to earn his living. Yet he won’t steal from another thief. Which means that we can have unique and individual perception of what is moral and what is not.

10. Enjoys serving, needs clear orders to follow.
Your Subconscious Mind loves you. It loves you more than anyone will ever be able to love you. It is you and it loves serving you. It just needs you to give it clear instructions to follow. The best advice I can give you here is to get clear on what you want and to send clear instructions to your Subconscious Mind consistently.

People often send confusing instructions to their minds. They wake up one morning and they are happy with themselves, looking at the mirror acknowledging how beautiful or sexy they are. Next morning, they wake up and choose to feel sad, unsatisfied with their body and acknowledge how much fatter they are comparing to whomever... and this ties in with the next one...

11. Controls and maintains all perceptions.
It’s in charge of your perceptions and whatever it receives through your 5 senses or telepathically, it processes it and reflects it on against your Subconscious mind.
So it receives and transmits this information to the Conscious Mind.

12. Generates, stores, distributes and transmits "energy".
Your Subconscious Mind is in charge of all energy in your body. By directly communicating with it, we can achieve desired energy levels, direct it to needed places, etc. This can be very handy when you think of people who have a condition called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. We can encourage and give the opportunity to the Subconscious mind to increase the energy levels and that would ease the symptoms of that condition if does not completely disappear.

13. Maintains instincts and generate habits.
Instincts are naturally installed, almost hard wired in our neurology. If your life is in danger, you will either choose to stay there and Fight or you will choose to Flight — to run away or safely take yourself out of that situation.

Habits on the other hand are learnt over time, and it takes repetition for a habit to be installed. Using NLP techniques like change of strategies or swish pattern, would install a habit without much repetition needed.

14. Is programmed to continually seek more and more.
I used to have this disturbing thought, I used to ask myself all the time whether I am cursed or shallow for constantly wanting more, or is it other people that are simply fulfilled by much less?! When I learnt about my Subconscious mind almost being hard wired to continually seek more and more, I was relieved.

We are all programmed to seek more and more. Wanting more is great, it’s natural to us. In nature everything is designed for expansion and for growth. Your Subconscious Mind in no different to that. Needing more in order to be happy for an example, is where the problem occurs. Coming from a vibratory state of lack, when there is as much abundance as you dare to see in this world, limits you and your perception as your shaped reality attracts everything that resonates with it.

The good news is that there is always more to discover. New things to learn, new ways to grow. You see, the moment you close yourself to learning, there is nothing more for you to learn about, according to you. Knowing what you know, you agree that it would be silly to choose not to learn. The bottom line as that you are either dying or you are growing and expanding

15. Functions best as a whole integrated unit.
This is the subject of wholeness. Your subconscious minddoes not need parts to function. The fewer parts there are the less chance for the incongruence. Being whole means being completely congruent, with no internal conflicts and zero chance for any (since there are no parts, opposite parties involved).

16. Is symbolic.
Your Subconscious Mind uses and responds to symbols. It likes symbols and uses symbols to establish meaning and make connections. There is no universal language of symbols for the Subconscious Mind. It gives symbols its own meaning. So everyone that differently and has a unique way of doing it. That is why we say that every single book that was ever written on the subject of interpreting and understanding dreams is 100% correct! For the person that wrote it.

17. Takes everything personally.
This is the basis of perception is projection explained earlier. Remember that as far as your Subconscious Mind is concerned, there is no one else but you.

18. Works on the principle of least effort.
It always takes the path of least resistance.

19. Does not process negatives.
Now that you understand what happens in your mind and how it actually works, you are almost ready to stop all this pre-framing and start learning the actual techniques that cause instant change. But before we dig any deeper and link all of the above in practical ways, in order to take the full control over your mind, I need to introduce you to the laws of the Universe we live in. The laws of Nature, the ones I mentioned at the beginning of this section.

Understanding them is equally important to your success as you need to align yourself with these natural laws and not act against them.

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