The Concious Mind

This is the part of you that is thinking and reasoning. This is where your intellect and free will reside. This part of your mind gets to 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. The conscious mind is like the gate keeper to the great and powerful 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.
• Set goals.
• Time-Bound - Past and Future
• Limited Processing Capability (approximately 2 000 bits of information/second)
• Short-term memory
• Focus only on 1-3 events at a time

Go back in the eBook and compare the 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 FIVE 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 prioritises this information. Your RAS performs three main filtering functions, it Deletes, Distorts and Generalizes information. It does this ruthlessly as it needs to reduce the information from 400,000,000,000 bits per second to only, 2000 bits per second for your conscious mind to process.

When comparing the difference in processing capacity between the conscious and the
subconscious mind you realise that we get to experience less than 1% of what our senses process consciously. An astonishing 99% of 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 do not get to process everything that is out there. Therefore, we do not 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. After understanding this, I realised why so few people can see all the opportunities and possibilities that are required to achieve success. The difference for these people is the way that their minds filter all the information available to them. They definitely delete and distort less of what is important in order to achieve succcess.

This is really, really, good news. Mathematically speaking you have so much to work with to cause a change in your perception. By taking control of your filters, in other words by changing the hierarchy of your Values, deleting Limiting Beliefs, changing your Driver Focus Filter and letting go of all your Unprocessed Negative Emotions and other changes in your subconscious mind, you can and will change your reality. Changing or altering filters that your RAS uses to determine which information gets Deleted, Distorted, and Generalised will give you a different 2000 bits per second to work with. This will change the reality that you experience. This is what makes us so unique and how we get to experience this world in so many unique ways. Our filters shape our reality. In addition, no two people on earth have exactly the same filters. Because no two people have the same filters, no two people can experience or see the world in exactly the same way. This is why each person has his or her own model of the world, which means each one of us has our own reality. 

“When did we decide to judge one another?”

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 process 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 they will improve the quality of your life. If answer is YES, the idea will most probably have a positive impact on your life. 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 influences of your surroundings, both positive or negative. This normally happens when you are in a trance like state. Watching TV will put any person in trance. Make sure you are in control of what you are watching.

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 on a downward spiral.

Imagination

Imagination is the ability to form mental images. It helps provide meaning to experience and understand knowledge. Imagination is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world and it 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).

Intuition

Intuition is to know something before you think. It is the inner feeling that tells you that something is wrong or good, without any facts supporting that feeling. You can learn to take note of 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 do not want to. It is simply your intuitive response to their vibratory state. Picking up negative or stressful vibes from a person does not necessarily mean that the person in question is bad. It could just mean that that person is experiencing a stressful day or some tragic occurrence like being 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. When did you decide that you have the ability to read peoples minds?

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" was conditioned to see. One of the Presuppositions of NLP states:

"The Map is not the Territory."

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