PART 1

The past decade or so has seen
significant scientific findings regarding the subconscious mind,
specifically what it really is and how to effectively reprogram it.
Given these astounding findings it is imperative for every person to
fully understand this aspect of their being and the way it impacts on
their lives and their existence. In fact on their very future.

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OK, now consider the following statements and decide whether you believe they are either true or false:

• It is possible to never get ill
• It is possible to change the temperament or personality characteristics we inherited
• It is possible to never experience stress
• It is possible to become more intellectually and emotionally intelligent

Now hold your answers in mind because we will revisit these statements further on.

But for now let us consider the following facts or problems:

•
billions are spent on healthcare every year in both the private and
public sectors in the Republic of South Africa and many other countries
• up to 90 percent of illnesses treated by primary healthcare practitioners are stress-related
• about 67 percent of people hate their jobs because of their managers (due to lack of their leadership skills)
• numerous people across the world struggle with a multitude of
personal problems including ‘personality’ issues such as poor anger
management, lack of confidence, poor self-esteem, body management
issues such as obesity, spirituality issues and many others

Although
individuals and companies across the world face numerous problems I
have chosen to highlight these simply because of my experience in
healthcare and business. Nonetheless is it not curious that despite
decades of research and advances in business, healthcare, finance and
many other areas that problems in these areas persist and in many
instances seem to be getting worse?

However, be that as it may,
the BIG question is ‘Can these problems be solved?’ and if so ‘How?’
Well Einstein hit the nail on the head when he said that ‘problems can
never be solved with the same level of thinking that created the
problems’. I would add to that ‘nor with the same level of
consciousness’. Thus what is required is a higher level of thinking and
consciousness in order to decrease these problems significantly or to
eliminate them completely. Now in order to attain this higher level of
thinking and consciousness we need to acquire and apply knowledge,
specifically knowledge about the subconscious mind. And by doing so we
will empower ourselves by putting the control of our lives back into
the palms of our own hands (since, as you may know, the lives of most
people on the planet are controlled by outside forces). But not only
that, we will then also be in a position to contribute to the solution
of our own problems and perhaps our company’s problems, our community’s
problems, our country’s problems and the world’s problems too.

So
to re-iterate, knowledge of the subconscious mind, specifically what it
is and how to reprogram it is vital if we are going to use this massive
internal resource of ours to our own and the world’s benefit.

But
before we can discuss the subconscious mind it is important that we
understand what the conscious mind is. Now the following definition of
the conscious mind is purely my own and you are most welcome to
disagree with it if you wish! And this is it:

The conscious mind
is a product of a fully functioning living brain and is characterized
by the ability of the brain to be aware of various brain and body
functions such as thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations, behaviours
etc and to execute certain functions such as thinking, concentration,
remembering, exercise of free will etc.

Note that I have said
fully functioning – because when you are comatose or unconscious your
brain is not fully functioning although your brain is still alive.

OK,
now on to the subject of this discussion, the Subconscious Mind, and
specifically what it is and how to reprogram it as we’ve alluded to
before. And again this definition is my own:

The subconscious
mind consists of all involuntary (generally) processes & functions
including thoughts, beliefs, emotions, memories, skills, instincts and
behaviours that are generated by and occur in the living brain and body
and which we are unaware of.

Now note that in this definition we have included both the brain and body because the subconscious resides in the body also.

Alright,
now let us briefly discuss some of the functions of the subconscious
mind. And we say briefly because an extensive discussion on this topic
is beyond the scope of this article. The functions are as follows:

1.
Regulation of body functions. The subconscious mind regulates all
involuntary bodily functions such as breathing, circulation,
temperature, healing of tissues and organs and many others.

2.
Storehouse and processor of all of our emotions, memories and
subconscious beliefs. Our entire spectrum of emotions is recorded in
the subconscious mind. Every experience and related feeling we have
ever had is memorized by being encoded in the cellular structure of our
brain and body. And these experiences and related feelings then play a
role in guiding our future actions and behavior.

3. Provider of
creativity and imagination. All our powers of creativity and
imagination are housed in the subconscious mind and can be tapped into
anytime we wish to do so. Albert Einstein said ‘Imagination is more
important than knowledge’ recognizing that our powers of imagination
are truly vast, perhaps even limitless.

4. Information recorder,
organizer and retriever. Every event that we become consciously aware
of or participate in is recorded by the subconscious mind. And all
thoughts, feelings, memories and the meanings we assign to these events
are also recorded. These experiences often become our beliefs. But not
only does our subconscious record all our experiences, thoughts,
feelings, memories and beliefs, it also neatly organizes or categorizes
them and retrieves them super-efficiently under the right circumstances.

5.
Automator. Every habit of mind and body is carried out by the
subconscious mind. For example we can walk, run, sit, ride a bicycle or
perform a number of other physical acts without ever consciously
thinking about how to do them. They just take place automatically
thanks to our powerful subconscious mind. Likewise feelings are also
automatically generated in the subconscious mind as we go about our
daily activities and interactions with other people. For example if we
see someone we like we automatically feel good while negative feelings
are often generated in the cells and tissues of our body when we come
across someone with whom we’ve had a negative experience in the past
perhaps.

6. Script writer. The subconscious mind is forever writing the story of our life and edits it accordingly.

7.
Generator of energy vibrations (feelings). Humans are vibrational
beings, emitting energy vibrations constantly, moment-to-moment, day in
and day out. These vibrations are generated and directed by the
subconscious mind and can be positive or negative dependant on the
thoughts that we are thinking at the time. Thoughts of appreciation,
joy and gratitude flood our cells and bodies with chemicals which
produce the same feelings or vibrations. Thus focusing on such thoughts
enhances our health, well-being and vitality. Of course negative
thoughts produce the opposite effect which explains why negative -
thinking people always feel stressed and ill. However our energy
vibrations don’t only have a positive or negative impact on ourselves
but also the same impact on others around us. By emitting loving or
joyful energy vibrations our subconscious influences others to feel the
same way towards us. Thus the energy field we are emitting
moment-to-moment draws a matching field back towards us.

8.
Butler. Like a human butler, the subconscious mind does anything we ask
of it in the form of the thoughts we think or what we say to our self -
our self-talk. And it does so with no questioning or backchat. The
problem with this though is that regardless of the quality or type of
our thoughts or instructions to the subconscious it will carry them out
anyway. This should serve as a warning to us to be extremely vigilant
about what we are thinking or what we say to ourselves lest we instruct
our butler to do things that will not be to our benefit – or worse
still, be harmful to us.

We will do well to always remember that
our subconscious mind has immense control over our lives, and will
carry out its programmed instructions automatically regardless of our
conscious opinions or efforts.

Now let us move on to something
which is central to this discussion. And that is the vitally important
subject of subconscious beliefs. Important because it is they which
ultimately determine our destiny and control our life.

Now the
question is ‘What are beliefs’. Regardless of how they are defined
beliefs are ultimately instructions which are coded and stored in the
cells of the nervous system and body. Similar to a software programmer
who writes instructions into a computer program on how the computer
should run or operate so beliefs are instructions as to how we should
feel, act or behave or how our lives should run or operate.

A
good example of this is Roger Banister who in 1954 ran the mile in
under 4 minutes. Before this feat it was a commonly held belief that it
was not possible. But on this day Bannister’s belief instructed his
entire being to do whatever was necessary to achieve this goal. And
amazingly what happened after that was that several more people
achieved the same goal because they now also believed that it was
possible. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay, the first people to
summit Mt. Everest is another great example. And I am sure you can
recall many others.

Before discussing beliefs further it is
important to deal with the matter of perception simply because beliefs
and perceptions go hand in hand. They cannot be separated from each
other since they are inextricably intertwined, the one exerting a
significant influence over the other.

So what is a perception
then? A perception is simply an awareness of the environment via
feelings and sensations. Perceptions are our sensory experiences.

So
if your eyes are closed and someone creeps up on you and sticks a pin
in your arm, you will immediately become aware that something in your
environment has caused you to feel a sudden stab of pain. Our lives
then are really about responding to our environment (both internal and
external). If there were no signals or stimuli from the environment
(such as the pin prick) then we would not respond since there would be
no need to respond. There would be nothing to respond to!

But the
interesting thing is that not every one responds in the same way to
environmental signals even if these signals are exactly the same. For
example two men see a woman wearing a very short skirt walking down the
street. The one man, feeling a sense of disgust or some other negative
emotion, just shakes his head and looks the other way while the second
man gets all excited at what he is witnessing and gives a wolf whistle.
These are two very different behavioural responses to the same
environmental occurrence or signal no doubt. The question is why does
this happen? And the answer is because of perception. How we respond to
the environment depends on how we perceive it.

So, at the end of the day it is our perception that creates our experience of the world around us.

But
why do perceptions differ? Because they are influenced by our beliefs.
And so it is our beliefs which control our behaviour through
influencing our perceptions. Our beliefs thus act as filters for our
perceptions.

Now how does this happen? OK now we are going to get
a little technical here but please bear with me. I’ll try to keep it as
brief as possible (although please keep in mind that this is a very
simplified explanation of the actual process). Firstly it must be
pointed out that there are two mechanisms or signalling systems by
which the cells of the nervous system (neurones) and the body
communicate with each other. The first is an electromagnetic system
which operates through the connective tissue system spread throughout
the body and brain. This connective tissue system extends right into
the cytoplasm and nuclei of the cells of the nervous and body tissues
and signals from this system thus have a direct impact on the cells and
their DNA. The second, an electro-chemical system, involves the
movement of ions across cell membranes (an action potential), the
diffusion of chemicals called neurotransmitters between neurones and
muscle cells and the diffusion of chemicals called neurohormones from
neurones into the blood stream. The latter conveys these hormones to
other neurons and body cells where they interact with receptors on the
cell membranes. These receptors are protein molecules embedded in the
membranes of the cells and protrude from them like antennae. When the
neurohormones bind with the receptors they also cause changes to occur
in the cells, including having an influence on proteins called
behavioral proteins in the cells and the selection and expression of
their DNA.

With respect to the speed of transmission of signals
through the two systems it is actually a no-contest situation. Signal
conduction via the electromagnetic system is mind-bendingly fast
compared to the electrochemical system. For example during a time
period of one second an electrochemically-conducted signal only travels
a distance of one centimeter while an electromagnetic signal would be a
distance of about two hundred and ninety thousand kilometers from its
origin! No contest indeed!

Although the difference in conduction
capability is stark, both systems as we have seen can activate cells
and their genes to realize the goals or intentions of the individual.
And signals also continuously pass back and forth from the brain to the
cells and tissues of the body and from here back to the brain and so
on. However electromagnetic signals, unsurprisingly, zip along these
loops instantaneously.

Now signaling of cells either
electromagnetically or electrochemically causes them to feel a certain
way – which of course is perception. And, since beliefs are
instructions which are coded into the cells of the nervous and body
tissues, as signals are conducted via the two systems beliefs impact on
them thereby influencing their effect on the cells and tissues i.e.
their feelings or perceptions and the selection and expression of their
DNA. In other words beliefs control the perception or feelings of the
tissues and how their DNA is selected and expressed. These feelings are
then followed by a behavioral response which could be, for example, the
shaking of a head or fist, a shout, a dash to safety or any of the
numerous behaviors that humans display. And we become consciously aware
of these feelings because of the continuous feedback loop between the
tissues and the brain and the brain and the tissues as mentioned
previously. In fact every thought we think reverberates through our
communication systems, activating or de-activating genes and producing
either a protection-inducing stress response or a growth-stimulating
and healing response.

And perhaps even more interesting is the
fact that research evidence indicates that the connective tissue system
may also have the ability to conduct signals from the quantum field of
the universe into the body and from here back to the field. Scientists
believe that our connective tissue system may be a quantum resonator.

So
as we have now seen beliefs determine gene selection, expression &
behavior of the organism. This control of genes by factors outside of
the genes themselves is called Epigenetics. ‘Epi’ means ‘above’. For
decades it was thought that genes select and express themselves without
any outside factors influencing them to do so. But this, as we now
know, is incorrect. So if you hold certain beliefs about food for
example you may develop a craving (intense feeling) for it which would
cause you to eat a lot of it (your behavior) and you could end up being
dangerously overweight.

Now if you do not believe that beliefs
create behavior then consider this experiment which involved 148
students. This group, the test group, were taken to a bar and served.
And the bar was typical of any real bar. All the bottles, glasses,
smells, and customers drinking alcohol were real. In fact everything
about the bar was real – except one thing, the alcohol. The group was
served fake alcohol. The bottles from which their drinks were poured
contained only tonic water. However the drinks were mixed, poured and
served by the barmen in exactly the same way they would alcoholic
drinks. And the results were astounding – the students became
intoxicated. They behaved in the same way intoxicated people do. And
even more surprising was the fact that their brains and bodies also
experienced the same neuro-chemical changes that such people do. This
is significant evidence that beliefs produce behavior. The students
behaved in an intoxicated fashion because they believed they were
drinking alcohol. Their subconscious belief instructed them to do so.

Although
on being told that they only drank tonic water many of the students
were astounded because they had actually felt drunk. Beliefs are
powerful indeed!

OK, so let us recap:

1. Genes do not control biology / behaviour – beliefs (via perceptions) do
2. Genes (DNA) are only a blue print for protein production
3. Genes do not self-activate (turn themselves off and on)
4. The external environment (experiences) generates beliefs which provide signals to the cells of the body

In
fact the reality has always been the Primacy of the Environment &
NOT the Primacy of DNA i.e. the environment (internal & external)
selects genes and not the genes themselves.

It must also be
mentioned at this point that beliefs can actually rewrite genes. For
example if you were born with no cancer genes but you somehow through
the course of your life acquire beliefs about cancer then it is quite
possible (and probable) that you could (and would) get cancer as a
result of these new beliefs rewriting your genes and producing
cancer-causing ones. As we have said, beliefs are powerful indeed!

Now
here’s the million dollar question: Can we change our beliefs? And the
answer of course is YES! Beliefs are not static and can definitely be
changed. We are not victims of heredity or genetic control. So if you
hold beliefs that are not working for you then this does not have to be
the case forever. If you are depressed because of your environmental
experiences for example then you do not have to continue to feel this
way for years on end or take anti-depressants every day just in order
to feel better. No you hold the solution to your problem right within
yourself. All you need to do is reprogram your subconscious mind. And
this holds for many, many other problems too.

But here’s the rub.
Many people fail to solve their problems or achieve the goals they set
for themselves because of limiting beliefs they hold. What are limiting
beliefs? These are disempowering, self-destructive or self- sabotaging
beliefs. They cause you to feel and behave in a way which prevents you
from realizing your consciously stated objectives or cause you to
continue to experience a problem or problems which you have been trying
to resolve. Common limiting beliefs include beliefs of hopelessness,
powerlessness and worthlessness. The latter is particularly common with
many people believing that they are not worthy of achieving whatever
they want to achieve such as getting over an illness or resolving a
problem for example. Hopelessness on the other hand is a feeling
stemming from a belief that neither you nor anybody else has the
ability to solve a problem. The situation is utterly hopeless. And
finally a feeling of powerlessness or helplessness stems from a
limiting belief that you do not have the power nor the ability to solve
a problem although others may be able to.

OK, so let us get back to the statements mentioned previously:

• It is possible to never get ill
• It is possible to change our temperament or personality characteristics we inherited
• It is possible to never experience stress
• It is possible to become more intellectually and emotionally intelligent

Yes they are all true but only if you hold the correct beliefs of course!

So now the question you may ask is ‘how do we change our beliefs?’ And the answer is

‘through
a process of Intentional Mind Programming’. What’s that you ask? Are we
talking about brainwashing here? Well firstly it is important to
realize that all of us are being programmed every single day, some of
it good and some of it bad, some of it unintentional and some of it
intentional no doubt. By whom you ask? By external forces or influences
such as the media, government, corporations and even by the companies
we work for. But this is not the intentional mind programming we are
referring to here. No this form of intentional mind programming refers
to the willful application of various technologies, techniques and
practices to change or remove old thoughts, beliefs, feelings and
behaviors and to install new ones by an individual and for his or her
own benefit. In other words Intentional Mind Programming involves the
informed and voluntary decisions and actions by individuals to change
their reactions to internal and external stimuli in order to achieve
whatever outcome they desire or wish to experience.

So now imagine these scenarios for a moment:

• Continuously healthy and happy individuals and employees
• Optimally performing individuals and companies
• Minimal spending on illness as an individual or company
• Maximized sales

Achieving whatever outcome you or your
company intends or desires is possible. All it takes is deliberate
programming of the subconscious mind with the appropriate information
which will ensure that this objective is achieved. This is the crux of
Intentional Mind Programming.

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1. Robyn on June 16, 2009 2:17 pm Edit This

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3. Reginald Trotter on June 17, 2009 3:09 am Edit This

   Good knowledge, I have been work on reprogramming my thoughts for the last three years, my life has change so much for the better, Peace and God bless.

   Reggie.