If everything we do is involved
in pursuing particular goals, why aren’t we aware of this? It is easy to think
of planning to purchase a house or to complete a training course as a goal, but
we rarely consider very simple things, such as sitting down or scratching our nose,
as goals. How can these be goals if we barely need to think about them? And
when you walk, you never think about taking one step at a time, you just walk
and take the mechanism behind it for granted, just as you do not need to think
about how to hold a pen while writing. Yet all these are goals governed by
exactly the same principles as purchasing a house or planning a holiday.
The difference is that when we
are pursuing minor goals, we have a powerful ally doing everything for us: our
subconscious mind. Imagine somebody throwing a tennis ball to you. Quickly and instinctively
you extend your arm and (hopefully) catch the ball in mid-air. But think about
it: who placed your body in the right position to intercept the ball, moved the
muscles in your arms, hands, and other body parts, and then flexed your grip
exactly when the ball reached you? That was your subconscious mind at work. All
you did was to have an intention: ‘catch the ball,’ and your subconscious mind
did all the rest.
Let’s take another example.
Remember when you learned to ride a bicycle or drive a car? At first, you had
to be conscious of every movement, but after some practice, it all became more
automatic. You developed muscle memory and were then able to ride or drive while
attending to other matters.
Your subconscious
mind does much of the work for you. Not only is our subconscious mind our best
partner, but it also ‘knows better’ than our conscious mind. Consider memory:
whether we consciously remember something or not, our inner mind always remembers
it better. Experiments investigating brain activity have shown that even if we
aren’t aware of having seen a particular object before, the memories of this
object are present at a deeper level. Brain scans showing activity levels
demonstrated that the imprints of objects previously observed are there in our
neuronal circuits even if we cannot consciously remember having seen them
(Phillips, 2003b).
"We live
primarily in a subconscious world, unaware of what is motivating us, directing
our attention or prompting our actions. These inner forces are imbedded in
subconscious mental representations, which are responsible for our beliefs, intentions,
and behaviors.
This chain of
events is primarily influenced by the thoughts we entertain, which means our
thoughts are a primary determining force in our achievements.
Whatever we
think about persistently, and with emotion, will have a high chance of becoming
a reality.
Left untrained, our
mind may focus on negative or undesirable thoughts, distracting our natural
achieving machinery from our intended goals and redirecting our efforts towards
unintended objectives, difficulties or failure."
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