Happy Tuesday,
I've had some remarkable interactions over the past week. Thank you to all of you who shared comments, sent links and thoughts. I 'love' it!
It's quite amazing how hard it is to stay on track when making change isn't it? Most of the comments I got were about forgetting to maintain the practice or having the mind wander so much during the 10 minutes that you forgot what you started trying to do. It's fantastic that you tried and for the few of you that had a breakthrough, congratulations. When you get the nerve to share the comments publicly we could all learn so much... but we're in no rush! I fully realize how personal this is.
The purpose of my sharing these practices with you was to introduce you to the way your mind does what it does. Many of you are all very aware of how the mind works but for those of you that aren't I'll offer this bit of info that might surprise you. We will do this in computer terms because everyone of you are using one at the moment so you at least know the basics.
Your conscious mind (you know, the voice that was nattering away while you tried to concentrate) processes 184 bits of information a second... a lot huh? Your subconscious mind (the place where all your 'beliefs' and such are stored) processes 2 million bits of information per second.
Conscious mind: Part of you that actively decide to 'do' something.
Subconscious mind: Part that does it.
For example, you type on your computer because you subconscious knows how to do what your fingers need to do after your conscious mind decides 'what to type'. In other words, the tons of little muscles in your fingers firing away 'seems automatic' but that's your subconscious mind dealing with every process (while healing you, beating your heart, breathing, growing your hair etc) 'after' your conscious mind decides what to do.
Just imagine what happens when your conscious mind decides it wants to do something and your subconscious mind goes...'no thanks'. 184 bits to 2,000,000 bits. Who wins?
That's why you know how to lose weight or simply eat better, you know how to stop smoking, you know that negative thoughts are useless and destructive and yet...you can't seem to do what's necessary.
Next week were going to talk about what to do fix this.... who's in?
I'm in, and my suggestion is that we all start practicing THE LAW OF ATTRACTION. Whatever you focus your mind upon becomes stronger. It is hard to do, beacuse we've been taught to see the negative, the obstacles, but once you start focusing on what you want, what you wish you could do, and not on the lack of it, not the problem, but the solution as you desire it to be, then it really works.
ReplyDeleteThanks Helen. Love it!
ReplyDeleteOf course we're all practicing the LOA right now. Your comment helps us see that we need to be doing it 'on purpose'.