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IS LIFE AN ILLUSION?
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IS LIFE AN ILLUSION? 🧠 Our mind is dividing into the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. 🤔 We process all our information in the conscious mind. It’s where we think about things, analyse, criticise, make decisions and try to remember things. It’s constantly spinning around from thought to thought. Interestingly, it’s not fully developed until around puberty. Those of you with might relate to this. 🙌 The subconscious mind is the non-analytical part of our brain that is fully developed at birth. It’s there to help us survive by learning from & observing our parents, peers and environment while we’re growing up. It’s all about instincts, feelings and emotions, and it’s where all the early information we receive is stored. It believes everything because it doesn’t have a filter – so it doesn’t know what is true or not true. 👨👩👧👦 So, when I was a and my parents told me ‘Jeni, you have to go to university to get a secure, well paid job’ I believed them and went to university. When my mum said ‘Money doesn’t make you happy’ I took that on board too & for most of my life I didn't respect $$. 💫 Here’s the big thing. Our subconscious mind RUNS OUR LIVES based on unfiltered, unanalyzed information it gathered when we were growing up – our beliefs and values. 💫 Our beliefs can be about people, work, society, fear, confidence, Money, our ability, our appearance, self-worth, health and fitness, relationships, our parenting, emotions… just about everything. 💫 Most of the time we are completely oblivious to these subconscious beliefs… but they are there, and they often govern our choices and actions. 💫 When our conscious mind finally shows up, it thinks it’s in control... but it isn’t. 🤔 That’s why so many of us travel through life doing everything we think is right and remain mystified as to why we’re not living the fantastic life we truly want. 💃 It’s not until we become aware of our beliefs and start to question them that life becomes really interesting. That’s when we start to WAKE UP… and we realise we can get rid of our limiting subconscious beliefs and replace them with empowering beliefs that will help us live extraordinary lives. 🙌 I didn’t become aware of many of my beliefs until about 4 years ago when I started doing some personal development. My dream was to stop working for someone else and to start my own business. My beliefs about myself and what was possible had to change because my employee mentality got in the way of my desire to become a business person. 🥰 It was very obvious to me many of my beliefs weren’t helping me improve my life. And I’ve had to look at my beliefs again now that I have started my own business, stepped into leadership & am earning a better income. So, out with any beliefs that don’t serve me and time to replace them with kickass beliefs and a mindset for success. 🙌 The first step in changing our beliefs is to start looking at them. To wake up and become aware. |
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A thorough and timely post! After a couple of decades of ridicule and *displacement*, Freudian theory (and practice) is making a comeback. While Cognitive Behavior Therapy was seductive because of its simplicity and (advertised) rapid-delivery of *solutions* (ie, less time and insurance money spent *on the couch*), I was never a fan. Like you, I believe that our conscious mind is the tip of a proverbial iceberg, with our (submerged) subconscious mind doing all the heavy lifting and therefore requiring the bulk of analysis and therapy. You and I also share the experience of starting a business and enjoying the serendipitous opening of our *doors of perception* as regards our inner psyches. If I were of an intellectual bent, I might enjoy studying this connection more deeply, with eye towards understanding the linkage between entrepreneurial ventures and mindful self-awareness.
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