21.
The subconscious computer
NOTE:
This is an excerpt from the book The
Least You Should Know About Life.
Where does the ego reside and what enables it to hide from the conscious
self? It resides in the lower part of your being, the part that you
use to express yourself in the material world. This part of your being
is often called the subconscious mind and both traditional psychology,
self-help philosophies and spiritual teachings say it has a very powerful
influence upon your life.
As explained above, the simplest way to understand the subconscious
mind is to compare it to a computer. Once a program has been created,
it will take over your response to many situations. Thus, your conscious
self is no longer in control over your reactions to outer circumstances
and your life is being run by the subconscious computer. Some people
allow their entire lives to be run by such subconscious programs and
they have virtually no control over their reactions. They act like biological
robots who rarely make conscious decisions but allow most of their decisions
to be made at the subconscious level. Obviously, this will prevent you
from taking control over your inner circumstances. Take note that a
computer cannot change its own programming—it will keep doing
the same thing indefinitely.
As one example of a subconscious computer program, consider a person
who found it difficult to learn math. Perhaps someone even accused the
person of being stupid when it came to math. The person built a subconscious
computer program which is based on the belief that he cannot and does
not need or want to learn math. If he finds himself in a situation where
he needs to use math, this program will take over. It will come up with
all kinds of excuses for why he cannot, does not need to or does not
want to use or learn math. The fact that a person could not learn math
as a child does not mean he or she cannot learn it as an adult. Yet
if you allow the subconscious programs to run your life, you will never
even try to learn something new, and this might prevent you from pursuing
new opportunities.
There is an almost infinite variety of such subconscious computer programs,
and many of them can be psychologically crippling. For example, all
addictions can be traced back to a subconscious computer program. Also,
many people have been emotionally abused as children and seem to attract
abusive people to them in adulthood, repeating the same patterns in
a seemingly endless cycle that they do not have the power to break.
It now becomes clear that if you are to take control over your life
experience, you must push back the barrier of conscious awareness, so
you can uncover self-destructive subconscious programs and remove them
from your mind. Unfortunately, doing so will meet resistance from your
ego, which uses the subconscious programs to control you and to hide
itself. Thus, many people do not attempt to clean out their subconscious
minds until they are forced to by a major crisis.
The subconscious programs cause you to make unconscious decisions that
lead to limiting consequences. If your conscious self refuses to make
conscious decisions, you allow other subconscious programs to determine
your reaction to those consequences and this leads to more unconscious
choices that create even more limiting consequences. This essentially
puts you inside a box that keeps getting smaller and smaller until it
seems like you can hardly move, like you have no options in life. The
most common reaction of people who are trapped in this pattern is, “I
had no choice!” Finally, this downward spiral culminates in a
major crisis that causes your conscious self to wake up and decide it
has to take back some control over your life and start making conscious
decisions.
Yet there is no reason why you should have to let your life slide into
a crisis before your conscious self decides to take back control over
your life. You can – at any time – make the decision to
get back in the driver’s seat and start cleaning out the hard
drive of the subconscious computer. It is the goal of this book to inspire
you to take back control over your life without experiencing a major
crisis. Yet to take back control, you need to know more about your subconscious
mind, including your energy body.
22.
Your energy body
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