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HOW THE SUB-CONSCIOUS WORKS 8

1. THE SUB CONSCIOUS DOES NOT EVALUATE THE INPUT BUT SIMPLY RECORDS EVERYTHING

+ The more vivid the experience or thought, the deeper the impression.

+ Vivid thoughts and pictures can have the same impact as the experience.

2. IT'S THE GREAT STORE HOUSE OF INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCE.

Your entire life, every thing you have ever heard, saw, felt is recorded there. Its the experience of the five senses plus your feelings that is recorded.

3. IT'S THE GREAT PROBLEM SOLVER.

+ GIVE IT ALL THE FACTS & IMAGES AND IT WILL PROVIDE A CREATIVE ANSWER.

While our conscious mind evaluates, dissects, analyzes and focuses, the subconscious integrates, brings all the information you have given it and puts it together, some times in unique and different ways, to provide answers.

4. IT'S THE GREAT GOAL SEEKER. JUST GIVE IT A GOAL, IT WILL STRIVE TO ATTAIN IT ! .

+ It is your constant companion, subtly moving you toward your goal.

+ The sub-conscious is like a servo-mechanism, it carries out orders.

- Like an automatic pilot.

- Like the crew on the lower decks of a ship carrying out the orders of you the Captain on the bridge.

5. EARLY IMPRESSIONS REPEATED MANY TIMES PROVIDE PATTERNS IN THE SUB- CONSCIOUS THAT YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY FOLLOW.

+ The combination of your own specific DNA and tendencies combine with your environmental impacts to form patterns that become the self-image that you will follow implicitly.

+ The sub-conscious will do everything in its power to follow the self-image. (Even is its a bad one.)

- It directs you subtly to stay in your comfort zones.

- We have set points that work like a thermostat.

- For example your anxiety and risk taking, outgoing or shy set points.

· FOR ANYONE TO CHANGE THE SELF-IMAGE MUST CHANGE.

· WE EACH CAN REPROGRAM OUR SUB-CONSCIOUS, CHANGE OUR SET POINTS, AND CHANGE OUR SELF IMAGE.

· WHEN I CHANGE MY SELF-IMAGE I CHANGE HOW I NATURALLY THINK, FEEL, AND ACT. AND I AM CHANGED.

“Building Self-Esteem” Workshop

Billy Deane Lilly, Instructor 10/20/01