The power of the subconscious mind – Planting your garden
The tremendous power of the subconscious mind simply cannot be denied. Throughout the centuries there has been much study on the secrets of the mind. The last decades have deepened the study of the subconscious. Research has revealed the power of the subconscious and the role it plays in our daily lives.
Some studies show that your conscious mind only comprises about 12% of your total mind and is the only part that actually “thinks”. You use your conscious mind for tasks like planning and problem solving.
However, your subconscious comprises a much larger percentage of your mind. The subconscious acts like a giant tape recorder, carefully recording every experience that comes into your life. Regardless of whether the event is joyous or traumatic, brings pleasure or pain, or results in success or failure, it is all filed away in the memory banks of the subconscious. Along with the events, your emotions associated with those events are also recorded and put together in one neat little package. Are you beginning to see the power of the subconscious mind?
Take a moment and visualize your subconscious mind as a very fertile garden. This garden is full of little seeds, some planted by you and many planted by others in your life. When you were a young child, your parents were the main gardeners who planted the first seeds. If they planted seeds of encouragement, trust, love, praise, and support, chances are you’d have a beautiful blooming garden in the spring of your life.
On the other hand, if you planted seeds of doubt, ridicule, mistrust, abandonment, and neglect or abuse, what should have been a garden of beauty is now likely to be barren or overrun with weeds, thistles, and thorns, constantly choking out the good seeds. that lies below the surface.
Parents are not the only gardeners in our lives. Teachers, friends, enemies, and other family members all drop seeds when they come and go from our garden. We also plant our own seeds as we walk the path of life. The more good seeds are planted, the more fruits and flowers our garden will produce. Likewise, the more bad seeds are sown, the greater the number of tares and thistles that are produced.
One of the wonderful secrets of the mind is that learned behaviors can be overwritten. Negative thoughts and attitudes can be replaced by positive ones. Destructive clothing can be torn. By learning to use the powers of the mind, you can harness the power of the subconscious mind and begin to reap the benefits of the bountiful garden you were meant to have.
Once we become our own gardeners, and we all do, we have the opportunity to dig up our garden, cultivate the soil, and begin the replanting process. What was once a barren wasteland can become a lush, fertile garden filled with fruits, flowers, vegetables, and everything good you can imagine. You are the gardener and it is your garden. Start repotting today!