How Your Mind Functions

Your conscious mind:
Your conscious mind works on the principles of selection and elimination. The conscious mind looks at options and makes purposeful choice among them. A team manager of a professional soccer team hunting for new professional players will scan all the available options and then makes purposeful choices of the players he wants. Once that choice has been made, all alternatives are eliminated. So, when the conscious sets a goal, it eliminates all alternatives.

But the conscious mind has a beautiful option. It can change what it had chosen and embark on another selection and elimination exercise. So, by repeated selection of the positive option every time the choice comes up, it can eliminate the negative option on a permanent basis. A self image change can be brought about this way and a new program can be provided for the servomechanism.

The subconscious mind:
The subconscious mind works on the agreement and compliance principle. The agreement principle describes how the self image was formed. Your subconscious mind is a 'yes man' that accepts every conscious thought as the absolute truth. Every time you engage in negative thought and say "who are we to say ......" , the subconscious mind will say " You are right , who are you to say anything at all .....". Every time you consciously assert you are not good enough for anything , your subconscious mind will immediately totally agree and say , " Yes , you are no good for anything at all " . This drama of the "yes man "continues all through the lives of people with negative self images. Uninterrupted and unchanged, this drama will imprison them to a life of inadequacy, disillusionment and resentment.

The same drama of the "yes man" is also constantly enacted in the minds of successful people but with a different twist. Instead of negative dialogue, the assertions are always positive. When the individual says , " This is an interesting and simple task to complete , the subconscious will agree and say ,"Yes, of course it is interesting and simple ".