The Major Commands of the Unconscious Mind – Part I

We have all heard and probably read that Unconscious Mind runs our life.  But I wonder if you really know how powerful it is?

We live in a world were we think that all things happen because of our Conscious Mind.  But in reality our Conscious Mind has only plays a small part in our reality – compared to our Unconscious Mind.

In this first part (of two) I’d like to go over the prime directives of the Unconscious Mind.  These directives come from a few sources, i.e. NLP, Time Line Empowerment/Therapy® as well as Huna.

One very important idea to realize is that all change, learning and behavior is performed in the Unconscious Mind. We can talk with our Conscious Mind, i.e. reason, but at the same time, we also can communicate with the Unconscious Mind.  This communication is about the kind of changes we want to make, those behaviors that don’t support were we want to go and the leanings we need to take from every experience.  In order to develop our personal empowerment and enhance our personal performance we need to incorporate and utilize the work of the Unconscious Mind .

So a basic understanding of how the Unconscious Mind works can help in being able to work with it.  

Let’s begin by defining the Unconscious Mind. The Unconscious Mind as the part of your Mind, that you’re not conscious of, right NOW! I mean think about that for just a minute, because until I mentioned it, you weren’t conscious of the feeling of your feet against the floor, or the backs of your legs against the chair, or your back against the chair. As you read this, you aren’t so conscious of the noises going on around you.

Certainly, there are some noises that are coming from around you. All of those things that you weren’t necessarily conscious of … and certainly you weren’t conscious of your eyes blinking, or your breathing, or the beating of your heart, and all of those things are things which your Unconscious Mind does for you.

The Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind sort of put the notion of change in perspective, because the fact is, when we create change, the changes we create are going to happen at the unconscious level, and in conjunction with the Unconscious Mind.

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 1
• The Unconscious Mind stores our memories.
  • It stores our memories in relationship to time, and it stores our memories not in relationship to time. There is a word here that is important and that is “relationship” … We will consider it a little later. The word is temporal; it means in relationship to time, and that means our Time Line, and atemporal means not in relationship to time. Usually the language that we learn, the language that we know and the meanings of the words are not learned in relationship to time. Now ‘relationship’ is very important because it is a job of the Unconscious Mind to create relationships, or ‘connectedness’, at the unconscious level.

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 2
• The Unconscious Mind makes association (links similar “things” and ideas) and learns quickly.
  • As we experience life our unconscious takes these experiences and “categorizes” them by similarity.  This assist us when we come across something new we’re able to pick that “thing’ up quickly, i.e. rollerblading and ice skating.  Unfortunately this can also hold us back.  If we try something and fail, then if try something similar our unconscious will “know” that we have failed before and we fail again.  Now a limiting belief has been created.   This is why developing mental and replacing limiting beliefs empowers us to significantly increase our personal performance.

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 3
• The Unconscious Mind organizes all of our memories
  • It uses the Time Line, and the mechanics of that organization is known as the Gestalt. Our memories are organized generally according to time, but they’re also organized according to subject. They are also organized according to feelings and then that is what allows us to have a certain chain of memories of happiness, or a certain chain of memories of frustration. The Unconscious Mind will chain all of those together in a Gestalt.

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 4
• The Unconscious Mind will repress memories with Unresolved Negative Emotions.
  • The metaphor of Hawaiian Huna, which is the psychology of ancient Hawaii, said that often times the Unconscious Mind will take a memory with Unresolved Negative Emotions on it, and put it into ‘a little black bag’ … and then shove it down.   Until these repressed emotions are dealt with we continue to bring them into our future.  Have you ever noticed that you keep experiencing certain negative situations over and over?  These situations are directly connected to your unresolved emotions, and until they are resolved you will keep reliving your “past” by placing it into your future.  

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 5
• The Unconscious Mind presents repressed memories for resolution.
  • The Unconscious Mind will brings those unresolved memories to be dealt with and resolved….and usually at strangest times. 
  • Let’s say you’ve set an inspiring goal, your all excited about it.  Then in a few days you get a thought about something that happened in your past that you’re still holding on to.
  • Your unconscious is telling you that before you’ll be able to achieve your goal you’ll need to deal with this emotion. Sure you may be able to bully way to the goal, but the effort wills much more then if you had resolved the negative emotion, and the results will be fleeting and not long lasting.
  • The Unconscious Mind also realizes that those Negative Emotions aren’t really good for us. The Unconscious Mind ’s job is to bring up those memories for resolution.
  • If you have gained resolution on a certain memory, sometime in the past, you may have found that it ceased to bother you. In fact, that is actually the mechanics of how Time Line Therapy® works, it ignites your personal empowerment.

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 6
• The Unconscious Mind has the right to keep repressed emotions repressed for your protection.
  • Often, that’s the mechanism where by we don’t actually remember the full content of a certain memory.  The event can be so dramatic that in order for us to survive and function the Unconscious Mind suppresses the experience.  Unfortunately what ever that event was we still being the emotions and beliefs with us into the future.
  • By observing patterns in our life and results and have no clue what so ever we can then begin to uncover these deep dark emotions through Time Line Therapy®, NLP and personal development.     

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 7
• The Unconscious Mind runs the body.
  •  Now that’s useful. Its better that the Unconscious Mind should do it than that we have to do it. Certainly if I had to breathe myself every day… think about that for a minute… if I had to breath in… and then breathe out… and in and out… You’d have to sit there and think about it. “Is it time to breathe in yet? You don’t have to remember to do that. The Unconscious Mind does it so that everything happens automatically for you.
  • So, the Unconscious Mind runs the body, and it also has a blueprint that it uses to run the body. It has a blueprint of the body now, and it also has a blueprint of perfect health, and that blueprint of perfect health is stored in the deepest part of the Unconscious Mind. The Unconscious Mind has access to a blueprint of perfect health, and we use that blueprint when we are asking the Unconscious Mind to begin to heal the body.

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 8
• The Unconscious Mind preserves the Body.
  • It maintains the integrity of the body. All things being equal, the Unconscious Mind will always take as its highest job, the preservation of the body.
  • Now sometimes, Unconscious Mind “forgets” about this. So then there are things like ‘dis-ease’, which crop up.  It’s really not forgetting in the true sense of the word, but more like being reprogrammed by limiting beliefs.  These beliefs get there by reading “authoritative” reports, studies, news and books. But the fact is that the highest job of the Unconscious Mind is to preserve the body. This is probably the most important Prime Directive of the Unconscious Mind … which is to preserve the body.

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 9
• The Unconscious Mind is the domain of the emotions.
  • It’s where all the emotions live. Someone who is not all that well connected with their emotions may not have as good a connection with the Unconscious Mind as someone who is well connected to their emotions. So, the Unconscious Mind is the part of us that feels, although we are certainly conscious of our emotions, but typically the emotions are stored and organized and kept in the Unconscious Mind.
  • This is why developing the mental strength to go into the Unconscious Mind with processes and techniques like NLP, Time Line Therapy® and shamanism are so important. When we get access to negative emotions we can then find the “root cause” and work with that, as opposed to the effects it has on our life. 

• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind # 10
• The Unconscious Mind is a highly moral Being.
  • It accepts the morality which you’ve been taught and which you have accepted. You may have heard it said that there is even honor among thieves … which is why everyone can have a different morality. We can have a different morality because the Unconscious Mind has to accept a certain morality … and either it will accept, or reject, the morality that you grew up with.

Well that’s it for Part I. I hope you’re beginning to realize how much influence our Unconscious Mind has in creating our results, reality and our experiences.  

And the only way to affect lasting change is work at the level of Unconscious with mental strength techniques like hypnosis, NLP, Time Line Therapy® and shamanisms.

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