I started the new year off with an Empowerment presentation. I love giving presentations because I love to research, love to learn and love to share. It was exciting to see the buzz of energy from the audience after the first session. After it was all over, it was even more fascinating to review the surveys from different attendees. It really brought home the fact that we all have different lenses through which we view life and which significantly alter how we hear, see and process the world around us.
One of the points that I focused on were those things that “block” people from becoming successful, reaching for the stars, going for the gold. Although there are both external and internal “blocks”, the continuing research highlights our ability to overcome those blocks if we dig deep enough (I like the phrase “going cellular” in describing how deep we have to dig).
As children, in our formative years, we relied on and unquestioningly adopted many of the beliefs and emotional patterns of our parents, siblings, friends, and teachers. We were sponges regardless of how dull, tainted or dysfunctional the people around us were. Those hidden core beliefs, and the misconceptions, fears, defenses, and biases formed mostly before age ten, were stored in our subconscious mind and became a large part of our imprint.
As adults, more than eighty percent (80%) of what we think, feel and do is controlled by our subconscious mind; that part of the brain that does not respond to logic and reason. Our brain is a well organized storage facility capable of evaluating and filing every experience and our subconscious mind has a fondness for patterns. So each new experience we encounter, is quickly matched against ones that have occurred in our past and are stored in our subconscious. And what we were told or experienced as children, replays as a filter on our current experience, regardless of whether it is valid or not. The difficulty is that we don’t even know the recorded memory is replaying.
As adults we have gained knowledge, experience, the ability to question and analyze, yet our lives are still negatively affected by the complex, layered subconscious belief systems formed during childhood. If you haven’t gone cellular and removed the blocks, your subconscious and those imprints from childhood may still control your destiny.
