In order to have a fulfilling life, we have to know what we want. And to know what we really want, we first have to understand ourselves. Why is it so important?
Self-Awareness: When we understand ourselves, we gain insight into our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This self-awareness allows us to recognize our strengths, weaknesses, and patterns of behavior, leading to personal growth and development.
Improved Decision-Making: It helps us make better decisions. By knowing our values, priorities, and goals, we can align our choices with what truly matters to us, leading to more fulfilling and purposeful decisions.
Enhanced Relationships: It enables us to have healthier and more meaningful relationships. When we understand our own needs, boundaries, and communication styles, we can express ourselves more effectively and empathize with others, fostering stronger connections.
Emotional Intelligence: Develops emotional intelligence, which is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our own emotions and the emotions of others. This skill enhances our self-control, empathy, and interpersonal relationships.
Personal Fulfillment: Self-understanding allows us to live authentically and in alignment with our true selves. It helps us identify our passions, interests, and purpose, leading to a greater sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in life.
Stress Reduction: We can identify and manage stress triggers more effectively. By recognizing our limits, setting boundaries, and practicing self-care, we can reduce stress and improve our overall well-being.
Personal Empowerment: It empowers us to take control of our lives. It enables us to identify and challenge limiting beliefs, overcome obstacles, and make positive changes that align with our values and aspirations.
Our Conscious and Subconscious Mind
Human beings are the most advanced species on earth in terms of intelligence, and we have the most evolved nervous system. The pre-frontal cortex of our brain enables us to have the incred-ible cognitive ability to think abstractly, rationalize, analyse, judge, have ideas and developing languages and even cultures. This part of the brain is easily accessible and the one we use the most in our daily lives. It is the conscious part of our mind, which comprises around 5%, as the tip of the iceberg of our psyche. The bigger part, the rest 95% of our psyche is below the surface of our conscious awareness, the subconscious mind, which we mostly are not aware of, yet af-fects us a great deal.
Our subconscious mind operates differently from our conscious mind. It is mainly controlled by our limbic system (primitive brain) that encompasses the long-term memory system (hippo-campus), emotion, instinct, and basic drive and survival mechanisms, like our sexual behaviours, hunger, thirst, as well as aggression/ our ‘fight or flight’ response (amygdala).
Is it possible that our preferences, judgment, behaviours, fear, anxieties, and even our success and failure are hugely influenced by what we have in our Subconscious Mind?
Why is it so powerful?
Our Subconscious mind consists of our personal and cultural beliefs, self-image, projections, fears, imagination, habits, memories that might not be easily accessible to us, as well as trauma, shame, and guilt that we are completely unaware of. While our conscious mind makes objective decisions, and directs our thoughts, our subconscious mind operates and reacts automatically along with emotions and bodily mechanisms that involve our vital body mechanisms, like our body temperature, heart rate, breathing, hormones, and other biochemical systems.
Rewriting Our Subconscious Beliefs
Perhaps there are many ways and modalities to reprogram our subconscious minds, but here I would like to share things I have learned from two great doctor and author, Dr. Joe Dispenza. In working on our subconscious mind, means that it cannot be separated from our emotions and our body, our brain, nervous system, neurochemical and bodily systems. To learn more about this, click on the book below.
