Subconscious Mind

Marketing messages follow us wherever we go. We switch on the television and see advertisements with people who look like models (because they are). We are told how we can be better and have more. This subconsciously gives us the message: we aren’t enough! We aren’t good enough, smart enough, rich enough, etc. Having too much information about others isn’t helpful. It results in constant comparison and disappointment with what is causing us to indulge in unrealistic expectations. Marketers benefit when you feel like you need to do something before you are good enough. That way you will buy their products. Social media paints pictures of the glamorous lifestyle of others. This creates lop-sided, unrealistic expectations from life. ...

Most of our learning happened as little children. Our subconscious mind was programmed between the age of 0–7 years. This was the time when we could make very little sense of what was happening to us. Our filters were not established and everything that we heard about ourselves was swallowed straight in, may be due to repetition by role models or due to emotions we attached to each experience. As infants, we did not have language to process what was happening to us. We only knew, feels good and feels bad. That became the template for learning and to this day our emotions guide our behaviours. These emotions are a big part of our subconscious mind which was programmed in our growing years. ...