How Our Mind Works

The sooner you will get to the understanding of how your mind works, the better you will be able to take advantage of it for yourself. Therefore, I will begin by explaining the basics of how our mind works, as explained by Dr. Murphy.

Basically, our mind is actually two minds; or, in other words, our mind works in two parallel dimensions; the conscious and subconscious. Our conscious mind controls what we see, feel and do from choice, from decision. Our subconscious mind is what works under the surface to keep things going. It has a higher processing capacity and capability than that of the conscious mind. For illustration, count how many things you can think about simultaneously. When I say, simultaneously, I literally mean in the same instance. Back to my question. I'm sure all of you haven't been able to think of more than one thing at a time. You just can't. that's not how your conscious mind works. Deal with it.

However, our subconscious mind can. Just consider this: are you consciously choosing to take a breath here and there, in smooth rhythm? Are you consciously pumping blood to your veins and to your different organs, and making sure that the blood cells get to every last cell of your body? Are you consciously deciding to keep sleeping at night, no matter what, and if so, how are you even sleeping?! I think I can stop here. I'm sure you are intelligent beings. The point I'm trying to stress is, that our subconscious mind, in contrary to our conscious mind, can actually do many different actions simultaneously and quickly.

Let me present another illustration to how our mind works, through both the conscious and the subconscious. Picture a steam ship. The Titanic (R.I.P), for example, where there is the bridge on top, and the engine floor at the bottom level, where there are, at the very least, tens of workers, doing all kinds of tasks to make sure the engines are still running, and in the right capacity. Therefore, if the bridge orders to slow down, the workers down bellow do whatever needs to be done in order to get the engines to slow down. But let's not get lost in trying to figure out how steam ships work, and getting side-tracked from our subject.

This leads me to my next point, the understanding of the essence of the relationship between our conscious and subconscious mind. It is essentially the same relationship between the bridge of the Titanic and the engine floor. the conscious mind is the captain, the one to give orders. whereas, the subconscious mind is the one to execute, beneath the surface. For example, when you go on a run, you don't consciously tell your limbs to move this way or another at every step, and you don't tell your heart and lungs to breath and pump blood this way or another. They are all essentially doing these actions automatically, by the continuous execution of our faithful servant, our subconscious mind. The subconscious mind obeys the conscious mind, that's the basic premise.

This is simply the way our mind works. Now you are ready to enter the next step of understanding the basics of controlling the subconscious. This I will discuss in the next issue.

What is this blog all about, anyway?

I am very happy to welcome you to my new blog. Since you're probably wondering what is this all about, I will tell you first, that this may be of great help to you. It has been to many other people in the entire world, and to my humble self.

So what is it?

In this blog, I will share with you a great power I have discovered recently. It is the power of our subconscious mind; and it is a great power - if you know how to use it. The information I have is not classified or anything like that. I learned it reading Dr. Joseph Murphy's "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind", which was a landmark bestseller since the time it was published, back in the 60s.

In the book, and in many of his other teachings, Dr. Murphy teaches basically how to live a happier and fulfilling life; not by lying to yourself, but by admitting truths about yourself and your nature and actually CHANGING your reality. All this will come to be through the power of your subconscious mind. You can read the book yourselves, but if you don't have the patience or time, that's where I come in. Therefore, here I will teach you what I've learned and experienced; all fresh.

You may be asking, what is my interest in writing about this issue? Well, I have been reading this book recently, and have already had experience applying it to my life, and believe it or not, it has helped me. Then I realized that it would be amazing to share this important and helpful information with others. Moreover, I felt that not sharing the information will be wrong. This, especially due to the fact that I feel that the people nowadays aren't exposed to this information. Second, it is known that people have a more complete learning and understanding by teaching, and that is another, maybe even equal incentive for writing this out. Moreover, it has been written by Dr. Murphy himself, that if everyone in the world knew of and understood the power of their subconscious mind, there will finally be global peace. You will get a better understanding of this as we go on. This can be added as a third incentive for writing.

Here I will teach basically how our mind works, through both the conscious and the subconscious. Additionally, I will share with you the methods I have learned of taking advantage of your subconscious power, briefly as I have read them in the book. Moreover, I will discuss more in-depth how I applied it in real-life experiences, and how to do so in the future. This way, you will learn how to live up to your expectations from yourself, to set goals and definitely reach them, and above all, to be happy.

Now, I have a favor to ask of you readers. You have the great task of writing feed back and sharing with everyone your experiences, and if anyone has more I ideas - the more the merrier! We can turn this into one big learning experience. So please people, enjoy and good luck.