Patterns of Physical Transformation

This seems to be the biggest difference between the unconscious mind and the conscious mind, being able to effectively manage many variables of action at the same time. The unconscious mind utilizes the vast majority of our brain cells and involves autonomic functions as well as long term memory and habit patterns. It is running all of our physiological processes all the time, remembering to breathe, to beat our heart, in the proper rhythm, to manage the blood flow so that if we run, more blood is diverted to the muscles. If we eat something more blood is diverted to absorb nutrients from the intestines. The unconscious secretes just the right amounts of the needed hormones, neurotransmitters, and assorted chemicals so that a healthful effect is created in a wondrous process. Whenever we take any drug there are always side effects. When your unconscious mind produces the same chemical it also does whatever else needs to be changed so that just the effect it wants is produced. Many drugs are discovered by noticing compounds being produced in the body in response to a given stimulus, emotion or event. But when they copy it and give it to people there are always unwanted side effects. This means that they missed the other things whether they're chemicals or physical actions that the unconscious mind would normally produce at the same time as the compound in order to be cleanly effective. The unconscious mind is obviously a lot smarter than pharmacologists and drug companies.

When you learn about physiology it becomes quickly apparent that the unconscious mind has at its disposal an amazing array of means to keep us healthy and alive. Our liver is more elaborate and capable than the best chemical factories. It can and does make antidotes to poisons of various types. Our nervous system is literally capable of reformatting itself to take over the jobs of other parts that have been damaged. So the really amazing thing is that anyone ever gets ill. Think about it. You have an intelligence that's always awake and which can manage seemingly an endless number of variables at the same time. That intelligence has, at its disposal, the ability to manufacture and effectively distribute, to just the right places, any of the chemicals that we know about, and those still undiscovered. The unconscious knows how to monitor the ongoing situation and make changes to accommodate whatever changes have occurred. Then how would it even be possible for anyone to have anything wrong with them? Knowing that people function less than optimally, fairly often, this is the important question. The way in which people can function poorly is the same thing we have discovered working with computers -- glitches. Somehow the information got confused -- generalized, deleted, or distorted. Clarifying the communications and calibrating the outcomes for healthful effect is what our work is all about.

Most of the glitches seem to be the result of conflicted programming. One of the great things about having our unconscious mind is that it allows for routine behaviours to be carried out, without having to be aware of consciously. How long do you think you could exist if you had to remember to breathe? But our unconscious mind is so much more intelligent than that. It learns to do things for us that either occurs, repeatedly or with emotional intensity. Somehow magically, nearly everyone" learns" not to urinate in the bed. Think about this. How can you learn to do a thing when you're not even awake? The answer is you, your conscious mind, can't. You can and did get your unconscious mind to do it for you. There are other examples familiar to everyone, like multiplication. You learned multiplication much later and probably remember consciously practicing your times tables. That use of repetition is one way to get your unconscious mind to become responsible for generating a precise output on cue. What is three times five? Chances are that you don't see three groups of five marbles in your mind's eye and count them really rapidly. The answer just pops into your head. Where do you think it comes from? Some people programmed in all of the multiplying from one to ten. Other people only got one, two, five and ten times programmed in. They may have to count up or add to the output that their unconscious mind gives them. Most people stopped programming at ten times ten even though that was totally arbitrary. Some people programmed in a strong emotional state with the numbers. Mostly anxiety was programmed but it could have just as easily been excitement or anything else that you generated along with the times tables. So, the truth is, your unconscious mind learns all sorts of things for you. If, for example, you have learned to be afraid, in certain situations, but not others, then your unconscious mind is busy keeping track of whether or not it's time to run that program, of emotional, mental, and physiological changes, that it has learned to output. If this pattern of programming includes having tight neck and shoulder muscles and restricted breathing as well as the characteristic sets of emotions, then, this state is not one which can be sustained for a long amount of time, without coming into conflict with the unconscious mind's mission to keep you healthy and feeling good. Your unconscious mind does give you a lot of latitude to program all sorts of things which allows you to have the versatility to learn just about anything. Essentially, none of the programs are bad in and of themselves. It's just a question of whether the program is effective and useful for what you're using it. Many programs that your unconscious is still running faithfully are not what you would choose to do now. Unconscious learnings are, after all, unconscious. Neurologically, there is a process called habituation. This is a way of describing the fact that those inputs which are constantly the same stop being noticed. When you put on your shirt you feel the material as it slides onto your skin, but then unless someone draws your attention back to it, the sensations of the material against your skin go unnoticed entirely. Whether it is a sensation or just your usual way of reacting, when it has the usual sameness to it, it doesn't matter if it is going in or coming out of your nervous system, they seem to hide themselves. So you don't notice them unless you ask questions like" what would be better than that?"