Filtering Information – The Subconscious Mind

  As previously mentioned the subconscious mind filters emotions and it also filters information. The conscious mind can only handle so much information. Think about it. There are thousands of bits of information hitting you. Information like sound, lighting, temperature, movement, all hitting and reflecting off of different surfaces constantly, just a barrage of information. The subconscious paints a picture for you and only presents what it feels is relevant to your conscious mind. If presented with too much information we tend to lose focus or become confused.

Feelings & Emotions

  The subconscious mind is where all of your feelings and emotions reside. It generates and stores these feelings and emotions. I help people work through feelings quite a lot in my regression work. I target an emotion that is directly related to a problem and have the subconscious take the person back to the cause. Once there I change the perception of that event. These feelings and emotions are the things that get us into lots of trouble. We tend to hide, run from, or ignore our feelings. Generally we don’t express them as they should be expressed. We have limited or destructive ways to release emotion. We tell our kids not to cry or we get punished for becoming angry. We are taught that it isn’t good to feel sad, guilty, or afraid but these feelings do get generated and do need a place to go. What then happens to these emotions? If they are not released at the time they are generated, the subconscious finds a place to put them. They might end up in your legs, as in "Restless Leg Syndrome." Thirteen million Americans have generated these unresolved emotions into pains in their neck, shoulders, back and arms labeled as "Fibromyalgia." Maybe they will get placed in the head region and become "Migraines." A good place for these pent up emotions to affect us is the stomach and intestine areas such as in the case of, "Irritable Bowel Syndrome." These bottled up emotions could form holes in the lining of your stomach, "Ulcers", or simply result in "High Blood Pressure." Make no mistake about it, unresolved emotion causes these very real symptomatic problems, I’ve seen it time and time again.

Protection

  The subconscious also tries to protect you against things both real and imagined. This is possibly its biggest job. Way back when people lived in the forests hunting and gathering. This protection was extremely useful. Hearing brush rustling in the woods nearby may kick in your fight or flight response. The inner mind remembers that perhaps when you were just a child a sound similar to this one was a bear coming into your camp. This is a survival instinct but sometimes the perception can trip us up.

  A woman came to me to rid herself of an intense fear of snakes (fears are generally very easy to fix). I asked her if she has ever been bitten by a snake, found a snake in her bed, or known anyone harmed by a snake. She answered no to all three questions. Even though her and her husband loved their home she wanted to move from their five-acre estate because she had seen a snake in the grass. Through hypnotherapy we discovered that the initial event that triggered this intense fear was a nightmare she had when she was six years old. A dream! It wasn’t even a real event.

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