The Science Behind the Law of Attraction Magazine August Issue 2017 | Page 31

reality of knowing oneself is in knowing one?s inner motivations for why one does what one does in
life and what initially formed those motivations.
To know ourselves we are best served to know our mind. The mind has two parts, the conscious and
the subconscious. The conscious mind is what we continuously access for the purpose of reasoning
and solving problems on a daily basis. It is the part of our mind that we?re aware of. We even
engage the conscious mind as we read so many self-help books in an attempt to solve our problems
and heal ourselves. However, the single greatest factor in the formation of our consciousness is the
subconscious mind. In fact, 95% of our lives are controlled and determined by the contents of our
subconscious mind.
For those who believe that they?ll make permanent changes
just by reading a book, the reality is our lives don?t operate on
the truth that we learn from books because that truth only
goes into our conscious mind which only controls 5% of our
lives. An easy way to picture the conscious and the
subconscious mind is with the image of an iceberg. The part of
the iceberg that we see above the water represents the
conscious mind, or the part of the mind we?re aware of. The
part of the iceberg that we can?t see below the water
represents the subconscious mind. It?s the part that can often
unknowingly sabotage our effort to reach our goals.
More often than not, the fast pace of modern life does not
allow us the time to process an emotional upset when it
occurs. As a result, our solution in the moment is to ?stuff our
feelings,? or suppress them in the moment to take care of them when we have the time. In addition,
we also handle negative emotions as we learned from our parents, many of whom would draw on
unhealthy ways to deal with such emotional upsets, such as drinking or spending money to feel
better.
However, we never get the opportunity to take care of the emotional upset because the negative
emotions have been stuffed away in
the subconscious mind where they
are consciously forgotten.
The subconscious mind is also the
part of the mind that holds all of the
unresolved emotions that have been
encountered, starting in the womb
and continuing through our first six or
seven years. This happens without
our consent because at this time in
our lives we are like a sponge, taking
everything in for future reference.
When later in life we experience a
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