Who’s in Control?
Posted in There’s been a lot of buzz lately in the Law of Attraction world about Limiting Beliefs, with everyone offering to expose, remove, re-program or otherwise eradicate them from your mind in order to allow you to have the life of your dreams.
But what are Limiting Beliefs?
Where did they come from?
Are they all bad?
Today we begin a multi-part series that delves into those questions in an attempt to provide you with a better understanding, not only of Limiting Beliefs, but of yourself.
To understand Limiting Beliefs, we first need to look at how our brain works.
The human brain is a complex organ, capable of performing multiple operations simultaneously. While you are reading this, your brain is processing the input from your eyes, converting the image into ‘language’, monitoring your heartbeat, regulating the chemistry of your blood, maintaining your breathing, keeping an ear out for the phone, and much more. And all this is happening at the same time.
But consciously, you are only aware of the words you’re reading. Everything else is happening in the background, without your conscious interaction.
But how does the brain know what to do when I’m ‘not there’?
This is where the subconscious comes in. The vast portion of your mental activity is controlled by the subconscious part of your mind. At birth, the subconscious mind basically functions based on genetic knowledge. In other words, knowledge passed down genetically from your parents and their parents, and so on.
