Unlocking the Power of Your Subconscious Mind: A Journey to Self-Awareness

Have you ever wondered why certain thoughts seem to play on a loop in your mind, influencing your emotions and actions? These thoughts, often rooted in past experiences, reside in the subconscious mind. Understanding and harnessing the power of the subconscious can lead to profound changes in your life. Today, let's delve into the intricacies of the subconscious mind and explore how you can connect with your body to foster a healthier, more positive mindset.

Understanding the Subconscious Mind

If you're here and you're catching the replay, I thank you so much for joining in. Today I wanted to share with you a little bit about the subconscious. I wanted to share a little bit with you guys about the stories that we replay over and over and over in our mind and then I wanted to share with you how you can really connect to the body.

So in my earlier post, I talked a little bit about the subconscious mind and how over 90% of our thoughts are not only on autopilot, but they are really rooted through the subconscious mind. Now, the subconscious mind is a place where a lot of our old experiences, a lot of our old stories are constantly on a replay. Not only are they on replay, but they are on autopilot.

The Influence of Subconscious Stories

When these stories are on autopilot and they play in the back of your mind so unconsciously, they have such a way of influencing the way that we move, the way that we think, the way that we act, and they really end up influencing our emotions. By influencing our emotions, they end up really influencing our actions. Now, I had mentioned a little bit earlier that your beliefs affect your thoughts, your thoughts affect your emotions, and your emotions end up really influencing your actions.

Most of the time, the actions that a lot of us end up projecting out there can either be actions that we are wanting to experience or actions that we're looking not to experience. When we have these stories that run into the back of our minds, stories can get extremely loud, right? Most of the time, the stories that we have are probably very distorted, right? Sometimes we have a thought or a certain memory, or a certain experience. When we're replaying it in the back of our head over and over and over, not only are we somehow changing the actual moment of it, but it becomes so distorted over time, and through that distortion, it plays on our feelings.

The Chain Reaction of Beliefs, Thoughts, and Emotions

If you're having a memory of an experience that didn't feel so good and you're constantly replaying it in the back of your head, that's not making you feel so good. When you're not feeling so good, you're doing things in your day-to-day experiences to once again reflect back why you're not feeling so good. A lot of the times when we're doing that, we're reflecting back onto our body and our body ends up in some way, shape, or form feeling that discomfort, feeling that pain, feeling that, I'll say again, discomfort because at the end of the day, that's what it comes out to.

The Distorted Reality of Subconscious Stories

So today, very specifically, what I want to do is share with you how to recognize the feelings in your body. How is it that you can have this dialogue with your body? Because let me invite you to understand this concept: you are not your body, right? We have a body. We have a body and we're here to have an experience, and our emotions are actually there to teach us a lot about ourselves. Our emotions are there to really show us where we are in that moment about a certain story or a certain feeling. If we don't sit with that feeling, if we don't sit with that emotion, we end up holding it within our body, and our energy ends up being so stagnant and it doesn't move. That replays itself over and over, and then your life will find situations where you will have another experience until you face that emotion, until you face that story.

The Body-Mind Connection

What I would like you to do with me now is allow me to guide you through a process of just feeling what it is that you're feeling inside of your body. So if you're here with me, I'm going to invite you to sit down and get really comfortable. I'm going to invite you to close your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths. When you take your breath, really feel it in the body, taking a big inhale and exhale. Take another inhale and exhale. One more good inhale, and really allow your belly to expand out as you inhale and exhale. Bring that belly button to the spine and exhale deeper and deeper and deeper.

Connecting with Your Body

Now as you close your eyes, I'm going to invite you to just scan your body. As you begin to scan your body from the top of your head, slowly begin to scan it all the way down into your face, down into your shoulders and your chest, down into your stomach, all the way down into your hips, down to your legs, and all the way down to your feet. Really allow yourself to just sit with the body for a moment and allow yourself to just let go for a moment of any expectations. Really allow yourself for a moment to just let any expectations dissolve as you just allow yourself to sit with the body with your eyes closed.

Step 1 - Finding Comfort and Stillness

And again, one more time, closing your eyes, really allowing your face to soften, really allow your shoulders to relax, allow your chest to soften, allow your hips to soften, all the way down to your legs and soften. Now from where you are, just bring your awareness to somewhere in the body, a part of your body where it doesn't feel so good. Maybe you're feeling tightness. Maybe you're feeling aches. It could be anywhere around your neck, around your chest, maybe in your arms, maybe in your legs. As you bring your awareness there, just take a moment and breathe into it.

Step 2 - Scanning Your Body

You're going to ask a very simple question: "My dear body, what is it that you want me to know right now?" And when you allow yourself to just get out of your way for a moment, and you really allow the voices in your head to quiet down so you can just feel what the body is trying to allow you to feel, I really trust that whatever is coming through in that moment is coming through with the answer that you need to hear.

Step 3 - Engaging in Dialogue with Your Body

Ask your body another question: "My dear body, what is this story that I'm holding on to in my body?" And then, "My dear body, what is it that I need to do right now? What is it that I need to understand right now?" These are very, very basic, simple questions to ask the body, but they are very, very powerful. When you allow yourself to take a moment to sit in silence, even if it's just 5, 10, 15 minutes, and just to breathe into the body, bring your awareness where you're feeling the tightness in the body, and really having a dialogue with the body.

Step 4 - Releasing Expectations and Embracing Emotions

Ask yourself: "My dear body, what is it that you want me to know? What am I making this mean about me?" The story that I'm replaying right now—"Is that 100% true?" Again, these are very powerful questions. When you allow yourself to just sit with these for a moment, this is where the dialogue can begin back and forth between the body. Because again, the body doesn't speak to us in words. The body speaks to us through sensations, and you're going to feel these coming through.

Practical Application: Daily Practice for Subconscious Awareness

Give this a try. Again, the stories that we play in our mind are stories, and the more we feed them, the more they're there. Then they'll start to speak louder and louder and louder to us. I invite you to give this a try. Spend 5-15 minutes each day in stillness, scanning your body, and engaging in a gentle dialogue with it. This practice can help you identify and release negative stories, fostering a more positive and empowered mindset.

Tips for Effective Practice

• Consistency: Make this practice a part of your daily routine.

• Patience: Be patient with yourself. It may take time to fully understand and release deep-seated emotions.

• Mindfulness: Approach this practice with mindfulness, focusing on the present moment and your bodily sensations.

Final Thought

Your subconscious mind holds the key to many of your thoughts, emotions, and actions. By understanding and connecting with this hidden part of yourself, you can unlock a wealth of self-awareness and personal growth. Remember, the stories you tell yourself have the power to shape your reality. Choose to engage with your body, release negative patterns, and embrace a more positive and empowered life.

Give this practice a try and let me know how it goes for you. Your journey to self-awareness and empowerment begins with a single step—listening to your body and understanding the messages it holds.