BEFORE YOU’VE EVEN CONSCIOUSLY THOUGHT OF THE PROBLEM, YOUR BRAIN ALREADY IS WORKING ON THE SOLUTION.
AS WITH SOLVING a JigSaw puzzle not all pieces will immediately make sense, and you will not have the full understanding of what you are looking at. As time goes by and you solve pieces of the puzzle, sudden insights will come to you and you will progressively gain a deeper understanding of how it all fits together. Until you reach a point where it's as though with perfect clarity, you can visualize exactly how all the pieces line up together.
Your subconscious mind works in similar ways. constantly taking in data from all your senses every moment of every day.
“Every second, your senses gather up to 11 million bits of information from the world around you. If you tried to decipher all of them at once, you’d immediately be overwhelmed. That's why the brain is primarily an information deletion device. It’s designed to keep information out. The conscious mind typically processes 50 pieces of information per second.
What makes it through the filter is determined by the part of the brain called the reticular activating system, or RAS for short. The RAS is responsible for a number of functions, including sleep and behavior modification. It also acts as the gatekeeper of information through a process called habituation, which allows the brain to ignore meaningless and repetitive stimuli and remain sensitive to other inputs.” - DIRECT QUOTATION FROM LIMITLESS - JIM KWIK
JIM KWIK goes on to explain how we can consciously determine what information ends up entering our subconscious mind based on the questions that we ask ourselves, and what we pay attention to and focus on.
REGGIE has been bombarding me with direct, uncomfortable questions as to why I do, think, feel certain thoughts and behaviors.
Initially I would retort and get defensive, feeling within me a prickly feeling of indignation and stubborn pride. As though to say “Who are you to point out all my faults”.
THEN CONSCIOUSLY I notice my subconscious offense to these questions...my ego pricking up… and I ask myself:
WHY DO I TAKE OFFENSE IN THE FIRST PLACE ABOUT MY PERCEIVED FAILINGS AND FAULTS BEING POINTED OUT?
I, MONK Have felt in the last 12-14 months that Mentally I haven't been performing at optimum. As though it’s been easy for me to keep a clear mind and not “THINK EXCESSIVE THOUGHTS”. It’s been hard to proactively think about my future and keeping multiple mental tabs open at once for problem solving, remembering important information. A combination of no longer reflecting deeply upon my days in the evening at day's end, inconsistent planning of tomorrow's affairs and falling out of the habit of asking questions about each action, thought, pattern and emotion, means that the act of planting positive daily seeds is being ignored.
The problem as I discovered in “PIP#5 PLANTING POSITIVE SEEDS TO ENGRAIN POSITIVE LIFESTYLES.”, is that is all good keeping one's mental fields clear of weeds, but without planting new positive seeds in their place, it is still an empty field and the weeds will return. Likewise, I believe that the discomfort that is felt when REGGIE attempts to ask pressing and pointed questions… is he is trying to shine light upon my mental field and question my questions. OUR QUESTIONS THAT WE ASK OURSELVES DETERMINE OUR OUTCOMES.
THE REACH AND POWER OF OUR SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS IS UNQUESTIONABLE. BY MAKING A HABIT OF CONSCIOUSLY ASKING OURSELVES IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT LEAD TO PRODUCTIVE OUTCOMES AND UPROOT NEGATIVE BELIEF SYSTEMS… WE TAKE IMPORTANT STEPS IN FEEDING OUR SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS HEALTHY INFORMATION THAT WILL VASTLY BENEFIT OUR LIVES IN THE FUTURE.
