Are you conscious?

No one really knows for sure exactly how much of our mind is conscious and subconscious. It’s popular to say that it’s roughly 10% Conscious and the remaining 90% is Subconscious. It might be more like 5% and 95%. It’s even been said that only a fraction of 1% is dedicated to Conscious and the remainder is Subconscious.
What’s important to understand is simply that our Subconscious Mind is much more powerful than our Conscious Mind. It’s the Subconscious Mind that basically controls all of your habits and emotions that you would like to change through Hypnosis.
Before you can truly understand how to change the Subconscious Minds programming, it’s important to understand the functions of each part of your mind.
The Conscious Mind
The conscious mind is working right now as you are reading this. It is that part of you that is aware of what is going on right now. Choices and decisions are made by the conscious mind.
Functions of the Conscious Mind:
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Short‐term Memory – This is the memory we refer to throughout the day as we function. Where did I put the car keys? Where am I going today? What did I eat today? What is that phone number?
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Analyze information – It evaluates the information or situation that has our attention at the present moment.
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Make Decisions and choices – Who should I call first? Should I buy this? What should I watch on TV? What should I wear?
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Exercise Willpower – Today I will eat healthy. Just one more push up. I will resist smoking.
One thing to understand about willpower is that it is only there to get you through the short term. It is not the most effective way to change a long‐term, deeply rooted program. Because over time, your subconscious programming will generally over take any of your efforts supported only by mere will power. It’s simply not more powerful than the subconscious mind and that is why people tend to fail to keep those promises they make to themselves to change.
The Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind, which accounts for AT LEAST 90% of our mind, can be compared to a computer in that it stores the data for all the experiences we have ever had. It is unlike the conscious in that it does not analyze or rationalize. You are communicating with the subconscious mind when you dream. Do you ever have dreams that don’t really make any logical sense?
Functions of the Subconscious Mind
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Autonomic Nervous System: The ANS affects heart rate, digestion, respiration rate, salivation, perspiration, diameter of the pupils, urination, sexual arousal, and virtually every function of the body. Whereas most of its actions are involuntary, some, such as breathing, work in tandem with the conscious mind.
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Servant: The subconscious mind will do whatever we ask it to do. There are no limits to what our subconscious mind will do for us—only the limits we place upon it (and ourselves) through the beliefs (programs) we have created during our lives. If we have a belief that it's not likely that we'll ever be rich, our subconscious will do everything in its power to see that our belief comes true for us. The subconscious mind does not discriminate when it comes to thoughts and feelings; it responds to fearful thoughts as well as loving thoughts.
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Emotions: When you get triggered to feel anxiety or anger or fear, it is coming from your subconscious mind. When you love someone or feel sad and lonely or happy, this too is generated by your subconscious mind. Emotions are not rational and sometimes you can’t explain why you feel a certain way about something. While our emotions come from our subconscious mind, they do work in tandem with our conscious mind where our perceptions are formed. So, we do have control of our emotions because we have control over how we choose to think. How we choose to think however, is influenced by subconscious programming. So, we are using willpower when we choose to think differently. In order to change how we think permanently, we have to change our subconscious programming.
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Habits/Programs: We get our programs and our habits through experience of daily life. Also through repetition. An example of a program is learning to drive. When you first learned to drive, you had to be extremely aware, utilizing your conscious mind. Now that you have driven probably 1000’s of times, it is ingrained in your subconscious mind and you don’t even think about it anymore. This frees up your conscious mind to think about other things while your subconscious mind performs the task of driving. Same thing with the habit of eating, drinking, or smoking. Whether the habits you have are negative or positive, they are strongly set in place and you will always continue to reinforce those habits, until you re‐program your subconscious mind to do something else.
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Imagination/Creativity/Intuition: When you get an extraordinary thought, a new idea, a hunch about something. You are in touch with the creative part of your subconscious mind.
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Long‐Term Memory: Another place where we are influenced unknowingly in our day to day life is through our long‐term memory. Our subconscious mind is a vast storage center of every experience you have ever had. It remembers everything you have ever thought, done, said, felt, experienced. There is simply no way to erase old memories. Many of our perceptions are influenced because of our long‐term memory. Your subconscious mind has a tendency to compare new information with the old information and this is another reason why it’s so hard for people to change, because it tends to like everything to stay the same. That is its way of protecting you, which is another part of its job.


Excerpted from "Self-hypnosis step by step" by the genius Victoria Gallagher

The Rules for being Human

When you were born, you didn't come with an owner's manual;
these guidelines make life work better.

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of your life.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "Life on Planet Earth". Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. "Failures" are as much part of the process as "success".
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it - then you can go on to the next lesson.
5. If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.
6. You will know you've learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.
7. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" becomes a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that again looks better than "here".
8. Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.
9. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting. Take charge of your life - or someone else will.
10. You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences and people you attract - therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.
11. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn't help. Judgment only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.
12. Your answer lie inside you. Children need guidance from others; as we mature, we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard or read or been told. All you need to do is to look, listen and trust.
13. You will forget all this.
14. You can remember any time you wish.

Meaningful Quotes

“whatever you can do, or dream you can..begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”


he who hears not the music, thinks the dancer mad.
(quote found at burning man, written on a stuffed armless, headless shirt, sitting in a bucket of flowers)

“i also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.”
--by Frances Moore Lappe ( www.cleu.org )

‘K, get out there and party!’ by My Mom 3:09pm Dec 31st 1999

Whether you think you can or think you can’t. You’re right.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung

“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops. “
-- H.L. Mencken

“There is no use trying," Alice laughed, " one can't believe impossible things." " I daresay you haven't had much practice", said the (White) Queen. "When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ---Gandhi

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. ---Albert Einstein

"Science and religion are not at odds, science is simply too young to understand."

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. By Ambrose Bierce

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

The only zen you find at the top of mountains is the zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so. Mark Twain

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. William Newton Clark

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau

Human kind has not woven the web of life, we are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different. Rabbi Harold Kushner

We are what we eat.

We all carry it within us; supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. Huston Smith

As ye think, so shall be. JC

What we think, we become. Buddha

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius

Our beliefs are what we hold dearest. They are the spiritual and moral fiber that eave us into the tapestry of life. We may think that our beliefs are unique, that our identities are tied to our religions, our cultures, our races, and our creeds. But we are all human, and if you look closely at our scriptures and stories, you’ll find that we are all much more alike than different.

Listen to the mustn't s, child, listen to the don't s. Listen to the shouldn't s, the impossibles, the won't s. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child, anything can be. ---Shel Silverstein

The attempt to eliminate evil in others is the very impulse of evil itself. – James Carse

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Director of US Patent Office, 1899

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." - Robert Miliham, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

"The horse is here today, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad." - President of Michigan Savings Bank advising against investing in the Ford Motor Company

"Video won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." - Daryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, commenting on television in 1946

"Space travel is utter bilge." - Sir Richard van der Riet Wooley, The Astronomer Royal (1956)

"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." - Dionysius Lardner, English scientist (1793-1859)

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." - Lee DeForest, American inventor (1873-1961)

"Guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Records turning down the Beatles, 1962.

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." - Spencer Silver, originator of Post-It Notepads.

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote." - Grover Cleveland, 1905

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." - Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981

"Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress." - Sir William Siemens, electrical engineer, upon hearing Edison's announcement of a successful light bulb.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs and comes short again and again . . . who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the least knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
(Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt)


"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain

How To Get What You Want - Using NLP

When I met my first neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) trainer five years ago, he asked us if we'd like to know how to answer (and ask!) two questions which could change our lives. I have used these questions consistently ever since, and they have been among the most useful things I've ever learned. They were "What do you want?", and "How will you know when you've got it?"

What do you want?

"What do you want?" is probably the most well-known 'NLP question'. It takes advantage of the fact that the human nervous system is 'goal-seeking' ie. we operate most effectively when we have a goal or objective of some sort to aim for, so...

1) Ask yourself "What do I want?" & pay attention to your answer.

You can't do a don't!

Is your answer stated in the positive (eg. to get fit & healthy, to double your income, to start a new business etc.) or in the negative (eg. to quit smoking, lose weight, stop spending so much etc.)? Negatives aren't processed by the nervous system in the same way that they are linguistically (eg. The command "Don't think of a purple hippo" is difficult to obey.) You get what you focus on, so if your goal is stated in the negative, you're making it more difficult for yourself.

2) Ensure you state your goal positively.

How will you know when you've got it?

I once had a friend whose goal was to become rich. I asked her how she'd know when she was rich and she said she'd have more money. So I tossed a pound coin to her and said "Congratulations, you're rich." 'More money' did not turn out to be specific enough evidence for her having achieved her goal, so we went into the detail of what she would see, hear and feel when she was rich. This gives your nervous system a rich representation of what success is for this particular goal.

So, with regard to your goal...

3) Ask yourself "How will I know when I've got it?"

What will you see, hear and feel as you are achieving your goal? What specific details will let you know that you are getting what you want? The more sensory detail you include, the more information you will give to your nervous system about what to aim for.

4) Ensure you have DETAILS of what you will see, feel and hear.

Get your body involved..

Once you have clear evidence (ie. how you'll know when you've achieved your goal), you can engage your unconscious resources more fully by getting your body more involved. Stand up and ensure you've got enough space to move safely, then...

5) Imagine you are going to step in to that time in the future when you already have what you want, then literally take a step & imagine you can see what you'll see, hear what you'll hear & feel what you'll feel when you are achieving your goal.

Mind and body are a single system

Mind and body are a single system, and people often find that the process of stepping into a future achievement has a profound effect, allowing you to experience learnings and insights which may not previously have been consciously available. Often, the people most skeptical of this approach have the most powerful experiences, so if you are dubious about whether this will work for you, great!! - do it anyway and see what happens!!!

More advanced..

For more advanced students of NLP: when you ask someone "What do you want?" it's really important to pay attention while you ask the question & while they prepare and give an answer. People will run all sorts of unconscious strategies while searching for the answer to a question.

You can discover information about ...

a) how they represent a successful outcome to themselves,
b) how they stop themselves from getting what they want,
c) how they want several things that are in conflict with each other etc.

This will give you information that is often not available to the person at a conscious level, so watch and listen for eye movements, hand gestures, head movements, language patterns etc.

Have fun with this!

Quantum Apocalypse

Worth watching..

How to Detect Lies.. Become a Lie Detector

Introduction to Detecting Lies:

The following techniques and observations to tell if someone is lying are often used by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions.

Warning: Sometimes Ignorance is bliss; After gaining this knowledge, you may be hurt when it is obvious that someone is lying to you.



Signs of Deception:
Body Language of Lies:


• Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body, the liar takes up less space.

• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.

• Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear. Not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand.

Emotional Gestures & Contradictions

• Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off a normal pace. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer than it would naturally, then stops suddenly.

• Timing is off between emotions, gestures/expressions and words. Example: Someone says "I love it!" when receiving a gift, and then smiles after making that statement, rather then at the same time the statement is made.

• Gestures/expressions don’t match the verbal statement, such as frowning when saying “I love you.”

• Expressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is faking emotions (like happy, surprised, sad, awe, )instead of the whole face. For example; when someone smiles naturally their whole face is involved: jaw/cheek movement, eyes and forehead push down, etc.

Interactions and Reactions


• A guilty person gets defensive. An innocent person will often go on the offensive.

• A liar is uncomfortable facing his questioner/accuser and may turn his head or body away.

• A liar might unconsciously place objects (book, coffee cup, etc.) between themselves and you.

Verbal Context and Content

• A liar will use your words to answer a question. When asked, “Did you eat the last cookie?” The liar answers, “No, I did not eat the last cookie.”

•A statement with a contraction is more likely to be truthful: “ I didn't do it” instead of “I did not do it”

• Liars sometimes avoid "lying" by not making direct statements. They imply answers instead of denying something directly.

• The guilty person may speak more than usual, adding unnecessary details to convince you... they are not comfortable with silence or pauses in the conversation.

• A liar may leave out pronouns and speak in a monotonous tone, When a truthful statement is made the pronoun is emphasized as much or more than the rest of the words in a statement.

• Words may be garbled and spoken softly, and syntax and grammar may be off. In other
words, his sentences will likely be muddled rather than emphasized.

Other signs of a lie:

• If you believe someone is lying, then change subject of a conversation quickly, a liar follows along willingly and becomes more relaxed. The guilty wants the subject changed; an innocent person may be confused by the sudden change in topics and will want to go back to the previous subject.

• Using humor or sarcasm to avoid a subject.

Final Notes:

Obviously, just because someone exhibits one or more of these signs does not make them a liar. The above behaviors should be compared to a persons base (normal) behavior whenever possible.

Life's Little Instruction Book

Have a firm handshake.

Look people in the eye.

Sing in the shower.

Own a great stereo system.

If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.

Keep secrets.

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

Always accept an outstretched hand.

Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the
difference.

Whistle.

Avoid sarcastic remarks.

Choose your life's mate carefully. >From this one decision will come 90
per cent of all your happiness or misery.

Make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never find out.

Lend only those books you never care to see again.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all that they have.

When playing games with ! children, let them win.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

Be romantic.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as
important as it first seems.

Don't allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It's there for
your convenience, not the caller's.

Be a good loser.

Be a good winner.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Keep it simple.

Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to
cross the same river.

Live your life so that your epitaph could read, No Regrets

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you'll regret the
things you didn't do more than the one's you did.

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

Remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to
acknowledge those who helped you.

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.

Visit friends and relatives when they are in hospital; you need only
stay a few minutes.

Begin each day with some of your favorite music.

Once in a while, take the scenic route.

Send a lot of Valentine cards. Sign them, 'Someone who thinks you're
terrific.'

Answer the phone with enthusiasm and energy in your voice.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bed-side table. Million-dollar ideas
sometimes strike at 3 a.m.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how
trivial their job.

Send your loved ones flowers. Think of a reason later.

Make someone's day by paying the toll for the person in the car behind
you.

Become someone's hero.

Marry only for love.

Count your blessings.

Compliment the meal when you're a guest in someone's home.

Wave at the children on a school bus.

Remember that 80 per cent of the success in any job is based on your
ability to deal with people.

Don't expect life to be fair.