The Subconscious Mind is the workhorse mind. It does the heavy lifting, is the most unstable and it determines if your life is horrible or wonderful or anything in between, depending on how YOU program it and how YOU maintain it. The Subconscious Mind has two parts : Subconscious Rules and the Subconscious Memory ‘Bucket’.

Subconscious Rules

Some examples of Subconscious Rules:
1 plus 1 equals 2
Stop at a red traffic light
Spiders are terrifying

The first two are examples of ‘rote learning’ rules, The spider is an example what can be called ‘Behavior Rules’. Arachnophobia originates in the Conscious Mind as a response to an experience that is not understood. A young child hears a parent screaming and yelling “spider”. After hearing this a few times, the child creates a Rule based on another persons behavior and writes a ‘spiders are terrifying’ Rule into its Subconscious Mind. It still doesn’t know what a spider is and the first time it is introduced to a spider it access its spider Rule and then screams and runs away. A person creates most of their Behavior Rules by the time they are three years old, heavily influenced by parental behavior. History repeats itself.

Subconscious Memory Bucket

The medium term memory of the Subconscious Bucket is a temporary storage for information/experiences that the Conscious Mind either doesn’t understand or can’t processes at the time. Once in the Bucket the Subconscious Mind starts throwing these experiences, now called Thoughts, back to the Conscious Mind for processing. If the Conscious Mind still can’t process a Thought it is returned to the Bucket. The stream of Thoughts flowing between Subconscious and Conscious and back again has been called Monkey Mind. The Subconscious Mind will keep throwing Thoughts at the Conscious Mind again and again and again and again until they are dealt with by the Conscious Mind, understood, formatted and sent to the Superconscious Mind.