How Your Unconscious Mind Works

Your unconscious mind is the part of your mind that stores all the information you are not consciously thinking about at any given time. It stores all the information you have ever known, and remembers every experience you have ever had.

Most importantly, your unconscious mind looks after you in the best way it knows how, in every moment of your life. It has learned many ways to keep you safe. But sometimes the way it looks after you is different from what you expect and it is here that we can develop behaviour patterns, reactions, thoughts and feelings we don’t want.

Simplistically, you hold many beliefs in your unconscious mind and each belief is like a little filter, or sieve. As you go through your day, every experience you have is filtered through your beliefs which then shape the way we experience the world. If I believe birds are scary, I will become scared around them. If I believe birds are lovely, I will enjoy seeing them. But the bird itself, is just a bird. Because our beliefs shape the way we see the world, we often only see what we expect to see, and only hear what we expect to hear. And we can be oblivious to all else.

These, often negative, beliefs can be formed by our early experiences but we tend to reinforce them every day by telling ourselves the same stories over and again.