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Sandy Steers is an NLP practitioner working with individuals and classes. www.mypersonalmagic.com In any given second, there are about 2 million bits of information available to be picked up through our senses. Our conscious minds can process only about 7 bits of information per second. So, what happens to all the rest of that information swirling around us? It gets weeded out, or deleted from our consciousness, by the subconscious mind—the part of the mind functioning below the level of awareness. The subconscious decides what to keep based on what we have told it in the past is important to us. For example, if someone once told us we had bad luck, and we believed it even a little, the subconscious grabs that as important. It then brings to our conscious awareness the bits of information that show us we have back luck and filters out anything that disagrees with that. This is the process that is functioning when 15 people can witness the same traffic accident and give 15 completely different versions of what happened – their subconscious minds all filtered the available information differently, so they literally saw 15 different events. The subconscious mind contains much valuable, reliable information, such as how to eat with a fork, how to create a sentence and how to drive a car, all of which most people do without “thinking” about it. But most of us also carry around information and beliefs buried deep in the subconscious that are no longer valid, but which are still used to filter our experiences. In the last several years, neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, has come to be recognized as one of the most effective ways to change that subconscious filtering system. NLP uses techniques based on the way our brains learn new information to assist us to discover and modify subconscious misinformation and outdated decisions. These techniques utilize imagery from a state of meditation. The meditative state allows easy access to subconscious information and the subconscious mind learns fastest through images. Effective use of NLP techniques becomes something like ‘instant therapy,’ providing the fastest, and nearly instant way for transforming subconscious misinformation to beliefs that are true to ourselves and accurate for a life based on choice rather than old, automatic reaction. The techniques can be used for an amazing array of benefits, such as: gaining self-confidence; learning a new skill; functioning better within relationships; releasing old patterns of behavior or addictions; getting motivated; transcending traumas, hurts and fears; and even gaining physical health. The subconscious mind and its database are the keys to “filtering in” and creating a life as happy and fulfilling as each of us hopes to have. NLP provides the tools for understanding the information the subconscious holds and learning to manage and consciously select that information. The result is that you can change your life, by simply changing your mind.
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