One of the things I used to struggle with was the concept of actually what the mind is.  If I ask you to think about your house you get picture in your head, if I ask you to think about your car you get a picture in your head.  But if I say to think about your mind what do you get?

Originally my thoughts were of my brain, but there's two problems with that.  1) It's not really the most attractive thing to visualize and 2) It's no more your mind than your foot is.  Bob Proctor then introduced me to a tool called "the stick person".  And oddly enough it looks like a stick person, it's just a simple drawing but it is incredibly powerful.

Here's the stick person:


The big circle at the top represents your head, the smaller circle underneath being your body.  However what's more important is what the stick person represents.  You see your mind has both a conscious element and an subconscious element.  The conscious element is where you visualize things, this is typically where we 'see' things in our minds eye and where we believe most of our thinking takes place.  The cool thing is that your conscious mind can be fed with information in 2 different ways:

• What's going on around you.
• Thoughts and images you think up yourself.

Importantly you have the ablility to choose to either accept or reject anything that comes into your conscious mind.  If you don't like the thoughts in your conscious mind then you can change them in a flash!  It's just a matter of thinking about something else.

Your subconscious mind however doesn't have the luxury of choice, it simply accepts anything that it's given and in the moment instantly and automatically starts to bring those results into your life.

There is in fact a chain of events that occur through us as individuals and most of us don't even know it's going on.  It's really simple too...

1. You think in your consious mind
2. This then gets passed to your subconsiouc mind
3. Which then brings about changes in your physical world and subsequently the results you get

In the diagram above the C stands for your conscious mind and the S for your subconsious.  I tend to visualize my own head rather than the stick person and virtually split my head in half at about where my eyes are.  Everything above my eyes in conscious and everything below is subconscious.

So let me just repeat something quickly... you think in your conscious mind, your subconscious has no choice to accept it, and then the results are seen around you.  So if you are consistently thinking about how little money you have, or how lonely you are or how sick you are then that's what getting passed to your subconscious mind, and that's the results you are getting.

Now here's the hard part.  Like I said at the beginning of the post you have the ability to choose what you want to think in your conscious mind.  So if you have the ability to replace the thoughts of an empty bank account with one full of what you need, or of you surrounded by loving and caring friends or healthy and active then this is what gets passed to your subconcious (remember it doesn't have a choice) and that leads to the results in your life.

Here's the same diagram with a few extra things added:





Your senses act like antenna that feed information to your conscious mind and they allow us to see things around us and hear our world etc.  But like I said before the challenge is being able to ignore what's going on around you and originate your own thoughts.  If you continually think about an empty bank account then the laws of the universe will automatically make that happen for you, but if you think about having all the money you need to live the life you want to lead then the same laws apply.

In a previous post I gave you an exercise in using your imagination.  I hope that by now you've done that a few times because it's critical that you have the ability to visualize what you want to achieve before you can actually have it.  In the above diagram the three steps to your results are clearly identified.

1. Build in your head the image of what you want to achieve, remember to ignore your senses.
2. Pass that image on to your subconcious mind.
3. The laws of the universe will bring the results that you desire into your life.

The next few posts are going to concentrate of these steps in more detail, so come back soon to get some more details.  Also if you are working on a specific goal then feel free to share it with us in the comments below... I know you'll get nothing but the support you need to make it happen here.