You need to, first of all, spend a little time understanding response and reaction. Cause and effect. Stimulation and re-stimulation. Essential aspects of who and what you are.
You have now got some idea or at least a concept of how I believe the mind works. Conscious collects information and either distorts it or fails to pass on the whole of it, to the Subconscious. Subconscious, who, in turn, does its best with the information received and with the guidance and interpretation instructions that comes in from Higher Intelligence. Higher Intelligence creates and maintains, modifying as it goes along, all the software or in plain terms, all the automatic responses that it believes you require. It only acts on information, however distorted that information maybe, that eventually filters through.
Hard to believe that all this goes on within one and the same but it does, as you, who experience it all, know.
Let us therefore, for the moment, go back to the beginning and to that point where you were born. You can and do go back a little further than that, but for the moment concentrate on the time of birth.
At the point of birth, Higher Intelligence has built into it all the bits you need for basic survival. Call them instincts, call them genes, call them what you please, but a very large part of the basic programme is established at birth and was predetermined from the genes provided by 'mum and dad'. But the area that is empty and has as yet to be filled, is that which will have a profound effect on our future. An area, which once established and filled, will then be responsible for all your actions, reactions, concepts and emotional responses. In other words, your interpretation of everything. It is these future responses that will determine your entire mental and physical state and how you cope with life from that point on.
A point I would like to make and then having made it, move on for the moment, is the previous reference to the period before birth. That also does have a significant and profound effect on your future well-being and so later I will come back to it.
Also I should, perhaps, mention here something very significant about your actual birth, that moment of arrival. That alone must have been a very traumatic experience. Just think of where you came from, how you got there and how you arrived into the outside world. But 'Mother Nature' and, of course, by that we mean our built in genes, developed and modified over millions of years of human development, has a built in mechanism whereby all the trauma of birth is automatically cancelled out once it is complete. In other words part of the built in programming of Higher Intelligence says, 'Welcome! Now forget it.'
So for the moment please accept that and move on.
Every single experience you have had, are having and will have, from the point of birth, including those prior to and during birth are recorded somewhere in the 'mind' and can, and are drawn upon, as and when, and where, necessary and these experiences form the basis of all your emotions and it is these emotions, and their responses, that determine who, and what, you are and will be.
So as a new arrival into this world and with your initial and first experiences in life carefully blanked out, you begin to collect and take onboard 'experiences' and here is the crucial part. It is your reaction and response to those first and every subsequent new experience that will determine who you are and how you will react to everything, real or imagined, in the future. It is the very FIRST and thereafter every subsequent NEW experience and your reaction and emotional responses to them that will determine who you are, what you are and what you will be both mentally and physically.
What you now feel, what you now are and how you act or react to everything was determined by your 'first' experiences of 'something.'
At the outset Higher Intelligence has allotted storage space for all these first and new 'experiences.' Call them concepts, if you like, and subsequently is keen to fill up the memory and response banks and once those initial experiences have been logged and an automatic response allocated and dedicated to them, it is 'Established' and they then go on to reflect, very much, your physical self and your emotional self or future 'personality.'
Thereafter, whenever there is another experience it will be 'checked' against previous 'records' and if there is a 'recorded' response then that response will automatically be used. If however the experience is very similar but not exactly new and the circumstances of that experience was coupled, perhaps, with a different emotional response, triggered from an outside source, then that experience will be reclassified and 'logged' as new. You can now see what is likely to happen and what does happen? One experience, or very closely related experience, with two possible emotive responses. Compound this with hundreds, even millions of very, very closely related experiences and an infinite selection of responses to go with them and there is little wonder that there is over reaction and a pattern of unwanted behaviour results. A pattern that is 'seen,' sensed and recorded at the Conscious level and so you are very aware of it, but is ignored by Subconscious who has produced the reaction according to the laid down ground rules. Imagine this going on millions of times everyday; there is little wonder that things can and do go wrong.
So a tremendous amount of what happens to you in your 'formative years' determines your future and your formative years are those years when Higher Intelligence is hungry for experience and reactions, any reaction, and where 'you' have not fully developed the powers of reasoning. Once you develop those powers, such as they are and you do develop them, you begin to 'slow up' slightly and Conscious begins to rationalise and filter things, yet sadly still manages to distort and misinterpret a lot of information that it takes on board and so the wrong emotive responses get 'recorded' along with it. This is not always the fault of Conscious as it is bombarded by Subconscious as to what it should do or not do, how it should react or not react and how it should not challenge the established responses. By this time the 'filing cabinets,' in Subconscious, are full to overflowing and new experiences just get tossed in with all the rest and any old reaction is trotted out to satisfy immediate demand. Higher Intelligence, at the same time, is bogged down with other essential things and has little or no room to manoeuvre, even if it knew it was necessary, and here lies yet another important point. Higher Intelligence, as you have already established, has no direct contact with the outside world and therefore as far as it is concerned everything, and that includes all mental and physical problems, are just fine. As far as Higher Intelligence is concerned the last thing it will do is make change for changes sake. But you are about to do something about that.
But for the moment let me continue in your understanding of how things work. For without that understanding changes, for the better, are impossible.
You begin to rationalise and with that capacity begin to 'see' and become aware of your problems, yet find you can do nothing about them because all the facilities available to you are overloaded having reached saturation point and having long since become established and now forming the basis for everything. That is where an un-rational response, to a given set of circumstances, can and does come from. Then, if that is not enough, Higher Intelligence having reached it's own interpretation of saturation and having no awareness of its surroundings (in the real world) to demonstrate anything differently, decides that if it is to take on more, then it can only do so by eliminating something else. So eliminate, or more accurately 'forget,' and toss large quantities of experiences into one corner and that should create some space. But the emotions associated with those experiences are far too complex and are deeply entrenched in the overall programming, so eliminating them is really out of the question. They should stay. So can your now understand what is likely to be the result should Higher Intelligence attempt this course of action, if only as a stop gap measure, as it often does? You find yourself with unnatural attitudes, responses and reactions to many circumstances without knowing the real reasons why.
Let me try and demonstrate that, as simply as I can, so that you understand more fully the point I am making.
How often do you find yourself making the following or very similar types of statement, or find yourself reacting, irrationally, without knowing why, and find yourself expressing the fact to either yourself or to others?
'I don't know why but I just don't like black cats?' (Or any other similar item or object).
Because your first experience with (in this case) a Black Cat was not a good one. Perhaps it scratched you or hissed at you or perhaps someone with you, at the time, expressed dislike or physically jumped or showed fear and the response was recorded by you and established as the emotive response to go with that experience. The experience may or may not have been repeated many times since then but never the less for some reason Higher Intelligence decided it was a relatively minor experience and at one of it's 'clear out' stages, tossed it into the corner. Now when similar experiences come along the original is long 'forgotten' and only the emotive response to it remains, hence. 'I don't like black cats,' and the feelings towards it are genuine, but the reasons are no longer known. Beginning to get the idea?
The influence of adults on you as a child, your environment and everything else surrounding you, in other words all your personal experiences, from both your formative years and everything else since then, from all the new and additional experiences, have had a tremendous effect on you. They have all created the 'You' that 'You' are now and know and partially recognise. Partially because, as you know, Higher Intelligence will have kicked out and 'forgotten' certain things and that now prevents you from readily recognising them. That and the system often fails in it's search for many other important things depending on circumstance.
Let me see if I can get you to recognise that by using, this time, a demonstration of a Physical reaction as opposed to a purely Emotional one, although the two, as you will see later, are inseparable and very closely related.
Draughts cause Earache.
Never in a million years but they do and perhaps they do in you? Why? Because probably your first Conscious awareness of Earache, when reported to 'Mum' or it could have been to anyone, received the answer, 'That's because you have been sat in a draught.'
First experience of the 'discontentment,' (earache) and then what you were told and believed or accepted as a logical answer to the problem and an automatic response was established. In future all draughts will cause you Earache. Not because they do in reality, but simply because your Higher Intelligence has programmed, as your first experience with a logical explanation, that it will, and that in future Earache is the required and automatic response to a draught.
Why are some people terrified of Thunder and Lightening when others are not?
First experience of thunder and lightening (long 'forgotten') and, if alone at the time or with someone who showed it, you felt fear at the hitherto unknown. Then from it a 'believed' response was established within you and from it an automatic response for the future.
Fear of heights, water, spiders, the dark and so on.
All similar and all based on first experience, and while some are Phobias, many are also linked with the natural, built in, instincts for survival and I will deal with those, in due course, separately.
Simple illustrations perhaps but, hopefully not too simple, and sufficient to demonstrate how and where all your present responses have, more than likely, come from. A first experience coupled with a response and both recorded, only to later have the original experience and not the reaction, tossed to one side due to lack of space, pressure and possible breakdown. Then when similar or closely related experiences come along the original 'response' is coupled with it, whether appropriate or not.
But, is not some of this becoming contradictory to what I said earlier? Did I not previously claim that every single experience, however insignificant, that you have ever had, is crammed somewhere in the memory banks of the Subconscious mind as well as, perhaps, in the programming of Higher Intelligence? That is true and you will do well to remember that. Although the point should also be born in mind, that because everything is jammed so tight into the memory banks of the Subconscious, such that they are not readily accessible, due to pressure, then Subconscious will use what ever reaction has been programmed in by Higher Intelligence as it's first and easiest option. So you can begin to understand how confusion can result if Higher Intelligence has, for some unknown reason, modified and put it's own interpretation onto things.
What do you think would happen if a method could be found to access those files and then demonstrate to Higher Intelligence the irrationality of it's interpretation of them and particularly when those interpretations are coupled to your current concepts and perceptions? Also what would happen if you approached it in such a manner that it could be persuaded or even partially persuaded, to alter, change and modify those things to suit your current and future requirements? Would you not be going a long way towards achieving your aims?
Questions having been asked, questions, I hope, about to be answered.
