WHAT STATION ARE YOU TUNED INTO?

This is why people make the same mistakes over and over again; there’s an unconscious script running in the background and every conscious decision is directed by that script.  The information being helpfully supplied by that unconscious script isn’t necessarily “right” or “wrong.”  It’s just persistent.  When we have an unconscious belief about something, we notice evidence that supports that belief and reject evidence that undermines it.  We literally don’t see alternatives.  They are in the blind spot formed by the unconscious script. 

These unconscious scripts can dictate the direction of our lives over any and all circumstances.  For instance, many of us believe that our lives would be greatly improved by winning the lottery.  In reality, the odds of declaring bankruptcy actually skyrocket after a large lottery payout.  Why?  Because our internal relationship to money has not changed.  If your unconscious script says that “money is evil” or “I don’t have enough money,” you will simply work faster at being rid of it.  A sudden acquisition of money doesn’t change the script.  When you apply that realization to every area of life, the value of discovering those unconscious scripts is obvious.  The ability to control and direct your life consciously is in fact incalculable. 

Our unconscious thoughts are, by definition, unknown to us.  Unless and until we become consciously aware of them, they are directing our decisions based on limited information.  In fact, most of that information was “learned” prior to the age of seven.  So, in essence, we’ve all got a seven-year-old running our lives. 

Fortunately, learning to “tune in” to your unconscious thoughts is a fairly simple matter. 

Imagine for a moment that your thoughts aren’t actually being generated by you.  Instead, imagine that they are a radio station that you tune into.  It’s just a habit that you tune in to the same stations regularly.  Even if they aren’t particularly informative or even entertaining, they’re familiar.  There’s a certain amount of comfort in that familiarity.  It’s soothing background noise that you don’t really pay a lot of attention to. 

Now listen carefully to what is actually being said on those stations.  Every station has its standard programming, and they work hard to provide “new” content that sounds remarkably like yesterday’s content.  When you listen to the words being broadcast, what are they saying?  What, specifically?  Because whatever story that station is broadcasting, you’ve just uncovered your unconscious script. 

You seek out the station that is playing your song. 

Think about this:  If you grew up listening to classical music, it’s familiar and comfortable and soothing to you.  If your neighbor grew up listening to country and western, that’s probably their preferred station.  But that doesn’t make one “right” and the other “wrong.”  It doesn’t even make one better or worse.  Those preferences are simply what you are accustomed to.  They bring you a sense of comfort when you hear them. 

The same is true of the unconscious scripts you learned from (mostly) well-meaning adults who believed those same ideas.  The fact that they believed them didn’t make them true or untrue.  They found plenty of evidence to support those beliefs.  But as much as we might believe that “money is hard to come by,” it’s also true that many people make fantastic sums of money quite easily, and many of those people were decidedly worse off in every way than anyone you’ve ever met.  We all know that people from broken homes, poor neighborhoods, terrible schools, and abusive – even traumatic – childhoods, have gone on to build phenomenally successful empires.  And many of them are good-natured, generous, kind-hearted people who devote tremendous time and effort to improving the lives of others.  So while your personal history may dictate that your belief is true, it’s only true for you.  That belief does not invalidate the many lived experiences of others.  Their beliefs are just as true for them. 

Are you ready to discover and CHANGE an unconscious script that’s holding you back from achieving YOUR full potential?  Your MIND holds the key to your success.