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Issue 56: The Secret to Healing — Changing the Subconscious Mind

The Secret to Healing — Changing the Subconscious Mind

Imagine a brand new cookie jar. It starts out empty. Then, over the course of time, your parents and other relatives make their favorite cookies and begin to fill your cookie jar until it is packed and then the lid is closed and sealed tightly. In time, you learn to make your own favorites and as you try to put them into your cookie jar, you realize that your jar is full and lid has been wedged shut. You have no other choice but to leave your cookies outside and the jar remains devoid of your creations as it continues day after day to contain other people’s cookies that are growing stale with time.

Imagine that the cookie jar is our subconscious mind. According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief, the subconscious mind programming starts at age 0 and ends at age 7. There is a direct passive download of information from the 5 senses contributed by our parents, other adults and whatever is going on around us. The programming then stops around age 7 and from that point on, we begin operating on automatic, living out of those sets of beliefs. Every action, every pattern, every behavior we manifest come from those beliefs. It becomes our life’s fixed menu.

The analogy he uses to explain this phenomenon is that we all have this tape recording that plays the same thing over and over again no matter what is going on, no matter if we try and make a conscious change in our decision and choices. The results tend to come out the same every time. This is why it is so difficult to change our mindset to believe in something else, even though we may have reasoned it out and know we need to change.

This is also the reason why a New Year’s resolution never works for the majority of individuals. The intention and decision to do better may be there, but the follow through fizzles out because the internal programming keeping us in our old programming is too strong. However, it can be changed with time, effort, and using certain techniques, as long as the desire is there along with persistence and consistency. The preset programming is altered via unlearning everything that has been learned and then to relearn updated material that will benefit us moving forward.

For many, the adults or community that raised us may have the best intentions, but they are also operating under their own limiting belief system, prejudices and fears. The luckiest ones, of course, or those who were raised by consciously aware adults, individuals who understand that we all enter this existence with our own innate directions, goals, and desires. As babies, we are just unable to say what we want, to tell others what we like and dislike. We are just little sponges soaking up everything around us.

So, by the time we can speak and we begin to grow up, we arrive at the realization that our parents, teachers, and friends may actually not like what we like and they may think what we like is bad or what we dislike is good. We begin to be told that we have to be a certain way or a specific way and that we should do this or we shouldn’t do that. The internal conflict begins and then the child grows up to be an adult with deep internal incongruency. If unresolved, depression and anxiety, and a whole host of psychiatric disorders begin to emerge (Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of The Conscious Parent).

Everyday many of us do attempt to make different choices with the intent on improving our lives in some way. And yet, so many times, we fail because we so readily give away our power to the external when things don’t seem to work out the way we expected them to, whether it is other people, the drug, or the circumstances we blame. Whenever we give away our power to decide, we immediately assign ourselves as victims and play the blame game. Our birthright is the power to make decisions that change our circumstances and surroundings. However, we have such a low success rate.

In the last couple weeks, I started reflecting on the difficulty many patients have in trying to improve their sense of well being. Bringing them into the present moment is a challenge despite considerable time being spent explaining the importance of living in the present moment experience instead of the past or the future. Whenever we stall ourselves in the past, there is regret and disappointment; and in the future, there is worry and fear. Most of us live in any place other than right now. Our awareness is limited by our programming influencing us to live in the past and the future, but never the present moment. This triggered a memory of a fascinating patient I had some years ago.

Mrs. S, I will call her, had come in quite regularly every 1-2 weeks and on every visit, if you asked her how she was doing, she would frown and answer automatically,

“Terrible, absolutely terrible. I’m just miserable.”

One day, I decided to see if she was able to see another way. I thought that perhaps if I guided her a bit she could come through. I asked her what she was grateful for at that very moment. I waited. After about 10 minutes, she still could not come up with anything. Nothing at all. She then came up with only one thing and that was her garage door got fixed. That was it.

And, like all the other visits, she would mention how when she lived in Chicago, she hated it there because it was always so cold. Then, she would pull herself into the memories of her life in Chicago and she would rub both of her arms as if she were actually there in the cold. On one particular visit, it was in the middle of July in the desert and when she relayed that story again, she began to visibly shiver. I then alerted her to look outside the window and reminded her that the temperature was quite warm. She briefly glanced out the window, quickly dismissed the comment and continued to recount the story while rubbing her arms and demonstrating a visible shiver.

Some folks come into the office genuinely wanting to feel better and are either unable to change the mindset collection of ingrained beliefs they have about themselves, or they have an underlying belief that they are not worthy of healing or that they identify themselves with every negative event that happened to them that they come to expect the same everyday, unable to accept the possibility that they could have 99 days of perceived misery and on the 100th day, freedom.

Freedom is also a mindset. Freedom is a choice. Deciding that whatever is labeled as negative is really just a perception is to view a glass half full vs half empty. None of this is our fault by the way. We are all programmed for negativity, an evolutionary program meant to protect us from the elements, which no longer serves us. There is a way to change the programming and it is always through repetition, persistence and consistency. Adding techniques such as hypnosis, behavioral therapy, and what I have done for years, Meridian therapy, creates the necessary environment for the set of preprogramed paradigms to finally be overridden by a better set of habits installed.

In going back to the cookie jar, if we continue to work on getting that lid open and work on it everyday with consistency and persistence, we will be able to loosen that lid and eventually remove it completely, dump out the old stale cookies and fill it with all of ours. Everyday, as we work on this, we can sometimes open the lid enough to put in a small piece of one of our cookies, but with time, that will become a crumb and the staleness of the others will take over again. We just need to keep at it and practice everyday, just like learning and perfecting any instrument. We have to really want it and believe in ourselves.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of self love and the belief that we are deserving of feeling better, deserving of healing. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of keeping our awareness focused on the present moment, the “now” as Eckhart Tolle coins it (The Power of Now). In interviewing so many individuals, there is a tremendous amount of unawareness of living in the past and future, anywhere but in the here and now. I read somewhere recently that we cannot get out of a cage if we are not aware that we are in one.

So, some key points to remember to upgrade our health and truly thrive, is to practice sitting in silence and listen to the silence and feel the space all around us, to release things that no longer serve us. It is to also repeat as often as we can how it is we want to feel, what it is we want to heal and to believe that we deserve it. It is to combine the above with accessing the Meridian endpoints as explained in previous blogs, as well as the Physician Healer YouTube tutorials.

Over the many years I have worked with so many people, this combination method has been the most successful. As soon as the person feels a sense of peace and contentment, the health dramatically improves; and what is most amazing is that the people would share stories about other aspects of their lives changing for the better, such as their relationships, their careers and their finances. The beauty of this remains that all of this can be done independently by the anyone without any specific skill or lengthy training.

All healing takes is the basic understanding of how the mind’s programming works, the decision to want to feel better, the belief that we are deserving and worthy, and the decision to practice repeating the technique everyday consistently. At this point, we will now practice this detailed in the Meditation and Relaxation section below.

Meditation and Relaxation Lesson

1) Find a comfortable place and sit upright comfortably. Breathe in by inhaling through the nose and track the breath down into the belly ( 5-7 seconds). Sigh into the exhale slowly (5-7 seconds). Repeat 2-4 more times.

2) For today, the Meridian endpoints (tap each point for about 8-10 seconds) we will use are as follows:

—Chest (collarbone) points

—Sides of hands (blades along the 5th finger)

—Brow points (near the forehead and nose bridge)

—Corners of both eyes

—Under the nose

—Under the lower lip at the dip

—Top of the head

—Chest points to conclude

3) Intentional Statements to use while tapping the above points

—Why am I worthy of feeling well that I didn’t notice before?

—Why am I deserving of being healthy that I didn’t notice before?

—Why am I willing to change my mindset that I didn’t notice before?

—Why am I able to release my old patterns that I didn’t notice before?

—Why am I feeling better and better everyday that I didn’t notice before?

—Why am I healing so quickly everyday that I didn’t notice before?

—Why am I so grateful for no reason that I didn’t notice before?

—Why am I so happy everyday for no reason that I didn’t notice before?

—Why am I always so aware of the present moment that I didn’t notice before?

(You can also compose your own words of what you would like to see happen for you. Remember that choosing our words wisely matters in producing the outcomes we desire).

4) Conclude with the breathing exercises in 1).

5) Remember to journal your 8-10 things you are grateful for and spend a few minutes feeling them before moving on

6) Remember that repetition of anything new creates a space for the mind to turn a new habit into a routine.

Thank you for reading. Remember to LIKE, SHARE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you found this meaningful for you or someone you know. Be sure to check out my new YouTube Channel Physician Healer for Meridian energy medicine tutorials.

Until next time, may you all have much to be grateful for! Sending you all peace and light!

With Love and Gratitude, 🙌♥️

Celeste Amaya, MD