As I was walking one of my little boys up to the reading room last week, he very seriously asked me in a concerned voice, “Where’s the tricky guy?”
I really didn’t have a clue what he was talking about, but after asking him a few questions he said, “You know, the tricky guy, he comes and steals your stuff!”
Oh, now I understood. He was talking about the leprechaun that visits the kindergarten rooms on St. Patrick’s Day, taking a few choice items from students and teachers as he passes through.
Well, it seems that we too wonder about the “tricky guy” who comes and steals our goals and intentions, no matter how firmly we resolve to carry them through. We label this tricky guy by a variety of terms – lazy, lacking will power, self-sabotage. Actually none of that is true. The subconscious mind is blamed for sabotage, but that isn’t really true either. Yes, the subconscious is what veers us off-track, but unlike our leprechaun friend, it isn’t playing jokes or being mischievous.
The subconscious mind is a faithful servant. It’s job is to execute the programs installed from early childhood to the present. It’s purpose is to keep us safe. One way it does this is to help us create a reality that matches our core beliefs.
The SCM doesn’t make decisions any more than your computer does. If you believe that you are unworthy, a failure or destined to have heart disease like your other relatives, your SCM will tirelessly work to see that those beliefs are echoed in your reality. That’s why, often within a few weeks, goals you will-powered to manifest eventually give way to the same old habits.
It’s popular to dub this problem “self-sabotage”, but that’s really not the case. It is a matter of your conscious mind (which has 5-10% of the control), trying to overpower the subconscious mind (which has at least 90% of the control). If the subconscious could think, it would probably accuse the conscious mind of being the “tricky guy” that tries to mess with it’s programming. But the subconscious can’t be tricked. You can’t prime it or bully it either.
Thankfully, there are effective techniques that subdue the “gatekeeper” of the subconscious long enough to allow you to go in and install new programming. With techniques like hypnosis, visualization, and energy psychology/meridian tapping techniques such as EFT, old beliefs can be erased and replaced with more desirable ones. Sometimes this happens quickly, other times the “rewriting” takes some time.
That’s why I get so excited about meridian tapping techniques. Sure it’s a process, and it takes a while to change layers of limiting negative thoughts and beliefs, but it’s well worth it. When your subconscious and your conscious desires become aligned, you’ll feel better and realize your goals with more ease.