Since most of us are familiar with computers and basic programs, I will use the “mental software” analogy to talk a bit about how your mind works.
In my inspirational book, Free Mind Free Body, readers explore the inner workings of their minds with an easy-to-understand progressive approach. Our minds “actually” work in ways (neurologically, unconsciously, etc.) that we may never be able to precisely decipher. However, there is much hope! For your ever-elusive unconscious mind, and its mental processes out of awareness, will provide you with rewarding discoveries from now on.
Your unconscious mind has immense capability with the exclusive power to automatically run your life in a positive manner. Your mind processes many things simultaneously using countless concepts and abstractions to create perception. It also computes, stores and retrieves information while passing lightning-fast judgements – most of this is done without your realizing exactly what’s going on in there.
For example, we do not breathe consciously while we are asleep, do we? It just happens, thankfully! Nor do we think about how to move our muscles when awake. We just move our arms or legs and they move… the neuromuscular requisites for movement are automatically executed for us in support of our intentions. How many of your behaviors do you think through consciously? Many of them begin automatically from a program in your mind’s software library — updating YOUR programs is also important!
– D. R. Boisse
