The Nature of the Autonomous Mind.

There is a machine running our lives from the background and it doesn’t care about us or what we want.

How do we feel about that statement? That there is something that for us resembles something more like a machine, running our lives from the background that doesn’t care about us, and we don’t even know it. For me that is the greatest travesty of justice of our time. Nearly everything that is happening in our lives happens on autopilot. Even though we are these amazing organic, imaginative and emotional beings, what is running our lives behind the scenes equates to something that to us would look more like a robot.

We all know we have a subconscious mind, and we all know we do many of the things in our lives subconsciously. Meaning, we do them without even thinking about it. Which unfortunately also includes the big aspects of our lives like who we are and where our lives are going. Most of it we do without thought or contemplation. Most of our thinking happens without us thinking about it. It is just the churning over of the same repetitive thought patterns - some of which we've been having for years or even decades.

In fact, it is said that a staggering 97% of our thinking occurs subconsciously. Most of what we think happens without our input - without a thought or a choice. So, here’s the thing – we think (assume in the thinking mind) that we are the ones doing all of the thinking and choosing. That the conscious mind that we think with is the extent of us, but this is far from the truth. By far the majority of what we think, and consequently goes non in our life happens without our conscious participation. And this subconscious mind thing doesn’t resemble anything like our conscious and more organic seeming mind. It has no critical faculty - it doesn't judge or ponder decisions. It is never in two minds – it doesn’t think or come to logical conclusions. It is a machine-like feature of our lives that is designed to regurgitate an identical experience day after day, year after year. Its job is to present reality as it seems - keep our problems and circumstances alive and repeat the same reactive patterns that we know of as our lives. We have a machine running, and often ruining our lives and what we'd like to see happening in them - and for the best part, we don’t even know it. It kind of feels like we are in charge – which is the other role assigned to this aspect of our minds. Make sure that we don’t realise in the conscious mind that we are the ones making all of this happen. That it is our own minds that are responsible for the events, outcomes and circumstances of our lives.

It has one main role – the presentation of reality. Repeat a familiar experience so we never feel out of our depth as to what’s ‘going on’. And the other cryptic task – convince us that it wasn’t us. Our mind had no role in framing what happened.

Is it any wonder we suffer mental challenges and feel out of control of what is happening in our lives a lot of the time.

There is a machine running our lives in the background and we don’t even know it. A machine that doesn’t care about our hopes and dreams, or what we want. Just needs to convince us that our surroundings that are in a constant state of change, isn't changing at all. That the world outside of us is more or less standing still. Its role is to make sure that we feel the same today as we did yesterday. To maintain our emotional equilibrium. And while this is good to know, it is a menacing situation. Where we seem like the meat in the sandwich, or bystanders to what is going on at this higher level of mind, without knowing what we can do about it.

And the good news for us is that when we do understand the nature of this machine-like mind, it resembles something more like a gullible child. As powerful as it is it has no option than to believe anything we feel is true about us. However, if we want our lives to be different, we have to be persistent. We have to tell it the same things over and over again until that becomes our pattern, and consequential evidence starts showing up. We will never see the differences we long for unless we persist in the feeling of them already coming true for us. And that is the real key – we can’t long for it. We can’t long for something that in our mind has already happened.

This is the phenomena referred to as 'attraction' – or what has been for a long time dubbed the Law of Attraction. We have to spend less of our time living in the illusion created by our reality, and more time in an imagination of what it would feel like if it had already happened. And we cannot want for things that we think are already true for us. The key lies in us understanding just how this aspect of our minds 'hears' things. It hears ‘I wish I could’ as ‘I never will’. ‘I’m going to try, but it is nearly impossible for someone like me’. This machine mind responds to the created feeling of the statement. It always answers, ‘so shall it be’, or ‘as you wish’. ‘I wish I could’ keeps that thing we seek at a distance, and us remaining 2 steps away from where we want to be. The language that our reality creating mind responds to is ‘I already have’ or ‘now that I have’. The machine-mind has no option but to make the world resemble the form of our feelings, and to replicate a world where what we feel has happened already.

But we have to look for those differences we have asked for. Those sometimes-tiny inflections that are speckled subtly throughout our experience that are waking us our new life emerging. If we don’t spot and acknowledge them – if we don’t witness and appreciate the change in our environment our mind stops looking for and seeing them. If we don’t care enough about this change to persistently open ourselves to the signs they will shrivel up like an unwatered plant. But of course, we can see it – it has already happened. We owe it to ourselves to live in the reality of the things we want for having already come true. No matter how uncomfortable we might think it will make others feel, it is what they want for us. It is what they want for themselves. A life lived by choice. We owe it to ourselves to take back form the machine what has been going on automatically. Any other life is just moving the furniture around in the hope that it might make us feel differently.

I think it is the greatest injustice of our time – we have a machine running our lives that doesn’t care about us and we don’t even know it.

If we don’t know it, there’s nothing we can do about it. But in knowing it and understanding the language this part of our mind speaks, we can craft our lives into visions of everything we ever wanted to be true about ourselves. It has already happened. Indeed, the life we have now is the one we have wanted for so long. And for every inch we take back form the machine what has been going on automatically, is an inch we put back into the world of dreams. Every inch we contribute towards the world of dreams, wakes the whole world from the nightmare. Becoming the person we want to be might not be as far from reality as we think when we begin to understand the true power of imagined states. Our new reality may well be a simple sleight of hand – a trick we play on the mind that has been for so long tricking us.