Most people live their lives focused on their thoughts. Our thinking mind opens and closes doors in our world, but our subconscious is the most powerful part of us. Our thoughts and actions are but the clothes worn by the subconscious to make us presentable in this world and yet that is where we focus our full attention.

            If you could program your subconscious to be harmonious with the Wisdom of your Body, your thoughts and actions would always reflect a well balanced person, coming from a depth of peace and calm. When our subconscious becomes the expression of poor conditioning; thoughts and actions reflect a lack of ease.

            In a social context that is when awkward thoughts and actions emerge, but in a health context that lack of ease creates an environment that welcomes disease. The awkward moments in health are when the immune system can not protect the body from disease and we get sick.

            Our subconscious mind, when it is reflecting that peace an calm is operated by the Wisdom of the Body. In that consciousness we are operated by something greater than our past conditioning, we are in the “Zone”. Our body and mind performs to its potential and that ease is when creativity emerges and actions are done with grace and precision.

            When we reflect that lack of ease, we are operated by our conditioned ego and the habits learned in our past dictate our life. Now most people accept that lack of ease as just that is the way I am. I did that my entire life without knowing I was doing it, but when I got sick with MS; I was given the right to change that and go beyond my conditioned nature to find the Wisdom of my Body.

            My conditioning wasn’t a negative thing, I came from a wonderful family and I felt a spiritual depth, but the conscious mind only covers our true nature. My illness stripped me from my coverings and even though I was dealing with a chronic illness, I broke out of my conditioned mind and experienced the power of my subconscious.

            For the past 24 years my focus has been to create an inner environment that kept me connected to that depth, mostly because that was the only way I could deal with what was happening to me. At that depth I was free from the thoughts of being handicapped and I was connected to an inner wisdom that gave me the strength to deal with my MS challenge.

            Now I work with people helping them to create that inner healing environment by reprogramming their subconscious mind. Since the habits that creates your character was conditioned; when you have a strong goal you have the ability to reprogram your subconscious mind. I have seen the goal of healing be what frees a person from past conditioning, for the desire to live is stronger than the desire to protect who you were taught to be.
            I have also seen the spiritual aspiration to connect to an Ultimate reality be stronger than being committed to past conditioning. The fact is that whenever you crave something more than you identify with your thinking mind, the Wisdom of your Body needs to be your focus so powerful inner resources can be released.

            That can be for healing where it is easy to see that your life is more important than your thoughts and conditioning. Or to use the wisdom of the body for spiritual aspirations where a spiritual experience is greater than the creations of your mind.

            It really doesn’t matter what your goal is, just don’t let your old habits limit you. You have the right to break out of your character and create a conscious connection to the Wisdom of your Body. When the Wisdom of your Body deals with your health or spiritual aspirations, it is though you are putting your best foot forward to accomplish that goal. Approach everything you value with the Wisdom of your Body and aspire to your goal with the best of you. Don’t be a victim to your past conditioning, if it doesn’t serve you—change it.

Marc Lerner is the author of The Life Skills Approach. He lectures frequently to patients in a health crisis and those in an emotional trauma,. For more information, visit www.lifeskillsinc.com and get a free e-book.
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