Rules of the Mind

Imagine how your life would be better if you understand how your mind works, or better yet, how everyone’s mind works.

Marisa Peer, founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy where I graduated as a hypnotherapist said that when she started off training as a therapist, she was told that the mind is really complicated and very complex, that it takes a lifetime to understand and to master. She said “No one has a lifetime to master their mind. What’s the point of being 80 years old before you can finally work out your mind?”

Her words and the rules she laid out gave me the confidence to become the practitioner I am today. I am forever grateful to Marisa for summing up how the mind works with these simple rules.

Your mind does exactly what it thinks you want it to do

Its one simple job is to keep you alive. Your subconscious mind is like an unquestioning servant who takes everything literally and does what it truly believes is in your best interest. It does not reason if what you think is good or bad, right or wrong, true or false, it accepts and acts regardless. It works day and night to make your behaviour fit a pattern consistent with your emotionalized thoughts, hopes and desires.

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge

Your mind works in the present tense

Your mind cannot hold 2 conflicting thoughts, beliefs, emotions at a given moment.

Your mind only responds to two things: the pictures you make in your head and the words you say to yourself.

Every thought creates a physical and emotional response

The greater the conscious effort, the less the subconscious mind responds

Your mind naturally works to move you from pain to pleasure.

Your mind learns through repetition

In short, what we expect tends to be realized. Psychologist Amy Morin explains that “once you draw a conclusion about yourself, you’re likely to do two things; look for evidence that reinforces your belief and discount anything that runs contrary to your belief.” This universal truth that “You are what you think” is agreed upon by all great thinkers and philosophers, past and present.

You create your reality.

Your beliefs are yours to change

You make your beliefs and your beliefs make you.