TWO FORCES AGAINST CHANGE

You will have to reckon with one internal and one external force during your change journey. The internal force is related to our subconscious mind aka the mind body. While the external force is related to our environment. Dr. Joe (Dispenza) equates the subconscious mind to a computer program which contains the code for our behaviours, emotional reactions, habits, attitudes, beliefs and perceptions that we acquired passively throughout our life experiences. Any repetitive positive or negative experiences will get coded into that program by a way of emotional memories. In a way, creating emotional addictions. According to Dr. Joe, this computer program runs 95% of our life. We essentially surrender our free will to this computer program which runs our mind body. This means we live unconcious lives based on memories of the past. To change we need to overcome our emotional addictions with the remaining 5% conscious mind or the thinking brain. It is like waging a war with five (5) soldiers in your army against an enemy of ninety-five (95). So you have to be very strategic about the approach (more on approaches in another post). In addition to running war on your subconscious, we need to run a second war on another front, your environment. In this case, the environment really relates to the people in your life. Dr. Posen dedicates a short paragraph to this very significant issue in his Always Change a Losing Game book. As you start changing your behaviours, people that have known you, will have a reaction to that change. Change in one person can have effects on the aspects of a relationship such as dynamics or balance of power between two individuals. Dr. Joe takes this a little further to suggest that individuals use each other to affirm their emotional addictions. This is when you might experience your family or friends telling you that they don't like the new you and prefer the old you. They might not necessarily communicate this in a clear manner but in a variety of ways from "indifference to resistance or even hostility." So in the end, if you are truly serious about change, learn and use techniques that will help you overcome the internal force, while to overcome the external force you may have to re-evaluate your relationships. Stick with people that will support you in your change campaign while let go of relationships that will keep you in your old ways. Share with the community how you conquered either of the forces.