Positive Thinking Does Not Work
Dr Bruce Lipton, has come up with scientific proof which backs up Create Effect and Cause Follows.
He says that positive thinking does not work, because it is done with the conscious mind. And the conscious mind is not what is running our lives.
Our lives are run by what Dr Lipton calls the subconscious mind. He says science shows that the subconscious runs our life 95 – 99 % of the time, every single day. And the subconscious mind is much more powerful than the conscious mind – over a million times more powerful as an information processor.
The combined effect of a million times more powerful part of our brain, and the fact that it runs our lives up to 95% of the time, means that our conscious mind (where our so called ‘positive thinking’ is) has quite an uphill battle to be heard!
If our conscious desire fitted with our unconscious ideas, there would actually be no problem. Then the ‘Law of Attraction’ would work automatically – no need to do anything to create it. But most of our unconscious ideas (70% according to Dr Lipton), are negative and destructive, not what we would consciously want! And as that is what is running our life, you can see why any attempt at conscious positive thinking is doomed to failure. Just spitting in the wind.
It means that we may consciously think we want more money, and focus on the visualization of a nice fat bank account of a few million and repeat a lot of affirmations to that affect, but if there is a belief in our unconscious mind that we don’t deserve to be rich, that we will never win the lottery, that it is something for other people not me, then guess what – no matter how much and for how long you visualize those millions, you will never get them!
The subconscious mind, says Lipton, is like a tape player – it just goes on playing the same old tapes we learned in early childhood. Those tapes are the messages we picked up mostly from our parents, or from anyone else who was very influential for the first six years of our lives.
Whether these messages were given to us directly or indirectly, they are what we picked up from the way we were treated, and those messages went into our innocent unconscious minds where they became truths. And then the tape player started re-playing those messages any time we were in similar situations, and we acted accordingly.
And where is our conscious mind in all this? That tiny part that is supposed to be there for at least 1% of the day?
Well, it is there when we consciously use our creativity to work on a particular issue or project. But when we are not using it, what does it do? It daydreams!! It wanders off into the future or the past, and thus becomes unconscious.
So, not only are we unaware of when our unconscious tapes are playing, we don’t even have the ability to use our conscious minds to become aware of and observe the mechanisms of the unconscious.
