What You Don't Understand About Mind Mechanics is Holding You Back

How memories are the key to understanding how you think and feel today.

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The First Recording: How Our Mind Begins

Our mind begins its journey as an incredible recording device, capturing experiences from our first moments of awareness. Like a sophisticated computer receiving its initial programming, our early experiences create the blueprint for how we interpret and respond to life. This data is being captured within the complex emotional landscape of our caregivers' lives.

Robert Smith started my first FasterEFT training sharing that "All your problems begin at birth. If you hadn't been born, you would have no problems. When you were born the stage was set. Your caregivers already had their own coping skills and beliefs. They impacted and influenced you."

Like a blank notebook on the first day of school a newborn's mind is ready for taking in information and learning from the environment. These learnings come in the form of experiences and modeled behavior, as well as the feelings, sensations, and emotions they create. Every laugh, every tension, every spoken and unspoken message plays a part in how we interpret the world.

Learning Through Experience

We learn through what we experience, the stories we're told.

Of course, my mom and dad had their challenges when, surprise!, they discovered they would be parents. Mom was 19 and dad 23 when I was born. It seemed like they fought nightly, and their fights were tremendous. SO loud and they seemed to go on forever. Their arguments left me feeling scared and somehow to blame.

The Power of Association

One way our unconscious mind saves energy is by creating linkages between things that occur at the same time.

Hebb's law: Neurons that fire together wire together.

This is how we generalize and learn. It can be incredibly useful. And sometimes less so as we develop connections that cause a slew of negative emotions and behaviors.

These early associations become our default programming. They operate outside of our conscious awareness.

Now I look back and think, of course I was afraid of the dark and going to bed alone at night. All those nights listening to mom and dad fighting while feeling afraid, in the dark, laying in bed created that association. Even on those rare nights that mom and dad were not fighting, bedtime and dark triggered fear and anxiety. My mind had successfully linked bedtime and dark to the fearful emotions fighting created.

Children don't choose to feel anxious at bedtime, their mind creates this response automatically based on experiences.

Creating Our Mental Blueprint

Our early caregivers, while doing their best, contribute to this programming through their own:

• Patterns of thinking and feeling

• Beliefs about the world and their place in it

• Unique coping mechanisms

• Learned styles of communication

• Unresolved traumas and painful memories

These influences create "imprints." Imprints are foundational memories that become the filter through which we experience future situations.

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Work With Me Personally

If you're ready to:

• Break free from limiting patterns that keep you stuck in anxiety, fear, or pain

• Release traumatic memories that are controlling your present experience

• Create a new internal blueprint that supports the life you truly want to live

I invite you to schedule a personal breakthrough session where we'll create a customized plan to transform your unconscious programming. (Note: This will be a conversation about investing in your transformation. If you're not open to investing in yourself if the value is there, please don't book this call).

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Imprints in Action

Think of a dog.

Notice what comes to mind, how that dog makes you think and feel.

My dog is a small red, white and sable Papillon named Sixto. He was the best dog and he went over the rainbow bridge in 2013.

My representation of Sixto is an imprint, a reference my mind goes to direct how I think and feel about dogs. This happens instantaneously and outside of my conscious awareness.

Photo, Sixto, mine :)

We have these imprints for everything and they determine how we think, feel, and even act.

From Protection to Pattern

Imagine a child who regularly witnesses conflict, the child learns to continually scan for danger. I have had many clients come to me with Multiple Chemical and EMF Sensitivities and every single one felt unsafe as a child. They were hyper-vigilant and continually scanning for danger.

Another child, surrounded by criticism learns, to expect judgment. They tend to feel at fault, or not good enough, in any situation. They deflect compliments like Superman does bullets because compliments contradict their beliefs about self.

These aren't conscious choices, they're automatic programs created through experience. What may not make sense today does make sense when you go back and explore the memories where the associations were created.

Understanding as the Key to Change

These understandings are the foundation for change in Robert Smith's FasterEFT methodology. We understand that early patterns:

• Form outside our conscious awareness

• Are triggered in similar situations

• Produce predictable emotional and physical responses

• Continue playing until we address the memories that led to them

• Influence our perception of present experiences

Mind mechanics show us that our responses aren't random, and we aren't broken. I haven't found a learned pattern that did not make sense in its original context.

This becomes the foundation for change through FasterEFT's methodology: addressing painful memories with associations that have outlived their use.

Your Turn to Reflect

Take a moment to consider your own early programming. What's one pattern in your life that might make more sense now, knowing how our minds create associations?

Share your insight in the comments below, your experience might help others recognize their own patterns.

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Coming up next in this series: I’ll be sharing about a powerful aspect of FasterEFT called defractionation and how it breaks trances to create change.