03/26/2021
Do you know someone who is never fully recovered a traumatic experience?
And in your own day-to-day life, you sometimes experience self-doubts, negative thoughts, unreasonable fears, upsets or irrational behavior.
The painful experiences of our past clearly influence our present behavior.
But to what degree?
And why?
What causes the mind to depart from rational thought or behavior?
That is the subject of ACT (Auto-Conditioning Therapy).
Your mind is recording everything that's happening to you.
Every sight, every sound, every taste, and every smell.
Pain, emotion, touch... everything.
Your mind uses this information to make decisions and solve problems relating to your survival.
Which means.. The better its decisions, the better you survive.
Most of this data is stored in your Analytical or Conscious mind.
That part of your mind that thinks, remembers, and calculates.
But some of your experiences are not recorded into those analytical memory banks.
It is the discovery of ACT that all your painful experiences are stored in the unconscious part of the mind.
It throws those experiences back at you in an irrational attempt to get you to avoid the same painful thing from happening to you again.
Here's a simple and common example.
At some point you've probably gotten sick from eating tainted food later in life.
If you see or smell, or possibly even think about that food, again, you start to feel a little nauseous.
Now you know that logically the mere sight or smell or thought of a food can't physically make your body ill because you haven't eaten it again, and yet you're experiencing the same sick feeling you had before.
This is your unconscious mind making you re-experience the same perceptions it recorded in that earlier incident in a crude attempt to protect you from what it believes is a dangerous situation.
It reacts solely on the stimulus response basis that is below your awareness.
The painful experiences hidden in your unconscious mind are the cause of your fears, Insecurities, negative thoughts, unwanted emotions, and irrational behavior.
You have been accumulating these deeply buried experiences throughout your existence.
What would life be like if all the pain you've experienced no longer affected your abilities, emotions, and behavior?
You would think and behave making the best possible decisions relating to your survival.
You would be able to utilize your imagination and creativity to their fullest.
You would be confident, more intelligent, productive, and happierā¦
You would be yourself... free to enjoy life.
And reach your full potential.
In short, you will become your true and best self.
That is the goal of ACT.