We are consistently inundated with sensory input. Our subconscious filters out about 95% of this as being unnecessary. The filters are our default belief patterns. These belief patterns were programmed into us by ourselves, mentors, environment, etc. Some have little logic behind them, but they can be very powerful. Mostly these patterns were not designed by the conscious mind and they can make you feel good (useful) or feel bad (disuseful).

I found that, for me, and this is the only perspective I can have, my subconscious is not easily changed by my conscious mind. In fact it seems that my subconscious mind throws up smokescreens when I try to apply logic in regard to changing it.

I can force myself into different behaviors, but this does not have long lasting change. The conscious mind is a flighty thing compared to the subconscious. Always running hither and thither while the subconscious mind proceeds in silent solemn dignity. How long would I last if my subconscious immediately responded to every whim I have? If I had to make conscious the things my subconscious mind does automatically, Breathing, heartbeat, etc.

And do I care "why" I react in certain ways? No. I just want outcomes, happy outcomes. For me, "why" is irrelevant and I am not getting a straight answer from my subconscious anyhow!

A recent example is that I found a person very abrasive. Really rubbed me the wrong way. Got under my skin and I became angry, unreasonably angry, but, I felt it was justifiable anger. I felt I was RIGHT! All my logic pointed to the absolute fact, in my mind, that I was absolutely correct in my assessment. Use them as a mirror to work on myself? Are you freaking kidding me! I was right! They were wrong! A lot of stuff entered my mind about how to prove them wrong and myself right!

Then I realized I was going around with a tight solar plexus. Good indication to me that I was not happy! So I decided to ignore them. I even found software that would allow me to block seeing their name or comments on the site I was otherwise enjoying. An "Ignore Button."

But I was still feeling pinched off from my Source. Not only feeling pinched off, but a lot of other things in my life that usually worked very well, were not working well. Karma? Retribution? Mistakes that I normally would not make? Consequences.

I believe it was that I was not well connected to my Source, my Inspiration, my Guide, my God and my happiness. Me screwing up me! No one else! I am the Cause and Continuation.

So I ran myself through the above process. The next morning I woke up and decided to remove the blocking software and have another look at this person. *There had been a miraculous change in him!! He was making lots of sense! Good, eloquent, intelligent, meaningful remarks! Hot damn, he had made all the changes I wanted, overnight!

I searched his previous posts. I found abrasive nastiness! Sure! But It came from me! FROM ME! I began editing my posts.

Do I really give a rat's ass about WHY I felt negative before? Big, fat NO! Do I know WHY I felt badly before? Another big, fat NO! In fact asking that question tended to bring up some nasty past stuff. Solar plexus crunch, oops, ouchies!

He did not change. I did. My perceptions, my responses, my beliefs, my filters changed. I made a partner with my subconscious mind ("Max"), let Max find some other options and use them when Max feels it is best to do so and the patterns changed!

I don't know what happened. I really, really don't care! Did I hold it up to Truth? Seek? Knock? Experience? I DID hold it up to Joy, and I experienced a change. Do I now like everything he says, not everything, but most of it and when I don't like something, I have a look inside myself.

I am not saying this process outlined above will work for everyone, nor that everyone should use it. In the beginning I had little belief it could do anything. Did not make a lot of conscious mind sense, but it has worked for me.

Often I don't feel it the next morning. Usually I am just cruising along and enjoying life and I have a momentary thought that I used to react in less functional ways.

My wife has begun to believe that Road Rage is no longer and factor, but it took her a while to embed that belief. For a while, she cringed when someone cut me off, fearing that I was just holding it in with pressure building inside me. I felt a mild amusement as though I was experiencing a deja vu dreamlike state. No adverse reactions to Road Rage anymore, at all.

What happened inside me, I don't care, but when that solar plexus begins to tighten I am going to stop and run the process!

Let me give an example of conscious and subconscious mind interplay. As part of a demonstration of hyphosis, I asked a young woman to take part in an experiment on "Cognitive Recognition."

I hypnotized her in front of an audience. In a deep trance I gave the command that when she saw me touch my face with my hand, she would unbutton the top button of her blouse. When I put my hand in my lap, she would re-button it. She was to consciously forget the command.

Brought her out and began talking with her about other subjects. As I touched my face, she unbuttoned the top button, then as I lowered my hand she re-buttoned. We did this seveal times until I drew her attention to her actions. She stated that she was not aware that she was doing this.

We continued talk and she continued her actions, but there was some tension. The audience was chuckling, which added to her frustration. I asked again. She stated there was a draft and she was cold, then the draft stopped and she was alright. The audience began to laugh.

I stilled them and asked again. She became angry and told me that she was really feeling sick and to quit bothering her! I told her about the command and the buttons. She was a good sport about it. I gave her a few minutes while we talked and then touched my face, her hand rose about halfway and she consciously stopped it. We did this several times more and each time her hand rose in varying degrees before she stopped it.

My point was that when she did not understand the situation, the stimulus and response command, her conscious mind tried to find a correspondence, but she only offered conscious mind excuses.

Even when I told her the story, she continued to have a subconscious mind response, however with some effort, she was able to control it. But she still responded until I took her back into trance and removed the command.

I don't feel comfortable in dealing with dis-useful response pattern by using hypnosis. It can work, but I like a more personally interactive method in which the person uses their inner processes to make changes that they find beneficial is more effective in the long run.

Though I like certain therapy processes and appreciate the good therapists do, I am also aware of the biases therapists can bring to the table. They sometimes feel the client needs to change in ways the therapist feels appropriate. I want the person, in concert with their parts to find their own solutions and I believe we have a natural tendency toward joyful answers.

I find that there are deep seated responses and belief systems in the psyche and that some of these we do not find useful, and these patterns are extremely difficult to reach with the conscious mind.

I did a lot of work with returning Vietnam vets. These young men and women, many of them in their teens, had developed deep seated problems. Phobic response patterns. Traditional therapeutic methods either worked very slowly or not at all.

Though my studies and research are still in the infancy stage, I think that a way of connecting Source, conscious and subconscious can result in dramatic positive change.