Two Parts of our brain.

Before we discuss why beliefs are more powerful than our decisions. We have to discuss first, the two parts of our brain or mind. Bro. Bo explains in this book that there two parts of our brain or mind, first is the conscious mind and the other is the subconscious mind.

Bro. Bo Sanchez explains that our brain have 100 billion neurons capable of running 10 quadrillion operations per second. In one second it can run and manage 10 quadrillion operations. Can you imagine that? (Sorry for that very technical word, I don’t even understand that.) Let us simplify that, if we combine all the computing power of all computers of the world together, they still won’t be able to do what our brain can do. Picture this: put all the telephone network of the entire world together and it will not even compare to the complexity of one neuron in our brain. That’s how powerful our brain is.

Let me talk about our conscious mind. Do you know that our conscious mind is limited it can not even memorize 18 digits of numbers given in a few seconds. Let me give you an example, memorize this number 639204056681102777. You can’t memorize it, right? But I can, because that is my phone number and my birth date. Now let me copy again the example used by Bro. Bo to describe how powerful our unconscious mind is. There are 10 million cells in our body die every second and 10 million cells are created every second. Guess who supervises all that? It’s our unconscious mind. Our unconscious mind memorizes not 18 numbers but ten million numbers per second. Not only that, it memorizes that forever, it never forgets and it runs automatic. Can you imagine that? That’s how powerful our unconscious mind is. If only we can harness the power of our unconscious mind then we can achieve almost anything. And this is our challenge. This is the kind of gift that God had given us.

This all explains why beliefs are a thousand times more powerful than our decisions and desires, because beliefs are in our unconscious mind. The moment we start to develop a habit of thoughts it will be filed or stock up in our unconscious mind and it will stock there forever. Not unless we will remove or change that belief for whatever reasons we may have. The challenge that we need to address is how to harness the power of our belief and perception.

Here’s the truth: Our Control of perception is this, our conscious mind controls 2-4 percent of our perception and behavior while our unconscious mind controls 96-98 percent of our perception and behavior and it runs automatically.  Let me give you a very simple example given by Bro. Bo Sanchez, A loving person doesn’t have a hard time being loving. It’s automatic: He has loving habits. A holy person doesn’t have a hard time being holy. It’s automatic: He has holy habits. So a rich person doesn’t have a hard time being rich. It’s automatic: He gets richer and richer every day because he has wealth habits. So here’s the big question: How do we gain wealthy habits? How can we make wealth automatic?

By the way how our beliefs are being develop? It all starts from our childhood. How many times we have heard from our parents, siblings and friends this statement from our childhood “You can’t do that”. You can’t do that because you’re too young, you can’t do that because you’re not good enough and many other reason why you can’t do that. After hearing this so many times maybe a thousand times, it will become a habit of thought. It will become a belief. So whenever there’s a dream in front of us, even if our conscious mind will say we can do it but our unconscious mind will say we can’t do that. What do you think will happen, it will lead us to inaction because of our fear of failure, doubts and disbelief. Why was that? Again, it’s because our subconscious mind is a thousand times more powerful than our conscious mind. That is why parent have a big, huge major role in molding the faith of their children. In other words parents have a huge influence in their children’s future. “As a parent I’ve learned that my most important role isn’t to correct my children’s every mistake. One of my most important roles is to believe that they can achieve any dream that God has placed in their hearts.”

Going back to the big question on how do we gain wealthy habits? How can we make wealth automatic?

Or how can we change our own non-conscious beliefs? The answer to this nagging question is we have to create new positive beliefs. We will change and forget our old negative beliefs. Instead of saying I can’t do that, that is very difficult, that’s impossible, I am weak, I am not that good, I am not intelligent, and all those negative thoughts that you can think of. We will replace that thought by this Yes! With God everything is possible. Yes! I can do that. Yes! That’s difficult but I can try. I am a son of God so I am strong. I am good. I am intelligent. Now! You got it right? Yes! It may sound too bragging or too proud, but that’s the secret we have to believe first that we can. We have to do this in our mind first and there are so many ways to say this in a humble way. We have to think of this everyday or every single minute and we will never stop until our subconscious mind will believe and replace those old negative beliefs. I know this is not easy. I know for the first time it may sound crazy but who cares in the first place nobody knows we are thinking of this every single minute. Nobody knows that we are now slowly changing our old negative habit of thoughts and habit of action. By the time we actually believed this new beliefs we will witness the abundance and blessing of God. We will have a new look, a new perception of things, a new perspective, a new aura, a new life full of positive energy and a new experience of God’s presence every single minute.

My dear friends, I hope we understand now the two parts of our brain and how it works. May this knowledge or information help us to reach our dreams. Until then, Godbless us all.

May our dreams come true,

Bernard Cadelina

Pinoy Real Estate Investor Wannabe