05/13/2026
Discerning with the Rational Mind
Until you understand how your mind works, it is almost impossible to discern clearly what is happening in your life and why. Your rational mind is tool used for survival or better explained as a problem-solving tool based upon your feelings, not your intellect.
Unfortunately, rather than as a tool, most of humanity allows it to run the show. You see the part of your mind that does all the learning, your subconscious part of the mind, figures out the importance of your life events based upon how they feel, this decides the degree of our “fight or flight” response. As I say to my clients, if you are good in Math, it is not just that you have an aptitude for math, but that you were praised by a teacher, a parent or some authority figure, and the subconscious part of your mind says “oh, math feels good…do more math”.
Likewise, if you are bad in math, it may have nothing to do with your aptitude, but more to do with a bad math teacher, a hyper critical parent or being compared to another sibling, and suddenly math does not feel good so your subconscious mind creates a pattern that blocks doing good in math.
Until you understand that the subconscious part of the mind is faster than your conscious mind and that it works with only feelings, you cannot understand why your fears are controlling you. The rational mind is a tool to problem solve against those good or bad feelings you have, and it is not aware that the response generated is not connected to what is happening in the moment, but rather the feelings created in the past.
This is why we must learn to be observers of our feelings, and discern what is really happening, then take a proper response to the situation happening in the moment, or what we call higher reasoning. This is the whole point of our lives and what is meant by becoming consciously aware. Once understood we begin to have a different view of our reality. Pattern responses can change and one of the best tools for this transformation process is hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool aiding people in re-routing these responses in a healthier more positive way. The key is understanding how the pattern formed. This is what we do at Thought Alchemy’s Transformation Center.
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