Subconscious mind

My good kid - the one I NEVER have to remind to practice, always focused, always works hard - my stepford child in fact - flaked out on me for the third week in row.

She's 12.

I fully expected her to tell me that there was boy responsilble for her pie in the sky behaviour.

But no.

Perverse as this child is - it was school work.

This is the short version by the way. It took awhile to get this out of her.

I am more than just a music teacher. THe other things that I bring to the table are life coaching.

So I explain to her about utilizing her sub conscious mind to problem solve.

Did you ever wrestle with a problem, decide that thinking about it isn't getting you anywhere, and suddenly in the shower - the answer pops into your head?

Subconscious mind.

Very underutilized and usually very accurate.

Here's the funny part. I was thinking about this after I left her house. Kids actually use this technique a lot. Far more frequently than grownups.

We have way too many things we juggle. So we need instant answers so we can close the chapter on that problem and move on to the next.

Hence - we make some poor judgements and poor decisions.

What if, we put the problem aside - "sleep on it" in a sense. You may actually do that, or you may only need to do it for a few hours. Do not allow yourself the option of thinking about it. Use a key phrase to yourself whenever you are tempted to open the book on this problem in your mind. "I will deal with this later" or "I am not at my deadline for this situation yet". Pick a finite time that you WILL deal with it, and usually your subconcsious mind will have the answer.

DING DING DING.... PROBLEM!!!!!!

What happens when we start doing this and we are still making poor decisions??? OK it's possible and even probable.

My answers are simply this. One has to do their homework for the solution to fit appropriately. So be sure you have as much information as you feel you can get and need before you try this. Second - be prepared to reject the plan. Your subconscious could easily come up with the "right" plan but we reject it for any number of other reasons. That doesn't make it the wrong plan - it just makes it the "not right now" plan.

But if we are open to this kind of use of our minds, there is no stopping us from getting things working better and more efficiently in our lives.

THere is a wonderful article from Oprah's Magazine last February. In effect when we start looking at our desires and needs from the CORE of our being ( not the superficial "I want to win the lottery crap") The universe will provide them in due course.

It's an interesting concept. I'm trying it more now. You want to give it a go?