The 3 Parts of Your Mind That Control Every Decision You Make

If somebody does something and you go, "Oh, that makes my blood boil," I go, "Really? I can control you like a puppet on a string." If you eliminate the reactive mind, you no longer react to anything.

You can respond with conscious awareness, but nobody can push your buttons 'cause you don't have any buttons to push.

This is what gives you power.

But how do you personally define the subconscious mind?

There's actually three areas of the mind, is the analytical mind.

This is the one that looks at the facts.

It's the one that can only see what's on the radar screen.

It's analyzing data.

It's looking at the facts.

Here's how much money I make.

Here's how, here are my bills.

This is what I can afford to save.

You're looking at facts.

That's the analytical mind.

Then you have the subconscious mind, which is the mind that operates below your level of conscious awareness.

You're not aware of what's there-

Yeah

... and what's vibrating and what your beliefs are, what your thoughts are.

It's below your level of consciousness.

Then you have the reactive mind, and the reactive mind reacts.

Mm-hmm.

So this is where you get your buttons pushed.

Yeah.

"Oh, he pushes my, he pushed my buttons.

Oh, I just got triggered.

That triggers me." That means your reactive mind is being triggered.

That means you don't have any control.

If somebody does something and you go, "Oh, that makes my blood boil," I go, "Really? You have no control.

I can control you like a puppet on a string."

Yeah.

"Because all I have to do is say this word, and I can piss you off."

Yeah.

I go, "I control you.

You don't control yourself."

Yeah.

So if you eliminate the reactive mind, you no longer react to anything.

You can respond with conscious awareness, but nobody can push your buttons 'cause you don't have any buttons to push.

This is what gives you power.

Some people call this how to control the mind.

So when you're in a situation w- and, and something happens that you don't want to happen, but you just go, "You know, we're, I'm gonna h- I'm gonna handle this," instead of getting irrational, having ir-

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... an irrational and uncontrollable emotion.

If you eliminate that, man, you are in control.

Mm-hmm.

There was-

Mm-hmm

... we were, when I was in prison for contempt of court, I wasn't charged with a crime, but I was there for eight and a half years.

My brothers over there, we would play basketball, whatever, and they would get triggered all the time.

And I'd go, I go, "Look, Leroy, come here.

Come here.

Come here." Slap him across the face.

I go-

[laughs]

... "Come on, man.

Control your mind.

Don't let that guy control you."

Yeah.

And all these guys today, many of them are millionaires because of the training that I gave them when they were in prison.

They came out, cleaned up their act.

A lot of them were drug dealers.

Wow.

Uh, they cleaned up their act, w- and there's one guy makes a million bucks a month, uh, on-

Mm

... with an online business.

Went from drug dealer, broke, million bucks a month.

But he says, "Y- what you taught me about being able to control my emotions by controlling my mind and not being able to get triggered, man, it made me feel like Superman.

It made me feel like I am in control of my life," instead of, "I'm out of control, and I'm being, you know, affected by everything else around me." I affect everything else around me now, instead of everything else around me affecting me.

Right.

Yeah.

That's incredible.

That's what...

You know, th- this, this is where I tell people, you, you gotta give space between stimulus and response, and that's that reactive mind you're talking about.

So many people are instantaneous responses.

So many, you know, they're triggered right away.

They don't even have a break in between to analyze the situation and, like, coherently understand what just happened, process it, and look for a solution to the problem, or maybe even just ignore it completely.

Maybe it doesn't even deserve any of your attention at all.

Right.

Um, and I'm guilty of that.

I've done that in the past as well.

You know, I've responded to something instantaneously without giving that space between stimulus and response, and usually when you do that, you end up with a bad result.

[laughs]

Yeah, and then you always say something like, "Oh, I didn't mean to say that." [laughs]

[laughs]

Well, if you didn't mean to say it, why'd you say it? [laughs]

Right, exactly.

Yeah.

Because you reacted.

It wasn't you.

It, it was the reactive mind throwing something.

You didn't think, so it wasn't a conscious statement that you made.

It was, uh, it was sub...

It was not even subconscious.

It was a reaction out of the reactive mind.

'Cause if you think about it, you wouldn't have said it.

Then you go back and say, "I'm sorry.

I didn't mean that."

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, good.

If you eliminate that part, you become incredibly powerful, and that's-

Mm-hmm

... that, and that's...

We, we would call it clearing the reactive mind or freeing the reactive mind so you don't have that.

This is part of the mind training that I teach in the book, Your Wish Is Your Command, how to control the mind so that you can control your life.

You have to kinda break down that subconscious coding, that programming, and part of the ego, and then you gotta kinda help them rebuild it.

It's so bizarre, but it's there, and that's, that's what the need is for this kind of self-improvement, you know, teaching.

It really is important.

Yeah.