This week, Anne Leone ran a workshop on how our subconscious mind influences our lives, and how we can benefit from this knowledge. The workshop was timely with the New Year having recently passed. We started by going around the room to recap our 2025s and share resolutions or wishes for 2026.
This led to a discussion of destiny and fate. Anne pointed out how we often get stuck in repeated patterns, or locked into situations we feel hopeless to change, including some from the introductions. She pointed out how these come not from forces of destiny, but from our subconscious actions and beliefs that continually push us back into those patterns and situations our conscious minds would rather avoid or change.
The subconscious mind is an essential part of us, she continued. It is formed in early childhood and was created to help us survive. When we panic, feel fear, or let ourselves work on autopilot, the subconscious mind takes over. And it is powerful, processing information a million times faster than our conscious thoughts. She used the analogy of a tractor versus a race car. Our conscious minds are steady and powerful, but slow. Our subconscious minds outrun them every time, but are not as practical for doing hard work and harder to keep under control.
The subconscious, together with self-talk and assumptions about the world, keep us in the patterns Anne mentioned. They create self fulfilling prophecies, for good or ill. They are the scripts that we follow without thinking, leading us always back to the same places.
If we want to change, like we promise ourselves every January, she offered several steps to start getting a handle on our subconscious minds.
First, we need to understand it, awareness is key. If we can learn to recognize our patterns, how situations trigger our subconscious minds, and how our assumptions and beliefs shape how we see the world, we at least see them for what they are. That recognition is the basis for change.
Second, she called out blocking beliefs, those statements we make that introduce negative patterns and limit us. Anne proposed a series of blossoming beliefs to replace them with and encouraged each participant to work out their own.
Finally, Anne shared a list of tools we can use to recode our subconscious minds to work for us. Mindfulness, meditation, hypnosis, affirmations, journalling, art therapy, visualization, trusting our intuition, and Anne’s preferred method Psyche-K@ (she offers individual sessions with this simple but efficient methodology) all help with this.
She encouraged two ideas when working with these tools. First, do not feel limited to one method, explore widely to benefit from how they connect and support each other. Second, find what works for you, don’t feel like you need to use a tool because others recommend them.
Overall, the workshop was a great start to a year of professional and personal growth. Anne’s discussion of the subconscious mind will hopefully unblock paths to change for the people in the room and help us make the changes we want. Anne encouraged all of us to formulate a clear intention or purpose to approach this new year with optimism and curiosity.
Anne has run a number of workshops for the EMPOWER community. She is a life and leadership coach based in the region working to support personal & professional change. You can contact her here:
Website www.mamaleone-coach.de
Email info@mamaleone-coach.com
Cell +39 345 358 5962
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