Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

THREE MINDS IN ONE
You think and operate your life with three different minds. The first
is your 
conscious
mind. You use your conscious mind to take in new
information, compare it with your current knowledge, analyze it in
terms of its value or relevance to you, and then decide to act or not
to act. This is the mind with which you direct your life. This is often
referred to as the 
objective
mind.
The second mind you use is your 
subconscious
. Your subcon-
scious mind is a huge data bank that records every thought, idea,
emotion, or experience that you ever have throughout your life. This
is called the 
subjective
mind. Its role is to keep all of your words and
actions consistent with your self-concept and with your current atti-
tudes, beliefs, fears, and prejudices. Your subconscious mind does
not reason; it only obeys your commands.
Your subconscious mind is also responsible for the operation of
all of your bodily functions. It controls your autonomic nervous sys-
tem and your heart rate, breathing, digestion, basic memory, and so