Understanding is power. Blog #4
Knowledge is power
Growing up I always was taught that. It implied that in order to succeed in life one had to spend as much time as they could at school or making up for it at the library if there was no access to teachers. It made sense. Our experience of the world is limited by what we know, so in that sense the more we know the broader our horizons and then the more options and possibilities appear on our radar.
As a young adult fascinated by philosophy and the human mind I noticed however a wobbly pattern around me. There seemed to be a lot of people in the world who “knew” everything, had read all the books and learnt from the most illustrious teachers, and yet carried that energy about them that transpired exactly the opposite of whatever they were preaching.
Shoe makers wear the worst shoes
Furthermore as I started to grow into my profession of healing people’s mind and heart and increase my professional circle, I was astonished by the vast majority of my colleagues, therapists and coaches alike, who despite “knowing” how to help others from mental and emotional afflictions were none the wiser and demonstrated an utter state of disarray in their own personal life. That didn’t make sense to me. How could one provide a service they don’t use themselves ? I spent my life hunting and applying on me every single ounce of knowledge to grow and change and now that I have finally arrived on the other side of the mirror, I am suddenly surrounded by an army of broken therapists and coaches who “know” everything except the taste of their own medicine.
This article is not written to criticise the mental health and coaching industry, we are all humans and doing our best to understand what that means, but to illustrate how knowledge isn’t power even in the places where we expect it to be a sine qua non.
At a more general scale we all know there are things we should be doing and others we shouldn’t and yet our choices of actions contradict that knowledge. If knowledge really was power life would be much simpler. All we would need is to know that some things are either good or bad and then rectify our actions accordingly.
We over emphasise on our rational intelligence at the expense of our emotional intelligence
The analytical intelligent conscious mind is only 5% of our mind versus an overwhelming 95% of subconscious emotional reactive mind. And that explains clearly why knowledge is not power because we are trapped by the illusion that we operate our life from the conscious mind when we really are prisoners of the automatic pilots embedded within our subconscious mind, out of reach from the conscious mind. We are what we believe not what we know.
Reset your mind
There is nothing in our subconscious mind that can’t be changed, replaced or upgraded. I empower my client’s belief system on a weekly basis with unequivocal success thanks to Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT). Marisa Peer's revolutionary and groundbreaking method is the ultimate key for real and immediate changes using a precise blend of hypnosis, regression and human psychology. RTT brings the knowing to believing because the missing element was always accepting that knowledge, for as long as the subconscious mind do not accept what we know, what we know is powerless.
Understanding is optimising
Research has shown that when we understand how something works it even works better. For instance we know what vitamin C is, but when we actually read about how the body processes vitamin C and how it works as an antioxidant to strengthens the immune system then when we take the vitamin C its impact is enhanced significantly in our body. That is because when we can visualise and understand something the mind gets involved at a far more deeper level, a subconscious level. Understanding is accepting the logic of something, surrendering to that truth, believing it will work, and when we believe in something more mechanisms are put into place to manifest that belief.
Understanding is power
Our experience of the world is limited by what we know and amplified by what we understand of it. We must challenge what we know everyday to expand and deepen that understanding. So what is there for us to understand ? We want to understand that we only have one life. We want to understand how we come into this life enough and complete, with more than enough love and purpose to impact the world. We want to understand how we are all connected to all things...
Ultimately we need to remind ourselves that “knowing” exists within the realm of the conscious mind and we are creatures of emotions and feelings, so we must understand that whatever we know is worth nothing until we start to believe.