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Let us dive straight in and look at today’s topic which I wrote in 2022 and am republishing for the new website and also to reshare it with my wonderful audience as it is a very powerful concept!
The Most Valuable Idea
Dr. Thurman Fleet developed the Stick Person image in 1934. He realised that the healing arts were only ever treating the symptoms rather than the cause of dis-ease in the body. Dr Fleet coined the idea that when the body is in dis-ease, it is caused by the mind. Let me explain as that is pretty abstract!
Dr Fleet, and several authors before and since his time, write that the body is merely an instrument of the mind. Mind is not a thing, it is an activity. It is the control centre, and the brain is the electrical switching station that controls the body. Effectively, the mind controls the actions of the body. However, no-one had ever seen the mind. We did not have a picture of it, and as visual beings that think in images we struggled. We can’t heal something we cannot see…
The Stick Person Figure Was Born
Dr Fleet drew the Stick Person graphic as a way of giving people a visual to work with. He explained that the top circle is the mind, split in half with the conscious mind above and the subconscious below. The lower circle represents the body.
Conscious Mind
Our conscious mind is where our senses connect; the little antenna. We can see, hear, smell, touch and taste and these inputs are wired into our conscious mind. Our higher faculties are also resident in our conscious mind, but very few of us are aware of these, let alone know how to use them!
Our higher faculties are:
- Will – our focus.
- Perception – the way we see the world.
- Reason – how we interact with ideas.
- Memory – we all have a perfect memory!
- Imagination – anything you can imagine in your mind, you can create in your physical world.
- Intuition – how we pick up other people’s energy, and that little voice in the back of our mind.
We can develop each of these faculties to an infinite degree. But these are not the focus of this post. Please check out this course or this blog post to learn more about these.
Our conscious mind has the ability to think, and choose what it thinks. It can think in past and future tense through memory and imagination. Nobody can make you think anything that you don’t want to think. Only you can choose what you think about any given thing!
Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind holds our programming or paradigm. Paradigms are a multitude of unconscious habits that control our habitual behaviour. And 95% of our behaviour is habitual. We do things automatically, with no thought required.
Our beliefs create our paradigms. Most of our beliefs pass down from our families or develop from the environment we spend most of our time in. As discussed in another post, most of our beliefs are wrong! But we can change them, as is discussed in that post.
The subconscious is also completely subjective. It has no ability to choose, or make judgement. It must simply accept everything that the conscious mind gives it. That creates your feelings, as the subconscious is the emotional mind. These feelings create the vibration our body is in. This works for and against us because we can choose to use our imagination to see anything we want. This can boost our emotions, but we can also choose to think negatively which creates negative emotions.
The Body
As mentioned above, the body is merely the instrument of the mind. It is the physical manifestation of whatever our subconscious is feeling. Our thoughts dictate how we are feeling.
The manifestation of our feelings into actions causes a reaction from the universe. Universal spirit doesn’t care if your actions are positive or negative. It will return like energy to you! What you give out you will get back.
The action / reaction is dictated by the Law of Cause and Effect, and works equally in all of us. This is what creates our circumstances, conditions and environment, and ultimately causes our results. It’s not the other way round as we have been led to believe.
What The Stick Person Helps To Explain
Our behaviours and habits control our results. They in turn are controlled by our mind. A great power flows in and through us, into the conscious mind. We can use that power to build images of the life we want to lead and the person we want to become. As we get emotionally involved with these images, they are impressed on and accepted by, the subconscious mind. Our body expresses these emotions through our actions. The universe then reacts to those actions and causes our circumstances, conditions and results to change.
We must understand that our current feelings, circumstances, conditions and results are all caused by our subconscious behaviours. Like attracts like. We can only attract that which is in harmony with our vibration, and that is influenced by what we think about. If we think about debt, even getting out of debt, we will receive more debt; but if we think about earning and receiving money, then we will receive prosperity. We need to be always aware of our thinking, and only focus on that which we want.
Focus Right Now With One Eye On The Future
Our current and past results are simply a snapshot of our feelings and thoughts at that point in time. They have no bearing on our future potential unless we let them. Unfortunately, we focus on our current and past results. That is how we are programmed. So we find it difficult to focus on what we want. We need to switch our thinking to working from the inside out, from the image of what we want rather than what is around us now.
We all have deep reservoirs of potential within us, to release it we must simply follow this process:
- Think of what you want.
- Get emotionally involved with what you want.
This impresses it on our subconscious mind, which changes our vibration, behaviour and actions. This changes the reaction from the universe and alters our results. Choose to focus only on what you want, do not let others or your paradigms sway your thinking. You are in control of what you think about.
“We become what we think about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How to Use The Stick Person Image
We must notice as often as possible how we are feeling, or what is going on around us. This will tell us what we are thinking. Pull up the image of the Stick Person as often as possible and use it as a trigger to remind you that what you think creates your emotions, vibrations and results.
Our physical body is a mass of energy in a constant state of high vibration. It is an instrument of our mind, so our mind controls our vibration. The conscious, educated, thinking mind has the ability to accept, reject, ignore or originate ideas. The subconscious, emotional mind, can only accept everything it is given.
Our conscious mind is hooked up to our outside world through our senses. We can see, hear, smell, taste and touch. All these inputs contain both positive and negative connotations, as dictated by the Law of Polarity. It is our thinking that dictates whether they are positive or negative and how they then affect us.
((This is how I remind myself to be aware of what I am thinking, but I am not suggesting you do the same!))
You Have A Choice!
We choose whether anything is positive or negative, we can choose to see the good in any situation or focus on the bad. No one can make us think anything we don’t want to think. We control our thoughts, so our thoughts are the last human freedom. Our thinking ultimately dictates our attitude.
“The greatest discovery of my time was that human beings could alter their lives, by altering their attitude of mind.“
William James
Get emotionally involved with what you think.
Think you can lose weight? Imagine yourself in the body shape you want, feel the pride and happiness. Chocolate cake and biscuits? Use that image to say no thank you! Think you can earn your annual salary in a month? Build an image of your future self earning that money and let yourself feel the accomplishment and enjoyment every day.
Act like that person!
This emotional involvement will change your vibration.
What Do You Think?
Remember, what you think sets up the vibration. The vibration causes the action. Action causes the reaction from the universe. Your results, conditions and circumstances change!
The Stick Person concept is key to understanding how our mind works and what controls 95% of our behaviour!
Still not sure? Contact me to discuss this 1:1, or check out other blog posts, courses or products on my website.
Drop me a message or add a comment below and I will be in touch if you want to discuss any of this further.
To your success, Jaiye
