Jake Burhans explains how the subconscious mind controls roughly 95% of our thoughts and habits, while conscious effort like positive thinking accounts for only 5% and fades fast. Real change requires reprogramming the subconscious, not just relying on willpower or gratitude practices that disappear when you stop focusing on them.
The subconscious mind is basically the program that runs 95% of your behaviors, your thoughts, your patterns. It's like your subconscious computer program. Like Joe Dispenza will talk about it, Bruce Lipton, Bob Proctor, anyone who's anyone in this space of personal improvement understands the subconscious mind. And basically it's all your conditioned habits, belief systems, thoughts, identities all wrapped into one. So when I'm consciously wanting to think positive thoughts, that's great, but that's only 5% of my actual behaviors throughout the day. The second I stop thinking about positive those thoughts, whatever my underlying program is going to kick in. That's why when you say, oh yeah, I'm going to start being grateful— you're maybe you're a negative person, which all of us deal with it. You're— you have a lot of negativity. So I'm going to be grateful, I'm going to be positive. You can do it for 5 minutes, but the second that you stop consciously thinking about it, what happens? You're doing something else and boom, those negative thoughts come in. You're complaining, you're griping about something because that's your subconscious program, right?
