Organize Your Subconscious Filing System
Kim Wolinski, MSW
“Dr. DeClutter” http://www.drdeclutter.com/
Organize Your Subconscious Filing System
Do you have “gut” reactions to things, and then later find out that you “should have” paid attention to them? Do you feel psychic or intuitive once in a while and are then surprised that you’re right?
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based
on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Maybe it’s time to take those hunches and feelings seriously and organize your subconscious filing system!
Our conscious mind can only hold upfront in the top file drawer, or on the mental desktop a few things at a time. Have you ever seen a photo from your childhood or even a year ago of something you did and said, “Oh, I remember that!” But, you don’t remember it all of the time, just when you see something that triggers that file drawer to open and remind you. We’d literally go insane if we actually could remember and think of everything we’ve ever known, done, heard, learned or noticed all at the same time and all of the time.
In order to tap into and open those files of good stuff that you want to use and retrieve that are just below the conscious level, it’s important to use the keys that work.
Key: Focus on things that really interest you and ask yourself what you “already know” that could support your interests or ideas further.
Key: STOP! Being quiet isn’t a norm for the western culture. We’re all about running, driving, racing and talking with cell phone, TV, radio, computer, iPod and other activities going non-stop to distract us from our internal, overflowing file systems.
If you want to be more intuitive, have more good hunches and learn to trust them more often, slow down. Shut off the TV. Stop the emails and Internet surfing that is unnecessary (you know when that is too!!). PUT THE REMOTE DOWN AND WALK AWAY!!! … take time to go on quiet walks in nature or meditate on your favorite chair. Paint, draw, play musical instruments. Make the time for activities that slow your mind down so that the files of facts just waiting to surface have the open space through which to rise and be heard! Life has a very different flow to it when we open and use these file systems! And, have fun!
A wonderful CD that I use to support slowing down and listening within is Healthful Relaxation. Click here to get your copy.
“When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.”
~ Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese Zen Master
©2006 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”
Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert
“Dr. DeClutter” http://www.drdeclutter.com/
Organize Your Subconscious Filing System
Do you have “gut” reactions to things, and then later find out that you “should have” paid attention to them? Do you feel psychic or intuitive once in a while and are then surprised that you’re right?
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based
on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Maybe it’s time to take those hunches and feelings seriously and organize your subconscious filing system!
Our conscious mind can only hold upfront in the top file drawer, or on the mental desktop a few things at a time. Have you ever seen a photo from your childhood or even a year ago of something you did and said, “Oh, I remember that!” But, you don’t remember it all of the time, just when you see something that triggers that file drawer to open and remind you. We’d literally go insane if we actually could remember and think of everything we’ve ever known, done, heard, learned or noticed all at the same time and all of the time.
In order to tap into and open those files of good stuff that you want to use and retrieve that are just below the conscious level, it’s important to use the keys that work.
Key: Focus on things that really interest you and ask yourself what you “already know” that could support your interests or ideas further.
Key: STOP! Being quiet isn’t a norm for the western culture. We’re all about running, driving, racing and talking with cell phone, TV, radio, computer, iPod and other activities going non-stop to distract us from our internal, overflowing file systems.
If you want to be more intuitive, have more good hunches and learn to trust them more often, slow down. Shut off the TV. Stop the emails and Internet surfing that is unnecessary (you know when that is too!!). PUT THE REMOTE DOWN AND WALK AWAY!!! … take time to go on quiet walks in nature or meditate on your favorite chair. Paint, draw, play musical instruments. Make the time for activities that slow your mind down so that the files of facts just waiting to surface have the open space through which to rise and be heard! Life has a very different flow to it when we open and use these file systems! And, have fun!
A wonderful CD that I use to support slowing down and listening within is Healthful Relaxation. Click here to get your copy.
“When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.”
~ Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese Zen Master
©2006 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”
Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert
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