Newsletter 2: The Subconscious, How Feelings Are Trained, Not Just Felt

Your feelings are not random. Here's what's actually happening.

Most of us treat feelings as things that happen to us. Something triggers fear, and we feel afraid. Someone says something, and we feel defensive. An event arrives, and we feel anxious before it even starts.

But here's what neuroscience tells us: those feelings are responses. And responses can be trained.

Your subconscious brain processes information at roughly 9 billion operations per second. Your conscious brain, the part you're using to read this, operates at around 2,000. What this means is that most of your reactions, your instincts, your emotional defaults, are driven by patterns your subconscious has already learned.

It responds before you've had a chance to think.

The subconscious doesn't judge. It doesn't evaluate whether a response is helpful or harmful. It simply repeats what it has been given. It is, as we like to say, unbiased. It responds.

This is both the problem and the solution.

If your conscious mind has repeatedly fed your subconscious stress, distraction, and reactive thinking, that becomes the pattern. But conscious input can also train new patterns. Positive, deliberate, repeated input creates new pathways. Your subconscious learns a new response. And over time, that new response becomes automatic.

This is what Experience Priming does. By combining a calm physical state with a deliberate conscious input, a word, a situation, an outcome, you begin writing new instructions for your subconscious. "I am confident." Not someday. Not hopefully.

Right now, in that rehearsed moment, you are. And the subconscious, obedient as ever, begins looking for ways to make that real.

The feelings you want are not out of reach. They are trainable. You are not at the mercy of your past patterns. You are capable of writing new ones.

That is the whole point of this method.