Learning Points: Past thoughts don't have to dictate the present

Negative messages we received in childhood will bubble up in adulthood. Picture: PA Photo/thinkstockphotos

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the subconscious mind and the power it has over your life. The subconscious was busy in your formative years and, like a computer, downloaded and stored the messages it was receiving and these became the unseen rules that govern your life. 

Therefore, if the subconscious receives negative information, it will store it and, later in life, the subconscious will become destructive as your mind desperately searches to affirm those stored messages. If the childhood messages were negative, you will bring those into conscious reality in your adult life, because your mind is lazy and mimics, or mirrors, past behaviours.