A useful computer analogy use t0 be this … “the conscious mind is like the application or program and the subconscious mind like the operating system that runs the program to get the result”, and it still holds as a very useful comparison. The idea being that we need to know the appropriate application or program to use so we can have the operating system process the information to achieve the result we desired. The clearer the input of the program, the more efficient and reliable the result.

With the proliferation of AI there is an even more refined analogy we can make regarding this model. The clearer and more detailed the prompt the more accurate and useful the representation can be produced.

Here is where we come back to the Reticular Activating System as the ULTIMATE SYSTEM in receiving input and supplying the accompanying output.

In a pervious post we looked at how the Reticular Activating System (RAS), the interfacing part of our nervous system and how it generalises, deletes and distorts information to FEED BACK THE RESULT AS AN EXPERINCE. It doesn’t just give us just the answer like AI, it give us the experience as confirmation that the process is complete… And its doing it all of the time, every second, every minute, every hour of every single day of our lives. No device need, no subscription need and no third party is needed to gain access to this amazing facility.

The “prompt” is our internal dialogue, our internal visual images and the feelings that are produced when these (modalities) are combined, and this can be in our awareness or outside of our awareness. Try this on … Imagine for a moment stepping in dog poo in bare feet? What happens on the inside when you imagined doing this? Ew disgusting right! …or Imagine biting into a lemon right now, skin and all, feel the resistance of the rind as you bite down and the sour juice filling your mouth. What’s going on the inside you as you do this and can you feel your cheeks pucker and tighten with the imaginary juice in your mouth?

This may sound simple yet it is incredibly powerful and relatively overlooked until now. Especially when it comes to intentional or conscious manifesting because when we HOLD ANY FEELING for a length of time with the detailed internal pictures of that outcome already having been achieved and what we say about it to ourselves now that is has already been achieved as well, sets up the RAS to automatically interface with our environment to generalise, delete and distort the incoming sensory information to fulfil that result as an experience. This is its job 24/7.

So when we wake up and groan about about how bad the day will be, then congratulations, the prompt has been received and the RAS will find all the things to affirm this prompt as an experience.

Longer term, we might notice that we keep on having the same crappie relationships like a recurring pattern even though its with a different person. Hello RAS and thank you again … whatever we keep on telling ourself about these relationships and the images and feeling in the background HAVE TO ACTUALISE AS EXPERINCE because that is the nature of this mechanism.

I hear influencers saying they write an hour long prompt to get the answer they want and I can only smile and shake my head. WOW, I write an hour long prompt for my RAS very morning to get the experience I want and yes that includes, money, houses, holiday, cars, health … why? … because its the nature of our Being.

The RAS is working for us whether we are the one choosing the prompts or not. And there is a lot of prompting coming from outside us from politics, advertising, social media, community, family, peers and the like, and if we aren’t aware of this external prompting then their prompts become our experience. Is that what we want? I’ll invite you to choose.