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Contrary to the common 10% myth, Dr. Nelson's muscle testing inquiries suggest the conscious mind is an infinitesimally small part of our overall intelligence. The vast, almost incomprehensible majority resides in the subconscious, which operates at a quantum level.
Dr. Nelson describes the subconscious as a perfect, holographic computer that knows everything about you. It can be accessed via a binary interface—muscle testing. The body tests strong for true statements and weak for false ones, allowing one to ask specific questions and get definitive answers.
Brain activity can predict a person's choice up to ten seconds before they are consciously aware of making it. This suggests that what we perceive as free will is often our brain rationalizing a decision already made subconsciously, challenging traditional models of deliberate action.
Your subconscious mind doesn't judge, analyze, or question the inputs you provide. Like a computer, it simply accepts thoughts and affirmations as commands, files them, and returns them as your reality. This makes the conscious "programming" of your thoughts through repetition absolutely critical.
Bruce Lipton explains that 95% of our daily actions are driven by subconscious programs, not conscious desires. This "autopilot" mode is active whenever we are thinking, meaning we are often blind to the very behaviors that sabotage our goals.
The subconscious mind controls muscles. When your conscious statement aligns with your subconscious program, your muscles stay strong. When they conflict, the subconscious discord causes muscles to weaken. This physical feedback reveals your true, underlying programming, bypassing conscious biases.
The human brain absorbs 11 million bits of information per second but consciously processes only 50. Our beliefs act as the critical filter, determining what we pay attention to and shaping our subjective experience, which explains why two people can perceive the same event completely differently.
The mind is not merely a product of the brain; it is an energetic, gravitational field that processes information and directs the brain's activity. The brain is like a magnet, while the mind is the invisible field that shapes your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, a concept rooted in quantum physics.
Our conscious mind processes a tiny fraction of sensory input (50-100 bits out of 10 million per second). True manifestation requires specific techniques to intentionally plant desires into the subconscious, which has far greater processing power and isn't as easily distracted, making it the true driver of the process.
A 2008 experiment showed researchers could predict a person's choice up to ten seconds before the person consciously made it. This suggests our conscious mind merely rationalizes decisions already made by unconscious processes, indicating free will is an illusion.
Our conscious mind processes only 50-100 bits of information out of 10 million received per second. Effective manifestation uses techniques to consciously embed intentions into the subconscious mind, which leverages the other 99.999% of incoming data to work towards a goal without our direct awareness.