HOW THE SUBCSONCIOUS MIND processes

An external event can be any experience of something exciting to just sitting there doing nothing.  We experience all things through our sensory system.  We experience an event through the five senses.  They are visual, auditory, kinesthetic (feeling), olfactory (smell), and gustatory (taste). Before we make an internal representation of the event, we:

• Delete - when we selectively pay attention with focus and intention to some aspects of our experience and not others;
• Distort - when we make shifts in our experience of sensory data by making misrepresentations of reality;
• Generalize - when we draw global conclusions based on one or more experiences.

This happens as the information passes through our internal processing filters. They are:

• Meta-Programs – Psychological profile of behaviors.  They are the deepest level, content -free programs that filter our perception.  They maintain or break our generalization.  This is not to label anyone and put them in the box. It is to recognize that this is a way a person processes information.  We use them to maintain our identities. Knowing someone's Meta-Programs means that you can predict their state of being, therefore their behavior and their action. This is not meant to label people; just to recognize that it is a way a person processes information.

• Values - are unconscious filters with content. They evaluate what we feel is right and wrong. They are the primary motivational force used to create the primary feelings that determine our actions.  There is a hierarchy with the values.  Typically with the most important ones are at the top. Values change with context.  We have a set of values for career, business, relationships, raising children and so forth.  There most likely will be
  conflict with other people’s values.  We won't see eye to eye on our ideal models of the world and it is views.  Who is right?

• Beliefs - are convictions or acceptance that certain things are true or real. They are generalizations about the world. If you are trying to model your behavior on somebody else, you need to know what beliefs lie behind that behavior. Beliefs affect your ability to have or do want you want. If you don't believe that you can do or have what you want, then you probably won't get the opportunity to find out.

• Attitudes – We are conscious of our attitudes.  They are collections of our values and beliefs. It is the end result of the way we feel about something.  It is easier to change values than attitudes, because values are less conscious and more abstract.

• Memories – We are made of memories.  Our perception and personality are deeply affected by our memories.  As we get older, our reactions in the present are almost entirely reactions to collections of memories around a particular subject or emotion of the age we created it.

• Decisions - relate to memories and can affect our whole life, especially limiting decisions. Many decisions are unconscious or were made at an early age and then forgotten. Where decisions are not re-evaluated as our values change, they can affect our lives in ways that we had not originally intended.
  As an internal representation of an event occurs, these filters determine what information is retained. The internal representations are made up of pictures, sounds, and feelings that cause us to be in a particular state. This state can be happy, sad, mad, challenged, excited or motivated. This creates our physiology. The way you hold your body.  Than that creates your Behavior.  Every behavior is state related. So the filters determine our actions. The internal representation is not the reality. Each experience is constructed inside of each one of us. All external reality is experienced indirectly because of the filters that delete, distort and generalize.