In this lesson I’m going to explain exactly what mental blockages are and how they are formed, which is going to help you out when you start dissolving them in the next lecture.

The reason we find ourselves having difficulty with achieving our goals, is because when we set ourselves a goal such as ‘passing a C1 German Exam’ it bumps up into other goals in our subconscious that are trying to achieve different objectives. So, the conscious part of our being is trying to achieve our conscious goal, but the subconscious parts of our being are trying to achieve their own goals, which can often result in a strong mental and emotional resistance to our conscious goal.

Our subconscious goals are formed whenever we experience problems – in other words when we resist negative experiences. Problems and goals always go hand in hand – you can’t have one without the other. If you are experiencing a problem it means you are resisting your experience, which means that you want it to be different in some way, and so a goal is formed in your subconscious. We have countless problems and goals in our subconscious that we are not aware of but which pre-determine our reactions to situations and which block us from achieving our conscious goals.

For example, let’s say Jane decides to set herself the goal of ‘speaking on stage in front of 1,000 people’. Upon setting her goal Jane immediately feels blocked about it because it triggers a goal in her subconscious ‘to not be humiliated’, which she has been there ever since she read a poem in front of the class as a child and was laughed at by the other children in the class.

Now when Jane sets herself the goal of speaking in front of a 1,000 people it triggers her subconscious goal ‘to not be humiliated’, because her conscious goal threatens the achievement of her subconscious goal. In order for Jane to have an easy time achieving her conscious goal, she first needs to dissolve her subconscious goal – so that all parts of their being are lined up in the same direction intending to achieve her conscious goal.

To give you a more relevant example, David sets the goal of ‘passing the B1 German exam’ but finds that this goal triggers a goal in his subconscious ‘to be perfect’, which causes him to procrastinate whenever he tries to study. Until his subconscious goal ‘to be perfect’ is dissolved David will have a very hard time achieving his conscious goal, because he is so worried about doing badly on the exam that he is unable to study without feeling overwhelmingly stressed-out.

In order to dissolve our sub-conscious goals so all parts of out being can intend to achieve our conscious goal we need to become fully conscious of our subconscious goals and the problems which caused them, which removes them from our subconscious.

In the next lecture I’m going to teach you a simple but very powerful Mind Shifting method that will enable you to do exactly that.