The unconscious and other than conscious (subconscious) fascinate me and I am constantly learning more and more about them as a means to get them to work for me instead of against me. (As an example of my unconscious/subconscious working against me, all I have to do is let my former weight do the talking.) In her phenomenal book, Diane Ackerman goes on to say that our brains needed space without volume because the conscious mind can hold a finite amount of information. So our brains ". . . began storing information and memories outside itself on stone, papyrus, paper, computer chips, and film. This astonishing feat is so familiar a part of our lives that we don't think about it much. But it was an amazing and rather strange solution to what was essentially a packing problem: just store your essentials elsewhere and avoid cluttering up the cave."



Yes. Amazing and rather strange. And yet, we do this absolutely without thought at this point in our evolution.

The next step, as I see it, is to create our quantum universes. This tool is really the most phenomenal and practical way I know to work with our un/subconscious selves and ask for and actually get exactly what we want.

The first step in creating your universes is to get a snap shot of where you are now. If you're comfortable chiseling stone, or have a good source for papyrus, and have the time and tools necessary, go for it. I like to use the "Create Your Quantum Universe" option on the website www.maxpersuasion.com, so if you're already in the Coaching Club or have a membership to the Persuasion Factor. . this is how I would suggest you proceed.

However, paper is really adequate and if you're more technologically adept, go ahead and open a new Word document and just start typing away.

This is a snapshot of who you are now. Where are you? Where do you life? What do you do? What are your set/stuck points? What are your dreams? How does your life resemble the life you wanted when you were young? You can put everything in this snapshot from soup to nuts. Write it out and then think on it. Expand it. Let it grow into something that you can use as a sort of time capsule--who you were at the end of 2007.

What if you had one of these for each and every year of your life? Think back . . . who were you back in 1987. Perhaps you weren't born yet. Maybe that's when you graduated from high school. . . Some people have excellent memories and you can recall exactly who you were back then. This is the first step in creating your quantum universe. Choose your birthday or New Year's or some other day of significance to you. And allow yourself the time to really map out a vivid picture of yourself.

Let this be a little acorn that you begin to grow. And in an upcoming article I'll give you the next step, but know that as we unpack and eliminate our storage problems, we're going to have all kinds of space for the essentials.