The Power of Your Thoughts - Understanding the Subconscious Mind

Your biology is listening to every single thought you have.

Your cells, hormones, neurotransmitters, and immune signals all dance to the tune of your inner dialogue. This is how thoughts tune your biology. When you ignore this, you’ll spend your life chasing symptoms. When you master it, you unlock the real root of health.

At the top of the hierarchy sits your psyche (Your mind). This is the way you think, the lens you see the world through, what you focus on, the beliefs you hold, and the inner dialogue you repeat daily. They all control the story of your biology.

Your thoughts are not background noise. They are the architects of your biology. Every cell listens to the signals your mind broadcasts. Change the signal, and the whole system follows.

The Biology of Belief

Your thoughts, emotions, stress responses, and buried trauma shape the terrain of your mind. This is the ground that matters the most, because your beliefs dictate your perceptions, and your perceptions dictate the environment every cell in your body has to live in.

This is the science of the subconscious. The subconscious doesn’t judge or filter. It just follows orders.

Regions like the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hypothalamus fire off signals that release or suppress neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and endogenous opioids. Positive beliefs switch on healing pathways. Negative ones amplify pain and disorder.

The subconscious mind doesn’t know true from false or good from bad. It only follows what the conscious mind repeats.

If your inner dialogue is “I’m broken, I’ll never heal,” your cells adapt to that command. They downshift into survival, shutting off growth and repair. But if your belief is “My body is resilient, I am healing,” your biology begins wiring itself in alignment with that outcome.

Every thought leaves an imprint. The subconscious builds health or disease. It will grow whatever seed you plant.

The Mind Hijack

For most of human history, dopamine was tied to our relationship with the sun. When morning light hit your eyes, UVA and UVB signalled your brain to release dopamine. That surge made you alert, motivated, and ready to move. As the sun set, dopamine naturally dropped, and the body shifted into rest and repair. Our biology was wired to the solar cycle.

Then came artificial light. First candles, then bulbs, and now screens and LEDs sending blue light deep into your system throughout the night. The brain gets tricked into thinking it’s still daytime. Dopamine circuits stay switched on chronically and are uncoupled from the natural rhythm.

Over time, these receptors desensitise. Your brain needs more stimulation to get the same reward, while the ordinary joys of life like nature, stillness and presence, can feel dull. That’s the switch for the modern human. Instead of your biology being tuned by the sun, it’s now hijacked by devices designed to steal time, attention and maximise profit.

Big Tech figured out the fastest way to monetise attention is to weaponise dopamine. Every swipe, every like, every notification resets the baseline higher. You’re kept scrolling, swiping, craving the next hit, while your nervous system runs on autopilot.

That’s how you become so stubborn that nature, relationships, and even meaningful work feel flat. You’re left restless, anxious, unable to find joy without external hits. We all know these people.

The paradox - the only way to break free is through the very thing you’ve been running from, the stillness. Stillness is where clarity, growth, and real power live, and we have lost this.

Weeds in the Garden of the Mind

Your subconscious is a garden; it doesn’t care what you plant. It will grow whatever seed you give it.

Positive, empowering thoughts become nourishment. Limiting, fearful ones grow like weeds, and weeds always spread faster when you’re not paying attention.

They often sound like:

• “I’m not good enough.”

• “This will never work.”

• “It’s too hard.”

• “Why does this always happen to me?”

• “I’m too old/young to change.”

If you keep watering weeds, they take over. They choke out the plants that bring vitality. Before long, your inner landscape is overrun, and you start living from fear, doubt, and scarcity instead of abundance.

The Biology of Weeds

Negative thought patterns aren’t just uncomfortable, they shape the way your whole system runs.

• Physically: The constant stress keeps cortisol high. When that stress switch never turns off, inflammation builds, the immune system weakens, digestion slows, and your energy gets drained at the source.

• Mentally: Your brain adapts to the loop you repeat. Creative pathways shrink while circuits of fear and self-doubt grow stronger. The more you think the same limiting thought, the more your nervous system wires itself to expect it.

• Emotionally: Your weeds show up as resentment, hopelessness, shame. These states break your self-worth and slowly sabotage the way you connect to others.

• Spiritually: Your purpose gets buried under the noise. The weeds block the light and you lose touch with the deeper reason you’re here.

Leave a garden untended and weeds take over. The same thing happens in the mind.

Life is Not Linear

Admitting you need to do the work on yourself and your mind is one of the hardest pills to swallow. When you face that truth, the path begins to open and the true answers follow.

Health and life are never linear. They move in cycles, the highs and lows and peaks and valleys. Each challenge is an initiation. The lows sharpen the highs. The setbacks force you to grow deeper roots. It’s all part of your journey.

If everything moved forward in a perfect line, joy would lose its meaning. Contrast is the teacher. Darkness is what makes light feel bright. Lows are often the signal that a blessing is around the corner.

Life is a bloody gift. Whether you see it that way or not comes down to the state of your mind.

“If you were God, and you could dream any life you wanted, you’d start with the most ecstatic adventures. But eventually you’d want surprise, you’d want uncertainty. You’d dream the dream of not knowing what would happen next - and that’s the dream you’re in right now.”

Alan Watts

Detoxing the Mind

Just like the gut or the liver needs a clean-out, so does the mind. Detoxing the mental landscape isn’t about suppressing thoughts or pretending they don’t exist. It’s about recognising them, pulling the weeds out by the root, and choosing what you want to plant in their place.

Neuroplasticity shows us the brain is always changing. Neurons that fire together wire together. Which means every time you replace an old weed with a new seed, you’re not just “thinking positive” you’re literally reshaping the circuits of your brain.

The Practical Tools for Rewiring

Awareness is always the first step. Write down the thoughts that show up on repeat. Awareness is the primary tool because you can’t shift what you refuse to see.

From there, you challenge them. Ask yourself: Is this true, or is this just fear talking?