So many people ask me, “What’s mindware?”

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a negative thought pattern, wondering why it's so hard to break free? Or maybe you've noticed certain behaviors and reactions that seem automatic, almost like they're hardwired into your mind. When things like that happen, you're experiencing the power of mindware apps at work.

What is Mindware?

Mindware is your mind’s software, like a computer has software. We are born with some inherent mindware. For example, all of the autonomic systems and functions of our body are managed by innate, unconscious mindware. It’s why we can breathe the instant we are born, after that pat on our backs.

We also create mindware in our lives, from the very instant we enter the material world. These programs run in the background of our minds, some unconscious, some conscious.

We unconsciously create mindware that defines actions that are, well, unconscious, like our preferences for communication and work styles, our immediate response to sounds, how we select the sensory information that defines our experiences from moment to moment.

We consciously create mindware for things like math, logical evaluations of situations, reading, writing and other skills.

I think of our mindware as similar to apps on our phone. Each has all the functions to accomplish specific tasks, and they work together to give us what we want.

How Are Mindware Apps Created?

Our conscious mindware apps are created based on specific education and training in skills, like math, science etc. We tend to know when we are calling on these mindware apps.

Our unconscious mindware apps are formed through our experiences, beliefs, and the conditioning we receive throughout our lives. These unconscious apps shape our thoughts, behaviors, and perceptions. Usually we don’t even know it.

From the moment we're born, our unconscious minds are like sponges, absorbing information from our environment. Our early experiences, the teachings of our parents and teachers, and societal influences all contribute to the formation of our baseline unconscious mindware apps. By the age of seven or eight, many of our fundamental beliefs and programs are already set in our unconscious minds.

Thanks to our ongoing neuroplasticity, we continue to create and adapt our mindware apps as we move through life, based on the focus of our attention.

We create an initial mindware app when we focus our attention on something with enough attention density for our unconscious to believe we are focused on something important for it to preserve. This app represents our initial belief or decision about what’s true, created in reaction to a specific situation or statement. When we focus on it with enough attention density, We create new apps, or “pearls” as we experience new situations.

We create more powerful mindware apps: As we encounter similar situations or reinforcing statements to in-place mindware apps, our unconscious mind responds by selecting an experience from our sensory input field that matches that specific app. This experience and attention to it serves to strengthen the initial mindware app, increasing its strength and priority.

Imagine growing up in a household where you constantly hear that you're not good enough or that you'll never succeed. These negative messages become deeply ingrained, creating mindware apps that reinforce feelings of unworthiness and self-doubt. This, in turn, impacts what our unconscious mind thinks we want, as we focus attention on our negative beliefs.

Now think about the research that says before a child is 12 years old, they are told they “can’t” 150,000 times vs they “can” around 3,000.

Can We Shift Our Mindware Apps?

We surely can.

Neuroscience and quantum research tells us, if you focus long enough, hard enough and often enough, you can change your neural pathways and brain circuitry. FYI, neural pathways and circuitry are scientific descriptions of mindware apps.

I used the power of my mind to help myself from all of the negative, limiting, painful mindware apps I created during my decade plus of childhood abuse. Traditional therapy didn’t work, neither did the standard of therapy for PTSD in the US. When I learned new, powerful techniques to shift my mindware, I was able to heal and step back into my truly unstoppable life.

It changed my life. It will change yours as well.

FYI, you don’t have to be abused or desperate to enjoy a better life through creating positive mindware.

Practical Application: A Personal Story

Let me share an example from my own life. For years, I struggled with a mindware app rooted in perfectionism. This app was created during my childhood. My abusers hurt me whenever I wasn’t perfect, which was defined by their real time definition.

As an adult, the mindware I created from this belief manifested as a drive for perfection, linked to a belief I was absolute failure. Every day I experienced an unworthiness so extreme, it made the Imposter Syndrome look like child’s play.

The abuse was so extreme that my unconscious mind equated being perfect to safety, a way to not die. It wasn't until I became aware of this mindware app and its origins that I could begin to change it.

I shifted my mindware around perfection. Actually, I deleted it all.

I then began to learn to embrace my imperfections and focus on progress rather than perfection.

Today, my house can be dirty, I don’t time myself to put on makeup, and I’m perfectly happy being anything but perfect.

Except when I truly need to be.

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