Two Minds…
The Conscious Mind that you are aware of actually runs less than 5% of your life. Your Subconscious Mind runs the rest, using all the information… and misinformation… you have stored from past beliefs, values, memories, decisions, attitudes and learnings. And your Subconscious Mind runs that 95% below the surface, outside of your conscious awareness.
We have way more information coming into our senses per second than our conscious minds can handle (over 20 million bits coming in versus only 40 bits that the conscious mind can handle per second). So, our subconscious filters the information and decides which information to send to our conscious awareness… it chooses how we see the world. And it chooses based on all of our past beliefs, no matter whether they are true or false. The result: our subconscious mind can limit us in a multitude of ways with false beliefs.