Mental Body

In holistic healing, the mental body refers to your thoughts, beliefs, mindset, and overall mental patterns. It includes both the conscious mind (what you’re actively aware of) and the subconscious mind (the deeper part of your mind that stores your core beliefs, many of which were formed early in life).

Together, these mental layers influence your behavior, emotional state, and even your physical health. In short, what you believe, you become.

The Conscious Mind vs. The Subconscious Mind

The Conscious Mind is responsible for your current awareness—logical thinking, decision-making, and day-to-day actions.
The Subconscious Mind, on the other hand, operates in the background. It stores your emotional memories, automatic responses, and long-standing beliefs. It quietly shapes how you think, feel, and behave—often without your conscious awareness.

This is why you may want to change something (consciously), but still feel stuck or blocked. The subconscious mind is often the gatekeeper.

How the Subconscious Mind is Formed (Especially in Childhood)

The subconscious mind is most impressionable between birth and age 7. During this time, children live in a brainwave state similar to hypnosis (theta and delta brainwaves), which makes them highly absorbent of their environment.

This means:

What children see, hear, and experience—especially from parents, caregivers, and teachers—gets recorded as truth.
These early impressions become the blueprint for how we interpret the world later in life.

So, if a child receives love, praise, and emotional safety, they often form healthy beliefs. But if a child experiences rejection, criticism, or emotional neglect, they may develop negative or limiting beliefs.

What Are Limiting Beliefs?

Limiting beliefs are false ideas or assumptions you hold about yourself, others, or the world that hold you back from growth and happiness. Examples include:

“I’m not good enough.”
“Money is bad.”
“Love always ends in pain.”
“I have to work hard to be worthy.”

These beliefs feel real, but they’re simply stories your subconscious picked up from past experiences—especially in childhood.

How Limiting Beliefs Run Your Life

Even as adults, we are often still run by the subconscious programs we formed decades ago.

You may sabotage relationships without knowing why.
You may fear success or visibility because of old programming.
You may stay in a job or pattern that doesn’t serve you because “that’s just how life is.”

These behaviors aren’t irrational—they’re programmed. Until we uncover and rewrite these subconscious patterns, they continue to shape our reality.

Key Takeaway

If you want to change your life, you must change your beliefs.
And to change your beliefs, you must first become aware of them.

Techniques to Rewrite Your Subconscious Mind

The good news? The subconscious can be reprogrammed. Here are powerful tools you can use:

1. Affirmations (with Feeling)

Repeat positive statements that align with the new belief you want to create. Example: “I am worthy of love and success.”
Tip: Feel it emotionally—don’t just say it.

2. Inner Child Work

Reconnect with your younger self to heal emotional wounds. This helps you update beliefs formed in early childhood.

3. Visualization

Picture your desired reality in vivid detail. The subconscious doesn’t distinguish between real and imagined experiences.

4. Hypnosis or Guided Meditation

These practices help you bypass the conscious mind and directly influence the subconscious with new beliefs and suggestions.

5. Journaling for Belief Discovery

Write down recurring negative thoughts and trace them back. Ask: “Where did this belief come from? Is it really mine?”

6. EFT Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique)

A technique that combines tapping acupressure points while repeating affirmations to help clear emotional blocks and reprogram beliefs.

Healing the Mental Body Holistically

True healing happens when you align your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual selves. Working with the mental body—especially the subconscious mind—is a powerful way to transform from the inside out.

When you change your beliefs, you change your energy. And when you change your energy, you change your life.

Would you like a downloadable worksheet or guided meditation to help you begin reprogramming your subconscious mind? I can create one for you.

Ready to explore what’s holding you back—and rewrite the story?
If you’re feeling called to go deeper into your healing journey and shift the beliefs that are shaping your life, I invite you to explore holistic coaching with me. Together, we’ll work gently with your subconscious patterns to create real, lasting transformation—from the inside out.

Your healing begins with awareness—and you don’t have to do it alone.