How the Subconscious Mind Runs the Show
Have you ever noticed how your body reacts before your mind even catches up? Your stomach may knot up before a big conversation, your heart might race when you feel anxious, or your shoulders tighten when life feels heavy. That’s all due to your subconscious mind.
Science tells us that up to 95% of our thoughts, patterns, and reactions are controlled by the subconscious. This means that not only do your emotions live there, but your body’s automatic responses—like heart rate, digestion, and breathing—are influenced by it too. Much of what shows up physically in your body actually begins in the subconscious.
Last week, we talked about how unresolved energy can manifest as physical symptoms. This week, we’re zooming out even more to look at how the subconscious is really running the show behind those symptoms.
The Subconscious and Your Body’s Systems
Your subconscious plays a key role in controlling your nervous system, which has two main branches:
The sympathetic nervous system (fight-or-flight mode). This kicks in when your subconscious perceives stress or danger. Your heart rate goes up, your muscles tense, and your digestion slows.
The parasympathetic nervous system (rest-and-digest mode). This is what allows your body to heal, digest food, and restore energy.
If your subconscious is holding onto unresolved fear, trauma, or beliefs of being unsafe, it can keep your body stuck in sympathetic mode. Over time, that constant stress response can lead to real health challenges—like digestive issues, sleep problems, tension, or even chronic pain.
Another example is the gut-brain connection. The subconscious mind communicates directly with the gut through the vagus nerve. That’s why emotions like worry, dread, nervousness, anxiety, failure, helplessness, often show up as stomach upset, nausea, or irritable digestion. The subconscious doesn’t just influence thoughts—it sends signals to your entire body.
Emotions and Physiology
Every emotion we feel creates a physiological response in the body.
Fear increases adrenaline and cortisol, raising your heart rate and blood pressure.
Sadness can decrease energy levels and affect immune function.
Joy and gratitude release dopamine and oxytocin, which relax the nervous system and promote healing.
Even thinking about a fresh lemon slice and bringing it to your mouth and taking a big bite, creates changes in your body in anticipation of receiving this food. Your mouth will start watering and you can almost taste the sour flavor of the lemon!
When negative emotions get trapped in the subconscious, the body can get “stuck” in those responses. For example, someone holding onto years of subconscious grief or sorrow, might experience chronic fatigue or chest tightness, while unresolved anger may show up as high blood pressure or headaches.
The Placebo and Nocebo Effects
One of the most fascinating ways we see the subconscious mind at work is through the placebo effect. Studies have shown that when people believe they are receiving medicine—even if it’s just a sugar pill—their bodies often respond as if they had received the real treatment. Their subconscious mind accepts the belief in healing, and the body follows suit.
On the other side is the nocebo effect, where negative expectations create negative outcomes. If someone is told a treatment has side effects, they may begin experiencing them—even if they were given just a sugar pill. The subconscious doesn’t always distinguish between what is “real” and what is “believed.” It simply responds.
The Subconscious and Physical Strength
There’s another powerful study that highlights how much influence the subconscious has over the body. In this experiment, participants were divided into groups: one group physically performed exercises like pushups or pullups, while another group only imagined themselves doing the movements—visualizing the muscles contracting and firing.
The results showed that both groups increased their strength. The group that only imagined the exercise still gained measurable muscle strength, even though they never actually moved their bodies.
This shows how the subconscious brain signals the body to adapt, even when the physical action isn’t there. Your mind doesn’t just influence your thoughts—it can literally reshape your body.
The Power of Belief in Life and Death
There are countless stories of people who, after being told by a doctor they have a certain amount of time left to live, pass away almost exactly on schedule. The subconscious accepts that prognosis as truth and aligns the body’s systems with it.
Likewise, many people seem to “hold on” for a significant life event—a wedding, a birthday, a graduation—before passing away shortly after. This shows just how powerful the subconscious is in directing not only how we live, but even the timing of when we leave this world.
How Energy Healing Works With the Subconscious
This is why energy healing—through The Emotion Code, Body Code, and Belief Code—can be so powerful.
✨ The Emotion Code clears out trapped emotions that are stored in the subconscious and continues to trigger stress responses in the body.
✨ The Body Code identifies and corrects deeper imbalances like energy misalignments, pathogens, toxins, or circuits being short-circuited—all of which the subconscious is aware of, even if you aren’t consciously aware.
✨ The Belief Code shifts limiting subconscious beliefs that keep the body in a cycle of stress or illness. For example, a belief like “I’m destined to get the same disease as my parent” can manifest as physical symptoms. Or a belief like “I’m stuck” may literally manifest as foot or leg pain, reflecting that internal message.
When these subconscious blocks are released, the body is able to reset its nervous system, move into healing mode, and restore balance. Clients often notice not only physical relief, but also improved mental clarity, lighter emotions, and a greater sense of peace.
Real Change Starts With the Subconscious
If you’ve been struggling with stubborn health issues, repeating patterns, or feeling like your body just won’t cooperate, it may not be that you’re doing something wrong. It may simply be that your subconscious is running an old program that no longer serves you.
By working directly with the subconscious through energy healing, we can clear out those blocks, calm the nervous system, and allow the body and mind to heal.
Final Thoughts
The subconscious mind truly does run the show—controlling not only our thoughts and beliefs but also the way our body systems function. The placebo effect, the nocebo effect, subconscious influence on physical strength, and even the timing of life and death all show us its extraordinary power.
When we work with the subconscious through The Emotion Code, Body Code, and Belief Code, we can begin healing at the deepest level. When your subconscious mind is aligned with your conscious desires, your body can finally do what it’s designed to do: heal, restore, and thrive.
