What is Conscious Gain?

I started out as a therapist at the age of 20. I did a workshop in Regression Therapy with a doctor who was visiting Australia from Europe. I gained spectacular results with my first client in that workshop, resulting in a young artist recovering some lost creative energy and being able to completely resurrect her artistic career.

Over the next couple of years I worked with clients, either in my modest flat in Adelaide, or in their homes. I was astonished to learn the degree to which the Unconscious Mind is affecting people in their everyday lives. Any kind of unresolved trauma, ranging from the loss of a loved one to a failed exam, appears to result in some kind of conclusion about life. Usually the conclusion is negative, all kinds of variations of "Avoid this kind of situation in future", or "Coming here again will result in pain and suffering". People who were struggling with all kinds of baffling self-defeating behaviour, people with chronic illnesses, people who could not succeed in their goals no matter how they tried, were now able to push forward and enjoy success, good health, and fulfillment. All within a few hours of therapy.

As I proceeded through life, having been an assistant manager of a counselling centre, I went on to work as a management consultant and as an executive coach. Here I was amazed to discover that people were often working on old, buried goals, goals that were operating within them on some kind of automatic basis, despite the irrelevance of the goal to present day circumstances. I found that some people had embarked on a lifetime program of business development, despite not really knowing what their Life Purpose was. I also found many people who had goals in conflict with other goals. And people who did not know what their Values were, despite the fact that Values are the most powerful motivation we have.

Overall, I saw that so many people are living 'unconsciously'. So often we are ruled by old, outdated decisions and conclusions. So often we are not so much living, as reacting to perceived threats and problems. Our energy becomes consumed in worry, unaware that we are not actually trying to resolve a problem in the present, but an unresolved problem from the past.

Conscious Gain is therefore the gain we can make when we explore our Unconscious Mind, clear any unnecessary pain and confusion from it, learn about our deepest beliefs and convictions and purposes, and move forward in life as our true 'Authentic Self'.