Conscious vs Subconscious Mind
As you can see in the iceberg graphic below, we have two levels of mind.
The majority of people try to solve their problems at a conscious level. That's where all our goals are and people have a tendency to try to think their way out of situations at this level. The conscious level only comprises at the most 10% of our thoughts.
Einstein said the following many years ago:
"We cannot solve our problems with the same level of mind that created them." Albert Einstein
The subconscious mind is a storehouse for all our past experiences, values, beliefs, and habits that we learned as we were socialized by others in the first 7 years of life. This level comprises 90% of our thinking and the vast majority is out of our awareness. The problem is a lot of the overall conclusions about ourselves coming out of childhood are negative. We try to make positive changes at a conscious level and may actually have the bigger, more powerful subconscious mind sabotaging those changes because the conclusion below the surface is negative.