Imagine a plane in the clear blue sky; behind it is a long vapour trail, that shows the history of the plane’s journey. Ahead of it, in the distance, is the destination airport.

Who is flying the plane? Can the vapour trail pilot it? Of course not, yet how many people allow their past, their histories, to control their lives? Are you consciously communicating with your unconscious mind, filtering what is relevant from its memories? Do you understand the conditioned responses that so often dominate you? They are based on memories, that may no longer be appropriate.

Can the destination airport pilot the ‘plane? Again, of course not. It will influence where we are heading but we can change our minds, fly somewhere else. Yet how many people allow their lives to be controlled by the perceived future? And in fact, this is often again the realm of memories – we have something coming up in the future, our unconscious mind sifts through for relevant memories and projects them onto how the future is ’sure’ to be played out.

When you find yourself responding with a conditioned response, and realise that it is not the best response you could have had, take time to investigate your memories and to see which one(s) was flying the plane at that moment.