The subconscious is a strange creature. It doesn't know what day it is, and can't add two and two. But it seems to know what may be causing your pain.

The subconscious has no ability to reason inductively, meaning that it can't use reason to take specific observations (for example, "two plus two") and arrive at general conclusions about them (for example, "equals four").

Instead it often uses blind association to arrive at general conclusions, sometimes linking things that make no logical sense. For example, if as a child you burned your hand on the exhaust pipe of a car when a tall man walked by, your subconscious may believe that tall people make exhaust pipes hot.

Yet despite these and other limitations the subconscious maintains subtle mastery over brain chemistry, regulates hundreds of life-giving processes, stores every word you ever heard or read, and orchestrates massive defenses when alien organisms invade your body.

From the General to the Specific

No matter how the subconscious obtains its general conclusions, whether through instinct, genetic programming, blind association, or other means, it does have the ability to apply those conclusions to specific cases. That is, while it can't go from the specific to the general, it does have the ability to do the reverse, to go from the general to the specific.

Said another way, it has the ability to reason deductively. Apparently that level of reasoning is sufficient for it to be able to answer questions about the workings of the body.

For example, it seems to know that in general when joints are out of alignment, nerves tend to get pinched. So when it is asked if a visualization statement about the alignment of joints would help alleviate your pain, it is able to answer Yes or No.

The Role of Visualization Statements

Visualization statements represent the specific language that your subconscious wants you to read back to it to help ease your pain. They