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"Part 8: Transcript of Len Thurmond's In Search Of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski

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Ralph Zuranski: Len, I wanted to ask you this question about the subconscious. I know you’re quite aware about what goes on in the mind and how powerful the subconscious is. Do you take time to feed your subconscious?

Ralph Zuranski: Everything needs food, and it seems the subconscious is the primary factor that determines how successful we are and what we do and sort of the thing working behind the scenes that gets things done.

Ralph Zuranski: What do you do to feed your subconscious?

Len Thurmond: Feeding the subconscious? I think that the conscious is fed by the subconscious, not the other way around. I don’t think that we feed the subconscious.

Len Thurmond: The subconscious is the door that’s open to all that is. The subconscious is where ideas come from. The subconscious is where creativity comes from. The subconscious is where inventions come from, songs come from; anything that’s creative and inventive comes from the subconscious.

Len Thurmond: Then it’s fed to the conscious and the conscious is then, if it’s open to it, allowed to make that into a reality. I honestly don’t believe that we have to feed the subconscious. We have to feed the conscious. We have to allow the subconscious to do its thing. I think it’s inherent of the way life is.

Len Thurmond: If we cut off that connection between the two, then we’re robots and we don’t get anything done except what the boss tells us to do. People who are entrepreneurs, people who get over adversity, people who become successful, people who invent things are all people who have opened that door between the subconscious and the conscious and allow that thought to flow.

Len Thurmond: When I was younger I was a singer and song writer, and I played bars and stuff like that. And I wrote a lot of songs and the majority of the songs that I wrote were written while I was asleep. I would hammer on my guitar all day trying to hammer out a song. I could not get it. I’d have the melody and I’d have an idea for the lyrics, but I just couldn’t make them work.

Len Thurmond: I’d go to sleep and I’d wake up in the middle of the night, about 4: 00 in the morning, and write down the lyrics for the song. It’s because that door is automatically opened when you’re asleep. If you can train yourself to let that door be open when you’re awake, then the thought processes that go on let that unconscious idea feed into the conscious.

Len Thurmond: It’s like a machine. The conscious can then make that a reality. It’s like the subconscious draws the blueprint and then the conscious is the factory that hammers out the product.

Len Thurmond: You have to be open to that. Feeding it? I don’t feed my subconscious. I relax my subconscious. When I’ve had a stressful day or whatever, I relax. I listen to Windham Hill and Narada, soft jazz and classical music when I go to sleep. I turn it on and I go to sleep to it.

Len Thurmond: It soothes my subconscious and opens that door. There is a reverse polarity there where if you’ve got too much crap in your conscious it can feed back into your subconscious. That’s where nightmares come from. That’s where all that happens.

Len Thurmond: I soothe it instead of feeding it with music. And my way is music. There are lots of other techniques. I was talking to a lady at dinner last night who is putting out some CDs with, basically, hypnotherapy, small snippets of hypnosis that allow you to overcome different situations that you’ve gone through and relax and so forth. She’s got different things for different ones. But I think it’s a genius idea.

Len Thurmond: However you do it, whether it’s through certain herbs or whatever; if it’s through music; some people can just zone out by watching a movie and let all the crap go away. Whatever it takes I think it’s not so much feeding the subconscious as it is soothing the subconscious so it can get back to doing its job.

Len Thurmond: We really are controlled by our subconscious to a great degree.

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To quote Len..."If just one person can be helped to believe that they too can pull themselves up by the bootstraps, and become more than they are today, then this interview will be well worth the time.

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