I think a lot of people use the phrase “you need to get out of your head” without truly understanding what it means. This phrase relates to concious and subconscious brain functions.

About 95% of our daily brain processes throughout the day come from subconscious programs we are largely unaware of. What your concious mind is doing during these automatic functions is that it goes “inside” your mind and bounces thoughts around. Most of these automatic (subconscious) programs are detrimental to your mental well being and don’t move you constructively towards your wants/desires. To “get out of your head” is to bring your concious mind out from “inside” your head, expand your awareness (conciousness), and to bring your concious attention to your subconscious (automatic) processes that are driving you.

The benifits of this being that you can start to become aware of these detrimental programs running you, and once these are identified, you can begin to rewire your brain, to write new programs beneficial to your wants/desires.