Your Inner Child runs on the programming that is already inside you, the Legacies that you have built up over your lifetime. It depends on your conscious mind to provide that programming, as well as updates. It has however a “quality control” function that makes it resist change until it has “proof” that the new programming should override the old programming.

When dealing with attraction an automatic limiter to your Inner Child’s working with a wish is the strength of that wish. Nothing is ever lost. When we create a thought, that thought and the words that frame it create a Wimage, a bubble of thought (please read Accessing Awen for how the term Wimage came about.) But the Wimage of that passing, fleeting wish is very, very tiny. It is a tiny little blip that hasn’t been able to form an association with anything and so cannot form any meaningful attraction. The most effective way to overcome this quality control feature of the mind is though intensity. Words alone are not enough (except in a long run.) You need emotions, and the stronger the better. Not only does intensity impress the mind but it is also the builder of stronger Wimages when we are interested in manifesting. This is why in Awakening Awen so much emphasis is placed on raising the emotion level. This is also why lot of literature on the Law of Attraction talks about the importance of high emotion. And high emotion is very important in creating an attractor of any strength and overriding minor straying from your Natural Path of Personal Flow. However if you are fighting a major deviance from what your Inner Child considers the “real” you, then you will end in failure. That is why ASPS is so important, it shows you where to go to find answers to the tough problems.

It is too easy to form an idea or wish. Unedited action on just any thought will lead to disaster, some judgmental control has to be enacted. The subconscious mind acts as the final guardian of what actions to take after evaluating any suggestions from the conscious mind against its own standards. Your Inner Child has many reservations and fears and acts prudently but sometimes there are slip-ups. It has happened to everyone, unintentional breakdowns of the system happen. You accidentally blurt out something you immediately regret saying. A slight breakdown of your mental controls. But it can be more fatal. Spur of the moment acts, impulse acts, ill thought out acts and those against your moral conscience can be easily exhibited and deeply regretted later. Macbeth agonized long over an act that he was pushed into and that he came to regret. Henry II had a remark in anger overheard by courtiers and that ended the life of the Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the classic science fiction movie Forbidden Planet an entire planet of an advanced civilization was wiped out overnight because spurious thoughts could not be contained. Whether ideas should be acted on has to be weighed against all the ramifications and not just the immediate consequences. The conscious mind is in the immediate and so needs the backup of the subconscious mind to act in the best long term interest of the person. This quality control is why “wishing," the conscious mind activity comes to naught so often. The wish never makes it as a thought to be acted upon and is filed away in memory as just one more dream. This is the quality control function in action. The subconscious mind also has to accept a wish as a desire for action to occur. Once the minds are united ASPS no longer appear.