Tuesday, 23 July 2013

How To Use Affirmations To Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind

By Casie D. Leavens


Since the subconscious mind is always in control of our behavior (in the long run) it seems crucial that we understand how it operates. Successful mind training requires that knowledge. Creating a happy, successful, fear free life also requires it. Here are some basic concepts that should be helpful.

Most basically, the mind is the process that take place within the brain. Through our conscious mind we are aware of many of those functions - the five basic senses, the ability to think and talk and move our body parts. We read and learn and feel emotions and so on. The subconscious mind, however, hides most of its activities from us, hence its name, which means below awareness.

Take the example of a hot kettle. The subconscious mind will tell you that it is hot and so you won't touch it. If the subconscious mind didn't work, we would all be making the same mistakes.The subconscious mind is also capable of doing several things at once. This is something that the conscious mind cannot.Another example to illustrate the power of the unconscious mind is car driving. When you drive, you don't think and make decisions. You make spontaneous decisions and they are usually right.

The subconscious mind is a fully positive function. It does not even recognize negatives such as no, don't, or can't. So, one of the first steps in mind training is to begin thinking in positive terms. Tell yourself what you can do rather than what you can't do and what you should do rather than what you shouldn't. Say, "I want to ...." rather than, "I don't want to ...." or I must start doing," rather than "I must stop doing ...." Also, understand that when the subconscious mind hears a negative, it typically assumes it was meant to be positive. When it hears, "Don't do that," it interprets the message as, "Do that." It hears, "Just say no," and it interprets the message as...

Thankfully, that isn't the case in manufacturing and cooking, and there's no reason why it should be in life either. If there's a particular thing you'd like to do with your life, then make it a point to speak to someone who has already done it. If you can't get in touch with them, then read everything you can about them, or study their career. Do everything in your power to follow the path that they created for themselves. If there's something you'd rather do differently, you can always veer off, but there is no need to insist on being a pioneer to get to the same place someone else already has.You don't have to stop being your own person to follow a blueprint for success. Having a plan that is already proven successful will allow your subconscious mind to work on the nuts and bolts of following the plan rather than designing its own plan. The closer you can get your subconscious mind to the heart of the matter, the better.It begins with starting down the right road.Tell your subconscious mind that you mean business. If you were to combine a deadline with the accountability factor, you'd give yourself no choice but to accomplish your goal.A deadline tells your subconscious mind that there is an urgent matter at hand, and it must be taken care of immediately. Your mind will feel the importance of the matter, and will make all the necessary adjustments to be sure that the proper attention is given to solving this problem, which it understands to be the most pressing.Even if it isn't the most important thing going on in your life, a deadline will keep your mind working on it, until it's met.The amazing thing about the subconscious mind is it does whatever it takes to accomplish the things that you ask it to. Attaching a deadline to a particular goal simply increases the rate at which the subconscious mind works, without you even realizing it.

Many of our directives were planted in our subconscious mind by other people, especially when we were very young before we could evaluate or defend ourselves mentally. It hears parents (for example) saying we are precious and it believes it and forms an "I'm precious" directive. I hears parents say we are worthless and it forms an "I'm worthless" directive. By the time a child begins really thinking about himself objectively at four or so, lots of directives have already been set for him. When they are positive and helpful they direct a good and successful life. When they are negative and hurtful they direct an unhappy, unsuccessful life.

Mind training can help alleviate the bad stuff and replace it with good stuff. Most people can benefit from working through a mind training program that helps determine the types of directives one has stored and teaches techniques to replace the harmful directives with helpful ones.




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