Subconscious Mind | aaronsjoy

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Our conscious mind is like when we are present in the moment talking, we have to think about responses or how to do certain physical things because there kinda new and we haven't done them 1,000 times before.

On the other hand the subconscious is the automatic us, like when a tennis ball is thrown to us and our arm automatically reaches out and catches it, we've done it a 1,000 times before and like training a muscle its trained and ready when ever needed.

The best way to identify what subconscious programs you’re running is simply to look at your life, it is made up of ‘the program’ 95% of the time. Your life is a printout of the program.

The things you have in your life that you love are because you have a program that allows you to accept those things into your life. Anything you work hard at, struggle over, have to put a lot of effort into and it’s difficult, is because your programs don’t support that in your life.

Your conscious mind is reaching for it, but something in your program is holding it at bay. The effort and struggle you feel is in trying to override a program. You’re working hard because you want it, but the undercurrent of belief says, “It’s not going to happen.”

The habitual human being can look at change in even the smallest scale as traumatic, after all you are comfortable and in control because you know whats going to happen. The problem is that with change comes growth, personal growth and new understandings. All the information that goes into your brain is filed as useful, maybe latter or even sudden acceptance. You cannot overload your

brain, we have enough room for 10 times what Wikipedia has!

lets look at personal change, how do we change what we don't like about ourselves? I looked into this about 20 years ago as I was not happy with who I am my habits were consuming me and my friends feedback wasn't great.

I wanted to be more, I wanted to be in control and most of all I wanted to be a good person and help others but I was so selfish and delusional about my own existence that many friends saw me as arrogant.

So I looked into change and why it was so hard for anyone and came across many rewriting programs for the subconscious mind, but like say the law of attraction there was lots of information on how to have what you want or change your subconscious mind but no realistic system that shows you the shortest route from A to C that could be incorporated into our busy daily life.

I needed measurements also, how would I know this was working? There needed to be check points, little wins to ensure I was on the right track. After all I didn't want to spend 30 minutes a day for 3 months to find I hadn't done it properly and didn't make the change required in the first place.

Basically the easiest way to change something imbedded in the subconscious mind is repetition, but you do need a starting point or a clear understanding of what you are rewriting over in your mind. To best explain this I will give you an example I have used previously in my own life:

Firstly: (1) I made tapes with suggestions, suggesting I am a good listener and enjoy mixing and communicating with people from all walks of life - this was to re-write a tendency to be arrogant and mean hearted with people less fortunate.

Secondly I realised that to write over the subconscious or embed something in there it takes about 28 days according to NASA whom conducted many experiments on the subject. One study was a group of prospective astronauts whom were made to wear goggles that presented the world up side down, after 28-32 days the human brain mind and subconscious had flipped it back up right! I thought this was amazing and knew I had to let the repetition run its course if I was to succeed changing embedded beliefs and habitual patterns in my subconscious mind.

Finally Ive had some life altering events, best friends pass away and the window of access and change was as I put it magical at this time. I was able to instantly change how I lived and what I considered snakeskin and shed almost overnight.

These three forms of reprogramming of the subconscious mind at detailed a bit more here:

Hypnosis – We can recreate our Theta state of receptivity and use it to re-program our mind in a more conscious way. And the cool thing is that each of us have access to this state of being two times every day where we can effectively ‘hypnotise’ ourselves – just before falling asleep and just as we are waking up. As we are drifting off, the mind moves from its active Beta state into Alpha and then Theta before eventually dropping into Delta as we sleep. The Theta window is our most receptive state and responds well to the visions and suggestions we hold in this space. Listening to subliminal tapes at this time is one way to begin overwriting limiting programs with the new beliefs and behaviours we want to experience.
Repetition – Here’s an interesting fact: the subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between what’s vividly imagined and what’s real. The second method for reprogramming our subconscious towards positive change is to practice new thoughts and actions, with feeling, and to repeat this throughout the day as though you are learning a new skill or building a new muscle. “This can’t just be sticky notes on the mirror. This must be felt and experienced. This can be difficult if we are experiencing great contrast to the thing we want (i.e. a cancer patient saying, “I am healthy.”). But even if it looks very different than your current life, repetition works if we can harness the ability to bring ourselves into a feeling space connected to the end result of what we really want. “Motion creates emotion”, and weaving movement and feeling together is one of the best ways to build the energy of a vision. Also I have seen cancer patients make extraordinary healing through this used side by side with nutrition and specialist modern medicine together, once your mind accepts your current situation the possibilities and results are so positive you wonder why everyones not doing it.
High Impact Events – every once in a while something happens that completely pierces the bubble of our subconscious mind and creates a powerful window for holistic change. These events can come in the form of apparent crisis (a critical illness, loss of a loved one, major emergency) or even a blessing (the birth a new child, meeting a soul mate), and the impact of these moments are so profound that they call forth a completely radical departure from our normal programs and ways of being. I remember being utterly propelled to quit my unhappy job about one month after my son Josh was born. A totally irrational decision, but one which completely shifted the path I was on and ignited a massive wave of new creative opportunity in my life. The power to create a “spontaneous remission” of any sort is available to each of us when we tap into the power of our subconscious mind.

Where do these subconscious thoughts and patterns come from?

Most of our subconscious programming comes from the first seven years of our life. From the last trimester of pregnancy to age seven, we exist mostly in Theta brain wave space (a.k.a. hypnosis), which is the most receptive space for our subconscious mind.

We are essentially sponges. Our model of the world is formed by how we experience our reality, and how we see our parents and other key influences respond to life. We learn subconsciously how to act when we’re happy or angry, what it takes to make money, how best to express love, when it’s safe to laugh, to sing, to shine… and when it’s not.

We take these messages in from our surroundings and they become our automatic, under-the-surface view of reality.

We will continue to form new subconscious patterns as we grow in age (think of any habitual movement or skill you have mastered) but the undercurrent of these patterns and beliefs are mostly set when we are young.