Written by: Moira Hutchison, Executive Contributor
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It is said that approximately 95% of our behavior is beyond our conscious awareness. Your subconscious files away from your memories, experiences, perceptions, and insights and maintains them beyond the recollection of your conscious mind.
These past experiences and revelations have an incredible impact on your beliefs, habits, and general behavior.
Programming the subconscious mind is a powerful tool for up-leveling mindsets and behavior!!
Here are some strategies to help you program your mind to benefit your mind, body, and soul:
Affirmations
Everyone is familiar with affirmations. These are positive statements that you repeat to yourself each day. Affirmations can be powerful, but they must be used correctly:
Avoid affirmations that are clearly untrue. Your subconscious is flexible, but it is not willing to seriously consider the ridiculous. Repeating, “I am a billionaire” is too factually untrue to be accepted by your subconscious. “My financial situation is improving rapidly” is easier to resonate with.
Use imagery and emotions to really convince. See yourself as thin, financially successful, or selling your first novel. Generate the same emotion you would have in that situation.
Repeat your affirmations 3 sessions per day for 5-10 minutes each. Right before falling asleep, right after awakening, and any convenient time during the day are ideal times. For example, if you want to strengthen your confidence, repeat the affirmations when you feel self-doubt.
Subliminal technology
There is software available that flashes subliminal messages on your computer screen. These programs can run all day long without your awareness. You can use the affirmations included with the software or write your own.
There are also audio programs with positive messages embedded in the music beyond your ability to recognize consciously.
There is some controversy surrounding the usefulness of these programs. Since so many are available for free, there is no harm in giving them a try for a month. See what happens.
Hypnosis
You have been hypnotized many times. You probably did not view it as hypnosis. When you are totally engrossed in a book or movie, you are hypnotized.
Hypnosis is a state of intense concentration with reduced awareness of what is happening in your immediate environment. In this state, you are more suggestible. In other words, it is easier to influence you or to change your mind.
There are many books, audio programs, and videos that utilize hypnotic techniques. Many people find these highly effective. Again, give it a try and determine if it is worth your time.
Meditation
Meditation is a great way of concentrating your focus. Meditation creates a mental state that opens the mind to new ideas. Meditation can be learned quite effectively from books and videos. It does require practice to become skilled, so this is not a quick fix.
Visualization
If you are good at visualizing, you can convince your subconscious of nearly anything. Your subconscious views a convincing visualization as an actual experience. For example, if you visualize yourself giving successful speeches, your subconscious will become convinced this is a skill you possess.
Again, the best time to use this process is right before falling asleep and upon awakening in the morning. Visualizing is easier and more effective at those times.
We are only aware of a tiny portion of what our brain is doing at any moment.
Our brains are dealing with far too much information for our conscious mind to process. The brain controls body temperature, blood pressure, pulse, digestion, concentrations of various salts, neurotransmitters, hormones, and far more sensory data than we are aware of.
The same is true for our behavior. In theory, the subconscious mind controls 95% of our behavior. It only makes sense to address this 95%. There are several ways to program the subconscious. Pick one and see what you can accomplish!
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Moira Hutchinson, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
As an Intuition Cultivator and Mindset Mentor, Moira Hutchison guides her clients to access the inherent power they have available when they ignite their personal trinity of trust, inner awareness, and self-confidence. Moira works with professionals who feel that there is something better in life for them, but they have no idea how to access it. However, they have a yearning to be guided by their intuition and align with their unique calling. What makes her distinctive and different in this work is that she has developed the ability to take complex energetic, and spiritual ideas and interpret them in ways that people find easy to understand, integrate and implement.
