When you put your car in cruise control, you program your car to continue moving forward
at a particular speed. If you want to adjust that program in any way, you’ve got to step
in and consciously interact with the car. If you want to slow down, you reprogram the
speed of the cruise control to slower speeds. If you want to turn cruise control off, you
tap the brakes or press a button to disable that program. If you were to never consciously
interact with your car after setting it to cruise control, it would keep moving at the
programmed speed until it ran out of gas, or into a wall. Well, just as you program
your car to continuously move forward at a certain speed, your subconscious mind has
been programmed to live in this world, and to see this world, in a certain way. And just
as you’ve got to step in and consciously interact with your car to modify its program,
you’ve got to step in and consciously interact with your subconscious mind if you want to
disable its program. But before we talk about how to reprogram our subconscious mind, let’s
look at how it becomes programmed.
How the Subconscious Mind Is Programmed The subconscious mind is like a very complex
data base, like a storehouse of our learned behaviors from past experiences. This data
bank has a limited storage capacity, and throughout our childhood that capacity is filled with
beliefs and behaviors that we learn from our surrounding environment. But because our subconscious
mind is so vulnerable and actively trying to learn the best way to do things at an early
age, it will latch onto the first way of doing things that it can find, which is often the
problem. A lot of these behaviors or beliefs that we pick up from our environment, such
as the people we are around, are subjective, meaning they aren’t necessarily the best
way of doing things for us; but only the best way of doing things for them. We then find
ourselves being programmed based on someone else’s program, instead of based on our
experiences. This leads to us being confronted with experiences later in life that we don’t
know how to respond to, or even discovering parts of ourselves that we didn’t put there.
Our Environment One example of how our environment shapes
our beliefs would be the carrying over of religious beliefs. Religion is such an important
aspect of the lives of families across the world and it answers some of life’s most
difficult questions. At such a young age, we accept these answers without hesitation,
and then we build and build on top of that foundation to create our understanding of
the world and our place in it. If we hang onto those beliefs simply because our parents
do without reestablishing them for ourselves at some point, we risk the entire foundation
we’ve built our understanding of the world upon being ripped out from under us at the
hand of an experience that doesn’t coincide with them. There’s nothing at all wrong
with adopting the same religious beliefs as our parents so long as we verify those beliefs
for ourselves.
Our Experiences Some of our subconscious programming comes
from our own experiences. For example, if you ran up to a stray dog as a child and stuck
your hand out only for it to be slammed by a pair of jaws; you learned right then and
there that you shouldn’t just run up and try to pet stray dogs, and that experience
will stick with you for the rest of your life to remind you of that very fact. Your subconscious
mind was programmed at that moment to approach stray dogs with caution, or to not approach
them at all.
How We See Ourselves So we see how our first hand experiences and
beliefs taken on from our environment affect our subconscious programming, but if you truly
hope to change that program you must understand the most important factor of them all: what
you believe about yourself. What you believe about yourself literally has more to do with
how you are, than how you really are. We project our beliefs and past experiences out onto
the world and that determines the world we see, or the world we live in. Just the same,
we project our beliefs about ourselves out into the world and that is the person we become.
For example, if you were told by your parents growing up that you were lazy, and you believed
them, you subconsciously programmed yourself to become lazy. You could argue that your
parents telling you that programmed you to become lazy, but you still had to accept the
idea of it. From the moment you accepted the idea of being lazy, the fact that you believed
you were lazy is the very reason you continued to be lazy. It’s not that you were a lazy
person, it’s that you subconsciously programmed yourself to become lazy. Chances are you still
believe that about yourself to this day, and if you are okay with that then good for you.
But if you aren’t, in order to stop being lazy, you’ve got to reprogram that subconscious
belief about yourself. There is no other way to escape it. So how do we do that? How can
we dip into our subconscious mind and reprogram these automatic subconscious states of being
we have found ourselves locked into? Well, if the cruise control is like the program
of our subconscious mind, the driver is the conscious mind. And without the driver, or
the conscious aspect of our mind, the subconscious program won’t be touched.
Subconscious Reprogramming If you have become subconsciously programmed
to believe you’re lazy, you’ve got to consciously change your belief about yourself
before there is any hope in changing that subconscious program. The thing is, our beliefs
aren’t true in themselves. They become true in our experience when we believe them. So
long as you continue to believe that you are lazy, you will be lazy; no matter what you
change in your external world. Even if you start waking up at 3 AM every single day to
run 5 miles on top of going to the gym 7 days a week; those things in and of themselves
do not cure your laziness. The amount of activity you need to do to cure your laziness is no
more or less than the amount needed to truly convince yourself that you aren’t lazy.
Sure, less than 1% of people would call you lazy if that was your daily routine, and perhaps
you need to hear it from other people to believe it for yourself, but at the end of the day
no matter what you do; until you believe that you are not lazy, you will project your own
beliefs about yourself into the world and continue to be a lazy person. To change the
subconscious program you are running on, it is all about slipping out of the subjective
seat of the subconscious mind and into the seat of the conscious mind; which gives you
an objective perspective of your subconscious program. Just imagine you have been experiencing
this life from the perspective of sitting in a chair. At one time you knew you were
sitting in a chair, but somewhere along the way you forgot. As soon as you forgot you
were sitting in that chair the idea of it becomes subjective to you. You totally forget
about the chair because you can’t see it from a place of sitting in it. The chair becomes
as much of a part of you as anything else. You unknowingly identify with it, and as it.
Being able to slip into the seat of the conscious mind and reprogram the subconscious mind is
standing up from that chair, taking a few steps forward and turning around to see the
chair you have been sitting in. It is realizing that the main cause of how you are witnessing
the world and your self is the part of you that you can slip out of, point a finger at,
and adjust to the liking of the part of you that has stood up. You won’t be able to
change the chair you sit in from a place of sitting in the chair.
Once you can take this perspective on your subconscious program, the process of changing
it becomes much easier. It then becomes more about changing how you see yourself rather
than changing how you are, because changing how you see yourself is the very thing that
will cause you to change. Ask yourself what actions you would have to take to no longer
consider yourself lazy, and then take those actions. When those actions begin to change
your perspective of yourself, you begin to change your subconscious program. And when
you change your subconscious program, you change the version of reality you experience.
There is a version of you that is lazy and if you identify with that version of yourself,
that is who you will become. Remember, we project our beliefs out into the world and
create a reality that is based upon them. When you change those beliefs, or your subconscious
program, you change the version of reality they have created, which is the version of
reality that you are experiencing.
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