Did you know the subconscious mind is like a giant file library of all your memories?
In fact, this is the place where all your choices are determined on how you respond
to life and how you make important decisions. Strong emotions such as fears, desires, and
urges all stem from the subconscious mind which largely affects how you see the world
and your place in it. If you compare the power of your conscious
mind to your subconscious mind, your consciousness is extremely limited compared to your subconscious.
The Conscious Mind is only a small fraction of your mental capacity that governs your
awareness through the 5 main senses such as sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
The subconscious mind is where all the majority of your total mental capacity is used for
registering everything behind the scene. And this is where the magic happens.
Take a look at this. The brain is incredibly complex. It’s consisting
of about 100 billion neurons, making on the order of 100 trillion connections.
It’s incredible to know how your subconscious mind is always on autopilot, even when you’re
asleep. It's constantly maintaining your physical body such as your organs and your natural
or learned tendencies, for better or worse. Now… Why is this all important?
In the previous video, we went over an important Principle of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon
Hill called Faith. There is a very strong reason why sometimes
we do not believe in achieving our own wishes, despite even though we want something, we
do not believe we deserve it. In other words, we lack faith in achieving
our goals. Well, in this chapter of Think and Grow Rich,
according to Napoleon Hill, what you need to learn next will help increase your belief
and help train your subconscious mind to attain the success you want.
How do we really do that? It’s by applying the 3rd Principle of Think
and Grow Rich called... Autosuggestion. You see, Autosuggestion is an effective technique
that was shared by multitudes of wealthy individuals that Napoleon Hill interviewed during his
20 year journey Interesting right? So then, how does this
principle work? You see your life is experienced mainly through
your five senses. Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, and touch.
Hill says that all these five main senses contribute to the formations of new thoughts
which later get processed and filtered by your consciousness before it enters into your
subconscious. The conscious mind serves as an outer guard
filter which either lets your thoughts pass or be rejected before entering into your subconscious
mind. Once the thought reaches into the subconscious mind, it gets planted like seed and cultivates
over time, ultimately influencing your behavior, emotions, and future actions.
Napoleon Hill notes that in order for thoughts to make it into the subconscious mind, it
must be mixed with emotions or feelings. The reason being is your subconscious mind only
recognizes and acts only upon thoughts that have been well mixed with emotions or feelings.
Here’s an example of that. Just imagine you are a thought bubble, waiting
outside in a single file line with other thought bubbles, all trying to get inside this Subconscious
VIP Club. The only way to get inside that club is if you go through the front entrance
which is heavily guarded by security guards. Those security guards work with the conscious
mind department, checking if you have a pass. If you don’t have a pass, you’ll get the
boot. So what exactly is that pass? You probably already guessed it. That pass is a feeling
or emotion. If you have it, you can go right in.
Still, wondering why this works? Try to remember any past social event that you went to. Perhaps
a childhood memory or something that happened to you a few years ago. Chances are you don’t
exactly remember everything that was spoken, word for word, between whoever was there with
you. But… you’ll always remember the feelings and emotions you experienced.
Now that you are starting to learn how the mind works, here is where autosuggestion comes
in. As written by Napoleon Hill,
“No thoughts, whether it is negative or positive, can enter the subconscious mind
without the aid of the autosuggestion.” Autosuggestion is essentially a self-suggestion
technique that will take effect over time as you continuously practice it.
To do Autosuggestion, you need to first do Step 1) Always focus on your ultimate goal
by frequently looking at your written statement of your desire and then close your eyes and
speak it out loud. Step 2) As you are doing this, it’s important
to both see and feel as if you are already in possession of your goal, saying it in detail
with gratefulness and passion. Step 3) Repeat this at least twice a day,
every day. Once in the morning, and once at night. I suggest to take a minute to meditate
to quiet your mind down so that you can then decide what your mind should focus on.
Now there's a couple of practical ways I will share with how I really do this so stay tuned
till the very end cause you’re not going to want to miss out.
Now over time as you continuously practice this, it starts to feel a lot easier to believe
in your goals as your subconscious mind is getting newly implanted thoughts from autosuggestion.
It will begin to align its direction towards your desired goal. It’s ultimately tuning
you to see and hear things related to your thoughts you planted over time.
Here’s example how can this works. Think of the time when you got your first
car. Now try to remember what it was like a week later after owning it.
Okay, now think about this. It isn’t it interesting that you suddenly you began to
notice all the same car models like yours on the road where beforehand you never really
noticed them? Why is that? That is because your subconscious mind is
now aligned and tuned with that car model, due to your emotional connection with your
car. That’s how autosuggestion will work for
you too with your implanted desire. You’ll begin to notice new opportunities
that you weren’t aware of how to create wealth, but now you are able to see them as
you practice this technique. Once you spotted new opportunities, from that
point, the next step is critical for taking action which we’ll talk about in the next
video.
Now, here’s are some very simple practical ways of how you can do this.
First way is personal Affirmations - This is what we just talked about. You can use
your phone, computer, piece of paper to write down your goal and have it where you’ll
clearly see it every day such as background wallpaper or sticky notes on the bathroom
mirror.
Second way is using reminders – Using your phone, you can set up a daily reminder to
remind you to think about your goals. Reminding yourself several times per day helps train
your brain refocus on the right things.
And the third way is Vision boards and Posters – This is one of my absolute favorite ways
of doing this! Have a vision board, picture frame, or poster placed somewhere in your
house where you can always see it such as in your room will help ingrain your ultimate
desire into your subconscious mind! And one of the best ways I have been using
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Coming up! Stay tuned for the following video that will go in-depth about the 4th Principle
of Think and Grow Rich which is called… Specialized Knowledge.
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