Okay, clear off your desk, set other things aside for a moment, we're digging
into some psychology today about how to reprogram your subconscious mind.
Usually when we think, we think in images or pictures. Notice this, if I ask you to
think about your house, you get a picture? Yeah. You can kind of picture your house,
right? Or think about your car, picture. Think about your mind. Hmm..
little trickier. You don't always get a picture for that, if you do, often the
picture is a brain, your brain and your mind aren't the same thing
in fact, your brain isn't your mind any more than your little finger is your
mind, it's part of your body, it's an organ in your head.
Now it's associated with your mind but when I say mind, I'm really talking about
you, I'm talking about the agent in the machine, I'm talking about the observer,
the decision-maker, the choice element, that's the mind. This picture represents
your mind. Maybe we can use that as the picture that we think about as we
consider our mind. Now I heard this from my friend, Leslie Householder, she is a
best-selling author of the Jackrabbit Factor and portal to genius and some
other really cool things. You might want to check out Leslie, I've included a link
down in the description. Leslie told me that she heard it from Bob Proctor. Bob
is an amazing leadership and personal development speaker and coach and I
heard Bob Proctor once say that he loves to brag about his material because none
of it's his. So I don't know the original source of this thing but I can at least
trace it back through Leslie to Bob Proctor and it's a handy image to use
when we're talking about the mind. This top part is the conscious. The conscious
mind is the part that does the thinking, the part that you're aware of in fact,
conscious means aware. If you're unconscious, you're not aware of anything.
The conscious mind is also about language and logic and reason. Okay, these
are cognitive functions that we associate with the conscious mind. Now
let's go to this part, the subconscious. Now sub means below, like subway,
submarine. Conscious means awareness. Subconscious means below awareness so
you're not aware of this stuff. The subconscious is characterized by instead
of thoughts beliefs, beliefs are at a much more fundamental level, instead of
logic or reason, it's more about language and templates. The fact that we're
speaking English here today on this video, you probably didn't even tune into
that, you weren't aware of that, it was below your awareness. You see? It's a
subconscious process that drives that, it's more like the operating system or
the template or the layout for what's happening in the conscious mind, that's
what's driving it really. So instead of pictures that we might think about in
the conscious mind, images in the subconscious and I don't mean picture
images, I mean like self image, it's more of a gut feel if you can appreciate that.
This is the body including the brain, it's your body that interacts with the
world and creates your results so it's your hands that touch things and move
things around, it's your feet that walk around in this world as you interact
with the world, you create this set of results. Well that gets fed back into
your conscious mind through a series of antenna up here called your senses so
you get to see and smell and touch the results that you created by moving your
body around, that's how it comes back into your conscious mind.
Here's another useful analogy and I think it was Leslie that shared this one
with me as well. This is the captain, the conscious mind
is the captain. This is the crew, the subconscious mind is the crew. This is
the ship so if your body is the ship, who's driving the ship? Ah, the captain's
in charge, can we agree on that? But who's driving?
Who's moving that ship around? It's the crew and the crew doesn't have to follow
what the captain said. That's the problem. Let's say for example that you have a
belief in your subconscious mind, we'll represent it with X. Let's say that you
believe at a subconscious level X and it might sound like I'm so.. what came to
mind? Alright, we're pulling that up to the
conscious mind, it's whatever we really feel about ourselves. This is the
subconscious X or belief. I'm so lazy, I'm so inadequate, I'm so fat. Whatever, okay.
Whatever your x is. What kind of behaviors are we likely to see in the
body? Yeah, would you believe X behaviors are going on down here?
Yeah, makes sense. What kind of results are X behaviors going to create? Hmm X
results, big surprise. What kinds of things are we then going to see and
smell and hear and touch? Oh, we're going to see a whole lot of X showing up in our
life, aren't we? And so that gets into our conscious mind. How do you feel about X?
Now this is a question I want you to spend just a moment on because the
language of the subconscious mind is feeling and emotion and images, okay. How you
feel about X matters and if you have strong feelings about it, it's going to
get driven even stronger into the subconscious mind. If you hate it, if you
love it, doesn't matter, subconscious is going to
grab on to it even more tightly with any emotion or feeling that's connected to
it. This is just how it works and then we nasty cycle because X become stronger in
the subconscious, our behaviors, our results, there we go.
So how do we reprogram our subconscious mind? What if you go to the seminar where
you watch the YouTube video from Dr. Paul or you read a book or whatever
right and you get this idea into your conscious mind, an idea is conscious, you
get this idea, I'm not X, I'm Y. You've been to the
motivational seminar, right? You have potential and you're like, oh, maybe I can
have potential but you're not really buying it, it's really more of a wish or
maybe some day or if I pay the 1,500 bucks to take this guy's course then
he's promising that I could. Whatever, right? But you're not buying it because
at the subconscious level, you're still X and even though you're carrying this Y
thought up here in your conscious mind, it's not installed down here. Now
sometimes you can just white-knuckle it, you know, just cut it through for a while
and even get yourself to do a few little Y behaviors down here, maybe a few little
Y results but you can't sustain that if X is still implanted in your
subconscious mind, it's like the crew is going to toss the captain overboard. How do
we get Y down here? To program our subconscious mind we need to know a
little bit about how it operates. Remember feelings and emotions are huge.
I've presented a strategy and it's in the end of my book, Pathological
Positivity, you can get the audible version or the digital version or the
print version, there are some links in the description down below and in the
back of my book, I present what's called the Pathological Positivity Prescription
where you you draft a script okay or you can use the one that I put in my book,
you can use that one if you want. Now I'm going to borrow a strategy that I
learned from my good friend, Ann Webb, her contact information is also in the
description below, she has a program called the ideal life vision and you can
link to down there but here's what she taught me.
Music and your own voice create a whole different effect on your subconscious
mind and it helps to program it so basically what we're doing you guys is,
taking Y, recording it in our own voice because of all the voices in your mind
which one is the most believable? Right, you've got enough destructive pride that
your own voice is the one you will listen to above all others. Well let's
take advantage of that and use our own voice to voice what Y is. Now here's
the part end through in. She said, record that in your own voice with classical
music in the background and there's certain kinds that work better than
others, I like Handel and Mozart but you pick
something that helps to stimulate and activate your brain in a way that it's
going to send this down to the subconscious. Powerful process. Here's
another one I had a video recently with Brett Williams, you can link to that
video right up here and when you do, just cue it up so that you can play
it later. When you link to that video and see that Brett talked about using
considerations instead of affirmations because sometimes when you tell yourself
no, I'm. Yeah, your subconscious picks a fight with you and it's like, whatever,
you know you're not Y and it sticks with X. Brett's suggestion in that video is
powerful because we're going to come in the back door of our subconscious and
present it with a consideration. What if I were Y? I'm not saying I am. What if I
were? See, now we're not picking a fight with our subconscious and we open up the
door, it's a powerful tool that you can add to it as well. Can we reprogram our
subconscious mind? We can. It's not easy but once we get Y installed here then
the behaviors and the results will naturally follow that. It's all about
getting our mind work for us and not against us. Did you
reprogram your subconscious? Some neat things are going to happen. I'll see you
tomorrow at Live On Purpose TV.