Subconscious Mind Power – Success and happiness don’t happen by chance. They are the result of opportunity, choice, and action. These critical steps are continuously informed by an innate and powerful human resource: the subconscious mind.
Your mind is like a hard drive, with a vast capacity to capture a broad perspective on your life. Most of this data is filtered before it reaches your conscious mind➖from the mundane din of everyday noises and non-essential happenings to the barrage of spiritual beings and messages that surround us continually.
However, just because the information isn’t made available to our conscious awareness doesn’t mean that it’s lost. Far from it, in fact.
In this post, I’ll discuss the subconscious mind and ways that you can train it for success.
What’s the Deal with the Subconscious Mind?
What we call the subconscious mind is also referred to as the unconscious mind by psychologists, and as the superconscious in some contexts. As with much of the brain and mind, there are contradictory or confusing terms and definitions, and, in some respects, a lack of accurate information. It’s important to note that the terms subconscious, unconscious, and superconscious, like inner child, id, and ego, are all labels for concepts. They do not represent a physical object or a little person inside of us. Just like a map isn’t the actual road, these words are like tools for us to think about and chat over.
Whichever term we use, we are referring to the part of the mind that observes, gathers, and stores vast amounts of data and then filters it to provide our conscious awareness of what it deems to be that which will aid in our survival or satisfy our present curiosity or focus. Just think about how many times we completely missed part of a conversation, where we placed our keys, or some detail of an event we attended. While our conscious awareness is unaware, our subconscious mind has absorbed it. The fascinating and often disturbing part is that the subconscious mind receives the information haphazardly and randomly, primarily as images, feelings, and concepts rather than words. In this sense, it can work in our favor or set off knee-jerk reactions, unwanted habits, blocks, and self-sabotage.
While it stores a broader perception of reality and holds the solution to many of our problems, it is up to us to unlock that treasure chest of wisdom, to be still and listen, to be open to receiving an alternative perspective, and perhaps even rearrange the stored bits of information in a way that better serves us.
Your potential is far grander than you imagine, and the ability to change your current circumstances and achieve seemingly wild goals is within reach. By tapping into the guidance of your subconscious mind, you can resolve blocks that hold you back and chart a course directly to success.
Accessing the power of your subconscious mind as a pathway to achieving goals has become a popular topic of research by psychologists, coaches, and practitioners specializing in areas from sports performance to dysfunctional behavior and emotional distress.
Your subconscious is a powerful tool for catalyzing change in your life. By leveraging it effectively, you can:
- Lose weight and improve your physical health
- Overcome addictions, self-sabotage, and inner conflict
- Break through blocks and fire up your inspired creativity
- Clarify your direction in life and easily achieve your desired goals
Harnessing Your Subconscious Mind for Success
It’s important to understand that the subconscious does not discriminate. It will not judge or censor. As an unseen observer, it listens to and processes the information presented, regardless of whether the thoughts are positive or negative. In return, it manifests success, abundance, and wellness as easily as failure, sickness, and strife.
Think of your subconscious as a garden. It is fertile ground for the sown seeds and accidental weeds, and the best results require intentional cultivation.
Studies of sports performance have shown that the inner visualization of an activity is just as important, and often more important than physically practicing the activity when it comes to skill improvement. That goes for everything we do in life. Envisioning yourself performing a particular activity anchors the traits you aspire to develop or admire in others.
The first piece of advice I would give you is the same one I provide my clients: fill your life with self-affirming information, people, and activities that build you up. Your happiness and success depend on your state of mind.
Quickly Transforming with the Strength of Your Inner Mind
With that in mind, I invite you to try an exercise you can do during meditation or any quiet moment when you can relax and focus.
- Begin by imagining a future version of you who is standing in front of you and has already achieved the goals, gained the desired knowledge and skills, or removed the unwanted behaviors that you’re currently striving for.
- Examine that future person very carefully. How do they look and move? Observe their energy and any other significant factors.
- Now imagine slipping out of your body and stepping into that future body. Describe what it’s like to be inside that body with their perspectives, character, and their well-being.
- Step out of that future body and back into your own present body. Describe what it’s like to be back in your present body, noticing differences like lighter, heavier, darker, smaller, larger, sturdier, older, positive, confident, painful, etc.
- Step in and out of that future version of yourself several times, each time describing the sensations and perspectives you observe.
- When you notice little difference between the two bodies, or you no longer want to step back into the future body, the technique is complete. Alternatively, you may wish to bring desirable traits from the future version back into your present body.
- Finish with self-affirming reinforcements that help you maintain this mindset, perspective, or sense of self as you move forward. You have started down the path to success, so motivate yourself with statements and mental images of your end goal. And remember that any time you slip out of that desired sense of being, recall that future version and imagine stepping into it again.
By following this simple protocol, you can begin to reinforce the desired change in your subconscious.
Committing to this practice will allow you to notice differences almost immediately. As the subconscious mind continues to instill the desired changes and improvements, your health, happiness, and opportunities will begin to unfold.
Expand Your Options with the Help of Your Subconscious Mind
If you liked the exercise above, here is another exercise that will help you expand your options and live a more fulfilling life.
Do you find yourself pulling in, limiting your experiences, and narrowing your choices? Do you block and restrain yourself? Perhaps you feel others wouldn’t approve, you aren’t brave or smart enough, or you don’t look beyond your limited scope of perceptions. You might catch yourself thinking:
- “Ah, this is how it’s done.”
- “This is what my mom would do.”
- “I have no choice but to…”
- “I don’t see any other way.”
- “I’ll just do what all my friends (or colleagues) are doing.”
Did you know that stretching your experiences leads to greater personal growth and spiritual expansion? Greater wisdom comes from a broad and varied life rather than a limited, repetitive one.
What choices are you facing? How are you blocking out options that could be available to you?
What would it feel like if you allowed for the expansion, or at least looked at and considered a wider array of opportunities fearlessly?
Try this quick exercise in brainstorming:
- Keep a notebook and a pen next to you.
- Close your eyes and center yourself. Quiet your mind.
- Focus on the topic of your concern, such as where to live, career choices, what car to buy, what to do about your relationship….etc….but only choose one topic at a time!
- Imagine energy flooding into your body, expanding your aura significantly.
- Feel yourself straighten; imagine yourself as powerful, capable, and fearless. This is a good time to imagine being a superhero!
- Now, ask your higher Self to travel through time and space to gather all the options and opportunities related to your topic.
- Just keep your mind clear for about 3 minutes (you can set a timer), not focusing on anything your Higher Self may be coming up with or latching onto any particular thought.
- Then, at the end of the three minutes, open your eyes and start writing every idea that comes to mind in your notebook.
Don’t worry whether your writing seems rational, practical, sensible, or acceptable. Just let the ideas flow and write, write, write. Some items on your list may sound crazy, outlandish, and scary. It doesn’t matter. Those ideas push back against the barriers you have maintained.
Somewhere among the many ideas you listed will be fresh, imaginative options that may be the answers you are looking for!
Ending Thoughts on the Secrets of the Subconscious Mind
If you take the time to learn how to activate your subconscious mind, you can train and reprogram it to help you remove blocks, expand your awareness of possibilities, and achieve your goals. Unlock the magic of your subconscious mind and start living the life you adore!
