There’s a very powerful story in the world of sports history. The modern-day Olympics started in 1896 and all through the first half of the 20th century, people believed that running a mile in less than four minutes is impossible.
Doctors and medical experts said it would be very dangerous to attempt this and could potentially lead to cardiac arrest. Others said that our lungs just don’t have the capacity.
So the message all the athletes were giving to their subconscious minds was that “we can’t run a mile in less than four minutes”.
But there was a young man in England named Roger Bannister, a student of science, who had a different idea.
He was running a mile in four minutes and 11 seconds, but he convinced himself that he could do it in under four minutes. People didn’t believe him so he said I’ll show you by actually doing it.
Finally, in 1956 he broke the four-minute mile barrier and ran a mile in less than four minutes which was a feat in itself, but the amazing phenomenon took place after that.
While nobody in the last 60 years had done it, 23 more runners broke the four-mile barrier in the same year. And 235 more people did it in the following year.
So what changed? The change was what people were telling themselves and the messages they were sending to their subconscious minds. What you truly believe is what makes all the difference.
It is up to you how you program your subconscious mind. You can either send it positive signals and affirmations that everything is possible, or you can fill it with doubt and fear and make it believe that it’s not possible.
Understanding the power of your subconscious mind is the key to manifesting your dreams and achieving the success you’ve always wanted.
In this blog, we’ll understand what is the subconscious mind and how you can harness the power of your subconscious mind to become successful in life.
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How does Your Mind Work?
The human mind is not one but two different entities, conscious and subconscious. The conscious mind is the sentinel of our daily experiences.
It’s the part of our awareness that engages with the external world. It receives information from our five senses and makes decisions by experiencing those things.
It’s the conscious mind that enables you to read this blog, make deliberate choices, and process the words on the screen.
Your conscious mind takes the lead when you decide what to eat for breakfast, choose your clothes, or solve a mathematical problem.
It is the part of your brain that filters all the wrong information with logic and reasoning. Think of it as the tip of the iceberg, the visible part of your cognitive processes.
The subconscious mind lies beneath the surface, hidden from the immediate awareness. This is the vast reservoir of information and memories that are not in your current awareness but are easily accessible.
It’s the keeper of your beliefs, emotions, and habits.
Everything you’ve ever learned, experienced or imagined lives here. The subconscious mind doesn’t make any decisions, rather it acts by following the beliefs, experiences, and past habits of the conscious mind.
It’s like a supercomputer that never sleeps, silently governing your life in the background.
While your conscious mind can be controlled, your subconscious mind controls everything else that happens inside your body, such as the working of your heart, breathing, and all other bodily functions.
The Interplay Between The Conscious and Subconscious Mind
The interplay between these two realms of the mind is quite intriguing and interesting.
While the conscious mind takes the spotlight when you make decisions or analyze situations, it’s the subconscious that often shapes those decisions.
It’s responsible for those intuitive feelings you get when meeting someone for the first time or the sudden insights that seem to spring out of nowhere.
The conscious mind is at work when you’re awake. It’s the part of your mind that you’re consciously aware of and that you actively engage with. It allows you to deliberate, plan, and make rational choices.
The subconscious mind on the other hand operates quietly in the background exerting its powerful influence on your life without you realizing it. It’s the driving force behind the habits and patterns that shape your daily existence.
These two facets of your mind collaborate in fascinating ways to shape your thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Remember the first time you learned how to ride a bicycle? Initially, it’s a conscious effort as you carefully think about maintaining balance, pedaling, and steering.
But with enough practice, these actions shift into the realm of the subconscious and you no longer have to consciously think about every move. Your subconscious takes over and you ride smoothly without any active participation.
The key to unlocking your full potential is understanding this interplay between your conscious and subconscious mind. Once you understand how to tap into the capabilities of your subconscious mind, you can shape your reality and manifest the life you’ve always wanted for yourself.
Understanding the Subconscious Mind
Only 10% of your brain’s powers are with the conscious mind and the rest of the 90% are with the subconscious mind.
So clearly the subconscious mind is much more powerful than the conscious mind. It is active all the time, even when you are asleep and it significantly influences our day-to-day existence.
The subconscious mind stores all your memories and experiences you’ve had in your life so far, and it retains far more information than your conscious mind can fathom.
Think about how vividly you can remember events from your childhood, even the ones that you haven’t thought about in years. Because your subconscious mind stores all those memories that you can access at any time.
It is not only a reservoir of information, but also governs our beliefs and emotions which are formed since our childhood.
It’s where you store your fears, desires, and aspirations. Have you ever wondered why you react a certain way in particular situations? It’s because of your subconscious mind.
For example, you may be afraid of public speaking because of some emotionally charged memories from the past that reside in your subconscious.
Or perhaps you’re afraid of water because of a bad experience from your childhood. Your subconscious mind controls these reactions often without you even realizing it.
Similarly, if you constantly believe that you are not good enough or you can’t do this, then your subconscious mind will be trained in the same manner which will prevent you from doing those things.
It will lead you to avoid challenging opportunities.
However, if you consciously work on changing this belief through positive affirmations and actions, you can reshape your subconscious to embrace new opportunities and experiences.
How to Use Your Subconscious Mind To Become Success in Life
Now that we have a basic understanding of the subconscious mind and how it works, let’s understand step by step how you can harness its immense power to become successful in life.
1. Do What You Love
Many of us find ourselves in jobs we don’t love, we do them just for survival and to make ends meet. And it’s completely fine, but doing them for the rest of our lives is not.
Some of us are fortunate enough to secure jobs they are truly passionate about, work they love. The rest of us have to find random jobs to pay the bills but the harsh reality is that we end up doing them for the rest of our lives.
We can’t be successful in life unless we’re doing something that we love with all our hearts.
Take any successful person in the world, be it Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, or anyone else, all of them are successful because they did what they truly loved.
They weren’t even paid for what they were doing initially but they worked with complete devotion.
The right course of action should be, to continue doing the current job but dedicate a part of your daily routine to your passion. Make time for it every day and do it consistently.
Doesn’t matter how much time you are able to devote, the important thing is to start working towards something that you truly love and can do for the rest of your life. Something that doesn’t feel like working.
If you watch YouTube, you would have come across Youtubers who quit their job and are now traveling the world full-time.
They were initially working a 9-5 job just to pay their bills, but they saved enough money to sustain for a few months.
They worked on the skills that they could employ on the side, did freelance jobs online, and eventually transitioned to a full-time travel lifestyle.
This is just one example, you will find such people in every field who were working 9-5 jobs but simultaneously worked on something they wanted to do for the rest of their lives and eventually quit their jobs to pursue that full-time.
How to find time for it in your daily schedule is up to you but the first step is to find something that can do for the rest of your life and doesn’t feel like working.
2. Self-Belief
The other special thing about people who are really successful is self-belief. It is the foundation for training your subconscious mind for success.
As we’ve learned before, the subconscious mind doesn’t work on logic or reasoning, it only understands emotions.
So when you truly believe in yourself and your abilities, your subconscious mind picks up on that confidence and creates a positive environment that can help you achieve success.
It will work towards making that belief a reality by guiding your thoughts and actions towards your goals.
On the other hand, if you doubt yourself, you will have feelings of fear and sadness which will send conflicting messages to your subconscious. It gets confused about what you really want.
It is natural to think about all the obstacles you’ll have to overcome to achieve success, but doubting yourself will send negative signals to your subconscious mind.
So believe with all your heart that you are capable and you will do it. Yes, there will be obstacles and challenges but you will overcome them with hard work and consistency.
The path to success is not straight, it’s full of twists and turns and hurdles but that doesn’t mean that you are not capable. If it were easy, everyone would be successful.
It will test you in different ways but have faith in yourself that you will overcome whatever comes your way. And your subconscious mind will pave the path for you.
3. Visualize Your Success
The most powerful way to achieve success is through visualization.
Since our subconscious mind only understands the language of emotions, when you visualize yourself being successful and living your dream life, your subconscious picks up on those feelings of joy and contentment.
It treats your mental images as if they were real experiences. It can’t differentiate whether they are real because asking questions is the job of the conscious mind.
The subconscious mind just believes that it’s a part of your reality and unconsciously guides you towards that dream life.
The more you visualize with emotion and detail, the more your subconscious starts to accept it as the truth. As your subconscious absorbs those images, it starts to influence your daily actions.
You become more confident and you start recognizing the opportunities that come your way, which you would have ignored otherwise.
I would highly encourage you to read about the red car theory concept we’ve discussed in this blog. It will give you a better understanding of how visualization works.
So use the visualization techniques to trick your subconscious mind into believing that this is the reality. Now there are a few things you need to keep in mind while practicing visualization.
Set Clear Goals and Be Specific
Before you start visualizing, you should be absolutely clear in your head about what you want. How will your perfect life look like and what are the things that you would want for yourself?
You should know what you are aiming for, whether it’s personal growth, success in your career, finding a loving life partner, or enhancing your health, the first step is to define your goals with utmost clarity.
It could be anything you want but you should have a clear mental picture of the final outcome.
Don’t create a vague image or don’t use someone else’s goals as your own. Be specific and detailed about what you want.
For example, if your goal is to manifest your dream home, don’t settle for a generic image.
Visualize all the details: how many bedrooms are there? What does the kitchen look like? Picture the color of the walls, the layout of the garden, and even the specific types of flowers you want in that garden. You get the sense, right?
Your visualization should be so detailed that it feels like you’re already living in that reality. It’s this level of specificity that resonates most effectively with your subconscious mind.
Read this blog to learn more about manifestation.
Use All Your Senses
You can make your visualization more powerful by engaging all your senses. Since our subconscious mind only understands emotions, give it a more immersive experience with a more detailed and convincing picture.
When you engage all your senses, you are making a more real and relatable scenario for your subconscious mind. It’s not seeing it as a dream, but also feeling, smelling, tasting, and hearing it too.
The more real you can make it for your subconscious mind by making it a multi-sensory approach, the more it’s going to register as a genuine memory.
Visualize your success and feel the positive emotions associated with that accomplishment. Feel the joy, excitement, and contentment as if you’ve already accomplished what you’re visualizing.
Be Consistent
As you already know nothing happens in a day, so practice visualization consistently until it becomes a reality. Make it a daily habit and spend some time every day to visualize your dreams.
The best time to do this is right before you go to bed at night and right after you wake up in the morning.
The subconscious mind is 95% active when you’re asleep and it is only 75% active during the day, so use those last 5-10 minutes to practice visualization when you’re already in bed.
And do the same first time after waking up in the morning. When you do that, you’ll notice that it will be in your head the entire day.
4. Positive Affirmations
Positive affirmations are nothing but some encouraging and kind words that you whisper to yourself to reinforce your belief in yourself, boost your self-esteem, and motivate yourself.
When you constantly feed your subconscious mind with positive beliefs, they become imprinted in your subconscious and shape your thought patterns and actions.
When you recite positive affirmations daily, your subconscious mind begins to accept them as true which increases your self-confidence and your mind becomes more receptive to opportunities around you that you would have ignored otherwise.
You can develop a habit of maintaining a journal where you write daily positive affirmations like you are worthy and capable and you will achieve your dreams.
Be sure to write all the affirmations in the present tense. For example, write “I am” instead of “I will be”.
This simple yet effective technique will reprogram your thought process. It will replace all the self-doubt, negative thoughts, and fear with positivity and confidence.
5. Take Action
Once you follow all the techniques we’ve discussed above, you’ll program your subconscious mind to identify the opportunities in your daily life that, if pursued, can help you achieve your dream life.
You’ll make your subconscious mind your best friend and have it work in your favor.
These techniques will help you eliminate all the negativity, self-doubt, and fear that are restricting you from achieving your goals. But it’s your actions that will bring these dreams to life.
It is you who will have to turn these opportunities into reality. You’ll have to do the hard work to reach your goals. Nothing will happen sitting on the couch and daydreaming about your perfect life.
Neither the divine forces nor this universe can magically hand you over the money, skills, or success you are wishing for.
They will show you the way but it is you who will have to walk the path and do the hard work.
Your subconscious mind will work behind the scenes to help you overcome obstacles, make better decisions, and seize opportunities but it can only do so much if you’re not putting in the hard work required.
And don’t be afraid to do the hard work, consider it a privilege. The opportunities you’ll find are a blessing, and if you love what you do and are genuinely passionate about your goals, you’ll enjoy the journey.
Your subconscious mind is your best friend but it works best when combined with your dedication to making things happen.
Wrapping Up!
As we’ve reached the end of this blog, I hope that you have learned something about the true potential of the subconscious mind and its role in achieving success in life. And how it is the key to transforming our lives for good.
So start your journey by identifying your passion and no matter how much time you can dedicate, consistently work towards it alongside your current job. Your subconscious mind responds to your confidence so believe in yourself.
Visualize your success by engaging all your senses, and use powerful techniques like positive affirmations to help rewire your subconscious mind for success.
However, taking action towards achieving your goals is the main ingredient. Your subconscious can help you identify the opportunities and guide you, but it is you who will have to do the work.
This partnership between your conscious actions and subconscious support and guidance is the path to success.
Your subconscious will pave the path so take the first towards your dream life. Namaste!
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