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Virtually all successful methods of bringing about lasting personal change have revolved around one idea - to actively re-write the internal instruction set that determines our behaviour. In short, to replace subconscious 'junk' directives that result in limitation, unhappiness, bad habits and dysfunction of any other kind, with new 'positive' directives that reflect and support positive conscious desires.
The concept is simple - change the 'program' to change the outcome, i.e., the pattern of our lives.
As we have seen in earlier articles*, the subconscious mind is powerful enough to ensure that you fail, no matter how much you consciously want a thing, or a situation, or some change in yourself, if it's internal directives conflict with your conscious desires. The most burning conscious wish is no match at all for an opposing subconscious directive, even when this directive arises from faulty or even laughable 'beliefs' embedded deeply below conscious awareness in the subconscious mind.
But the important thing to realise is that the subconscious mind is not in any way hostile to your conscious desires – it simply ignores them because they have not yet been presented in a way it understands!
1. Identify an area of your life where you would like to change. This can be anything from acquiring more money, through losing weight, to stopping an unwanted habit such as smoking,
2. Formulate this desire in a way the subconscious understands,
3. Communicate this information to the subconscious in a form it will pay attention to and incorporate in its directives, WITHOUT simultaneously communicating any conflicting messages, or giving rise to resistance.
A simple enough idea, but how in practice can it be achieved?
Over the years many methods of 'reprogramming' the subconscious mind have evolved – ‘positive thinking’, repeating affirmations, hypnosis, subliminal suggestion, and methods such as psycho-analysis and NLP, which make use of language and symbolism to try to access and influence the subconscious instruction set.
However, most of these methods require either a ‘practitioner’ or ‘therapist’ who must be present to facilitate and manage a session, or alternatively they require a great deal of introspection and work on the part of the subject. As a result, many of these techniques are not practical in an everyday context – they either cost too much because another person has to be involved, or they are too complicated and take too much of the time that busy people cannot spare.
What is really needed is an effective, repeatable system for bringing about personal change that is within the financial reach of most people, which can be delivered to anyone who wishes to make use of it, and which does not demand enormous amounts of time or effort. In practice, the only two methods which at present meet these criteria are:
Most commonly involving induction of a hypnotic state, usually by means of spoken 'guided meditations' intended to relax the body, and followed by suggestions delivered at clearly audible levels.
Normally involving the presentation of spoken affirmations delivered in some way that is not clearly perceived by the conscious mind, but which are intended to be understood and processed subconsciously.
Both are ideal candidates for the production of relatively inexpensive audio recordings which can be used at home at any convenient time. As a result, both of these methods have been employed in a vast and growing range of commercial audio recordings supplied on tapes, CDs and more recently in MP3 format. They have been promoted for relaxation, meditation, stress reduction, weight loss, increasing confidence and self esteem, pain management, improved sleep, super learning, enhanced creativity and intuition, and even more esoteric phenomena such as body change, remote viewing, telepathy, out-of-body experience and lucid dreaming.
Each of these methods has its merits and both can be highly effective if properly delivered. However, most 'subliminal' products in particular also have serious limitations, which have until recently prevented this technique fully living up to its potential.
Unfortunately, until the results of some very recent research became available, even the very best products were compromised by a lack of information on subconscious mental functioning, and by some widely accepted (but incorrect) assumptions that have frequently crippled their effectiveness.
'Subliminal perception' refers to the ability to perceive and respond to stimuli that are below the 'limen' or threshold of conscious perception. There is now a vast amount of anecdotal evidence and testimonials and a growing body of research evidence that subliminally presented verbal suggestions can and do alter thought patterns and behaviour in those exposed to them, providing certain conditions are met.
But because of the misconceptions and misunderstandings that often guide the production of many commercial ‘subliminal’ recordings, their potential for effecting personal change is often seriously compromised. At best this means that only modest changes are bought about, and often no change is experienced at all.
Many designers of subliminal recordings work on the scientifically unsubstantiated premise that the subconscious mind has the ability to hear and understand speech signals that are hundreds, even thousands of times quieter than the music or nature sounds that cover them, or which have been shifted to very high frequencies, played back at very high speeds, or even played in reverse ('back-masked').
Unfortunately, what little scientific research that has been carried out to determine the actual limits at which spoken words can be heard and understood at a subconscious level by any normal listener provides little support for the idea of the existence of literally superhuman abilities of this kind.
Instead what has become clear is that while subconscious perception definitely extends beyond the conscious ability to understand speech masked by other sounds, or distorted by frequency or speed shifts, the limits are only slightly extended relative to normal conscious perception.
While the scientific evidence and the exploits of 'psychological illusionists' such as Derren Brown strongly demonstrate that the subconscious mind can perceive and process far more information than the conscious mind, its input is still limited by the physical operation of the senses it uses, in this case our sense of hearing.
Sound is simply a signal transmitted by pressure waves moving through the air, which then vibrates the component parts of the inner ear. If the signal is too weak, or too deeply buried under a much stronger ‘masking’ sound, the ear will just not pick up the vibrations and the signal might as well be entirely absent.
In practice this means that in order to have an effect, subliminal suggestions embedded in recordings must in fact be within the normal range of detection and (at most) only just below the level at which they could normally be consciously understood, or replayed at a speed or pitch which is only just beyond normal perception limits.
The vast majority of 'subliminal' recordings fail to meet this very basic criterion, and are in fact completely undecipherable by the subconscious mind because the speech signals contained in them are too weak, distorted or highly pitched to be heard or understood at any level.
Because, by their nature, commercial recordings are made for a mass market, it can be difficult to choose a ‘sound mask’ (the audio track you hear, as opposed to the ‘subliminal’ track hidden by it) that suits everyone.
Nature sounds such as ocean waves or running water are generally the safest option, but many manufacturers also use ‘ambient music’, classical music or other sound tracks that be immediately irritating or which become so with time and repetition.
If the listener becomes irritated this will immediately reduce the degree of relaxation and create a positive barrier to the suggestions embedded in the recording. And of course there is always the ‘OFF’ button…! Neither of these outcomes is likely to improve the effectiveness of a recording.
Virtually all successful methods of bringing about lasting personal change have revolved around one idea - to actively re-write the internal instruction set that determines our behaviour. In short, to replace subconscious 'junk' directives that result in limitation, unhappiness, bad habits and dysfunction of any other kind, with new 'positive' directives that reflect and support positive conscious desires.
The concept is simple - change the 'program' to change the outcome, i.e., the pattern of our lives.
As we have seen in earlier articles*, the subconscious mind is powerful enough to ensure that you fail, no matter how much you consciously want a thing, or a situation, or some change in yourself, if it's internal directives conflict with your conscious desires. The most burning conscious wish is no match at all for an opposing subconscious directive, even when this directive arises from faulty or even laughable 'beliefs' embedded deeply below conscious awareness in the subconscious mind.
But the important thing to realise is that the subconscious mind is not in any way hostile to your conscious desires – it simply ignores them because they have not yet been presented in a way it understands!
1. Identify an area of your life where you would like to change. This can be anything from acquiring more money, through losing weight, to stopping an unwanted habit such as smoking,
2. Formulate this desire in a way the subconscious understands,
3. Communicate this information to the subconscious in a form it will pay attention to and incorporate in its directives, WITHOUT simultaneously communicating any conflicting messages, or giving rise to resistance.
A simple enough idea, but how in practice can it be achieved?
Over the years many methods of 'reprogramming' the subconscious mind have evolved – ‘positive thinking’, repeating affirmations, hypnosis, subliminal suggestion, and methods such as psycho-analysis and NLP, which make use of language and symbolism to try to access and influence the subconscious instruction set.
However, most of these methods require either a ‘practitioner’ or ‘therapist’ who must be present to facilitate and manage a session, or alternatively they require a great deal of introspection and work on the part of the subject. As a result, many of these techniques are not practical in an everyday context – they either cost too much because another person has to be involved, or they are too complicated and take too much of the time that busy people cannot spare.
What is really needed is an effective, repeatable system for bringing about personal change that is within the financial reach of most people, which can be delivered to anyone who wishes to make use of it, and which does not demand enormous amounts of time or effort. In practice, the only two methods which at present meet these criteria are:
Most commonly involving induction of a hypnotic state, usually by means of spoken 'guided meditations' intended to relax the body, and followed by suggestions delivered at clearly audible levels.
Normally involving the presentation of spoken affirmations delivered in some way that is not clearly perceived by the conscious mind, but which are intended to be understood and processed subconsciously.
Both are ideal candidates for the production of relatively inexpensive audio recordings which can be used at home at any convenient time. As a result, both of these methods have been employed in a vast and growing range of commercial audio recordings supplied on tapes, CDs and more recently in MP3 format. They have been promoted for relaxation, meditation, stress reduction, weight loss, increasing confidence and self esteem, pain management, improved sleep, super learning, enhanced creativity and intuition, and even more esoteric phenomena such as body change, remote viewing, telepathy, out-of-body experience and lucid dreaming.
Each of these methods has its merits and both can be highly effective if properly delivered. However, most 'subliminal' products in particular also have serious limitations, which have until recently prevented this technique fully living up to its potential.
Unfortunately, until the results of some very recent research became available, even the very best products were compromised by a lack of information on subconscious mental functioning, and by some widely accepted (but incorrect) assumptions that have frequently crippled their effectiveness.
'Subliminal perception' refers to the ability to perceive and respond to stimuli that are below the 'limen' or threshold of conscious perception. There is now a vast amount of anecdotal evidence and testimonials and a growing body of research evidence that subliminally presented verbal suggestions can and do alter thought patterns and behaviour in those exposed to them, providing certain conditions are met.
But because of the misconceptions and misunderstandings that often guide the production of many commercial ‘subliminal’ recordings, their potential for effecting personal change is often seriously compromised. At best this means that only modest changes are bought about, and often no change is experienced at all.
Many designers of subliminal recordings work on the scientifically unsubstantiated premise that the subconscious mind has the ability to hear and understand speech signals that are hundreds, even thousands of times quieter than the music or nature sounds that cover them, or which have been shifted to very high frequencies, played back at very high speeds, or even played in reverse ('back-masked').
Unfortunately, what little scientific research that has been carried out to determine the actual limits at which spoken words can be heard and understood at a subconscious level by any normal listener provides little support for the idea of the existence of literally superhuman abilities of this kind.
Instead what has become clear is that while subconscious perception definitely extends beyond the conscious ability to understand speech masked by other sounds, or distorted by frequency or speed shifts, the limits are only slightly extended relative to normal conscious perception.
While the scientific evidence and the exploits of 'psychological illusionists' such as Derren Brown strongly demonstrate that the subconscious mind can perceive and process far more information than the conscious mind, its input is still limited by the physical operation of the senses it uses, in this case our sense of hearing.
Sound is simply a signal transmitted by pressure waves moving through the air, which then vibrates the component parts of the inner ear. If the signal is too weak, or too deeply buried under a much stronger ‘masking’ sound, the ear will just not pick up the vibrations and the signal might as well be entirely absent.
In practice this means that in order to have an effect, subliminal suggestions embedded in recordings must in fact be within the normal range of detection and (at most) only just below the level at which they could normally be consciously understood, or replayed at a speed or pitch which is only just beyond normal perception limits.
The vast majority of 'subliminal' recordings fail to meet this very basic criterion, and are in fact completely undecipherable by the subconscious mind because the speech signals contained in them are too weak, distorted or highly pitched to be heard or understood at any level.
Because, by their nature, commercial recordings are made for a mass market, it can be difficult to choose a ‘sound mask’ (the audio track you hear, as opposed to the ‘subliminal’ track hidden by it) that suits everyone.
Nature sounds such as ocean waves or running water are generally the safest option, but many manufacturers also use ‘ambient music’, classical music or other sound tracks that be immediately irritating or which become so with time and repetition.
If the listener becomes irritated this will immediately reduce the degree of relaxation and create a positive barrier to the suggestions embedded in the recording. And of course there is always the ‘OFF’ button…! Neither of these outcomes is likely to improve the effectiveness of a recording.
How To Get Whatever You Want - Just By 'Talking to Yourself'! PART 1
by Peter Roe
by Peter Roe
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