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Changing your mind - 'software updates' for your inner mind
Most attempts to bring about lasting personal change have revolved around one idea - to actively change the internal instruction set that determines behaviour. In short, to over-write subconscious 'junk' directives that result in limitation, unhappiness, bad habits and dysfunction of any other kind, with new 'positive' directives that reflect and support your conscious desires.
The concept is simple - change the 'program' to change the outcome, i.e., the pattern of our lives. As we have seen, 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 desires. The most burning conscious desire 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.
However, despite its tremendous power over our lives, this rather mysterious entity is in many ways neutral. The subconscious mind doesn't appear to care what directives it follows - just so long as they ARE followed. It seems to lack initiative and logical reasoning powers, and so cannot (or at least appears not to) apply judgment to the data it receives. In many ways it seems to function in a manner we could refer to as 'savant autistic', with enormous resources and power being controlled by an emotionless computer-like 'mind'. As an aside, it is remotely possible that the condition of autism itself reflects a failure to develop or express a normal conscious mind to one degree or another, leaving the undirected subconscious apparatus in control at all times.
The subconscious mind relies on the conscious mind to supply it with the information it needs to construct a world view, and therefore the 'instructions' it is to act upon. These instructions are themselves derived not from the essentially neutral input that the brain receives from its senses and bodily feedback, but from the reactions of the conscious mind to these inputs together with the emotional reactions they have given rise to. In other words, the subconscious acts on what you have perceived throughout your life, rather than on any objective reality. This includes all the social and emotional baggage you have attached to every situation and set of circumstances you have ever experienced, including all those you acquired through childhood and puberty, when (to put it mildly) you were not in control of yourself or your world.
Unfortunately, as humans don’t seem to come with an instruction manual, there is no way we can know all this until we (if we are lucky) discover the truth in adult life. And by then of course most of the damage has usually been done.
So in the absence of any conscious direction, the subconscious simply runs in default 'safe' mode - ensuring that we stay out of 'danger' by never venturing beyond the internal limits we have set for ourselves. If we were fearful, hesitant, unsure, worrying or procrastinating the last time we encountered a particular set of circumstances, our subconscious minds will ensure that this is exactly how we feel and act the next time around. Even if we have simply imagined a situation at some time and reacted emotionally to this 'virtual' scenario, the reactions will be absorbed by the subconscious because they are a part of our experience.
The bottom line is that we are continuously and unconsciously compelled to do more of the same so that we get more of the same. It's rather like possessing a large, powerful car which is capable of effortlessly taking us huge distances to exciting new places whenever we want, but only ever using it to amble aimlessly and without purpose around our local backstreets.
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Bringing the power of the subconscious mind onto YOUR side
But if instead of placing yourself in conflict with your subconscious directives, you can take control and deliberately change these to match what you consciously desire, the situation becomes entirely different.
Now, instead of opposing your wishes, the enormous power of the subconscious becomes your greatest ally, working on your behalf to bring what you want into your life, often almost without conscious effort and in ways that can seem almost magical at times.
You will quickly find yourself just naturally doing those things you need to do to achieve your goals, even if these previously seemed difficult or even impossible. You will discover internal reserves of energy, drive and persistence you never knew you had, and old tendencies to procrastinate or flit from one thing to another will just fall away. New ideas and ways of doing things will become 'obvious' and you will find others, even people you have never met, actively co-operating to bring about your objectives.
Your circumstances will suddenly start to be more benign, and more and more you will experience apparent co-incidences and 'serendipitous' events that all contribute to your success, and which often seem to come right out of the blue. Finally, the excitement, anticipation and wonder that you may not have experienced since childhood will return to your everyday life as you find yourself more and more in control.
This may all seem hard to believe, but this kind of life 'in the flow' is becoming reality for increasing numbers of people who are discovering how to bring it about, and it could very soon be your reality too. And once you are in this 'flow' it becomes almost impossible to remember why you once chose to struggle so long and so ineffectually, letting opportunities pass you by, always doing things the hard way.
Generally just 'getting by' and vaguely hoping for better thing in the future, rather than enjoying what life has to offer right now.
Now, the tremendous power that may have worked against you for most of your life will finally be working with you - an unstoppable combination, just as it was 'designed' to be. This mighty ally is ready and willing to bring into your world everything that you desire and need in order to live your life to the full. All it lacks is your direction - your specific instructions and clear goals, delivered in a way it understands.
Once it has these directions, your subconscious mind will set about its new purpose with total dedication - to quickly and effortlessly bring you whatever you want.
There is only one problem - but it is quite a large one. Just how exactly do you go about changing the deep-seated and apparently inaccessible directives that may have taken decades to form, and of which you are probably almost completely unaware of at a conscious level?
Why 'Personal Development' products have rarely been effective - until now!
Over the years many methods of 'reprogramming' the subconscious have been tried - repeated affirmations, of subliminal techniques, hypnosis, the use of affirmations, and methods such as psycho-analysis and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) which make use of language and symbolism to try to access the subconscious.
Many 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.
The quality of these products has always varied wildly, ranging from home-made rubbish produced by amateurs and charlatans hoping to cash in on public interest, to well designed and produced recordings based on the best research available at the time. These recordings tend to fall into one of two distinct categories:
- Self-hypnosis. 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.
- Subliminal suggestion. 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.
Each of these methods has its merits and can be effective if properly delivered. However, many commercial 'subliminal' products have serious limitations, which have until recently prevented products based on subliminal suggestion from fully living up to their potential.
The problem with most 'subliminal’ recordings - see next page
