The Stress Relief Wizard's Guide To: Reprogramming Your Subconscious Mind
The Stress Relief Wizard's Guide To: Reprogramming Your Subconscious Mind
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By William Cruit
In short, your subconscious mind is like the auto-pilot feature on an airplane. It has been pre-
programmed to follow a specific route and you cannot deviate from that route unless you change the
directions programmed into it first.
What Is The Subconscious Mind?
The “subconscious” is the part of your mind that operates below your normal level of waking
consciousness.
Right now you’re primarily using your conscious mind to read these words and absorb their meaning,
but beneath that mental focus, your subconscious mind is busily working behind the scenes, absorbing
or rejecting information based on an existing perception you have of the world around you.
This existing perception began forming when you were an infant. With every experience, your
subconscious mind soaks in information like a sponge.
It rejected nothing while you were young because you didn’t have any pre-existing beliefs to contradict
what it perceived. It simply accepted that all of the information you received during your early
childhood was true.
You can probably see why this becomes a problem later in life! Every time someone called you stupid,
worthless, slow, lazy, or worse, your subconscious mind just stored the information away for reference.
You may also have received messages about your potential in life or limitations you’ll face based on
your physical abilities, skin color, gender, or economic status.
By the time you were 7 or 8 years old, you already had a solid foundation of belief based on all that
programming from people in your life, television shows you watched, and other environmental
influences.
How Does This ‘Old’ Programming Affect You Now?
Now that you’re an adult, you may think that you can simply discard the hurtful or untrue messages
you absorbed during your early life, but it’s not quite that simple.
Remember that all of this information is stored below your level of conscious awareness. The only time
you become aware of it is when it limits your progress in creating a balanced, successful and
productive life.
Have you ever tried to achieve a goal and kept sabotaging yourself at every turn? Maddening, isn’t it?
It’s important to know that you’re not defective or doomed to fail no matter what you do.
More likely you’ve got some old programmed messages that conflict with the new conditions you want
to create.
This is excellent news because it means you can achieve just about anything if you first take the time to
reprogram your subconscious mind!
For example, what kind of message do you think would be stored if you were rejected by someone you
cared about?
Your subconscious mind (that clever detective) would immediately go hunting through your memories
and find other examples of rejection (like that time your best friend dumped you to hang out with the
more popular kids) and draw a conclusion that you’re somehow unworthy or unlovable and deserve to
be rejected.
Now, here’s the interesting thing: if you have an experience that conflicts with an already established
belief, your subconscious mind will either reject it or reframe it so it goes along with your existing
view of reality.
Here’s an example: Let’s say you have an underlying belief that you’re unattractive, and an attractive
person expresses an interest in getting to know you better.
Most likely the first thing you’re going to think is that it must be a joke or a cruel trick. You won’t
believe that this person could find you attractive because you already believe that you’re unattractive.
Beneath the surface of your conscious awareness, your subconscious mind is screaming, “No way!!
This person is way too attractive to be interested in me, something isn’t right here…”
Then you’ll either reject that person before they can reject you, or otherwise do something to sabotage
what could have been a great relationship.
The same thing happens when you struggle to achieve your goals. Eventually you start to believe that
you aren’t capable of success, so you come to expect failure and end up doing just that over and over
again!
You can probably imagine many other situations where your subconscious mind limits you, but
reprogramming it is a simple matter if you know how.
You could work simultaneously with all of these strategies, but it’ll be much more effective if you pick
just one or two methods to start. You want to give them your full attention rather than skipping around
and diluting your efforts.
Remember that your subconscious mind is absorbing information constantly and drawing conclusions
and forming beliefs based on that information. If your daily environment is filled with negativity and
strife, imagine what kinds of messages are being absorbed into your mind.
Your first action is to strictly limit the negativity you’re exposed to from this moment on. Avoid
watching the news unless you absolutely must, and avoid spending too much time with ‘toxic’ people.
Instead, seek out positive information to read and watch, and spend most of your time with positive,
successful people. Over time you’ll find that more encouraging messages are being absorbed into your
mind, which will alter the way you see yourself and your potential.
Visualization
Your subconscious mind responds well to pictures. Visualization is a great way to program your mind
with positive, empowering images. Try spending 10-15 minutes a day visualizing positive scenes that
feature you and your life experiences.
• A confident self
• An abundance of money
• A beautiful home
• Fulfilling relationships
• An expensive car
• Passionate work
• Exotic vacations
• A healthy body
As you do this consistently, you end up redrawing the negative pictures stored from your past
experiences, fears, worries, and doubts.
To boost the power of visualization even further, be sure to emit strong, positive emotions while you
picture these wonderful things in your mind. Allow feelings of love, joy, gratitude, and peace to flow
through you as if you were truly having these experiences.
Your subconscious mind will absorb the messages as if they’re real! This is the true beauty of
visualization – the power to bypass limiting messages and focus on pleasing images, all of which are
being absorbed right into your subconscious to be replayed later.
Affirmations
Affirmations are another effective way to install positive messages into your subconscious. They work
best if you follow a few simple rules:
1. Word them positively, in the present tense. Say “I am confident and successful” rather than “I
will be confident and successful” because focusing on a future condition does not compute with
your subconscious mind – it knows only this moment. Also, use positive statements. Saying “I
am not a failure” is computed as “I am a failure” since your subconscious cannot process
negatives.
2. Call up the corresponding feelings. Saying “I am wealthy” while feeling poor only sends
conflicting messages to your subconscious! Whatever words you’re saying at the time, strive to
feel the corresponding emotions because your subconscious will be more apt to believe it.
3. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Affirmations don’t work if you say them just once or twice. Recite them
many times throughout the day for the best results. The good thing about this is that you can say
affirmations to yourself, so they can fit seamlessly into your routine.
(Tip: Affirmations can be used very effectively in combination with the sound and light devices
mentioned in the next chapter because this technology bypasses your “internal editor”)
Brainwave Entrainment
Another popular method is the use of audio recordings that deliberately alter the frequency of your
brainwaves. It may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but reports from people
who’ve tried these audio programs are overwhelmingly positive.
Your brainwaves fall into a specific frequency depending on what you’re doing at any given time:
“Binaural beats” result when two tones are played at differing frequencies, triggering your brainwaves
to follow a different pattern. For example, if you wanted to shift from stressed to relaxed you would
listen to an audio that triggers the alpha state.
These audio programs can help you reprogram your subconscious mind by creating a more receptive
forum for installing positive messages. Research has shown that your subconscious mind is more
receptive to new information when you’re very relaxed, such as in the alpha or theta states.
Instead, you’ll have to develop a strong sense of self-awareness so you can catch self-sabotaging
behavior before it gets out of hand. Even so, there are still some clear signs of progress that you may
recognize:
You find yourself more willing to take risks and face challenges.
Your dreams and goals don’t seem overwhelming anymore – just exciting.
You feel a deeper sense of inner peace, as if inner conflicts are dissolving.
You attract more opportunities to expand and grow in every area of your life.
In short, you’ll know when changes are taking place in your subconscious mind because you’ll notice a
shift in both your inner and outer being. The evidence is usually undeniable!
Consistent, Persistent Reinforcement
It’s important to give this reprogramming process time to work. Don’t expect to see immediate changes
(occasionally that can happen, but more often it takes time).
Be very consistent and persistent with the methods you choose to install more positive messages into
your subconscious mind. As soon as these transformations become apparent, you’ll feel motivated to
keep moving forward, but until that happens, stick with it and know that these changes are lifelong,
powerful, and well worth waiting for!
• Take positive steps each day toward what you want to attract.
• Focus on the present – as if you’ve already attracted the things you want.
• Now, just sit back, press start, take a couple of deep breaths, then simply close your eyes.
As the outside world fades away, you will begin to see the rhythmic patterns of light flickering behind
your closed eyelids. You will also hear a gentle beating rhythm, similar to white noise. Almost
immediately you will begin to enter the relaxation state. It is a passive system requiring no effort on
your part. MindSpa will do the rest!
It typically requires just 22 to 30 minutes per session to receive full
benefit. After the first few sessions you will begin to notice
improvement in stress reduction. Within a few days or weeks you will
begin to experience more and more lasting benefits.
If you're interested in trying the MindSpa, I recommend buying it straight from the manufacturer; A/V
Stim LLC. The company is very responsive and helpful and offers a ninety days, no questions asked
money back guaranty, so you can try the MindSpa at home totally risk-free.
MindPlace Procyon
This is another great sound and light machine that will
quickly and effortlessly change your state of
consciousness. The Procyon is cheaper than the
MindSpa and doesn't include a carrying case, but what
sets this device apart from its competitors is the amazing
multicolor visual displays it produces.
Put on the Procyon goggles, and you're immediately
immersed in a psychedelic wonderland of mandala-like
colors that instantly disperse stress and tension.
This wonderful brainwave-altering mind machine is available from the MindPlace Company.