Your subconscious mind is the area of your mind where your thoughts are consolidated and stored but we are not aware of all the time.
There are a very wide range of functions of the subconscious mind
- Regular bodily functions such as breathing / heart-rate etc.
- Doing things on autopilot.e. tasks you are used to like driving or riding a bike.
- Perceiving something without your full awareness, but it still registering in your subconscious mind.
- Unconscious thoughts and habits.
- Concealed desires and wishes.
Your subconscious mind power is infinite - it isn’t properly understood and has not been measured by psychologists. the power of your subconscious mind is always at work. It can be compared to the iceberg phenomena, where your conscious mind is the 5% over the surface and the unconscious is the 95% under the surface.
Your subconscious mind is always working - even while you sleep. It processes all of the information you are exposed to every day and filters 95% of it out - only giving you conscious knowledge of things you need to be aware of - the things you are immediately concentrating on.
The power of your subconsciouscan recordand store info in your mind. In this way you can develop patterns of behaviour, ways of thinking, self beliefs without conscious effort. You are simply the effects of your environment.
Under the exact same principle you can also learn subconsciously! If you can take control of your subconscious mind, and the information that is being received then you can achieve a different outcome. You can learn things and also even change your beliefs and your personality.
There are several ways you can do this. NLP is the most popular, it is a way of talking to yourself in a positive way. The most common way to do this is through positive affirmations - basically repeating statements to yourself to make a change in your conscious mind - i.e. I am self assured, I believe in myself, I am comfortable with myself. There are affirmations you can make for anything.
However, a new way to use NLP and positive affirmations is rising in popularity - the use of subliminal messages. Subliminal CDs and Mp3s can be used which send these positive affirmations directly into the subconscious mind. You will not notice them, but as described above they will be processed by your subconscious mind. These are actually even more effective! First of all you don’t have to spend your time to say the affirmation - simply play the CD.However they also bypass your conscious mind and go directly to the source.
