How to Give Your Subconscious Orders

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Monday, 13 April 2009 02:25

Maybe you've tried yourself to use autosuggestion and other similar techniques but did not perceive any positive results. Maybe you even found negative results or gave up in frustration at the slow or unnoticeable progress. Find here how to feed your subconscious certain phrases and how to adapt these to your needs that will certainly produce positive and avoid negative results. Your subconscious is at work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it never sleeps, rather, it works even more coherently while your conscious mind is "on leave", i.e. while you sleep or are day-dreaming. Your subconscious has a processing capacity that is about one million times greater than that of your conscious mind. Not all of it can be used by you since it is busy with life-sustaining activities such as noticing whether you are standing or sitting, if you're hot or cold and what best to do about it. If you could tap only a fraction of its capacity, you could easily, say, double the efficiency of your conscious mind or your memory. Want to give it a try at least? You need to know already ... You first need to understand how your subconscious works. It can only find and work with what's already there in your brain or memory. If you need to search for a manufacturer of a certain type of hose or washer or cement (let's assume you are a buyer in a company) and you have absolutely never dealt with such items before, then your conscious mind needs to do that for you, e.g. you need to look up the yellow pages or other sources of information. You will need to devote your conscious mind to the task and then you are absorbed doing so, that is, your conscious mind cannot cope with much more. If you are busy looking up the yellow pages and a phone call comes in you then have to shift your attention to the caller and drop searching momentarily. If you think you can multitask, think again. Your caller, maybe a good customer, will notice that you're not really listening and will likely be offended. Your conscious mind rarely does several things at the same time. If you talk while you drive it is because most of your driving is subconscious. Most people stop talking temporarily when they get stuck driving, e.g. when they are on the look-out for a specific junction etc. However, even then your subconscious could work on something completely different in the meantime from information you already have somewhere in your memory. ... but you can recombine Your subconscious can "rack your brain" to find the best sources where you could look up these things, e.g. what exhibitions have you been to, which people do you know who could give you tips or help you in any way etc. That way, your subconscious can work on information that is already there and it can do so in the background. That is already a well-established function of your subconscious the results of which are often called a "brainwave", e.g. when an idea strikes you. Intuition is a function of the subconscious! How to commission your subconscious One of the greatest mysteries for most people but we are dealing with the SUBconscious mind. You may have heard that your subconscious does not understand "a negative", e.g. that it would interpret "don't fall" as meaning "fall". I have met countless people who were puzzled by this idea of the subconscious being on one hand about a million times more powerful than the conscious mind while at the same time acting so stupid. The solution is actually quite simple: your mind, whether consciously or not, always analyses every sentence that it hears or reads. For example, let someone say "I own a pink umbrella". You now need to access various memories, one for umbrella, one for the colour pink, then you need to find the notion of ownership and then you ascribe this ownership of an umbrella in the specific colour to the speaker, since he or she said "I". Now imagine that person said "I DO NOT own a pink umbrella" – still, your brain would have had to come up with the notions of umbrellas and the pink colour etc. So, the first thing your brain does is access these basic memories and only then does it recombine them to give the specific meaning of the whole sentence. If you tell a child "Mind that you don't fall", the very first thing their subconscious needs to access is a memory of falling. If distracted by something else that might already increase their risk of falling. Had you instead said "Keep upright!" then the subconscious would have accessed memories of standing steady and upright. It's really that easy. Try not to think of pink elephants – what do you think of? Pink elephants! "I must not fail this exam!" will then increase the probability of what? You get the idea, don't you? More ideas on what to ask of your subconscious can be found in "Intelligence increase by autosuggestion" (we'll explore this more deeply in an upcoming series of articles. These and other mothods can be found in our e-Book "99 Learning Strategies" that you can get for free after publication if you subscribe to our Newsletter during this ramp-up phase). Recombine and Rephrase How do you put this new information to use? Well, you could get yourself a thesaurus or any dictionary where you can look up antonyms. They are the words that mean exactly the opposite of what you were going to say. "Let's not miss the deadline" could easily be "Let's keep the deadline", "Don't be late" is equivalent to but more harmful than "Try to be on time" etc. Sorry I should have said: "Try to be on time" is better than "Don't be late" – every negative phrase can be turned into its positive opposite! Positive Negatives The wry aspect of all this is that you can actually use negative sentences to convey positive meanings to the subconscious mind. If you challenge your child "I bet you'll fall off!" while he or she's learning to ride a bike you may mean well, but it's still better to say "I bet you can't keep going straight for long!" - their subconscious will now first access that "going straight" association in their brain thus reenforcing their ability to ride their bike ever more successfully (check out also How to Exercise When Ill - Some Facts about Mental Training).   Summing It Up It takes a while till you get used to reformulating your sentences but give yourself maybe two weeks and you'll see astonishing results. Keep a diary of the most common formulas you came up with and rehearse them. Eventually all this will become ingrained in your speech patterns and you will be helping yourself and others to be more successful simply by reforming your speech patterns! Resources   Antonyms can be found at http://thesaurus.reference.com/, http://www.synonym.com/antonym/ or http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn/ although it is not always that straightforward, e.g. "stay upright" is not shown when using "fall" in antonym search.

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