You’ve heard a bit about the subconscious but aren’t sure how to reach your subconscious mind while awake. Don’t worry, we got you!
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Okay, I’m going to tell you something that might just blow your mind. Your subconscious mind is responsible for 95% of your reality, and want to know the wildest part? it’s formed by the time we’re seven years old.
The subconscious mind is our primal brain, it’s wired for survival and it takes everything you’ve learned by age seven and absorbs it as truth. We’re all just sort of walking around on auto-pilot when our subconscious minds are in control.
Have you ever driven to the store and wondered how you got there because you weren’t REALLY paying attention? That’s because you’ve taken that route so many times your subconscious mind took you there without effort.
We’re always accessing our subconscious, we just need to learn to be more intentional with it so we can train our subconscious to take action in a way that supports our goals instead of limiting them.
Functions of the Subconscious Mind
If 95% of our reality is created from our subconscious, we need to learn how to insert the beliefs that support us. Rather than continuing to hold on to the ones that don’t, or wasting energy feeling guilty that they exist.
So, what’s the real purpose of our subconscious minds? let’s get into it.
- Our subconscious minds are like a database that holds all our memories. Everything is recorded and filed.
- All of our emotions live within our subconscious mind.
- Our subconscious represses memories that have negative emotions attached to them (to “keep us safe”). They will only resurface when our mind deems it “appropriate”.
- Our subconscious minds run our bodies for us (for example: we don’t have to think about breathing).
- Our subconscious mind’s main objective is to keep us alive.
- It absorbs the morality and life lessons we are taught as a child and stores it as truth, following these rules into adulthood. (Our subconscious minds are typically 5-7 years old).
- It takes instructions from your conscious mind.
- The subconscious mind filters all information we receive for us and determines what’s necessary and what’s not.
- Our subconscious regulates our physical and emotional energy.
- Our habits and instincts are formed within our subconscious.
- It’s always looking to achieve a new goal.
- Our subconscious minds love receiving information in symbols and patterns
- They’re always looking for the easiest route to a solution.
- Our subconscious minds cannot process negatives.
How to Reach Your Subconscious Mind While Awake
If you want to learn a new skill or insert a belief that will support you, the best thing you can do is open up your subconscious mind while you do it. Here are a few key ways you can do that:
1. Doing something out of the ordinary
We’ve already shared that we’re typically running on autopilot because our subconscious minds have already absorbed the information we need to complete the task. Therefore if you want to open up your subconscious mind to receive new information, you have to do something out of the ordinary (making it think).
Try writing a sentence with your non-dominant hand or brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand. This causes your subconscious mind to open up and is a great time to; recite your new beliefs or affirmations, listen to an educational podcast, etc.
2. Using your peripheral vision
Your peripheral vision is the space that you can’t exactly see when looking straight ahead. When we’re babies and young children (the years that we absorb information into our subconscious) we are consistently using our peripheral vision.
We are trained to stop using our peripheral vision as we age, “look at me when I’m speaking” “keep your eyes at the front” etc. We begin losing sight of the space within our peripheral vision which closes access to our subconscious. Interesting huh?
To access your peripheral vision pick a spot on the wall straight looking straight ahead and lift your arms in front of you. Then, without moving your eyes, slowly stretch your arms out in the opposite direction (side to side or up and down) while keeping them in view. Practice this until you’re able to see your hands when they’re in your peripherals. This is a great time to recite your new beliefs and affirmations or take in new information.
3. Scripting
The funny thing about our subconscious mind is that it can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not. If you think to yourself “There’s no way that guy will go on a date with me, I’m not his type” your mind will absorb that as truth, even though you never attempted to ask for the date.
If the subconscious absorbs everything we say as truth, why not tell it something you want to believe? You can do this with scripting. Scripting triggers our subconscious minds to pay attention because we’re reciting new information, it also allows us to create a visual and the subconscious mind loves visuals.
What is scripting and how do you do it? Scripting is literally writing out a script of your ideal day or ideal life. You write in detail what your life will look and feel like when you achieve your desires, and you can do this in present or past tense. Example: rather than saying “When I achieve this” you write “I just achieved this” or “I have XYZ”.
Subconscious vs. Conscious Mind
Our conscious minds are our active thoughts and the part of our brain that we’re aware of. The subconscious mind is beneath that, it’s the beliefs thoughts, and memories that are stored in our brains. Though it can take a new direction from our conscious mind, the subconscious is where we’re operating from. They inform each other.
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