Your Subconscious Mind

By Kevin E Graham

It saddens me to see people work so hard at diet and exercise to lose weight. Not that those areas are not important. In fact, consuming less and expending more is basically the only way to lose weight. However, the painful part is that people work at it. It does not have to be that way. It can be a joyous and soothing journey. I know that sounds ridiculous but it really can be a joyous and soothing process.

Have you ever heard someone say that they never worked a day in their life. It is usually someone that has had great success and there is no question that they have tolled (probably long and hard) and typically had gone through great sacrifice. So why do they say that they have never worked a day in their life? Because of their mental state. They have found out how to leverage their subconscious mind by controlling their conscious mind.

The mere term conscious mind connotes control, doesn't it? The average human has 30,000-50,000 thoughts per day (conscious thoughts). But how many of those are we actively controlling? A tenth if we are lucky. The challenge with most people is that they spend everyday noodling on the same thoughts - and those are too often worry and fear.

Now I have just been talking about our lack of command of our conscious mind. The subconscious mind is a whole other matter. It can go where we want it to go by simply documenting our goals. If you know what you want, your subconscious mind is already plotting a course to get you there. That is how we are wired.

So take control of your conscious mind, know your goals, embrace the feelings and emotions around achieving those goals and stay focused. Success is your destiny!

Many experts feel that our subconscious makes up 3/4 of our total cognitive capability. And it is very powerful. Take a quick mental journey with me and imagine only for a minute that you just gave a powerful speech in front of 50,000 people packed into your local stadium.

Come on, no one is watching so take a few seconds and enjoy the dream. Can you see yourself giving a wonderful speech in front of thousands of people. All of them cheering your every pause. If you dive into the dream and experience it as fully as your mind would allow you - you would also experience physiological changes such as goose bumps or excitement building inside.

If you truly just took that mental journey, then you felt the goose bumps and sheer excitement building inside. And the reason why you experienced that is because your subconscious mind does not know the difference between reality and fantasy. As your body filled with excitement, your subconscious mind felt it was real.

And as those realities build inside the subconscious mind, the mind believes that is who you are. Then the subconscious mind works to make that part of your future. The same is true with Weight Loss. If you have a strong vision of who you are going to become and you allow that dream to soak in every day - your mind (conscious and subconscious) will EMPOWER you to make the necessary changes so that the new you becomes a reality.

Get a strong vision of who you will become and let your subconscious mind guide you through the journey.

Let The Vision Empower You!

Kevin Graham serves as the Managing Director at Empower Me Photo. Empower Me Photo provides tools to help those seeking to stay on their diet or exercise program over the long run - by showing how you are going to look AFTER you lose the weight.

You will be amazed at how you are going to look - and your empowering photo can be in your hand as quickly as tomorrow. And you will be inspired, motivated, and yes, EMPOWERED, to stay on your program over the long run.

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Asking Your Subconscious Mind Favors

By Steve Wickham

We've all had those pesky occasions where we've totally forgotten something we really need to recall/remember. It's really frustrating when that thing is just on the 'tip of your tongue' but just won't come. But, sometimes we can be blessed with serendipitous recall. Just how does that work?

Sometimes after leaving a vexing problem with a shot memory to boot, we do finally get the answer or the information we were looking for, because our subconscious mind continues to work on the issue behind the scenes, under the radar of our conscious awareness.

The human mind is marvellous in this way. It explains why we'll suddenly awaken at 2 AM and need to furiously write something down. If we don't obey this instinct, the recalled information is perhaps lost forever as we dither away in our never-land sleep. If this has ever happened to you, you'll know how self-castigated you've made yourself feel the next day for missing such an opportunity.

This part of the mind we don't capitalise on nearly enough. We could train our minds to undertake this sort of recall and our memories could be sharper as a result.

We can ask our subconscious minds these favours of recall by:

1. Not overly stressing our conscious minds when we struggle with recall--it's a reminder not to worry so much about a shot memory;

2. Praying. It may sound silly to those who don't consider themselves spiritual, but praying for recall can help. Ask the subconscious to assist and then leave the problem;

3. Journalling about times when our subconscious minds expanded our thinking. These things happen much more than we give ourselves credit for. These are learning and growing opportunities. Opportunities to learn how our minds work and even to replicate the antecedent conditions that brought on the gorgeous thinking so we can enjoy more of it.

Thinking. It's a marvellous pastime. Yet, for many of us just switching the mind off can prove to be the most difficult and daunting task ahead.

At least the issue of utilising the subconscious mind is a positive thing.

© 2010 S. J. Wickham.

Steve Wickham is a Registered Safety Practitioner (BSc, MSIA, RSP) and a qualified, unordained Christian minister (GradDipBib&Min). His blogs are at: http://tribework.blogspot.com/ and http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com/.

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