By : John Kross
It’s been a long time since I wrote anything that I wonder if I am still that engrossing writer I use to be. Nevertheless, if I disappoint today, you have a lot of problems and difficulties to worry yourself about than to focus on a washed-up relic of a writer. However, feel free to focus on me because I love the attention. Our topic of interest today is the subconscious mind.
Have you heard of it? Most likely yes except if perhaps you have been under a stone for the past 20 years. Hello! If it’s your first time of hearing it, then welcome to the planet earth. People often use the word subconscious when perhaps you just woke up from sleep and you were given an instruction and you did not do it. If you are asked about it? You claim that you heard nothing because you were subconscious (though it a wrong way to use but who cares, it’s not like we are in English class or something). Let’s start by defining some key terms so that it gives us a bit of clarity before we delve further from this junction.
The mind is an all-encompassing umbrella term that covers the joint functioning of the brain and body in conjunction the memory, world view, personality, soul, and other intangible facets of human life. The mind is an abstract phenomenon and is simply the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities. Where is the mind? One could ask. Some people point to their chest, though a majority point to their head and people like me point to the entire body.
The mind is divided into conscious and unconscious. However, the unconscious mind is alternatively called the subconscious mind. The prefix ‘sub’ before conscious as you know stands for beneath or under. The subconscious mind is a totally different form compared to the conscious mind. They both work together and I will explain how they do that.
The conscious and subconscious minds have been dubbed male and female respectively because of how differently they operate. It’s no secret that the way to a man’s heart is not the same as that to a woman’s hear. Take for instance a woman needs to hear on daily basis that you love her and that you miss her, while a man just needs a healthy dose of sex and respect to feel loved. The relationship between the conscious and subconscious mind is like that of a captain and a ship. The captain controls the wheel and the ship moves in the directions the captain commands it to go. The ship does not control itself, perhaps if it did titanic would not have crashed and Jack would still be alive. The ship is the subconscious mind while the captain is the conscious mind. You are reading this article with your conscious mind but it is not so reliable. You think about your lover that broke your heart, the future, the cloth you will wear tomorrow, your problems and so on. It runs about 2% of your life. Its memory capacity is really limited to say the list. That’s why in the next 48hours you must have forgotten that you ever came across this article today. The subconscious mind is the total opposite of the conscious mind; it controls about 98% of your life. It directs your attitude, your decisions, how you are interpreting this information right now. It works on autopilot based on the inputs received from the conscious mind. Funny enough it captures all information and works 24/7.
It’s difficult to achieve anything without the help of your subconscious mind. Let me tell you a little about how it works. The word repetition is very important in downloading information into the subconscious mind, it runs like a computer software. You must first install the software and then when installed it works exactly how the manufacturer (or programmer) designed it to work. When the software has been installed it is difficult to make changes to it. When you were born your parents kept on calling you by a particular name until eventually you associated it with you. You might have been called John 100 times before it sank in, the same applies to your dog called Portable (an actual dog belonging to my teacher).
By now you are beginning to get some understanding of the subconscious mind and you are curious about how you can maximize it and make it work for you. Let’s delve further into seeing how we can alter our subconscious mind. Affirmations is the commonest way of altering your subconscious mind. It involves saying those things that you want from your life. Let me shock you a bit, write down what your ideal life or your ideal person looks like, say it 10 times every day for a year and surely it will manifest itself in your life. A part of you might be saying it is lying but it is not. You are simply downloading information into your subconscious. Furthermore, another way you can maximize your subconscious mind is by manipulating your environment.
Whatever you see continually becomes your reality. You could write down things and look at it every day. Personally whenever I enter my room I see a frame with the words “I will persist until I win”. There are so many ways through which you can change the subconscious so that it can work for you but the common theme in all of them is repetition. Repetition leads to mastery. You hear a song rush by Ayra Starr and suddenly you find yourself singing; e de rush, e de rush. Don’t be fooled you are not doing it by choice. You have heard it so many times and it has taken root in your subconscious. Some skilled people manipulate environment to get a specific result from people without their knowledge. How do you think advertisements make you buy more of that product? The more you see it the more you accept it.
The subconscious mind does not know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. It really does not care or to put it more precisely it cannot tell the difference. By now you see how repetition is a common theme in all the ways in which you alter your subconscious mind to work for you.
A part of you is doubtful about how true what I am saying is? I understand that to an extent. My MBBS certificate gives me some credibility and also being in the field of mental health, thus I speak as an expert in the field. Don’t believe me, rather go out and find out. There are numerous articles, research, projects and other books on this aspect of psychology especially in the last 50 years. Remember I told you that the subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined. That fact could also be very detrimental to you.
The subconscious mind is always active and captures all information. That is why if you tell a child that he is a fool long enough, the child grows up believing he is a fool. The same applies to telling a child that him or her will amount to nothing. Parents have destroyed their children unconsciously in this way. In other words, be careful what you say to other especially the young ones. You are the average of the five closest people in your life. This applies to mentality, income, words and others. This is because a lot of what they say is consumed by your subconscious mind which invariably controls the output of the conscious mind. If you stay around 5 negative people, who the sixth negative person? You!!!!
Your guess is as good as mine. The school is a place where you spend about 20 years if you are in Nigeria, and your mind gets loaded with lots of information. When you come out, you are fully programmed on what the world expects of you (except that you will be totally disappointed). For instance, a good grade guarantees you a successful life. No statement could ever be more inaccurate. If you hang around smart people you become smart too. Now you know why it is like that. Whether you programme your subconscious mind or not, someone else will do it for you. That is why it is preferable to do it yourself. It does not matter who pours dirt in your house, once your house is dirty, it is dirty. Your mind is like that house, you can control what gets in and out of it.
In summary, as long we are alive, the majority of the things we hear and see will become a major determinants of the way our subconscious is programmed. There are lots of books on the way the subconscious mind operates. I hope I have sparked some curiosity in a couple of knowledge driven individuals to do further research. You could google top 10 books on the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is always active, if you don’t actively feed it, the world will do it for you. You don’t need to be a mindset coach to be able to do it. It’s very simple but not easy, ensure you guard your mind from anything that causes poor results in your life. What you hear and see just before you sleep and when you wake are by far a great contributor to your subconscious mind. Some people watch the news during these two crucial moments and you wonder why they think the world will end tomorrow.
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