The Power of the Subconscious Mind

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Can the Power of the Subconscious Mind Affect "Reality"?

In 1979, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program at Princeton University was set up specifically to explore the power of the subconscious mind. The aim of these subconscious experiments was to determine if human consciousness can externally affect the physical world. In 2007 PEAR was closed because they'd accomplished what they had set out to do. This page is an insight into how the power of the subconscious mind works, and how it can be used to change "reality".




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Programming the Subconscious Mind

What are the Possibilities?

Programming the Subconscious MindProgramming the Subconscious Mind - it may sound a little extreme, but imagine the potential!

The conscious mind can process about 40 bits of information per second; the subconscious mind can process 40 Million bits of information per second! Imagine what it's capable of!

Of course, we constantly program our subconscious minds without realizing it. The conversations we have with ourselves and others, the information we expose ourselves to, our experiences, and our general way of thinking, all program the subconscious mind by default! The result can be seen in patterns in our lives.

The Subconscious Mind Controls Vital Bodily Functions

Mind Over BodyA small example of the Power of programming the subconscious mind is this:

One of the bodily functions controlled by the subconscious is the production and absorption of HGH (human growth hormone). One of the reasons for the physical effects of aging is a decline in the tendancy of the body to produce and absorb HGH. If you could program your subconscious, you could instruct it to increase production and absorption of your body's own natural HGH, thus helping to diminish the effects of aging!

Other possibilities are appetitie control, building lean muscle mass and even controlling blood sugar levels.

The Subconscious Mind Controls Habits

Power of the Subconscious and Attitude/ MotivationWe all have a wide variety of habits we're unaware of, from physical habits to emotional and mental habits, and it can take immense work, time and will-power (not to mention therapy) to change these habits.

Even something as apparently simple as thinking positively, or feeling safe, can prove to be a major challenge. Imagine the possibilities if you could go directly to the source and program your subconscious mind!

Self esteem and confidence, creativity, accademic performance and organisational skills could all be adjusted by the subconscious. The subconscious mind is also responsible for processing - and either hanging onto, or releasing - trauma.

The Relationship Between Mind and Body



"Cells are like miniature people. Each one has its own intillegence, it's own imune system, and can survive outside of the body....
Your body is made up of 50 trillion individual cells living as a community, but your mind is the government. When the government works in harmony with the people, then the people thrive..."
- Bruce Lipton

Perspective of the Subconscious Mind

Here's an analogy I believe helps to explain one of the differences in perspective between the conscious, and the subconscious minds:

When you go and see a horror movie, like "Jaws" (okay, it's an old one, but I don't do horror movies, and can't think of a more recent one ;) your body reacts as if it's in danger. Your heartbeat increases, your palms get sweaty, the "fight or flight" chemicals course through you.

The only thing that stops you from running screaming into the street, is your Concsious Mind, which knows it's just a movie.

The subconscious is programmed to react to stimuli, depending on your experience and genetic programming.

THE MAN WHO WAS SCARED OF BANANAS

I once met someone who was terrified of bananas! A grown man, who was perfectly normal in every way - a very charismatic and successful business man - except that when he saw a banana, he broke into a cold sweat, his heart-rate increased, and he felt "fear".

Of course, his conscious mind knew that a banana was no threat to him (thank goodness or he's unlikely to have succeeded in business as he did if he ran screaming every time fruit salad was served at business lunches!) but his subconscious had somehow become programmed to put his body into a state of emergency when a banana was registered.

He had no idea what the connection was, and presumably the incident that caused the connection between banana and threat was long forgotten by the conscious mind. Here's one of the possibilities. It's possible that, as a baby, he was either looking at or eating a banana, while daydreaming - and therefore in a very vulnerable mental state. A loud bang, or some other startling and sudden experience, happening in that moment, could have connected the object he was focusing on, and the automatic reaction caused by the sudden shock. Because our experiences are so unique, the same incident happening to another child may not have had the same effect.

This is an extreme example of course, but there are many "automatic" reactions programmed into the subconscious mind, of which the conscious mind not only has a different perspective, but of which it may not even be aware.

Methods of Programming the Subconscious Mind

There are various ways you can attempt to program your subconscious. Some of these are conscious and manual, others are more automatic. In my experience different methods work for different people - and to varying degrees. From affirmations and self hypnosis, to RDT, below are a few examples...

Affirmations

AffirmationsMany people choose to use affirmations because they're easy to start using, and are of course, portable!

With affirmations it's essential to use the present tense. For example: "I AM happy" rather than "I will be happy". Affirmations can take a long time - they need to be repeated many times, and over a long period before the message may get through to the subconscious. It's important to keep it up, regardless of whether you're seeing results or not. It takes determination and "stickability", but it is worth it.

Since affirmations are dependent on the conscious mind - which will usually argue with the affirmation "No I'm not." - the old beliefs and patterns can often block the instructions from reaching the subconscious. The affirmation has to try (by repetitive convincing) to gain permission from the "gatekeeper" - the conscious mind - in order to enter the subconscious. For this reason, it's important to be patient, and to just keep repeating it (prefferably out loud) regardless, and eventually it will begin to sink in and take effect. You also need to attach emotion to them - manufacture the relevant emotion if necessary, until it becomes natural. Use your imagination in the meantime to imagine what the end result you're wanting would feel like. Pretend. And keep doing that until the new belief takes over from the old one.

If you don't have the patience for affirmations - or you've tried them as described above, and they haven't worked for you - don't give up, it may just be that you need a different method. Try one of those mentioned below, or do some more research to find one that suits you.

Self Hypnosis

This is a method of attempting to reach the subconscious but without the arguments of the conscious mind. With this method, the "gatekeeper" may be asleep, but the instructions still have to sneak past it without being noticed.

To try a spot of self hypnosis right now, watch the self hypnosis video below....

Self Hypnosis Video

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Subliminal Messaging

A subliminal message is a message or instruction embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind. So with this technique, the gatekeeper is out cold, and it's fairly easy for instructions to sneak past without his ever knowing they were there! There is a lot of debate and disagreement as to the effectiveness of this method. There are subliminal message CDs you can buy, most of which consist of a background sound like rain or music, and have messages, instructions and affirmations hidden in them, which are inaudible to the conscious mind.

R.D.T. (Rapid Data Transfer)

As used in Paths Mind Energetics

How RDT WorksRDT is a method of re-programming the subconscious mind by delivering millions of instructions and cues directly to the subconscious, automatically.

This is a new technology, and is used in the Paths Mind Energetics program.

The person using this technology will watch an online customized theater presentation for three minutes per module. The user chooses modules based on what they'd like to change in their life, mind, or body.

These visual and audio theaters include cues targeting the user's subconscious mind. The subconscious mind recognizes that the theater is specifically for that user because the cues and instructions are personalized and programmed with information relating to that particular user. The "theater" is live 24/7 - with a constant stream of instructions and cues relating to the user's goals, and is frequently updated.

Over the next seven days (on average) the user's brain assimilates and builds new connections corresponding to the instructions received by the subconscious mind. The best analogy of how this is possible is: You could send one hundred pages to a printer all at once. The printer stores them in a memory. It then prints one page at a time, as it is able. In the same way, the brain forms new neural connections to correspond to this information, as it is able.

Although this method of programming the subconscious mind is not a magic pill, by communicating more directly with the subconscious mind in this manner and at the huge repetitious cycle that RDT utilizes, the results are realized much faster, and with little to no resistance from the conscious mind.

To try a "light" version of the Paths Mood Elevation module, watch the sample below...

Paths Sample Mood Elevation Module

Mood Elevation Increase Happiness and Joy

Free Sample - Paths Mood Elevation ModuleTo watch the sample Paths Mood Elevation Module click here.

"Designed to calm the brain's neurotransmitters by balancing opioid peptides, dopamine and serotonin levels. These chemicals control how you react to the world around you. It can balance and empower you with certainty, assurance and a sense of humor.

Note: This is a "light" version so come back often for noticeable results. Or get the
full version for more powerful results.

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind MP3 Audiobook

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind MP3 Audiobook

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind 2 [CD on Demand]

Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

An extremely powerful audio book, this one has been fundamental in changing many lives. In his most profound work to date, Joseph Murphy goes into detail on what the Subconscious mind is, and precise, effective methods to reprogram negative patterns.

How the Power of the Subconscious Mind Affects Your Finances

The Connection Between the Subconscious and Your Financial Situation

Every decision and choice we make is based on our core beliefs.
Our actions, our behavior, the way we relate to others - it's all colored by our subconscious beliefs. The risks we're prepared to take, the opportunities we see or miss - all of this is affected by subconscious programming - our core subconscious beliefs.

To give a very simplistic example:

* A child's experiences program her subconscious mind early on, with the belief that she is not important - others come first, and she doesn't deserve the things she wants.
* As a grown woman, she is offered an opportunity to apply for a promotion. She passes up on the opportunity because her "instinct" tells her she has no chance of getting it, or that she's not good enough and won't be able to handle it.

This is of course a very simplistic example, but it hopefully shows the basics - one of the ways in which core beliefs programmed (mostly unintentionally) into the subconscious can affect finances.

Here are a few tools that can help to reprogram exisiting beliefs that affect finances....

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What Do You Believe Can Be Achieved Using The Power of Your Subconscious?

Do you think it's possible to change physical conditions, or only mental and emotional patterns?

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Teach Yourself to Dream

A Practical Guide to Unleashing the Power of the Subconscious Mind

Teach Yourself to Dream - Power of the Subconscious

Teach Yourself to Dream: A Practical Guide to Unleashing the Power of the Subconscious Mind

Amazon Price: $8.09 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

How to change your life through the power of dreaming - this guide contains over 50 exercises for exploring, intensifying - and even guiding - your dreams. There's also an A - Z directory of dream symbols and meanings.

Experiments into the Power of the Subconscious Mind

Can the subconscious affect the physical world?

Whatever method you find works for you, the potential of being able to program the subconscious mind is "mind-blowing" especially when you take into account the experiments conducted by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)

You can read more in detail about the experiments on their website - and I highly reccomend it, it's fascinating. Basically, one of the main experiments involved random generating machines, which, when no outside influence is present, would produce completely random results. However, they discovered that when human consciousness was introduced - in other words, people using their conscious minds to sway the result one way or the other, the results were biased. " In unattended calibrations all of these sophisticated machines produce strictly random data, yet the experimental results display increases in information content that can only be attributed to the consciousness of their human operators." - PEAR Website

The Subconscious Mind is the Final Frontier!

The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton

Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles

The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles

Amazon Price: $8.06 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

Dr. Lipton shares his knowledge on the new science of Epigenetics - explaining the experiments and studies which have shown how DNA and genes do not control our biology. He goes into detail on how every cell in our bodies responds to energetic signals and messages - including those produced by our thoughts. This is a thorough break-down on the science behind the power of the subconscious mind, and the author uses humor as well as illustrations and easy-to-grasp language , which makes this an enjoyable and enlightening read.

An Interview with Bruce Lipton

Scientist, Bruce Lipton explains the origons of his work on the biology of belief.
It takes a minute or so to get going, but he goes on to explain just how powerful the subconscious is, and what can be achieved by harnessing its power.
Bruce Lipton ' The Power Of Consciousness'
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The Power of the Subconscious Mind - Further Reading

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The Power of Thought Over Water

Dr. Masaru Emoto's Water Crystal Experiments

Dr Emoto's Water Crystal Experiments

Dr. Masaru Emoto spent most of the 1990's documenting experiments on the power of thought and words over water. At first it sounds a bit "out there", but the results of his experiments are fascinating - and show the way to using the power of the mind over our own bodies.

In brief, Dr. Emoto exposed water to specific thoughts, froze the water, photographed the crystals, and then compared them. The overwhelming results showed that water which had been exposed to positive thoughts produced crystals which were symetrical and clear or white in color, while water exposed to negative or hateful thoughts produced asymetrical, dark-colored crystals.

His experiements over the years included projected thought, music, and even taping notes to the water jars.

The results of his experiments prove, not only that the mind can in fact affect matter.... but, considering our bodies are made up of mostly water, imagine the effect our thoughts and words have on our physical health. :)

Dr. Masaru Emoto - Official Website

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