Subliminal Messages

The most famous of all stories about Subliminal Messages is about James Vicary, a movie theatre owner who claimed to have inserted very short subliminal messages into the pre-show advertisements telling viewers things like "Hungry? Eat popcorn" and "Drink Coca-Cola". According to him, his sales increased by almost 60% on nights when he used this tactic.

What most people do not know about this story is that Vicary admitted in the 1970s that he completely made up this story. In addition, it should be noted that scientists have never replicated his results in studies.

Yet, to this very day, subliminal messages in advertising are banned in both the United States and Canada. All based on this lie about subliminal messages

Subliminal Messages are shrouded in mystery and have been feared for many years, despite the fact that until this century, the majority of scientific studies have proven them to be a complete myth.

However, in 2006 a study was done which showed that subliminal messages had a significant effect on people when the messages were specific to the goals they were attempting to achieve in their life. When the messages were nonsense, or not pertinent or personalized to their particular goals, the messages had no effect.

This study was replicated in three separate trials in 2006 and 2007.

Since many of the earlier studies focused primarily on the use of subliminal messages in advertising, it is no wonder that these studies turned up negative results.

Affirmations are a form of self-hypnosis, and they too are an excellent way to get changes made in your life.

The idea behind affirmations is to take a sentence that clarifies your goals and gives you confidence, and to repeat that sentence out loud to yourself every day.

The idea is that you are training your brain to change your life. Just like what you are doing with subliminal messages, except this one stresses repetition. Rarely will a person be changed in a single event.

You can even use the same kind of vocabulary in your affirmations as you use in your subliminal messages. In fact, when you do this, the only difference is that subliminal messages work unconsciously and rather quickly, whereas affirmations are conscious and take longer. Both are very helpful.

There are a lot of options for you if you want to use subliminal messages to change your life. One of the simplest methods to use subliminal messages is in software.

What subliminal message software does is flash subliminal messages on your computer screen while you go about your business as usual. This is an incredibly powerful way to take in subliminal messages.

The only really good option for subliminal message software is called Mindzoom. This is a very customizable software, and it comes preprogrammed with a bunch of different programs like subliminal messages designed to help you quit smoking or lose weight.

I am a certified hypnotist, and I use the principles of suggestion everyday in my high school math and science classes to get my kids excited, motivated, and feeling confident in their abilities.

Of course, hypnosis and suggestion are forms of subliminal messages when done correctly. The idea is that the specific choices of words that a hypnotist uses have an effect on a person. You can give people an indirect suggestion by saying something like "I know that you will do well on this test" and their brain can interpret that as a command.

While this will not open too many doorways for people or students who do not have the knowledge or skills learned in my classroom already, it can greatly decrease test anxiety in students. These subtle subliminal messages can have a defined impact on them in all of their classes, and that confidence can last a lifetime.

Many people wonder why subliminal messages need to be subliminal and hidden. After all, humans, the most advanced animal on the planet, must be smart enough to make good decisions for ourselves when presented with them consciously.

And many times we can. Overweight people go on diets, smokers try to quit, but in the end, how many of them succeed?

We can make a conscious decision to change our lives and never see results because we haven't taken the time to properly convince our subconscious mind, the center of all of our beliefs and rules. If you use Subliminal messages you can immediately access the subconscious before the messages are filtered and diluted consciously.

By reading suggestions or affirmations aloud to ourselves, or by looking at them written on notecards, our conscious mind is making choices, filtering and filing them away in your mind, and attempting to allow only the most powerful beliefs to have an effect on your subconscious. This is a safety precaution to make sure that we can't be too influenced by new ideas. If, however, you want to make a sweeping change in the way you do things, you need to bypass this sorting and filtering mechanism, and get directly towards the center of your belief system.

The way to do that is with subliminal messages. Sure, you can use hypnosis, but that's expensive (over $75 per hour depending on where you go). You can use Affirmations, but those are slow and time consuming. Subliminal messages are the fastest, easiest and cheapest way available to make changes in your life.