Do you find it hard to make changes to live the life you want? You are not alone. In this article you will learn how to reprogram your subconscious mind to create your dream life of abundance and become the person you know you can be.
How To Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind: At a Glance
You can program your subconscious mind in the following practical, simple but powerful ways:
(Note: If you already know what the subconscious mind is skip to how to reprogram it section)
Use Positive Affirmations.
Change Your Environment.
Visualize your desired goal.
Use the theta wave state before sleep.
Gratitude, be grateful for things you have now.
Listen to binaural beats.
What is the Subconscious Mind (v Conscious and Unconscious)
The subconscious mind controls most of our behaviours. It guides our actions with the beliefs it picked up in childhood up to seven years old.
It continues to get updated in adult life, however a subconscious belief learned in childhood is the strongest.
The subconscious mind works in the background, we do not pay attention to it because it is automatic, however we can become aware of it.
The conscious mind is the thinking mind that we are aware of, you are using the conscious mind to interpret these words you are reading.
The unconscious mind is the deepest of all, It also holds past experiences and beliefs but we are never aware it and never can be.
You Must Align Your Subconscious and Conscious Mind
If we tell ourselves consciously “I want to be rich”, to be successful our subconscious mind must have a belief that we deserve it and are capable of creating wealth.
Otherwise our subconscious limiting beliefs we will block or sabotage our efforts.
Some of the ways we self sabotage are:
We do not even try to succeed. We make excuses.
We engage in activities that make us feel busy and productive but are not getting us anywhere.
We have an argument with someone who is going to help us.
We attract people into our life that we know will hinder or sabotage any success we have, confirming the belief “things never work out for me!”
None of it will make sense until we look at the power of our subconscious mind.
How Your Subconscious Mind Influences Your Life, Good and Bad!
95% of your life is guided by your subconscious mind.
It is where you hold your values and beliefs about what you can and cannot do.
If you feel you do not deserve to be wealthy or have harmonious relationships it is because your subconscious mind has been programmed to believe they are not possible for you.
Our subconscious mind influences our actions, thoughts, memories and perceptions.
Yes, our perceptions!
How and what we see depends on how our subconscious mind is wired.
This is why two people can have the same thing happen to them react in opposite ways.
Their subconscious minds are holding opposite beliefs.
Failure is a good example. One person believes failure means learning the other believes failure is a sign they are incompetent. One will give up the other will carry on to success beyond their wildest dreams.
How to Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind and Release It’s Power
Your subconscious takes things literally. If you were told “you are worthless” as a child, it recorded that as fact.
The good news is you can reprogram it by repeating positive beliefs to it, how much repetition will depend on how deeply ingrained the negative belief is.
Your subconscious mind responds to images and feelings. These are what you want to focus on.
Start by Taking An Inventory of Your Life
The first step is bringing conscious awareness to your life. This is critical, otherwise how will you know what to reprogram your subconscious mind with?
Become aware of your thoughts, language and emotions.
What do you want to change and what do you want to happen?
When do you feel insecure? scared? and when do you feel confident, excited and capable?
This will be uncomfortable at first because our limiting beliefs become part of our identity.
Your life is a reflection of your subconscious. No ones life goes to plan, so don’t judge yourself. You are looking at your finances, health and relationships to find out what your subconscious mind believes.
For instance if you do not have enough money, your subconscious believes you do not deserve it or are incapable of creating it. This tells you to focus on empowering beliefs about money and wealth.
Commit Fully
Reprogramming your subconscious mind will be challenging, so before you start make a commitment to stick with the practices you choose.
Changes start happening around 3 – 4 weeks onwards.
You may feel fear and resistance at the start, don’t worry this is normal. You will have negative thoughts like “I can’t” or “No, that’s not me”. Keep going and they will subside then vanish.
Although changes take 3-4 weeks, the subconscious mind reprogramming practices will make you feel positive as you do them. Believing and imagining positive things about yourself and your life trajectory feels good.
Six Practices To Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind
Now you know what you want to change and have fully committed to reprogramming your subconscious mind, the next step is to build the following habits and practices:
Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements you repeat to yourself.
To change your subconscious programs use affirmations correctly:
Make affirmations in the present tense. Say “I am abundant” not “I will be abundant”.
Affirmations are more than positive thinking, you need to feel them. Feel the affirmations as if as if your wish has been fulfilled. A good way to do this is to ask “how will I feel when I get what I want.”
Make affirmations specific and personal. They have to have meaning to you.
Be the person you want to be – Now. Act as you would act once you have manifested your dream.
Affirmations are most powerful when they start with “I am”. “I am wealthy” is more powerful than “I have lots of money”.
Here is an article that shows you how to use affirmations in more detail: How To Use Affirmations Properly
Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind With Your Environment
We are not separate from our environment, we are in a mutually influential relationship.
Your environment should reflect your goals and dreams. If you want to be wealthy, make sure you are surrounded by positive people who are working towards their goals.
If this is not possible at the moment, join groups and clubs that have entrepreneurs as members. You can also listen to videos, read books or follow positive successful people online.
Have your home reflect wealth. It should be uncluttered, free of broken and frayed things and have items around that signify abundance to you.
For more on how to have your home signify abundance go to the article: Feng Shui Wealth Attraction Secrets and if you want better relationships go to: Bedroom Feng Shui To Attract Love. If you are new to Feng Shui this article is for you: Feng Shui 101: What You Need to Know About the Ancient Art of Placement.
Take Advantage of the Moments Before Sleep And When You Wake Up
When you were a child up to 7 years old, your predominant brain waves were theta waves. When your brain is oscillating at these waves it allows messages to go direct to your subconscious mind, positive or negative.
In adulthood our brainwaves change to mainly beta brain waves.
The exception to this is just before we fall asleep and just after we wake up. At those points are brains are in a theta wave state.
It’s at these times you want to focus on reprogramming your subconscious mind.
You can do this by repeating an affirmation as you drop of to sleep, or have an audio affirmation playing in your ear phones. You can also read or listen to inspirational quotes.
Do the same again when you wake up. It’s a great way to the start the day as well.
You can also use yogic meditation called Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) to get yourself into the right brainwave state.
Visualisation
Imagination is a powerful tool at your disposal. If you imagine a positive moment from the past right now, your body will react as if it is happening.
Use this to your advantage with visualisation.
Visualize who you want to be or what your life will look like when you have achieved your new goal.
The more you practice visualisation the more vivid you will be able to make it and the more real it will become. Use a vision board to help you see your dreams more vividly.
When you use visualization feel your goal as if it has already happened.
Visualisation is powerful because you are speaking to your subconscious mind in it’s language of images and feelings.
For more on visualisation and manifestation methods go to this article: Powerful Manifestation Methods.
Gratitude
Because the subconscious mind takes things literally and cannot distinguish between something happening or imagined, gratitude practice will reprogram your subconscious mind into a positive state of material and spiritual abundance.
You can be grateful for large or small things. As you do your gratitude practice you will ingrain subconscious beliefs about abundance and success.
Everyone has things to be grateful for, be creative if you find it hard.
Binaural Beats
If you listen to two tones, each at a different frequency and each in a different ear, your brain creates an additional tone you can hear called a binaural beat.
When you listen to binaural beats for at least 30 minutes your brain waves synchronize with the beat.
Studies show that listening to binaural beats at a 6 Hz frequency can induce a meditative state with theta brainwaves.
Listen to the beats with affirmations, before bed or in the morning. You can also put on a pair of headphones during the day and have a moment to yourself.
You can find some good binaural beats on YouTube.
Reprogram your Subconscious Mind With Journaling
Write your goals and desires in a journal. This is especially powerful when you do it at night.
You do not have to make it complicated. Simple write about your desire, who you want to be or what you want to feel.
How to Tell if the Subconscious Reprogramming Is Working
Just the fact you are reading this article shows you are a self aware person. Not a common trait.
Self awareness is essential if you want to reprogram your subconscious mind and if you want to know if your practices are working.
Here are tells to look for when you have reprogrammed your subconscious mind:
You Take More Risks
You know the reprogramming of your subconscious mind is working when you take more risks.
That could be applying for a new job, starting a business or going on a date.
You Have More Energy
Negative beliefs in your mind way heavy on you. When you reprogram your subconscious you will feel lighter and have more energy. Not just to achieve things but also in everyday life.
You Feel Positive
Your positive emotions give you a positive out look on life. Things that bothered you before seem insignificant now.
More opportunities come your way. You find your own voice and your energy vibrates at a frequency that attracts situations and people with a similar vibration.
You Replace “Failure” With Learning
When you are no longer disheartened by mistakes you see opportunities to learn and stepping stones to get you want.
You Have Resolve
Where you may have been easily discouraged and half committed to your actions, you now have a resolve and persistence.
You are Comfortable with Uncertainty
You are no longer intimidated by uncertainty but see it as part of life and act in spite of it. In fact uncertainty becomes a sign that you are doing something new and worthwhile.
You Are More Creative
When you have negative beliefs about yourself and what you can achieve your mind does not venture out further than your environment.
When you reprogram your subconscious mind your creativity flourishes.
Creativity is the ability to look at your entire life and see the many possibilities it contains, big or small, unusual or everyday.
You might find a better way to travel to work, plan the kids meals or a new gym workout. It could also be something big like a new and challenging business idea.
Conclusion
Our subconscious programming is powerful, it is responsible for 95% of our actions and perceptions. It even influences what we remember.
It is largely set in childhood up to the age of seven.
The good news is in can be reprogrammed. Reprogramming does not happen immediately and depends on how deep the subconscious brainwashing goes.
The methods above are a form of self hypnosis and with consistency you will start seeing results in 3-4 weeks.
Remember, imagining and saying positive things feels good, so start now!