Your subconscious mind is an incredibly powerful part of your mental makeup. It influences your thoughts, behaviors, emotions, and even your physical well-being. It operates beneath the level of conscious awareness, processing and storing vast amounts of information while shaping your reality based on past experiences, beliefs, and conditioning.
Your subconscious mind also stores your habits, skills, and learned behaviors, such as riding a bike, driving a car, etc. Once something becomes habitual, your subconscious takes over, freeing up the conscious mind to focus on other tasks. At the same time, deep-seated emotions, fears, and beliefs are rooted in your subconscious. If you’ve been conditioned to fear public speaking, your subconscious may well trigger anxiety whenever you face an audience to deliver talking points.
While people believe they make conscious decisions, studies suggest that subconscious processing plays a huge role. Gut feelings, intuition, past experiences, and first impressions stored within your subconscious mind process information, as you respond to current circumstances.
The Reticular Activating System is the network in your brain that filters information. If you strongly believe in something, your subconscious will seek evidence to reinforce that belief, shaping your perception of reality. For example, if you believe you are unlucky, you’ll tend to notice every bad thing that happen. If you believe you are lucky, you will first notice the positives taking place around you.
Many self-help teachings, like the Law of Attraction, emphasize programming the subconscious with positive thoughts and visualizations to attract desired outcomes. The same is true when it comes to the use of a ‘vision board’ and similar tools.
The subconscious plays a role in psychosomatic illnesses and healing. The placebo effect is a prime example of how belief and subconscious expectation can physically alter health.
Many breakthroughs, artistic inspirations, and problem-solving insights come from the subconscious during dreams or moments of relaxation.
The following are tools that can be used to re-program negative beliefs while re-wiring subconscious patterns:
- Hypnosis– Helps access and rewire subconscious patterns.
- Affirmations & Positive Self-Talk– Repeated positive statements help reprogram negative beliefs.
- Visualization– Mentally picturing success enhances motivation and belief.
- Gratitude & Journaling– Reinforces positive thought patterns.
- Mindfulness– Becoming aware of subconscious triggers allows conscious change.
Through hypnotherapy and by learning the skills necessary to work with your subconscious, you can transform habits, overcome fears, rewrite undesirable behaviors, and create a more fulfilling life.
Reinforcing affirmations, positive self-talk, visualization, thoughts of gratitude, or mindfulness during hypnotherapy and through self-hypnosis significantly enhances each of these applications.
