Subconscious Power of the Human Mind

Well said.

State of mind is the most important aspect of any business, in my opinion.

We are still only scratching the surface of what's possible

I didn't use to believe all the so called brain "mumbo jumbo". But I've since done a lot of reading up on the brain, self-help and neuroscience. There is actually scientific studies which fully back up the fact that the things like mental-rehearsal do work. It truly is a fascinating subject and well word reading up on. I recommend the book Psycho-Cybernetics, the grand daddy of modern self-help.

I am trying out the Sedona Method as it addresses this quite extensively. I hope to obtain some encouraging results and cultivate a positive mindset from it.

Many thanks for your post.

Thank you for starting this thread har_dey. This is a very misunderstood topic and for us to fully utilise the power of our subconscious mind and achieve success it is necessary to fully understand the difference between the conscious and subconscious mind.

The conscious mind controls voluntary muscle actions such as walking and driving a car. It is responsible for verbal, rational, logical and analytical processes and will accept or reject anything told to it at will, basing acceptance or rejection on it's own reasoning power, which has been built up from proven knowledge, education, deductions or evidence of it's own senses.

When you are in a relaxed mode your conscious mind relaxes or even switches off, therefore rational, logical and analytical thought processes are switched off.

The subconscious mind, sometimes referred to as the unconscious mind, controls the autonomic nervous system, involuntary muscle actions, other organs, glands and all other workings of the body which we never have to consciously think about and keeps them co-ordinated, e.g. heart beat and breathing. It has no reasoning power and it cannot rationalise or reject anything that it receives and accepts everything that it is told without question.

The subconscious mind never relaxes or switches off, even when you sleep and it is always on duty.

So the secret to using the power of the subconscious mind lies in learning deep relaxation techniques to switch off the conscious mind so positive goals and suggestions can be fed to the subconscious, which will accept and act on them without question

Let me try and illustrate this further with the story of a sales trainer who recommended that if your goal was to own a red Porsche before the end of the year you should stick a picture of one on your bathroom mirror and stare at it several times daily while shaving and cleaning your teeth. His 'wisdom' being that if you stare at it enough you have more chance of one appearing in your garage. In reality all that actually happens is that at the end of the year all you have is toothpaste and shaving foam all over the picture and the same old car in the garage for the very simple reason that the conscious mind intercepted the picture and thoughts and rationalised something as follows;

"I've never owned a smart car before and neither have any of my colleagues or friends so why should I suddenly get one now"?

A discussion of suitable relaxation techniques is beyond the scope of this post but let me end by repeating what Lovelylou said in her post above.....""We are only scratching the surface of what's possible".

The subconscious mind wields greater power in your life than most people can conceive. Your subconscious mind is the embodiment of who you are. Your feelings, your reactions, your beliefs and the principles by which you live your life are deeply rooted in the subconscious. The subconscious mind also holds miraculous healing power and it is possible to direct that power to heal your mind, spirit and body of any impediment.

Claude M. Bristol said:
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort.
Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

With any Subconscious training ACTION must be followed. The subconscious only triggers things not makes you take action.. you must have the WILL to take ACTION. Also the subconscious does not know steps.. it only knows the End State.. I mean you didn't say the exact steps right.. you just say.. I want to be on a beach and picture it.. How you get there.. is a unknown.

I completely believe in the power of the subconsious mind of an human being, its the most powerful tool that a human possesses. But one should know how to train the subconsious mind works. If its trained to be optimistic the person will be very successful in his life.Thanks

Thank you all for the useful contributions