The Hidden Power That Can Bring You Everything You Want
Have you ever wondered how two students can study the same materials, take the same course, and do the same homework--yet one gets an "A" and the other gets a "C"? Have you ever wondered how two entrepreneurs can start similar businesses, utilize similar strategies, and employ similar staff--yet one business fails and the other takes off like a rocket?
Why is this? Why do some people seem to draw energy and success to themselves like a super-magnet, despite less-than-average intelligence, wealth, and background?
The answer is because they are using the greatest tool on earth. They are releasing the hidden power within their mind that brings more wealth, health, and happiness to them. You also have this power. It's called your subconscious mind. And the difference between those who succeed, and those who don't, is that successful individuals use their subconscious minds (whether they realize it or not) to attract to them what they want.
Your Mind Has Two Parts
You have only one mind, but that one mind possessed two distinct parts--each with separate attributes and powers. The two parts of your mind are the conscious and subconscious. Let's look at the characteristics of both:
- The Conscious Mind
Your conscious mind is like the navigator/captain of a ship. He directs the ship. He sends orders to the crew. They, in turn, control the instruments, steering, boilers, and so on. The crew and people in the engine room don't know where they are going. They simply carry out his orders. He's the captain and they obey him because he is in charge. In fact, they would steer the ship onto a reef if the captain gave faulty instructions.
- The Subconscious Mind
Your conscious mind is the captain of your ship. Your subconscious mind takes all the orders you give it, based upon what your conscious mind believes and accepts as true. It does not question the orders.
Whatever you habitually think with your conscious mind sinks down into your subconscious mind, which then attracts what it needs to make those things come into being. Your subconscious is your creative mind. If you dwell on wealth, wealth will follow. If you dwell on lack, lack will follow.
The Law of Attraction
The important thing to remember is this: Once your subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. And it will attract what it needs in order to manifest your beliefs into your physical life. Whatever you claim mentally and feel as true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring forth into your experience. All you have to do is get your subconscious mind to accept an idea. Once that happens, it will bring forth the wealth and prosperity you desire. This is often referred to as The Law of Attraction.
It is important to remember that your conscious and subconscious are simply two spheres of activity going on within your own mind. Your conscious mind is the reasoning mind--the one that chooses. For example, you choose the books you read, your job where you work, and the car you drive. You make all your decisions with your conscious mind.
Your subconscious mind unconditionally accepts what is impressed upon it by the conscious mind. It does not reason. It is like a bed of soil that accepts any kind of seed, good or bad. Your thoughts are the seeds. Destructive, anxious, futile thoughts continue to work negatively in your subconscious mind. Sooner or later they will emerge and take shape as an outer experience that reflects those thoughts. They will attract into your physical world what you have planted in your mental world.
Changing Your Results
Now that you understand the two parts of your mind, you can see why two seemingly-similar people can get such different results from a seemingly-similar scenario. If two entrepreneurs open similar businesses with a similar business plan, they will each get different results. Why? Because they react differently to the challenges they face based on the conditioning or beliefs within their subconscious minds.
If you haven't been getting the results you want in your life, start paying attention to the messages you let in. Think of your conscious mind as the "watchman at the gate." Here are three ways to change what you're getting:
- Fill your conscious mind with the images, thoughts, and beliefs you want it to plant into your subconscious mind. If you haven't been doing this, it will not be easy at first. But just being aware of the two parts of your mind, and the roles they fill, will start to reverse the trend.
- Surround yourself with the people and experiences that will positively impact your beliefs. Many of your beliefs are formed based on your familiarity with what's close to you. The more supportive, positive, and encouraging your environment is--the easier it will be to impregnate your subconscious with constructive thoughts.
- Identify your negative beliefs about money, work, love, etc. Unexamined, they create behaviors that will cause failures in your life. From there, begin to make constructive autosuggestions to yourself. In other words, write down, mentally go over, or verbally repeat the new messages. Over time, the new messages will begin to replace the old messages and recondition your mind.
Your subconscious mind is the most powerful tool you have. It can bring you everything you want. Use it to create more wealth, health, and happiness in your life.
Co-create Your Future How YOU Want It to Be
We've all heard the age-old advice about the power of positive thinking. How many times have you heard someone trot out a line about filling your mind with good, positive images and avoiding the negative ones?
Now that you understand the concept of the subconscious mind, it should be clearer than ever why doing this is important. Positive thinking is important because the thoughts and images that occupy your conscious mind become seeds planted permanently in your subconscious mind. And your subconscious mind will make them real!
Speaking of seeds, let's consider an acorn. When an acorn falls to the ground, it will remain an acorn until it comes into contact with soil and water. When it does that, it begins a change. Particles of energy in the earth are attracted to it. Shoots extend from the bottom of the acorn into the soil to find more water. Another shoot at the top becomes a stem and reaches for the sun.
As the roots grow, they extend further and deeper into the soil--attracting the water and minerals they need for this new sapling to flourish. The stem produces leaves, and these leaves spread themselves out, attracting sunlight and particles from the atmosphere.
As the acorn continues to expand, at some point it ceases to be an acorn and instead becomes an oak tree. The roots, bark, trunk, branches, and leaves are all produced from the acorn, which had a patterned plan for life built within its nucleus.
Choose Your Own Programming
Once the acorn comes into contact with what it needs for life, there is no doubt what it will become. It will become an oak tree. You are much like an acorn in that you are a seed that will grow when given energy.
However, unlike the acorn, what you become is not predestined. You can choose your own future. And the fertilizer--the thoughts and images--you allow into your subconscious mind will determine what you become. Unlike the acorn, you are a co-creator; you can choose your own programming. Therefore, the beliefs you hold... the things you consciously dwell on... are planted deeply into the vault of your subconscious mind. And it is these things that become the patterned plan for what you will grow into.
Overcoming Negative Suggestions
From the day you were born, you've been bombarded with negative suggestions. As a child--or at some point during your lifetime--you've undoubtedly heard:
- You can't.
- It's no use.
- You'll fail.
- You're not allowed.
- Life is too hard.
- Don't trust anyone.
- It's not worth it.
- It's too much trouble.
- And on and on...
We could fill pages with the other people's negative rules and regulations for us. But now that you understand the power of your subconscious mind--and how to change those long-held negative beliefs--it's time to write your own rules. It's time to create your own future. Beginning right now, choose your own programming. Make sure the beliefs you hold ARE YOURS, not those that were taught or suggested to you by others.
In addition, make sure you surround yourself with positive energy and fill your mind with constructive beliefs. You are the co-creator of your own life. And unlike the acorn, you can be whatever type of tree you want to be.
With the skills you've learned in this issue, you can literally begin programming yourself for success. With an empty chalkboard to write on, make your health, wealth, and career exactly what you want them to be.
