How Does The Subconscious Work?
Our subconscious mind starts programming in our mother’s womb. The strongest memories are programmed between ages 1-7. What we see, hear, observe, touch, and taste with our 5 senses, is what we hold on to our whole life. These could be how your parents acted and spoke, how their view towards life was. What you picked up from your culture, school, friends. What did you observe where you lived, or some experiences that were hurtful, or happy? Our subconscious is designed to teach us and protect us from danger. That’s why it constantly most of the time is ready to protect us. This is why we think about negative things more, we are always ready for fight and flight moments. Our subconscious is designed to focus on the negative more to protect us. What happens is that we end up focusing on negative things so much that we start feeling bad and attracting more negative things in our lives. Here is a list of how our subconscious mind works. When you know it you can be mindful about your thoughts and start training your mind.
The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind
1- The subconscious mind cannot distinguish between right and wrong, reality or dreams.
Cannot distinguish between imagination and reality. The same area of the brain is always stimulated and ready to program.
2- The subconscious does not understand the past and future; There is only the “MOMENT”, that is, “NOW”. Everything you are thinking about that was in the past, subconscious thinks it’s happening now. Every feeling or vision you think about in the past subconscious thinks it living it now.
3- The subconscious mind processes language differently from the conscious mind. While the conscious mind analyzes sentences logically and contextually, the subconscious mind tends to pick up on individual images, words, emotions, and tones, often bypassing the logical structure of sentences. Here’s a more detailed explanation:
Priming and Association:
- The subconscious mind operates heavily on associations and patterns. When it hears a word, it often triggers a network of related concepts, memories, and emotions associated with that word. For example, hearing the word “happy” might evoke feelings of joy or memories of happy times, regardless of1 whether the sentence was “I am not happy.”
Repetition and Emphasis:
- Words that are repeated or emphasized are more likely to be absorbed by the subconscious. Advertisers and marketers use this principle to make certain words or phrases stick in the minds of consumers. This is because repetition creates stronger neural pathways in the brain, making it easier for the subconscious to recall those words. That’s why affirmations work when you aren’t to reprogram your subconscious.
Emotional Resonance:
- Words that carry strong emotional weight are more likely to be internalized by the subconscious. Positive or negative emotions attached to words can make them more salient. For instance, the word “fear” can trigger a subconscious response even if the context of the sentence downplays it.
Non-verbal Cues:
- The tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language accompanying spoken words can influence how the subconscious interprets them. A comforting tone might make a negative word seem less threatening, while a harsh tone can make a neutral word feel more aggressive.
Contextual Overlaps:
- The subconscious mind doesn’t always disregard the context entirely, but it processes it in a more fluid and less analytical way. It can create a generalized understanding based on the overall emotional and thematic content of a conversation rather than focusing on precise logical structures.
Cognitive Biases:
- The subconscious mind is subject to various cognitive biases, such as confirmation bias, where it tends to favor information that confirms preexisting beliefs. This can influence how words are understood and retained. For instance, a person who feels insecure might subconsciously latch onto negative words and disregard positive ones, even if the overall message is supportive.
In summary, the subconscious mind processes words through a lens of emotion, repetition, association, and non-verbal cues, often independently of the logical and contextual analysis performed by the conscious mind. This explains why certain words can have a strong impact on our feelings and behaviors, even if the logical context suggests otherwise.
The subconscious confirms the word it hears by associating an emotion with that word. Every word it hears has some kind of emotion attached to that word. These emotions come from our programmed beliefs and beliefs that we took upon ourselves while growing up.
It hears words not the whole sentence. For example, smoking. “I want to quit smoking”. The word “smoking” in the sentence or, “I don’t want to get fat.”
It takes the word “fat” in the sentence and the word “accident” in the sentence “drive safe”. If your subconscious mind associates the word safe with an accident or a negative image, every time you say drive safe, it will think of the accident or the terrible event without realizing it. This is how we end up being controlled and manipulated by our thoughts. Subconscious beliefs control our mood, happiness, fears, anxiety, and happiness.
4- The subconscious hates change and does not like it.
When you want to change your thoughts and emotions, it will react. It will bring in old patterns to change you back to the old comfortable adapted feelings and beliefs. You need to be mindful of your thoughts and emotions and direct them the way you want them to think, act, and behave.
5- The subconscious speaks and remembers more with symbols rather than words. It is more visual.
6- The most important beliefs and emotions are programmed by your subconscious from age 1-7. The subconscious completes all its programming until the first 1-7 years of age. After all these programmed memories and emotional behaviors, it will start seeing life through a programmed lens. If a 5-year-old girl was told by her mother, “You are so clumsy or you can’t remember anything”. When a 5-year-old hears this statement, he or she will accept it as true and this belief about herself will reflect on their later life and relationships. Since emotions dominate, it becomes difficult to establish healthy relationships or have confidence. With every word child hears from parents or people around them, they will associate a feeling with that word and they will start labeling themselves as if they are what they hear. They make conditions and beliefs according to what they hear from others because they come to this earth on an empty pure consciousness.
7- The subconscious is connected to the collective subconscious. Subconscious is influenced by other people’s subconscious. The collective subconscious is what’s out there, what we hear from others, media, school, and friends. That’s another reason why we need to be mindful of our thoughts and direct them.
8- The subconscious has no sense of humor and will accept everything.
9- The subconscious is persistent and impatient like a small child and wants whatever he wants. Even if it harms oneself like smoking, or drinking alcohol. Many people’s self-destructive desires come from subconscious behaviors. If you want to change the subconscious behavior patterns that you are stuck on, you must be more persistent and re-program your beliefs by repetition.
10- The subconscious is sensitive to constant repetition. Constantly experiencing a thought or feeling. This is why sometimes we end up thinking about something over and over again. If you repeat it, it will eventually accept it and save it. That’s why affirmations work.
11- The language of the subconscious mind is like a 5-year-old child. Understand simple and clear explanations.
For example, he takes the words “I am rich” but says “The universe wants me to be rich”. He does not understand the sentence “it opens all roads”.
13- The subconscious affects a person’s attitudes and records directly what it hears. For example, subconsciously if a person says “I am successful” it will automatically understand and start recording what it hears in simple words. That’s when you need repetition.
14- The subconscious does not suspect or question anything. Therefore, you should be very careful what commands you give.
15- The subconscious is also there to warn us and protect us from danger. In situations. It helps us to make the right decisions without realizing how to protect us. For example, fire is hot, don’t walk barefoot, and watch out for incoming traffic. These are programs that protect us as well. It is there to protect us and is always in fight or flight mode. That’s why we tend to focus on things more to protect us. That is why we try to keep and focus on those emotions that are more fear-based.
16- The subconscious has imagination but cannot distinguish between dreams and reality. When you start imagining positive things and things that you want and desire instead of focusing on the negative, that’s when you will start changing your life.
