How to Program Your Subconscious Mind

How to Program Your Subconscious Mind 

How to Program Your Subconscious Mind

Our minds consist of two components: the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind takes on the commanding role for our existence and is, in fact, that part of ourselves we refer to as “me.” When you consciously make a decision to do something and then carry it out, it is your conscious mind at work. It gives orders, makes judgments, performs analysis and evaluations, and manages your daily activities. The subconscious mind awaits orders from our conscious mind and accomplishes its tasks under its guidance and commands.

The subconscious mind is just like a computer that manages and controls our beliefs, characteristics, self-confidence, and identity—it also continuously forms our morale. The subconscious mind at each moment can develop a connection with the subconscious minds of other individuals.

The power of communication with everything in the universe is called “the Law of Attraction.” The  subconscious mind receives every single thought as a signal, processes it, and relays it to the universe. The universe responds to this thought and, depending on its nature (positive or negative), produces an appropriate outcome. As Joseph Murphy puts it, “You lose what you condemn, and you attract what you love.” By sending negative signals to the universe, you push things away. On the other hand, by communicating positive thoughts, you attract them.

The subconscious mind works like a computer that can be specifically programmed to achieve desired outputs and results. The result of this processing is an output that forms our belief system and identity, affecting our mood and perception of the external world. Considering the fact that its output is directly related to its input signals, to program the subconscious mind to be successful, we must control its inputs. By controlling the inputs or thoughts of the subconscious, we can control our successes and accomplishments. In the pages ahead, I will show how to systematically control and program the subconscious mind through a set of five principles.

1. The Principle of Consciousness, Self- Awareness, and Constant Insight into Oneself
This principle is the most important one in the Technology of Thought. At each moment, every signal that the subconscious receives builds a corresponding belief and disposition. Therefore, we should always be aware of ourselves and the kinds of signals we receive through our five senses and through our thoughts. This ensures that in a constant state of self-awareness, we send the best possible signals to our subconscious mind.

To this end, the subconscious mind of those who gaze upon the reddest of roses, listen to the chanting of inspiring and positive words, breathe in fragrant aromas, feast on delightful gourmet dishes, sense the subtleties in life at each moment, and inside their thought-generating factory produce positive, creative, goal-oriented, morale-boosting, and constructive thoughts receives the most wonderful of signals and creates life beautifully.

With this attitude, continue reading and know that today an immense transformation will occur in your life: you will be guided onto a beautiful path leading to the masterpiece of your life. Filled with love and emotion, excitement and happiness, determination and resolve, and effort and hope, use the principles of the Technology of Thought and see its tremendous effects on your mind, soul, character, and beliefs. And enjoy your new life—you deserve nothing less.

I commend you for finding a new path for your life and making the effort to create a life of beauty in this world as well as the hereafter. Now here are the rest of the principles to program your subconscious mind.

2. The Power of Focus
Whatever you focus on at each moment is reflected onto your thoughts. For example, focusing on a flower creates a cheerful disposition and positive thoughts in your mind, while focusing on an unpleasant image can bring negative and discouraging thoughts to your mind. Focusing on happy memories brings joy to a person, and focusing on negative ones brings pain. What you focus on has a very important effect on the subconscious mind.

You can program your subconscious mind by constantly focusing on positive past memories and imagining great future successes. When we send positive signals to our internal computer, we create wonderful beliefs in ourselves, attract the good things in life, and make our lives happy and hopeful.

You should always try to control your focus. Focus on beautiful scenarios: scenarios that emerge in the world around you, even things that are outside of your control; those you see with your feelings; and also those that take shape in your mind and occupy your heart. Inputs to your subconscious mind can have deep and desirable effects in your life. Be mindful of the things that you focus on.

3. The Power of the Question
Every question that you ask yourself creates a specific reflection of your state of mind. For example, merely asking the question “Why is it that I’m so fortunate?” boosts mood and state of mind, conveying that “Indeed, I am fortunate.” This sentiment and thought sends a positive signal to the subconscious mind, where the signal is processed and produces a result that can truly be life-changing and can, in fact, elevate one to true happiness and fortune. Depending on the signals it receives, the subconscious mind makes the universe so in tune with us that it fulfills whatever we desire.

The reverse is also true. When a person asks, “Why am I so unfortunate?” merely asking this question immediately gives off a deflated and despondent outlook. This negative signal enters the subconscious mind and gets processed, where it not only creates a mentality that matches the question, it also affects all of creation in such a way that it builds a wall and barrier preventing good fortune from reaching that person.

It’s important to recognize the great effect of each question you ask yourself. You must know that the quality of your life is determined by the type of questions you ask yourself.

Now, considering the effect of each question, what have you decided to do about the kinds of questions you ask yourself every day? Will you be mindful and begin asking yourself positive and invigorating questions, or will you pose negative and destructive ones?

4. The Principle of Using Positive Affirmations
Every sentence that you speak, write, or read has a connotation that is a signal to your subconscious. Therefore, always use positive-emphasis (affirmation) sentences that in some way illustrate your good qualities. These connotations create a reality in your world that is proportional to the connotations. At the same time, the subconscious mind builds the connotations into your belief system and in this way constantly refines your beliefs. Write inspiring sentences and post them all around you—at work and at home. Constantly read them to yourself and firmly take hold of their meaning. Here are some examples of positive affirmations to get you started. Feel free to create many more of your own!

• There is excellence and greatness within me.
• I am brilliant and I use my brilliance to succeed.
• I have great ideas in my head, and I will bring them to fruition.
• Every day, I am healthier and more in shape.
• I am a winner.
• I am truly a unique and special person.
• My world has become so lovely and beautiful.
• As each day passes, I become happier and more blissful.
• I always become successful and victorious in everything I do.
• I am loved in every aspect of my life.
• Wealth and spirituality are always flowing toward me, and I create anything I desire.
• My entire being is filled with energy and joy.
• I always expect good things in my life.
• I am proud of myself.
• Joy, energy, and love emanate from my being and from my face.
• I will live well for the rest of my life.
• The more I give, the more I receive and the more I feel content.
• I will effectively design my life the way I want.
• I am a powerful, creative, and appealing individual.
• I deserve the very best.
• Every second, I thank God for all the blessings and gifts he has bestowed upon me.
• I live in complete serenity, and I am always in a good mood and of cheerful disposition.
• With great power, I have control over all of the things in my life, my thoughts, feelings, and actions, and I manage them with ease.

Aside from positive affi rmations, you can also use positive words and expressions such as serenity, beauty, spirituality, wealth, well-being, a lovely life, great wealth, health, security, happiness, bliss, and so forth.

All of these words and expressions have a unique and positive effect on the subconscious mind. They can bring about that exact reality in your life and strengthen positive beliefs about your abilities and potential.

5. The Principle of Imagination and Visualization

The subconscious mind, like any other computer, can receive images, and at each moment it can obtain  millions of bytes of information in the form of a picture (imagination and visualization), process it, and produce an outcome.

When you create an image in your head, this exact image is imprinted on your mind, and like a series of signals and messages, it has a specifi c effect on your subconscious. The image is processed, and your subconscious mind can bring the impression of the image to life. For example, imagine yourself buying your dream car to take a trip with someone you love. The weather is perfect, you enjoy listening to the music coming from your car radio, and you indulge your eyes by feasting on the view of the landscape. This very image can come to life, exactly as you see it. One day, you will buy that car and you will drive to the exact places you imagined, on the same roads you visualized in your fantasy. Suddenly, as you pass through a turn in the road, you will realize, “I imagined and pictured this exact scene two years ago, at a time when I couldn’t have even thought about buying a car. I only wished and hoped dream.” Using imagination and visualization is one of the best ways to program and guide your subconscious mind.

They say that when he was young, Neil Armstrong, the first person to step foot on the moon, looked up at the moon and said, “Wow, this moon is so beautiful. How great it would be for me to go there and see it up close.” He held on to this dream—and he made it come true.

The formula for making all of your dreams come true is shown in the following diagram:

How to Program Your Subconscious Mind

How to Pinpoint the Career Destination

How to Pinpoint the Career Destination

How to Pinpoint the Career Destination

The basic is to work towards objectives at all times. It is good to have a reputation for knowing what you are doing. It makes sense to know why you are doing it as well. Going to a meeting - set your objectives. Sending one of your people on a training course - set their objectives. Presenting a proposal to customers - know their objectives.

Setting clear objectives is a powerful technique for achieving success, but you need to do it well. Use the SMART acronym to check that your objectives are top quality.

• Stretching

Whatever you are about to do, set a challenging objective. Everybody can achieve easy results, so stretch yourself and do better than average.

• Measurable

You have not finished a good quality objective unless there is a relevant measure of success.

• Achievable

Don't stretch too far. Promotion comes to people who are successful and seen to be successful. If a salesperson sells units to the value of £950,000, it is far better to do this against a target of £900,000 than the more stretching £1,000,000. The first situation is success, the second failure and both for the same actual performance. The salesperson may have gained kudos at the start of the year by being the first person to accept a million pound target, but at the end of the year no one will remember the target, just the fact that the person failed.

Career Case in Point
I spent some time in a selling team with a man who used not only to set objectives for a sales meeting but also think out the exact words he would like the customer to use to show that the objective had been reached. It might be the obvious 'Yes we are going to go ahead', or the softer 'Well, John, when it conies to training courses for marketing people, we will probably ask you first.' This technique gave our sales calls rifle-shot focus. It was also hilarious when the person actually did use the words. It was difficult to keep a straight face rather than jump up and punch the air with your fist.

• Related to the customer

It is the contention of this book that everyone lives by selling something to a customer. Your customer may be external to the organisation for which you work, or an internal department. But they are still your customer; and your objective should always show what is in it for them as well as what is in it for you.

• Time-targeted

An objective has no merit if it does not express when the measure of success should be achieved. You can subject the time target to the test of 'Is it stretching and achievable?' to finish off a thorough job.

There is one set of objectives that you should know and support, and that is your company's objectives. It is difficult to thrive and succeed in an environment that you do not like, working towards objectives you cannot identify with.

How to Pinpoint the Career Destination

How To Present Yourself Well in a Presentation

How To Present Yourself Well in a Presentation

If you have a natural talent for making presentations and you can enjoy them once the nervousness has worn off, you put yourself ahead of the crowd. In some company cultures, indeed, you are pretty much on a slow track if your skills at presentations are poor or if you look scared witless at the end of the presentation as well as at the beginning. At an early stage in your career, volunteer to be the person who presents the results of a workshop, or makes a presentation on some new topic to the departmental meeting.

If you are not a natural at this game, go on training until you can at least survive, although I do know one senior manager who made it to the top and remained a complete liability on his feet. When asked how he did it he replied, 'Ducking and weaving, old boy, I avoided the things like the plague.'

Funnily enough the usual suspects are the best tips for making effective presentations. Set tight objectives and talk exclusively in the terms of the audience. Try not to talk to mixed audiences. It can be difficult to make the same presentation both to the marketing people and to research and development at the same time, even though the topic is of mutual interest.

It is a very good idea to announce the objectives at the start of the presentation. The audience then knows where you are going to take them. Some people avoid this since you do run the risk that someone in the audience will say that it will not be possible for you to achieve your objectives. Logically it is better to know this at the start of the presentation than at the end. Who knows, if you know what the audience's objections are, you may be able to use the presentation itself to overcome them.

Think about your preparation in three areas:

• the structure of the content or argument;
• the mechanics of the room and the visual aids; and
• your personal delivery.

Structure

Before you start, make sure that it is the right time to make the presentation in the first place. Quite often you could achieve your objectives in some other way that costs less and possibly has less risk. Mind you, if the point of the presentation is to raise your profile, then ignore this advice. Make sure also that you have done everything possible before the presentation that can help to achieve the objectives. Getting the most senior person on your side before you begin is a good idea. Finally make sure you know your audience well enough. What will motivate them to think your idea a good one? What is in it for them? Aim at making effective presentations as well as elegant ones, and use your performance on the day to give it a theatrical edge.

Mechanics

More can go wrong with the mechanics of a presentation than you would believe. I have seen people arrive with visual aids that the room did not have the facilities to show. I have seen piles of overhead projector slides
dropped and mixed up, flipchart stands falling over, overhead projector slides slowly curling up until they display nothing and so on. The main messages here are: keep it simple, know the room, and rehearse in it beforehand if possible.

Next get the timing right. People do not like presentations going on beyond the time allowed, particularly if you are one item on an agenda. Be prepared for the questions you will be asked and objections that will be raised. It is excellent technique to role-play the audience's questions with a colleague at rehearsal time.

Delivery

Strange as it may seem, if you set good objectives and get the structure and mechanics right, your delivery will not be the make or break of the presentation. This is why many people who do not regard themselves as natural performers can give effective presentations time after time. If you are using the right words in the right order and your visual aids work, most of the battle is done. But there are some rules of thumb that can be useful.

The first of these is to check that the talk is interesting - really interesting - to the audience not just to you. This rule tends to make presentations shorter rather than longer. The old comic's maxim 'always leave them wanting more' holds good in business life. Do not go on if you have achieved your objective.

Making the audience laugh is a good thing; telling jokes in the manner of 'I wonder if you have heard the one about ...' is bad. Always weave yourself into the story. You met the person who said ... or you were in the train with a man who ... Even if it is an outrageous gag that you could not possibly have witnessed, they will enjoy the story much more than if you raise a huge sign post saying 'Joke coming'.

Finally check your delivery for the abstract and avoid it. Talk in simple concrete terms and don't pad it out in any way.

Avoid the slow track of poor presenters by following these simple rules of persuasive communication.

How To Present Yourself Well in a Presentation