Don't Shoot Yourself in the Foot!

Your unconscious mind is probably something you rarely think about - who does? - but anytime you have a problem is a good time to start thinking about your unconscious mind and speaking to it seriously every day, because it can do you a lot of very big favours.

Your unconscious is much more powerful than your conscious mind, and knowlegeable in a completely different way. It does a lot of important things for you all the time - if it wasn't doing its job right now, for example, you'd have serious problems breathing in and out without spending all your time thinking about it - but the most interesting thing your unconscious mind can do for you is to initiate personal change and help you to achieve your goals.

Turning what is effectively a daydream into a reality isn't difficult - it's just a matter of imagining and visualising very clearly and very slowly exactly what you want to achieve over and over again until your unconscious gets the message.

You can do that at any time of the day - and in fact the more often you do it the better - but optimum visualisation times are just before you go to sleep, when you're just waking up, just before you eat, or when you're showering, jogging, or relaxing, because those are the times when you're in an ideal state of mind to get the best results.

This kind of visualisation is actually a very mild form of self-hypnosis, and it works (just like regular hypnosis) because your unconscious mind can't tell the difference between what's real and what's imaginary, has no sense of linear time, reacts uncritically to suggestions and ideas, and acts upon them without judgement.

Your conscious mind knows perfectly well, of course, that the images you create when you visualise what you want to change or achieve are imaginary, but your unconscious mind isn't capable of making that distinction - or of interpreting those images as things that might happen in the future. It sees them as representing situations that are factual and real NOW - and it's able to make them factual and real NOW by using all of its formidable resources to ensure that you act in an appropriate way.

Simply put, if you imagine and visualise yourself as a confident person, you will become a confident person, because your unconscious mind believes that you are a confident person, and changes your behaviour to reflect what it believes to be true.

There is, of course, a fly in this ointment.

Every thought or idea automatically produces images.

Think of a rabbit.

See that rabbit?

What do you think happens if you consistently think of yourself as a failure, error prone, accident prone, fearful of something - or 'surplus to requirements'?

Your unconscious mind responds to your thoughts and ideas and makes change happen in accordance with what it believes to be factual and real NOW - and what it comes to believe to be factual and real NOW depends on you.

Maintaining positive thoughts about yourself and your future is essential to your good health, happiness, and success. Don't shoot yourself in the foot!

Bill - http://www.therapypartnership.com