Understanding The Simple Nature Of Subliminals And The Complex Mindsets It Affects
Subliminals:
Magic or Science?
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A while back I tried to explain to a friend how subliminals worked. My friend was very skeptical and wasn’t even willing to hear me out. I told him to just give me a few minutes to explain it uninterrupted and I would give him enough information to understand it scientifically, as well as with faith, but he had to keep an open mind.
The result as you can guess is he did listen with an open mind and although he was still unsure if this was real or hype, I could see in his eyes that something got through those conscious filters to the subconscious mind where although still skeptical, there is more latitude for believing things based on pure understanding, vs. needing "current" proof. I will explain what I mean by that before your done reading this module on subliminals, but the short explanation is this.
Faith is not about believing in what you can't see, it's about trusting your intuition because it's wisdom is based on what you don't THINK you saw or rather REMEMBER CONCIOUSELY that you saw, heard, felt, smelled, tasted, and so on..
Let’s Dive first into the function of the Brain, then we’ll dive into the way subliminals work
One thing to remember is that the mind is never turned off. It spends every moment awake and asleep thinking and processing what its "recorded" through the five senses. When asleep the power being used in the visual parts of the brain (i.e. the eyes) are rerouted to other parts of the brain used for processing dreams, thoughts, perceptions and so on. Your dreams, no matter how alien the components may be to you, are ALL things you've seen at some point (the visual things in your dreams). People in your dreams you don't recognize are people you've passed in the mall, or saw on television (an extra?) or on your walk from work to the Starbucks.
While you’re talking to your friend on this walk for example, you are recording everything around you, but your mind is engaged in conversation with your friend at the same time. Though your focus is on her, and your conversation, out of the corner of your eye you see subconsciously recording, other people, even hear conversations in the distance. Standing in a crowded subway every single distinct voice you hear, that to your conscious mind is about 100 different people talking hence gibberish, to the subconscious mind is being recorded and even separated into 100 different conversations.
Think about it this way. Given enough time you could focus in on each of those voices consciously, and thus subconsciously it's the same thing. This doesn't mean that your subconscious is processing and "solving the puzzle" in real time, much of it gets processed later in dreams and so forth. Dreams are more than your minds way of sifting through your problems and unresolved issues, it is also when your mind is most free to process what it's recorded while you were awake.
The subconscious mind works about a hundred times more quickly than the conscious mind. When you dream your actually dreaming in fast forward. Hours in a dream are in reality only a split second in the real world. We remember our dreams in "time distortion" or based on the speed in which we dream, slow motion, because to consciously process it we have to slow it down first (this is one reason we tend to have a hard time remembering our dreams. We remember them but they are playing so fast they are out of range for our conscious mind to play them back to us lucidly.
Your intuition is fueled by this information coming in all the time. You have an enormous data base of information from a life time of recordings, this non stop data stream coming from the five senses. This collective synergy is your sixth sense, "Intuition". And you thought that inner voice knew things just magically? Nope, it was your own journey through life that gave it so much wisdom which started as mere knowledge. Knowledge is potential power, when you use it, then it becomes real power. This is one reason that the more you actively live your life the more answers you will get to the hard questions like "what is the meaning of life?".
The Limitations of the Conscious Mind
The conscious mind always wants proof, this is its nature, and it’s downfall- and it’s power source as well. The subconscious mind however also demands proof but its proof is often already inherent in the information the person has been recording since they were just a single cell in their mother’s womb.
The fact of the matter is this. The conscious mind doesn’t have enough access to information you’ve already processed subconsciously, so it seeks this information externally. It’s not that the subconscious mind isn’t willing to share, it’s ALWAYS trying to share, the problem is we tend to listen to the conscious mind, no matter how many times it’s gotten us into trouble, and we ignore our intuition, no matter how many times its gotten us OUT of trouble! The subconscious mind has FULL access to the internal database of information so it can make a decision based on proof that is already there.
Before I get down to explaining this subliminal thing, I want to explain how the mind works in as much a layman concept as I can. I’ll start by giving you the same explanation I gave my friend. Then I’ll take you deeper down the rabbit hole.
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Anything that influences the subconscious is a "suggestion", which the subconscious, eventually, accepts and then "runs with." But the subconscious won't run with it until the person "acts as if" the suggestion were a fact, now. Make sense? (Yes)
For example, if I listen to a track full of subliminal messages to help me study better, my subconscious isn't going to pay heed to it until I consciously start to study. It will remember the information, and store it for use when I actually do apply study habits, but until then it is just “Information”. They say information is power but the reality is that information is “potential” power. Power is when that information is used, and learned in context with experience. Then it becomes wisdom. Wisdom can be used like a tool box, it can be shaped to fit any situation and so on, where as knowledge is just raw data. You with me so far? (yes).
When I start to act as though I was now a phenomenal student, then my subconscious would really, really say, oh, he means business about all this study stuff, and start to build all the affirmations on the track into actual habit patterns, which it does as the knowledge is “used” and it’s truth proven in “results”.
On the other hand, if all I do is play Ever Quest 24 hours a day, I can listen to a subliminal study track till I'm blue in the face and it won't take. Because at that point it’s just potential power waiting for you to plug in the appliance that will make use of it. This is when that information gets used or rather applied to something else. i.e. if I use the concepts of studying as a way to map out a good study habit, then see that it actually does make studying easier, thus at that point I have proof, and it becomes an integrated skill set. I could of course also use it for other things i.e. these habits may help me to do a better job at routine tasks at work, but I have to morph this knowledge to the work routine then the cycle begins again.
Bottom line, I can't become a guitar virtuoso if I don't ever pick up a guitar and practice, no matter how many subliminals I listen to improve my guitar playing skills. Once I DO start playing, however, the subconscious thinks, “oh, that's what he meant!", and then I rock :). All the subliminal messages that were there but dormant as they had no form of expression yet to earn their muscles/experience all of a sudden act as instinct and it’s just a matter of blending action with knowledge to create wisdom.
People think subliminals do the work, but they don't. They set the pattern for action, but the listener has to take the action, even to accept the subliminals as truth, their truth, a means to an end they want, before they are taken seriously. Nothing's free in this world, lol. We still have to work for what we want.
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