The Genie Within: Your Subconscious Mind (26 page)
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Authors: Harry Carpenter
This method is useful to curb an unrealistic attraction to something like, say, chocolate candy. Close your eyes, go into the alpha state and visualize lots of chocolate candy. Reduce the size of the picture. Now visualize something of the same color as chocolate but that is disgusting. Smell the foul odor. Feel the icky, gooey, unpleasant texture. Taste it if you have the nerve. Just the thought makes you sick. You feel like you want to throw up. Repeat three times.
Anthony Robins, the positive-thinking guru, describes the use of overlaying a bit differently. He suggests you mentally picture a scene of the thing you want to change. Say you want to change a habit of overeating. You would picture yourself eating gluttonously, really making a pig of yourself. See how disgusting you look wolfing down big bites of food. Feel the sickening sensation that comes after you overeat.
Then, in the lower right corner of your mental screen, place a very small screen. In that small screen visualize yourself eating properly and quitting before you feel full. Feel good about yourself for eating this way. Feel and think about being healthy. See yourself eating properly. See yourself stopping before you feel full. Feel good about yourself for being in control. Then, quickly magnify the positive small screen and let it replace the large picture of your gluttonous eating. As you do this, say aloud, “whooooosh.” Repeat the process three times. Robins claims the “whoooosh” is important.
You may have to do this a few days to reinforce the positive habit. Be sure to add strong positive emotions to the good picture.
ACTING
Acting is a powerful tool in using your subconscious mind. I already mentioned the documentary on PBS TV in which a professor claimed hypnotism was acting.
Acting as if
has a huge asset. When you are acting,
everything
is logical. I could ask you to
believe
that your hand is stuck to your forearm. That is illogical and unbelievable. It would be impossible to have faith in that. But if I ask you to
act as if
your hand was stuck to your forearm, you could do that easily. Acting does not require
belief
or
faith
.
Recall that your subconscious mind finds ways to achieve the goals you give it. So if you are feeling blue, you are giving your subconscious mind the goal of being blue. Being blue is not healthy and you should not want to stay that way. But to tell your subconscious mind that you are happy may be unbelievable to you. If it is unbelievable, then you will have some fear of failure. This fear of failure will probably overpower your
will
to be happy (The Law of Reversed Effort).
But you can
act as if
you are happy. Acting as if you are happy will accomplish two goals. One, it will give your subconscious mind the goal of being happy. Two, it will send neurotransmitters from your body cells to your brain cells telling your brain that you
are
happy. Then your brain will become happy and, in turn, send neurotransmitters that will make your body feel happy. The folklore, “Act happy and you will become happy” is true. Studies prove that neurotransmitters travel both ways. When you feel happy, your subconscious mind sends messages to your body to act happy. Conversely, when your body acts happy, your body cells send messages to your brain that you
are
happy.
It is easier to
act
well when you are sick than it is to
believe
you are well. If you do not give your subconscious mind the thought, the goal of being well, it, conversely, has the goal of being sick. So learn to ACT AS IF...
ACTING ROUTINE—EXERCISE
ACTING—CONSCIOUS MIND/SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
WORKING TOGETHER
Close your eyes
.Go to alpha...3...2...1...“ALPHA”
Look up about 20 degrees and see a small black dot
.Visualize the dot coming closer and getting larger and larger until it surrounds you. Surrounded by blackness, think of being in a black room
.This is your sanctuary...a place where you think with harmonic energy...energy with a singular goal...This is where you can replace bad habits and eliminate negative emotions
.Now imagine a stage in an auditorium
.You are the director and you are watching from where the audience sits
.On stage, you see yourself. You are an actor
.Then you realize there are two of you acting
.One is guided by your conscious mind; the other is guided by your subconscious mind
.They are not getting along
.They are not listening to each other
.They are fighting...they are not working together at all
.Your conscious mind is giving commands and your subconscious mind is ignoring them
.Your subconscious mind knows it can do so many things, but your conscious mind is being critical and carping
.Your conscious mind knows what is best for your body, but your subconscious mind is acting only on emotion
.You see your subconscious mind eating too much food only because it tastes good
.You see your body acting sick needlessly because of negative and false emotions
.You have seen enough as director, and you firmly yell, “Stop, enough!” You demand the following:
This is enough...no more of this bad acting!
From now on you two, conscious mind and subconscious mind, must work and act together...as a team
.From now on you must communicate constructively and lovingly
.From now on you two love each other...it is only natural...you are of the same body
.From now on you both must work lovingly for your highest good...your body’s highest good...and for everybody else’s good also
.From now on conscious mind is in charge...but conscious mind is a loving boss...selfless...only entertaining the thought of the highest good of subconscious mind and your precious body
.From now on, conscious mind must only entertain healthful, positive thoughts during all waking hours
.Conscious mind constantly talks to subconscious mind and guides it, and gives it positive, well thought out goals
.Subconscious mind gladly fulfills each goal in the fastest, easiest possible way
.Subconscious mind keeps your body healthy and vital...All old negative emotions are now dissolved and discarded
.Both conscious mind and subconscious mind now merge back into one body
.Now walk up to your body and enter it
.Look out through your eyes and see the stage around you
.Feel the fellowship of a conscious mind and subconscious mind that work together...and love each other
.Sense how better the world is because of this change
.See yourself—your conscious mind and subconscious mind acting together for your highest good
.Act like you can cure any ill or situation that comes up
.Act as if miracles are common in your life
.Act as though your conscious mind can accomplish anything with the aid of your subconscious mind...act as if nothing is too difficult to accomplish...act as if you have absolute faith...pure and resolute. Act like this is normal
.Now visualize a pure white, loving cloud over your head representing love, which is harmonic energy from the one source
.This cloud shifts down on you and covers you and everything around you
.You are one with yourself...you feel complete
.Now everything takes on a golden glow
.This golden glow represents harmony...harmony between your conscious mind and subconscious mind...harmony between you and the outside world...between you and your inner self
.Feel this glow and act as though you know for absolute certainty that this harmony is with you from now on
.Now go back to the black room
.See the black dissolving and becoming a black spot above your head
.See the black spot fade and disappear in the distance
.1...2...feeling refreshed and elated...3, you are wide awake. Open your eyes and smile
.Act happy and vibrant and energetic
.
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Access Your Brain’s Joy Center
,” by Pete A. Sanders Jr., Free Soul Publishing, Sedona, AZ
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METHODS of Using
Your Subconscious
Mind, Part 3
Lesson Eight
METHODS OF USING YOUR
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, PART
3
THE CLASSIC METHOD
B
efore I describe the “Classic Method” of conditioning, two more tools of the subconscious mind need to be explained: “triggers” and “instant playback.”
TRIGGERS AND
CONDITIONED RESPONSES
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for his famous experiment on conditioned reflexes. Even though most readers are familiar with this experiment, it is so important that I will review it.
Pavlov showed food to a hungry dog. The dog salivated. After showing the food to the hungry dog a few times, he rang a bell at the same time he showed the food. After ringing the bell several more times while showing the food to the dog, the dog became “conditioned” to the bell. After the dog was conditioned to the bell, any time Pavlov rang the bell, the dog salivated even without the food.
In other words, the response of salivating at the sight of food was transferred to the sound of a bell, something that had nothing to do with food or hunger. There is no natural connection between a ringing bell and salivating.