A New Way Of Life Using Subconscious Mind Power

We all remember the movie Fields of Dreams, with the 'If you build it they will come.' Consider your subconscious mind as your field of dreams where if you THINK it, it will come. Asking yourself 'what will come?' The answer is, whatever you want to come.

Basically, if you can conceive it in your subconscious mind, it can come true.

The power of the mind is a beautiful thing, honestly. The mind has the power to heal us, to transcend us. to make us feel good or make us feel bad. The subconscious mind power that each of us have is enough to completely change the world. if we all would only take control of that power.

Lets look at a few examples of subconscious mind power at work. One of the best examples is well known by most people already. This example is offered because the results have been documented so many times. It is of course the Placebo Effect.

The placebo effect is where a study occurs with two different groups. One group receives the medication that is 'the real deal,' while the other is simply a placebo.

Both of the groups are told what the medication is for and what it should do. Neither of them know if they are getting the real medication or the placebo.

Subconscious mind power comes into play here and in many studies, both groups of participants will report almost exactly the same effects.

Simply, these patients believed they had gotten the medication, so their subconscious minds produced the medication's effects to at least some degree.

Or, let's take another example. Perhaps you've gone to the doctor to get a medication for something that's wrong with you. You may have noticed that although a doctor will tell you what the side effects are, he or she will usually minimize them to at least some extent.

Doctors don't want to throw out all the negative aspects of taking a pill. Doing so will leave you either not wanting to take it, or ending up with the side effects even if they are unbelievably rare due to your mind acting on the information.

What do these two examples above prove? That the power of suggestion AND the power of the subconscious mind will give you a very powerful results.

Seriously, if we already see it work on a medical standpoint, it needs to be used in everyday life. Is it possible? Of course it is, which is why you see so many people strutting their stuff down the street and enjoying their successes.

While focusing on your positive thoughts of the inner mind is a good approach, others tend to take a different route. In today's world it seems that most people turn to using visualization to alter the way their mind sees things. This is can either be done by closing your eyes and picturing it, or see it in the flesh.

Now an alternative way is to actually create a physical picture. Find a photo or picture of the new house or car or whatever you want.

Hang that picture up where you can see it every day. The more you see it, the more you will imprint that vision of yourself with the car you want in your subconscious mind. And because your subconscious mind is so powerful, it will eventually make that become a reality.

This has been common knowledge for years, but we're just now starting to put it into action. Well, some of us anyways, others have already utilized their secret potential hidden within the subconscious mind.

As physicists know, at its essence all matter is made of pure energy and there is evidence which suggests that our minds may be able to influence this energy.

There is an idea which comes from quantum physics that says that matter isn't set into a particular state unless or until there is an observer there to see it.

So matter/energy only exists because it is being observed; in other words it is the mind which is responsible for the matter existing - not the other way around.

So mind power is what creates everything! It is not as we have always believed that our thoughts are created by energy and matter.

There is a huge difference there as you can see and it's what makes the power of your subconscious mind so wonderful. The person who thinks positive is focusing on the big picture as opposed to the 'right now.' However, this is just a small indention of how helpful this can be to changing your life for the better. There is so much out there that we've missed as a society that was practiced thousands of years ago.

What it comes down to is figuring out whether or not it's for you. If you could change your life by thinking about it, wouldn't you at least try it? Just try it out for the next week by simply using the affirmations process.

Start by using visualization techniques and affirmations to focus your mind on your life goals. Start small; as you develop your subconscious mind power, you'll be able to achieve ever greater things in your life.

By charles MENTRAUT

The WillPower Instinct

If you are aware of your habits then you can easily predict what you will do in any situation.  Sometimes your habits are good, you help your neighbours out with their gaden project. Sometimes your habits are not that good: You are overweight and want to be thinner but find yourself eating doughnuts every day at your morning coffee break.
We all have habits that we want to change, but often find that deep seated habits that we have had for many years are very difficult to get rid of. Somehow, we just do not have enough willpower to do it.
You may think that willpower is something you are born with.  Some people seem to have lots of it, and others very little. The Olympic athlete evidently has lots of willpower to endure the punishing training regime that is required to win the gold medal. You, on the other hand may find that you do not have enough willpower to go for a mile jog every day.
Can you train yourself to have more willpower?
According to Kelly McGonigal in her book, The Willpower Instinct, there are ways to do this. Kelly is not some new age, self help guru talking about her own untested ideas. Everything that she discusses in her book is based on sound scientific research. The Willpower Instinct is the most comprehensive book on willpower that I have ever read.
One major  interference with willpower is cravings. You are trying to give up  fatty foods and you see a cheesecake in a shop window that seems to call to you: “Eat me now!”  You feel your body go weak as you feel powerless to stop your feet walking into the shop so that you can have the object of your desire. You feel the tension, the conflict between wanting the cake  and wanting to stick to your low fat diet. Kelly describes what is going on in this situation; how your body releases chemicals, what is going on inside your brain, how mankind’s instincts evolved to deal with this type of situation.
Your brain and body want immediate action, they create the impulse to walk into the cake shop right now. The way to combat this impulse is to pause, to wait,  reflect on what is going on, to be aware of the consequences of eating the cake. The simple act of pausing instead of immediately following an impulse makes it far easier to act in a more rational way.
Like a lot of things in life, to be able to utilise willpower effectively, you need to understand how it operates, what gets in the way and what helps to increase it.
Subjects that Kelly covers in the Willpower Instinct include:

• How deferred pleasure benefits you.
• How willpower gets depleted.
• How wanting is different than happiness .
• What self control is.
• How we turn willpower challenges into measures of moral worth, and how that can be bad for us.
• How guilt gets in the way of willpower.

The Willpower Instinct is based on a 10 week  Science of Willpower course that Kelly McGonigal taught at Stanford University.  The course was much more than theoretical, each week students were given tasks and exercises to do.  Over the the ten weeks students found that their willpower increased considerably. They became more in control of their lives and consequently were happier and less stressed.

You can use this book as a course.  Each chapter discusses an aspect of willpower and ends with exercises and experiments that you can try. It is recommended that you read one chapter a week then practise the exercises over the next 7 days before reading the next chapter. In this way, like the students at Stanford, you will find that your willpower gets stronger and stronger each week.

The Willpower Instinct is a great book. It is written in a very clear, readable style and is a wonderful tool to deal effectively with the issue of willpower.

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