This is part three of this series, and if you’ve just got here you might want to read part one and part two first. Then stay tuned for the last post of the series next week.
In this post we are going to discuss how you can align your conscious with your subconscious to attract more business, because no matter what you do, you Can’t Succeed unless You Do This.
Are you Lacking Positive Results?
Perhaps you have read many self development books or listened to many audio tutorials before, only to find your life to be and stay the same. Doesn’t it ring true? I know it does for many of you because that certainly was the case for me as well. This is so true for so many people that some say that those self help books and tutorials are all bogus. However, have you ever asked yourself that the reason it didn’t work was not so much that the advice and tips were wrong, but that you were not reaching the root of the problem with it?
If you haven’t been able to get helped with all that you’ve done so far, while you have “tried hard”, is because you haven’t been able to align your conscious mind with your subconscious mind. As long as this is not done, you will keep seeing the same pattern happening in your life, over and over again. Let me explain why…
What Happens when your Conscious and Subconscious are not Aligned?
Let’s says you are trying to pass a message along to someone in the English language, but that person doesn’t understand a word of English. It doesn’t matter how many times you are going to repeat yourself, or how articulate you might try to be, or even write it down on a piece of paper, they will still not get it, will they?.
As long as you do not speak in the language that the person understands, you won’t be successful because those foreign words will NEVER enter the brain of their brain. period. Your words will remain like useless noises. You might as well not say anything at all, and the result would be EXACTLY the same.
I’m sure you’ve got the point very clearly with this illustration, didn’t you? Well, I’ve chosen this easy to understand example to show you that it’s the same thing with your subconscious mind. It doesn’t matter how many self help materials you’ve bought, or how long you’ve tried to apply them; if your conscious doesn’t speak the same language as your subconscious nothing will ever change. Once you’ve understood this, you’ve already made a huge progress in your pursuit of success.
You Cannot Create With Your Conscious Mind
Let’s repeat that one more time, you cannot create with your conscious mind. This is the main reason why what you want consciously, and what you get is different on many levels. For example, you might consciously want and pray for a BMW, but you are still driving your old car. You might be craving for that ideal partner, but you are still single. You might be wanting to be rich, but you are still struggling paying those bills.
This happens all the time to countless people out there, because they have not managed to align their conscious want with their subconscious programming. Out of the two, the subconscious programming ALWAYS wins.
As Dr. Robert Anthony puts it this way: The reason you’re broke is your subconscious counter-intention within your ESP is stronger than your conscious intention. Until they both agree – you’re stuck!
That tells it all, doesn’t it?
What you need to do is stop working so hard at the conscious level, because it’s useless. Instead, start working with your subconscious mind and reprogram it, using your conscious mind, telling it what you want. This way, both your subconscious and conscious will be on the same accord. They will be aligned. But how do you do this? By speaking to your essential silent partner or ESP and bypassing the critical factor also called the gatekeeper.
What is Your Essential Silent Partner?
Dr. Robert Anthony which I mentioned in my last post has quoted a name for the subconscious mind that I really like. He calls it our Essential Silent Partner or ESP for short. It’s not that our subconscious mind tries to be difficult and works against us when it’s not delivering what we ask for consciously, it’s just that it’s that part of us that is suppose to protect us from danger, so it’s well protected by our critical factor which works as a get keeper to protect our subconscious from new ideas to come in. Sometimes, it just does a bit too well, so to speak.
The problem is that in doing so it also protects us from good things to enter. Our subconscious is solid and strong and it’s not easy to get it to “destroy” old programming. Again, this is for our own good, so what is needed to change our results in our life, whatever that may be is to go deep inside and reprogram our subconscious mind without dealing with the critical factor. We need to put in there the same things we want consciously, so we can bring both our conscious and subconscious mind in harmony, also called in alignment.
You can work with your essential silent partner to bring about what you want, but you need to pass the message along the right way. Remember, our subconscious or essential silent partner is here to protect us, and give us what is best for us. Sometimes, it’s just a bit confused because it’s been programmed wrong. It’s like a computer that has been infected with a virus; it doesn’t work properly. But like a computer, we can fix it.
What is The Best Way to Get your Conscious in Alignment with your Subconscious?
The best way to get to the source, which is your subconscious mind, in alignment with your conscious desires is self hypnosis. I know I’ve mentioned that in my previous post, but it works so well that’s it worth mentioning again.
I have been using Dr. Robert Anthony self hypnosis method which is one of the best one I’ve seen. It’s very simple and fast and it really works. When I say work is that it’s one sure way to pass your conscious desires onto your subconscious without the critical factor interfering, and preventing what you want to enter and reach your subconscious.
You can achieve this type of results without using self hypnosis, but it’s a much longer process and unless you are relentless, it’s very hard to achieve for most people. That’s why they keep buying personal development tool after personal development tool with no to very limited results.
Well explained Sylviane!
I do follow all that you mentioned about how we need to align our conscious with our subconscious, whether for the sake of business or even if we want to reach within and connect with our subconscious.
I think a major difference would occur only if our conscious speaks the same language as our subconscious, which is when everything will be aligned and there would be a better connection. And all this happens when we start working with our subconscious mind and as you mentioned reprogram it using our conscious mind, telling it what we want.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful information with all of us. Self-hypnosis surely seems like something worth trying. 🙂
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Hi Harleena,
Yes, indeed that is the whole point, a major difference would and will occur when the conscious speaks the same language as the subconscious. It will be a day and night kind of difference.
I took the example of languages because I speak different languages myself. When I watch a French movie that I love and laugh or cry it’s ONLY because I understand this language, if I was born here and didn’t understand the French language that movie wouldn’t affect me one bit, would it?
That is the exact same thing when we say one thing consciously, but truly believe another subconsciously. The result is that you are not getting what you say you want.
Thank you so much for you input, Harleena 🙂
I have read all three parts of this series with interest as I have worked on aligning my conscious and subconscious mind, although I had never thought of it in those terms before. For me it was all about countering negative thinking and fighting a low self-esteem; issues which became more limiting to me after a series of life’s challenges all came at once.
In hindsight I should probably have tackled the problems with my conscious/subconscious minds before they got totally out of alignment. I have no regrets though as the work I did on myself has paid dividends. I now feel I am the me that I naturally should be without the limiting constraints that I had placed on myself.
Does anyone wake up with ideas running through their minds, ideas that disappear as soon as the morning routine starts? I sometimes write these down so that I remember. I think this is an example of the subconscious mind working at the forefront before the conscious kicks in for the day. This is the time when the subconscious used to send fleeting uncomfortable thoughts into my conscious mind the most and set the tone for the whole day. By learning to tune into these thoughts and counter them my days started to get better and better.
I am going to check out Dr Anthony’s self hypnosis methods. There is always room for more delegation and i am sure that I could get my silent partner to do more work for me.
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Hi Sue,
Thank you so much for having read all that 🙂 and by the way it was very nice to see you in person last night. You have a beautiful smile and seem so sweet. We’ve got to get to know each other more.
What you mention about waking up with great ideas that will disappear almost as fast as you are getting up is very normal and very common.
By the way that is the reason why Dr. Anthony suggest to do a self hypnosis session when we are still in that half awake half sleeping state, because the subconscious is very reachable at that moment. It’s true that how you feel at that moment can set your mood for the day, so better trying to control it than letting it control us.
Thank you for your interesting point, Sue 🙂
Hi Sylviane,
I was there once …a place where I did not recognize how powerful the subconscious mind works. The “critic” or “gatekeeper” as you call it kept getting in my way with negative messages like “no way can you do that” But once I understood how it all works, I can now use it to my benefit.
There is never too much I can read or listen to about this subject. I spent 40 hours in a DBT class to use this method. The one thing people must realize is that this is an on going process.
As we grow and our needs change, we must apply this method again. The more you do it, the easier it becomes.
I thank you for spreading the word Sylviane, because this is a great way for people to enhance their lifestyle.
Donna
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Hi Donna,
Oh boy, was I there too! A place where almost everything that passed through your mind was totally full of negativity.
In my case I developed a severe dose of this when I was bullied in school, and that lasted for years. It was so bad that I started to develop physical symptoms as well, so I know all too well about the power of the mind and mostly the subconscious mind in either good or bad. So, now I choose good 🙂
As you said it’s an ongoing process, it never stops. It’s like food, we need to eat from the day we are born to the day we die 🙂
The first thing I thought when you said “you cannot create with your conscious mind” is that when I’m stuck on something or I run out of ideas or I can’t figure something out… I go to sleep! I can’t tell you how many times I wake up with an idea or a solution that I dreamed about. Your brain just keeps working, even when you’re not directing it.
It’s so true that there are a ton of self-help books and tools out there. It makes you wonder, if they’re so good, why are there so many of them! You’d think if someone finally figured it out, then people would buy that one book and they wouldn’t need any more after that! Yet like you said, you’re not reaching the root of the problem. Sometimes you’re doing something superficial or fixing up a bit of a symptom here and there. But it’s important to get right to the heart of the matter… or should I say the brain??
I like the idea of self-hypnosis because it’s something you can control as opposed to thinking someone else is going to solve your problems for you. I need to try it next time I’m buying a BMW 🙂
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Ah Carol,
You got it, that’s exactly right. When you try fixing problem consciously, the more you try the more difficult it can get, as a matter of fact. When you finally give up and go to sleep, your subconscious takes over and you wake up with an idea that comes from there, so it’s like the perfect solution.
Don’t you love that? We always win when we try to go from the source versus trying to find help from the conscious part of us.
The reason why many self books are read with no results for the reader is that a lot of those self help books don’t tell you that unless we get that point clear, it will be very tough to make a true change. It’s not impossible, but it is unlikely, unless, we are totally relentless about it, and it will take a while too.
Thanks for your superb comment, Carol 🙂
Hi Sylviane
I am loving your posts on this subject. I think so many of us have tried to create from our concision mind and beat our heads against walls doing so.
I really like the idea of self hypnosis as you explain it. I have never heard it explained quite like this before so thank you.
I have believed in the power of our subconscious for many years now but been stuck on how to make changes. Lately I have been doing Esther Hicks daily meditation which I love.
Thanks for this series Sylviane.
Sue
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Hi Sue,
I am very glad if you enjoy this series. Indeed, a lot, not to say most people are trying to fix things at a conscious level when they could only spend like a week to learn the trick about how to fix it form the inside (the subconscious) part.
The truth is that very successful people do know that though, and act at a subconscious level. Great inventors of the past or prensent know how to work with their subconscious for example.
Thank you for your feedbacks, Sue and have a great week end!
I’ll be honest with you Sylviane, I’ve never really understood how this all works. I do know for a fact that what I think about most of the time I do eventually bring that into my life.
I know that the subconscious mind is not something we can control and it use to make me so mad when people would tell me that. I thought well I know what I’m thinking and feeling and that should be enough.
I like the idea of the hypnosis and like I mentioned to you in a previous post I’ve never had luck with that at all. I do have your link though that I’ve saved and hopefully this weekend will have more time to look at that and make a decision whether or not I want to get that program. I’ve heard of Dr. Anthony and have heard only really good things about him. I’m ready to take it to the next level so thank you for doing this series. Can’t wait to read your next post.
I’m loving your videos by the way. Great job and great to see and hear you. Please do keep them coming.
~Adrienne
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Hi Adrienne,
I don’t blame you for not understanding this very well, it happened to most of us, you know. There’s also the fact that each life coach or personal development teacher has their own way of explaining things (some of them leaving a lot of blurry areas). That’s why I love Dr. Anthony, I think he is very clear at explaining a lot of those things.
Like for example, saying that we cannot control the subconscious mind is NOT really true. That’s the whole purpose fo this blog. With awareness, first and the right methods, second, we can manipulate our subconscious mind into working for us. That’s what we are doing with self-hypnosis.
Since I’ve been doing self-hypnosis that’s really the only type of meditation I have been doing because it really works. I would never say that it’s for everyone, as nothing is, but it’s for the ones who really want to believe that they can go in and make a change in their life.
Thanks for your honest, Adrienne, as always and have a great week end!
Hi Sylviane
I find this topic fascinating, so thank you for sharing and explaining this subject so well.
I have often heard about the need to align the subconscious with the conscious, but never really understood the true meaning of this, but your post and video make it very clear and I now understand.
The idea of using self-hypnosis to re-shape your sub-conscious mind is certainly an interesting concept and one I would love to hear more from you about.
Louise
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Hi Louise, and welcome here.
I am so happy if I can be a vehicle for people to understand those things a little bit more clearly.
I write about what I love and know works for me, so that’s why I made this whole series around the subject of self hypnosis.
Thank you for coming 🙂
Thanks for sharing your great tips and advices, I bet they can make my small home business more efficient! I really like your point on working smart instead of working hard, sometimes some thinking can make things much easier!
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Hi Eszti,
Glad you enjoyed and hope to see you here again soon. Thanks for coming by.