3 Ways How To Make Your Subconscious Mind Work For Your Success

Take advantage of the powerful “computer” with vast opportunities in your brain.

The subconscious mind is like a computer — it runs on whatever program you give to it. Unfortunately, many of the programs we have received from the outside environment growing up have been negative. If you have ever felt like you need to prove something to somebody or that you are not good enough, this is the wrong programming in your subconscious.

But just like you received limiting programming from outside (because you were not aware of that), you can replace it with your programming — the one that you choose — healthy and positive.

And you have resources for that — your free will, ability to act, conscious choice of what you say or don’t say, imagination, self-discipline, etc.

Here are three ways to take control of your subconscious mind and make it work for your benefit. When you do that, this will help you achieve the goals you have.

1. Create Good Habits

When something becomes a habit, you do it automatically. Whether it is a good or bad habit, it controls you. You do it almost always, no matter what.

For example, the alarm clock rings in the morning, you sleep it and stay in bed for another hour. You started to do it at some point and did it so often that your mind automatically knows already what the first thing is to do in the morning — snooze and stay in bed longer.

But you can change that by forming a habit of jumping out of bed right after the alarm clock starts to ring. It will be hard at first, but eventually, you will start doing it automatically.

Imagine if most of your habits were productive and bringing you closer to goals instead of procrastinating? Healthy food and fitness instead of junk food and laziness?

Now imagine what would be if you had a significant number of good habits and only a handful of bad habits instead of a bunch of bad habits?

Once an action gets so repetitive that it gets in your subconscious, it creates a habit that does the work for you.

How To Create Good Habits?

What are some of the habits you would like to eliminate in your life? Try to think of some action habits or thinking habits.

Studies show that it is difficult to change a habit if you focus to “stop doing something.” It helps much more if you focus on a new positive action to replace the bad old habit. If you don’t have a good habit of replacing an old habit, you will fall back into the power of the bad habit.

Choose a habit that is healthier but still satisfies the craving you have, just differently.

For example, I was once drinking coffee quite a bit. I wanted to stop drinking it because it left yellow stains on my teeth that were quite noticeable.

But I needed the morning ritual of drinking something energizing. So, I chose a replacement.

I started to drink black tea with milk. And lately, I have replaced black tea with matte tea because it is healthier.

It took time to get used to it because I was at first still craving coffee (a lot). However, I was still having the ritual of drinking something energizing in the morning with drinking the tea. I just changed what it is.

Remember, it takes 21 days to form a habit, and the first week is always the most difficult. If you have discipline during these three weeks to maintain a conscious effort and discipline, you will change the habit.

2. Visualize What You Want To Create In Your Life

Another superpower of your mind is its’ ability to visualize. Imagine a particular outcome, a specific feeling, and creating scenarios in our minds that want to unfold.

Researches show how imagination is a neurological reality that impacts our brains and bodies. If we imagine something often enough, our subconscious mind will believe them as actual realities like we would have experienced them already.

A subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined.

/Bob Proctor/

How To Visualize?

Use visualization exercises. Sit down and quiet your mind. I like the practice from the Mindvalley program about the Altered States of Mind.

Count down from 100 to 1. It helps to access the Alpha (relaxed) state of mind.

Imagine how you would feel and what you would do if you already had the business or the job, money, or relationship you desire. Or you would possess the characteristic you try hard to develop.

How does it feel? What are you doing? What do you see? What do you hear others say about you?

Try to imagine as vividly as possible. Imagine the positive emotions you would feel if it was true.

It takes about 3–6 months until new neural pathways are formed in your brain. If so far, you often have been overwhelmed by the pessimistic scenarios of what might go wrong, imagine how things work out and you achieve your goals. Imagine it long enough and often enough, and you can change your reality.

Use the subconscious mind to your advantage by visualizing what you want to create in your life, not what you don’t want.

For me, vivid visualization has been a struggle. It has been difficult to visualize something that I have not yet seen and experienced. However, I keep on trying.

Consistency is the key.

Often, on days when I can, I put an alarm clock every hour. That is a reminder for me every hour to take 2–3 minutes to imagine how it feels and what I see when I receive whatever it is I want to manifest. That is an idea I learned from Regan Hillyer's, who is a mindset coach and entrepreneur, lecture.

It helps tremendously with my attitude and gives me an energy boost. It also motivates me to work on my actionable steps towards my goal because it renews my faith that it is possible, and I will get there very soon.

3. Brainwash Yourself Positively

It is similar to the previous point but involves talking to yourself out loud.

It might sound crazy — brainwash yourself, but we get brainwashed anyway. If we don’t consciously choose what information we consume, we will get opinions, views, and reactions from others — media, ads, TV, people whose goals don't align with ours. And that will determine what we think, say, and do.

Let’s choose to control what we think and speak consciously. Choose to deliberately say to yourself healthy things, things that affirm your goals, success, and ability to make a difference in the world. Each morning and throughout the day, choose to tell yourself something you want to manifest in your life.

This tactic will also help you override the negative beliefs you have told yourself, change your self-image, and change your results.

How To Do It?

I have done this a lot with negative beliefs I have had about myself. For example, I say to myself every morning: I am worthy, I am confident, I am beautiful.

There was a time in my life when I was struggling with my self-image. Saying each morning, this self-talk out loud helped me to override those previous lies.

Now I feel like no one can assure me of the opposite because I have told myself these truths long enough. They are ingrained in my subconscious mind. New neural pathways have formed and replaced the toxic neural pathways I had before.

If you say something to yourself long enough, your subconscious mind will believe it is true.

Choose what you want to say to yourself wisely.

Choose what the most toxic things you consistently have told yourself — about yourself, circumstances, or the world around you are. Change them into opposite (positive) and repeat aloud each morning until you feel you believe it 100%!

Conclusion

Since our brain is similar to a computer and runs on whatever programs we have set, we can change it. And, therefore, to change our lives for the better.

We can choose what kind of habits we want to build — habits of success, productivity, and ones that lead us to happier and healthier lives.

We can also change the negative programming we have made with destructive self-talk by saying positive things to ourselves.

We can create more positives outcomes by visualizing what we want and how we solve problems successfully.

The potential our subconscious mind holds is enormous. The key is to consciously focus on thoughts and habits that contribute to our successes rather than our failures.